Hey everyone. I'm Mike Levy, and you already know this is another Pink Bike podcast. It's also another one-on-one interview. This time I'm talking to Mike Kazimer about his experience at the six-day

Stone King Rally, an endurance stage race that starts in the high mountains of France before hiding

back into Italy, then back into France, and then back into Italy, where they finish at the Mediterranean

sea in the town of Bordegera, Kaz?

How do you say that?

I don't actually know how you say it either.

But it sounds like you did it perfectly.

That was a great Italian accent.

Yeah, Bordecaira, France.

I apologize to all the French people listening.

It's close to San Remo, which is a lot easier to say.

Yeah, exactly.

It all adds up to 24 stages, 262 kilometers of riding, 8,000 meters of pedal-powered climbing, 20,300 meters of what sure look like some rowdy descending to me.

But I think the numbers are probably a vast oversimplification of this event because there's a hell of a lot more going on, which is why

Kaz is here. Kaz, we're going to get into how the race went for you in the travel, in the towns,

and the trails, and your bike. But first, I want you to describe the Stone King and in just four or five words for

everybody listening. It's hard as fuck. There we go. That's exactly what it looks like. Yeah,

it's real hard. I don't think, I know that a lot of people wouldn't enjoy it. I enjoyed it a lot.

I really did have a great time, but it's also like super hard.

And it's not like if you, if you're going to go on this as a vacation, it's not a vacation.

Like you're working.

Like it's something like, I might work.

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