welcome to sunny scotland we're here for the first round of the 2022 ews and i'm joined
by arguably the happiest couple on the circuit curt and eddie here so how's it going to work
i'm going to ask you guys questions separately one at a time whoever gets the most question
rights wins the winner gets to take home uh two bottles of iron brew iron brew or buck fast
questions go away i reckon
go take a seat and we'll grab it when you need you okay thank you dude
all right you're first up how are you feeling right now uh i'm actually pretty nervous i haven't
had to do uh any interviews for a good couple years and um yeah anything competitive to be
honest i've been quite relaxed past couple years so well look uh i hope you're ready to turn it
on these should be in your favor because we'll go through a few questions about the bike all right
starting with a rapid fire section are you ready i'm 100 ready all right let's wrap into it frame
size on the firebird medium color uh that is emerald handlebar width uh well this weekend
we're running 750 high pressure 23 front 25 rear tires size continental crypto tail
front and rears well done mate that's five out of five for round one all right well done
okay round two we're going to move into some more relationship questions alrighty okay
what's your favorite part about the bike my favorite part about the bike
uh pivot are really good at building bikes that are great for mechanic to work on so for example
when you're taking apart the linkages quite a lot of companies have bearings and then
spaces and when you're trying to juggle it all together put it together spaces are falling down
you're trying to stick it with grease pivot used bearings that have the internal races actually
it comes external out of the bearing so that works as the spacer you know it kind of sets
itself away so when you put the bite together it's just bang the linkage and bang linkage
in do it all up no dropping spaces so that's the dream really it makes my life a lot easier
so bearings is a perfect mechanic answer but we'll write that one down you're ready yep beauty
well done kurt now then reverse that what do you think eddie's favorite part of the bike is far out
the whole bike he loves those bikes they uh we can take whole bike is an answer uh i'd say
his favorite part of the bikes is the reynolds wheels um for example in previous seasons like
the reynolds wheels we've had like ews stickers lined up on there from five six races in a row i
think matt walker done a whole season on one wheel set from the reynolds wheels could mate you should
have been camera for a while you're speaking better than the athletes there we go perfect
okay it is your canadian's favorite wheels we'll see we'll see how those marry up and kurt final
question for the section how long approximately does the pre-race rebuild take uh you dedicate a
whole day to be honest um because then you can actually like take your time and pay attention
to detail but end like yeah you're not rushing yourself and you're having lunch there so yeah
pretty much a day like an eight hour working day um is rebuilding one bike and getting that mint
yeah and i get to ride my bike at these races during practice i love i love enduros
yeah exactly all right five final questions these are the tough ones
what's the spacer height under eddie's stem right now 10 mil
fork pressure fork pressure 105 he may have dropped the durian practice i'm not 100 sure
but 105 is what we're normally running in the 805 final answer thank you bb type
uh bottom bracket type is press fit shimano and final question chain stay length chain sailing
oh i don't know 440. oh no that's sorry that's the reach i think no i have no idea
431 according to the website this morning true well there you go i was going to say 440 but
apparently i'm wrong well done mate you you lost one question on the change daylily yeah
it's not i'm normally like quite shocking with like actual like yeah geometry of the bikes
um yeah eddie just knows the size of bike that he runs and then we know how to set that up so
we're not really yet obviously not looking at the specs and referring
it to other bikes we're skiing it to feel good for us but anyways no excuses
thank you very much for that round you only dropped one point so far all righty thanks very
much for playing we'll get you back uh once we've run eddie through beautiful beauty thanks mate
well i'm pretty impressed by how kurt did there i only got him on one question let's see how eddie
does welcome how you feeling mate confident rapid fire five questions to start eating
okay frame size medium color uh greeny that no looking at the bikes there yeah handlebar width
uh 750 this week high pressure 23 in the front 25 in the back could be 24.
um continental crypt totals cryptitals cripper tiles or crypto towels oh it could be argatals
we're going to need for only a guitar
nice work eddie
he's already dropped one
you had it i'm pretty sure oh you know excellent work you can't be doing this you had
kurt did say emerald on the color but i'll give you green yeah yeah yeah
perfect all right are you ready for round two this is more test if you encourage i'm
nervous i'm nervous mate you're doing great okay you're doing great okay
what is your favorite part of the bike
no looking at the bike young sir
rare shock
excellent now i have to say i've asked kurt the same questions
vice versa so what is good what do you think kurt's favorite part of the bike is oh
channel the mind of a mechanic i know where do you think he spends most of maybe the cockpit
can i go cockpit is funny final answer cockpit yeah i'm sorry eddie it was bearings ah boring
yeah the mind of a mechanic final question how long does it take to do a pre-race
rebuild on the firebird a normal working at day so eight hours great answer correct
yeah all right mate you've only dropped two points okay final round this is a bit
tech heavy stats how are you with numbers pretty good i mean i am a numbers guy yeah perfect
okay ready yeah what's the spacer height below your stem uh 15 mil fork pressure uh 102
bb tight it's like a press fit bb
93. maybe because it's super boost and final question change statement oh like maybe 4 45.
don't worry that was the one kirt dropped two
what is it do you know what 431 according to the website yeah
431 tuesday league mine's custom is it no on this one it's for this test exactly it's what i said
so he takes the win how do you feel after those answers eddie oh man i was on the hot seat there
yeah gentleman was pumping we need to do it my heart's pumping it's like celebrity squares it is
well i think we should get curt back in here okay up the points and decide who gets the buck first
full disclaimer i have come out of the blue and thrown some dangerously ticky questions
at these guys under pressure so you've both done exceptionally well but uh look
it doesn't take a sign just to work out that kurt congratulations mate you take the victory today
how do we feel after that yeah i kind of felt like we were under a
bit of a visa interrogation interview of sorts but um we got through it and we're still together
that's what matters that's great and we've got two bowl of buckfast to work through there beautiful
i think that will help our relationship as well so yeah i can't wait thanks beauty we'll
have an awesome weekend this weekend eddie curt thanks very much and thanks for watching keep
an eye out for the videos we've got canon see you guys go this weekend cheers mate
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