The Inside Line Podcast - Vital MTB

Welcome mountain bikers! It’s the last Inside Line episode of 2021, and we couldn’t be more excited to share a fun and enlightening conversation with Don Hampton of DH productions. Don is responsible for the Chain Reaction video series in the early 2000s and shedding light on the East Coast mountain biking scene through race action and freeride footage with riders like Aaron Chase, Kyle Ebbett, Je...

Welcome mountain bikers. I’m really excited about today’s Inside Line podcast. Our guest started Rob Warner’s twitter account, helped logistically get the first Freecaster World Cup Downhill live streams off the ground, was the man behind Match Videozine, may be the biggest trials fan ever and was an athlete manager at Red Bull for years. This is just the tip of the iceberg when describing Aaron L...

Welcome mountain bikers! Thanks for tuning into The Inside Line podcast. Today I’m stoked to have Dustin Zeis on the show. Dustin is the reason the Boise Bike Park keeps its flow and runs so well throughout riding season. As Head of Maintenance, he's a Boise city employee blending his passion for riding bikes with building trails. In this episode, we discuss how he turned his love of getting...

Welcome mountain bikers. Today on the Inside Line, we have long-time friend and ripper, Evan Turpen on the show. Evan comes from Aptos, California, and grew up with the Post Office crew, racing and digging and shredding. Now, he’s set his sights on creating his own mountain bike brand, Contra, with a steel, American-made full suspension frame launching sometime next spring. We go deep into what it...

Last month, Vital MTB had the opportunity to head to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to meet with the crew from RockShox and get a first-hand look at their all-new automatic suspension system, Flight Attendant. We sat down with RockShox Brand Manager, Jon Cancellier and Rockshox Software Engineer, Joe Schoolcraft, to discuss what it took to develop Flight Attendant. We talked about why RockShox origin...

Welcome Mountain Bikers, thanks for tuning into Vital MTB’s The Inside Line podcast. Our guest today is Tyler McCaul. We catch up with him at home in Southern Utah as he prepares for Red Bull Rampage coming up soon. TMAC shares details of his near career-ending injury, the challenging recovery process and how it’s changed his outlook on the capabilities of the human body. We talk all things freeri...

Raw audio interviews from the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Thank you to SRAM for their support of our race coverage. Interviews in order Emilie Siegenthaler on Retiring Myriam Nicole, Elite Women's Winner Izabela Yankova, Junior Women's Winner Loris Vergier, Elite Men's Winner PA - Loris Vergier's mechanic Jackson Goldstone, Junior Men&...

Enjoy the photos from Sven Martin, @maddogboris and Dan Hearn on Vital MTB. A big thank you to RockShox for supporting Vital MTB's World Champs coverage.  Order of the interviews are as follows Jackson Goldstone Myriam Nicole Benoit Coulanges Jordan Williams Camille Balanche Troy Brosnan Loris Vergier Vali Holl Amaury Pierron Loic Bruni Cecile Ravanel on behalf of Antoine Vidal Thibaut Daprel...

Welcome mountain bikers. The Inside Line podcast is supported by Maxxis Tires and Santa Cruz bikes . Coincidentally, Greg Minnaar, your 2021 Elite Men's Downhill World Champion is supported by them too, so if there ever was a sponsor tie-in for a podcast, this is it! Before we go further though, you can shop for all kinds of products Greg runs at JensonUSA.com too. If you use coupon code, Ins...

Join Jason Schroeder,  Tanner Stephens and the Rooted MTB Crew to talk about everything related to the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and #USDH racers. Jenson USA makes the Inside Line go. You can shop for all kinds of mountain bikes and products at JensonUSA.com, and if you use coupon code insideline at checkout, you can save 10% off qualifying items. Thank you Jenson! Maxxis Tires he...

History in the making thanks to Sven Martin and @maddogboris.  Audio interviews from our slideshow on VitalMTB.com

USA Cycling's World Championships team selection debacle, Tanner Stephens and plenty of #USDH comedy and questions with Jason Schroeder and the crew at Rooted MTB. 

Enjoy the audio interviews with the racers from the 2021 Maribor World Cup Downhill. Sven Martin and @maddogboris get the inside scoops. See the slideshow with incredible photos on VitalMTB.com

Sven Martin and Boris Beyer talk to World Cup Downhill racers at the 2021 Maribor World Cup Downhill race. Hit www.vitalmtb.com to see the slideshow full of great photos that go with these interviews.

 Welcome mountain bikers, Today on Vital MTB’s The Inside Line podcast are two of my favorite humans - Cam McCaul and Taylor Sage. Cam’s been on the show before, TSage hasn’t, and I’m not even kidding about their Cats Don’t Need Dollars video getting me so hyped, I wanted to talk to them about it on the show. Jenson USA makes the Inside Line go. You can shop for all kinds of mountain bikes and pro...

Jason Schroeder and Rooted MTB are back with another episode of #USDH Unfiltered. They discuss the 2021 U.S. National Mountain Bike Championships that just took place at Trestle Bike Park in Winter Park, Colorado. Three national champions call into the show, Kailey Skelton, Chris Grice and Dakotah Norton and Nik Nestoroff and Austin Dooley jump in too!

Welcome mountain bikers, I'm honored to be joined by three fantastic guests on this episode of The Inside Line. We will discuss mountain biking and head injuries. None of us are scientific or medical experts on the subject, but during the last World Cup DH race webcast from Les Gets, Jeff Brines and I were texting and discussing Thibaut Daprela’s incredible race-winning run with the sidebar o...

Welcome to Vital MTB's USDH unfiltered. We kicked it off with a Les Gets World Cup Downhill pre-game show with host and Vital MTB Tech Editor, Jason Schroeder, and the crew at Rooted MTB. They get ahold of Dakotah Norton over in Europe for his perspective on how the racing has gone and how it will go this weekend. They talk gossip, race predictions, the woes of being a b-practice punter, and...

We're honored to have Aaron Gwin back on The Inside Line podcast. He was on the show a few years back and with the World Cup Downhill in Les Gets on the horizon, we figured it was time to reconnect. In this episode we discuss his struggles at the first World Cup DH race in Les Gets, the challenges of being a podium-level racer now and if his training has changed over the years. Bike developme...

Amy Morrison is a born competitor. After a youth spent water skiing and being a Division 1 pole vaulter for Clemson, she found mountain biking. The perfect storm of timing, talent, and work ethic had Amy join the pro enduro ranks in a few short seasons. She has a pile of race wins to her name, including National Champ and most recently, winner of the TDS Enduro. More than a racer, Amy is a teacher...

Mountain bike legend and last #USDH racer to win a Downhill World Championship, Myles Rockwell, joins us on The Inside Line today. Austin Hackett-Klaube joins Myles to discuss everything from mobbing bikes around the streets of San Francisco as a kid to becoming one the fastest mountain bike racers on the planet. We're honored to have him on the show! Thanks to Yeti Cycles for the throwback t...

Austin, Harrison, Wiley and Kasen from Rooted MTB keep the discussion going about the state of downhill mountain bike racing in the USA. They reflect on their experience at the first National level race at Windrock a few weeks ago and call Dakotah Norton to see what it means to be one of the country's fastest racers on the World Cup circuit. Finally they connect with Matt Thompson and Steve W...

We're honored to have Sam Hill, one of mountain biking's most successful and exciting gravity racers, on The Inside Line today. Brett Pengelley spends a few hours with Sam at his home in Western Australia to discuss everything from his race career to family life to bike setup to flat-pedal-dominance and what his future looks like. There is even a lightning round at the end with questions...

Welcome mountain bikers! Thanks for listening to Vital MTB’s The Inside Line Podcast. We have a double-dipper of a treat today. We wax nostalgic and catch up with Henry O’Donnell, one of the original Santa Cruz Syndicate racers. He grew up in Downieville and found mountain bike success with help from Greg Williams, the main man behind the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship , who’s also on the show. W...

Welcome mountain bikers, thanks for tuning in to Vital MTB’s The Inside Line podcast. I’m honored to have Darren Murphy of PUSH Industries on the show today to keep the conversation rolling about mountain bikes, products, Covid and the economy. A big thanks goes out to jensonusa.com who’s supported our show for the last 4 years. Use coupon code INSIDELINE at checkout and receive 10% off qualifying...