Episode 23 - Grim Donut 2 is Live!

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The Grim Donut's conception was equal parts tongue-in-cheek and genuine curiosity, but we never thought it'd actually work. Fine, it doesn't work everywhere, but if you watched the video, you'll know that it certainly seems to work well when pointed down some steep, fast terrain. In timed testing, ex-EWS racer and full-time maniac Yoann Barelli went six-seconds quicker on the Donut over just two-minutes; that's a massive improvement in this world. Oh, and that was also his first time on the bike. And the chain jammed off halfway down

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome to episode 23 of the Pink Mike podcast. It's a special one today,
0:14.1	the Grimm Donut podcast. I'm your host, Mike Levy, as usual. Today, we're talking Grim
0:20.1	Donut. We got some special guests.
0:21.8	We have Yohan Borelli. If you saw the video, GrimDonut Part 2 already, you know that he did some time
0:27.3	testing for us. And we have Jason Lucas. He did a lot of the filming. So we're going to talk about that.
0:32.8	As usual, Kassamer, how's it going? It's going well. How many times does you ride bikes?
0:38.9	I rode twice.
0:39.7	I probably shouldn't have.
0:40.8	It's really smoky, you know.
0:42.1	Yeah, it is super smoky.
0:42.7	It's neat.
0:44.5	It looks like blade runnery out there right now.
0:46.8	Yeah, it makes my eyes itch and things.
0:47.7	Toughen up, Kaz.
0:48.3	Toughen up. Yeah, I rode twice.
0:49.5	Oh, that I did.
0:56.6	XE ride. Who am I talking to? Did you? Shuttle the day before.
1:00.1	Oh, okay. It all balances it. Did you ride anything interesting or weird on the weekend?
1:05.1	It's like too weird. I was on an altitude for one of the days and then the other day was just on the optic. Pretty normal stuff. Okay. And we have James,
1:12.1	as usual. James is going to read the news, but before that, James, you ride bikes on the weekend?
1:16.2	Drop bar bikes again. Curly bars. What bike is that? I've got a vitus gravel bike. Good times,
1:22.4	great oldies, right? And my boss, well, everyone's boss, Brian Park, how are you?
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