Love It or Hate It, Mountain Bikes Aren't As Lightweight as they Used to Be
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Matt and Jeff discuss the current trends around mountain bike weights. Are bikes too heavy, or are they where they should be given how durable and capable they are today?
This discussion covers:
- Examples of specific bikes and their weights
- Why bike weights might be increasing
- The benefits to lightweight -- and heavy -- mountain bikes
- Areas where mountain bikes might be able to cut weight
This is Matt's last episode with the Singletracks podcast so to start the show we talk about some of his most memorable stories from the past 6 years. We'll miss you Matt!
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| 0:00.0 | Where else can you choose from over 300 miles of epic single track against a backdrop of soaring |
| 0:05.6 | mountains and cascading waterfalls? And where else can you explore 100,000 acres of public lands |
| 0:11.5 | laced with hundreds of miles of backcountry gravel roads? Your best mountain biking adventure ever |
| 0:17.2 | begins in Bervard, North Carolina, home to Pisgah National Forest and DuPont State |
| 0:22.1 | recreational forest. Four primo bike shops will get you sorted, whether you need a rental, service, |
| 0:27.6 | or some cool swag. Top it off with an array of craft breweries, cafes, and gathering spots |
| 0:33.1 | that have earned Bervard the title as one of America's coolest small towns. It all adds up to one of the premier mountain biking destinations in the U.S. |
| 0:42.0 | Find out more at explorebrivard.com. |
| 0:45.3 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:48.7 | My name is Jeff, and today Matt and I are going to be talking about mountain bike weights. |
| 0:55.9 | And love it or hate it, mountain bikes aren't as lightweight as they used to be. |
| 1:00.0 | And, you know, this is something we've been talking about, a little bit, writing about. |
| 1:03.8 | And so I thought it would be fun to dive in and talk about it. |
| 1:06.9 | But before we do, I would just want to make a note that this will be Matt's last podcast with us. |
| 1:13.5 | He's moving on at the end of the month here. |
| 1:16.8 | And so before we dive in, I just wanted to like kind of take a second and look back on some of the contributions Matt's made over the years. |
| 1:26.1 | You know, Matt, you joined us, I believe, |
| 1:28.9 | in June of 2018. Is that right? Yeah, it was about that. Mayor June, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, |
| 1:36.3 | so it's been almost six years now. Yeah, crazy. And so, yeah, like going back, I mean, |
| 1:41.5 | you've written a ton for the site. And over those years, like, I mean, literally hundreds of articles, maybe a thousand. I don't know. I should have counted. It's over a thousand. Yeah. Maybe 1100 now. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Crazy. So, yeah, I mean, obviously, it's impossible to go back and read every one of them. But I do want to highlight some of the ones |
| 2:02.8 | that really come to mind for me. One of them was an article in, I think it was like 20-22-ish, |
| 2:11.4 | an article about the bike boom and kind of the end of the pandemic induced bike boom. |
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