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And he had a foil
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He had a straight hard crash
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You alright? You banged up?
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And second team, top 10
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How are your friends now?
00:45.0
The Philippine home
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Sa 29th below, tama
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Ah 2029, sorry sorry
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And then, okay, next
01:01.0
Neil, the champion, executive
01:16.0
Nice to meet you guys
01:23.0
I have the self-proclaimed
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Edi Master of the Philippines
01:25.0
Edi Master of the Philippines
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No, I'm not joking
01:27.0
Edi Master of the Philippines
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What crazy shit are you gonna do today?
01:38.0
And you can sit at the table if you'd like
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See look, look, look
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Me and Scott went there
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This is the Bonifacio thing
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The Bonifacio Monument
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Is an actual piece of the Berlin Wall
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It's kind of cool
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You gotta learn that shit everyday, y'all
01:59.0
Why do they sound like Jebediah?
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Sign the checks, alright?
02:08.0
Thank you very much
02:26.0
Please, Rob, you're in the place
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What do you want?
02:33.0
We're in the Philippines
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Philippines, yeah
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Like, this is my room
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So, Pivot is like
02:42.0
So, Pivot is like
02:43.0
So, Pivot is like
02:44.0
So, Pivot is like
02:45.0
So, Pivot is like
02:46.0
So, Pivot is like
02:47.0
So, Pivot is like
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So, Pivot is like
02:50.0
Last some practice guys
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Last some practice guys
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Mister Chris from Pivot Cyclist himself
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Came here in the Philippines to visit us
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How are you doing?
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How do you like the Philippines?
03:16.0
I love the Philippines
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It's really nice here
03:18.0
When was the first time you came this in the Philippines?
03:19.0
Goyo and I were just talking, it was about I think 2013, yeah, came for a bike race in Tacloban area I think, yeah.
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What kind of race was that?
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It was the race that you guys would put on every year, it was kind of a cross-country race, kind of.
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How was the cross-country experience here?
03:37.5
Yeah, it was hot, through sugarcane fields and everything, super hot, but it was fun, had a lot of fun.
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Did you like the climbs?
03:45.1
The climbs weren't too bad, but just the temperature during the race, yeah, was a lot, even for, I live in the desert, so, but the humidity was a lot higher.
03:56.8
How did you get into bikes? What's your story?
04:00.0
I started racing BMX when I was 12 or 13 years old, and then continued racing BMX, turned, raced professional for a little bit,
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and then discovered mountain biking in 1987, and really loved it.
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I liked mountain biking from the start more than BMX, and so I just slowly stopped racing BMX and started racing mountain bikes,
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and started breaking mountain bikes, and so I started building mountain bikes, and here we are today.
04:27.5
Can you tell us the point in your life that you decided to create Feebot?
04:35.2
Well, I had a company called Titus for almost 17 years, and I wound up selling it, and just wanted, wasn't quite done,
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wanted to sell it.
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I wanted to do something new, and so that was in 2006 that I sold Titus, and we started Pivot in 2007, and yeah, it was, yeah, really shortly after I left Titus that I wanted to do something completely different than what we had done at Titus.
05:01.1
What can you say, the thing that makes Feebot stand out compared to the others?
05:06.9
Well, a few things. I mean, our attention to detail and the quality of the frames, but really the pedaling performance.
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So, you can have a bike like the Firebird.
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That's a really long travel bike, but still pedals really well, so a lot of people can ride a bike with more travel than,
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so it's always there for them when they're in technical terrain, but it's also comfortable and fast to pedal everywhere.
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And so that's even the case with the Mach 4, where you have a bike that pedals like a World Cup cross-country bike,
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but most World Cup cross-country bikes don't descend well.
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The Mach 4 SL is an excellent descender, so really across the range, having the most versatile bikes,
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whether it be the e-bike.
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Or whatever, they pedal great, they're lightweight for their category, and they just give you a really versatile all-around package.
05:53.3
What's the status with Feebot right now, with the situation here in the bike industry right now?
05:59.3
We're pretty good. We just launched the new Switchblade in the beginning of February, and everyone's super excited about that bike.
06:05.5
And, you know, the Shuttle AM last fall, and just a new update to the Shuttle LT, and everything's going really good.
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We are building a new facility.
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We're in Germany right now, and we have our offices in Taiwan, and then over 100 people at our facility in the U.S.
06:22.7
I was in Taiwan last weekend for the show.
06:25.1
Did you like the show?
06:25.9
Yeah, yeah. It's so overwhelming. There's so much to see.
06:30.1
Yeah, it got bigger with the new show hall, too.
06:33.1
Is there something that we should look out for?
06:37.5
You should get excited about everything.
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We're always working on new stuff.
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At some point, every bike in our line will continue to get improved, better, new releases, more e-bikes.
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Yeah, there's just a lot of exciting things on the future.
06:57.8
Can you give a short message to the mountain bike community in the Philippines?
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Well, you guys have a rad community.
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Visiting everybody here at the shop has been fantastic, and watching all the racing and everything happening in the Philippines.
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You guys are really awesome.
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It's a mountain bike market, and it's exciting to see that level of racing and what you guys have done here.
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So, keep on riding, man. It's killer.
07:26.1
It's a pleasure to meet you, Sir Chris. Thank you.
07:28.4
Nice to meet you.
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Thank you for your time.
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We're inviting you guys.
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Guys, we're inviting you guys for a month, for a week.
07:40.3
Yeah, for a month, for a week. Where is that? In Tanay?
07:45.1
Shout out to Pit Bar, Black Mamba.
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Pit Bar Kada, Black Mamba.
