All right. Welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. We're back. We had a little bit of a vacation, a little break. We all rode some bikes and Matt continued his PT and his quest to become the strongest, fastest recovering person ever.

I thought we were doing pretty good there for a while, but some home renaos slash interior painting just kind of put a lot of weight on my knee

or the weekend i did not jump off the ladder i was very careful moving around with paint but uh

yeah just too much time on the on the on the on the on the on the knee i think was flaring it up so

damn yeah we're we're back in elevation mode here but everything's good moving forward we'll get you there. We got time. We're rebuilding. We're rebuilding that. Get all the 2026. Yeah, exactly. It's coming in strong. Yeah, it is 2026. And we'll be talking about some predictions today since we all had our predictions articles that went up over the, over the holidays, kind of see, see how much we believe what we actually

wrote. Yeah, what could be coming down the pipeline?

We should start.

Big wheels.

Big wheels are coming.

The enforcement, yeah.

Again.

Everyone's addiction in some way or another.

And Jesse may had an article today, or a couple days ago by the time you listened to, where she talked to some of the top cross-country racers just to see their thoughts on the big wheels. Some of them seem pretty inviolent. Some are excited and some haven't even really tried them yet. But the one person had a response that I hadn't even thought about is bike bags and boxes have to get bigger. I know. I actually, yeah. That's so annoying. If you have to travel with your bike, those bike bags are expensive and you are. And imagine the size of a 32 inch evoc. Like, that's a huge bag already and it's going to get absurd. Like, I know, they already love to get you with oversized baggage fees. They're going to get destroyed this year. though i think it's a reason enough that I mean, I don't even know. It's not reason enough, I guess, to not buy a bike. But that's a really annoying, like, side effect of the larger wheels. I guess, like, the odds of flying with an XC bike for me are pretty low. But, you know, if and when it bridges beyond X-C, then we're boned.

I want to see you driving around on the top of your Honda fit, 32-inch wheel bike on top of

Honda Fit.

I bet odds are high that you see that this year.

Yeah, I bet.

Yeah.

My one-up rack just maxed out, like, fully splayed open. Yeah. But we'll see. Like, get across breeze and just getting blown across down. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think they'll fit on the Whistler chairlift either. Yeah, we're back to the, even on the hook, they're probably going to drag. Mm-hmm. It's true. Yeah. All these little things that, yeah, we'll have to be considered. I bet you we'll get some in to actually ride, but that'll be, well, we have some predictions in our, or some talk about wheel size and our predictions. But let's start with a little show and tell, just since we had a few weeks away from the regular sort of casual podcast. You have some cool

stuff in, Dario? I know you've been running some different bikes lately. Yeah, I'm continuing the

weird big bike trend that seems to have kind of defined my Q4 of 2025. Big bikes from small builders.

Yeah, exactly. Big bikes from small builders. Yeah, exactly. Big bikes from small builders.

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