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Will Ski Bikes be accepted on the slopes by skiers and boarders?
Mountain bike tech from the Brighton Ski Bike Festival, Utah.
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a lot of excitement
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Brighton has been one of our longtime
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supporters going up in the old last year
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they've got some little ski bikes up on
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the wall we're doing the demo here today
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got a great turnout what's going on in
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the in the ski bike world is a lot of
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excitement we've been you know we felt a
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lot like snowboarding as a new sport
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back in the 70s and 80s I was around
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when snow morning was getting going and
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the ski resorts were they were kind of
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not sure what to think about snowboards
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but we've seen what's happened with that
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once we showed the skier is that we were
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safe we knew how to get on and off the
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lifts this is all translated in the ski
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biking ski biking has had this a similar
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reaction consumers love it but the skier
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is it's taken us a while to get them to
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realize that we're a part of their
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community and that we're safe and
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responsible and we're getting more and
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more people doing the sport
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the ski bike Association is something
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that we formed a few years ago to bring
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the manufacturers consumers to bring us
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together as a as an advocacy group to
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promote the support and help the ski
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areas bring ski biking to their world
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and you can see there's a lot of
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interest a lot of different bikes and
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another exciting thing is we've seen a
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lot of manufacturers kind of come and go
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in the sport and that's natural you get
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brands and pioneers that are
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experimenting doing different things
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we're seeing some staying power now
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we've got brands that have been around
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for a while that are getting known
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they're very competitive with each other
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there
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everybody's watching what everybody else
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is doing and but they're innovating and
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they the bikes keep on getting better
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and better every year and this year
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we're seeing companies that not only are
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they making better bikes but they're
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making extra skis so you can buy a ski
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bike and all of a sudden next year
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there's a powder ski that's available
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for their student ID so just another
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sign that's at the sports growing and
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normal people or getting interested in
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it we're excited to be here and excited
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to get the exposure and come on by and
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try ski bike so one of the things that
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we did is we want to make sure the
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center grabs excessive once you load the
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bike into the seat it takes up a minimal
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amount of seat space and then you'll
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notice where the shock mounts you know
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rear shock mount is we actually design
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that to emulate
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the chair and again as you can see your
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bike sitting there nice and stable in
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the seat next to you
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this is a prototype ski for us that
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we're gonna be manufacturing sell and
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they won't be on our stock bikes nice
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early riser great float on the Powder
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big wide tip when you put the two skis
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together what we're doing is creating a
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single earth ride so we've created one
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giant sidecut board carves like a Ginsu
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knife and has extreme float in the
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powder as well so we're really excited
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about this product u.s. made Liberator
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we couldn't just take a bicycle frame
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slap skis on it and send it down the
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mountain we had to design the frame from
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the ground up with geometries that were
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optimized for ski mounting had to get
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the pedals up off the ground we had to
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make sure that the skis could be
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securely mounted to the bike to maintain
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the performance when you're on on the
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runs
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