Episode Summary

On today's episode of the MTB Podcast, we reminisce about our bucket list MTB trip to the Dolomites in Italy before discussing Liam's new Revel Ranger build and the state of the industry. Then we jump into a classic array of listener questions ranging from how to train for MTB on the road bike to pros and cons of high pivot bikes and everything in between.

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 [Music] ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode

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120 of the MTB podcast presented and hosted by worldwide Cyclery hi I'm Jared

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the man with the olive oil voice I'm Jeff and I'm Liam

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Olive Oil voice in this episode we will discuss our incredible bucket list

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trip to the dolomites in Italy where Jared was given the nickname the man with the olive oil voice we're going to

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also talk about Liam's new custom painted Revel Ranger the current state of the bicycle industry and of course

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listener questions ranging from cross-training techniques to pros and cons of high pivot bikes and everything

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in between everything in between so Mr olive oil voice

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can we talk about something can we fit everything in between within an hour podcast you know we're gonna do our best

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okay I'm gonna do our best everything we possibly can fit in between say something yeah something something uh we

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flew into Venice Italy we drove three hours North into the dolomites it's a portion I guess the Eastern portion of

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the Swiss slash Italian Alps and unbelievably dramatic scenery in

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mountains and rocks and cliffs and jaggedy rocks on more rocks and wow even

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bigger I had no idea and the most insane lift Network yeah Cable Car Network yeah

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I've ever seen there's just in all of these valleys there's canyons and lifts and cable cars and Gondola is all

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connected it's unbelievable truly yeah yeah spectacular it is Paradise breathtaking stunning so we went out

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there with all Mountain rides which is a mountain bike tour company um let's see who runs it Phil Borman

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Phil Borman so Phil Borman Supreme pandemic he ran New Zealand mountain biking and I did that trip with him in

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December of 2019 which was amazing and then I had full faith that he could execute on another epic trip and he did

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and it was Italy in the dolomites he was living there for I think two or three years um Cortina yeah doing a lot of

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Consulting with different tour companies out there and stuff and that's when he came up with the idea for the mountain bike trip there and wow that went off

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amazing so he toured us around along with his partner tour guide Marco besol

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yes did I say Martin's last name no clue the soul I think I saw some guy going

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like it was oh [Laughter]

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his entire life runs a hotel there and uh yeah we went on so many local hidden

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weird things a few times he goes we're going on a farmer's land and

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they might yell at you just ride fast you don't have to be the fastest you

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just don't want to be the slowest man yeah yeah he goes so much closer this

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this Rancher always stops me I think he'll be extra pissed when I have 15 people too

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oh man yeah we had a decent sized group um really good Riders really good group

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that meshes well these these trips there's always a little bit of a wild card is are people going to like each other and get along and all right at a

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relatively similar speed so we can all have fun together and yeah it all worked perfectly which was really cool

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um and we didn't have to do much climbing we did two pretty minimal climbing for I mean we were putting in

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days doing well over 20 25 miles with like a thousand feet of climbing yeah and like 10 to 13 000 feet of descending

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yeah yeah unreal yeah I think some of the days were even like 500 feet of climbing and like 13 000 feet at the

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same yeah not even a noticeable amount of climate yeah I think the first day is the biggest day to 2000 feet yeah yeah

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and that's kind of like the break-in tour kind of you know feel out ride ShakeOut ride so yeah yeah yeah what an

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incredible place I would highly recommend it for a mountain bike trip it's probably incredible in the winter too totally um I can't even imagine

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although it would be wild to be up there if that place was covered in snow so cool super windy roads unbelievable

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scenery some of the most beautiful portions of the world I've ever seen in my life and just a lot of stuff to do

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and obviously endless amounts of killer single track and riding back there so agreed um what was your favorite place

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to take a vacation what's your favorite riding portion I know it's pretty hard that's a hard question

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because you know we wrote obviously some purpose-built mountain bike trails some kind of hiking type trails that were

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also weird janky yeah incredibly easy trails there is just a little mix of

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everything I really liked uh was it called well there was that one ews Trail

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um or the other one yeah I thought Infinity was pretty cool animal house I

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like that and lower Animal House was sick yeah yeah everything involved the fossa was so fun yeah yeah because they

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had they had the huge well it's not called ews anymore but when it was called ews it was out there and DVR EDR

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EDR what does that even means but I don't see how they get eat maybe

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you know UCI and racism this year A lot of people are unhappy about the format

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changes name changes rule changes yeah yeah this yeah yeah [Music]

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it's like a perfect representation of what like you know kind of like a

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diplomatic or like autocratic I guess like this higher body of people that are just totally dissociated from what's

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actually happening like what the writers are saying and like what the fans are saying like there's so much

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disconnection between the governing body for sure and the people who are actually like boots on the ground yep it's like

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how is there such a big disconnect is the UCI as despised in the road cycling side of things do you know very

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similarly yeah yeah like they don't love them and like they can't everyone Force rule no rules like like they're pretty

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much only enforce like a rule in a race is if a crash happens and usually an

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injury from a crash so like there's a big some guy basically tried to move up on

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the road on the side of the road it went super viral shouldn't say that's funny because it was not funny and he crashed

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out the entire field he basically went through like and crash himself and it looks back like oh man 100 people but

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the thing is people do that in these classic style races in Belgium all the time it just happened to be a little bit

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more bunched up at that time and it happened to cause a massive it was obviously an accident yeah massive pile

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up and it was on video and it was at the front of the race on video right like perfectly and uh so they enforced a you

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know a suspension or when there's a Sprint line deviation and you know the

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final of a Tour de France stage and someone crashes they enforce the rule this year Jasper Phillips and DVD of

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like three out of his five Sprint wins and they were like nope clean no one crashed so yeah no one really loves UC I

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don't think anywhere like I don't think UC has ever loved no yeah not that I've ever heard of when they feel like it it seems like

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yeah yeah so regardless yeah that was a hard tangent off of Italy back when

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there was uh the Enduro World Series formerly or no that yeah formally into

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our World Series yeah uh they built these Trails or those Trails I guess were already there but they raced these trails and they're pretty iconic just

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super well-built mountain bike trails they did race them this year in the EDR oh they did okay cool

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um so yeah getting to ride that stuff was awesome and it was just such good well-built mountain bike trails so made

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for mountain bikes um yeah really cool technically challenging a lot of line Choice uh I

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really enjoyed all that I also really enjoyed uh I think it was called W which was a nothing oh yeah nothing special

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just random fun trail but it was just fun riding that and a huge train with

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everyone and then that crashed in front of me there was there's there's like a big S turn and there's a you can

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basically go off of one of the berms and GAP to the next berm and he's on the

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lower berm and he's looking up he's like oh I saw that jump and down below looking at the jump and then crashes

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while he's looking at the jump right I was like what happened she was looking

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at the gym you're riding a berm don't look anywhere else the day before so

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funny managed to crash following Jared and I and he broke his brake lever and

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his dropper post remote on different sides on different sides and he doesn't he's not sure how he broke the right

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brake lever and the left drop a poster at the same time everyone's heard about Matt on this podcast he runs the B team

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which is an amateur endure race team on the east coast of the US and uh he was

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on his trip and he took a number of Falls he's probably gonna be like what we're talking about that but you know I

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don't know they were giving the B Teams impressed though yeah the B team was represented by Matt on this trip and you

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know he did it um also his rival team I guess you call it rival team will fire MTB which is run

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by Shelley which is a female racing team um she was there with her husband having an amazing time so hearing them banter

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back and forth about racing was pretty funny oh that's great um yeah it was a lot of good good people and good fun on

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that trip so and a number of crashes but nobody got hurt yeah that's true yeah just minor stuff which is good because

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some of the train was pretty

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that's like kind of a crash you just couldn't really turn yeah I mean I just

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yeah it was all like pine needles and like super loose yeah there's no no grip

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yeah I couldn't even stop couldn't change direction yeah you know yeah there's definitely some seriously

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challenging gnarly so steep skill levels there's stuff really steep stuff and then there's bike park stuff and yeah

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closest I got to crashing was filming cows in my right hand holding the front brake

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down a sketchy ass Fire Road Jeff was behind me and was like oh God

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Willy what are you doing just thinking I was just thinking of that influencers in the wild Instagram account yeah gotta

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gotta get it on Instagram and you're gonna just sack yourself on this brutally Rock covered Fire Road just to

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film some cows yeah that was pretty funny what about you Liam what was your favorite riding portion um I got two I

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liked uh why like fast and fossa or fossil faster yeah

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I don't know yeah Nacho's sick they run me a lot of Santa Cruz is pretty fun and

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then 999 was yeah probably my favorite Trail as far as like shredding goes yeah

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but I think experience of riding bikes riding down from the Refugio Rosetta uh which was like this

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moonscape you're descending like yeah that was cool over a thousand feet at least probably like two or three

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thousand feet the Palo de San Martin yeah um on this moonscape like it was literally

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some way above once you get a little bit further down you get some Shrubbery but like it's way above tree line it's just

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rocks and moonscape and you're basically just like flying on the moon and it was super cool

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experience like not necessarily the sickest shredding but like I've never ridden my bike on that kind of stuff and

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yeah I don't know where you ever can really I know yeah that's yeah that's really cool yeah so that was and just

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that whole day was sick like yeah start from the top and you you went all the way down to the valley

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um it was a long day just for basically one main descent yeah yeah you can take cable cars up we started that about 10

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000 feet right and then went on all the way down to four yeah um yeah it's incredible the rides you

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can link together out there so highly recommend it if uh a big Italian mountain bike Adventure is on your radar

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should be it should be it should be it's a that was a bucket list trip for sure and yeah man the food the scenery the

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trails yeah it was amazing there's also just a lot of other stuff to do there as well totally yeah kind of infinite yeah

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a lot of the guy writers probably their wives that just you know had their own days fun hiking and yeah cool hiking and

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exploring and museums and all sorts of good stuff up there so yeah they're Refugio at the top of Every Mountain

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just yeah you can go relax and eat and drink a beer and or a spritz if that's more your flavor yep Europe is luxury

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man is so cool it's very luxury yeah Scott Galloway says America is the best

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place to make money and Europe's the best place to spend it he's absolutely right and I think he's right yeah I think he's right yeah yeah they're just

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pretty good some things they do there are just so well thought out yeah and it's just everything's aesthetically

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pleasing and well maintained and artsy and they also had a huge Head Start man yeah

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that's true they uh they've been doing this a lot longer than the last we were in buildings that were longer than older

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than the entire United States of America um speaking of spending money how about

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your new ranger bro I don't spend any money on it I didn't spend any money

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um yep I'm building a new ranger Revel Ranger V2 so the yeti SB 120 sold the

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frame and fork to the part swap swapped out a few other bits and pieces

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um and yeah building it up gotta custom paint them by technor uh Hydro dude yeah I had a hydro dip

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white gray and black and I think it came out insane in my opinion yeah it looks

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really good looks a lot better in person than in photos photos are just hard to see though yeah it looks crazy in photos

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right like it kind of overwhelming almost but yeah yeah it's super cool it looks like marble and it's uh yeah I'm

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very stoked on it I've never had a custom painted frame myself so figured why not

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um and yeah I'm stoked uh got a few little bits and pieces I got the new Sid suspension on it front and

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rear so that'd be cool to ride I have some new wheels that I can talk about in a month or so or the next podcast which

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will be cool to ride so yeah wow wow it'll be cool I just weighed it

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yeah transmission there's way to uh 27 flat with cages pedals hmm all that

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so nice yeah pretty good now we're sliders and new said stuff from the old stuff a

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little bit I don't know I need to re-way your bike though tiny bit I feel the same as a baguette

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maybe ciabata roll I don't know man I don't know if there it's even that much lighter they should start measuring

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things in in food items that's what I'm saying that's not I mean like our news

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Americans will measure stuff in anything but yeah but a logical system biological

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measurement like this dog-sized uh pothole or this you know this uh sinkhole can fit you know three

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fire trucks or something like that 10 Toyota Camrys

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yeah sounds all right yeah totally man I love my Ranger that's such a fun bike I realized in this little on this Italy

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trip how little I've ridden an Enduro bike all year pretty much just rode that Banshee on the Whistler trip and then on

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this trip and otherwise I just ride that Ranger yeah it's just such a fun good all-around mountain bike well and just

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like you know if you're kind of riding from the front door where we live like there's no point to yeah ride anything

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but basically a ranger uh you know SB 120 style bike you know yeah short

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travel fun bike um yeah they're awesome around here I've been kind of I haven't had one

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since I got back from downeyville I basically took the part of that bike so it's been

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still almost two months now it has been two months basically So and I've just been around my Realty night or the rode

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gravel bike and I'm kind of itching just to do some XC rides and get some some efficiency back in my life

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yeah yeah those 120 mil travel 29ers of various Brands like that just that bike

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has really come a long way with Geo and suspension and it's worked so good for so many things so

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I miss having a short travel 29er yeah it's just such a fun bike fun fast what about your hardtail do you still have

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that oh yeah I have my hardtail yeah it still doesn't you know yeah it's not scratch the same itch you know yeah

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you could literally have I'm sure you'll swap it out like all your other underwear soon enough I don't know man I

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don't think for a month and now I'm gonna Swap this out I love the hardtail man that it scratches how are the bike

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packing adventures coming along particular itch it's actually getting right into beautiful bike packing season and I was gonna invite you along but I

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don't know if I'm gonna invite you anymore because you're throwing shade right now and I don't like it

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he was uh he was all saying he's gonna do all these bike packing trips and then oh no I'm gonna it turns out got around

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that people were saying he wasn't gonna do it and uh it's been a little while and you haven't gone on one yet I might

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have found 10 bucks down on that you got a bet on it yeah I'm not participating in the bed okay I

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just laughed at the it's funny you guys talk how there's like an expiration you're like oh my God if I don't go bike packing by the end of September no no

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the expiration date is you selling that bike which you were destined to do never said that on the record dude Never Gonna

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sell it we're gonna sell it everything's for sale baby I'm gonna get buried with that bike oh my god oh man on record now yeah speaking of

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getting buried with bikes oh would you like to hear the state of the bicycle industry I guess I don't know how in tune people

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are uh with the bike industry I think at one point there was a lot of you know random people on YouTube making videos

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about it and stuff we talked about it a little bit on on the podcast at some point very clickbaity YouTube videos oh

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my God is cruising turmoil which you know to

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some extent was was may be true it's true

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the the latest which you've probably already heard or maybe not depending on how in tune you are with this stuff uh the bike industry boom during the

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pandemic um so many more Brands than I had anticipated over ordered over

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manufactured and just over forecasted like distributed and Distributors Brands

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retailers everybody um and that's now resulted in you know the demand completely normalized went

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straight back to pre-pandemic levels and uh yeah now everyone has way too much product and everything's on sale and if

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inflation was measured in the bike industry it would be to the floor again um so it's it's a bit of a mess now is

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definitely the year to buy a bike 100 yeah every bike you can think of every

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pair of shoes and like you name it it's on sale we have a ton of stuff on sale

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way more than we ever have in history which is unfortunate because it's just major margin deterioration and making it really hard to run a profitable business

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that survives but you know that's my problem not yours but listen to the podcast and you're

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you're in the market for a bike now is the time we're wheeling and dealing bikes everybody is it's it's just crazy

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so the bike industry isn't a bit of a in a bit of a shenanigans of a situation right now no situation of a situation

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there's a storm of Brewing Randy yeah so uh word of advice uh my my economic

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forecast of the bike industry is that it will it will certainly clear up coming into next season I.E summer of 2024.

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um so if you are planning on getting a bike um or really anything especially the more expensive now would be a fantastic

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time to do it um yeah because next year inventory levels won't be as bad and people won't

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be in such Dire Straits Hawking things for so cheap so how can I'm not Hocking

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them up wanna hakalui yeah Finding Nemo yeah yeah

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I was the first one or the second one first one first one I haven't seen it in ages I almost had a bike on the Haka and

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I think it was yeah so it's not like their gravel bike or

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something like that they had a bike or have a bike maybe yes they do are they still Oh I thought you said you had one

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no Ibis oh yeah all right not super up to date on ibis's line yeah

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well that's the state of the bike industry there you go um yeah I don't know that's it that's it

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let's answer one quick listener question before we hop into the best legitimate

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advertisement yet let's do it listener question number one when it's time to degrease and to

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generally scrub your drivetrain there's a point in time where you need to add a bit of water to rinse all the

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contaminants and solution away from said drivetrain my question is once this is done what is the best way to eliminate

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all the water from the nooks and crannies of said drivetrain uh it's a also bike in general to keep things from

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rusting ah let me finish dude you went too fast

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Jeff I've heard people mention compressed air Jeff but to me that is

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just going to potentially drive that water deeper into things like the cassette bearings possibly put pressure

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on seals and O-rings that may negatively affect them would something like WD-40 work well in lieu of compressed air if

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so do you simply spray it with WD40 light dry completely and then leave your chain it's got a point there

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um but yes and no Degreaser good Degreaser is slightly alcohol-based and

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it often will evaporate um so you decrease your chain with some

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water and some Degreaser if you really need it but I also am on the side of like I don't use Degreaser unless it's

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needed it's not really that necessary unless you already incorrectly lubed your chain to begin with I'm I am a fan

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of degreasing the stock Lube of a chain for my sake Jeff likes it on because he likes inefficiency you get a quiet drive

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chain so quiet it's so quiet but it's so so inefficient stock grease yeah it's not even lubish Grease

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the shipping grease so it doesn't rust and it makes it quiet yeah yeah

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everything after that and then use a proper Lube yeah but uh yeah I don't actually use Degreaser that much

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um and if you use a dry lube and you use it properly you really shouldn't need that

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much but say I do need it or I'm cleaning my bike I did wash my bike today use a little bit of uh more like

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dish soap on kind of chain and cassette just get some stuff off um I use air compressed air to blow

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everything out and I don't point it directly at the Hub I usually point it in between basically the two poiler

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wheels on the derailleur and point it directly at the chain link the links

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yeah and uh like on the rollers yeah I do that too compressed air is exactly like compressed water I.E pressure

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washer hose high pressure you just can't point it directly at something that needs to be sealed so don't make that

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mistake with water or air so just go easy yeah don't blast bearings and seals

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and O-rings and things like that with water or air just go light with that stuff and you're not going to damage it if you're trying to get everything out

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of the rollers in your chain you can blast it with that and then re-lube it very well

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yeah also not recommended to use a air compressor

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on any brake parts right because there's machine oil technically in that air and

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it's not like pure air yeah you can risk it for the brisket oh don't get me

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started on brisket you can do it a little light light like you know yeah some stuff out of there I want to like

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yeah force it in there for a long time but you know yeah sometimes those air compressor tanks can get a little condensation with the tank and stuff

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like that have some water in there pretty marginal um but I would not add WD-40 to anything on my bike ever

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personally yeah it'd be 40. at least original w40 WD-40 is a brand yeah

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that's a license they make all these different products but the OG WD-40 formulas

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and it's aerosol so it can spray and you know your chains near your rotors and

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contamination yeah so yep yep good degrees are a good chain lube and a good

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process is your friend a little bit of being gentle with all these things helps the bike yeah yeah

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the man with the olive oil voice and we're back read this next question I sure will on the last episode I heard

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Jared has been riding a druid V2 by forbidden and it got me wondering first

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what are the ups and downs of high pivot Witchcraft and B I ride Bellingham two to four days a week and I'm in the

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market for a new frame so I'm looking for recommendations so far I'm considering a carbon Patrol or Insurgent

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thoughts well I'd say you should also control or you should also consider a druid V2

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because it's awesome um ups and downs of high pivot witchcraft

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uh in my experience there is only really two very minor

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downsides well one of which is the very marginal amount of efficiency loss with the idler

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pulley which is super marginal and after riding the bike for a little while I don't even notice it anymore yeah and

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you're talking because you wrote that deviate as well which TV did you ride uh

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play more or play more yeah and now you're on the Forbidden

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Druid V2 yes both High pivot bikes yep um the only other thing I noticed after

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going like from my Yeti esp140 to the Druid was it wasn't quite as like poppy jumping off of rocks and stuff like on

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the trailer routes but after riding it for a little bit longer now I've gotten more used to it and it feels

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great just yeah I mean it's good so that's kind of the nature of a high pivot in general is right it's going to

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eat up bumps more than it's gonna be poppy and kind of right hit hit that stuff but the Forbidden

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team writers seem to not have an issue with that as they throw in yeah big 360s and yeah I know all kinds of crazy stuff

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on the bins Instagram yeah like oh yeah no those bikes can do everything I can do and then like 9 000 times more yeah

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just fine yeah so dude you were riding that bike so good in Italy following you on some of those Trails it just looked

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like it was hovering and floating and I was just really envious I was like I want that bike thank you it's a guy I

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would like that I appreciate that was like I want that he was quiet and it just floated and I was just so impressed

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a bike looks watching that bike riding behind you it was wow that's a freaking

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nice bike it is sick working really good I love it cool to see yeah and on the

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you know extra pulley wheel inefficiency that causes it's pretty marginal if you

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have a clean chain right set up like having someone with a gunked up nasty chain is going to cause more drag than

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adding that one wheel if everything's running clean and yeah so the only time I ever really noticed it was when it was

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brand new and like you were talking about with the factory grease yeah um that's the only time I really noticed

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it and kind of like I said after I kind of got used to try to get you know degrees the Champions probably broken a

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little bit too yeah yeah and also like the initially the bearing on that pulley wheel was pretty stiff and it spins much

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more freely now um but those are really the only downsides and on the UPS it like you're

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kind of saying it absolutely eats chunk rocks and Roots like there's no tomorrow like it eats like for 130 mil travel

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bike it felt like it had so much more travel going down that like I felt like

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it I felt no no limitations at all which it was just like yeah pushing punches

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pretty hard above its weight it totally does um but it's still you know kind of Maneuvers and like is Nimble and you

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know yeah movable like uh like a trail bike which is awesome um but yeah speaking of high pivot uh

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you know High pivot everything we had Neko on the show several episodes back

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episode 91. um so if you're very curious in going a deep dive on high pivot stuff that is

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excellent episode to check out we're gonna have that in the show notes as well going to that episode link to that

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episode in the show notes link to the episode and show now Neko is a very qualified person to talk about that because he's just a professional

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mountain biker suspension nerd and Guru and also literally created two identical bikes of his own one being high pivot and

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one not tested him back to back yeah and he landed many people with more credentials to talk on the topic than

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that he landed on a almost mid pivot yeah yeah yeah true so I liked it a

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little higher but not full High pivot so

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uh he did ask the question so far I'm considering a carbon Patrol

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or Insurgent isn't it Insurgent 27.5 yes well they might make a mullet one

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um isn't most of the riding pedal up fire roads and then ride down to all these

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deep stuff yeah yeah out of those two bikes are probably lean Patrol as I think the suspension action would work

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better on the super steep stuff that Bellingham has um [Music]

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and put another bike you might want to consider would be a forbidden Dreadnought in the mullet setup with a

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ziggy link nice yeah you can also get Druid and mullet too yeah but he's talking about some bigger travel bikes

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yeah um I see where this guy's going he is riding in Bellingham and these are brands that are from Bellingham

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local but for business not too far away that's true forbidden isn't just too far away up and over the Border in fact you

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could take a little ferry over there Vancouver Island across the pond across

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the leader Pond how is there a bike company on Vancouver Island oh God more than one two

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maybe maybe not just seems funny well you know the riding is there is riding

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there certainly you know caters to I mean I mean yeah designing a bike like the

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Druid right yeah true absolutely I guess you can sit on your CAD software and design a bike from anywhere

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you can make a good one right I mean they're making bikes in freaking Kamloops we are one right I mean yeah

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they're manufacturing them there actually I mean that's yeah yeah so there you go you can do just

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about anything you want anywhere you want I think I'm gonna buy forbidden do it custom paint it do it

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do it nice sweet uh how about the next question

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the woods up here in the Northeast have been soaked with rain and extra swampy

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this year so some of us have been throwing in Road rides for fitness and to get a little more airflow over our

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sweaty selves with Liam being the Renaissance Man across all disciplines I'd love to hear a little more about his

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setup and how he uses Road riding to cross-train for mountain biking

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well I assume he's talking about like actual Road rides like on a road bike

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and not just like riding his mountain bike on the road yeah I think so that's kind of what I got from that yeah considering he's talking about different

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disciplines yeah um I mean it kind of all depends but just riding a road bike like once a week

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does so much for your mountain biking yeah you're able to like constantly pedal and

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get that kind of muscle memory base miles it's super easy to stay in zone two zone three uh heart rate zones power

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zones in general as possible yeah yeah like you can't really do that on a mountain bike that easily like yeah you

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might be able to you know back off or go hard but like sometimes there's a point where you have to be in zone four to get

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up a single track climb yeah just it's the you could probably do a good Zone training on a mountain bike in Kansas yeah maybe yeah and at that point you

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might as well just have a gravel bike with 45s um yeah I mean that's kind of what I you

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know basically what I would do is just you know do a bit more Zone training stay in that zone two zone three and

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just do we call it LSD long sustained distance

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um which is kind of like the name of the game when I was training uh and then yeah I don't know it depends if

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you're depending on what kind of like riding you're doing you can gear those rides towards it as well on the road

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bike though find some hills find some repeats uh or where you lack right like

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maybe you do you could do a lot of climbing and don't cramp it maybe you clamp on really you know long rides that

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have more flat terrain so ride the road bike on more flat stuff and you know just kind of do it like that yeah or you

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could do it the way Jared does and he picks a delicious restaurant 50 miles away and that's his motivation to ride

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the road bike there and you're thinking about it the whole time he actually picks it more like 80 miles away there's

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like a loop around Meander's over there and then has his girlfriend meet him there yeah I'm so

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excited about the food I love making it a event an occasion you know um but you're set up in the weekend

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you're set up you have a gravel bike that you have multiple Wheel sets yep I have a open wide technical road bike

34:46

yeah no it's open wide right now which is a gravel bike it is a more uh uh what'd you say

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conservative gravel bike compared to where some going these days um I definitely have it set up very much

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like a road bike I have two Wheel sets I have Envy or the AG 25s I think AG

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that sounds right AG 25s uh for my gravel Wheels with some usually Rambler

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Maxis Rambler 45s that live on there um and then my road wheels are the NV

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Foundation 45s that I run a gravel clean gravel King 35 slick on there so that's

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kind of what I use for like Road stuff so um yeah I never read anything it's more

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than 35 and I ride just fine in groups those are my setups nice all one bye one

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by twelve one by twelve yes cool you haven't opened two don't you I haven't opened up open up it's gonna open up in

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the Open Wide one's wider clearance than the up so you have more of a road bike

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ah that you ride to the brewery um mine fits 45 says fits 40s mine is

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like one degree slacker head tube angle and a touch lower bottom bracket and those are all the differences yeah I

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have uh Easton oh my gosh ec90 Carbon wheels with the

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Vault hubs and the pan eraser gravel King 38 38 maybe yeah

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um which are kind of like 40s I have a rebel Rover frame that I haven't built up yeah yeah you do when you get on that

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and we will send myself an email right now I wonder how many rides I'll get on that before I just

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say I'm over drop bars make it a demo bike or put flat bars on it I just can't write drop bars I just don't want to

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ride you never ever done it that was a thing you should build it up and you should do Nasco with us

36:44

oh no not gonna do that you won't come on

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I have no interest in doing a ride like that oh a bunch of people and yeah you

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love to test yourself physically all right road bikes around like that it doesn't sound fun at all it's for a good

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cause it is fun I'll run it dude 80 miles eight thousand feet no I'll do dirt in Osco that I do

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any day I think you would genuinely enjoy ripping down a descent like yerba buena yeah with no cars are on the road

37:16

I'm interested in dirt nosco how did that one work again that was like the backbone Trail yeah we did I don't think

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we ended up doing it though it was unofficial though yeah of course it was unofficial we're just gonna like start with nosco and then peel off and hit a

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bunch of like fire roads and single tracks but other people did it though didn't they yeah uh Dave zabriskie and

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uh Robbie I think did it so that's appealing I'll do dirt in Osco yeah sick

37:41

there you go I pretty much answered that question didn't it yep now let's talk about jockey Wheels oh we're also known

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as pulley Wheels pulleys you'd be a good jockey Jeff yeah I was just thinking that dude no okay somebody told me that

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before somebody told me that and I was like they're like five three they're tiny yeah they're like 110 pounds yeah

38:02

someone told me that I was like really yeah I could race horses and I like look up jockeys and I was like I'm way too

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big like double the size of a jockeys and 110 pounds but they are they

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are small people just get a little bigger horse that's how it works and why

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do they oh Rocky Wheels right that's the question the question is I was wondering why

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stock spam or Shimano uh D derailers from Dior to XTR from SX to

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xx1 the jockey wheels are made of nylon plastic material but aftermarket jockey

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wheels are cnc'd or so is there a reason for it to be not alloy

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except for weight um I think mainly it's probably for a

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little forgiveness and also they run much quieter being nylon than they do uh

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metal interesting some old SRAM what was that like maybe OG nine speed SRAM

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X9 X XO stuff had metal wheels on it oh yeah at some point yeah oh gee like

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first generation swam mountain bike stuff but it's but it's louder yeah it runs louder

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um I've put some metal ones on my bike turn on Jeff's bikes yeah you can just kind of hear it when you're pedaling you

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can hear it um they do look cool like those huge ceramic speed ones yeah I put some of those on one of my

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gravel bikes ones but those are so big you don't hear the noise because they're bigger hmm the bearing is so smooth

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um honestly I don't really know for that but my only guess would be for noise and

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or it is a light it's just Pottery cost and it's cost and it's uh you're not getting

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any more performance if anything you could argue less performance because of the noise but you're not really getting more performance and it's just more

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expensive yeah but it is a great stylish upgrade it's definitely anodized yeah

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holy Wheels yeah um and it's a wearable part so you know you are gonna have to

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replace them it is cheaper to replace nylon than it is some seed metal yeah

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probably one sixth of the cost yeah check this out the name jockey wheel comes from the similarity between the

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placement of the wheel on a trailer and the position of a rider on a horse the wheel is designed to jockey or guide the

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movement of trailers it allows you to position your trailer so it can be lifted and lowered onto a tow bar most jockey Wheels can be stowed away

40:32

securely to hide while the vehicle is moving so I guess the original jockey wheel is that little little crank thing the crank it has the crank right above

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it yeah and then it says after that jockey wheels are also the little cogs on a rear driller of a bicycle they're known collectively as jockey wheels or

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jockey pulleys the guide pulley is at the top yeah so so I guess that's where it

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originated from hmm and then they got called that on the bicycle jockey wheels go figure

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pulley Wheels definitely more called pulley wheels these days yeah yeah now that maybe it'll come jacket wheels or

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just pull it Wheels I don't even know if it says jockey wheel on any of the product listings yeah Jackie

41:11

Jackie how about this one Jeff you're gonna love this my trusty Garmin 4Runner 235 recently died on me and I've been

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enjoying some trackless laps as well as getting rid of a horrific watch tan there's a lot of options on the market

41:24

and I was wondering if you guys go through what you have and what you like or don't like as well as any opinions on

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any other watch or computer candidates you would entertain for mountain biking running and hiking

41:37

well this is right up Jeff Sally he's right up Jeff Sally I'm a big Garmin watch fan I think they make uh the only

41:44

problem with Garmin watches is they make too many watches and you can end up in full-blown decision paralysis to figure

41:50

out which ones to get I won't even do the research I just asked Jeff and go hey which one should I get I guess you want to buy mine

41:57

it mostly boils down to price point like if you're willing to spend a thousand bucks get the Phoenix series it's the

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flagship series Garmin watch and it does all the things if you're not willing to spend that

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um then the Forerunner series is kind of the next best thing it's a little bit lighter a little bit more tailored towards running slash triathlete so it

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still has all the cycling features um but then of course there's like this guy the 235 which was missing a ton of

42:21

features when you compare it to the higher end forerunners even now it'd be a 255 which should probably have a ton

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more features than that yeah so it does it does just kind of depend on price point for the most part and what other

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activities you do I have the Phoenix 7s solar Sapphire how about sounds

42:45

five Gun commercial right yeah yeah kind of does or like a Marvel character

42:53

uh I just love Garmin watches I think it's they're so incredible not only

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um with the GPS technology and tracking all of your rides and all of your activities and basically everything you do from a workout in the gym to trail

43:05

running hiking snowboarding skiing mountain biking Motocross like four by four like you can use it for anything it's really cool and track all of that

43:12

and then it also tracks all of your sleep your heart rate all that the battery lasts two weeks uh so just

43:18

incredible watches they just do so much so I don't really think anyone has a leg on them at all unless you prefer

43:26

miniature iPhone on your wrist then of course the Apple watch is the way to go

43:31

um and the Apple watch Ultra is like some better GPS tracking and stuff but

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it's still just a little mini iPhone on your wrist and the battery lasts a day and a half so it's like it's just

43:43

not the thing so I don't know I'm a massive fan of of Garmin um out of the

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Phoenix and yeah you guys both have forerunners yeah four runner nine four five LTE yeah and then you have a 11955

43:55

I thought four five oh I got mine right before the 55 came out well I have a 945 as well

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yeah the only thing I wish it had was a specific downhill biking activity yeah

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that's still a hole in the line so there there's not a bike park activity there was rumors of it it was in some beta or

44:14

something but it still doesn't exist on there really I thought it was on only a couple of watches I don't remember I'd

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have to look back into it but yeah I don't think it's on anything the cheat with that is you can run a snowboard or

44:25

a skiing activity because it has on the higher end watches it has those activities it has all of the resort Maps built into it so it knows when you're on

44:32

the lift and then it doesn't count the lift as elevation gain because it knows you're on the lift um and then it tells you how many runs

44:38

you did it's all it's all figured does it count any elevation gain now and does it just take basically all elevated

44:44

it'll count elevation gain um if you're not on the list gotcha so like for example last uh last winter in

44:52

Park City I was running a snowboarding activity while snowboarding and then we did some stuff where we hiked up some

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big thing and did some shoot and it counted all that yeah cool um so it does it does work like that and you can use

45:03

the snowboard activity at the bike park in the summer and it works perfect and then you just change the activity again and type later but yeah it should have a

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bike park activity that's what I did a Whistler the snowboard activity and it worked and it worked yeah I was just

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like I didn't want to do it when we were in Italy because see that's the weird case where I don't know if it would work

45:21

because we weren't necessarily just going up the lift and then down the lift right left and down left we're going

45:26

like uplift and then we would Traverse for 10 miles and then we'd go up another one I don't even know if it would work

45:32

in that case and I wasn't willing to test it so I was just pausing mine every time we got on a lift yeah and see I

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don't I wasn't doing that because I have a tendency to forget to resume it yeah so I'm like I'm just gonna let it run

45:43

and just you know think of go for an Everest every day five or six days of riding I forgot two

45:50

or three times to start it or stop it yeah yeah it's pretty good for considering we did like 30 lifts yeah

45:57

pretty good ratio yeah it's pretty much the last thing which is a niche market but the last thing they really need is

46:02

to make a mountain bike activity that excludes lifts yeah um and if it has the lifts mapped in

46:07

there and or it can recognize with the software that you're on a lift it should just know how to exclude that Garmin are

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you listening you better listen to this Garmin they're in Kansas City Missouri uh but yeah I'm a huge fan of gar

46:19

watches I just I just think they're the the best thing all around you know there's some other cool products out there

46:25

um you know again Apple watch works if you make phone calls and text messages and do that stuff and you want a little

46:30

iPhone on your wrist but otherwise it's not even comparable isn't there another like GPS or the other two cool Brands yeah sundo

46:38

used to be ahead of Garmin like years ago I had a Suunto Ambit 2 and they had a better watch than Garmin like by a lot

46:44

but they kind of just fell off and they got sold to some Excel partners and like big private Equity Firm and you still

46:51

have good products but they're they're way more focused on Europe because it's a finished company and that's their target market yeah so and they just they

46:57

just lost like they just they they lost competitiveness like they just don't have the same amount of features and

47:02

models and sizes and all those other things that Garmin has right now so nice I don't know that's my that's my

47:09

stick there you go if you uh want to talk more about it just DM me on Instagram I'll send you

47:16

back five minutes worth of voice messages but yeah Garb it is hard to figure out which Garmin watch to get but

47:21

you pretty much can't go wrong with the Forerunner or Phoenix and then just spend more if you want more features if

47:27

you need them nice well Jeff you are gonna love answering this next one too

47:32

because you have all the Intel can you provide some advice on how a first-time attendee can best enjoy going

47:38

to the 2023 Snowshoe World Cup Downhill Race For example the best area to watch

47:43

the race whether it's better to move around the track what to check out other than the actual races training the pits

47:49

Etc non-racing activities and any other tips thanks so I went there last year

47:55

and it was a ton of fun it's a great rest race to spectate at there was a ton

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of crazy fans and it was wild and awesome Snowshoe is very uh backwards in

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the sense that the top of the race is where the pits are and where the whole

48:12

Resort is and it kind of goes down into this empty Valley and then they all lift

48:18

and take the lifts back up yeah it's super weird I've never really been to a race like that other than Snowshoe so this is a really good question

48:25

um I think the way to do it so the way we did it was we from the top we you

48:30

know during practice we walked down the track I don't know third of the way and then back up the track because everything's at the top all the

48:36

restaurants all the lodging 100 of everything is at the top the only thing that's not there is a finish obviously but on race day we went during the

48:44

women's finals we uh took the lift to the bottom and the plan was to basically

48:50

walk up the track the whole way and it's usually a bit muddy and steep in spots but you can do it and it's a ton of fun

48:56

and then you can go to all the cool spots there's a really awesome Rock Garden about 7 8 the way down the track

49:01

which is a great spectating spot yeah and then there's all these other good spots as you make your way back towards

49:07

the top so we just hiked all the way up the track during the finals which was great so I'd recommend doing that if you

49:13

really want to watch all the different sections of the track and whatnot you could a lot of people just hang out at

49:18

the bottom of every World Cup because there you have a big TV live TV board there and you can watch it but you can't

49:24

really see anything other than the last like 200 feet so uh yeah there you go the other problem

49:30

bought it for the last couple riders or the problem with being at the bottom for the last couple Riders is a lot of

49:36

people do that and there's only one way back up and it's that lift oh and so there's just like a while hour or two

49:42

hour lift back line to just get on the lift go back to the whole main Resort or

49:47

you got to walk up the course basically in silence and yeah no one on the course so wow it's not the best race for

49:53

spectating in that sense but that's the way I did it we went down there during the women's finals and then walked hiked

49:59

our way back up the course so you're going this year right Liam yeah you guys need a basically book a flight and yeah

50:04

figure out the last bit of details but I am gonna be there and it'll be fun

50:10

yep all right well if you go there this year look for Liam he'll be there look

50:16

for me no ask him a brake pad question say hi are you Liam can I ask you a

50:22

question about my MTX brake pads maybe buy me a beer dude there was that that race there was

50:28

so many people drinking and partying and there was a whole group of people dressed up as Oompa Loompas with drums

50:35

and trumpets and it was out of control it was it was so much fun it was such an awesome and that's what's also what was

50:41

cool about hiking up the track during the finals is that you got to see all of that Shenanigans

50:47

um yeah it was it was really fun so that that is I mean I think every World Cup is awesome to go and spectate and see

50:53

because you don't realize how fast those races are going until you see it in real life and it's mind-blowing

50:58

um it's really cool it also rains there a bit so make sure to bring yourself a little umbrella and a rain show but it's

51:03

gonna be the summer so you'll be warm so nice fall late summer so well I think

51:09

technically it is full yeah by the time that races when is it racism right yeah nice I feel nice out there I

51:16

got book flights yeah it's a beautiful area really cool Resort West Virginia

51:22

take me home well that's it that's all for this episode thank you very much for

51:28

listening we have our previous episode oh we also forgot our fun fact oh yeah

51:35

lobsters never stop growing that's Daniel's that's Daniel's fun fact of the week

51:41

they never stopped growing ladies and gentlemen well we can hit this one real quick how much time we have Jeff minute and a half minute half oh God all

51:49

right uh last episode we had Trevor on he had an sp-140 with Two Wheel sets a

51:55

lightweight bird set up and a more Burly downhill oriented setup said he runs heavy duty casing tires on some sort of

52:01

DT Swiss wheels so it makes a huge difference down home purposes why is that why not run Burly or bird Wheels

52:07

set up with double down casing and still save some weight um essentially

52:12

there's just a point to where having a steel spoke and a stronger Rim stronger

52:18

setup is just more confidence in spying in Rock Gardens over the bird setup I

52:23

think there's there's a point where you're going to push the birds a little too hard if you're doing proper Hard

52:29

Enduro riding and that's why keep flight casing on the birds run thick casings on

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some DT Swiss I think he has five elevens front and rear um yeah yeah also

52:41

um thank you for everyone who gave Trevor positive comments so it's awesome that he filled in on that last episode and he'll be on yet again filling in for

52:48

Liam later this month so if you have any specific Trevor questions send them over to podcast worldwide cyclery.com boom

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53:19

if Jeff was really a weight weenie there would be a sort option on the website lightest to heaviest trust me I have 110

53:27

thought about that and wish we had that but the amount of data that would you

53:32

would need to make that work would be astronomical and uh it's uh if everyone was a weight weenie we would take the

53:38

time to do that but they aren't so we're not going to try and get a weight on an accurate weight on uh 18 000 products we

53:44

don't have all those products but one day if we do I will absolutely have that filter nice all right

53:51

that's it that's all thank you very much talk to you guys in the next one