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Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

My name is Jeff, and today Matt and I are going to be talking about our and your least useful

mountain bike innovations. Thanks for joining us. So I'm the one that came up with this topic. And if

you're a listener to the show, you know that I'm pretty much like a glass half full kind of guy.

And so, yeah, I phrased it as the least

useful. Some people read it as the most useless innovations. Matt, do you think there are any

mountain bike innovations that are just like totally useless? No, I mean, I wouldn't say totally useless.

Yeah, I mean, I think at face value, a lot of them seem totally useless, but I think at least all of them are at least rooted in some reason.

Yeah. Yep. For sure. Right. I mean, nobody is coming up with stuff. Like just to become a coming up with stuff, it solves a problem. And what's interesting is, I mean,

obviously we all ride different types of bikes and different trails and we have different styles.

And so, I mean, while there probably is some stuff that like I have no use for, other people do,

you know, like a road bike. I have no use for a road bike. Give me a gravel bike. Give me a

mountain bike. But yeah. Yeah, not to say that there isn't bad design out there, stuff that

comes and fades away because it was thought out poorly. But even though it has some merit

behind them or some value somewhere. Yeah, exactly. So again, you know, I came up with this survey and

filled in the choices. You know, it's like one of these, you select a choice kind of survey. You can

only select one. And so I had to come up with a list of choices. I think I came up with about

a dozen things kind of off the top of my head.

And I threw in, to be honest, I threw in a few like zingers in there to hopefully like get people talking or, you know, thinking about things a little more.

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