Video: This Corner Changed Everything | Story of the Race with Ben Cathro

 Thank you Ben!!

 Oh we noticed the sound

 "Due to UCI rules I can't show you"...
No matter, thanks Ben for this lovely job once again and for your shiny smile

 Give that man a medal. #newkingofscotland

 Thank you a hundred times Ben for doing what you do. You provide entertaning in-depth analysis in your style (wouldn't trade that for anything) with a postive atitude even when you are injured or in other not so perfect situations AND while managing the Pinkbike team. Your feature here on the one turn was more informative AND enertatining than 50 of the "UCI Highlights" trash. We hope Pinkbike gives you four raises soon!! Kudos and rubber side down!

 The hero we need, but don’t deserve!

 On the motorway I was really thinking that the Commencals sounded like shopping trolleys going off a curb for every landing, I wonder if they saved the sounds for some bikes over others, because it had me thinking there was something seriously wrong with them in particular. Thanks for pointing that out Ben!

 Ben thank you for this segment it was some f the only coverage I could listen too and then mentioning the FAKE FOLEY added for the idiot producers who think they are making a snuff film.
I am a sound mixer and would have walked off the show for being ordered to use fake sounds like old B/W TX shows like My 3 Sons.
It sickens me to see what has become of our live coverage. Man I miss Rob and the Caminator.

 I went back to my GCN+ replay to check the sounds, with commentary off. Once you are aware, it's so ridiculous. AND they even added the same heavy breathing sound, as if they had placed microphones in some riders' helmets! Pathetic, please stop it.

 Curious to know what is going on with Greg's tires this season. I think that is three tire DNFs this season.

 Nice video Ben. Would be nice to see what happened in the open section for such big time differences, that section is normally pretty close so the changes must have made a difference to some line choices for carrying speed. Those who turned up to the nationals a few weeks back did well too. The race was won on the main DH section on the rocks higher up but that corner should never have been touched this year, it was working fine... All that was needed was the root just after the metal bridge removed as it forces riders outside of it mostly and some inside of it. It's in the uphill pedal and makes that section torture. Laurie wheeling over it on the pedals was pretty cool. Don't get why they fixed up so much of the track and didn't remove or significantly change that uphill section, build it up a little at the bottom then a double over the river with a backside higher up than the current trail would have been mint and sorted it. You only go for it on a race run normally as it's where you burry yourself sprinting before the motorway.

 So much better than the broadcast.

 I thought the section in the trees that featured in Ben's "inside the tape" video took out more of the male riders (I didn't get to see any of the women's race since it was so early).

Anyway, nice video Ben, as always! I'm really happy for Charlie, but I have to admit I didn't find the race all that exciting overall. My idea of "exciting race" correlates pretty strongly to having the podium placings change a lot over the last 20 riders. It was a bit anticlimactic to see quite a few riders get green on early splits and then crash. Still, that's how it goes sometimes, eh? Still, don't want that to take anything away from Charlie, who put it all together in a way no other rider was able to, and deserved the win!

 Autoplay is still rocking.

 Canned sound was doing my head in. Please do not ever use it again. Rather have real sound or no sound.

 insane coverage!

 Next race: 2-stroke sounds every time a rider pedals hard.