We Discuss What to Expect From Sea Otter and Talk Horses for Courses
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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🗓️ 4 April 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In this episode of the Singletracks podcast we talk about what to expect from Sea Otter next week and discuss Greg’s opinion that mountain biking has an identity crisis. We also talk about John’s idea of finding the perfect bike for every trail… or is it the other way around? Plus: grinding gears and stoking spokes.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. 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. 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. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today it's me, Jeff, and I'm here with Aaron and |
| 0:26.6 | Greg, and today we're going to be talking about several topics that are trending in the |
| 0:30.8 | mountain bike world this week and this month. First off, we're going to talk about an article |
| 0:37.1 | that John shared with us a couple |
| 0:39.5 | weeks ago titled 10 Bikes for 10 Trails, where he talked about 10 different mountain bikes that he's |
| 0:46.0 | tested and sort of imagine which trails those bikes would be best suited for. So I wanted to talk |
| 0:52.6 | to you guys a little bit about that idea and see, |
| 0:56.0 | what do you guys think about that? Are there certain bikes that work well for certain trails? |
| 1:01.0 | Or does it go the other way around? Do people design the bikes to fit specific trails? What's your experience been with that? |
| 1:09.0 | I think both of those things, definitely. |
| 1:12.4 | Personally, in my experience, I see lots of bikes having an ideal use case |
| 1:17.9 | where there's one specific type of riding or one specific type of trail |
| 1:22.2 | that they might just be the best at. |
| 1:26.1 | So what's impressive to me is that John, you know, on these like outer bike |
| 1:30.3 | test loops, you know, got such a feel for a bike on that one test loop that he was like, oh, |
| 1:36.3 | I'm riding this bike in Moab, but it would be great in Minnesota, for instance. You know, |
| 1:40.5 | while for me, like, I have a harder time picking up on those nuances in like a five-mile ride. So I think like long-term reviews of bikes are still king. So if you can take a bike, test it on a bunch of different terrain. I think at the end of the test, you're like, I think this bike did the best at this specific type of riding and this specific type of terrain. |
| 2:07.3 | But at the same time, I do think, you know, so the bikes can be particularly suited for a type of terrain that could be because the company designed it for a specific type of terrain too. |
| 2:12.8 | I totally got that feel riding the Santa Cruz Bronson on the local Santa Cruz trails with guys |
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