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

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