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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

My name is Jeff, and today Aaron and I are going to be talking about mountain bike stiffness.

One of the reasons that I wanted to talk about this is because it seems like these days that

mountain bike companies are super obsessed with making everything on the bike more

stiff. We've seen in just the last couple years all kinds of innovations like Boost 148, which

was done supposedly to improve stiffness of wheels. You're seeing 35 millimeter handlebars

and stems coming onto the market, wider rims

and carbon frames, including like the new epic hardtail from Specialized that's supposedly one of

the stiffest and lightest frames that they've ever built. But all those stiffness innovations

might seem sort of like a paradox since mountain bikes have suspension that

seemingly make them feel less stiff. So how do we resolve that? Is stiffness and suspension?

How are those two related? They're related, but they're definitely different things. You know,

suspension is used to soften impacts as well as, you know, increase your traction, among other things. You, you know, suspension is used to soften impacts as well as, you know,

increase your traction among other things. So you actually want your individual suspension components

to be stiff because then that allows them to work properly. So yeah, it's, they're interrelated,

but different things for sure. Right. Makes sense. So what yeah, they're interrelated, but different things for sure.

Right.

Makes sense.

So what exactly are we talking about when we say stiffness?

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