DIALED S5-EP51: DH track walk in Mont Sainte Anne | FOX

It’s track walk day in Mont Sainte Anne, the final track walk of the season. The weather is beautiful, the leaves are firing, and the track is looking good.

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All right Taj I got a question for you what’s up Schaefer who’s Chad who is Chad I don’t know am I supposed to know these are talking Canadian Senator employee handbook that we we have to have a Canadian with us and because Pete is not here shout out

To come you know those Canadians they always just show up places hey I’m Chad and we’re like cool I need to start working Chad is here for these two races doing forks with me and he comes from the Vancouver service center he says he lives in Vancouver wherever that is

Chad worked to us last year he helped out knees from the Vancouver office and he’s come over to help us for snowshoot on Montana nobody’s really named Chad are they I’m Chad or Jade I go by many names Chad Von Quackenbush III no I’m just here to give a hand here

To lend a hand fixing Forks floor Services a lot of lower services so that’s Chad in a nutshell Services suspension [Applause] Thank you today is the last track walk of the season and when we found out the race was in October I’m not gonna lie I was a little bummed that I was going to miss Leaf peeping season back home but this might turn out to be the greatest Leaf

Peeping hike of the season it’s beautiful up here the weather’s great if we got to end on a track walk I think this is the one to do it 10 and man what a sick track this is probably my favorite the most legendary venue I think for me raced my first

World Cup here in 2015 late 124 full privateer in the USA Jersey fell in love man the track in Saint Anne has everything especially this year we’ve got some new loamy sections some bombs some little like poppy lips it’s literally got everything and it’s all

Time full time I would say like a profit Donald Trump which is sick and it’s dry actually we all thought we were going to get bad weather but it’s super dry uh last time I rode here was 2019 so first time seeing a lot of the new sections

For me it’s gonna be insane it’s fast it’s really dry right now it’s one little bog but it’s bone dry right now but looks like a big storm Saturday quite dry at the moment I’m surprised I packed all my rain gear and all my warm clothes and it’s like 25 degree and

Sunshine um there’s a few new sections up on top which looking really good Lomas um so I’m quite Keen to ride compared especially for last week it’s really high speeds a lot of air momentum you have to carry but it’s it’s super fun it’s always a good one it’s more about

Letting kind of off the brakes than actual pedaling or stuff like that so um it’s it’s always a really fun one and we’ve got some pretty great weather this week so far so yeah I can’t complain Montana has been one of those like flat out venues it has some technical spots

Where you have to slow up but overall just it’s like a dirt bike track it’s flat out you feel like you’re ripping the whole time you’re going super fast they did a ton of work up top and it looks really good some fresh sections and then there’s a good mix they did put

A couple of narrower Corners in but overall it just has like that good mix of like flat out speed technical stuff like precise thick Corners real cool like Sandy dirt mixed with rock that’s been in the same place for the whole time we’ve been racing area so got a few

Different options they tape it in but a section like this these rocks have been the same since I started coming here so Connie you’ve got you’ve got the kind of you’re familiar with the terrain but it always seems to just change that little bit but always goes well in the way as

Well so it’s a really long and rough it’s like perfect and it’s uh it’s in really good condition it’s really dry and I like it like that the Top’s a little wet but they’ll dry out fine but everything else is really good so mountain is pretty long it’s pretty

Rough but they fixed some sections and I think it’s the first proper Loma this year really yeah yeah see some some nice fresh loan so yeah long rough and and nice fun I think this year it changes quite a bit with the first wood section they changed it’s a lot of long

Fresh section looks insane to me I think definitely my favorite monster name I’ve ever seen so yeah looks sick it’s gonna be physical that’s for sure in the woods it’s like sort of single track one line um and then like in the open down here we’ve got fast there’s a new section

That I put in which is which looks really good so I feel like it’s just like a really good variety of uh probably down on track and I mean Mount Saint Anne has always been the best for making I guess downhill look great because it’s like super high speed rough physical

It’s got everything that you uh kind of really want in a in a Donald track and then do you have any pre-race Traditions or habits or superstitions depending on how my weekend goes really like first day of practice sort of sets the tone for how I’m feeling for the

Rest of the weekend but normally like I guess an hour before my run I go to the top chew for I don’t know like 10 20 minutes and then get into warm up sort of visualize a track and and then and then rip into it I kind of like to

Be as warm as possible and not sort of cool down before my run so it all depends on the on the weekend and how it’s going I mean I’ve got it I’ve got a warm-up routine and much always the same with like to do is doing some some games

With my mechanic like either some slabs or catching rocks just to turn my head on and when I can beat him in that I know I’m in a good shave and ready to race got a couple I mean I stick to my Walmart pretty well like do the same

Warm up every time but uh I guess make sure you eat at the right time make sure you don’t miss your start time other than that it’s a warm up and go yeah I like to keep it fairly simple and race day so I would never normally they

Played ice hockey younger and like in the playoff they never shave after they start or that was what we got told we were kids so if I started a race week I couldn’t shave during the race week but last week I like fully broke that I was

Like nah man I want to show you I’m shaving and I was like I’ve never run a race and I’ve always keep the non-shave so I was like maybe it’ll help maybe I can change this it didn’t help I didn’t win a race but I did all right so that

Was like the main thing anything else nah I think just ride fast I used to have a beer every night before the race I have slightly broken that now I was I was afraid before I would crash if I had a didn’t have one drink the Night Before the Race and sometimes it

Was even true but maybe it’s just in my head so broke the Superstition now nothing too crazy no real rituals I put brand new gloves on for every race run just because I like the fit but not because there’s no lucky socks or lucky gloves

Or oh one thing I don’t do is wear white gloves and white goggles that crash every time every time not really I have like my gloves have to be like fresh gloves like even like freshly washed or like brand new because I can’t deal with like the bagginess I feel like

It’s like putting on a worn sock it feels a bit weird so that’s about it and no that’s literally it I try not to have superstitions I’m one of those people that’s like no come on we don’t have to do this yeah yeah I got a few uh

Uh I’m not I don’t know I’m not very superstitious I well and then I say this like I double tap my helmet twice uh I do like the same routine before the start but it’s mainly just to keep it the same and you kind of then you know

You’re ready so ah no I don’t do anything I’m just kind of kind of go with the flow so the only track walk I’ve done this year was Leo gang don’t know why um and I haven’t done one since and Andy won in Leah gang so here I am on doing

My bit on track walk so you can win you should see these go though if you want to see anything faster on track that is superstitions I wore these at World Champs Charlie one but Charlie’s not here so yeah I don’t think he can win this week I think he’s out of the

Running yeah for R.I.P Jolly we love you miss you brother you’d like this track yeah he would give this track a big it’s pretty easy just a normal warm-up I do a lot of visualizing like just go through track several times till I really feel like I’m nearly writing it

And I think when I go to a stalker I’m just like thankful to be here and stuff like this so yeah appreciate life no I just try to enjoy it as much as I can done all the work all the winter so the racing is just the

Bonus to enjoy it do you have any pre-service Traditions or or superstitions missions yeah I kind of I like I like so I’ll wait my hands down a lot she knows that I’m not really a Superstition but you know I’m gonna say when I see like someone else’s decals on them

It’s just always like for sure that I’m gonna find something weird inside the shop wrong I mean we’re not wrongs but just like different O-rings or things like that like like different parts that we’ve never seen before no because if you start that nonsense then the one

Time you don’t do it you blame it on everything you just gotta come in and do your best work it’s quite hard to explain but if you say someone’s gonna do well you jinx them because I tend to find when I’m watching and I’m like oh my God

They’re having a really good run then they crash so now I mostly sit in silence until after they’re done I definitely don’t have superstitions that’s nonsense I try to shave on race day because I probably haven’t all week so come out a little cleaner than normal might even shower

And then I try to eat a bunch of horrible food and feel a lot of regret can you just talk to me a bit about the track what’s it like here I think most people really enjoy it it is probably quite scary because it is there are some

Full on like wide open sections quite a few of them really so it’s fast some good steep bits some big rock sections like it’s got a big mix of everything I’ve heard the mid section is almost all new now and people seem really stoked on it

So that’s exciting it’s been hit or miss in years past like a couple times it’s just full on like 60k Fire Road but uh it’s it’s a great track it’s hard to imagine conditions being any more perfect than they were today for the final trackwalk of the season

This track is just iconic and from what everyone’s saying the changes all seem to be really positive so we will see you tomorrow when the real fun begins with practice We’ve gotten a few questions about how we decide which athletes make it in the episodes and and whatnot um it turns out there’s one very important qualifier that gets teams into the episodes This looks like a oaty chocolate slice and this one’s like got dates in and stuff oh try that looks amazing thanks boys damn how is it true so good what are we thinking good oh you’re good snacks