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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 79 - What's The Future of eMTBs?

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

There was much dissent when eMTBs first began to show up on Pinkbike, with both commenters and a few editors being less than enthusiastic about battery-powered bicycles on the homepage. Fast forward a few years and we have way more eMTBs and much less protesting, although I'm almost positive that Pinkbike's optional filter has something to do with that. Either way, it's about time for us to do an entire podcast about them.

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0:00.0

Hey, Pinkers, I'm Mike Levy. This is the Pink Bike podcast, and we've made it all the way to episode 79 before we've had to do an e-bike specific show, which is exactly what's happening today.

0:23.7

Now, we're going to be mostly positive about riding e-bikes, although I think there's plenty of

0:28.0

room to challenge some of the things about them that don't make much sense to me and maybe you.

0:34.0

And I should probably be honest with everybody listening. I've only ridden a handful of these new

0:39.6

e-bikes and I don't have one in my garage and I don't spend a ton of time on them unless Brian

0:45.1

tells me I have to for work, which is fine, but I'm definitely not an e-bike expert and that's why

0:52.2

I'm going to be asking Kazimir and Seb a whole lot of questions

0:55.5

today. Mike Casimir, thank God you here to help me, but I do remember a very different

1:01.8

Casimir. I knew this guy only a couple years ago. He used to tell me how he wasn't into riding

1:07.3

e-bikes, wasn't going to ride them. It's not his thing.

1:12.1

Have you seen that guy around anywhere?

1:12.9

Where do you go?

1:14.2

He's still around in some forms.

1:17.1

He still doesn't ride a ton of e-bikes, but I've definitely changed my tune.

1:21.6

And I kind of, I don't know if gave up is the right word, but it was like when you're like trying to have your finger in the dam.

1:23.3

And then you're like, screw it, and you just take your finger out and it just like the water all comes over. I think that's what happened.

1:28.2

So I do ride e-bikes pretty regularly now, yeah.

1:30.9

But I still like regular bikes the best.

1:32.9

Good.

1:33.3

Good.

1:33.6

That's good to hear.

1:34.9

Question for you, though.

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