Hello, Mountain Bikers, and welcome to Pinkpot number 43.

I'm Mike Levy, usually your host for these things.

And I've got my intern, Mike Kazimer, our favorite UK content manager, James Smithwaite,

and the smile to our frowns, the giggles to our moaning

Kazimir, Sarah Moore. Sarah, how was your weekend? And how many times did you ride bikes?

I rode bikes on Saturday for the third day in a row, pretty good for January. And yeah,

did a big long ride. And then Sunday I went cross-country skiing, actually, because

you know, it's still January. We don't need to eat all bikes all the time quite yet.

You had a multi-sport weekend, Sarah. That's the best kind. That's why I live in the Cedar Sky Corridor.

Right. Kassamer, it wasn't a freezing monsoon this weekend. I'm guessing you rode bikes as well. I did. Yeah, road bikes. skiing's not quite

as good down here as it was. So I went biking both days and also cleared a bunch of blowdown because

it had a crazy windstorm, but it was a good weekend. We did have a gnarly windstorm, didn't we?

Yeah, it's like 80 mile an hour winds in some places. There's some huge messes on the trails, but there's a good saw gang here, so things are getting cleared pretty quick.

James, you're in the UK. I know you're in the middle of a lockdown. Did you get out on the weekend?

I did get out on the weekend. Yeah, in a weird way, it kind of makes me go out more because I feel like I have to take that mandated period of exercise. So yeah, it makes me go out most days, which is

actually weirdly, like counterintintuitively, quite good.

Right.

Makes you take advantage of that opportunity.

Exactly.

Right.

Yeah.

Well, I got out as well, too.

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