Hello everybody and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. We are here in beautiful gray

Bellingham, Washington. It's me, Dario. We got Mike and Alicia. We're sitting around a little dinner table.

I'm watching some deer scamper around in the backyard. It's a beautiful winter's day.

There are also hairless cats here. We should mention that. That too. We're joined by Dorkas and

Speedgoat. The two hairless cats I've been babysitting. And we're going to get into some news.

First things first, Mike has been spending some time on the brand new V3 raw Madonna and seemingly he's been loving it.

Yes, very good bike.

We've reviewed the previous generation, I think it was two years ago.

That was version two.

This is the third generation of the raw Madonna.

Basically kind of a very purpose-built aluminum

Enduro bike.

And it's just, yeah, it looks simple.

But then when you ride it, it rides so well.

It goes very fast and it kind of has everything I would like about a bike.

If it's, I think we've called it a Forever bike before, and it definitely fits in that category.

Big bearings, external cable routing, long chain stays, high stack,

just like you get on it and it climb is fine

and that's, that's, you know, it does okay,

steep seat angle, it does that, but going down,

it just can carry so much speed.

I've been really liking it.

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