Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast.

This week it's presented by Shimano and we're tackling what goes into a drive-train's development.

To do this, we have Pink Bikes very own Brian Park,

as well as Nick Merdick from Shimano and Bryn Atkinson.

Now, Brin, you've raced pretty much probably every sort of gravity discipline going

and worn some of the yellowish shoes in the business,

whether they look good or not.

Green, I think it's going.

Can you just talk us through sort of, I suppose your involvement in racing?

Where did it start for you?

And then it progressed, I suppose, and how it progressed through the years?

Yeah, so I was just raised downhill pretty much.

I grew up in North Queensland in Australia and sort of made my way over here early 2000s

and raced like the what was at the time, the Norbert National Series,

and then kind of went on to race World Cup for like a decade.

So stopped racing in like 2014 and have been an ambassador

for brands since then and uh ridden for shamano for like 15 years and and now I'm one of the

one of the skunks so one of the the testers uh for the future of shimano and living in

ballingham one of the better places to ride a mountain bike you know if you um cast your mind's eye back

to maybe sort of yeah 15 years ago roughly can you remember sort of what the downhill drive train

of the time would have looked and felt like?

Oh, man.

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