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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Chris Fortune from Powertap talks building Saris Group, Meditation, and Industry Trends - Triathlon Taren Podcast

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Triathlon Taren sat down with the founder of Saris Cycling group, Chris Fortune, while at Interbike 2017 to hear about the story of how Saris came to become one of the leading brands in cycling.  Chris Fortune's Saris Cycling Group may be better known for it's consumer-facing brands Powertap, Cyclops, and the Bones car rack. Topics discussed in this interview: Richie Davidson brain imaging Powertap Cycleops Bones rack

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0:00.0

Hey, Triathlon Trainiacs.

0:07.0

Taryn here, coming to you solo.

0:09.0

This interview that I did is with Chris Fortune,

0:13.0

the founder of Seris Group.

0:15.0

Now, Saras, you might better know as power taps,

0:19.0

Cyclops, Saras bike hitches. They have a number of brands.

0:24.6

They've been around since the 80s when Chris and his wife Sarah actually bought a company

0:30.3

that they turned into what we all know now as the provider of say my P1 power tap pedals.

0:38.3

Very interesting company.

0:39.3

I met with them down at InnerBike and I was solo.

0:43.3

So unfortunately, NTK was not involved with this interview.

0:47.3

Talking to Chris, we get into why he decided to purchase Graber products,

0:52.3

which is what the company was originally, why he decided to do Graber products, which is what the company was originally,

0:56.1

why he decided to do that as opposed to starting a business,

0:58.8

how he started out riding bikes, delivering papers

1:01.8

in Chicago winters without any studded tires.

1:05.3

I feel for you, man, I feel for you very, very deeply.

1:09.2

And notably we actually get into, this kind of shocked me,

1:12.2

I wasn't expecting this, but I was really into it, having recently got into meditation,

1:16.8

how Chris has started including meditation practices in their management meetings and basically

1:23.3

their overall company philosophy, really, really interesting stuff. And then finally we talk about

1:28.9

where he sees the industry going in bikes and indoor trainers and power and like all that

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