4.8 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's in what is in the pipeline for Atherton bikes here? |
0:03.7 | They I heard that there's three new bikes just now. |
0:06.5 | Oh, we left. |
0:07.2 | Shit. |
0:07.8 | He's like, fuck that. |
0:10.3 | I'm not telling you shit. |
0:11.5 | Hey, everybody and welcome back to the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Levy and today's show is a good one. |
0:28.7 | Brian and I sat down with some of the guys from Atherton Bikes, Chief designer Rob Gow, engineer Ben Farmer, and this guy named G. Atherton, who I hear is pretty quick on a bike. |
0:39.9 | Now, Atherton Bikes uses carbon tubes that are bonded into additive, manufactured titanium |
0:46.0 | lugs. Say that three times fast. So today's show, we delve into the production process |
0:51.9 | that includes massive buckets of titanium dust and a million |
0:56.3 | dollar hopper machine about 16 hours per frame and carbon fiber tubes from a company in New Zealand |
1:04.2 | renowned for their sailboat mass. Now, G also reveals the next three models from Atherton Bikes, so keep an ear open for that later on in the show as well. |
1:14.6 | Hey, everybody, we're here to talk everything Atherton Bikes, and I have three of the main guys from Atherton with me today, as well as Brian Park, who's full of tech questions. |
1:25.2 | He's going to help me get to the bottom of some of this tech stuff today. |
1:28.7 | And I've got Rob Gow. |
1:30.6 | Rob, what is your job title? |
1:32.2 | And what do you do at Atherton Bikes? |
1:33.8 | My job title is Head of Design. |
1:36.5 | So I work with a small team of designers and manufacturing engineers to essentially take the vision the atherton's |
1:46.5 | give us for new products and engineer them and design them into into prototypes and then |
1:53.3 | production products that are robust and reliable and manufacturable and just really strong and good yeah yeah all right and we've also |
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