Everything You Need to Know About Mountain Bike Clothing
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ryan White is the senior product designer at cycling apparel company Pactimo based in Denver, Colorado. He studied industrial design at Wentworth Institute of Technology and has been designing soft goods for almost a decade.
In this episode, we dig deep into the design decisions that go into creating clothing that mountain bikers want to wear. If you’ve ever wondered why mountain bike apparel costs as much as it does, or what the true benefits are to wearing jerseys and shorts designed specifically for biking, this show will answer those questions and more.
Learn more at Pactimo.com. This podcast was not sponsored, influenced, or directly supported by Pactimo in any way.
Let us know if you’d like to hear more episodes like this one where we talk shop and geek out about gear!
--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks
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| 0:48.8 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Ryan White. |
| 0:56.2 | Ryan is the senior product designer at Cycling Apparel Company Pactimo, based in Denver, |
| 1:03.0 | Colorado. |
| 1:03.9 | He studied industrial design at Wentworth Institute of Technology and has been designing |
| 1:09.5 | soft goods for almost a decade now. Thanks for |
| 1:12.5 | joining us, Ryan. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me on. So have you always had an interest in |
| 1:17.1 | clothing, or was this just something you got into professionally after graduating with your |
| 1:22.4 | degree in industrial design? I would say it was not an initial interest, but it did crop up in college. |
| 1:30.3 | So Wentworth had a really cool program where you do what's called a co-op. It's effectively |
| 1:35.3 | a full-time internship. So I did a co-op for a soft goods company that actually makes |
| 1:41.3 | lacrosse and soccer and field hockey stuff. |
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