Hey everybody. I'm Mike Levy and welcome back to another Pink Bike podcast. This time I'm in Tempe,

Arizona, where I'm visiting Pivot cycles and speaking to Pivot's founder, Chris

Gokalas. I am also here to see some new bicycles that we can't talk about yet. Not yet. Not yet,

soon though. But we've got a lot of stuff to cover out in this podcast, Chris, because you've

done some pretty cool stuff over the years. We're going to cover starting multiple businesses. We're going to talk about Titus. We're going to get into Pivot.

We're going to get into Corona. We're going to get into testing bikes, all sorts of stuff.

All right. Chris, you have started multiple businesses. You've made some pretty cool stuff.

But let's go way back.

Did you ever work in a bike shop, like a lot of industry folks?

Oh, yeah.

I started in a bike shop.

I was the Grom that hung out at the local bike shop at nine years old.

I was hanging out at the bike shop being annoying and taking out the trash.

Crushing boxes?

I don't know if I did much box crushing, but I did take out the trash for stickers.

So locally we had a bike maintenance class that you could take through the park district

and our local

bike shop actually put that class on my mom saw that and wanted to sign me up for it but it was

really for adults so she had to get like special permission and so I took that class it was really

meant to be a one and done.

Like dad learns how to fix the flat for his kids' bikes and loop the chains and whatnot.

But I took it every time they offered it.

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