Pinkbike Podcast: RockShox’s New Zeb & Lyrik vs. The 1500 W Avinox Wave

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4.6 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sea Otter season is officially here, and the gear is dropping fast. This week, Stephane Pelletier, Dario DiGiulio, and Matt Beer share first-ride impressions of the redesigned RockShox Zeb and Lyrik forks, alongside the updated Super Deluxe and Vivid shocks. But the real shocker? The "Avinox Arms Race." The team grapples with the 2026 power shift as a laundry list of new bikes hit the market featuring the Avinox M2S motor. With a staggering 150Nm of torque and 1500W peak power, the crew discuss the nitty-gritty details on eMTB's newest heavy-hitting power plant.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another edition of the Pink Bike podcast.
0:03.8	My name is Stefan.
0:04.8	I'm joined by Dario de Giulio and Matt Beer.
0:09.6	And today we're going to-
0:11.0	It's just the boys.
0:11.8	No.
0:12.2	Dad's gone.
0:13.2	It's just us.
0:14.7	Home alone.
0:16.2	Guys couldn't make it.
0:17.2	So we're just going to have a good old-fashioned chinwag just the kids and uh like thankfully
0:23.6	there's a lot to talk about because uh well we just had a long weekend or in canada we did which was
0:29.8	nice but uh but now we're getting set for sea otter time and there's a ton of new product releasing
0:35.9	just this week right before Sea Otter.
0:41.0	So yeah, I think that's going to be the focus of the show.
0:44.9	What do we want to start out with, guys?
0:47.6	Also, how's everyone doing?
0:48.7	How is the weekend?
0:50.1	It was good.
0:51.2	Standard fair weekend here for the Americans, but just a two dayer.
0:56.3	Classic two dayer did some digging, did some riding, did some city stuff, went to Vancouver.
1:02.2	I can't complain. Tis the season. Yeah, how's your jet lag?
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