Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

My name is Jeff, and today my guest is David Folk.

David is the founder and CEO of Dirty Sixer, a boutique bike builder focused on fitting tall riders with big wheel bikes.

The Dirty Sixer line currently features gravel, all road, and electric bikes, and will soon include a mountain

bike with 32-inch wheels. Thanks for joining me, David. Hi, Jeff. Thank you for having me on your show.

So tell us, how did your brand Dirty Sixer get started? That's a good start, indeed, because, you know, being 6'6 myself, almost two meters, I was

riding regular bikes, 64, 66 road bikes, never found any double XL back in the days.

So I was riding those kind of unstable bikes, and I crashed, broke my ankle in two parts and at that point

I was like okay let's let's make something that is going to be actually the right size for us

tall I mean for us first of all I sought to make a bike for myself.

So necessity being the mother of invention, I was faced to, you know, designing something bigger, proportionate.

And I discovered that there were bigger wheels.

They were used for unicycles.

And I was having a background of a photographer. You know, I often use this analogy of the Photoshop tool to expand the picture.

So if you expand the picture proportionally, so when you get the taller rider, you should get bigger wheels.

So everything being in proportions.

So that's how I got started, trying to design a bigger bike with back in the day 36-inch wheels.

That's the biggest wheel.

Yeah, those were huge.

Yeah, they are.

And they've been around for a while, actually.

So the history of 36 is not totally clear to me yet, but I think it's more than 25 years now that the 36 inch wheel was created.

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