Inside MTB Media with Rob Weaver: 18 Years of Expertise, Bike Testing Secrets & future predictions

Rob Weaver has been a mountain bike journalist for over 18 years and has a deep expertise of bike testing and all things mountain bike tech. On this episode Rob talks about his path to working in the bike industry, what it takes to be an un-biased and thorough bike tester, milestones in bike design, the history of Mountain Biking UK and so much more....

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Chapters

00:00:00 Crankworx Cairns!
00:02:36 Rob The Chief Weaver is on the podcast
00:06:33 BikeRadar
00:09:23 What does Rob Weaver actually do...
00:20:15 Rob's mtb backstory
00:38:54 An interest in bike tech
00:43:40 Downhill is getting factory again?
00:52:00 COMPEX
00:55:20 Making a living from riding bikes
00:58:50 How do bikes really get tested?
01:07:28 Can a bikes performance be predicted?
01:13:29 18 years of bike development milestones
01:24:14 Blind testing?!
01:27:10 How to set-up a new mountain bike
01:38:54 Over or under biked?
01:47:05 The evolution of ebikes
01:53:00 Rob weaver's tech milestones
02:02:04 Predicting the MTB future
02:08:36 Listener questions
02:16:20 LIKE & SUBSCRIBE

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