Reviewing the News w/ Wade Simmons, July 2024 (Ep.233)

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In this month’s episode of Reviewing the News, Simon welcomes freeride legend Wade Simmons as his guest co-host. Wade gives a recap of Crankworx Whistler and claims he can’t do tricks, then Wade and Simon try to sort out why they keep crashing, and the unfortunate reality of not being as fast as they once were. They get into the wild Les Gets World Cup and XC Mountain Bike racing at the Olympics, Wade’s spat with Rémy Métailler and Yoann Barelli over who rode the gnarliest lines first, and Wade gives an education on chain lube, plus a whole lot more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Crankworx Whistler recap (2:10)
Women competing in slopestyle (3:40)
Big-ring wheelies (7:31)
Getting old and crashing (9:44)
Machine built trails (16:35)
Checks and balances (19:33)
Wade’s spat with Rémy Méttailer and Yoann Barelli (29:09)
Shimano’s huge trail building donation (35:32)
Les Gets World Cup DH (44:30)
Amuary Pierron’s winning run (46:19)
Olympic mountain bike races (50:29)
Singletrack-eating bikes (57:47)

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1 comment on “Reviewing the News w/ Wade Simmons, July 2024 (Ep.233)”

  1. I had to turn it off when Wade started comparing e-bikes to cars and pedal bikes to horse drawn carriages (soon to be obsolete in his opinion).

    Wade needs to get off his e-high horse. Half of the fun of cycling for me is earning my turns, sweating hard, and fighting my demons at the same time.

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