Episode 13 - Are Bikes Too Regular Now?

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Did you see that so-and-so released a brand new bike? It has some pivots, a shock, and even comes with geometry. Wheels, too! You can get it in that low-key color that everyone's sure to be a fan of, and I can pretty much guarantee that it'll easily outperform anything that wasn't made within the last couple of years. Wind back the clock a decade or two and magazines were showing us a future that would surely be full of wild machines; two-shock suspension designs, CVT transmissions, carbon leaf springs, and who knows what else?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome to episode number 13 of the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Levy.
0:14.0	I'm here with only two of my bosses today. Brian Park, the Supreme Emperor of Editorial.
0:20.9	Brian, how are you?
0:22.8	Oh man, I need new business cards.
0:24.6	I know.
0:25.0	That's pretty good, eh?
0:25.9	That's pretty good, yeah.
0:27.6	Editorial overlord.
0:30.8	You need a mask to be...
0:32.3	Yeah, you need to, like, a giant Darth Vader mask, and you breathe like...
0:36.6	Like, uh... Levy, where? Yeah, you need to, you need like a giant Darth Vader mask and you breathe like,
0:44.7	like, uh, Levy, where is your bike review? It's late.
0:55.1	That's pretty much what I do. Yeah. I feel like my job, my spirit animal is more like the editor from Spider-Man who's get me pictures of the spider man all the time yeah yeah yeah that's sort of urgency for sure yeah yeah yeah casmer
1:02.1	you're here as usual how are you yep i'm good good good how many times did you ride bikes yesterday
1:08.1	uh just one ride yesterday yeah yeah yeah Yeah, it's usually one a day,
1:13.6	sometimes too, but usually ones. We are missing James Smirthwaite today. He had a terrible
1:19.1	mountain boarding accident at a trail center in the UK. Something about too many crumpets and tea.
1:25.9	I don't know what happened, but he's not here today.
1:28.0	Instead, I think, Casimir, you're going to read the news.
1:31.1	But first, I got a question for you guys.
1:33.6	We've been doing this for a while.
1:35.0	What is the most interesting bike you've ever ridden, Casimir?
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