Why Aaron Gwin is a Threat Again & The Truth About Jackson Goldstone’s Speed

The Pinkbike Podcast

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4.6 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off a gruelling 20-plus hour travel day from Tasmania, Pinkbike’s own social media correspondent Dan Wolfe sits down with Matt Beer and me to deconstruct the 2026 edition of Red Bull Hardline Tasmania. While the finals were ultimately rained out, Dan provides some on-the-ground insights at the "new school" of freeride-DH builds, noting that the days of "bro-science" are over, replaced by precise measurements and "green-light" marshals.The crew dives into the technical nuances of hitting 70+ km/h features, why Aaron Gwin looked surprisingly dangerous on his new ride, and the rumours surrounding a potential 2026 Canadian stop at Cypress Mountain.Featuring a rotating cast of the editorial team and other guests, the Pinkbike podcast is a weekly update on all the latest stories from around the world of mountain biking, as well as some frank discussion about tech, racing, and everything in between.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another edition of the Pink Bike Podcast. My name is Tafan. I am joined by our
0:05.7	in-house downhill expert, Matt Beer, and very special guest, our social media correspondent,
0:13.3	extraordinaire Dan Wolfe, who's just at Red Bull Hardline. And yeah, that's going to be kind of the
0:18.8	focus of today's pod is Hardline. So welcome, Dan, to the show. How you doing? How was, I heard you had a hectic travel day. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, getting over there was hectic and getting home. It's, you know, when you live on the other side of the world, it's always going to be hectic. But it is what it is.
0:38.6	You just tell yourself that it's going to pass and you just get over it.
0:43.5	There's no direct flight from Ireland to Tasmania?
0:46.5	No.
0:47.5	I think it would be a solid 20-something hours if there was.
0:53.0	So yeah, there was one 14-hour flight in there. It was pretty
0:56.0	chunky. Yeah. What was the total flight time? Like 20 hours? So I had one eight hour,
1:06.2	one 14 hour, and then like the first one was probably a two hour. From Hobart to Melbourne, I think it was probably about two hours.
1:13.6	I don't know, I passed out on that one.
1:15.6	So that felt like, yeah, you're an airplane sleeper.
1:18.6	You can sleep on airplanes?
1:19.6	I can now.
1:21.6	I never used to be.
1:22.6	Like first time when I went over for the Rotor Real World Champs when I was a kid, whenever that was like
1:29.2	2006 or something, I didn't sleep the entire journey over. So that was even further.
1:38.3	Yeah, too excited, watched all Lord of the Rings, extended trilogy, didn't sleep, and then got there, got out the car.
1:46.3	Ten hours of movie.
1:48.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:48.2	Ten hours of Lord of the Rings.
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