Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Asmer. We've got Dario de Julio and Matt Beer here. And we're going to talk about mountain bikes like always. Yeah, we are. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Yeah. It's in a busy week of mountain bike things, though. We're kind of in still in the ramp up phase to Seattle. So every day, there's probably some sort of review or some new product because companies are medium smart. And they decide to launch things now. People are getting excited for drier, sunnier weather in the northern hemisphere. So we've had like at least two sunny days a week here. It's awesome. It's pretty nice. It's coming out. Days are longer. Yeah.

But everything seems to be coming out once. I'm sure you guys have a stacked plate of reviews and pending things that have not arrived and dates that are coming up hot, quick, but holy,

there's a lot. There's a lot coming. It's going to be cool. Yeah, the counts. Before we go too far, though, I, I realize that we should tell everybody to go watch G. Atherton's video from last week. Matt, you sat down with G in the last episode of the podcast and interviewed him, but that Nepal free-riding video is ridiculous and everyone just watch it. You could stop this podcast, spend 20 minutes on that and then come back to this.

And then that would be a good thing to do, I think.

It's, it's definitely worth checking out.

It's, you know, obviously, G.Atherton sending it plus big, crazy scenic views in Nepal, massive mountains.

And although riders have been there before, I think this one obviously combines those two elements.

The scale is out there.

Sometimes the big mountain free riding doesn't look gnarly enough. Like, you know it's gnarly, but it doesn't translate to the screen, but this one looked very gnarly. I was like, G, be careful. be careful. I don't usually feel that. But with G is like, even like his little, uh, there's,

not his little buddy, but one of his friends out there, there's something, there's something like,

it'll take four hours for a helicopter to come get you. If you get hurt and he's like, oh, yeah, okay, let's go hit my 75 foot canyon gap. You're like, okay, like his brain works different, but it's a beautiful senior. I'd love to go there and just tour around and not hit 75 foot gaps i'd hit

some three foot gaps i think and be stoked over there plus i'm sure the altitude they're

really said what the altitude was but in the interview with matt he mentioned it was like he's like

above four uh four thousand meters in some spots yeah like pretty high

if he's at a breath then it's really got to be physical. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, in that interview was fascinating, I thought, just because, like, the little details that you don't consider all start stacking up of like, okay, what do you do for spares? Like, how do you bring whatever, spare tires into the back country and make sure that you can mount them up when you inevitably flat on like these shale

runouts and stuff. It's like a lot of contingent factors. Yeah. I get the sense that he

doesn't like, he tries not to think about the crash part, even though he has a pretty consistent

history of some pretty huge crashes. yeah even like a minimal crash like

you know bent rotor gouge stanchion or something like like it kind of yeah but no it's not really so yeah

everyone should watch that just because it's one of the one of the better bike videos i've seen in a while

it's cool yeah but now we're going to talk about bikes themselves and

things have been riding and things we're going to testing. And we'll start with you, Matt, because you had a downhill bike review up. It made me get excited for downhill season, or at least bike park season. They saw that. I was like, oh, yeah, downhill bikes are fun. I mean, not that I forgot, but that's the gambler. you got a good amount of time on that.

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