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Coil Shock vs. Air Shock, New High-Pivot MTBs, When To Stop Upgrading Your Bike & More... Ep. 113 [Podcast]
On today's episode of the MTB Podcast, we discuss a couple of new high-pivot MTBs from Deviate and Forbidden before jumping into a classic array of listener questions ranging from when to stop upgrading your well loved bike, to coil vs air shocks, future Trail One products, and everything in between. Tune in!
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ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode 113 of the MTB podcast presented and
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hosted by a worldwide Cyclery I am Jared I am Jeff and I'm Liam and I've
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completely forgot to write the little intro script thing that I normally do because we're recording this on Friday
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and we normally do it on Tuesdays and we've already made our first mistake I
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could have ripped it and they would have never known well in this episode we're going to discuss forbidden bikes they've
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got a new bike as well as deviate bikes they also have a new bike two notable interesting High pivot mountain bikes
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that are pretty cool to talk about and of course the usual listener questions that are ranging from when to stop
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upgrading your bike do crank sets actually have an effect on how your bike rides uh let's see what else what else
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is in here putting a coil on your bike um toilet paper techniques toilet paper
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techniques yeah I don't know that's that's about being the that's my that's my gist but we're gonna do our best to
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entertain and educate our fellow mountain bikers that is you all listening so thanks for listening
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prepare for some mountain bike knowledge by the way reminder this podcast is available on all podcast platforms as
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well as YouTube and you can watch our live videos of us on YouTube or at least the most popular podcast
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platforms I'm sure there's one out there that's well I listened to pod Platt and you're not on there
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short for podcast platform maybe maybe don't look at me like that I don't like
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it all right High pivot bikes that's something we went super in depth with uh
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what episode We Go episode 92 92 95 is 90 something 91. yeah I have no clue
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Nico had a lot of interesting uh sort of things to talk about high pivot stuff because he's he's the downhill racer
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World Cup level downhill racer that we're all friends with and sponsor and he's creating his own bike that he raced
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all last season and began to race this season until he wrecked you know he wrecked himself before he checked
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himself but he'll be back but his uh he has a lot of knowledge and understanding around suspension kinematics as any you
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know really nerdy bike nerd racer would and when he was building his own bike he was testing back to back the same bike
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one high pivot one knot a lot of good stuff on that episode if you want to learn more about high pivot it was episode 91 by the way 91. okay thank you
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the gist of it is that uh it's the the whole idea is it just makes the
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suspension work better makes it feel as if the bike has no chain on it it doesn't get hung up uh it uh helps it
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under braking also has a more rearward axle path yeah which if that does have a
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if a suspension design does have a rearward axle path without a idler pulley you will then
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feel the chain yeah so there's benefits there's a lot of benefits to a rear World rear word
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that's a hard thing to say it's like real world real world it's a lot of benefits to the
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rearward axle path uh however the those benefits get
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screwed up if you have a chain on the bike and most people ride with chains so the idea was how do we get this axle
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path and the benefits from it without the downsides and that's where the whole High pivot thing came from
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forbidden and deviate are probably the two most prominent brands that were really on top of this suspension design
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early on right I'd say two most prominent trail bike brands yeah true yeah yeah because downhill bike is a
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whole different scenario what Canfield Bros Canfield 30 years ago a long time common Saul's used it for a long time so
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um even the Honda bike used some type of idler pulley thing mixed in the gearbox so I think it I also think we might have
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too yeah I don't remember that was a while ago but in the downhill world where you have longer travel bikes going a lot faster this is where the stuff
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gets even more important but as Enduro bikes as people ride them faster as they become more capable and as they get
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longer travel and they can still pedal up hills well that's where a lot of people that we put High pivot suspension
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designs on trail bikes and Enduro bikes and forbidden and deviate were two of the brands that kind of came out of the
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gate with that setup which is cool and they've been doing super well and those bikes ride well and forbidden so new
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Druid yeah well actually it'll start all the Deeds yeah well I do but let's also
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start with saying that we are now caring forbidden bikes true which is news Round
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of Applause our boss uh yeah pretty exciting so that is cool yeah it is exciting though it is
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it is our job to curate the best mountain bikes and mountain bike components and gear and uh that's a
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brand that we've kind of been eyeing for a long time and finally pulled it off so yeah stoked on that so stoked we are
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getting bikes in as we speak and uh yeah if you have any questions or you want to pre-order something uh shoot us an email
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but uh never get a high pivot bike Jeff yeah absolutely nice yeah actually looking looking at these two bikes right
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uh today I was like man these look so good and that new forbidden just looks amazing like a yeah I'm definitely
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interested we do have a 140 plus Mill travel we have a Dreadnought uh on the
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way for testing so that's a 150 rear travel yeah that I really want to ride and then I want to ride that back to
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back against that deviate which you wrote the deviate I love the Claymore the Claymore yeah the longer travel that
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was a really fun bike yeah and you guys made a YouTube video about that um yeah check that out if you're curious
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it did feel Shameless to an extent like that yeah that's how good the rear suspension worked and even on like
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technical climbs I was like Blown Away uh how much traction and was just like how well it scooted up Tech times
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um but yeah those those are the types of bikes that the faster you go and the more you're
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sort of pushing your own limits on the bike riding down steeper stuff rougher stuff or in racing scenarios where
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you're under really hard braking in different scenarios and and it's super rough that's where High pivot starts to
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really shine yeah and you go whoa this is nice I like this it was really nice yeah yeah so I'm pretty Keen to try the
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Forbidden Druid and Dreadnought but they both seem like super sick bikes yeah so with
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forbidden they released a new Druid V2 this past week
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um where their Druid was the original bike that they came out with a couple years ago that kind of I think it was
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their only bike they launched when they launched a brand um so they came on the V2 where they
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actually changed up the suspension design a little bit and um they added a pivot near the rear axle
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which helps tune both Anti Squat and Anti rise characteristics and just kind
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of more fine-tune what they have going on back there with the high pivot design
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um so yeah so like a single pivot single high pivot it's Now inverted four bar
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right yeah that's what they said I haven't looked into it that's why I didn't want to say if it's inverted four
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bar but I they did say that and I did read that um
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so yeah it's a 1 30 rear travel 150 front uh modern Geo like you'd expect no
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like weird stuff going on it has you know internal cable routing but not through the headset it's got udh
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um kind of just standard stuff so stuff you would expect yeah and not on a
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flagship premium level exactly mountain bike man they look so good it does look
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really good the colors look really good the more I look at it I know I'm I'm pretty first it's just it's just such a
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rare rad brand too that it makes me really interested in yeah yeah I need
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that in my life it looks pretty rad bike looks good everyone has good things to say about it the brand is cool working
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with them's been good so far so awesome um yeah everything looks good about it
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yep definitely a bike and a brand worth checking out I'm just still continuously happy that there are small boutique
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mountain bike brands that continue to push the limits and make amazing bikes
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that are actually still usually almost always better than the big box brands because they're catering to a different
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audience and they're going even higher end than it would make logical sense for a big box brand to do and it's just cool
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that doesn't exists and Catering to a more Niche audience which you know can pinpoint what you like and that's why it
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might perform better for you right yeah so it's honestly just like a lot more exciting to me personally when I see
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like a new bike come out like this too because like I don't know for me if I see like a new Trek or giant or whatever specialized come out I'm just like
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cool cool you know yeah nice you know like like Skunk Works
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type deal you know like I don't know that yeah just like new Big Box bikes don't really excite me as much I guess
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yeah so it also is 2929 and mullet compatible with this swap of a rear link
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so or no your slip chip or something flip
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yeah it's it's compatible one way or another I'm not I have to read in
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exactly how they do that sick but yeah fanciness fanciness all right so deviate's new bike deviously the
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Highlander 2 was the Highlander or the Claymore a more popular bike for deviant Claymore you think so yeah well it's
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newer and they just really hit the nail in the head with that and um and I got some seriously good Enduro
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World Series results with that bike they got good results with it they got a really good pink bike endorsement with it
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um you know it is even though the Druid V2 is 130 travel and the Druid was also
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130 rear travel high pivots really do shine with a little bit more travel I think
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um so the Claymore has more travel it's 165 here I believe so it's a monster
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um but the Highlander is a good bike and we had a demo and I spent probably like two months on that Highlander first
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version and I really liked it it was a cool bike did everything pretty well but the Highlander 2
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just kind of gets same updates um uh it's 145 rear travel so they split
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difference between the two previous Highlander models 140 150 so 145 you
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know slight slacker um as I have a 65 degree head tube angle 77
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degree seat tube angle so the only thing about thailander 2 is it
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does not have udh so if that is a stickler for someone then it does not
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have UDA it does not have udh that's a bummer man but I really like the way deviant does their cable routing on
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their front triangle it's like yeah that is nice fully external yet it's like hidden and tucked away
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um so it's it's really clean I like like what they do there so yeah pretty sneaky
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I wonder if udh it's I mean we kind of feel right now that oh your bike really
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needs udh but I wonder how much that's going to end up mattering well we'll see because there's still a lot of great
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trailers oh totally slap on there without udh a lot of people still all love and ride Shimano only and they
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don't care at all of it at deviation so yeah I think it's just so in the news lately it's all on our mind but at the end of the day I don't think it matters
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as much as maybe we're all in like feelings you don't ride access right now yeah I kind of like a mechanical
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drivetrain you know that's only a normal normal derailleur Mount so it doesn't matter to you right now if it does have
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udh or not yeah but like it is easy to travel that's what I was gonna say it's like you know a plus but you know yeah
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having to find a a drailleur hanger for a deviate yeah it's almost less it's less about the T-Type compatibility
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transmission Drive training more about just Universal availability there's one yeah we'll get to it later but with a
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quote from a question later and this is are we going to be stuck in the hell of unique
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which is totally reasonable yeah it is yeah it's it is honestly more about the availability and just like accessibility
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to having a replacement than than the T-Type at this point too yeah um both these bikes just look so good
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the high pivot setup in these these particular Brands just did a really good job with their design language and
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everything that they're doing I actually think the Druid V2 took that up a notch from the V1 I still like the V1 but I
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think the design cues of the V2 the angles the lines they rerouted the
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where the chain goes so now it goes in the rear triangle instead of above it so yeah they also move The Idler Wheel back
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so it has more chain wrap on that front chainring therefore not needing a lower chain guide so they helped reduce some
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drag by eliminating that so yeah nice they look really good both of them I'm digging that yep I'm impressed
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that's cool a lot of good bikes to choose from these days yeah too many yeah seriously and I already have too
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many so I'm like yeah the good thing to remember is that buying really high-end mountain bikes uh
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you know nine times out of ten if not nine point seven times out of ten is you're actually buying an asset it's kind of like buying a car you can resell
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it for a reasonable amount true um it's not just throw away money so you're
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actually buying an asset that then you can resell for a reasonable amount of money and not much depreciation so hopefully just something to remember
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just another thing in Your Arsenal if your significant other is wondering why it's necessary to spend 10 grand on a
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bike you can say whoa slow down listen here I can sell this for 7 500 and you know six months or a year you know yeah
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yeah you can resell these things that's right so it's not throw away money no it's not
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it's an asset put that stuff on your little net worth tracking document yeah you got that on you got all your bikes
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on your net worth tracking documents definitely don't but it helps you go up like 20K one of them is cracked it's not really
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worth anything I mean yeah well we won't even go there I cracked by my open there's the crack
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in it you cracked it no I got it cracked remember it gets it is Carl's old bike
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oh yeah it was a warranty situation yeah those guys are not mountain bikers are
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not listening to this they're gravel guys no it's it's cool it has a little like a rock chip slash crack slash
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whatever you want to call it it was a crash replacement it wasn't a warranty crash replacement yeah there you go it's
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fine fine you're really making us look high class over here riding crash replacement bikes well you would never do that on a
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mountain bike just on a yeah just just on the gravel would absolutely never do that on a mountain bike yeah
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no you can be fine I'd Bunny Hop it off curb and stuff it's cool yeah yeah I don't have much room to talk since I was
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riding that you really don't salsa Cut Throat that had the crack in the top tube that was entirely my fault from it blowing over in the wind and falling on
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a rock um but that bike sold um which I'm really sad because I I already miss it it's been gone for three
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days and I'm like whoa I need that bike back now uh you know you can you can spin this into a positive light you get
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to build a new bike I know it just takes time and I just want it now two bikes you're gonna build that road the Rover
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and another I'm gonna build a proper gravel bike and it takes more of my time more than his time right yeah to try and
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ride real gravel bike and ride that Rebel Rover and then I'm gonna build another Cutthroat because that Cutthroat
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is the funnest bike ever yeah just an ultra lightweight rigid mountain bike it's just a really fun bike I never know funnest bike ever in quotes maybe get
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that on the engraved on the top tube yeah yeah I don't know yeah I'm gonna
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set it to quite like that and I didn't know you were gonna be like the media and spin me out of context yeah that is
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fully in context I know
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it's so fun this is yeah I don't I don't doubt you I love my gravel bike too and
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I'm sure you know flat bars great yep it is all right this is a good question and I think it's
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probably relevant to a lot of people yeah super relatable at what point do you stop upgrading an older bike you
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love and break the bank on a new ride so well you're not breaking the bank
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you're getting an asset yeah yeah we just told you that you're just reallocating the bank so the the
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gentleman goes on to say riding a 2016 Trek fuel ex 9.8 that I have changed to
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a one by had a carbon crack repair on the frame new Wheels a few services on
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the suspension and two service bike rebuilds I love the Geo of the bike and how it
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rides but lately I've been considering an upgrade
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well I was first thinking wow 2016 the Geo is getting getting a little bit
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dated there a little bit new bikes do Rod very differently I think that a lot of this comes down to personal
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preference of course and what would help you decide is if you go to a demo event
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yeah yeah and you ride the latest and greatest and if you think man
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I think these are so much better I'm gonna have to buy one then that's what you think and if you ride and you're like
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I don't know didn't notice it that much I still like my old bike then there's your answer this guy should go to the Sedona mountain bike Festival next year
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or outer bike or outer bike going on this year and then you can pick the bike but to me it sounds like this guy's
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gotten a lot of use out of this thing a lot of Life a lot of Life a lot he's still riding a 2016 Trek fuel good on
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you maintained it and upgraded the drivetrain and service the suspension yeah I mean 2016 you know in in my world
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that is like the suspension on that the Geo on that all that stuff is just so dated and but I mean
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I had a 2015 uh was a V2 or V3 Nomad and
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I mean that's still a great bike like if you just take it for what it is like yeah obviously if you're comparing it to
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something brand new it's like you're gonna notice some differences but like I'm sure this guy's still having a blast on this thing like in Geo is still
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probably fun you can always have a blast on anything right that rolls exactly the funnest bike ever is a 90s sound bike so
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but you know I'm saying um but to me it's like you know if if you're riding
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all the time and you feel like you kind of are reaching the end of life or not even that but like you got your money's
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worth like maybe it's time to invest in a new ride but yeah I mean I'd I'd say it definitely is
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preference and I was going to say go out and try other bikes try new bikes try different types of bikes try you know
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bikes that are super slack and long try bikes that are you know kind of just in the Middle High pivots like there's a
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lot of stuff to choose from now um and geometry has come a long way and suspensions come along
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when I read the word 2016 I just think man I remember how
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suspension felt then yeah and it was way it was just Way Beyond it was just way more rigid way less Progressive I mean
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it just did not it was Pogo sticky just wasn't as good there's been a lot of changes in suspension since then yeah
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100 yep that's what I I guess yeah it's like what seven years ago and probably yeah that's crazy and he also just to
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like put it out there you might feel like your first few rides on a brand new 2023 bike might feel weird because they
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are so long and slack and different that you know it might feel foreign at first
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um but you know there's a reason why they've gone that way so yeah just gotta give them a few rides I think the best
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test is to just go ride the latest and greatest and see if it really if it blows your socks off and you think you
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gotta have it because it's going to be that much more fun and capable and useful and awesome as a bike to ride yeah then heck yeah do it or if you
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think yeah it hasn't changed that much then there's your answer I mean a normal bike that's kind of great it's kind of
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what happened to me like uh years ago before I started working here I had like a 2012 Santa Cruz Blair 26 or you know
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like 2x10 or whatever and I did a Santa Cruz Factory demo I demoed a new Nomad and I it blew my socks off like you said
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I was like oh my God this is horrible I need one of these now and like I kept on breaking stuff on the blur and I was
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like oh man you know like this thing is just not not built for it um but yeah I kind of opened my eyes and
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like fast forward to when I started working on worldwide and I had the Nomad and I wrote a new like brand new SB 150
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and the same thing happened I was like oh man this thing blew that thing out of the water like so yeah that'll probably happen every few years if you're at a
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bike that's you know several years old I guess let's hope because that means that bike Innovation continues to progress in the
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right direction and blows the socks off of people and they have to get something new yeah so we'll see or we had a
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product Innovation Plateau only time will tell we'll see I have a feeling we're not though yeah I mean it's hard
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to predict things like that yeah if you had the answers to that you would be a much wealthier man wouldn't we all
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foreign how about this one do uh crank sets really have an effect on your bike's
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performance currently bike my bike has a Race Face effect crank and it's fought its fair share of rocks so I'm
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considering upgrading but other than weight are there any performance benefits to higher end cranks
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um yeah I mean they can be stiffer for sure yeah so that could be a thing the affect though there's two affect cranks
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there's I think there's one with the 24 mil spindle with a 30 ml spin oh yeah eight or yeah I think so depending on
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which one you have that might also like put you in a slight different category of where that sits you know kind of on
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the the the chain going upwards um [Music] yeah I mean weight to me is the biggest
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weight's definitely the biggest and then Aesthetics is I mean that's kind of personality I also think if you can
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remember back to riding really cheap cranks and then changing the cranks on that exact bike to a really higher end
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one that's much stiffer that makes that bike feel way different totally you don't realize how much cranks are just
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flexing like noodles when you have lower end cranks until you put on higher end carbon cranks for sure but uh we all
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ride high-end stuff so we maybe have forgotten that but I remember viscerally when I was younger a teenager you know
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and I got new cranks that were way higher end my first carbon cranks and I just thought holy crap these are so
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stiff this makes my bike feel more powerful like you can just feel at every pedal stroke how much less Flex there is
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in those cranks and that is cool and meaningful totally yes it does yeah um
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going from like a mid-range crank to a high-end crank maybe not as much but if you're on like the full-blown low end
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spectrum and you go to the high-end Spectrum anyone can notice a difference in the flex and how that feels and performs that's kind of being two pounds
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yeah that's kind of where I was saying is affect is kind of just around that mid-level yeah it's already pretty nice
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so you know going from afact to the highest end like you might not notice a huge difference but there is going to be
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a performance increase with stiffness yeah um I remember doing that on a uh Old
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Road or mountain bike when I was racing like a lower level because what I could afford and I was just like upgrading stuff as I got close to Race season and
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I finally put on like EXO or XX carbon cranks compared to whatever was on there and I'm like oh yeah like this is insane
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the way it feels like 30 mil spindles stiffer crank arms like all of it made a huge huge difference so totally
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yeah honestly even going from like an apex to the turbine the new turbine crank is is pretty sick it's still an aluminum crank and yeah um yeah and then
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experiment with different lengths too cranks are going a little shorter like you might have a 175 a fat crank yeah
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and now 170 is the norm 165s kind of creeping in to be like the new 170 so
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yeah there you go that's another benefit that is another benefit I remember
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I still just am remembering when I had cheap cranks and made nicer cranks you know what I also remember is e13 which
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they still do to make these ultra light cranks they used to make extremely lightweight aluminum cranks uh that were
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targeted towards the the XC side of things and they were expensive and they were the noodles cranks they were so
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noodly it was it was Unreal and I I had them on a it was a dirt jump bike but it was actually a banshee a Banshee amp it
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was a dirt jump bike but also a four cross bike and I was kind of using it interchangeably between the two and I
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had those cranks on there I kind of always knew they were flexi but then I ended up when I started just like I want
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to race four cross on this more I put Saint cranks on there nice it was like it was told nine day difference night
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and day yeah comically I had no idea lightweight cranks on the high end of
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all gone carbon and that helps them but man when back in the day you know 15 years ago I must have been 12 years ago
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when Brands were trying to make the lightest possible aluminum cranks yeah that's just a that's a a noodle waiting
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to happen yep checks out anyways all right well we need to take a short intermission how about an ad IP
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show thank you
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if you watch this podcast on YouTube you can see all of the cocktails that I make
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oh or that never tastes good but look cool such as this one with a horrible
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strawberries and gin they don't want to be kind I'm just not that good at making coffee mine's pretty darn good one day
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we'll rain today we did have espresso martinis earlier we got stuff to make espresso martinis it's the hot cocktail
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these days yep we made a couple and they're delicious cheers big on uh following Instagram and Tick Tock Trends
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that's not true so martinis not true at all I do not follow that stuff he actually sent me a link to a tick tock
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with espresso martinis this morning get out of here so we should we should have these on the Mountainside he has the
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worst the worst co-hosts ever or the best read
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this next question be directed towards you yeah dear Jared you should bring Bean onto the podcast to give some meows
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of advice on the best sell for felines I totally agree also is Trail one ever going to make petals or chain Rings well
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Liam Trail one hang on I gotta stop oh no
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I got what The Rock was for yeah I got pet rock the fourth
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the occasional mention of Jared's cat bean and then somehow Pet Rocks got
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mentioned and we just keep getting pummeled in the comments and the questions about pet rocks and mostly
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being content and being uh Jared's cat and now Liam has a giant rock in his
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hand if you're watching this on YouTube and he painted did you paint that yeah
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took the time to paint that little paint pen can't go until the fourth where's the first three he probably ruined a
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whole an entire paint pen doing that so you're gonna take that right off eat it take care of it they're expensive
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this is a huge commitment you have Liam you have to take care of that now but do you you guys aren't even appreciating
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lentil like is that supposed to be a nod to the bean Queen it's the king of bean this is in
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charge of bean oh because it's King lentil but C Bean is the queen so I
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guess they're doing it together somehow she's a princess write it in all right all right you're way off to the mountain
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bike is Trail one ever gonna make pedals or chain rings the answer is yes uh we actually have a
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pedal that's already been designed and in production right now and it's awesome that's super exciting composite and it
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looks rad and I'm really excited to introduce that to the world we're gonna do an aluminum version yeah we'll do an
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aluminum version as well nice uh crazy high-end sea and Seed one so you know we gotta we've got to cover the bases gotta
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have a super high end cnc'd alloy version and then a nice good composite one that's at a totally different price
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point mid and high nice yeah
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um chain Rings we've thought about it I have a generous visual cool design but then it's like other people make
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good chainrings and then you're like you know we also work closely with the manufacturers and they don't love
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third-party chance mess I don't know I don't know if I want to get into that right now yeah there's just a lot of weird patent Minefield stuff around
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chainrings that doesn't exist amongst other components because there's that whole uh saram x-sync thing that had to
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do with the narrow wide chainring yeah um I don't know there's just some weird chainring shenanigans that not really
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sure if it's a necessary product to make if anyone listening to this has any really interesting ideas or thoughts on
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chainrings let us know yeah I'm very curious yeah but also on this question
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is this person asking for the best saddle for felines for cats or felines for like female mountain bike riders or
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best Saddles the best saddle for future they mean cats so that's a joke I think so okay yeah moving on moving on
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what do you think is the worst thing a person can put in their bio on a dating
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app zodiac sign really I mean yeah that's definitely like a red flag for sure run if someone
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asks you zodiac sign run someone asked you what time they're born run faster
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what's your sign
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Jared did you like realign your chakras touche um I'm gonna say any sort of like
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political affiliation like that's that's kind of like you have to save that kind
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of stuff I think that weeds out 50 of the pieces so well so does your zodiac sign I guess maybe even 75 but I don't
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know you don't want to be like straight off the bat you know like I'm hardcore this or that you're gonna
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alienate people like off the bat that you could get along with and then yeah but if you're a super polarizing
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political person on either side wouldn't you want to just alienate the other ones so you don't bother with them I don't
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know I mean you can coexist with someone and not share the same political ideologies that's a very my parents are
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hard my dad is super conservative and my mom is like the other end of the spectrum you know your your parents are one of
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the bright spots in America thank you yeah I really appreciate that the fact that they have totally different political views and they've been happily
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married that's good oh she did say some stuff like if you've over Donald Trump I will divorce you
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she did say some stuff like that but you know like this peacefully and currently on a road trip across
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America yep yeah yeah speaking which I just went to a new dentist yesterday oh nice so Jared's dad is my dentist for my
31:52
literally my entire life and my family's dentist so how was it long before I even met Jared and his dad retired so I have
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to find a new dentist nice great yeah not great I mean obviously not as good as my dad well that's that's you know I
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mean yeah your dad was a fantastic best dentist in the world didn't even need to even throw that out there but that that
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he there was even a comparison because the best part is you don't even know where you're gonna go for dental work now no I thought about just doing it
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myself why doesn't your dad just like just give
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you the old you know Sun special just come over because he doesn't like do cleanings like you know that's all I
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really want is like you know he can tell me that's something jacked up but like I'm not gonna make him clean my teeth don't go get something you know I'll
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have somebody do that all right we are off topic anyways yeah how about the next question once again yeah
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I think I recall you guys mentioning some MTB specific wait no you didn't
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answer it the dating app question I don't know the right answer for that oh come on just
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what's the first thing that comes to your head you're scrolling through you see a potential mate and you think oh
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God but there's that in the bio like she likes rock climbing maybe if maybe if
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there's a request of uh I'll only DM you back if you make over if you make oh
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yeah like you gotta be over six feet make over six figures yeah exactly if
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that's in there I'm like 100 yeah that's like zero interest depending on where you live six figures it's just like
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cool you can almost afford a mortgage right are you carrying decimal places
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yeah I'm just kidding all right well there you go um next question oh no no I got it okay
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yeah yeah it's it's your your Amazon wishlist link oh no
33:42
people do that and send girls Instagram profiles no way oh yeah tap on some of
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those links that's insane now we're really embarrassing me yeah let's let's move on get back on the boat
33:55
this is the mountain bike podcast Mike podcast welcome I think I recall you guys mentioning some MTB specific Kell
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Mountain shorts any idea on the timeline for those I love The Virtue shorts for riding and need another pair or two but
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I may want to hold off until we see the new shorts thanks all right I'm ready for this one yeah geared up bro ready
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baby all right send it bro so the idea with the virtue shorts was to really make this sort of elegant hybrid short
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that worked actually with swimming um as a board short but worked great on a mountain bike and worked great wearing
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casually so it's a super thin lightweight fabric that dries quick stretchy kind of hits all those things and then the trim and the cuts got
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pockets and it just actually looks good as like a good lifestyle short and you can also ride bikes in it and then we
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have longer in seams which help for riding bikes but yeah it was very much of a hybrid sort of extremely versatile
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short and we have designed a mountain bike specific short that has a much more
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tailored cut just what you'd want on a mountain bike different pocket layout and yeah we do have that material right
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and material yeah yeah so that's super durable material um and yeah I think I think people are
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gonna love it I think it's it's super dialed in also has a little bit more ventilation on that upper butt crack
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area because that upper butt crack area when you're yeah you get a lot of upper butt crack sweat major swamp yep and
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that's it that happens when you ride bikes yeah seated 100 you know on the side like the hallways on your own bikes
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so yes we do uh it'll be showing up in July and yeah I'm optimistic on it I
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think that mountain bikers a Bounder gonna love it and yeah cattle you know because a lot of us are mountain bikers
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we do a ton of other sports but we want to have some really good mountain bike specific pieces some really good sort of
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hybrid versatile pieces and a lot of good sort of Lifestyle travel sort of General outdoor gear as well so trying
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to try to nail all nail all those Nails you know oh I like that nice that's
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awesome that's what I'm talking about Kettle getting nailed so July is when yeah they asked the answer sometime in
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July yeah thinking about putting a coil on my stump jumper Evo I live in South
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Carolina where it's pretty flat but try to get to North Carolina as much as I can there are some jumps around here but
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would there be any benefits of going to a coil um well you know I know it's pretty
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gnarly up there in uh Pisgah and stuff and pretty technical but a coil would probably do it well there it would
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certainly look cool um although I don't know I feel like I've heard some bad things about putting
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a coil on that on those on those specialized bikes yeah I think the one that has the Yoke that
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breaks shocks they have a yoke on that bike I don't know if it's long enough to break shocks uh some of the suspension
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companies have put out the length of your yoke to the shaft length of your shock there's like a ratio where it's
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okay and then where it's not okay I don't know where the stump temporivo falls on that however I don't think that
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bike is very Progressive so you might be using a lot of travel um or using a lot of the travel
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frequently more frequently than you want to however that being said uh North Carolina is pretty Rocky and
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Rudy and having a coil which the main benefit of a coil is to have a more
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Supple kind of off the top feel um could really help you get more traction in that rocking
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Rudy stuff um but I think in the end of the day you know I know we try to like not do it
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but koi over Sarah's personal preference and I almost always go back to air after
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trying coil on a bike as I just prefer the feeling of air and and how I can tune it for my weight and
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my writing style better so hmm yeah yeah
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I mean I think there's some good benefits to coil it makes the bike feel more like a down bike super Supple off
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the top but it is tough because I don't know I mean if we're being honest I don't I don't ride a coil on any of my
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bikes that I'm not really planning to unless it's either full-blown downhill bike and also if you where you live is pretty flat then you don't want to like
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you know hamstring yourself on your native Trails because where you want to go ride yeah on occasion yeah it's like
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you occasionally go to the bike park where a coil would make sense but you ride the other 80 of the time in local
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Trails even then I prefer air to bike park because I'm going there for the jumps air shocks have just come such a
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long way and they become so much more Supple and Progressive and tunable that it's it's really hard
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for a coil shock to now compete with an air shock yeah and just like you know your air shocks can be more adjustable I
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think just to air shock if I can piggyback is is probably sufficient definitely however I would say I know
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push does make a 11-6 for a stump jumper Evo and that might be the good middle
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ground of getting a shock that's tuned for that bike yeah kind of fixes the progressive ratio Progressive
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Progressive ratio progression ratio progression ratio um on that so push could be an option as
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well nice that's pretty legit yeah I didn't know they made a shock for that bike yeah there is also Progressive
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Springs now too yep um King Creek makes them Sprintex Sprint decks
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well there's no G it's just Sprint oh Sprintex spring that's kind of a weird
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word but they make them yeah um those those are two interesting Progressive Springs that you can use so I don't know
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core shocks are cool they do they do still have a unique feel off the top which is red but yeah it is getting
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every every day that goes by it's harder for coil shocks to compete with how good air shocks have gone yeah but so I think
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yeah it just kind of goes back to like make your bike good for what you do most of the time yeah 80 20 rule yeah because
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like I've been there too you know I want like the full on a drill bit because I love riding that stuff and like coil this and and like you know heavy 38
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pounds yeah exactly but then it's like and then you want to just go ride like by your house and you're like oh man
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this this bike is not very good for riding around yeah it's really only what else right yeah more bikes so you know that's
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that's when you kind of split the difference man you get that long travel bike and that short travel bike
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it is pretty easy to take shocks on and off so yeah for sure especially on that bike it's not like it isn't unusual to
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have two shocks no there's definitely people that have shocks that they use for most riding and shocks that they put on their bike for the summer season when
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they go to bike parks totally or even tires man like you could throw on some some dick casing tires you know with a
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good compound and like shocks tires yeah those are definitely swap out yeah when you go to North Carolina and like
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that'll that'll really change out your bike rides on those rocks also don't forget it is just half the fun of
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mountain bikes is upgrading random stuff and trying and just trying and just trying stuff it's true even if you're
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like wow it's a little worse on these Trails but a little more fun on these Trails like that's just fun to do literally half the fun and I think a lot
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of people us included and most Riders enjoy doing is upgrading their bike and changing stuff just for the sake of
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experiencing it yeah 100 tinkering puzzling whatever yeah it's fun totally able to do that and mountain bikes are
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still infinitely modular like that which makes a huge difference and yeah it's fun totally awesome how about this one
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this is actually a very interesting question what's the weirdest thing you've given someone as a gift
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well this um the only thing I thought of when I saw that question yeah is and I
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think it's is it still on our Instagram story highlights like the oldest one is that holiday party yeah which is four
41:38
years old at this point probably five years old at this point the we we threw a holiday party rager at the worldwide
41:45
Cyclery California location one year and for whatever reason you know some some days I just have the desire to document
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a bunch of stuff on Instagram stories happens about once every eight months and I happen to do it for that holiday
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party and it was hilarious uh so if you're familiar with Instagram story highlights swipe to the oldest ones all
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the way over on the right hand side click on the holiday party you'll find some good entertainment but in that oh yeah uh I was I it was we did a secret
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santa yeah secret Santa right as we do yeah uh secret Santa and I uh I had
42:19
asked Jane to buy my gift for Michael and she forgot and or she bought it and
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didn't have it or something so so I so I bought like during the party I bought a
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whole foods gift card I remember then I printed it out like on a full-size pieces
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printed out a whole foods gift card on a piece of paper it's like whole food like the logo
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exactly yeah and then so I don't know that was the first thing that popped in my head when I thought I was like I just
42:46
I printed out a gift card I bought on the spot because I forgot to get the secret Santa gift that's pretty good I
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think like gifts you were given that party were way more weird than that yeah
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uh I got a pretty weird gift I gave someone once so um uh it was for my
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buddy's wedding actually it was a wedding gift and um he has a a cabin up in the in the
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mountains um so we thought it would be a great idea to get him a crossbow as a wedding gift we got him a crossbow
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that is a good idea they're sick I mean let's shoot it I don't know he's gonna text him right now I will ask
43:24
him but I've always wanted to shoot a crossbow it was legit oh we were just like man you know I think we got him
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like a Target too like they could set it up you know and have a good time but you know in hindsight they were like why the
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did you get us a crossbow for a wedding gift you know like the wife was definitely like you guys are ridiculous
43:44
that's the weirdest thing I've probably ever gotten somebody what about you Liam I don't know man I feel like I'm a boring Gift Giver now I don't even know
43:50
what's weird I did get a pretty weird gift from Taiwan uh to give to my roommate but we're just
43:58
whoever but just kind of brought it home but I don't really want to talk about it on here so I'm gonna move on
44:04
the gift was too inappropriate to make it onto the podcast it was and if you're listening this far you must know that at
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this point we make this podcast PG-13 intentionally because we want you to be able to listen to it around your family
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and children Etc however Adam did send you a photo of me next to the sign in
44:22
Taiwan oh yes yes um which was the story went in so you could probably put that together of what I got there's a lot of
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uh interesting gifts and knickknacks that are sold in Asia yeah phallic yeah
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all right how about oh I think I know the answer to this one just I mean toilet paper over under
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so is this does under mean you go in front of the twig and berries no that means that you put the Roll on yeah
44:48
wiping no I wanted clarification on that as well
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there's only one correct answer because the toilet paper roll patent from like
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1920s it was over it goes over yeah so if you're doing it under you're actually not even doing it correctly you're doing
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it wrong one answer it's over yeah um now for my Technique No we'll move on
45:21
geez there needs to be a larger poll because I know some people for whatever reason like the waterfall on the back
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side what it's harder to get you can't oh no I agree I agree I I want I want the
45:34
waterfall to roll like a waterfall but some people don't like that whenever I see it and push back I just assumed that
45:40
it was in you know it's just an accident a lapse of judgment and in in or
45:45
sometimes when you put a fresh roll on you can't tell you always you know anything you just like throw it on there
45:51
you always pull it and check and then if it's if it's on if it's on the back Pull It in check when you put the new rule on
45:56
yeah I'm on there for 10 minutes dude well you got it you can check it's it's I think common courtesy to like pull out the first piece so like the next person
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doesn't just like you know haphazardly try and you know yeah and break in the
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role if it's on wrong I thought it was just common courtesy just to replace it and then just get out you're 90 there
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yeah but the last 10 is making sure it's correct yeah bidet people over here listening like toilet paper
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what did you say I use a reusable cloth
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all right that goes hand-handed the zodiac sign the bar yeah you've listened this far thank you uh we apologize or
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maybe don't apologize because maybe you enjoyed the slightly off-topic conversations but yeah we're a little
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more casual today because it's Friday yeah party shirt Friday we're not wearing party shirts what are we gonna try to bring it back we should we do but
46:46
you know store in Nevada Tyler is gonna party shirt last Friday out there like it hasn't really been party vibe in the
46:52
environment it still doesn't feel like summer yeah we need Sunny for party shirts but you know I just had a quick
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comment you know regarding the lentil king um because uh you know I think what you
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what you actually meant was the legume King because lentils and beans are are separate they're both yes part of the
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legume family um but unfortunately that lentil King doesn't Reign Over anybody he might be
47:19
right you may have messed that one up yeah it's still yeah also dude I had five minutes to prepare for this I found
47:24
the rock I Googled best bean plants and lentil came up and I was like King
47:31
lentil sounds good best bean plants so I think Lord legume would also suffice
47:38
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we wrap should we go over our previous show notes previous episode behind rip
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through it quickly all right so here we go a couple you guys might remember or all of you might remember uh how we talked about you know Continental Tires
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a couple episodes ago and how somebody was looking for advice on Victory attires so here we go Victoria excuse me
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pronunciation there you go I am an avid fan of Vittoria MTB tires going back to their GX brand I have purchased many
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Victoria tires from WC and I hope you keep stocking them blah blah blah blah okay we will keep stocking them the Mazza
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goes head to head with the dhf or DHR I run the Mazza in front the breakpoint is so much better and more predictable I
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run the martello on the rear for all your traction best at everything from climbing rocks to hard corners and breaking the aggato 2.5 Trail tire is
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also one of the best fast rolling most predictable tires for the front since the WTB mutano raptor is that how
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you say that one mutano raptor I have also I have also seen a local
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Rider run them front and rear I'm a tire Aficionado like you guys and I agree there are so many options and confusion
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for rubber on the market um yeah basically saying Vittoria is simple two casing options multi-compound
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rubber graphene can't be beat you should check it out well I have been reaching out to them to
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try to get some samples and their new tire insert which I also want to try so
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hopefully they continue to respond to me because it's a little pulling teeth right now and we can get that going yeah
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awesome Italian company they have a US distributor so it's not hard for us to
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sort of stock them as long as the distributor has good inventory but it is a little hard to communicate with them
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on various things correct that's fair but you know we'll see I'm gonna keep working at it part of why Maxxis is Maxxis
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and so dominant Mountain Bike World Is Not Just because they have fantastic probably class leading performing tires
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but they're also just on top of it yeah they're United States headquarters is on
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top of talking to retailers and Brands and sponsoring Riders and making sure World Cups are one on those tires and distribution is good
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yeah in every Bike Shop Aaron and Andrew kick ass they're awesome dudes and they
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run it really well several percent yeah they really do job yeah well yeah that's pretty cool you know to
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to get some more insight on the Vittoria tires but yeah I'm not opposed to trying new tires I've been trying those Continentals yeah I'm I'm all about
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trying new tires me too I'm a fan of those tires I will try I'll attire any
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Tire you will Tire let's try to make it fun that's right thank you very much for
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listening this far we appreciate it and we will see you guys in the next one hasta luego
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