135 - Can You Buy Speed On A Mountain Bike? The $10K Bike Debate

Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2052531/fa...) Can you buy speed? It's the question every mountain biker asks themselves while staring at a $10k build in the shop window, and it's the one Josh and Dane finally sit down to debate. They break the argument into pieces — weight, suspension, drivetrain efficiency, tires, frame stiffness, brakes — and figure out which of those upgrades are real and which ones are just good marketing. Turns out, the honest answer is somewhere in the middle, and it depends a lot less on the price tag than you'd think. Dane brings shop-floor stories about what actually gets people faster (hint: it's usually not what they think), and Josh lays out the numbers on price-per-pound and where the smart money stops making sense. They also cover depreciation, the emotional cost of crashing an expensive bike, and why your tires deserve way more attention than they're probably getting. And because it's MTNCOG, there's a detour into Josh's worst ride of the year that has nothing to do with bike specs and everything to do with bad timing. Listen to Mountain Cog Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...) Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZFqhnZ...) Other Podcast Sites (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2052531/share) Socials Instagram (  / mountain.cog.podcast  ) Facebook (  / 100091618301382  ) Email mountaincog@gmail.com