Hey everyone and welcome back to another pink bike podcast. I'm your host, Mike Levy,

and I've got a question for you to start off episode number 74. What's the most important ingredient

required to make mountain biking a good time. We love to talk about the fancy

bikes and gear, but at the end of the day, I don't think it really has much to do with it.

And while it probably helps to have some friends to ride with, plenty of us do a lot of our

riding solo and by ourselves, so maybe it's not all about the company either. I can definitely have a great time

by myself or riding some old crappy bike with a bald rear tire, just as long as the trail is good.

Well, I don't mind doing my time on a gravel road to get to the good stuff. It's that good

stuff. It's the single track that's the

reason why we all ride. A 5,000 foot steep-ass climb on a gravel road in the blazing summer

heat while wearing oversized knee pads and riding an overweight trail bike with downhill tires

and an idler pulley. Kaz, that sounds like just another one of your days out on the bike.

But we are happy, right? Cas, we're happy to do that, though, if the single track descent is good

at the top. So today's podcast is all about the trails. We're going to talk about the trails that

each of us love and why. The factors that

make a good trail so good and a less trail, maybe a lot less good, why we owe everything to the

people that build trails, and some of the trail features that either blew our minds or maybe scared

the shit out of us. So as usual, I've got the other mic here as well.

Kassamer, is there one trail feature that comes to mind if I were to ask you what the

sketchiest stunt you've ever seen is?

You don't have to tell me where it is or anything, but what stunt comes to mind?

Oh man, I've seen so many sketchy stunts over the years.

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