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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Podcast: We Talk About the Most Popular Articles and MTB Trends from 2015

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Aaron, Greg, and Jeff talk about the top stories on Singletracks this year and the trends that have shaped the MTB news in 2015. We cover plus-size bikes, weird product reviews, destination and travel features, and the mountain bike lifestyle.

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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today it's me, Jeff, and I'm here with Aaron and Greg to talk about the top

0:38.8

mountain bike stories on single tracks this year, 2015. So we just published an article today

0:45.7

listing those top 25 articles, and we're specifically looking at the ones that were written by

0:52.7

members of the single tracks team and that got the most

0:56.2

page views during the year. So we've taken that list here today and broken it into sort of groups

1:02.6

of different trends and things from 2015. And we're going to talk about it in that way. So the first

1:08.0

trend that we noticed in the most popular stories from this year was the

1:13.3

popularity of articles about plus size wheels and tires and mountain bikes. And obviously if you're a

1:19.3

mountain biker, you've been following this story sort of all year. It was a big story at Interbike

1:23.2

and it continues to be something that a lot of riders are looking at. So actually three of the top 25 articles from 2015 were about plus size.

1:32.2

So let me ask you guys, what was your favorite article this year about plus size

1:36.8

or what's sort of an insight that you've gained into the plus size market this year?

1:42.3

So I wrote a few articles on this myself, and I think probably my favorite was the article

1:48.2

I wrote that was sort of a heads-up comparison, comparing the Scott Genius LT with standard

1:54.8

27.5 inch wheels and the Scott Genius LT Plus with a plus size wheel.

2:00.8

So it was the same bike, same platform, just different wheel size on back-to-back runs.

2:07.0

And I think that was probably the best way to try to determine, okay, what can these plus size wheels and tires do?

2:13.7

How do they feel different would they give you?

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