Episode 65 - MTB Engineering with Yeti's Peter "Stretch" Zawistowski

MTB Podcast

Worldwide Cyclery

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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Designing, testing and producing a mountain bike is an enormously complex process. It delivers an end product that often times gets watered down by reviews to terms like “longer, lower, slacker" and "modern geometry”, keeping the original intent and nuance of the bike occulted from the would-be buyer. Yeti’s Peter “Stretch" Zawistowski has a way of making complex topics seem simple while still giving you all the detail you need to understand what goes into making a bike perform the way it does. This episode goes deep, then doses you with enough simplicity to make it all logical. Listen, get smart, enjoy a convo with the one of the leading minds in bike engineering, and head over to our Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/mtbpodcast ) to see a diagram that Stretch worked up to illustrate the crucial datapoint of “mechanical trail”. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The MTB Podcast is presented by Worldwide Cyclery, the online retailer for serious mountain bikers. Head over to www.MTBpodcast.com/store/ to get your parts, accessories and MTB Podcast swag.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the Mountain Bike Podcast presented by
0:18.7	Worldwide Cyclery. They're an awesome online retailer but also knowledge source for bikes.
0:22.8	So when you need your bike parts, go to mtb podcast.com
0:25.8	click on the store banner, you can get your stuff through there.
0:28.6	We've got a special episode today.
0:30.6	We probably even sound different and you can hear it because they're not on the normal microphones
0:34.4	and I'm in a conference room in Golden Colorado at Yeti Cycles and I'm sure a lot of you guessed that.
0:40.7	On our Instagram channel I put out earlier this week that we're going to talk with an engineer at a bike company and we're going to talk about geometry, talk about bike
0:53.5	and that sort of stuff so then we can get a better idea of what
0:55.2	when we read about a new bike when it comes out and it has certain changes or different things like that we can kind of get an idea of what that is all about.
1:02.0	So, but without getting any further,
1:05.0	I should introduce the man sitting across the table for me.
1:07.3	We just did a lunch ride.
1:08.5	I've got helmet hair.
1:10.2	You also have hell.
1:11.4	I've got no hair.
1:12.0	Yeah, that's easy. Introdu've got no hair. Yeah. Introduce yourself if you will your name, your title, that sort of be.
1:18.0	Perfect. Yeah, my name is Peter Zawestowski.
1:20.0	Most people call me Stretch, so it's weird to hear my actual name.
1:23.0	But yeah, I'm 34 years old and I'm the director of engineering at Yeti.
1:28.0	Awesome.
1:29.0	So to give people, I guess, a little bit of a background on how you became the director of engineering.
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