Hello everybody. Welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. We're back. I've got Matt Beer with me and Dario de Julio.

And as always, we're here to talk about bikes. And this week is a big bike launch week. Again, they just keep coming more and more new bikes. But it's some cool stuff. We have a new specialized epic. There's a new raw and there's also some experimentation experimentation a bike that doesn't exist that Matt built up

the Mega Mullet I think we need cool sound effects like Mega Mullet do Mega Mullet yeah a little drum

solo yeah maybe in a post we can put some stuff in here we'll have our special producer add

some things in.

Yeah, well, yeah, we should probably start with that though, Matt, because that's kind of the, a lot of people are going to be talking about it.

I haven't seen anything other than Nico's.

Nico's the only other bike I've seen rolling around with a 32 inch front wheel, 29-inch rear.

But you did it with a Scott Gambler.

And we should say down or like gravity focused bike. Yeah, yeah. Downhill bike. Yeah, there's been plenty of a cross country experimentation. But the downhill world hasn't hopped on quite yet, but you did. And yeah, you want to just kind of do the people that didn't watch the video at quick basics and kind of how it all came to be. And yeah. Yeah, for sure when the whole 32 wheel thing was kicking off it was like huh i wonder if that will ever come to downhill

and then with some of the parts i had kicking around i was like well if i could get a wheel and i could

get a tire i wonder if i could fit it to an existing frame. Obviously, you can't fit a 32 in any

rear end of a downhill bike. I was like, oh, we'll just do like a supermullet. We'll do a 32 front,

a 29 rear. And then I talked to the good folks at Manitou, Scott, Maxus. And yeah, we kind of all

work together to make these three things come together

and this crazy bike a reality. So yeah, there were a couple things we had to do in order to

make the big wheel fit the front end of that bike. Mainly was like reducing the travel on the fork.

So it rode at full 203 miles of travel that height,

but then it bottomed out at 173. And that was just to keep the tire from hitting the down tube

of the frame. But we also had to like scooch the whole steering axis of the fork further out.

So it probably would have been fine on maybe even an extra

large frame. But on this one, yeah, there was like a little bit of concern. Also with the tire

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