Singletracks MTB News Podcast: Episode 0
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Here at Singletracks we’re always interested in trying new things, from all-wheel drive mountain bikes to fat bikes to yes, even electric mountain bikes. In that same spirit, today we’re posting our first podcast to explore a new way of sharing MTB news. The inaugural episode catches listeners up on articles published this week including information on the massive QR recall, a review of Niner’s brand new RKT mountain bike, and an MTB race report from Alaska.
We’re starting simple so we can learn as much as possible, and we’ll be tweaking and experimenting over the next couple weeks to see how it all works. If this seems like something you’d be interested in listening to on a regular basis, hit us up in the comments to show your support and let us know how you plan to listen to it! As we (hopefully) gain listeners, we’ll be able to devote more resources to improving and expanding the podcast.
Maybe one day we can even afford a more talented narrator than yours truly. 🙂
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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. |
| 0:22.5 | Hey everybody, it's Jeff from Single Tracks. |
| 0:25.5 | Today is October 1st, and this is podcast number one. |
| 0:29.1 | Today we've got three articles, and the first one is about a huge product recall, |
| 0:34.0 | affecting 1.5 million mountain bikes from 17 different brands due to quick release issues. |
| 0:40.8 | So 17 mountain bike brands are voluntarily recalling 1.5 million mountain bikes with quick release |
| 0:46.7 | levers. In these 1.5 million bikes, the quick release can actually open more than 180 |
| 0:53.2 | degrees, thereby getting caught in the disc brake rotor. |
| 0:57.0 | While obviously a bike should never be ridden with the QR open, some of us have actually had quick release levers work themselves loose on extremely rough extended descents. |
| 1:08.0 | And according to the press release on quick release recall.com, a rider should |
| 1:12.7 | check the website to see if his or her bike is part of the recall. A rider with a bike that is |
| 1:18.2 | subject to the recall should stop riding the bike and take it to the dealer to have the dealer |
| 1:22.5 | install a new quick release. In many cases, the replacement can be accomplished in as quick as |
| 1:27.1 | five minutes. |
| 1:28.3 | This recall effects mountain bikes sold from 1998 to 2015, so almost 20 years of bikes. |
| 1:34.3 | And these quick release levers are typically going to be silver or black. So how to determine |
| 1:39.3 | if your bike is affected? We have some diagrams on singletracks.com, but basically if you open the quick release, |
| 1:45.5 | completely flip it back 180 degrees, if it's within the width of a pencil, a regular number |
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