END OF AN ERA | Story of the Race with Ben Cathro
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Rob’s voice is synonymous with WC coverage, all my favorite memories are accompanied by Rob screaming perfectly in the background. Really thankful for all the memories!
Watched the XCO races this morning, Rob's commentary for XC has made it so entertaining as well, his enthusiasm is contageous and his commentary is informative.
Probably the best Series on PB this year!
yep
Pinkbike coverage this season with Ben and Max and "Dave" & co has been second to none. I am ADDICTED to these updates and I really hope the PBR team continues for many more seasons. If we can't have Warner can we at least have Cathro?
don't forget FullAttack, I don't know if they do english subtitles but it's really interesting
I’m really really going to miss Rob, he’s the voice of downhill. I Hope he’s got something lined up at the events next year
He does allsorts for redbull, he will be allright
I hope we can hear him over crankworx
Yes, but what I'm going to miss even more is watching DHWC - because that most likely wont happen in many parts of the world...
i wont`t, good riddance
He’s also the voice of XC. Him and Bart are superb. Nothing else comes close
Thanks to Pinkbike for covering the races. Really great job! And thanks for honoring Rob, the legend. You’ve made the sport what it is now exciting and raw! You will truly be missed, an icon that will never be duplicated.
Rob has brought so much humanity to the world cup. I will miss him so much next year. Thank you Ben for all of your excellent coverage as well.
Brilliant video and summary Ben, loved the whole series this year team Pinkbike 👏 So sad to see Rob and Red Bull end, fingers crossed we get greeted to him next year 🤟
Favourite call from Rob during the race 'Oh nooo, and he's gone down like an old lady hits the deck on a cruise ship'. Lol.
I am going to miss him at the World Cups. What a great job he has done over the years.
There was a great one at Snowshoe: "Down he goes like a homesick mole!"
Pretty sure he had a couple of these teed up before each broadcast. What a pro 🤣
He had to throw one old school Rob comment in there for his last run!
He had that lined up for sure and who can blame him!? 😂
hit the deck*
What a crew ... enjoy the break Ben. Best coverage on the air
I'm already in withdrawals. So stoked for hardline next week and rampage eventually. But man it sucks knowing the dh season is over. Waiting until next June is torture. Love how it started in March this year. Praying redbull does their own dh series. UCI and discovery suck.
Ya already missing the dh season content.
@@mr.peabody2347 I don't give a shit how many cameras there are if Warner isn't calling it. There's also a good chance they'll put an end to GoPro runs and and any other coverage we get from PB or even Bernard Kerr. You'll also need to be a cable subscriber or a pirate to watch. Fuck the UCI and fuck Discovery.
If Red Bull starts a DH series I wouldn't expect it to be next year, for a lot of reasons. Maybe in 2024.
@@amargnwalkr So you don't really care about the racing- just Rob.🤡
@@mr.peabody2347 I think redbull actually cares about the sport, certainly the people like Warner, Claudio, Elliot, tracey, the people they employ seriously care about dh racing. Discovery does not, it is 100% monetary for them. They'll look to cut costs and charge as much as possible knowing true fans will find it hard to resist. I hate the doomer attitude people have these days, but in this case I think it's almost guaranteed. I'll definitely be watching and maybe it'll be amazing. But I don't think discovery actually gives a crap. It's like Amazon taking Tolkiens work, they don't have any devotion to the source material.
Many thanks to you all as well, Ben & team! You have done a amazing & sincere job covering all the pre & post racing moments. Cheers!
I remember being gutted when Redbull took the DH from Freecaster that we wouldn't have Rob commentating. Hearing that he was moving to Redbull was such a relief. Can't imagine watching it without him.
Exactly the same here, I'm hoping redbull revives the DH1 series idea that freecaster were going to do, the time is right for it to work this time round I think since they still have Warner and the world cups will be behind a paywall.
@@-TheRealChris what did the DH1 series idea involve?
Incredible work Team! Incredible entertainment! You too have added so much to the sport! Thank you!
Amazing series! Looking forward to this next year. Keep it up pinkbike and Ben. Absolutely killed it this year!
I loved this pinkbike coverage of the series. Great job by the whole team! I can't wait for more content.
Rob Warner is the OG
I used to buy MBUK magazines back in the 90s
You're a legend mate ✊
You guys added a lot to the season. Thank you for all your hard work.
Been an awesome season, thank you for your spectacular coverage! Can’t wait for next year
Brilliant lads, really brilliant!
Thanks and keep bringing it.
Cheers from SFO!
thank you guys. always made it soo excited!!!
Ben Cathro is one of the best MTB TH-camrs about at the moment. Really enjoy his style.
Great season guys. Thanks for all the inside stories!
Thank you for all the hard work chaps!
I really hope you guys do this again next year and my favorite part was watching the Juniors they came so far in such a short time.
Rob the living legend will never be forgotten and I hope he somehow comes back oneday
Great work Ben and Pinkbike, really enjoyed this season. Refreshingly different!
You're a legend Cathro thank for all the work you've put in
Brilliant coverage of the season, pinkbike gang! The course previews and round up videos were top notch.
Job well done with your PinkBike team. Looking forward for next year!!
Good recap. Thanks Ben. Love your vids
Thanks for the great coverage.
This is truly an awesome sport will much more potential. I hope more races happen across the world to please the riders, fans and everyone in between. We should all unite and make it happen. My quote, ‘The tough makes the toughest, tougher’
Great work from Ben and the team. Really enjoyed the coverage and track analysis of each round - Best there is!!! Thanks and already stoked for next year!
Not sure you are actually Pinkbike….
can pls make a montage of the best moments from rob warner ? pls pls
Your coverage this year, the entire production, was just... Brilliant! Such an addition to the sport!
And Rob... Oh man, I'm gonna just play his commentary during future races as a voiceover, dont matter of it doesn't sync, it still would make sense to me.
Great summary of the race and the season. Thx Ben for all quality content. We will miss the Rob commentary for sure, that can't be over!
Well done Ben, Max and co. Quality content this year. Looking forward to 2023 and hopefully more Rob Warner in some capacity.
well done Rob, thanks!
Thank you Pinkbike, Ben and crew for the best coverage of a race season to date. Every year it just gets better and this has been no different. Already looking forward to next year, but until then rest well and we'll wait for you on the other side!
THANKS!!!
Huge thanks to Ben and his crew !. We all miss you Rob !.
Great job covering season Ben and Pinkbike team.
You;ll be back...jus like Rab.
So thank you,and the whole Pinkbike team for bringing more MTBing to the masses....Props all round !
Cheers boys. Top coverage this year 🙏
Thank you
The end of the Women’s season was insane! Cami was so consistent all year, and having fractured a collar bone myself, the fact she even made it down the track is dumbfounding. I’m sad my girl Vali didn’t get the win, but it seems she’s maturing & I can’t wait to see more of her. Myriam’s run? Wow! Good for her.
Now we can all wait for Discovery to screw everything up….
D - like discovery & disaster 😠
Thanks for the vids
Thanx for the sick videos!!!
Shout out to Ben and team for the awesome coverage
I really hope the pink bike crew will do something similar next year. It was super fun watching them race and document the World cup.
Great season, both DH and XC. Who can get as excited as Rob? No-One!!! I could not believe how emotional I got with the wrapping up of the XC broadcast....man o man. I wish mtbing could get an app like Formula 1 has. I believe it will be a massive success. Rob, you are the voice of mtbing. Thanks for all your enthusiasm and making an already exciting sport explode on our screens. Can't wait to see what you are planning next. 🍻❣️
Love your work team 🙌
Thanks Cathro. Love on family and get back out on the trails sir!
nice job guys!!!
Fk yes pinkbike! Much love!
Rob can never be replaced !
"I've got pasta" absolutely killed me🤣
Great season, great content, every vlog adds more to the picture and it would be incomplete without "inside the tape"
Ready for season 2 of How to Bike now!!
Nice one rob keep doing it mate you are cool
Great work Cathro and crew. Warner was brilliant but the BBC World's commentary last week was good too. Nothing stays the same. Movin on 😎
Massive Thanks to Ben and his crew. As always a Massive thanks to Pinkbike for what they do too. Massive Thanks to Rob as well. Rob will get on fine, but will be missed for sure. Just have to watch some other redbull events to still hear him, or watch his yt channell
Hope you lot are back again next year?? Loved all yer work this year. All the best.
End of an era.
Congratulations PBR team!
I hope your team continues on next year! Was fun to follow along. Also, I am gutted as well about Rob and the team not being apart of the season next year. Those are some large shoes to fill. I am not even sure it’s a possibility….
Gracey and Jackson... Just WOW!
This fills the void left by The Fast Life 👌
Big ups Ben and crew from NORCAL, not going to be the same without Warner, just not, can't wait to see what comes out that pipeline! Looking forward to you seeing you guys and gals next year!!🤙
rob warner commentating on the brand new redbull downhill series next year,,,, you read it here first, loved this season with pinkbike looking forward to what you do next year.
Such a good season. Pinkbike racing was so awesome 😂👍👍👍. So sad Rob Warner not announcing 😭😭😭
Camille is such a great rider, reminds me of Anne Caroline. The Jrs are looking good too. It was a great season and I can't wait for next year already counting the months.
To me this venue was one of my favorite tracks on the WC.
Incredible job! Have a good rest baeys!
Rob’s comments are intriguing 🤔 can’t wait to see what they get up too! 9 months seems a ridiculous amount of time to wait. I hope the series isn’t ruined by the weather in the later stages of the year! Discovery are gonna have to pull something special out the bag to top the free redbull coverage we’ve enjoyed for so long.
My guess is Redbull to continue with their excellent coverage of non UCI MTB events which will hopefully relieve the UCI of any relevance to downhill racing and begin a new era for the incredible athletes that put everything on the line and deserve better.
@@Tony_P and perhaps pay the riders decently for their efforts... unlike the uci
@@joshlock925 The plastic trophy for the overall.......😒
He has his TH-cam channel that he periodically updates due to his commitments with racing. Wonder if he'll get that going more.
Also remember to like or subscribe to his channel. 😉
Ben, great season in every way, thanks! Could you consider doing a vid on moving up from Junior to Elite Ben? On times alone and naively, with the top 2 Junior men beating the Elite men’s times this year suggests being on top 1st year Elite. But it’s so hard, as you say. Could you explain that maybe?
The track still being in a better condition surely plays a role, but nonetheless it's pretty impressive and I'm really looking forward to see them in the elite category.
Stoked to see French Freddy Mercury wins the last DH race of the year
We will miss you Rob. It’s been fun mate. I nominate Ben Cathro as the next UCI commentator.
“It ain’t over, so we’re all right” Thanks Rob 😊
Fucking epic guys. Your videos have made every race way more interesting and such good inside info! Love it guys!
I agree with Cathro's opinion, time to tape a fresh Val Di Sole track!
That course "the black snake" is obviously the most extreme corse of the series. It's also is the only course in the entire sport of DH Mtn bike Racing that pushes a rider and keeps them on the edge for the entire corse. Look at all the flats plus all the crashes in practice and qualifiers. I agree with you Ben, it should be re-routed or perhaps a new course that is similar in design with some of the others in the series. These racers have real lives and need to be respected for the other challenges that is associated with being a pro DH Mtn bike racer.
Downhill tracks should be difficult and the person mastering it should win - not the one person that made it down without an ambulance. After all, it's called downhill racing - not downhill last man/woman standing. So I fully agree with you, Ben: Please make the tracks safe!
The riders all want to win and that means pushing the limits of what they are capable of. It could be the safest track in the world but people will still push their limits and get hurt. It’s just part of being the best in the world
@@stevenjalopnik1342 it's true that, if you're pushing the limit, you eventually find it. However, there are definitely tracks out there, where people are finding the limit way more often or the consequences of finding the limit are much more severe than on others. For example, many riders are approaching worlds with a "bin it or win it" mentality - but Les Gets did not cause half as many casualties as Val di Sole did.
Yes, with pushing the limits in the sport, risks are high and everybody knows it. The thing is though: if every 7-8th rider gets injured on a track, while on all the other tracks the percentage of injured rider is significantly lower, something is off. There are probably effects of fatigue from a stressful season end (overseas, world champs etc.) involved but they are probably not the main reason.
In general, it would be a good idea for bike parks which have this kind of tracks, to switch things up from time to time and plant something where the old track was. Reason being that you can hold the soil and give it time to regenerate with fallen leaves, dead branches etc. This way you also have less problems with erosion and "bombed out" tracks.
They should just do it on the turbo trainer at home.
@@svenpixa sorry sven but people like you are going to ruin best DH track because of this BS you are considering as facts.
Im going to miss those "Its unbelievable!!!!!"
Well done Ben et al...
Do the crankworx summer series in NZ!!
Without Ben I wouldn't have watched a single minute of DH - but I did watch EVERY single bit this year ;o)
Bring 'em back next year!
No comments on the mustaches? Come on Ben! Dang I'll do it for you. Amaury seems like a kid trying to grow a mustache. Loris looks like a french WW1 soldier. Andreas is a king!
It’s a World Cup track. It should be hard and challenging. That’s what makes it special, us mere mortals can’t do it, but the pros can. Injuries happen in every sport, it’s part of the game. Don’t dumb it down, the difficulty makes it more exciting to watch.
dear Ben, Val di Sole is the REAL DOWNHILL TRACK.
Got to get Rob and Cam together for future events. I really hope Discovery doesn't mess up the coverage of world cup.
THANK YOU for Everything YOU do BEN !!!!! And The WC without Rob is going to SUCK .... HE IS the voice of Downhill...Ever since Freecaster !!!!
Hope we are getting an extra long, or better two extra long, PBR updates from Ben and the Team soon.
Need a PB DH team season wash up surely? Then, more how to bike maybe? How to race? How to set up and run a DH team!? Give us something Cathro!!🤞😄🤘
Sure, it was a challenging track, with tons of roots and rocks, but I don't know that I'd agree that the track is the main reason riders missed starts.
Val di Sole had the biggest entry list of any race this season, with a ton of non-sponsored / non-team riders entered. For some of them, a mechanical issue could mean the difference between starting and watching from the sidelines: they don't have a team waiting to repair their bike and a big tent full of spare parts. I don't think you can assume that anyone who crashed was also injured, or that they wouldn't have crashed on any other course.
Plus, it's the end of a long season and some riders were already nursing injuries from previous races. Finn Iles got a concussion at Les Gets. He was on the entry list for Val di Sole but didn't start. Wyn Masters was on the entry list, but he felt sub-par after the track walk and found out he has Covid. Just a couple of the riders who are part of the group who couldn't make starts in quali/finals, and neither one could blame the track.
I never rode down this track but it sure looks nasty. However, breaks do exist too.
Um... Jackson and Jordan are going to bring a new level next year. Beating he older guys by 4 seconds? Both would have had elite wins this year.
Got to say I agree with you on moving the track, or adding a huge new bit. Just watching old footage like Sams run and then later when Gwin was dominating there, the track was just so sick back then with all the loam. But honestly I think it was still just as bad, they used to talk about how those huge rocks we're now seeing were buried in deep loam and you'd have no idea what was going on.
that track must stay as it is otherwise they will ruin best DH track. If its that bad how balanche could ride it so she became overall champion still with not fully recovered collarbone fracture. Dont spread that BS about safety and danger they opted to risk by competing in DH.
could feel the heartbreak in robs voice
The intensity of World cup DH racing without Rob is unimaginable