Trail EAffect - "Episode 52 - Chris Currie of Stan’s NoTubes" (January 5, 2022 | #1417 | Host: Josh Blum)

January 4, 2021
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ABOUT THE EPISODE

Topics Covered in this Episode:

• 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

RELATED SHOW NOTES

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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ABOUT TRAIL EAFFECT

Trails build community and Communities build trails. What came first you may ask… Host Josh Blum digs into the stories of how trails effect and affect the people and places we call home and those we might like to call home.

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ABOUT THE HOST

Josh Blum is a father and doer of stuff - paired with Advocate, Builder of Trails and Community. Originally from La Crosse WI, Josh has been enjoying the outdoors, trails, and mountain bikes since a young age. Always curious and learning about better ways to improve trail users’ experiences. Josh is employed by WisDOT, and is the owner / operator of Evolution Trail Services.