Hey, Pinkers, you're listening to Episode 76 of the Pink Bike podcast, and I'm your host,

Mike Levy. In today's show, we're going to be talking about Mountain Bike copycats.

That's products, events, and other things that have been

reproduced, duplicated, and just plain copied from the original. So I think that word

copycat, it definitely has a bit of negative connotation to it, implying that maybe they copied

their homework from someone else and didn't do all the work themselves,

which probably wasn't the right thing to do. But I don't think it's entirely that simple at every

instance either. I mean, you can't just unlearn something or force yourself to forget or abandon

an idea that works well just because somebody else did it first,

right? And what if you could actually improve on that original idea? So there are lots of

complicated laws and rules about these things, of course, with long-winded explanations,

when copyrights, trademarks, and patents are involved with intellectual property.

But the last thing we want to do on this podcast is put you guys to sleep,

so we're not going to go down those boring roads.

Instead, we're just going to come up with a bunch of examples of mountain bike copycats,

including some that improved on the original,

and some that only made us scratch our chins.

And it's not only gear either, as we've got a few events and other things on our list of

reproductions as well. So I've got the original Sarah Moore here with us today. No reproductions,

but the original one and only real thing. Sarah, I think I know

the answer, but I'm going to ask you anyway, how often did you copy a friend's homework or someone

else's answers on a school test? Ah, well, you know, I risk the answer, getting the answer wrong

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