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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 73 - The Details That Matter (and Some That Shouldn't)

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Tire pressure and suspension sag, of course, but do you also need your cable housing to be perfectly parallel or your dropper post to sit flush with the top of the seat tube?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stanchions in the River Thames.

0:11.9

The Stanchions in the River Thames.

0:15.2

Hey everybody and welcome to episode 73 of the Pink Bike podcast.

0:19.4

I'm Mike Levy, your usual host for these get-togethers,

0:22.2

and after a bunch of episodes where we talked about the big outside news, mountain biking's

0:26.7

unsung heroes, and that two-part special interview with Richard Cunningham that you better

0:32.3

have listened to already, we're finally turning back to some tech stuff today for the podcast where we're going to be

0:38.7

delving in to the details today we're going to talk about some of the finer points of bike set up

0:44.3

the details that matter to each of us and why the details that matter to other people and maybe

0:50.0

we don't understand and some details that we'd like to see in the future. So there's going to be

0:54.9

plenty of arguing on the way. So as usual, I've got my American teammate and fellow Mike here with

1:01.0

me, Mike Kazimer, I'm sure will disagree with the details that I think matter more than others.

1:07.5

Kaz, I have a question and I need an answer. What do you think is the most

1:11.6

overblown detail that mountain bikers think about too much? And why is it the amount of

1:16.5

travel they have or believe they need? That's a tough question there. I feel like you've

1:21.5

been beating that dead horse for like, what, 10 years now? I think 14, actually. 14, 14 years,

1:26.3

just constantly telling people who have too much travel. Yeah. Yeah, we'll get into that. I think 14, actually. 14, 14 years, just constantly telling people who have too much travel.

1:28.7

Yeah.

1:29.0

Yeah, we'll get into that.

1:29.9

I think that you're wrong probably on that one also, but we'll discuss it soon.

1:33.5

Just that one, though.

1:34.3

Everything else, Levy's just a beacon of truth.

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