How to Design a Mountain Bike, with Alastair from Redburn Design
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Alastair Beckett is a mechanical engineer and bike race mechanic based in the United Kingdom. His firm Redburn Design helps small bike brands expand “their product range through innovative and award winning product development and manufacturing process refinement.” Listeners may be familiar with one of Alastair’s most recent design projects, the new 161 enduro bike from the Privateer brand.
We learn how frame designers like Alastair work with bike brands to create unique mountain bike designs, and talk about the constraints and tradeoffs that need to be made along the way. Alastair also weighs in on the limits of “long, low, slack” geometry and the convergence of enduro and DH geometry.
Connect with Alastair at redburndesign.com.
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| 0:30.3 | Not only does Backcountry have the widest assortment of gear and apparel, |
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| 1:10.9 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 1:13.6 | My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Alistair Backin. |
| 1:17.8 | Alistair is a mechanical engineer and bike race mechanic based in the United Kingdom. |
| 1:23.5 | His firm Redburn Design helps small bike brands expand their product range through innovative |
| 1:29.7 | and award-winning product development and manufacturing process refinement. |
| 1:34.7 | Listeners may be familiar with one of Alastair's most recent design projects, the new 161 |
| 1:40.2 | Enduro Bike from the Privateer brand. |
| 1:43.2 | Thanks for joining us, Alistair. Hi, Jeff. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:46.7 | So you've worked with a lot of different bike companies over the years. How did you get started |
| 1:51.7 | in the bike industry? Yeah, I guess my, like you say, my background is mechanical engineering. |
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