Episode 182 - Pivot's Wild Prototype DH Bike with Bernard Kerr

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

After months of speculation, Pivot's prototype downhill bike broke cover in Lenzerheide last week. Bernard Kerr has been testing several versions of this bike through the off season—due in part to the aluminum-lugged carbon construction methods that Pivot says reduces the time required to make a rideable prototype. It also makes it easier to adjust the frame design, or as was the case here, evaluate two different suspension systems over 100+ of laps of testing. Henry Quinney and Brian Park sit down with Pivot's Head of Engineering and Design Kevin Tisue, and Pivot Factory Racing's Bernard Kerr to talk about the new bike, DH racing, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's Pink Bike podcast, which is presented by Pivot.
0:16.2	Joining me, Henry Quinny and Pink Bikes, Brian Park, is Pivot's head of engineering and designed Kevin
0:21.8	Tyshoe and Pivot Factory Racing's Bernard Kerr. Now we're recording this just after the
0:27.5	Lensahide World Cup and Kevin let's just paint a picture and just go into imagination land for a
0:33.0	second. Imagine you'd spent a long time designing, carbon downhill bike and you'd given it to your
0:40.1	fastest races and then some young kid beats him on the old bike. How would that make you feel?
0:47.0	The old bike is awesome, so it doesn't make me feel bad at all. What a pragmatist.
0:54.1	Wow. And Bernard, how did you read into that, you know? Do you think that obviously we're going It doesn't make me feel bad at all. What a pragmatist.
0:54.5	Wow.
0:56.7	And Bernard, how did you read into that, you know?
1:00.9	Do you think that, obviously, we're going to go into loads of tech, talk about this new bike later on?
1:06.4	But, you know, do you think it would undermine Loike's confidence in that new bike?
1:07.4	What do you think that was?
1:14.2	Specialist guys, I don't know, man. I think I have sports so, so cool that you could take all the EPO you want.
1:16.3	You could have the best machine you want, really.
1:19.6	And if you are the guy on that day, you can still win.
1:23.5	Like, it's such a cool sport that anything's possible.
1:30.0	Like, if you're just feeling it, you're riding good, you're feeling confident, you really can just turn it on.
1:35.7	Honestly, like obviously the best equipment helps and the best bike and the best set-ups amazing and being as fit as you can.
1:37.5	But downhill's crazy.
1:39.6	You can just turn it on on the right day and just went.
1:41.2	Like I genuinely believe it.
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