Chris Currie on Mountain Bike Suspension Design
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Chris Currie is a bike industry veteran with decades of experience in everything from retail and marketing to product design. His patented mountain bike suspension design, dubbed 3VO, is well regarded and is currently being used by Jamis Bikes in their full suspension bike line.
Chris fills us in on what it takes to design and patent a brand new mountain bike suspension setup, and talks about what makes his approach unique. We also ask Chris to explain confusing but important terms like instant center and axle path. What’s the most annoying thing about mountain bikes at the moment? Listen in to find out how Chris answers.
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| 1:02.3 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today my guest is Chris |
| 1:08.2 | Curry. Chris is a bike industry veteran with decades of experience in everything from retail and |
| 1:14.5 | marketing to product design. |
| 1:16.5 | His patented mountain bike suspension design, dubbed 3VO, is well regarded and is currently |
| 1:23.1 | being used by James Bikes in their full suspension bike line. |
| 1:27.2 | Thanks for joining us, Chris. |
| 1:28.9 | Oh, thanks very much for having me, Jeff. Well, you've been in the bike industry for quite some |
| 1:33.4 | time, so tell us a little bit about your background. Yeah, it's been quite a while. I got my start |
| 1:41.1 | officially in 1997. I started a bike shop online bike shop which was a novelty at the time |
| 1:51.5 | yeah wow an online bike shop in 97 yes sir I listened to a lot of marketing podcasts these these days |
| 1:59.5 | and I find myself feeling older and older as I was talking |
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