Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Pink Bike Podcast.

I'm Mike Casmer, and I'm joined today by Stefan Pelletier and Matt Beer. Hello, everybody. Hello. There's no Dario. There's no Dario loves Siaudor so much that he goes down like a month ahead of time. He's like the guy that camps out in the parking lot with a tent and just waits. And so that's where Dario is right now. He's probably outside the gates of Laguna Seca Raceway,

just waiting for it to start.

Doing on the ground reporting of all the people showing up with big RVs and

setting up shop for the week.

Yeah, you can get like first looks of booth set up.

He's there to like really document it.

To be fair, that would be pretty cool. I do, like, actually, none of them are crazy there. They're all just regular tents kind of thing, but some of the, like, it would be very cool. I'm thinking, like, World Cup, some of the pits there are pretty wild. That'd be cool to see them set those up. Or F1, obviously.

Okay, there's our F1 reference done and busted. Yeah, check. But yeah, by that time people are listening to this, it'll be Thursday, and so that's the first official day of C. Otter. So we're going to be, you know, all the kinds of first looks and just all the stuff will start dumping out. but the whole week's going to be really busy because obviously kind of like last week's podcast,

this is the time of the year where companies want everybody to get excited about biking in springtime, trails are drying out, they want to sell new product. So they launch them all, sometimes all at the same time, as we saw last week. I know you guys talked about the Avanox, the title wave of Avanox bikes.

And we're not going to talk too much about e-bikes on this podcast today.

But that was a big day.

It's worth noting that we were also like, what the heck is going on when 11 bikes launched.

And obviously every brand wants a bit of, you know, a piece.

They're all competing to basically for for your money, hopefully, for them. But, yeah, it's tough. You want to cover every bike to some degree, but also it's like, holy crap, this is insane amount of e-bikes in one day. Yeah, like the smart companies probably wait until next week. You know, if you wait until after Seattle, after all the bikes launched, but then again,

you know, or the Mondraker.

The Mondraker.

Yeah.

Yeah. What was your guys's favorite if we want to just like quick? Actually, let's not do that. No, we're not going to do that. I don't like, I mean, e-bikes are fine, but I've been so into not riding e-bikes lately that I've just been loving non-ebikes. I always have, obviously, but like now it feels like it's, as more come out, I'm just like, I'm just not going to ride as many. I don't know why, but I mean, I don't know. I still love my endurro bike. Yeah, that's what I mean. We'll talk about it soon, like that new nomad that I have, it's been so fun. And it's not like it, yeah, I don't know. But when I'm faced with the choice, I've just been grabbing that bike more often than the e-bike that sits right next to it. So it's good. It's pedal season. Yeah. I guess we could start. there's so much stuff's coming out. We could start with,

I can talk about the nomad a little bit since that is, that came out on Tuesday. Yeah. Fresh

nomad. Yeah, because Matt, you've been riding the previous gen. They're up, they're up to generation

six of the nomad. No, seven. This is gen seven, which is kind of crazy since 2000, early 2000s they started. Is it still regular VPP, like same sort of look as before? They didn't go four bar. It looks like a Bronson, basically. The frame shape is real similar to the Bronson. And even with the suspension, they tried to make it close to what they did with the Bronson, so they lowered the anti-squat a little bit um they lowered the

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