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For mountain bikers all over the world, Moab is Mecca. But for our Tech Editor Wil, he'd never visited before...
...until now!
Join Wil in the first instalment of this three part series, where he break's his Moab virginity during a Pivot Cycles launch for the new Firebird 29 and Trail 429.
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my name's will and I'm the technical
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editor of single track magazine and
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single track WorldCom and for this
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episode I'm going to be taking you
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backstage on a pivot cycles launch we're
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going to be going to a place that you
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may have heard of before
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it's called Moab now I've been riding
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mountain bikes for over 20 years now and
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I've ridden in some fantastic locations
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all over the world but I've never ever
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been to Moab the launch itself will be
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for a new pivot cycles model right now
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I've got no idea what that bike is going
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to be my guess is it's possibly going to
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be a new muck for 2/9 rail because that
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model is a couple of years old and we
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are going to be riding doing trail
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riding so that's my guess but I will
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find out later today I'm heading back to
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the airport now
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to meet a bunch of other journalists
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there's about a dozen or so of us and we
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are going to be picked up by Chris Cook
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Carlos the CEO of pivot cycles and we're
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going to be driving just under two hours
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over the border into Utah to get to Moab
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this afternoon we'll be checking out the
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bikes and for the next two days we will
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be riding the bike on various trails
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including so I'm told
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mag-7 portal and porcupine rim these are
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names I've heard of before but I've
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never ridden the trails before so I just
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quietly pretty excited very very excited
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about getting the chance to ride these
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trails and also to check out this new
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pivot cycles bike whatever that might be
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right I'm gonna head to the airport now
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meet the rest of the crew and head over
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ladies yeah this guy again the solitary
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he also started a Jew
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genuinely watch best trick to a virgin
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same with McGuigan the us he lives in
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this country what the hell you guys
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should be part of fisting my moab cherry
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you're in for a treat we'll really yes
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what's the best thing about Moab the
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rocks are very soft that's why they call
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them stone it's kind of pillowy oh that
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sounds lovely
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yeah it's lovely if you if you see a
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sign that says get off your bike people
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have died here it's generally good idea
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I'll be doing that rail tomorrow so when
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it fell off your bike
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Walker bike it's genuinely useful at
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5:00 yes lucky I have travel insurance
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by the American healthcare system we'll
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take care of everything
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I've heard it's flawless
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right so we've just arrived in Moab here
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we are
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Sunday afternoon this Sun is sort of
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shining don't really care because we
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remove hey is that the Kevin - shoot
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don't mind that what do you mean don't
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mind that that everyone's gonna be
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riding this is Kevin say hello hello
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this is Chris say hello hello you're
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gonna help set us up on some bicycles
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that's right
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you look kind of busy though alright so
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this is my rig huh
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thankfully right hand leads towards the
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front brake excellent how do they do
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that if you guys think of everything no
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way it's almost like you care for my
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well-being yeah there we go there's my
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name with an extra L and everything
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lucky you're gonna reach down there and
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then he's gonna get off yeah this is
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like Patrick Swayze and ghost
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it's gonna be a great video Japanese
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dudes just checking settings on the 49th
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rail yes so basically riding this bike
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just to get suspension settings dialed
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in we're riding we're not writing till
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tomorrow morning but we've got this
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evening to kind of check settings get
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tire pressures ride a fork and shop
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pressures and basically just to make
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sure the bikes riding properly so yeah
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good test ride I mean I probably pretty
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much just drink for the rest I know
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everything there is to know about this
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bike
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well oh well there you go there's your
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review done right so here we go new
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trail 4 to 9 from pivot yay
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you 29er it's been boosted with 120
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millimeters of travel got 130 ml travel
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fork on the front as you can tell
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there's also 27.5 + compatibility so
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loads of clearance in the backend there
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very nice-looking bike so so my guess
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was correct
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it is indeed the new version of the Mach
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49 trail it has been renamed it is now
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called the trail 4 to 9 and this is the
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bike we'll be riding for the next two
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days in Moab just getting it set up
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getting everything tweaked on here we've
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also had a few different grips to try
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out from WTV different thicknesses and
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diameters so I'm going with a nice thin
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padlock grip here so the 28 millimeters
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for my tiny little man hands yeah just
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making sure the dropper post leave is in
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the right spot the angle and the brake
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levers the roll and the handlebars so
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yeah just kind of getting it all dialed
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in really but yes so far feeling good
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this helps there's a nice little
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suspension setup guide here so once you
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sit on the bike and you set your sag
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with the o-ring here this little guide
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will tell you if you're about right so
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that's making things easier got a few
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more tweaks to make then we're gonna
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have dinner and then tomorrow we ride in
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Moab and I cannot wait I'm so so excited
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if you can see around me lovely blue
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skies there a few clouds but some
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sunshine red rock behind me there cannot
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wait to get out there tomorrow
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right oh so that's dinner done we have
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set up our bikes we've had a good look
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at the new trail 49 we're gonna get up
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very early tomorrow morning in order to
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ride bikes first shuttle as it's 7:00
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a.m. get some breakfast and coffee into
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us and then we'll get out there on the
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trails but just well I got you now check
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this that blue this beautiful sunset we
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have here on this red Utah rock there's
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very very Moab apparently the trails
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we're going to be riding tomorrow are
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gonna have some incredible views so very
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excited not only for the riding not only
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to check out the new bike but also just
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to see this beautiful landscape so very
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excited get up early in the morning go
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ride some bikes I'll bring you along and
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we'll take you out on the trail to check
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how this new pivot trail 49 all right
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