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Benji talks us through the new wireless Reverb dropper post from RockShox. And Hannah is feeling guilty that our April Fools story was perhaps just a bit too believable.
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[Music]
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hello welcome to this week's single
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track World Fresh Goods Friday podcast
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I'm managing editor Hannah Dobson and
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you are Benji howth what's my what's my
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name no what's my job technical editor
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okay and this week we have technical
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news don't we or do we what do you mean
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or do we oh God that was hilarious day
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it was it so as ever all my April fools
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uh like Black Mirror far too believable
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just make up some that the
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government is allegedly going to do um
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in this case it was
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legislating for removing ebikes from
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Bridal ways yep um and everybody fell
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for it sadly because it's exactly the
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sort of thing that might happen
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particularly if people who are riding
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eoto continue to ride otos in the manner
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in which they ride otos but e mountain
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bikers get blamed for it if if we do get
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banned they we'll all just we'll all
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just become like Mad Max to won't we
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just do whatever we want on
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anything do what thou Wilt that or will
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ironically only be allowed to ride at
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Trail centers which are also being
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basically defunded by the
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government yes don't be don't be allowed
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to ride
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anywhere are you a rebel no I'm a human
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who knows how to behave well well knows
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what's right and wrong so that's well
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that's the thing is that no nobody gets
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told how to behave well anymore in the
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countryside like it's it's not something
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that everyone like grows up learning so
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they don't know to take the rubbish home
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with them or shut Gates and stop sheep
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running away and that kind of thing like
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we who have always done this just know
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that but yeah it doesn't get taught so
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people don't know it and then they buy a
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mountain bike or an e- mountain bike
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and get hold off I don't think you can
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legislate for you know morality or right
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rules make any freaking difference told
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that it's still L cuz they're
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dicks maybe maybe or maybe they'd feel
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attached to the places that they're
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riding and realize that nobody's going
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to come up behind them and pick up the
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rubbish that kind of look at it from a
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Neo Marxist point of view where people
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are just so disinvested from their
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surroundings that why should theying
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care cuz they don't care about them yes
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exactly that's that's that's the state
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we're in yep course this is don't need
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more rules then do
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we no well I don't think we do need more
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rules I think we just need more more
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access people need to read more books
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and when I say books I mean fiction
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because that's where the real truth is
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people the real truth is in fiction and
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onwards from the quite well with that
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April Fool though didn't it yeah yeah
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like every everyone got fooled we
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probably need to like I don't know
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plaster something over it they gotcha or
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it's going to keep it's on the Internet
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it's going to keep rolling isn't it
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misinformation we've just added to it
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anything else mk's piping up now there
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enough clues in that story for people to
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work
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out well yeah but people don't
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read the story do they is total EV the
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people read the headline and then go oh
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sh yeah without reading the story God
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bless
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them anyway um is that the I don't know
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I see any good April fools I'm not that
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averse to them it was all like things I
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don't I'm totally not believable at all
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I saw one I saw one that was quite good
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that there's this guy that I follow on
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Instagram that makes stuff out of
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pallets pallet man uh oh it's called
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Jake I can't find him now now and he's
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he's probably called like Jake the
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pallet but he makes uh freshly jaked
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that's who he is actually Jak he's been
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building a SAA out of pallets all right
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yeah and um and so he was on Instagram
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announcing that actually he's not really
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living off grid cuz he's poor and making
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things out of pets cuz he's poor he was
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just a trust fund kid embracing the um
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the poor lifestyle so yeah good he was
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quite good I basically follow him for
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his political stuff alongside pet
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pet good
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poet new other news this this box that's
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in front of us should we move on from
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the politics of the world to should have
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a light in here shouldn't we open it oh
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hang on I could probably manage that
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look oo particularly great seems to be
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sh shining this way out the box don't
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it um
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I don't know now my battery will die
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yeah what is this you ask I've just
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opened it sorry oh yeah we should the
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rock sh box it says AXS on the outside
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okay for those listening with their ears
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this is like your Kryptonite now I
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noticed Luther opens that lead box I
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go now I should be wrapped in tin foil
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cuz things will start to malfunction
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when I go near so we have all cardboard
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packaging I like that oh yeah it is
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actually yeah yep full of heavy metal
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so we have uh Reverb Rock shocks Reverb
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XS I don't know they call it version two
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or anything it's just that name dropper
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post Wireless dropper post okay now is
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that my imagination or is the battery
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now on a different bit the battery and
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the actuator are now at the collar right
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rather than up near your saddle it does
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it's also the main thing I think is you
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can get him in longer than7 70 mil
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travel now okay this one's a 200 it's
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available if you probably purchased the
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wrong sized bicycle in a 250 mil drop as
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well really which this is quite a
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long the insertion isn't long that's one
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of the OD
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benefits that's not so bad that for a
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200 mil post but that to there okay so
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it we'll fit in more frames so it will
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go in a lot more without hitting a pivot
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bolt or things in this is like trying to
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describe a diagram um so the the upper
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part of the drop post is pretty much the
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same length as the lower part of the
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dropper post isn't it it's not the lower
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part is not a whole lot longer the lower
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part that goes inside your bicycle yeah
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is shorter than it has been before yeah
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but like it's this is longer than it's
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been before but not in necessarily a
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good way so you're going to have to have
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that that look how deep that color is
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Right compared to like a normal one so a
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previous color this one was only a
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little like a normal sized color and so
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you could shove your dropper post like
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all the way down and just have a little
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bit of colar sticking up and then you'd
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be all up and down post above it now
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you've got to add like an inch or so to
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for the color yeah so for example this
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is 200 mil and you need
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263 mil
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of space from your frame to your saddle
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rail okay so why have they moved the
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battery and actuator mechanism from the
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saddle clamp to the post because I think
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generally not being able to insert the
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post far into frames is more of a
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problem more
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frequently than the amount sticking out
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being too much
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Mak sense so it's big Brands it's
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decreased the length of the bit that you
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insert into the frame yeah right like
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you can put in a specialized basically
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and it won't foul the uh rocker pivot
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right I wonder if that collar is going
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to be slightly less exposed to all your
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filth than the underside of your saddle
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as well mes yeah Maes
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Maes oh someone told me what these
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little um you know these little Pokey
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things that have little Springs behind
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them the contacts little contact points
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yeah Pogo pins that what they're called
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that's what they're called not just from
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Rock
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shocks you encounter that it's a pogo
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pin I wonder whether you could also
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replace the upper part like the stanion
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and saddle clamp if you scratched it or
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something okay like at a lower cost
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maybe there's less less gobbin in there
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I wonder I don't know than having your
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electronics at the top under your saddle
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a bit more research which I might dig
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out this afternoon and or tomorrow M
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even though it's
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Friday okay find out how much is this
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normal clamp can one have like a side
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clamp and a worm screw for just in your
9:45
saddle that no one worked out and
9:46
everyone used to whack it wonder what
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was going wrong one reason why they
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stopped doing it problem okay how much
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is it
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53535 okay which is considerably less
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than they used to be I think there were
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700 quid but only slightly less than
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half the amount of the entire bicycle
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that I'm testing at the minute you don't
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have to purchase expensive items people
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you don't no there are 150 quid droppers
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out there mhm probably way less if you
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bother about that but this is infinite
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adjustment electronic upy Downy instant
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out theou a thumb bit quicker and not
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quite as laggy as the previous one it
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was pretty pretty good actually now we
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should talk about the actuator the
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paddle H thing yep mil not how much you
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you've been testing all the electronics
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recently for obvious reasons because I
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give off waves or something so I am not
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familiar with the latest iterations of
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actuators from Shams axis kit so is this
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is this the same as what we've seen
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before or is this new I think this is
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what we'll see oh moving forward okay I
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heard I felt your wi there yeah called
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pods and used to when they came out with
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the uh not so much the Reverb but um the
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uh transmission T type Zip Zap gears
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that was two separate buttons like
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little rubbery buttons yeah yes okay um
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the top of the Pod Gap and then one at
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the bottom and the first lot of access
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had more like a paddle thing but they
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were plasticky single piece rocker quite
11:30
big yeah this is kind of and this is
11:32
somewhere between the two really isn't
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it cuz it's SC down it's got the little
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sort of box shape bit like the pods do
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where it's like a separate kind of cube
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almost but then the paddle is it's a
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single piece paddle it's not single
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rubbery buttons
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correct with some tread and you can use
11:53
it from with your index fingers as well
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as your thumb from okay of the bar is
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mainly for gear reasons but you might
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find a who knows when I have a proper go
12:04
on it I might find myself operating my
12:06
uh dropo with my index
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finger well crazy things have happened
12:12
with your toes yep have a go attach it
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to your pedals and then you could you
12:16
could ride in some sandals and it with
12:19
your toes do that is that a bad idea I I
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think you should be very careful with it
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cuz I'm here and I'm giving off the
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waves I'm not I think it does just pull
12:28
let's before before you break that on
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that is available right now probably
12:34
right now yep okay a lot of SRAM
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launches this last week and this week I
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think at the end of them I think okay
12:41
right now we're going to take a
12:47
break okay we're back put the
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electronics down put them down before I
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I affect them what I intrigued about is
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how is that going to work with ebike
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how's that going to sit next to my ebike
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controls oh you this is your actuator
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okay it's have to be quite in board
13:08
isn't it I like a sweepy horizontal
13:10
droper lever I think they're going
13:13
to anyway okay other things that
13:18
happened this week did you find
13:21
something unpleasant inside a
13:23
bike oh storage
13:25
compartments um I can't occurred to me
13:28
that just don't use them which might
13:31
just be me I slightly avoid using them
13:36
having used one one time and like pulled
13:40
out the tool roll and like gagged on the
13:43
kind of
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moldy
13:47
cavey like what I imagine it might be
13:50
like if you go inside a tomb for the
13:53
first time in a thousand years yeah some
13:54
are better than others in terms of
13:56
weather ceiling that's what seems to be
13:57
getting better uhhuh but uh certain ones
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and maybe certainly older
14:03
ones um just let water in if you live in
14:07
a watery plan or sometimes things escape
14:11
from whatever bag you've got and then
14:14
you end up with something like yeah
14:17
rattling around inside your frame what's
14:20
okay so what would you put inside a
14:23
storage space or what what would make
14:25
you want one
14:27
t um tail lever with a tubus repair kit
14:32
and depending on the day either a
14:36
CO2 or a pump that fits that's good it's
14:41
quite rare to find a pump that fits
14:43
that's good in a storage area yeah my
14:48
problem is that you you put things in
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there and you forget about them because
14:52
you just want them to be there for when
14:53
you need them and then when you bring
14:55
them out they've grown mushrooms I I
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don't know cuz I'm not normal person cuz
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I'm not on the same back all the time so
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I generally don't use them for that
15:03
reason cuz I usually have a little
15:05
clutch purse ready to go got your little
15:08
night club in handbag yeah it fits
15:10
everything so I just keep things in
15:11
there how about how do you feel about
15:14
handlebar storage thingies or or um
15:18
bottom bracket storage thingies bottom
15:22
brackets go very rust prone tools that
15:25
go in there I find just I do like that
15:28
little that little purse where you put
15:30
everything and you transfer it around
15:32
you forgetting you've got it you can
15:33
take it off when you're washing the bike
15:35
and dry it out a bit and keeping eye on
15:37
things that are in there we're not the
15:39
target market cuz we ride lots of
15:41
different things yeah I think if I was
15:43
going to have stuffed a jacket in one I
15:49
think when I was amazingly too
15:52
hot over late winter that's about it
15:56
though really like where we going to put
15:57
this right shove it in there
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well in a couple of weeks I'm going to
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be riding with everything attached to my
16:05
bike I'm not entirely sure which bike
16:08
I'm going to be on yet but I'm pretty
16:10
sure it's not going to have any storage
16:12
unit unit things inside it so I'll be
16:16
going
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full luggage
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samite no all Le I will be covered in
16:23
cool and um so I apologize now that is
16:27
why the weather is going to going to be
16:29
in two weeks time is cuz that's
16:31
when I can go and sleep in ditch so you
16:34
just need to get a picture make sure the
16:36
picture's all right then you pack up and
16:38
you go into the Airbnb you've got never
16:41
worked in media before don't actually do
16:46
it I've still got to ride there with all
16:49
the stuff attached or just ride drive
16:52
along the nearest bit ride to the bit
16:54
where you pretended to ride take the
16:56
media get back in your car move
16:59
on I can't do authentic words well
17:03
you're next to be saying just use chat
17:05
GPT to here it for 24736
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3 no I will be authentically either
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suffering or you want to do it yeah I do
17:17
stoping then I do but in my mind it's
17:20
like the weather that it is just now
17:22
which is blue sky this is summer don't
17:25
we March April just nice and I'm going
17:29
to ride along and there's going to be a
17:31
church baked sale with amazing scon and
17:34
cream and jam that's that's how it is in
17:38
my mind we need some disasters though
17:39
don't we oh no one will read it I might
17:42
have a I might have a narrative in in
17:44
the words and voice of Alan Bennett as
17:48
well okay yeah cuz I'm going to ride
17:50
past his his house oh yeah is he still
17:53
alive yes go yeah say
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hello knows me
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but yeah so I'm hoping for like a little
18:02
Alan Bennett commentary talking
18:04
headstyle commentary as I go along
18:05
instead of an earworm cuz I had a
18:07
meatloaf earworm this week which was
18:09
terrible I've had that before my
18:12
9-year-old is singing I am the one and
18:14
only by Chesney Hawks oh God that's
18:16
pretty terrible for some reason that's
18:18
what the song is in choir or something
18:22
okay yep there you go have that one so
18:25
now we've just given you two potential
18:27
earworms uh drop us a note in the
18:30
comments the worst earworms that you've
18:32
had meatloaf is a recurring one for me
18:35
like a recurring nightmare it happens
18:37
there's something to do with the rhythm
18:39
of pedaling I would do anything for
18:44
love see it's it's going to be with me
18:46
again on my next ride not even the one
18:49
with share a it what was that one the
18:52
young share not that she was that young
18:54
at the time I don't know sh Forever
18:56
Young remember anyway it's not really an
18:59
earworm but I do have Chemical Brothers
19:02
Galvanize in my head almost every second
19:05
of every day that's headed on for 25
19:09
years
19:11
now you know what that is I I probably
19:14
would recognize
19:17
it I don't recognize it flipping drives
19:21
me
19:22
insane keep that one inside usually well
19:25
I'm going to leave you to ear worms
19:27
because next week I'm off and the
19:29
following week I'm going to be sleeping
19:32
in a ditch and then you have your laptop
19:35
with you though W you no no I won't and
19:38
the week after we'll be nearly time for
19:41
bespoked so I I will be at bespoked
19:44
Manchester at the end of April uh which
19:46
is the celebration of all things
19:50
handmade handmade bicycle parts oh you
19:54
like bar brith things like that no no
19:57
continuing the cake I'll be there Shan
19:59
taking a bicycle back to someone who'll
20:00
be there oh are you not permanently but
20:03
yeah I said I'd probably ride it down
20:05
for some LOLs ah well I'm I'm going to
20:08
be there just like hanging around and
20:10
interviewing people and stuff I'm not
20:11
going to be on a stall or anything this
20:13
year stall stand I've got church B Sal
20:17
stall that's definitely the I they've
20:20
done apocalypse this year but they
20:21
should do like like country fate that
20:24
would be pretty good yeah yeah like big
20:26
gingham tablecloths
20:29
well they do have a food Hall so it's
20:31
inside an old Victorian like swimming
20:34
pool Spa kind of complex so it's all
20:36
these different rooms and the main show
20:39
Hall things are former swimming pools
20:42
and um so you go down into the the drain
20:45
swimming pool when is that
20:47
26th that weekend of
20:50
April Andy uh and then they have a food
20:53
haul kind of thing in a bar and usually
20:56
some films and stuff on and
20:59
yeah and then like breakout rooms where
21:01
there's chats and presentations and
21:03
stuff like that snowed in the day after
21:08
why on a bik because it closes kind of
21:11
it in oh so you're going to we're back
21:14
to good behavior like we started with
21:17
look at that perfect for the M yes and
21:20
no the reason why you don't do snow them
21:23
in Maine because it's just traffic
21:26
rubbish isn't it so you don't want it do
21:28
it when they say you can't do it but but
21:31
it is a it is like a whole voluntary we
21:33
should explain to those who are maybe
21:35
not in the UK it's it's a really
21:39
longstanding voluntary agreement with
21:41
between mountain bikers and the world it
21:44
is but um between what what months is it
21:48
and what times is it we won't May to the
21:50
end of September I think and you have to
21:53
be off you're not allowed on it between
21:55
the hours of God is it 9:00 a.m. or
21:57
10:00 a.m. or something something like
21:59
that and 5:00 p.m. so you can do like an
22:02
evening raid or a dawn raid y um which
22:07
is quite yeah is possible in the summer
22:10
months because there's enough enough
22:12
daylight and then you can ride up and
22:14
down in the in the winter in the middle
22:16
of the day yeah and as the net curtain
22:18
Brigade live at the um cattle grid the
22:21
last cattle grid that you cross before
22:22
you go through the little gate do they
22:25
yeah oh that's the notebook
22:29
I think you're making things up now well
22:31
might be a little bit but it is it feels
22:34
like it's done fine it is a good example
22:37
of a voluntary agreement that has stood
22:39
the test of time and and somehow the
22:42
word has got out like I haven't
22:44
seen a load of complaints that you know
22:47
New Riders on ebikes or whatever are are
22:50
doing in the in the wrong time of day or
22:53
whatever yeah so interesting to see how
22:57
how that has come part of like mountain
23:00
biking accepted practice Yeah like be
23:03
nice say hi they just be up there
23:05
because but they'll just be
23:07
like they'll be up there at the same
23:09
time as the people who do it in
23:12
flipflops so the people who know
23:14
flip-flops don't even know not to wear
23:16
flip flops so they're not aware of the
23:17
law so probably they have no complaints
23:19
that are bikes there I don't think
23:20
there's a law saying you shouldn't climb
23:22
up Snowden in flip flops well there
23:24
should be
23:28
that will be next year's April
23:31
Fool okay thanks for being with us this
23:33
week I'll see you in a few weeks time
23:36
benjie and Mark will be holding the fort
23:39
and um yeah sorry about that yeah it'll
23:41
be fine it'll all be fine right I'm
23:43
going to go and recharge my post okay
23:46
bye bye
23:53
[Music]
24:01
poting it at you whoa what's that
24:04
do nothing it's a cir so I keep
24:08
forgetting I keep grabbing stills from
24:10
the thing let's my Reverb
24:14
in what are we doing busting the end of
24:17
my POS am I
24:21
going do that again but put your hands a
24:23
bit lower so I can see your face that's
24:25
it such so what you talking about sleep
24:27
scores sleep scores and what's yours
24:29
then
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82 what does that
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mean I'm reading careless people about
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thought it was about what's it called
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Andrew if I can get mine George Mara
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it's Kell's whisper all right yeah
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