Katy Winton joins us in the hot seat this week to talk all things bikes! Katy is an absolute ripper on a bike and has just migrated back to NZ for the foreseeable future, first up on the hit list for her is the Whaka 100 in Rotorua!
Merch, team rumours, LOI's, RFP's, ROI's, LOL's and more. Join the boys as we dive into the Loudenvielle World Cup Downhill, who would most likely be a drug dealer on track walk, team rumours for 2025 and more!
The World Downhill Championships are done and dusted (literally) and that had to be one of the tightest battles for the title ever! The Kiwi juniors were absolutely flying once again with back to back golds for Erice Van Leuven, a bronze for Sascha Earnest and a host of other solid results. Join Kieran Bennett, James Rennie, Lester Perry and Chris Vanderkolk as we break down all things World Champs, Lester's trip to Whistler, Kieran destroying himself on his XC bike and more!...
The prodigal son, friend of the show, former Downhill World Champion, Cam Cole returns! KB, Red Dog and Chris are joined by Cam to talk about a bit of everything and then eventually get on to the topic of World Champs that is happening this weekend. As always, Cam is full of excellent insights into the sport!
Wyn Masters joins us this week to talk all things cycling, from how the current World Cup Downhill season is going, the logistics of running his own team, his privateer award, 2025 rumours, the Tour de France and some classic yarns from the mid 2000's of course! Wyn has seen and done it all, this isn't one to be missed!
In our latest episode we get to know co-host Christ Vanderkolk, with KB, Red Dog and Lester putting him in the hot seat to find out how he got into riding and his peak as a 4x specialist. Full of yarns, tangents and all of the usual entertainment!
The Les Gets World Cup was another one for the history books, from ice rink conditions, to Greg Minnaar nearly winning and Amaury Pierron putting in another absolutely storming victory, it had plenty of excitement. Join Kieran Bennett, James Rennie, Lester Perry and Chris Vanderkolk as we break down all things Les Gets, plus plenty of tangents as per usual!
Lachie Stevens McNab grabs himself an elite World Cup Downhill podium at Leogang, Ellie Hulsebosch takes the fastest time of the day in the women’s field and Erice and Sacha complete a Kiwi junior podium lockout at Val Di Sole, the future is now with Kiwi talent! Join us as we discuss all things Leogang and Val Di Sole World cups, along side the ever present tangents we find ourselves on!
Lachie Stevens McNab and Ellie Hulsebosch join us this week for a catch up on the start of their season and their epic performances at the Bielsko-Biala Downhill World Cup. Also joining us is the man behind the Union Joe Bowman to tell us all about how and why the team started along with the ins and outs of managing a World Cup race team!
The boys are back and Bielsko-Biala sure did turn on an epic race, a new venue, mixed conditions and a rise of the kiwis!
The winner of round two of the EDR series and now current points leader Charlie Murray joins us to catch up on his incredible weekend in Poland!
The World Cup season has started and we are back! Better late than never, we finally managed to get the crew back together to break down all things Fort William; electronic suspension, horrendous kits, race chassis’s, speed suits, 75mm rise handle bars and more!
This week we've got Blenki back in the hot seat with KB and Lester to talk about his new deal with Zerode, how the new bike is going for him, Hardline and plans for 2024 and beyond. As always its an extremely insightful chat with a legend of not only NZ downhill but a legend of the World Cup scene too.
KB, Red Dog, Lester and Chris are back and just when we thought the mountain bike world was a bit quiet, the slopestyle riders at crankworx decide to form a union and stage a walk out! Throw in some Sam Hill rumours, Whaka 100 news and the usual tangents we head off on and its a banger of an episode! Brought to you by: www.troyleedesigns.co.nz www.smothoptics.co.nz www.filthy.net.nz
In this episode of Rewatchables we dive into the iconic New Zealand downhill movie Pusher - KB, Red Dog, Lester and Chris are joined by Byron Scott who co produced the movie to talk about how it came about and dive into stories of the 2005 New Zealand National Downhill Mountain Bike Series. Sit back and enjoy some great stories, or if you want to watch the movie and listen we have that up over on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@TheOTBPodcast
The boys are back to discuss what went down at the New Zealand National Mountain Bike Championships at Coronet Peak in Queenstown, national jersey controversy, how did the 26" bikes fare, where did KB lose time and much more! Hosted by Kieran Bennett and James Rennie with Lester Perry and Chris Vanderkolk. Video version available on Youtube.com/@theotbpodcast
We catch up with Ellie Hulsebosch, Tuhoto Ariki Pene, Louis Hamilton, Toby Meek, Oisin O’Callaghan, Lachie Stevens McNabb, Thibaut Ruffin, Benoit Coulanges and Jess Blewitt.
Greg Minnaar joins the podcast this week to discuss his move to Norco after 16 years with Santa Cruz Bicycles, KB and Red Dog cover off how the switch happened, his thoughts on the new bike, his longevity in the sport, tales of the past with team mates like Missy Giove, Steve Peat, Nathan Rennie and Josh Bryceland and of course, it wouldn't be The OTB Podcast if we didn't discuss the era of 26" downhill bikes! A very special thank you to Spoke Magazine, Advance Traders and Norco for making this ...
Sam Blenkinsop, Toby Meek and Lachie Stevens-McNabb on how their weekend went down in Christchurch at the Christchurch Adventure Park.
Zerode is going World Cup racing! Ali Quinn, co-owner of Zerode Bikes joins us to discuss their new team of Sam Blenkinsop and Taylor Vernon who will be piloting the G3 downhill bike this season. We dive into the why, the how and the who of the new team!
We are back for 2024 and why not kick it off with an episode of team rumours! Some facts, some totally ripped off theories and as per usual, plenty of random chat and shoe horning in some 26" wheeled content!
Hallucinations, massive bonks, incidents with birds, bears and angry American road workers and thats barely scratching the surface of the tales from Matt Fairbrother as he joins us to tell us some insane stories from his time on the road bikepacking between EWS/EDR races over the last two years.
The boys are joined this week by Whaka 100 winner Craig Oliver to learn how you're actually supposed to do the race and do well at it! It was a mixed bag from the OTB team with the overall theme of the day being uncontrollable cramping, Lester's ability to lose water bottles and KB eating way too many gels in a single day. Join us for the highs (mostly Craig) and the lows (mostly us) of the Whaka 100!
KB, Red Dog & Chris are back to break down the Snowshoe and Mt Sainte Anne World Cups covering everything from team rumours, has the Discovery take over been better, what is really going on under the covers of the Demo and more!
Benoit from Accounts has gone and won his first World Cup! KB & Red Dog are joined this week by GT Factory Racing mechanic Matt Clarke to break down the madness of the Les Gets World Cup, team rumours, gossip from the pits and more. Matt brings some (actual) knowledge from inside the paddock this week!
What a race! A brand new track for the World Cup circuit and a good one at that made for some epic racing, lots of mistakes, big changes in overall points and plenty of drama to recap. Jump in with KB, Red Dog, Chris and Lester as they unpack everything that was the Loudenvielle Downhill World Cup.
KB, Red Dog & Chris are back in studio to discuss all of the drama from the Andorra World Cup, what could have been such a good raced ended up being a bit of a shambles but there was still plenty to discuss!
KB, Red Dog and Chris are back to breakdown the 2023 World Championships from the iconic Ft William. An anything but predictable race that was damn near impossible to watch if you were from New Zealand! A Kiwi podium sweep for the Junior women, Blenki winning the 1980's class, power rankings and more!
World Cup Downhill, EWS, E-EWS and now Ultra Endurance Bikepacking, Joe Nation has just about done it all! We catch up with Joe to talk about his move into the world of Ultra Endurance Bikepacking, what motivated it, how he prepares and of course some unreal stories about his race at the Tour Divide where he finished up third on his first attempt! Don't forget you can save 15% at troyleedesigns.co.nz by using the code "otbpodcast" at check out!
The usual suspects are back to round up the action from round three of the World Cup Downhill Series at Val Di Sole. Kieran Bennett and James Rennie are joined by Chris Vanderkolk and Lester Perry to discuss all the hot takes from the weekend along with some Canazei EDR and listener questions too. Don't forget to leave us a review and a rating. Like, share, subscribe! You can save 15% at Troyleedesigns.co.nz by entering the code "otbpodcast" at checkout!
