Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,

and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Today, we've got an update for you about one of the Blister Labs projects that we are working on.

And as a reminder, Blister Labs is a collaboration with Blister, Western Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado, and CU Boulder's Engineering Program. We launched Blister Labs at the very beginning of 2022. We are currently

working on a number of different projects in the areas of skiing, technical apparel,

and then what you're going to be hearing about in this conversation, wheel sets.

And joining me today to talk about wheel sets and to provide some of our initial results

are Greg Vanderbeek, who is an assistant professor of

mechanical engineering at CU Boulder and in the partnership program of CU Boulder and Western

Colorado University, and Travis Hainsworth, who is the associate director of the Computer Science Department for the

CU Boulder and Western Partnership Program. Greg and Travis have both been on Gear 30 before

for some very fun conversations and very informative conversations about the earlier days of this project.

And so we will include links in the show notes of this episode to those conversations.

I strongly encourage you to check them out if you missed them the first time around.

And now, let's talk about fancy squishing machines

and get some updates on what the data has been showing us with Greg and Travis.

Here we go.

Well, I am very happy to be back on Gear 30 talking about Blister Labs with Greg and Travis.

So, Greg, we're going to just dive into it here, and why don't you help us with a bit of a kind of macro overview about this particular

Blister Labs project that we've been working on? What are we up to? What problem are we trying to

solve? Yeah, so depending on how many of the other podcasts you've listened to, you've heard us talk about looking at wheel sets and trying to quantify performance.

So Blister does an amazing job of putting a lot of detail into their reviews.

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