All right. Welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. You're back with myself, Mike Casmer, Dario de Julio, and Stefan Pelletier here at the crew. Last week was a little bit deviation from the norm. We had the interview with Seth from Seth's bike hacks, but today's kind of a regular one, although we have another cool interview with Christopher Blevins coming up. So I want to go through the news and show and tell and all that, but stay tuned because Christopher Bladens has some cool things to say, including about why becoming a Zen monk. Well, yeah, cool up races, apparently. So, yeah, cool stuff there. But, yeah, first we'll still catching up. Stefan, I saw you at Reese Wallace's, I don't know, what's he called he called backyard jam is that what it's called the the Reese Wilson

Invitational yeah Reese Wilson

Invitational baby no uh champ puts on stop style

our our Willie's invitational uh yeah

Reese Reese Reese Wallace Invitational's invitational it's just like an hour down the road

from me and uh I grew up in Calgary with Reese so went and checked it out and

yeah it was pretty

rad. I, uh, I haven't, I just went to hang out and then Reese was like, no, you got to ride. So I

did a bit of riding and rode in the whip off, which was sweet. And, and then watched a bunch of

like 17 year old kids in extremely baggy shorts, uh, just absolutely throwing down. So it was really cool. There

was a lot of like young, young rippers out there. Yeah, super fun. That's cool. It seems like

it's got to be kind of hard. There's not really a good feeder series to go to, you know,

there's not like there's a smaller events and then there's really big events. There's not a lot

of medium-sized events, it feels like. Yeah, especially out here, I think. I think there's not like there's a smaller events and then there's really big events there's not a lot of medium size events it feels like yeah especially out here I think I

think there's more kind of like fest type stuff in Europe and other places but I think that like

Reese was talking to me about it and I think it's like one of the only or maybe the only free ride

event in Canada.

And it's super like, I mean,

it's,

it's cool. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's not really like a set format where people are doing like judge runs. I mean, there was money being given out for best trick and best whip. But it's, it's a lot of like just the guys riding together, hanging out and super casual feel it's it's it's it's a cool event like

if if you're in the area and assuming he does it next year uh it's a it's a cool one to check out and yeah

does money for the whip off sorry crankworks does for sure yeah yeah but i don't think there's

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