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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 12 - What's the Future of Bike Shops?

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Our dozenenth episode is all about hallowed ground: The local bike shop. With over thirty years of shop experience between us, Brian, Kazimer, Jimmy-James, and I look back at what our local shops meant to us during the grom-years, recount some of our most memorable customers and stories, and really embrace that ''back in the good ol' days'' vibe.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody and welcome to episode 12 of the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Levy and I'm here with

0:14.1

the three usuals like always Brian Park, number one boss. Brian, how's it going today?

0:19.7

Real good. Good good. Brian, do you have a favorite bike shop where you live in the city? I boss. Brian, how's it going today? Real good. Good, good. Brian, do you have a

0:21.4

favorite bike shop where you live in the city? I do. Yeah, Atomic Bike Shop. Steve Sutherland. He's

0:27.4

red. We're going to get to why in today's podcast, why that's your favorite bike shop. First,

0:32.2

let's introduce everybody else. Here, as always, representing the queen we got jimmy jimmy smirthwaite james how's it going yeah good thank you i

0:41.2

would say uh brixton bikes for my okay brxton bikes and casimir casimir how are you i'm doing great

0:48.1

great you got a favorite shop yeah my favorite shop would be alley cat bikes alley cat bikes okay

0:53.8

that sounds very hip it does uh it's not like a hipster shop though no Yeah, my favorite shop would be Alley Cat Bikes. Alley Cat Bikes, okay.

0:55.5

That sounds very hip.

0:56.2

It does.

0:58.6

It's not like a hipster shop, though, at all.

1:00.3

It's called Alley Cat Bikes.

1:01.6

Well, it's kind of like in an alley.

1:07.4

You guys can't see Kazimer right now, but he has a really nice curly mustache and a five-panel hat.

1:08.7

It really suits them.

1:10.9

That is a waxed my mustache.

1:17.3

Today's podcast is all about bike shops, the future of bike shops. Do they need to exist,

1:21.8

especially with this online retail stuff that's happening, everything else? But first,

1:25.9

we're going to get into the news. And as always, Jimmy's going to take it away. Jimmy?

1:32.7

Thanks, Mike. Yeah, I guess the big news, literally this week, is Schramm's updated Eagle Drive trains.

1:43.2

So the headline here is that Eagle Extender 52-tooth cog, which increases the range of the group set by 20 percentage points, and is one bigger than Shimano's biggest cog.

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