John Cobb on Lance Armstrong in the Windtunnel and Overpriced Bikes - Triathlon Taren Podcast

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Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

John Cobb is the founder of Cobb Cycling. It's not well know that John Cobb was one of the first people to ever have cyclist enter a wind tunnel; John was bringing cyclists and triathletes like Lance Armstrong and Mike Pigg into the windtunnel at Texas A&M in the mid-eighties. In this podcast interview John talks about how he founded Cobb Cycling, why he has sold Cobb Cycling, and shares many stories from his time in bike industry like when he used to sit on a milk crate at the Ironman Hawaii World Championships in Kona doing bike fits for hundreds of athletes in the days leading up to the race. Topics discussed in this podcast: Cobb Cycling Website

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up Trainiacs? Today's episode of the podcast is brought to you by our first ongoing sponsor, Health IQ.
0:06.4	Woohoo! That's Health IQ.
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0:18.4	Because with traditional life insurance, us healthy people are
0:21.0	basically subsidizing the cost of insurance for the unhealthy people in that life insurance plan.
0:27.8	And being a recovering investment advisor myself from a former life, that was actually legitimately
0:32.6	always something that kind of irked me. That ticked you off. It ticked me off. No more. I come home and I throw my suit on the ground and I hated it.
0:41.2	If you want to learn more, go to health IQ.com forward slash triathlon Taryn.
0:45.9	That's where they put all the triathlete specific info for health IQ.
0:50.7	And it'll let health IQ know how awesome us Trainiacs in this podcast are.
0:55.6	Now for today's guest, John Cobb, founder, owner, well, not owner anymore, actually, of Cobb cycling.
1:03.2	John Cobb has been in the bike industry since the 1980s.
1:07.1	He was one of the first guys to get into the wind tunnel, like period.
1:13.7	First humans to be in the wind tunnel.
1:15.5	What do we get into, NTK?
1:20.4	We got into chatting about the old wind tunnel, how he got into bike seats.
1:21.8	We didn't talk about it.
1:22.5	We should have.
1:24.2	He's got a fantastic accent.
1:25.3	He does it. He's really great to listen to.
1:26.4	I want to Louisiana, Kentucky?
1:29.3	I don't know. You can't pinpoint that. I can't pinpoint that.
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