Mountain Bike Products that Frankly, Suck
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Aaron, Greg, and I discuss categories of mountain bike products that frustrate us, including hydration packs, helmet cameras, dropper posts, shoes, and more. It’s not all negative though: we also attempt to offer ideas for improving these products.
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| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | My name is Jeff, and today Aaron and Greg and I are going to be talking about mountain bike products that suck. |
| 0:30.4 | And before you tune out and think, you know, this is just going to be a bunch of ranting and we're going to talk about, talk bad about particular products. Really, what we're going to be talking about is product categories for the most |
| 0:42.1 | part and talking about products that frustrate us a little bit on the trail. And then we'll also |
| 0:47.7 | try to offer a little bit of constructive feedback, you know, in terms of how these products can be |
| 0:52.6 | improved. So, Aaron, I wanted to start off with you. |
| 0:57.1 | What's one of those mountain bike products that you get frustrated with every now and then? |
| 1:02.5 | One of the biggest ones for me would be dropper posts. And, you know, I'm a huge advocate of dropper posts. |
| 1:09.4 | I think they are more revolutionary than the fat bike. |
| 1:13.8 | I know Greg disagrees with me there. |
| 1:16.0 | But I think they've done more to change, like, how people ride. |
| 1:20.0 | And, yeah, I just think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread, |
| 1:24.6 | except, you know, I've had issues with just about every brand of dropper out |
| 1:28.9 | there. You know, sometimes it's just a little cork, but other times it's major problems. You know, |
| 1:34.5 | I kind of feel like we're moving into the second or possibly even the third generation of dropper |
| 1:39.6 | posts at this point, and a lot of these issues are getting worked out and fixed. But some of them I would |
| 1:46.0 | include would be bad remote ergonomics. That's a big pet peeve because, you know, if you have |
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