Hey, everybody. Welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Matt Harvey.

Matt is the co-founder of Enduro Barings, a company dedicated to producing premium, high-quality

bearings for the bicycle industry. He's been working in bike shops, starting as a teenager and later

for industry brands like Gary Fisher and

Bianchi. Thanks for joining me, Matt. Hey, thanks for having me, Jeff. Appreciate it.

So what was sort of your aha moment for forming indoor bearings? Yeah, that's a good question.

I guess because I was in the bicycle industry and of course you're encountering bearings all the time.

It wasn't like I was thinking about them that much.

But the guy that I grew up with and worked in bike shops for a long time started making them in his machine shop,

but not for bicycles, for for for forklifts in the early 1990s. And I was helping him with drawings for those. So I went from,

you know, drawing some frames and things like that at Bianchi to drawing ball bearings, which are

all circles, but they're

complicated circles.

And mostly we were copying some designs that were made before, but he was making these rollers

for forklifts that you just turn on the lathe.

And so that's how it kind of started.

And at the same time, I'd been working at

Fisher for a while on one of the first full suspension bikes in there. We were using bushings

at the time in the bike, but bearings, we found, react faster. They move faster with high frequency bumps and so forth.

So we were trying to put bearings in those bikes.

So those two things kind of came together at once, and that's how I got into thinking

more about bearings and then looking at their design.

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