Geek Warning Bonus ep: Precision, process, press-fits, and pandemics with Framework Bicycles
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Framework Bicycles isn’t afraid to say it’s making its frames a little differently from usual. In fact, the Canadian company is not only extremely proud of that, but feels its unusual methods are also integral to what makes its frames what they are. In this week’s members-only episode, James sits down with Framework founder – and one-person fabricator – Jonathan Kennedy for an ultra-deep dive on his philosophy behind what makes a good bike.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody welcome to a special episode of Geek Warning brought to you by the Escape Collective. |
| 0:14.0 | This is a special episode that is going to be open only to our members, at least in full anyway, |
| 0:20.0 | so for anyone who's not a member, you'll get this for maybe about half a show or so. |
| 0:24.0 | And unlike most of the other special episodes we've done, this is not going to be an Asco Ranch episode. |
| 0:29.0 | This is going to be one of our deep dive shows. |
| 0:31.0 | And I am actually not in Boulder, Colorado at the moment. I just |
| 0:35.2 | landed in Toronto, Canada about about two hours ago and I'm now in Hamilton |
| 0:40.8 | Ontario. I'm here with Jonathan Kennedy from Framework Bicycles. |
| 0:46.2 | Hello, Jonathan. |
| 0:47.2 | Hi, James. |
| 0:48.2 | This is definitely one of the more unusual environments I've been in to record a podcast. So I just want to back up just a little bit. |
| 0:54.8 | Framework Bicycles. So I feel like right now, I guess could we classify you as |
| 1:00.9 | Instagram famous at the moment? |
| 1:03.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:04.0 | What's the threshold? |
| 1:05.0 | I feel like that's 10,000 followers. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay, it's maybe not quite there. |
| 1:08.0 | You're getting there, you're getting there, you're getting closer. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:11.0 | But anyway, this building that we're in at the moment, I am not in a building that says |
| 1:16.0 | Framework bicycles on it. |
| 1:17.9 | It says core print patterns on the front of this building. |
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