Hello and happy new year and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. My name is Henry and this week

I'm joined by Sarah Dario and Mike to, well, talk about all things mountain biking.

Before we get into, well, there's kind of so much to go on, Sarah, we've just come off the

festive period. Normally, Pink Bike pretty much shuts down over the festive period and there

is just tumbleweeds. This year it's been live and

kicking. Is this in any way related to you coming back from work and actually, you know,

keeping us lazy boys in check? I don't know. I think it's always there's always these

parting ways articles during the holidays that we keep an eye out for.

So I think that's, I don't know if I can take credit for all these teams dropping their riders, but that's usually what I can eye up for.

It's actually just part of a ploy to drum up some views or these, all these rider separations

and team ending.

It's all part of the big media machine.

Yeah, there'd be nothing going on if we weren't,

we weren't for all the riders, you know, and teams separating. So thanks guys. Has there been a conscious effort in the news team not to use the phrase part ways? Because the comment section does

get into that a bit. Well, yeah. So then we're using off now. And then I saw somebody put, they ranked our title 2.5 out of 10 and I was like,

yeah, fair enough.

We can be old.

But it's hard.

There's so many of them.

That's why we do a roundup now because it's,

you can only say parts ways or off or,

you know,

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