What Does It Take to Make Great Mountain Bike Clothing? – With Ian Martin
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by Ian Martin, one of the founders of cycle clothing company 7Mesh. Find out how Ian’s passion for the outdoors led him to learn how to make garments and ultimately into working for Arc’teryx. We chat about how an old friendship eventually led to Ian, Calum and Tyler founding their own company with 7Mesh. Hear what goes into designing quality clothing for mountain biking, how 7Mesh approach design, the challenge of removing forever chemicals from your range and plenty more. I learned heaps in this chat with Ian and I hope you do too. So, it’s time to sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Ian Martin.
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7Mesh have recently launched their brand new Airmap range. Airmap uses a unique approach of different mapped layers that uses incoming air, to expel warm moist air out of the garment, while blocking air and water in places where you need it. This allows them to individually tune the products’ performance to the specific requirements of each area of the garments. The entire range is free from PFAS and PFCs, also known as the forever chemicals . Head here to find out more about the Airmap range. Listeners can get 20% off the entire range by using the code ‘7meshxdowntime20‘ until the end of January 2024.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and this is the downtime podcast where we're going to be taking you deeper than ever into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. |
| 0:10.8 | This week's episode is supported by Seven Mesh. Seven Mesh is based in the mountains of British Columbia and was founded by three of the team from high-end outdoor clothing brand Art Terricks. |
| 0:20.3 | In fact, I'm joined by one of their |
| 0:21.5 | founders, Ian Martin for this week's show. As you'd expect from that combo of challenging terrain, |
| 0:26.5 | extremely varied weather and incredible skills and experience in the outdoor clothing world, |
| 0:30.8 | seven mesh are making truly high-performance clothing for mountain biking, gravel and road riding. |
| 0:36.1 | They're working super hard to give us new options |
| 0:38.0 | and better solutions to meet our needs, which is designed to last the test of time and not |
| 0:42.5 | just the next season. Needless to say, the performance is next level, but their gear is built |
| 0:46.9 | to last in the harshest of conditions and to keep you comfortable for as long as you're prepared |
| 0:50.7 | to go. Seven Mesh are always looking forwards and they've just launched their brand new air map collection. |
| 0:56.1 | AirMap uses a unique approach of different map layers that uses incoming air to expel warm |
| 1:01.0 | moisture out of the garment while blocking air and water in the places where you need it to. |
| 1:05.5 | This allows them to individually tune the product's performance to the specific requirements |
| 1:09.3 | of each area of the garment, |
| 1:11.1 | and believe me, you can actually feel that while you're wearing it. The entire range is also |
| 1:15.2 | free from PFAS and PFCs, known as the Forever Chemicals. Head to their website to find out |
| 1:20.3 | more about the Airmap range. Alongside Airmat, they've also got lots of other incredible products |
| 1:25.6 | that are going to improve your comfort whatever the weather. I'd highly recommend checking out their chill-cut anorac, which was by far |
| 1:31.2 | my most warm piece of bike clothing last autumn, winter and spring. You can see the entire range |
| 1:35.9 | at 7Mesh.com. Whether you're wanting to try 7Mesh for the first time or you're already hooked, |
| 1:41.2 | they're offering downtime listeners a 20% discount using the code 7MeshX downtime 20. |
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