Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 174 of the MTV podcast presented and hosted by Worldwide Cyclery, Cuttle Mountain Apparel, and Trailman Components.

I'm Jared.

I'm Liam.

And I'm Tidman.

That is right, ladies and gentlemen.

In this episode, we're joined by our good friend and local pro Tideman Newman. And in this episode, we are going to chat about his time training and racing bikes, as well as some classic listener Crestons, ranging from Shimano Di2 versus SRM transmission to recovering from an injury and everything in between. Let's get right and do it. How are you doing, Tidman? Doing good. It's been just having a good time. Got off work, hanging out here. No complaints. No complaints. That's what I'm talking about. How you doing, Liam? Doing pretty good. Nice. Yeah. About to do it better after. I've been working all day. Yeah.

Like a slave.

Yeah.

That is true.

That is true.

Haven't we all been?

I'm going to feel even better after Zach's words of wisdom.

Find something you're good at that people will pay you for and go really, really hard at it.

I'm still trying to do that with my bike. If somebody wants to pay me, send me a DM. I'm trying really, really hard. Well, you're young, you're pretty young still. How old are you 24? 24. Yeah, it's 24. You got some time to figure it out. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm 34. I'm running out of time to figure it out. Oh. I have 34. Turning 35 this year. Middle and 35. Mid 30s. Solid mid 30s. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, it's okay. This is like, we're in our prime, I like to think, you know.

Somewhere in there.

Yeah.

Depends what prime.

Prime is a state of mind.

Yeah.

I personally feel like, I mean, I think that they say at least for men, like you get, like, peak physically.

You know, like you get stronger into like your 30s am I making this up mid mid 30s like I think it's different kind of strength I think I think like your endurance

and your overall muscular capacity might go up but I think like your anaerobic ability and like

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