#268 - 2024 Pinkbike Awards Winners: The Best Bike, Innovations, Value & More

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

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4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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In a special end-of-year podcast, Henry is joined by Kaz, Matt, and Dario to talk through the winners of each category, as well as explain the rationale behind the choices. 00:08:50 Value Product of the Year 00:14:31 Value Mountain Bike of the Year 00:25:16 E-MTB of the Year 00:45:13 Innovation of the Year 01:05:42 Suspension Product of the Year 01:22:01 Product of the Year 01:32:41 Mountain Bike of the Year

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Pinkbike podcast. We've got everyone in the same spot, or at least some of the Pinkbike crew, to talk about the end of year awards, as well as some of the tech innovations that we've witnessed in the past 12 months.
0:24.5	Now, this being the podcast that we're also putting on YouTube now, everyone is going to, as a group, reference the camera once at the start.
0:30.4	Hello, internet.
0:31.2	Hi, I'm going to turn away and let people lock into their audio experience.
0:36.9	Kaz, you've been reviewing bikes for 65 years.
0:39.9	Correct.
0:41.0	Has this been an interesting year for bike design?
0:44.3	Maybe, sort of, ish?
0:45.8	Not as interesting as we've seen in the past.
0:47.6	I think we've said it a bunch of times
0:49.2	and other things, but it's kind of like the year of refinement.
0:51.7	It's more about like little small tweaks, little changes.
0:53.5	There wasn't like one particular technology that just took off across the board.
0:57.4	You know, there was a couple years ago, it seemed like high pivots were everywhere. It was all
0:59.7	about high pivots. And then this year, not as much. We did have some high pivot bikes. But,
1:03.5	yeah, it's more about like the little changes rather than some new magical technology. Um, Dario, this has been your, I suppose, your first full calendar year at Bingbike.
1:12.6	Yes.
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.6	How has it been been?
1:15.6	It's great.
1:16.6	I love my job.
1:17.6	Yeah, it's been wonderful.
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