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MTB Podcast – Episode 34 – Interbike, World Champs, concussions, rotational weight + more!

MTB Podcast

Worldwide Cyclery

Sports

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan and Steven cover some big retirement news, a new 7,000' descent in Downieville, a deep dive on drivetrains and hacks and cover your questions! Topics covered in this episode: • Todd Wells has retired :( • Sho-Air pulls out of the US Cup • Downieville's new 7,000' descent: https://www.pinkbike.com/news/downieville-downhill-now-boasts-7000-vertical-feet-of-descending.html • John Tomac: American Mountain Bike Legend - Video: https://www.pinkbike.com/news/john-tomac-american-mountain-bike-legend-video.html • Can Fox remotes be used on Rockshox suspension, and vice versa? • Is MTB mechanics a viable career? • Should clydesdales avoid carbon? • What tire width should most people have? • What is a good budget kids MTB? • Affordable road bikes for training • The one reason a Reverb is better than other dropper posts • Is it bad to train with clipless pedals and ride in flats? • What power meters are best for MTB? • How to know when your head tube height is correct • The ultimate guide to drivetrains

Transcript

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0:00.0

And the Hey everybody and welcome to episode 34 of the mountain bike

0:18.2

podcast I'm your co-host Jonathan Lee with my other if you heard that that was a catahoula dog that was

0:25.3

Moose Stephen's dog yeah yes and this man I'm with my co-host even Lewis

0:30.4

finally what's up man it's been, man? It's been a while.

0:33.0

We've been busy.

0:34.0

Yeah, we apologize to all the listeners.

0:37.0

This is the busiest time of year for me, so lots of travel and craziness.

0:42.1

And simply, man, I've just had to I was getting to the point where I was looking at it and I wasn't

0:46.6

spending any time with my family at all and that's like the important part yeah

0:50.4

exactly so I mean I was just spending all of my time with work and then if it wasn't work I was

0:57.0

filling it in with all of the other you know edge things that I have to do especially you know and

1:01.6

end this podcast and all that other stuff so yeah

1:03.7

I apologize for the delay but man I just had to I had to put priorities right

1:08.4

totally no that's totally fine yeah it was it was roughwho, but now hopefully we're going to be more consistent with some things now that the travel schedules drop down.

1:18.5

Yeah, race season is pretty much over, but we've got plenty of stuff to cover and we're going to

1:24.7

get back into some deep dives for you all a lot of people are requesting that we

1:28.7

go back into some details and get some bike nerdy going on. Yep, yeah they want it so yeah.

1:33.8

Stephen this is the mountain bike podcast where can you find it? You can find it at

1:38.8

MTV podcast.com. Instagram we are at MTV podcast the Twitter we are at MTV Podcast, the Twitter we are the MTV Podcast because someone's a jerk

1:47.1

and took MTV Podcast apparently and and we'reTV Podcast on Facebook.

1:53.0

Yes.

1:54.0

You can find this podcast all over wherever you listen to podcast.

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