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Who is Faction Bike Studio? You can think of them as the creative minds behind your next bike.

Faction Bike Studio is a cutting-edge industrial design and engineering consulting company based in Quebec, Canada. Essentially, bike brands (small, medium, and the big guys) hire Faction to help them design and engineer their company’s bikes or bike parts. They’ve done 350 projects for over 100 customers since they were established in 2010.

This is the first of 2 podcasts we’ve got planned with Faction Bike Studio. In this episode we chat with Faction Bike Studio’s Product manager Adam Robbins who introduces Faction. In the second episode, we’ll bring on Simon (Faction’s R&D Lead Engineer) to answer detailed questions about how and why bikes are designed the way they are…

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Faction Bike Studio links...
Web: https://factionbikestudio.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/factionbikestudio/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/factionbike/

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Outbound Lighting is a premier bicycle light manufacturer in Chicago, IL. In this episode, the boys sat down to chat with Tom Place (Co-Owner, Engineer, Testing, & Customer Service) from Outbound Lighting to go deep on all things related to mountain bike lights.

And as the title of this podcast would suggest, we learned that there’s a lot more to a great mountain bike light than just the number of lumens. Those things include; beam pattern, light requirement, runtime, battery management, thermodynamics and heat, mounting systems, durability, charge time, size, weight, price, and the user interface.

After this episode Josh was so intrigued that he went ahead and ordered two Outbound Lighting Trail Evos (their flagship light) for his wife and him to test out (at full price). Will advise on their experience in a future episode, but we are optimistic that they will love them.

Outbound Lighting
Web: https://www.outboundlighting.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outboundlighting/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OutboundLighting/

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To celebrate Dane’s 25th episode co-hosting the MCP, the boys sit down to debate the benefits, issues, and costs of electronic mountain bike components. In addition to electronic components (shifting, droppers, suspension, brakes?, etc.) the boys also cover other bike-tech topics like the right way to torque bolts, when grease is really needed, and more. And. Of course. There are a few “minor” disagreements about Shimano vs. SRAM.

Some links to accompany this episode...

Shimano MTB Components (Acoustic)
https://mtb.shimano.com/us/products/mtb/

SRAM MTB Components (Electronic & Acoustic)
https://www.sram.com/en/sram/mountain

PinkBike Video: Broken On Live TV: The Untold Story of Pivot’s New Phoenix DH Bike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNinULVRHcU

Torque’ng got your down? Here’s an article about bikes + torque + tools.
https://bike.bikegremlin.com/18208/tightening-torque-and-torque-wrenches-explained-101/

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