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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Sea Otter Recap: Trends Spotted and Cool Products Discovered

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and Jeff provide a recap of Sea Otter 2016 while filling in Greg on what he missed this year. We talk trends, interesting and unusual products, and what it’s like to actually meet and hang out with your idol. Don’t miss this episode as we cover several items not mentioned in our written coverage!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal.

0:03.2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab.

0:08.3

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure.

0:11.0

Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal.

0:16.3

Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last.

0:19.9

Hello everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:25.0

Today, it's me, Greg, and I have Jeff and Aaron here, and we're here to recap our coverage from the Seattle Classic, 2016.

0:34.7

Start off, I want to ask you guys what your overall impressions were from Seattle this year.

0:39.0

Jeff, I know you hadn't been to Sea Otter in over 12 years.

0:42.6

So how has it changed since we're there last?

0:45.9

Seater's grown up a lot in the last 12 years.

0:48.7

So the last time I was there, I was actually attending just as a, you know, consumer.

0:56.0

I was there with Leah, actually. She was racing in one of the cross-country races. So back then, you know, it seemed like the

1:01.5

exhibitor area wasn't nearly such a big deal. You know, it was a lot of like sort of small,

1:07.5

local retail type operations. You know, there were people selling like bike earrings and

1:13.6

key chains and stuff and like maybe there was like a t-shirt guy but really wasn't wasn't that

1:18.7

big deal that big of a deal and now it's really cool to see all the brands that come out and

1:23.5

you know really make it a huge show i mean it's so huge that as a a consumer, I don't even think you could do it in a day. You definitely couldn't see everything and talk to all the people that you would want to talk to. So, yeah, Ciotter's all grown up. What about you, Aaron? What were your thoughts? I'm wondering how Jeff didn't went 12 years without going to

1:45.1

Seattle. It was pretty impressive. I'm a big fan of Seater. It's kind of the kickoff to the season

1:50.9

here in North America. And it's just a really good time. There's a ton of companies out there

1:57.5

showing new stuff. And it's much better than uh inner bike in my opinion

2:02.6

it's it's like inner bike but it's outside and there's beer so um you know two two big

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