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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

New Mountain Bike Product Highlights from Sea Otter 2019

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Jeff recap all the new products and news from Sea Otter 2019 in Monterey, CA. We share impressions of the mountain bikes we tested, cover notable product releases, and talk about some of the wackier things we found. Sea Otter was bigger and better than ever before, so we discuss what that might mean for mountain bike culture.

--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

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0:00.0

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0:08.3

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0:16.3

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0:20.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:22.9

My name is Jeff, and today Matt and I are going to recap Sea Otter 2019 for you.

0:29.1

So you've probably been seeing our coverage over the last several days of all the new products

0:35.0

and things we saw at Seater.

0:37.1

But if you haven't been keeping up or you're

0:40.2

more of the podcast type, we're going to recap it all for you right here. So let's start with the

0:47.3

perhaps more exciting part, the bikes that we tested out at Seater. Matt and I actually went out to Monterey or to California day early

0:57.4

so that we could test out some bikes outside of the show. And one of the new bikes that you got to

1:02.4

test, Matt, is the Santa Cruz Megatower. What did you think of that bike? It was, oh man, it was

1:09.5

a, there's another long travel 29er. And yeah, we said that all

1:15.0

last year and I think this is maybe my first ride on a long travel 29er this year. It was fun.

1:22.1

Yeah, I mean, kind of just these short one-day rides are hard to, hard to really say a lot about the bike.

1:28.5

But, yeah, it was fun. It peddled a lot better than I would have expected. I think most similarly,

1:36.1

I could draw a comparison to the Pivot Firebird that I rode last year.

1:40.1

Okay.

1:40.6

You know, because it's in that same realm. It's, you know, big 29er intro bike.

1:45.2

And the Megatower felt a lot more well-rounded than the Firebird.

1:50.8

Like the Firebird, I, you know, just wanting to go downhill on it.

1:53.9

That's pretty much all I wanted to do.

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