#277 - Mountain Bike Wheels Are Getting Wild

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.

Fresh off a gruelling 20-plus hour travel day from Tasmania, Pinkbike’s own social media correspondent Dan Wolfe sits down with Matt Beer and me to deconstruct the 2026 edition of Red Bull Hardline Tasmania. While the finals were ultimately rained out, Dan provides some on-the-ground insights at the "new school" of freeride-DH builds, noting that the days of "bro-science" are over, replaced by precise measurements and "green-light" marshals.The crew dives into the technical nuances of hitting 70+ km/h features, why Aaron Gwin looked surprisingly dangerous on his new ride, and the rumours surrounding a potential 2026 Canadian stop at Cypress Mountain.Featuring a rotating cast of the editorial team and other guests, the Pinkbike podcast is a weekly update on all the latest stories from around the world of mountain biking, as well as some frank discussion about tech, racing, and everything in between.

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