- In a lot of our Skills How-to videos
we talk about just getting out and riding your bike more
and how that makes you a better rider.
- We're out here in Spain
and we're gonna put that to the test.
I've got a downhill track here.
What have you got?
- I've got a short, cross-country loop.
I'm gonna do four laps.
I'm not going to kill myself,
go at an easy tempo, and just see,
how I get faster, if I do get faster.
- True, and I'm gonna do six runs
on the best bikes that I'm going to be in the shot
of doing run after run to see just how much faster I get.
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- So that was my first run down on the track.
It was a lot of fun, but there's a few features
that this run, I'm actually gonna stop,
I'm gonna take my bike to the side and have a look at them,
see if I can see some different lines.
So, in the following run,
I'll see if I can get even faster.
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- So, we've done our rides,
we've showered off, we've had a cup of tea.
Scott, how did it feel?
- Well, for one, I'm feeling a bit more refreshed
after that that coffee, but I had a lot of fun,
and you can actually feel a comparative difference.
You know, there was different lines that I took,
carried more momentum,
worked out if I had to pedal hard or not,
or if I could just flow.
What about you?
- There was a few blind brows on that trail that I rode
and a couple of corners you couldn't see round,
so definitely felt after at least one lap of it,
I could sort of flow a lot better,
so I'm presuming that's gonna show in the times.
- Yeah, OK, so I've got my times in.
My first run was a three minutes 12,
so, quite fast, you know, I didn't expect the track
to be actually as long as that,
but then my last lap, which was the fastest
was a two minutes 57.
So, 15 second difference.
- As something I would expect from racing downhill,
you always get a lot faster
and I know, when I race downhill,
I would do one sighting run,
where you water tracked your one sighting run,
then I try to go as fast as soon as possible,
so if you ever did, like, multiple race runs,
you'd always be a couple of seconds faster
on the second one, so...
- Pretty much how I felt as well, cause I stopped
on one of the runs and actually had a look,
and I spotted that there is one really good line
where you could set up really high
above this sort of tree stump.
You'd open up the whole turn and have so much
more momentum into the next section,
and I think that was one line
that probably gave me a extra couple of seconds.
- So my lap was about eight and a half minutes,
and I went 20 seconds faster on my second lap,
and then my last three laps were all pretty consistent,
within sort of five to eight seconds of each other.
So, I think it makes pretty less difference
on the cross-country bike.
It's quite hard to judge, because obviously
I was trying to sit at a tempo
and not kill myself physically
and just try and work out the skillswise,
if actually practised.
It didn't make a big difference,
but I think once I learned the course,
it didn't seem to make as much difference
as it does on a downhill bike.
- Yeah, it may be so, but it goes to show that
practise definitely makes perfect,
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