Hey everybody, welcome back to the Pink Bike podcast. This is episode nine, and today we are talking about our upcoming cross-country field test. I'm your host, Mike Levy. I'm here with my three bosses, Brian Park. How's it going, Brian? It is going very well.

Great. We also have Mike Kazimer. Casamero. How are you? Hello. I'm great.

Great. You rode bikes on the weekend day. Yeah. Again. It'll be rare the day that I say I didn't.

I can't wait for the one podcast coming up sometime in the future where you answered no.

Yeah, it would be like a tsunami or something. Preventing. Yeah, exactly. And in the UK, taking care of news for us, we have James Smirthwaite. James, how are you?

Yeah, good, thanks, Mike. Great. It's sunny over there. Yeah, you get your, is this like your third day of sun for the year? Yeah, this is summer. Three days of sun then we're done.

Yeah, it's into war tomorrow.

I like that us people in the lower mainland are talking shit, like in the Pacific

North Wet, are talking shit on the UK weather.

It is so gross today.

People are out there doing their ever-sting challenges as well in this weather.

I can't imagine. I can't imagine.

I can't imagine riding a bike for that far in this kind of stuff.

Yeah.

So soft.

So soft.

So we're going to start off this show with a question as per always.

This one, worst bike buying mistake you've ever made.

It could be gear, it could be an entire bike.

Brian, what's the dumbest thing you've ever bought, bike related?

The dumbest purchase is probably the giant XX I bought.

It was a really good bike, but it was a dumb purchase because I got talked into buying a more XCish bike than what I wanted. Because I went from, I had that for a very short amount of time, broke it, and then ended up getting a Brody 8 ball, which surprisingly isn't the dumbest purchase ever. I have one of those.

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