The Pinkbike Podcast

Plus more racing chat, reader questions, and Dario's Optic vs Tallboy match-up.

A rambling conversation about everything from Eurobike to South Korean pansori pop.

Vali Höll on not getting paid by YT, rider safety at World Cups, the bright future of women's downhill racing, and so much more

Just a few little topics that definitely won't get anyone riled up.

Dan Wolfe joins us on this episode to provide behind-the-scenes insight from the Leogang World Cup.

The bigger the pants the bigger the tricks.

All sorts of things to talk about this week, everything from Asa Vermette's crash to Bruce Springsteen.

Nick Lester is a certified bike nerd, in the best way possible. Listen as he describes his findings after spending over 6 years digging into the science of MTB data acquisition.

Our picks for the Loudenvielle DH World Cup, a round of show & tell, plus some more reader questions.

We go over our findings from the most recent round of value bike testing in Sedona, Arizona.

Three time Olympian and six time Dutch National XCO Champion, Anne Terpstra, shares her insights on racing in challenging conditions, her transition to a new team, and her thoughts on future bike technology and courses.

Kazimer was getting over jet lag, and Dario has a cold, so this one is a little shorter than usual. We'll be back next week with a longer episode and a deeper dive into the reader question inbox.

Hattie shares her journey through injury rehab, her bike setup changes, and her recent success in downhill racing, offering insights into adaptation, training, and mental resilience.

This week on the Pinkbike podcast, we dive into the season's first World Cup in South Korea, where loose, sandy soil and questionable track builds created a "recipe for disaster." The drama peaked when a dangerous feature was closed mid-race after Lou Ferguson’s crash, leading to confusion from off-site commentators. We also witnessed the bizarre saga of "Hardtail Man," a Polish rider on a dual-cr...

Are bigger wheels actually faster, or just scarier? Matt Beer decided to find out.

Dario and Stephane go over their Sea Otter higlights, and then Kaz and Dario dig into some questions.

So. Many. New. Things. Plus some reader questions, and some music listening homework.

Sea Otter season is officially here, and the gear is dropping fast. This week, Stephane Pelletier, Dario DiGiulio, and Matt Beer share first-ride impressions of the redesigned RockShox Zeb and Lyrik forks, alongside the updated Super Deluxe and Vivid shocks. But the real shocker? The "Avinox Arms Race." The team grapples with the 2026 power shift as a laundry list of new bikes hit the market featu...

Spring is here, which means there's a whole bunch of new MTB gear being released almost every day.

Phew, brake week is finally over, but we decided to take a deeper dive into the testing and the results.

Getting three companies to work on one bike isn't as easy as it should be, but Orbea, TQ, and Fox pulled it off with the new Rallon RS.

We sat down with Microshift's Gus Jeffer and Patrick Chen to learn more about what it takes to navigate patents, and to carve out a place in the competitive drivetrain market.

We're less than two months out from Sea Otter, and the floodgates have started to open, with all sorts of new product launches happening this week.

A look inside Faction Bike Studios, the small Quebec company helping develop some of the most exciting bikes on the market.