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That's what we like to hear 😃

Good weather and great rides bonnie lassies❤

We are glad you enjoyed it

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Thank you, we are glad you enjoy our content and the awesome tracks 🙌

@@sdaraces I sure do, just found your channel with this video on my Yt feed, going to keep a close eye on your downhill feats from now on 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹🙋🏻‍♂️.

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Thank you. We do our best to run great events for our amazing riders

Thank you, we really appreciate it. It was great to have you along for the show 🙌

Agreed 😂

That’s great to hear, thank you for the support 🙌

We absolutely agree 😃

That’s great to hear, you are welcome anytime. You will have a blast for sure 🙌

Our Race day edits are to capture the essence of the day in one short video. We love your suggestion but that is more of a full production team filming live at the event. Having said that, we were making live videos on both practise and race day via our Instagram channel instagram.com/scottish_downhill_association/?hl=en We will try to do this again (if we have signal). Thanks for shopping by 😃

@@sdaraces understood 👍

It’s one way to take out the competition 😂 We are joking of course, and glad everyone was ok

@@sdaraces yeah gave him it in the end hahaha felt bad

It was a mix of conditions for sure, but it was a banger 🙌

Just a wee bit 😃

It certainly was on practise day specifically 😬

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Hey dude. I film for the SDA but I do not speak on their behalf. Fully understand your point, but let me explain in more detail. I work and have worked for various event organisers etc, in the British series for example organisers bid to win the contract via British Cycling to host the event. They are then tasked to run the event whilst making it profitable for themselves (nothing wrong with that). They'll go up with a dig crew and build prior to the event with a small team usually. Even though they do this ahead of time, often the tracks are still not bed in enough and it doesn't run as intended (there are many examples of this over the past few years). The SDA runs completely differently, the guys running the events are volunteers, doing all the back breaking hard work from building new sections, taping the tracks, completing the tedious administration, not to mention actually running the live events with the priority being hosting the best events possible for the riders and the MTB community as a whole. They do not take home a pay cheque, they aren't putting these events on for profit (there isn't any) they do it for the love, and that is a fact! So with the guys giving up 3-4 days (sometimes more) on race weekends, they use those days todo the best job possible to improve the tracks for the racers. Imagine grafting you backside off on those days, unpaid, building some sweet corners etc, only for biblical rains to destroy all your hard work, that is just painful right!? I speaking to a well respected British Commissaire over the weekend who attends many MTB/Downhill race events up and down the UK, and they stated without question, the SDA run the best races in the UK by a long way, and I absolutely agree. After seeing all the behind the scenes goings on by the team, it's outstanding how well oiled the SDA machine is, truly it takes a lot for events to run so well and the guys absolutely smash it out of the park. I also know the team would love to build more new sections well ahead of time, but they all have jobs, family commitments etc and there is only so much free time they can offer to the sport they love so much. I hope the above helps explain a little about the whole situation and that we see you at more SDA races dude. 🙌 Keep Shredding Luke - Badger Productions

Hi Luke, Thanks for clarifying that and explaining what goes into the race weekends. I was hopeful that the guys who run the uplift services at these locations were the ones who carried out track maintenance and assisted the SDA before their arrival. I wasn’t aware that it was the SDA organisers themselves left responsible to create new tracks. That’s a real shame but also explains why Innerleithen has become such a mess. It’s not by any means the fault of the SDA. It just highlights the issue that there are not enough track builders that look after the tracks where they race. Not sure if that falls under the responsibility of the uplift providers of the Forrestry commission but I imagine it’s a grey area. We’ve got some great tracks in Scotland but they’re ageing and in need of some TLC.

We are pleased :-)

Haha

Racing starts at 11:30 🙌

Always great to have you guys there. We are glad he's ok and he liked the shot 🙂

Thank you. We hope to see you at an event in the near future 😃

It was great to have you along for the event. We are super stoked you had a great time 🙌

We couldn’t have asked for better conditions. Riders and organisers were all very grateful 🙌

That is a great idea. We were wanting to stream sections of the track whilst filming, but the issue often is 4G signal, and the lack of team members as everyone is so busy actually running the event. Stay tuned though, we'll look into this more 😀

Thank you for the support, it's great to know people are enjoying our content. This song is "Ostersjon" and the artist is Ooyy. Have an awesome day

Thanks a lot! Waiting for the next edit

We certainly aren’t putting our content behind a pay wall 😃 The SDA self fund our media, as well as the organisation being ran by a team of passionate volunteers fuelled by the love of the sport. We are really pushing our social media channels to continue providing you guys with entertaining MTB content, which we hope you enjoy 🙌

You are very welcome, we are passionate about what we do, bringing the world of Scottish Downhill Races to our viewers. That is something we’d like todo, but as there are so many results to publish, we leave that to the “roots and rain” website of the action sports timing team at such events.

We are stoked you enjoyed it 🙌

We couldn't agree more! Seeing the best in the world do it is always an AWESOME experience!

The track is having new work done to it before the world champs, plus, it's arguably the most demanding world downhill track on the circuit, which is great as it really tests all the riders.