This episode of the Pink Bike Podcast is sponsored by Faction Bike Studio. That also happens to be

who will be interviewing today to find out exactly what a bike studio does, as well as talk a little

bit about the future of the sport. Enjoy the show. All right, welcome to the Pink Bike Podcast.

We've got a special edition today. We've got two people from Faction Bike Studios here.

I've got Eric Age and Julian Boulet, both over in Quebec, and Faction Bike Studios. You might have seen some of their projects over the last couple of years. It's gained some notoriety with Niko Malali, they've been helping him out with his frameworks project. They also made a 32-inch wheeled concept bike. They're kind of a one-stop shop for companies that want to do some development, maybe, I guess you call it, out-of-house development, out-of-mountain-bike development, but they can do a huge range of things. We're chatting with them about exactly what they do and then some trends that we're seeing in mountain biking and, yeah, just where we think things are going. But welcome, Julian, and Eric. Thanks for coming. Hello. Thank you for having us. Yeah.

Thanks, Mike for having us. Yeah, but before we really get in too deep to all the new tech

trends and things, let's just set the stage and let people know what faction bike studio is. Like,

what is what's faction bike studio? What do you guys do? And how did you get started?

So we are, um, as you were mentioning,

like doing work for different bike companies. So we were founded in 2010. I think in that era,

there was a spark that could be happened. It was the era where we had access to outside technology

and reach out people throughout the world with Skype at the time.

And I've always been working in the bike industry,

and I saw the need of pushing the boundaries of bicycle design.

So I'm an engineering engineer by like trained.

And I've always been designing bikes as long as I can remember.

And I wanted to offer that to different companies throughout the world.

So this is where the idea came about.

Cool.

And then now, you know, 50 R-T, 2010, so do some math.

16 years later, the company now you have, I think it's on your site, 20 engineers and six industrial designers.

Is that right?

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