Hello everyone and welcome to episode 56 of the Pink Bike podcast. Today we're going to be taking a trip down memory lane looking back at the inventions that change mountain biking for the better.

Remember adjusting candle lever brake pads? How about stopping the

top of a hill to lower your seat? Or maybe the noise of a chain smacking against a derailer cage

every time you went downhill. I'm Mike Casmer and joining me are James Smirthwaite. Hey James.

Hey, Mike. Do you remember adjusting candle lever brake pads? I, that was well before my time.

I, to be honest, came in about the same

time as dropper post, so I think I avoided the worst of it. Yeah, that's a pretty good time now

to the sport. See, we also have Sarah Moore. Sarah, I don't think you had candle over breaks either.

How about dropper post? Did you have to ride without a dropper post for a while. Yeah, I had, yeah, rim breaks and no dropper post, but I also

rode cross-country, so. Did you have a front, did you have a front trailer? Oh, yeah. I know,

I was thinking about that. I had so many gears, like. Yeah, three chain rings up front.

I'm pretty sure, yeah, I had three chain rings up front and I only needed eight gears in the back. Then you have to like worry about cross-chaining and make sure you're always in the right gear.

So, yeah.

That's a big deal.

I remember, yeah, we had like, I can never adjust them too.

So difficult to adjust your front trailer.

They're very hard to adjust.

I'm so glad they're gone.

Brian, you probably had all the things too. You had can never breaks. I've had most of the things.

I came in.

Yeah, I had a bunch of bikes without discs.

I feel like I'm going to sound like the turbo carmuggeon and say,

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