The Hello and welcome back to the pretty serious bike racing podcast everybody I'm Dane Cash and Bike Racing Podcast Podcast, everybody.

I'm Dane Cash and we have a traveling Cosmo Catalano,

Bike Racing Analysts, extraordinary.

He is traveling from a bike race. He was actually at a bike race in person.

Cosmic Catalano, when is the last time you were at a, you know, UCI level tier event?

Probably tour of I mean I didn't call it tour of Colorado but tour of Colorado back in 2014 I think 2014 pro challenge or whatever

it was used to be called. Yeah. Welcome back to the

covering of the bicycle races world. Nice. Yeah it was good. I had you know I had real

creds this time the ones you have to pay money for so that was kind of cool as in video credits yeah yes I

I spent a lot of time just trying to stay off camera and I still got caught once or twice

on the camera I was very upset.

But I would like to point out, so the event that you are at, I noticed, I mean I didn't watch too much of it but I did notice that the

cyclists at this event they were riding on these bikes with wide tires and flat

yes it was it was a mountain bike race I believe if you wanted to you could ride on a drop bar bike with narrow tires but you would not be very successful.

You could do the like the cross-country events maybe. Probably the downhill events might be a challenge, right? Yes, downhill events would not work well. The short track, I still don't think you could be competitive on a cyclic cross bike, but you could have a cross race there with cross bike rules and make everyone

ride cross bikes and it'd be okay. So yeah yeah all right so we're talking about

monsai nann in Quebec in Canada, which hosted the final round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.

We'll talk a little bit about that later.

But first, well, let's get through the intros.

Okay, we're done.

Because it's just Coswell on me this week,

which, you know, do a confluence,

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