Welcome to the Pink Bike Podcast. We're back again after an exciting, another exciting weekend of racing world champs. We have more world champs on the way. Bring me talking about some racing. We got some bike discussions, some reader questions, all that stuff. We've got Dario with me and Matt Beer. Good morning. Hi. Hello. Both watch the race, I assume. assume yeah world champs is always annoying trying to

figure out how to watch it i feel like i get the other races dialed and then the night before

world champs i was like oh i have to do some weird stuff to figure it out yeah and it's i wish they could

i don't know that selling the having the different rights and the fact that's a whole different thing

it's very confusing to me.

Yeah.

And it's like, I would say it, if anything, it reminds you that like the general World

Cup program has gotten pretty dialed in terms of like how the camera angles work and

the coverage generally and the commentary.

Like it all feels a little, a little bit worse with the world champs. Yeah. Who is, I don't know. I guess it depends which country you're watching from, but the one that I watched had at Needles underneath Lane, which he is, I would say he's a good commentator. And then there was some other British person speaking. Do you know who that was? I don't know who that was.

No.

He was a good.

Niels was fine.

I think he like, he knew a lot about some people and then was, would just talk about like the concept of mountain biking during other people's runs.

And like, that's fine.

Like you got to fill the airspace. Yeah, the other guy seemed like he was, oh, sorry. Yeah, I think the other guy seemed like he was good at presenting, like his, he was able to keep talking. But I didn't know what he was talking about because he would just talk about numbers. He would just say, after checkpoint one comes checkpoint two, and then comes checkpoint three, and then comes checkpoint four you like yeah i know that

what do you yeah he was leaning pretty heavily on the on the splits and stuff but yeah did you

how are your commentators matt did you listen yeah i had the same uh yeah okay i thought needles did a great

job kind of insightful to like how the track was changing and sort of what rider was doing each event or like, you know, how they were making out through the season and building up to world champs and gave some good background.

And then the other guy was okay, more of like a, you know, all encompassingcompassing general mountain bike banter, mostly, yeah,

talking about the timing. But it is, it is funny that, yeah, they can't sort of orchestrate

everything to go under one coverage house for the entire season, considering it's still like

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