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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 241 - Where Downhill Tech is Going, and Which Prototype We'd Love to Ride

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We catch up with the tech team to talk all about what they're reviewing, what we're seeing at races and what they would love to ride.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike Podcast.

0:13.5

My name is Henry and this week I'm joined by Sarah and Kaz.

0:18.5

Now we had the first Enduro not World Series, the first Enjuro World Cup of the year

0:24.9

this week in Italy.

0:27.6

And the racing seemed pretty exciting, but it kind of posed a couple of big questions.

0:31.9

Firstly, how hard should an Enduro race be?

0:36.5

And also, there's been to bikes got missing again,

0:39.5

which sucks, absolutely sucks, because last week we had the frameworks bikes get stolen,

0:44.8

and now the bikes of the Canyon factory riders have gone missing. So let's start, first of all,

0:51.0

with what an Endure race should be. How tight should transitions be?

0:55.9

How much of the physicality should be getting between the stages?

0:59.5

And for a Premier level, you know, world series event, surely it should be pretty tough.

1:06.4

Sarah, you were slogged your guts out in cross country.

1:10.8

If you're doing Enduro do you expect that

1:12.9

level of kind of quick turn around and high pace throughout the day or do you expect it to be a

1:17.1

bit more ebb's and flows i think i mean i think it's really hard to design and draw race

1:22.8

courses probably with with that in mind i know when i did the Whistler EWS at the time, I was definitely

1:30.3

worried about making the transition times, like, because in 2017 there was like, they

1:36.2

called it crankzilla because that was, you know, known for the really tight transition times

1:40.3

and really brutal stages. And so in that case, maybe they, you know, leaned a little

1:46.6

bit to the too hard side. And then we've also had riders complain that like, oh, that was like

1:51.7

a bike park. And we were just going up in the lift and riding down. And, you know, we want

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