Hello and welcome to another episode of the Pink Bike Podcast.

My name is Henry and this week I'm joined by Kaz, Taj and Brian to talk all things

bike breakages.

What should break, what's reasonable to break, why things perhaps do break,

and whether, in fact, we'd want to ride the bikes that don't break.

Kaz, you've been testing bikes for a long time.

Have bike breakages got more or less common or have they just changed?

I'd say they're less common.

Yeah, I think, yes, less common in general.

They still happen, but they're not as common.

And yeah, we'll get into the different ways that bikes can break.

But I think overall it has gotten better.

We're in a pretty good time, right?

Yeah.

Now, Taj, you're somewhat the inspiration for this pod because you do suffer, you know, BMX background.

I hate to say it, the meme lords will be happy.

But I've seen you ride and the way that you load transfers is really quite impressive.

And you do find, I believe, that you can push bike parts without even necessarily deliberately doing so.

Yeah, I'm trying to wrap my head around how to ride mountain bikes because my brain wants to just manhandle my bike and force it to do whatever

I will it to do. But I think you guys should tell me, but I think mountain bikes take a little

more nuanced than that,

and I maybe shouldn't push things quite that hard. But yeah, I've had quite a lot of failures,

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