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The bike biz is a great business to be in! It is also a job at the end of the day. Not everyday is drinking beers and riding bikes with badass industry folks. Some days are spreadsheets, negotiating pricing like a car deal or spending hours upon hours driving or standing in a tradeshow booth. But when you get those days of riding bikes and hanging with cool people talking bikes, it is more than worth it. While in the bike business I've never had a meeting with the Bob's or had to hide my stapler. Pick the right brand...

Yes, I make significantly more money doing software engineering, but man its hard to get passionate about getting up every day and writing software that processes credit cards.

Traveling is one of the biggest perks for me. I personally love being in Taiwan and it’s a good jumping off point for exploring more of that side of the world. The actual flying part sucks but being there is awesome.

High end prices keep climbing, but the mid range has never been stronger. Shed a few bells and whistles and you can get a lot of bike for the money. Take the New Bronson for example. You can save $3100 off the price of the top end build by getting the S build. You get mechanical GX Eagle which is totally serviceable. You get a Performance shock that can be upgraded to performance elite with a $30 part. You get a performance fork that you could drop a damper upgrade in. And you get aluminum wheels with a lifetime warranty...

Fun fact it’s actually illegal to ride clips on any of his trails. You go straight to jail

It’s just all off camber decreasing radius corners covered in moon dust. Only he can ride them well. Haha

The first Monster T was a based on a Marzocchi trials fork.

Speaking of Moto suspension on MTB's... Yamaha had some very trick looking KYB suspension on their EMTB at the Japan Mobility Show in 2023. I think I'll pass on the EPS power steering though.

There should be a law that once a product is EOL and is not supported anymore, the specs for the spare parts should be freely published. Including, for example, the dimensions of frame parts to be able to either weld up cracked parts to correct dimensions or have someone be able to recreate things. Right to repair really can't come quickly enough.

Once again BOS is intentionally choosing a pointless stanchion size for the sole purpose of fucking up the few customers who were willing to give them a shot and try something new when BOS inevitably folds the MTB side of the business.. There's several options on the market from seemingly stable, boutique suspension manufacturers, whether it's just dampers or full forks/shocks. I don't know why you'd pick the one that launches a product on a Monday and ceases to support it by Thursday, but instead of choosing something like a 35, 36 or 38mm stanchion on the forks which would...

nope. we have XTR and Deore 4 pots in whistler right now.

I can't help but feel like the travel creep phenomenon is similar to how trucks keep getting larger and larger bonnets and looking more ridiculous, while the trays slowly shrink at the back. Wonder if brands will ever have to do a reset and move the travel back down, or just insert a new name into the 130-140 and eventually the high tower just becomes the DH bike

Hey guys, a few people have asked why we took the pod down for a bit over the weekend. Quick explanation… I want to give everyone on the pod a platform to speak candidly. With this episode we were up against it, we only recorded on Friday morning & I knew Singletrack were publishing on Friday evening, so we rushed it out & Jack, Emilie & Joe didn’t get a chance to listen back to it until it was live. On reflection there were a couple of bits where people wished they’d phrased things differently. I was racing at the...

Yokes and yolks. Thanks for the yuks.

if "several" means "two, but realistically 1.5 b/c one of the two may not even get DH approved."

Hold up… You carry a spare derailleur when you ride?!? Are your trails on Mount Doom or something?