Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast.

This week for the news preamble, I'm joined by Matt and Christina here in the Pink Bike HQ in Squamish.

So there was some very, very, very, very, very exciting racing gun at the weekend.

The Snow Bike World Champs.

Now Matt, last time I tried to ask you a question about how resources get directed within racing,

it went really, really badly for me.

So I'm going to be very careful with my words here.

And if there are any snow bikists out there, I wouldn't want them to feel that I'm in any way, you know, getting into anything too big.

Do you think snow biking is a valid thing?

I saw a Rob Warner thing, actually that really great podcast I did with the ride

companion saying if we want mountain biking to be popular, we need to go to the people. And that's

kind of what snow biking is. What was your interpretation of the event? Yeah, I think that's fair to say.

I didn't actually tune in for the event live, but I've done quite a bit of snow riding in the

past growing up in eastern Canada.

It's quite interesting.

It's exhilarating.

And you can actually cover quite a bit of ground, whether you're flying down a ski run or maybe some cross-country trails as well on a fat bike.

I was going to say, I mean, it feels like there are two different things going on there.

Like fat biking is a very much a thing. Yeah. Riding ski piece on mountain bikes is a different

thing. It's a newer thing. Christina, you've lived in Whistler for many years. Have you ever been

hiking your bike up to go ride, I don't know, lemon peel on a on your enjury bike, is that a thing? Definitely not on purpose.

There are, sometimes on opening weekend in the bike park,

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