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January 5, 2022 59 mins

January 4, 2021
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ABOUT THE EPISODE

Topics Covered in this Episode:

  • Chris Currie backstory / early years in mountain biking
  • How Chris started one of the very first E Commerce Mountain Bike Sites in the mid 90’s – Speedgoat Bikes
    • Content Marketing way before content marketing was a thing
    • Building custom mountain bikes for people in the early years of mountain biking
    • Early Sealant / Tubeless Experimentation 
  • Where Speedgoat Bikes was located and why
  • How Chris got interested in Suspension Design
  • Early days of 29” full suspension that Chris designed and the other misadventures that came along with that journey. 
  • 3VO Suspension Design, and how it functions
    • 3VO suspension on Jamis Bikes
  • Famous Failures / Willingness to Fail
    • You gotta do a lot of things wrong to do a couple things right
  • Trails and how they have evolved from the early days of mountain biking to today
    • The involvement of a community for trails
  • Stan’s Connection program
    • Stan is a real guy, and how NoTubes came to be
    • How Stan’s Connection works
    • How Stan’s Connection is getting to the local, grassroots level of giving back
    • Creating a map to connect people
    • How organizations can get on the Stan’s Connection Map Suggest-a-connection (Link Below)
    • Partnering with Brice Shirbach on the Connection Program
  • Chris’ favorite Trails / Trail Communities
  • Words of Wisdom / Closing Comments

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Stan’s NoTubes Connection – Suggest a Connection: https:/


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