Brent Pease

So the conditions in Hawaii that make that race hard is the heat and the wind.

And you have the trade winds on the island there.

And so we have a version of our bike where Kyle's basically at like a 45-degree angle.

to try and make his wind profile smaller.

That's actually the more fun conversation around equipment that I didn't think about.

It's like the evolution of how we race, like everything we did was eyes on Kona.

So the bike evolution, like we did a windy race in 2014 where it was,

flat Florida with 5,000 less feet of climbing than Kona.

And we were nearly 50 minutes slower in that race than we were in Kona because of the wind.

And I said to our bike mechanic who comes to every race with us, I said, we'll never finish Kona with the bike set up like this.

We have to figure out a different solution.

And so we went to work.

We built a race car.

We took an aluminum race car seat and laid it at a 45 degree angle to both lighten the load of the bike

create some aerodynamics and get Kyle off a hot wood backed leather seat.

I mean, Kyle's old seat on the first bike was built with plywood and then padding and leather was wrapped around it.

And it was like in Hawaii, that thing would have cooked.

His legs would have been burned from the leather.

notwithstanding the heat.

So like, that's, what's interesting.