Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. My name is Henry and this week I've bundled Matt and Christina into the Skimmer Studio to do the podcast-amble before an interview with Rocky Mountains at Remy Gravan.

Matt, you just got back from Sunny New Zealand.

Welcome back.

Is it the riding mecca?

Was it the riding trip of a lifetime that, because I think New Zealand sort of can suffer from the weight of its own expectation.

It's amazing.

Everyone talks about how amazing it is.

You send Lord of the Rings. It's amazing. Everyone talks about how amazing it is. You send Lord of the Rings.

It's fucking on. How was your time there? It was unbelievable. Honestly, yeah, I had to invite to

a six-day indoor race and then also booted down to Queenstown with some buddies who were there

for the race as well. So brand time. Perfect weather. Just caught the end of summer going into fall now. And just

timed up perfectly. It was unreal. And a sixth day enduring race, that sounds somewhat fatiguing.

Would that be fair to say? I want to say it was, but then there was Matthew Fairbrother who did

it totally unassisted. So this was a fair bit of shuttling.

We saw it some climbing during each day.

But, you know, sort of like a regular big weekend day out for some people in this area, like our neck of the woods, I guess.

But for some it was, it was definitely a lot of riding.

And for him, it was an insane amount of riding and for him it was an insane amount of riding

The first day was 4,500 meters of climbing for him plus descending and racing and it was like 25 degrees plus in the sun like he was he was hurting after that one and 25 degrees in New Zealand feels that bit hotter.

Oh man. Because the hole in the ozone layer.

It's like,

it sounds like bullshit.

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