Behind the Scenes at RockShox With Sander Rigney
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by SRAM’s VP of product development, Sander Rigney, to take us behind the scenes at RockShox. We’ll be chatting about RockShox’s history and finding out how the products have progressed over the last 25 years. Hear about their approach to R&D and the development of cutting edge technologies like Flight Attendant. Sander shares some insight into their BlackBox programme, the future of suspension and plenty more. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Sander Rigney.
You can checkout the entire RockShox range over at sram.com and find their YouTube channel here.
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You can checkout the entire RockShox range over at sram.com and find their YouTube channel here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and you're listening to the downtime podcast where we delve deep into |
| 0:08.0 | the gravity base side of mountain biking. First up, I want to thank our support and partners |
| 0:12.2 | and that's sprung suspension and SRAM. After a summer of smashing the trails, it's time to give |
| 0:16.8 | you suspension some love and sprungension have a great offer for you. |
| 0:26.3 | When I wanted my bike running at its best for the Tweed Valley EWS, I took my fork and shot to Sprung's suspension. |
| 0:32.1 | Sprung was an obvious choice for me, as they're run by Jake Ireland, who has years of experience on the World Cup circuit, |
| 0:35.1 | and is currently the team race engineer at MS Mondraker. |
| 0:40.1 | Sprung is a suspension service and tuning centre based in the Forrester Dean here in the UK, |
| 0:41.4 | but working worldwide. |
| 0:44.8 | They aren't a service factory that smash out forks and shocks all day long, |
| 0:48.5 | they take their time with each customer to understand the rider, their bike and their current settings so that they can return your forks and shock with the optimum settings, |
| 0:52.5 | any necessary internal tuning, |
| 0:58.7 | and ensure that you're on the best possible setup, whether you're a World Cup DH racer or a weekend rider. The team have experience of working with suspension companies, bike companies |
| 1:03.1 | and World Cup race teams so you can be sure you're in safe hands. My bike felt incredible after |
| 1:08.4 | they've given the suspension some love. Sprung are super flexible so you can send your suspension there, |
| 1:13.1 | or if you're nearby, you can do pickups and drop-offs. |
| 1:15.3 | They're going to do their best to make it work for you. |
| 1:17.8 | As a downtime listener, Sprung are giving you 10% off service and tuning until the 15th of November. |
| 1:22.8 | All you need to do is to use the code downtime 22 over at sprungis.com. That's sprung, suspension, all one word.com. While you're here, don't forget to subscribe or follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode. There's buttons to help you get that done over at downtimepodcast.com, 4.6 subscribe. Merch is available if you want to support the show. That's over at downtimepodcast.com, forthslash, shop. You can head over to downtimepodcast.com |
| 1:47.9 | for slash EP to check out our beautiful print project, Downtown EP, that's made in |
| 1:52.5 | collaboration with the incredible team over at Miss Spent Summers. It's a bianual piece of |
| 1:56.7 | mountain bike history that takes the guests and topics of the podcast, expands on them and |
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