Bikes vs. Skis, 1st Edition (2018) Part 1

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Which ski company is most like which bike company? Who is the Moment Skis of the bike world? And which ski company shares the most family resemblance with Yeti? Or Transition?

Jonathan Ellsworth and Blister's bike editor, Noah Bodman, have been having this conversation for years, and they're now taking the debate public. So give it a listen, then let us know in the comments section of the show notes to this episode on the site where you agree, where you disagree, and where you've got the better analogies. Then in a week or two, we'll run Part 2 of this conversation, where we’ll share some of your comments and questions, and do another round of Bikes vs Skis.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Which ski brand is most like Specialized? (4:15)
Evil & Transition? (8:48)
Yeti (15:41)
Santa Cruz (25:40)
Giant (34:02)
Trek (42:04)
YT (45:55)
Cannondale? (51:08)
Ellsworth? (52:48)
Pivot vs. Ibis, Transition, and Yeti (55:03)
Preview of Part 2 of Bikes vs. Skis (59:25)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:09.0	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out all the other stuff we're up to over at blisterreview.com.
0:19.2	We've got a pretty fun one for you today, and it's really just the latest installation of an ongoing discussion I've been having with our bike editor, Noah Bodman, for a couple of years now.
0:30.7	A long time ago, Noah and I were talking and trying to prioritize which bikes from which particular companies we ought to be reviewing.
0:38.7	And given that there are a ton of bike companies out there, I think I said something to Noah
0:43.3	like, so who currently is the moment skis of the bike world? I have no recollection whatsoever
0:50.5	what Noah's answer was back then, but that little question launched a whole new
0:55.2	pastime or trivia game or I don't even really know what you call it exactly, but it started
1:00.9	this ongoing discussion of which bike company is currently most like which ski company.
1:07.3	And the word currently is really important here. Companies rise and fall and evolve over time.
1:13.6	So whatever Noah's answer was to that question I asked several years ago,
1:17.6	which by company is the moment skis of the bike world,
1:20.6	well, that is almost certainly going to change.
1:23.6	And that's the game.
1:25.6	Is it kind of weird? Yes. Is it kind of stupid? Maybe. But is it also
1:32.8	pretty interesting and kind of hard to stop once you get started? Well, we've been refreshing
1:37.9	this conversation for a couple of years now, so yeah, we think so. And now, you lucky listeners, you get to hear Noah and I go over our latest round of what we now call,
1:49.5	because neither Noah or I were clever enough to come up with a better name,
1:53.6	Bikes versus Skis.
1:56.0	And we definitely want to hear from you to see where you agree with us, where you disagree with
2:01.7	us, and who out there can come up with the better, more accurate analogies.
2:07.2	And there are also some tangential bonus questions buried in here that I ask NOAA, such
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