Mojo Suspension & Geometron Bikes founder, Chris Porter
May 06, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 64
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Episode description
Chris Porter has long been known as one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of the longer/lower/slacker trends in mountain bike geometry, and his Geometron bikes have pushed the envelope further than just about anything else out there. Chris has opinions on a whole lot more than just bike geometry, though, and in our recent conversation we got his takes on wheel sizes, eBikes, suspension tuning, Vladimir Putin(?), and a whole lot more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Background & motorcycles (2:16)
- Founding of Mojo & trashing a rental house (5:46)
- Experimenting with geometry (10:24)
- Mondraker & Fabien Barel (17:47)
- Partnership with Nicolai (26:42)
- Trail Nirvana (34:35)
- “eBikes ruined it” (36:37)
- Geometron Bikes (44:32)
- Tradeoffs in bike design (50:38)
- Craft vs. Math in bike setup (55:58)
- Wheel sizes & the death of 27.5? (58:12)
- Chris’ Big Idea (1:11:51)
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