Episode 248 - Tom Pidcock & Pinarello's MTB Product Team on Developing a Pure XC Race Bike & More

The Pinkbike Podcast

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4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Brian Park and Sarah sat down with Federico Sbrissa, Pinarello's Chief Marketing Officer and Federico Meneghetti, the R&D Engineer on the mountain bike project just after Tom Pidcock took the win at the Nove Mesto World Cup at the end of May. We talked about why Pinarello decided to make a mountain bike after a decade without one, how their prototype mountain bike came to win a World Cup race just four months after the project was started, and what's next for Pinarello in the mountain bike space. We also go into a lot of detail about the suspension, geometry and layup of the Dogma XC cross-country mountain bike.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Pink Pike podcast.
0:15.6	Today is presented by Pinarello.
0:18.1	I'm Brian Park, and I have our very own Sarah Moore here, alongside Federico,
0:23.6	Pinarello's chief marketing officer, and the other Federico, the R&D engineer on the
0:28.1	mountain bike project. It's not going to be confusing at all to have two Federico's on the podcast.
0:33.5	Can we go, we did this for the specialized podcast a while back. We had marketing, Todd.
0:38.0	Can we have marketing Federico and engineering Federico?
0:40.9	Perfect.
0:41.4	Sounds great.
0:43.2	Okay.
0:44.6	And then later in the podcast, we also have an interview with Olympic gold medalist Tom Pidcock, you know, some guy who was instrumental in helping develop the Pininerol's wild new XC bikes.
0:56.7	The bikes are unapologetically cross-country.
1:00.3	They've never heard of downcountry.
1:02.6	I'm pretty sure your press kit says the word stiffness like 26 times.
1:07.3	But before we get into the bike and all of that, let's everybody introduce themselves.
1:12.6	And let's start with Sarah.
1:13.7	Sarah Moore, introduce yourself.
1:16.1	Yeah, I'm Sarah Moore.
1:17.8	I'm the content manager at Pink Bike.
1:20.2	I've been at Pink Bike for, I think, six years now, almost seven.
1:24.8	So, yeah, been here a while.
1:26.8	I used to race cross country so I definitely um yeah been
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