Welcome to the Pink Bike podcast.

My name is Henry and this week sitting across me in Internet land is Alicia as we do the pre-news amble. Now, Alicia, we, it feels like we're in

something of an impasse in sort of professional mountain biking. It feels that the idea of

riders getting paid more or having more, you know, greater freedom within their sport

is absolutely what everyone agrees is a good idea. Yes. Is that thought contradicted by the

idea that mountain bikers seemingly aren't also willing to pay for mountain biking? Can both

exist? I mean, wow, that's such a

hard question because it feels like such a complex topic. I think, yes, technically they can both

exist, but then you're making other sacrifices where then you need it to be kind of subsidized

by brands that want to advertise and essentially

use the writers as walking advertisements, which I also, I'm personally not exactly in favor

of that business model.

And that is sort of what drives our entire industry.

Yeah.

Do you think that there's maybe two different, because there's the pay going on,

which people want them to get paid more.

Also, I mean, it feels that way.

Like, I think that most mountain bikes, at least most sort of pink bike audience members,

probably just want people to have quite a, not necessarily living in the lap of luxury,

but they want people to be paid and compensated fairly for the work they're doing.

And things like health insurance, I'll add that in.

I think we actually mentioned that in the podcast later.

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