Chris Currie of Stan’s NoTubes and the Stan’s Connection Program (#52)

Trail EAffect Episode 52 Chris Currie of Stan’s NoTubes

This episode first aired on January 5th, 2022 on Mountain Bike Radio

Topics Covered:

• Chris Currie backstory / early years in mountain biking
• How Chris started one of the very first E Commerce Mountain Bike Sites in the mid 90’s – Speedgoat Bikes
  • Content Marketing way before content marketing was a thing
  • Building custom mountain bikes for people in the early years of mountain biking
  • Early Sealant / Tubeless Experimentation
• Where Speedgoat Bikes was located and why
• How Chris got interested in Suspension Design
• Early days of 29” full suspension that Chris designed and the other misadventures that came along with that journey.
• 3VO Suspension Design, and how it functions
  • 3VO suspension on Jamis Bikes
• Famous Failures / Willingness to Fail
  • You gotta do a lot of things wrong to do a couple things right
• Trails and how they have evolved from the early days of mountain biking to today
  • The involvement of a community for trails
• Stan’s Connection program
  • Stan is a real guy, and how NoTubes came to be
  • How Stan’s Connection works
  • How Stan’s Connection is getting to the local, grassroots level of giving back
  • Creating a map to connect people
  • How organizations can get on the Stan’s Connection Map Suggest-a-connection (Link Below)
  • Partnering with Brice Shirbach on the Connection Program
• Chris’ favorite Trails / Trail Communities
• Words of Wisdom / Closing Comments

Links:

Stan’s NoTubes Connection – Suggest a Connection: https://www.notubes.com/suggest-a-connection

Stan’s NoTubes: https://www.notubes.com/

Speedgoat Designs: https://speedgoat.bike/

3VO Suspension Designs on Jamis: https://www.jamisbikes.com/bikes/mountain-bikes/3vo-suspension/

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This show has been edited and produced by Evolution Trail Services, for more information go to:

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