Simon welcomes guest co-host Mike Ferrentino to go over a busy, weird month in the bike world. Of course, they have to talk about what happened to Kona, which leads to a discussion about the negative effect Venture capital and investment companies seem to have on the bike industry. But there’s also fun stuff going on with companies like Gates, and Mike places a bet with eating his microphone as the stakes. Plus they get into the incredible start to the XC World Cup season for U.S. athletes, the new Canyon lightweight eMTB, the scourge of poison oak, and, naturally, some discussion of zombies.

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TOPICS & TIMES:

What's going on with Kona? (0:41)

Enve is being sold again (9:25)

Rapha closed their U.S. office (14:42)

The Mountain Bike capital of the world (18:03)

Gate’s 100k belt drive prize & Microphone eating (29:00)

Recap of the first two XC World Cups (34:46)

New Yeti ASR (42:22)

XC bike amnesia (52:03)

Canyon Neuron:ONfly first ride (56:04)

Poison Oak (1:03:30)

28 Days Later sequel and Zombies (1:04:47)

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