Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike Podcast. We've got a very special edition today, sponsored by Orbea. We've got three people that were closely involved with the development of the new Orbea Rayon RS. They've got Zabi Narbeisa. He's from Orbea. We've got Felix Hein from TQ and Everett from Fox. Now, all three these people helped make this bike come to see the light of day. And the special thing about the bike is the system integration. And I know that's a word that gets tossed around a lot and sometimes it doesn't mean that much. But in the case of the Rayon RS, it has parts from three different companies that need to communicate together. And that doesn't always happen in the bike industry. A lot of times you have bikes with parts from one company, parts from another, and they don't really talk to each other. They're not related. They're just kind of stuck on the bike. So we're here today to talk a little bit about what it takes to get three different companies to make products that work together to make one cohesive package, as well as what this might mean for the future and the development story in general. So hopefully it's an interesting story and thanks to everybody for joining me. Let's start with the very

basics just so people can kind of set this stage of how this project came to be.

It was maybe probably good question for you, Zabi. What made you decide to try to get Fox and TQ out

the table with Orbea and make a bike that everything works

closely together. What was the, you know, whose idea was that? Good point. It's hard to know

whose idea was because it's been a search we always had in Urbea. We want to push the technology

in bicycles. And we learned many years ago that if you

want to really rise the level of performance you shouldn't work alone there is a smart

sentence that says that if you want to move fast go alone but if But if you want to go farther, go together.

So in Urbea, we are a cooperative,

and that's also part of our DNA.

And we understood that the biggest project,

the biggest challenge, I always achieve

when you're working together as a team

inside, but very often with partners. So we saw the opportunity of something very different, something

that doesn't exist today. But in order to reach that level of performance, to reach that dream,

that unicorn that we had in mind,

we had to bring people together. We didn't have the resources. We didn't have the tools.

There is already like the best suspension in the market. They're already there. So why compete?

Why try to create a new drive unit, new batteries when you have existing parts that you just need to convince them to join a crazy project like RayonRS?

So that was the reason we wanted the very best parts.

And we believe that working together is usually or often

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