Hey everybody and welcome back to another Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Levy. I've got Brian Park

with me and today's episode is presented by Shimano because we're talking about link glide.

Now, what the heck is link glide?

Well, Shimano says it is a bunch of new drive train tech that is all about long-term durability,

shift performance, and cross compatibility across different levels.

Now, there's a whole bunch of stuff to cover, and that's why we've got Shimano Mountain Bike

Product Manager, Nick Murdick here to help explain it in a way that even I can understand.

Nick, thanks for joining us.

And first off, where are you and how are you?

Hey, I'm great.

I'm here at Shimano's US headquartersS. headquarters in Irvine, California.

Oh, that is nice.

Are you ready to get real dorky about some mountain bike drive train components?

I hope so.

I mean, that's my specialty is nerding out and going too far down the rabbit hole.

So I hope people like it.

I hope this can at least be the source where people can go

find like the rest of that information of wait. So how does it do all that? Exactly. What even is it?

What is a link glide? Well, why don't we start with exactly that? Tell us what link glide is.

Give us an overview of the link glide technology.

Sure. Yeah. I mean, basically we could say that it's a kind of shifting technology.

So we've had a hyperglide for many years. Hyperglide plus came out with the new XTR group a couple years ago.

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