Hey, Pinkers, I'm Mike Levy, your sometime host for these podcasts today.

We're talking all things Value Bike field trip.

So if you've been on Pink Bike over the last few weeks, you might have seen a handful of video

reviews of relatively inexpensive bikes.

I think right now the Canyon Stoic, the Vita Centiore, and the Norco Fluid are all live.

That canyon, $1,200. The Vetus is $1449, and the most expensive of our 10 value bike test bikes is a $3,000

RIPLY AF. Now, there are a load more video reviews on the way,

five hardtails and five full suspension bikes altogether. So I'm going to give you a spoiler

alert right now. On today's podcast, we're talking about how the bikes performed, a bunch of things

that we liked, some things that we definitely

didn't like, even on the value bike, and some things that surprise us. To do that, I've got Sarah

more here who tested all of these at value bikes with me on the Sunshine Coast. Sarah, you did the

impossible climb and the efficiency test this time around instead of me, thank Gibis. Now, I've done a

bunch of those. I want to know what you, did you have fun doing those? I quite enjoyed the impossible

climb. The efficiency test was not quite as much fun, I would say. The impossible climb is kind of a

fun challenge, like if you enjoy technical climbing to try to get each bike up the hill a little bit further.

The efficiency tests holding the same number of watts on a gravel climb kind of felt like doing intervals.

And I don't really miss doing intervals. There's a reason I don't race cross country anymore, you know? How bad did you smash Levy's power output? Oh, I more than doubled it,

no problem. Time for me to retire. No, please come back and do efficiency tests. Sarah, how long

did it take to do the efficiency test? Just so people

have an idea altogether. It's you, two filmers? Yeah, there was, I think, three of us out on the

gravel road, and it pretty much took all day. First, we had to get all of the bikes, which there's 10 bikes, get them all

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