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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Bikes We’re Testing, Summer Travel, and What’s Grinding our Gears

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast we talk about some of the bikes we have in for testing and preview some of the destinations we’re visiting this summer. We also talk about new and updated bikes from Niner, Santa Cruz, and Trek. Plus: what’s grinding our gears and stoking our spokes.

--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:11.7

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0:15.1

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0:20.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.1

My name is Jeff, and today Aaron and Greg and I are going to talk about some of the news in the

0:29.0

mountain bike world and talk about some of the things that we're working on.

0:32.7

So one of the things I want to start with is to talk about some mountain bikes that we're testing.

0:38.0

Aaron, you've got a new bike in from Niner that you're testing.

0:41.2

How's that going?

0:42.1

It's going great.

0:43.0

You know, some people may know I've been doing a fair amount of racing this year.

0:46.2

So I got Niners new Air Nine RDO, which is their super lightweight racing hardtail.

0:54.8

It's a full XT drive train.

0:57.6

It's got the top of the line Fox Factory 32 Kashima-coated fork on it.

1:03.8

And then it stands arch wheels.

1:05.5

The older generation, though, not the newest super wide arches.

1:13.2

And then a bunch of Niner parts. So N you know they do a carbon post and it's got a niner saddle nineer carbon bar but out of the box

1:19.7

with pedals and everything it's 22 pounds so it's uh super light and probably one one more thing I want to mention about it, it came with Maxis icon tires on it,

1:32.5

but they actually went with like the top spec, Exo sidewall protection, tubeless ready version.

1:38.9

And they spec it with a 2.35 in the front and a 2-2 in the back.

1:42.8

So it's really smart spec.

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