Does the Pacific Northwest Ruin Bike Reviews? - The Pinkbike Podcast

Kaz, Dario, Sarah, and Henry bring you this week's Show & Tells, review reflections, and listener questions.
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[@corygraeme]

The Scuvers seat covers also have an easy-to-use plastic clip that allows you to remove the seat cover from the headrest attachment so you can shake out/rinse/wash the cover without having to go through un-velcroing from headrests that can sometimes be in tight spaces.

[@ref498]

What a horrible surprise to hear my own voice on the podcast, but thank you for the answer! And my apologies Dario, I will make the sound next time.

[@aaronashear3002]

I love the nature of the question. A couple years ago, I rode my Transition Patrol in North Bend, WA, and expressed to a friend how incredible it was to be on a bike that was tested and developed in the PNW, and how much the bike "came alive". Maybe that's the case. Maybe it's just how picture perfect the quality of the trail planning, building, and maintenance is. We sure don't have dirt like that in south east Wyoming.

[@tybronder172]

Yes, I would agree with this. I live in southeast wyoming and ride primarily a forbidden dreadnought. I does great on the gnarlier stuff we have here and in colorado at some of the bigger bike parks there but felt completely different when I went on a trip to Washington and Canada, the bike really felt great on the rooty terrain where as yetis that I have tried in the colorado area seem to feel a bit better in some of the rocky, loose steeps of left hand canyon or horsetooth. I think this could come down to bike set up though

[@TheOtherPlayer]

Guessing this is a reupload to fix the audio issue but to comment again an important thing. Henry I beg you to get an actual respirator and some skin protection for grinding carbon down. The particles are so small from it that they fully embed themselves in your skin, and in your lungs there is no system to cycle them out. I think the last thing you want is having to get your lungs drained from infection or having cancerous growths from too much inorganic particle inhalation.

[@chimps4gimps]

What’s the bumbling equivalent of an engineer? 🤔

[@LawrenceMacMacster]

No worries they can clone Henry at will in their secret lab built in the mountain.

[@petewill87]

Yes, with your recent trail field back test I think the Ibis Ripmo and Mayhem 140 would have been at the top of your lists if it were ridden in the rocky mountain regions like Colorado/Wyoming/Utah. It would be cool if you guys did a big bike tests where you go to two different regions to test the bikes

[@ish474]

Dario as a fellow glasses wearer fan goggles are game changers

[@claritean]

canecreek so underrated. also here in eu they generally same € as fox, no brainer

[@monkeyman8644]

These should be added to the podcast tab on your channel! It looks like only a couple random ones are on there now.

[@jom23495]

What an awesome podcast. I love the pure chaos on the 21 questions and Henrys sketchy carbon frame story

[@lonewanderer2287]

Ruin? No. Influence, yes. Would you rather buy a car tested on the Nurburgring or an oval dirt track in norther Florida?

[@ShadLife]

🤣 Not all that surprised this topic has come up.

[@juliusyap8189]

Off topic question How is Alicia ? Will we see her in future videos?

[@LawrenceMacMacster]

I'd be curious but not asking anything, I had a similar injury in my 20's it's a very long path to recovery. I wish her all the strength she needs 🤞

[@Dream-season]

Get taj back on the pod!!

[@ish474]

What's a warranty??? I would easily pay 900 for that shock if it works but at that price it won't get used buy enough people to get a consensus

[@Cinnabuns2009]

Can't one just take a Norco Range or ANY longer travel/high pivot/DH bike whatever and put a Live Valve Neo on it and it will pedal like a hard tail and descend like a limo?

[@LawrenceMacMacster]

Assuming you believe the marketing 😂

[@1jcitizen]

Im famous

[@1jcitizen]

Just for the record, the comment was less about using powder skis for powder, vs being a rider in a place dominated by steep pow lines having a different outlook on riding altogether. If I live in Ohio, I"m not phoning my buddy Squamish to ask about the best trail bikes for my trails, I'd probably ask people who ride near me as there are regional nuances and I think people who ride more extreme trails tend to look at riding through that lens more. All this comes from the use of the word 'trail', which I think has become very vague, especially since they started using that dang down country phrase. Now that I live out west, I don't want to use a trail bike on easy trails, because I wanna maximize the fun of 10% of the ride, and this approach to riding only came about living in mountains. The previous years (decades) I focused far more on the pedalling aspect of the ride, cause of my easter bias, :) and I was willing to suffer some compromise on the downs for the sake of the rest of the ride, which made of the majority of the time spent in the saddle.

[@madtownangler]

Nothing cooler than riding bicycles around with a bunch of dudes in skin tight clothing LOL. Can you tell that I always ride my bike by myself?

[@savageferria505]

The absolute worst way to start a podcast