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00:06What do you mean by menacing?
00:11Mountain biking is definitely the environment I grew up in.
00:14I don't think you're a normal person if you're doing this sport.
00:17This is like a whole new level of Nerman!
00:20You're going to make me talk to this puppet right now on camera.
00:24Yeah!
00:28My creative side is for sure stronger.
00:31When you do things yourself and you win at it, it's winner takes all.
00:38I love pushing the boundaries and seeing how far I can ride.
00:44Two different disciplines and you don't need to limit yourself to just doing one thing.
00:49My ability to jump on a mountain bike and win, that can't be so normal, can it?
01:07So, what are the stereotypes around road races?
01:11What are the stereotypes?
01:13Uptight people that have no bike handling, that just want to swan about like we're drinking soy lattes.
01:19Yeah, going for a ride, yeah, where are we going to stop for coffee?
01:22I think it's clear, mountain bike is a lot more stylish than road cycling.
01:26I've noticed that road riders say hello to me more when I'm on my road bike than when I'm on
01:32a mountain bike.
01:33They just kind of think, oh, there's mountain bikes, you know, not proper cycling.
01:39So, mate, shamelessly, can you list off some of your best results for us?
01:44Six times world champion, Tour de France stage winner, European champion.
01:51I don't know how many times, a few times.
01:53All right, all right, I'll stop you there.
01:55So, you're one of those aero, peloton...
01:58What's the kilo races?
02:00Yeah.
02:04Mountain bike is a much friendlier, more relaxed environment, you know, between riders, teams, everything.
02:12But on the road, it's more high performance, more at stake, more stress, more everything really.
02:28The whole road personality is like you're always on edge.
02:32You are on edge, you're training so much that you're on that knife edge of either getting sick or overtraining.
02:40The whole schedule is very different.
02:43Like you arrive the day before the race, you maybe do a small reckon and then you go race and
02:47you go home.
02:49You'll see them riding, but you won't see them around so much.
02:53They're at the race, they race, they go home.
03:08A mountain bike race is very different.
03:10I mean, we're here for basically seven days.
03:12We learn every line, we get familiar with the track, we do training.
03:22You'll see the riders more often, hanging out in the pits or talking to friends.
03:28Definitely more of a traveling family.
03:31Road is much more cutthroat, you know.
03:36I think that's maybe part of the difference in culture.
03:40There needs to be some more respect between the two worlds, I reckon.
03:44So how, how do you feel when roadies come into cross country?
03:50Um...
03:50I mean...
03:53Well, I mean...
03:55I mean, it's kind of always happening.
03:59The Olympic champion, Tom Pitcock.
04:03Well, we have an athlete who comes from the road, who is Tom Pitcock.
04:07How are you doing?
04:08How are you doing?
04:09How are you doing?
04:10That's nice.
04:11I don't know who it was.
04:14I'm a bit...
04:17The first test test I did with him, I was impressed by his way of driving.
04:28I thought he knew how to do the VTT, but it wasn't just someone on the road.
04:34Look at the crowds in place here.
04:36Brilliant to see the bull and tile are full again.
04:45And we're off then.
04:46Round two is underway.
04:48A hundred and twenty-three riders thundering down this tarmac.
04:55It's Schurter to the front.
04:59Nino Schurter is the goat of XC.
05:04I'm Nino Schurter, and I'm racing for the Scots Ram MTB Racing Team.
05:10Nino Schurter is absolutely unbelievable.
05:14And what a performance from this man, Nino Schurter.
05:18Nino Schurter is perfect!
05:23Schurter takes the win in Brazil!
05:25His 33rd World Cup win!
05:27Nino Schurter equals Julian Absalom's record!
05:30Oh my goodness me!
05:34Pitcock's there, Bart.
05:35He won't want to let that gap get too big.
05:38I feel like he eats more training than many VTTs.
05:42Road riders do more training than the mountain bike riders in general.
05:45I can say that's a fact.
05:47He takes a lot of kilometers.
05:49Not 20 kilometers.
05:51He takes 120 or 130 kilometers of road.
05:53But then we have to work in VTT.
05:56It's Pitcock now who's leading here.
05:58Yeah.
06:01If I didn't do volume in a week before race, I would just feel rubbish.
06:07And he's really up in the pace here.
06:10Pitcock as he turned a screw on everyone.
06:14Schurter trying to go with him.
06:15It's Asflugger as well.
06:17Sat down, hurt!
06:21They are so gnarly.
06:23They will go so deep.
06:25And they train unbelievably hard.
06:28But you need to train if you want to be good, don't you?
06:32He's done some serious damage.
06:34Thomas Pitcock there.
06:38And the gap is massive back to these three chasing riders.
06:43The Olympic champion coming up to the line.
06:46He wins this one with ease on the back wheel then.
06:53So does it bruise the mountain bike ego when a road rider shows up and wins?
06:58Oh, absolutely.
07:00Second place is going to be Nino Schurter.
07:07Me dropping in and out, everyone was kind of pissed off by it.
07:13Because it didn't go both ways.
07:14So you get someone come in here and blow apart mountain biking.
07:17You get mountain bikers that go riding up tall or whatever, and they don't rip it to shreds.
07:21Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a second, Henry.
07:24Yolanda, do you have a little secret to tell us?
07:26No.
07:27It's not really a secret.
07:30I've been two times national champion.
07:34I was top ten at world championships and top ten at the Olympic Games.
07:38In road cycling.
07:40What? In road cycling?
07:42Damn.
07:44That's pretty G, Yolanda.
07:46Hey, don't leave me hanging.
07:50My main focus was always mountain biking.
07:53But almost every year I've done a little road race here or there.
07:59This year I've done the Tour de Swiss, which was a four day stage race.
08:05There's a lot that goes into having a good road race.
08:08A breakaway goes with maybe two riders, maybe ten, maybe even thirty.
08:13A team behind will chase with the remainder of the riders in the race.
08:18And that's how road racing works, how teams control the race.
08:23Sometimes you can sit a bit in the group and take advantage of drafting.
08:32You ride for your team and you either help your leader or you are the leader.
08:39You need to be able to ride in the peloton, you need to drink, eat, feed.
08:44You need to also understand what is happening in the race.
08:47If you're riding a peloton of 180 people, you realise that it's absolutely f***ing terrifying.
08:57It's not like in a mountain bike race where you just don't think about anything and just ride as hard
09:01as you can.
09:01It's a very different approach and I think for me that's what makes it so exciting.
09:10It's so hot for us.
09:11Yeah, and it's long, huh?
09:12Usually it's not so long.
09:15Yeah.
09:16Okay, thank you.
09:17Congratulations.
09:24Modern bikers don't give enough respect to road riders, categorically.
09:27Because we think, oh, if we just rode a bit more, you know, if we just got a bit fitter,
09:31we'd be able to do what you do.
09:32But actually, they do have a huge amount of technical ability.
09:35It's clear that the bike for him, since he was little, takes a huge place in his life.
09:42Here we go then, in the Czech Republic.
09:45Pitcock there, but.
09:47Not far off, A2.
09:49Whether it's VTT, route, in all cases, it's being on a two-wheel.
09:52And we see it with his enthusiasm and his smile every time he's going to do the bike.
09:57Pitcock shows his technical skills as well here.
10:00Now, I feel like people are happy when I'm there because, you know, they want the best riders there.
10:08Pitcock and Schurter.
10:10They want everyone who rides a mountain bike on the start line.
10:14And it's different to how I thought people would react, that's for sure.
10:19Schur looking like he knows they can't let Pitcock get a gap.
10:23I think they are cyclists as me, especially the ones that are enjoying the mountain bike racing.
10:29And Pitcock now trying to go, but Flukic a hold of this ground there.
10:33Look at this, Pitcock really battling to go with Vlad Daskalou.
10:37They are part of mountain biking and they are part of our family.
10:41I think we are all the same.
10:43Sometimes I miss the trails a bit when I'm on the road bike, but it's even more fun when I
10:48ride my mountain bike again.
10:50And it is Yolanda Neff that's got the lead then.
10:54Eleven national titles to her name.
10:56Eight in mountain biking, one in cyclocross, two on the road as well.
11:01So much talent there.
11:03I don't think you ever need to have like a label on you like, oh, I only do the road.
11:08I mean, if you enjoy cycling, then go for it.
11:11I really think you don't need to limit yourself to just doing one thing.
11:15It's the Olympic champion, her fourth cross country Olympic winner here today in Montsenan.
11:23Through the rocks for the last time then, Pitcock giving chase.
11:27I take from the road, the professionalism.
11:31I take from the mountain bike, the enjoyment.
11:33Tom Pitcock comes alongside.
11:35It's going to be Tom Pitcock at the last moment.
11:38It's going to get you in the end.
11:43Then I kind of get the best of both worlds, really.
11:50Pitcock was at one point talking I'd like to race the World Cup downhill,
11:53which I absolutely believe he could, because he's been riding bikes long enough
11:56and he's probably got the way to apply himself.
11:58Going to get the Red Bull downhill helmet out, which is pretty bossy.
12:02It's the coolest Red Bull helmet, isn't it?
12:04You've got a full face to it and then you're proper, aren't you?
12:07Coming up on Rice Types.
12:12Everything we've done here, there's no instruction manual for.
12:16I'm making my bikes, I'm learning it all myself.
12:18Now being a team owner, you really want your guys to succeed.
12:23I wouldn't change anything at what you're doing right now.
12:27Each guy wants to win.
12:29All you've got to do is just get on your bike and do your job.
12:36، theology
12:36you're a large part.
12:36I think I'm all human.
12:36You're a little more I should do that.
12:36But the tall two-letter is despite being in the mid hectare.
12:37The whole thing is,
12:37we're trying to be careful,
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