Reviewing the Reviewer: David Golay

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In our “Reviewing the Reviewer” series, we ask various BLISTER reviewers questions about their backgrounds and gear preferences to give you a more complete picture of the people behind our reviews. And since we like to rank & review things around here, we also give a score to each of our reviewers’ answers, then come up with a cumulative review grade for each of them.

In the hot seat today is mountain bike reviewer, David Golay, who shares how he went from playing sports in upstate New York, to researching metal alloys in Australia, to reviewing for BLISTER, and he shares a phenomenal story starring Jed Yeiser (of previous Blister podcast episodes fame).

Watch the video of our conversation on our YouTube Channel.

TOPICS & TIMES:

David’s background (1:26)
How did you first get connected with Blister? (7:45)
Bike preferences (9:35)
Who is your favorite reviewer at Blister? (18:35)
Who is your favorite biker and skier? (20:11)
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? (22:20)
What are you better at than Sam Shaheen? (23:35)
What gear are you most & least picky about? (24:49)
Top 3 favorite books, movies, and musicians (27:08)
Give us a random review? (32:10)
What’s the best question I haven’t asked you? (33:14)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:11.0	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing
0:15.5	and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:20.9	Today, we are running another installment of our Reviewing the Reviewer series, where we ask
0:27.3	various blister reviewers, questions about their backgrounds and gear preferences to give you
0:32.7	a more complete picture of the people behind our reviews. And since we like to rank and review things
0:40.0	around here, we will be scoring each of our reviewers' answers to come up with a review grade
0:45.7	for each of them. In the hot seat today is our bike reviewer, David Galeigh, who came through
0:53.0	Crested Butte for several days from Seattle.
0:56.0	So we sat down in Blister HQ, and we talked about David's background in sports and mechanical
1:01.7	engineering, the mountain biking gear he believes is most important, and then David shares a fantastic
1:08.8	story about Jed Yizer, and there is much more.
1:12.7	And then you'll want to stick around for the outro, where we will give you David's official
1:17.3	reviewing the reviewer ranking. And with that, let's get to my conversation with David Gowley.
1:34.7	Well, here we are back in Blister HQ for another round of reviewing the reviewer.
1:40.2	And our guest today is David Goulet, who is in from Seattle.
1:48.0	Now, fun fact to preface this episode, there's apparently like a kid's birthday party taking place upstairs above Blister HQ. We can tell you, it sounds like those kids are having an amazing
1:55.4	time and also possibly playing with jackhammers. I'm not... Yeah, I'm concerned about one of them falling through the ceiling in a minute.
2:03.6	Yeah, at some point, it's keep, you know, stay tuned
2:06.6	because we might have a child crash through the ceiling onto this table.
2:11.6	But that said, David, we're happy to have you in from Seattle,
2:15.6	and I think you know how this works. This is a big deal,
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