Welcome back to the Second The Tips Podcast, everybody. The week of February 22nd. We've got a whole bunch of good stuff to talk about today. We're going to talk about some of the

racing over the weekend, some crazy echelons at the UAE

tour, some climbs at the Tour de Alp Meritim A Duvar.

That's quite a long race name.

We're going to talk about Tio Gaginhart's pretty spectacular

initiative and a well, I think it's safe to say, disappointing decision about Patrick Van Ganson, who was accused

of abusing his riders early in the year. We'll get into that a little bit later.

We're also going to hear from Nelson Vale's about, well, a whole bunch of different

things and in today's nerd nuggets, the new nerd alert, we're talking about SRAM's purchase of Time Petals, which includes the road, mountain bike, and all related components and what we think that might mean.

We've got the usual crew with us here today. Hello James, you have a lovely

Google Meat background of some sort of green fish situation happening? You kind of ruined it,

Kayle. I mean I was hoping later on when we

record the video part of this that people are actually going to think that's my real wallpaper.

I thought it was for a little bit.

Shoddy Dave, you have 1.2 headphones going on. No. Point 2

headphones going on at the moment. Yeah floppy had literally broke about 30

seconds before I wandered in here.

I'm all upset and my fancy ones as well.

Noise cancelling.

So at least I can hear out of one ear now, have noise cancellation out of me if I'm

sad. Abby in your beautiful flower chair again.

My grandma chair from Ia indeed. Yep exactly.

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