What’s Grinding Our Gears and Stoking Our Spokes in 2019
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Mountain biking is riding a wave of popularity at the moment, and it’s a good time to be a rider. We’re seeing progression in everything from bikes and trails to racing, so we thought it would be helpful to give our take on some of the trends we’re tracking in 2019. Matt and Jeff discuss some of the positive trends we’re seeing, along with some of the potentially negative things that could affect mountain biking in the future. We also touch on some of the trends that we predict will fade this year.
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| 0:20.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | My name is Jeff, and today Matt and I are going to be talking about some of the things that are happening in the world of mountain biking this year. |
| 0:31.4 | So right now, mountain biking seems to be riding a wave of popularity, and it's a really good time to be a rider. |
| 0:38.0 | We're seeing progression on everything from bikes and trails to racing, and so we thought |
| 0:42.8 | it would be helpful to preview some of those trends that we're tracking in 2019 here on the |
| 0:48.0 | podcast. |
| 0:49.1 | So we used to have a segment called grinding our gears and stoking our spokes. And so we're going to try to |
| 0:55.6 | keep to that format. A lot of people really enjoyed that, but we had to stop that because it's |
| 1:01.0 | hard to come up with new stuff every week, honestly. But we can definitely think of some things |
| 1:05.6 | that are stoking our spokes for 2019. So let's start with that, Matt. What's one of the things that you're excited about |
| 1:12.0 | for this year? Well, we've been talking about it a lot over the past few months, and especially |
| 1:16.4 | once we got to interbiking, kind of saw a lot of this more affordable gear that's coming out, |
| 1:21.7 | just affordable everything, like affordable MIPP helmets, affordable apparel for for people so i think that's you know it's one |
| 1:29.3 | more barrier of entry that people get into mountain biking and then realize oh my gosh even the jerseys |
| 1:34.0 | costs like 80 dollars so yeah i think what's driving this too there's a lot of things actually i mean |
| 1:40.2 | one people have been saying this for years and they'll keep saying it even as things become more affordable. |
| 1:46.2 | But people say mountain biking is expensive, and a lot of these companies are hearing that, and they're finally doing something about it. |
| 1:52.6 | You also have the rise of NICA, I think, which is getting a lot of high schoolers involved. |
| 1:58.2 | And high schoolers, they themselves don't have any money. But even their parents are loath to, like, spend a lot of high schoolers involved and high schoolers, they themselves don't have any money, |
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