Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast.

My name is Henry and this week I'm joined by Alicia, Sarah and Mike for the news preamble.

Now, Mike, we've got some, we're going to talk about some questionnaire stuff, some state

the sport stuff with Sarah and Alicia in just a moment.

But this last week, we saw a product release that was more expensive than some of its

rivals, heavier, and less stiff.

Now, normally any one of those things would be considered a kiss of death

for a new product, but there's something about the upside down fork that just refuses to loosen

its grip on the mountain biking audience. We seem to be like, you know, perseveringly very interested

in them. So with all these tradeoffs that I've mentioned, can you talk a bit about

what an upside down fork could do that a regular fork couldn't and maybe even touch upon

what push are trying to achieve with this new model? Yeah. I mean, upside down forks are

interesting because they do just kind of keep popping up and then disappearing and popping up

and disappearing. And I don't feel like anyone's quite cracked the code yet. But, you know,

the concept is that you should have um and in the way the weight is balanced of the fork so you have

more the work more of the weight above rather than below um and actually the amount with a lubrication

sits like the the bushings and seals are always lubricated rather than having you know

fix your normal right side up fork all the lubricating oil technically wants to go to the

bottom. So by flipping it upside down, should be smooth and easy to use. I mean, like, and the

stiffness is one of those things that gets talked a lot about, but the companies that are making

upside down forks do claim that kind of helps it track better by not being so so exceptionally stiff you know there are do you need to find a balance because if it

if it feels too twisty then it's not going to be good ride experience but if there's a little bit of

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