Hey everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Levy,

your host for number 60. And I know I know that I said number 60 was going to be a podcast about

UFOs, but instead I've got a question for everybody listening

out there, what kind of mountain biker do you want to be and why? So the simple way to answer

that would probably be to say trail rider or I'm a downhiller or I'm one of the four or five

other sub-nishes of our niche sport, but I think there's a lot more to discuss

than overly simplified titles or the style of bike you're riding. Now, as per usual, I have

Mike Kazimer here, who will always be the unpaid intern in my heart, even if he did just

get a promotion. Because what kind of rider are you calling yourself today? What buzzword are you using?

I don't know. Today, maybe just today I'm going to be a trail rider because I'm going to

a trail ride later on. Tomorrow I could be All Mountain rider maybe. I was hoping you were going to

say All Mountain because that's Brian's favorite phrase. I don't want to talk about it. That's what I

mostly am. But today I'm going to go trail biking.

How much of your love of the all-mountain term is that I don't like it?

That has helped me love it even more, yes.

That's also the correct term, but we'll get to that.

It works.

It works.

It works. Kaz, I was on a monster ride last week on my cross-country bike, and a thought occurred to me mid-cramp that 25-year-old Levy, he'd be wearing 5'10s, a full day-and-ease suit, and riding a downhill race bike, and not wanting anything to do with the bib shorts that I was wearing, or 100-millimeter travel bikes and all that climbing.

20-year-old me would probably have the same thoughts,

but he was riding a 45-pound steel hardtail and probably sessioning some ridiculous drop that

eventually broke my ankles. 15-year-old me was on a road bike, so he didn't get a say. Point being,

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