Episode 1 - Why Are Bikes So Expensive?

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Normally the spring is a hectic time in the mountain bike media world—endless travel for trade shows and races and press camps. But this year is different, and we're all staying close to home. So, just like every other group of cooped up millennials, we're kicking off a podcast. Hosted by Mike Levy and featuring a rotating cast of the Pinkbike editorial team and other guests, the Pinkbike Podcast is a weekly update on all the latest stories from around the world of mountain biking, as well as some frank discussion about tech, racing, and everything in between. That said, we're all sick of hearing about Coronavirus, so for this first episode we're skipping the news and kicking things off by jumping straight into a discussion about value bikes. What did we learn from our value bike Field Trip? Why are bikes so expensive? Where should product managers be putting their resources? What are the best parts to upgrade?

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to the very first Pink Bike podcast, possibly called the Pinkast. I might get outvoted on that one. I'm not too sure. I'm Mike Levy, your host for this first episode. I've been reviewing bikes and gear on Pickbike for something like 100 years. It's been a while.
0:22.0	So eventually we're going to be talking news and all things Mountain Bike on future episodes,
0:26.5	but this first episode of the PINCast, it's all about value bikes.
0:30.5	Where to save money, where to spend money.
0:32.9	We're also going to chat about the field trip value bike review series that's going on right now. So that saw us review
0:38.5	eight bikes, four of them under three grand, four of them under two grand. So there's plenty of
0:43.5	relevant talking points to talk about there. So I'm here with my two bosses. I hope I don't
0:48.2	say anything too stupid today. Brian Park is the head of editorial in all caps letters.
0:54.3	Sorry, he doesn't make me write about Linkage Fork because he's going to make me stop writing about them.
0:58.7	And then I also have my unpaid intern here, Mike Kazimer, boys.
1:02.6	Say hi.
1:03.0	So we don't get paid, but I'm still your boss.
1:04.6	That's interesting.
1:05.3	I know that's super strange.
1:07.8	I've been doing creative accounting.
1:09.6	Yeah, exactly.
1:11.0	How are you guys today?
1:11.8	Good.
1:12.2	And you well.
1:12.8	Yeah?
1:13.1	No corona?
1:14.4	Not yet.
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