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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 215 - Ben Cathro On Leading Pinkbike Racing, Troubleshooting His Brain & Focusing On His Strengths

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

News, Sports

4.6743 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ben Cathro is someone who helps the rest of us understand World Cup racing by making videos breaking it down. His video work with Pinkbike led him to start Pinkbike Racing, and now he's led the team for two seasons. Ben himself is a racer, coach, video creator, team manager, team mentor, father, husband, friend... in this episode, we talk about the struggle of managing all of it, both with the team and as a person, plus he tells me about his process, his retirement from racing, and more. I really enjoyed Ben's openness and thoughtfulness, and I hope others enjoy this episode too.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. It's just me and Kaz for the intro today.

0:16.5

Kaz, last time you and I recorded a podcast in person, it didn't go exactly as planned in terms of reception.

0:22.3

So we'll keep it on the straight and narrow today, hey?

0:24.3

Hmm, I don't know. We'll try.

0:26.8

So a lot's gone on in terms of our little review land this week.

0:30.7

First up, I want to talk to you about why every mountain bike are out there should absolutely go for titanium cranks,

0:36.7

especially on an

0:37.5

e-bike where weight is already such a concern.

0:39.4

Yeah, it's very important.

0:40.5

You should all buy $1,300 titanium cranks, especially ones that are 3D printed.

0:44.3

I mean, they are beautiful.

0:46.1

They are, but actually, as I was looking closer at them, I didn't realize they were

0:50.0

on the bike for a while.

0:51.0

So people, I guess we should tell people we're talking about. So these are Cancreeks, electric wings, titanium e-bike cranks. They're 3D printed, made in USA, and they cost $1,300.

0:59.0

And for $1,300, I assume that includes the axle linking the two together. expensive crank arms, which they worked great because most cranks do. I can't think of the last time I had any cranks fail on me, which is nice.

1:13.6

And they look really good from a distance, but when you look close, the way the additive

1:16.8

manufacturing kind of makes them end up, they have these little pock marks in them.

1:20.7

Oh, okay.

1:21.2

Yeah, which isn't like, I kind of wanted that to be more like jewelry and really smooth and fancy

1:24.6

looking. So I've had some E-wings before, which are actually now on, we have Stefan, who's at

1:30.9

the junior videographer and needed some new crank and I said, I've got a treat for you.

1:34.0

He didn't understand what they were.

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