Welcome to episode 101 of the MTB podcast presented and hosted by World Wide

Cyclary. This is Jeff. I'm Jared. I'm Liam. And today we have a special guest on the

podcast for a second time. I'm Nico. Nico is a longtime friend of mine and a

World Cup racer who's doing something unbelievably unique in 2022. You are

building your own bike and racing it. Any more description on that? Yeah. I've

raced World Cup for the past 13 seasons and this year I thought it'd be a fun

project to take everything I learned from the various teams I've raced for and

and build my own bike. That was kind of just custom tailored to me exactly and

learn a lot about the process of building a bike through racing it and

developing it at the races which is a it's a good way to accelerate the

development process. The date of the race doesn't change so you've got a dead

deadline there and you always learn so much more pushing it at the top level. So

it's been a really fun season again to do all that. Nice. Yeah. It's been

unbelievably cool to just be a part of one of the sponsors sponsoring what your

project is doing and how it's been evolving is rad and you are on episode 91. So

if anyone wants to go back to episode 91 that was kind of when we were talking

more about that pre a whole bunch of races and learning that you're going to

talk about now and on that episode we covered a lot of high-pivot stuff

because that was kind of earlier on in the days where you were testing two

different bikes, one high-pivot, one regular pivot. Yeah, which was pretty

interesting. So we're going to talk about all of that stuff but if you really

want to dive deep into the high-pivot stuff go back to episode 91. We'll link

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