Silk Road Mountain Race (SRMR)

Apart from that, I made the mistake of not servicing the fork before coming here and I didn’t have time to send it to Fox. After two days it essentially lost its suspension and was very stiff and noisy. The sounds were quite painful, like something was being damaged

Yikes

You’d blow through the service interval in a few days anyway. The mistake was not replacing the fork with something else!

Good interview, Jakub is a great winner. Very humble in the interview, but what an achievement as a first race. 7/8 hour sleeps too.

I rode and spike with him up arabel pass on the eastern most side of the route. He couldnt understand why he was up front. Such a nice guy and so strong. As we reached the switch back he stood up and danced off, I was left pushing without legs to follow. It was no surprise to me he won having seen that. I only ever witnessed such prowess from one other racer, Geoffrey dussault.

Well deserved and a wonderful guy.

I liked "It’s a carbon Merida 29er with two wheels and a bar at the front"
Funny, down to earth guy! :)

Such a humble person. Loved the interview. A clear example of ordinary people doing incredible things.

I would stress so much about gear and preparation, he just went for it. (After a well thought out VO2 max oriented training apparently)