Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. This week we've got a special podcast to talk all about

Tyotech and this one is presented by Schwalby.

Joining me, Henry Quinney, I always say that then I cringe when I say it.

I feel like I'm so like, oh, it makes my toes curl.

Joining me, Henry Quinny, and to make sure that I don't do anything too unprofessional

or anything of the like is the cat herder himself, Mr. Brian Park,

as well as Carl Kampur and Felix Young from Schwalby.

Brian, you've ridden many, many, many, many ties over the years.

Can you just talk us through how maybe the consumer's expectation has changed over the last 10, 15 years

about what they can expect from a mountain bike tire. Oh my God. I thought we were going to start

light and easy. Well, we can take it as light and easy as you want, but I think that's a good

place to start. Like 10 years ago, 15 years ago, people were very skeptical of even tubeless. Now

things are really changing.

I know people now who will not take a tube or tire plugs or anything on a ride and they'll just

ride. And I keep expecting this to bite them in the ass and it keeps not biting them

in the ass for listeners Henry is waving because it's that's definitely him and I like the old rules

of mountain bike karma require that something horrible happen that he just double flat all the time

because but it doesn't so yeah I think our

expectations of tire just durability and longevity have gone up dramatically yes ties are I mean

I think I think they're really really good people. People often might question about whether we're

limited by a pneumatic system, whether we should go to the solid tire or something. I think we're

incredibly lucky to have the mountain bike tires we do do. And I think tubeless is actually, for me at

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