Episode 169: Andy Ording is a Cycling Entrepreneur

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Andy Ording might be a name known in the cycling world as the one time owner of Zipp. He was in cycling well before that time period and now continues with the love of the bicycle now well after Zipp was sold with his work at Fundracer. Andy is an innovator through and through and this cycling entrepreneur has stories to tell that will keep you entertained from the start to finish of this episode. Please enjoy this episode with Andy Ording! If you need the services of a lawyer relating to anything cycling related, visit Matt Scarborough and his team at BicycleAccidentLaw.com. Thanks for supporting this episode. My morning routine is dialed with AG1, not AGZ helps me wind down in the evening and sleep soundly through the night. Check out drinkag1.com/tedking for more.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey.
0:05.5	Ho, ho, ho.
0:06.3	It is late in 2025.
0:08.7	I don't have any more podcast scheduled for this year.
0:11.2	So now, with the holidays upon us, I think we're going out with an absolute bang on this one.
0:16.6	This was such an enjoyable conversation.
0:19.0	We actually end up going a fair bit longer than what I'd call a traditional King of the Ride podcast,
0:24.5	which is actually something that I hear from you listeners.
0:27.5	So they, you prefer the longer format.
0:31.7	Thank you for chiming in.
0:32.6	If you ever feel need to send along some insight, questions, suggestions, critiques,
0:36.3	whatever it is, send them on over to.
0:38.2	He is Tedking at gmail.com, all one word.
0:42.6	More to the point.
0:43.9	Andy Ording is our guest today.
0:47.0	Now maybe some deeply ingrained cyclists or long-term cyclists will know that name.
0:52.4	Maybe that name is brand new to you now. Andy once upon a time
0:55.9	owned Zip, a longstanding and well-reputed wheel and component manufacturer, and now part of the
1:02.3	Sram family. Now he's a longtime member of the Zip organization, and that's a huge part of our
1:08.4	story in today's episode, which I think you're going to
1:11.1	find absolutely fascinating. As Andy talks about, let's see, the entrepreneurial upstarts in the
1:17.7	mid-90s. We're going to cover the story from creating what amounts to the first carbon composite
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