Hannah is back but she’s not really back. She’s roughing it the back of her van with love of her life Fahzure as she travels around Wales having riding adventures. So, it’s MC Mark once again standing in.

This week we get a disturbing aural insight into what happens in Amanda’s head on every descent in the valley and Chipps tells us why it’s never a good idea to start a climb with Scot Nicol of Ibis Bikes. be warned! This section features music played with a recorder. It will hurt your ears.

Then finally we do hear from Hannah and co. as the they settle in to another night in the back of their van, in another Welsh layby. Just don’t flash those lights.

Recorder based riding music?

And for the curious we have some of those musical snippets for you. Unless you have listened to this episode to the end, these will probably confuse you.

Recorder Music

What musical suggestions did we miss? Are we doing the humble recorder a disservice? Help us expand this list with your own suggestions.

And finally, if you were wondering if there were any disturbing images of Hannah’s van adventures then here you are. The slightly unedited video version of Hannah’s podcast contribution this week. Contains beers, bad jokes and lovers squabbles.

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We’ve missed a week of Podcasts due to summer holidays and the fact that only Hannah really understands how to organise this side of editorial production. However, Mark has managed to roundup Chipps and Andi to talk about the latest developments in the MTB UK world right now. But mostly thanks to Hannah showing a level of pre-planning and forethought before she went off on her holidays, we also have an interview with Mojo Suspension and general suspension expert, Chris Porter on the new EXT fork that launched last week.

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Read more about the EST fork that Chris has had a hand in designing right here.

New EXT ERA Fork Is Big, Stiff, Clever, 29in-only… And £1590

We’ve missed a week of Podcasts due to summer holidays and the fact that only Hannah really understands how to organise this side of editorial production. However, Mark has managed to roundup Chipps and Andi to talk about the latest developments in the MTB UK world right now. But mostly thanks to Hannah showing a level of pre-planning and forethought before she went off on her holidays, we also have an interview with Mojo Suspension and general suspension expert, Chris Porter on the new EXT fork that launched last week.

Read more about the EST fork that Chris has had a hand in designing right here.

New EXT ERA Fork Is Big, Stiff, Clever, 29in-only… And £1590

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This week Hannah bends the ears of our very own Charlie and Chipps about their experience of organising events and what they think the future holds for the social side of mountain bike racing in a post Covid19 world.

On the same topic Hannah speaks to EWS chief Chris Ball about what is left of the EWS calendar for 2020 and beyond.

Mark it and they will come – Photo Matt Wragg

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This week Hannah bends the ears of our very own Charlie and Chipps about their experience of organising events and what they think the future holds for the social side of mountain bike racing in a post Covid19 world.

On the same topic Hannah speaks to EWS chief Chris Ball about what is left of the EWS calendar for 2020 and beyond.

Mark it and they will come – Photo Matt Wragg

This week Andi talks to Hannah about the European Bike Project – a project to build a full suspension mountain bike from entirely European sourced frame and components. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But when you get down to the figurative nuts and bolts it’s not so straight forward, or indeed cheap.

View this post on Instagram @ralf_holleis got so excited about our challenge to build the best 100% European made bike that he got all the parts within a couple of weeks! He made some mistakes though. Can you help Ralf? He still got time to do it better – with your help he might be able to score 2nd place! Follow #theeuropeanbikechallenge! Unbezahlte Werbung / Unpaid Advertisement #theeuropeanbikeproject #theeuropeanbikebattle #madeineurope #europeanmanufacturing #madehere #locallymade #buylocal #bikepartsmadeineurope #mtb #mtbenduro #enduromtb #endurolife #freeride #freeridemtb #downhill #downhillmtb #mtbdownhill #mtblife #mtblove #mtbtech #biketech #mtbtalk #mtbtuning #biketuning #mtbriders #framebuilding #madeingermany #germanframebuilders A post shared by The European Bike Project (@the.european.bike.project) on Jul 6, 2020 at 12:25am PDT

Following on from that Hannah has an in-depth chat with some of the people behind the Trash Free Trails movement on how it came to be and what we can all do to help. Their State of Our Trails Report will start to be released on 13th July, and will provide some of the first data on just how much of a problem we have out there.

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This week Andi talks to Hannah about the European Bike Project – a project to build a full suspension mountain bike from entirely European sourced frame and components. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But when you get down to the figurative nuts and bolts it’s not so straight forward, or indeed cheap.

View this post on Instagram @ralf_holleis got so excited about our challenge to build the best 100% European made bike that he got all the parts within a couple of weeks! He made some mistakes though. Can you help Ralf? He still got time to do it better – with your help he might be able to score 2nd place! Follow #theeuropeanbikechallenge! Unbezahlte Werbung / Unpaid Advertisement #theeuropeanbikeproject #theeuropeanbikebattle #madeineurope #europeanmanufacturing #madehere #locallymade #buylocal #bikepartsmadeineurope #mtb #mtbenduro #enduromtb #endurolife #freeride #freeridemtb #downhill #downhillmtb #mtbdownhill #mtblife #mtblove #mtbtech #biketech #mtbtalk #mtbtuning #biketuning #mtbriders #framebuilding #madeingermany #germanframebuilders A post shared by The European Bike Project (@the.european.bike.project) on Jul 6, 2020 at 12:25am PDT

Following on from that Hannah has an in-depth chat with some of the people behind the Trash Free Trails movement on how it came to be and what we can all do to help. Their State of Our Trails Report will start to be released on 13th July, and will provide some of the first data on just how much of a problem we have out there.

This episode of the podcast is a bit special! Joining George to talk ‘bike set up’ are 3 x World Champion & 3 x World Cup Champion Greg Minnaar, Fox Global Technician Jordi Cortes and Founder of Motion Instruments Rob Przykucki.

Bike set up with Motion Instruments

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This episode of the podcast is a bit special! Joining George to talk ‘bike set up’ are 3 x World Champion & 3 x World Cup Champion Greg Minnaar, Fox Global Technician Jordi Cortes and Founder of Motion Instruments Rob Przykucki.

Bike set up with Motion Instruments

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Andi chats with Ralph Holleis of Huhn Bikes about his inspiration and skills that have lead him down the path of combining art with bike building.

Huhn is Chicken in German. Why chicken you might ask;

“Getting dirty is fun, chickens live in the dirt, jet they look very elegant!Chickens walk forward with their heads up high, while doing so they never loose focus.FORWARD EVER BACKWARD NEVER!Last but not least chickens have the skill to fly for short distances, mountain bikes do the same!”RALF HOLLEIS

Meet the Moorhuhn, an utterly fantastic 3D printed Reynolds 953 stainless steel full suspension frame!

Also in this week’s episode…

Amanda and the cow. That’s all we are giving away at this point. You really need to listen to this episode to find out what the fipping heck she’s got herself into this week.