#271 - Does Geometry Adjustment Mean Brands Can Get By Making Bad Bikes?

The Pinkbike Podcast

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4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We used to fight over a degree, and now some bikes can offer a degree in either direction with a headset, 10mm on the chainstay, progression adjustment, and smaller geometry tweaks—all from the stock platform. But does this help or hinder the consumer's riding experience? Dario, Daz, and Denry show us their current favorite parts of biking and discuss whether a bike can ever be too adjustable.

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0:00.0	Jesus Christ, that's loud.
0:06.0	Hello.
0:09.0	Oh, my God.
0:10.0	Okay, well, if you can still hear, because we barely can, welcome to the Pink Bike podcast.
0:17.0	We are still, Henry, Dario and Kaz.
0:21.6	I'm trying to get some... Yeah, welcome to the podcast.
0:27.3	Yeah, I'm alert now.
0:30.0	My name is Henry.
0:31.0	I'm joined by Dario and Kaz to do some show and tell,
0:34.7	answer your questions,
0:35.4	as well as talk about some of the things we've got going on on the website etc etc well that was that was very exciting um i'm going to just jump in
0:46.6	this week straight away with my show and tell because i think it will hopefully access a little
0:53.2	conversation i'd like to get into.
0:55.7	My show and tell this week is how much better bottom brackets are than they used to be.
1:01.9	I had a threaded bottom bracket in my bike, which I ride all the time.
1:06.7	I pressure wash.
1:07.6	I mean, Kaz, you can be a testament to my post ride cleaning.
1:11.1	It's quite impressive. The king of the clean.
1:12.6	It's very,
1:13.2	very tidy.
1:14.1	Very thorough.
1:16.6	And after two years,
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