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Bikes & Big Ideas
Bikes & Big Ideas is the weekly podcast from BLISTER that's dedicated to the most interesting conversations and ideas from the bike world — and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Paladin Bikes on the Wild-Looking AM1, Machining Frames & More
Paladin Bikes was founded by a group of robotics engineers who love bikes and wanted to build their own — and do it in the US. The AM1 is the result,...
Reviewing the News w/ Dylan Wood & Simon Stewart (September, 2025)
September delivered some incredible bike racing, featuring the Mountain Bike and Road Bike World Championships, the Lenzerheide World Cup DH and XC, a...
Reviewer Reports: Yeti LTe, Chromag Reazon, Trek Fuel LX, & More
We sat down to talk about Chromag’s growing full-suspension lineup, and how the new Reazon slots into it; Trek’s surprising move to turn the Fuel into...
Big Race Results & Big News From Enve
With their athletes taking wins at the Tour de France and Red Bull Hardline, Enve has been having a hell of a summer. So today we’re talking with Enve...
The Incredible Cycling Talent Coming out of Durango Devo
The list of world-class cyclists that have come out of the Durango Devo junior cycling program is astounding. Christopher Blevins is on a tear and is...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino & Simon Stewart (August, 2025)
For this month's Reviewing the News Episode, Mike and I start with a topic that hits close to home: we both know extremely fit people who have passed...
Reviewer Reports: Revel’s First eMTB, Tons of Suspension, Big Brakes, & More
Fox’s new Podium inverted fork has understandably garnered a lot of attention, and we’ve got an update on how our testing of it is going, along with t...
GEAR THERAPY: Flat vs Clipless Pedals w/ Jonathan Ellsworth, Sascha Anastas, Simon Stewart, & Zach Henderson
For today’s Gear Therapy episode, the team gets together to try to solve Jonathan’s pedal dilemma. Like many riders out there, Jonathan is questioning...
Casey Brown on Dark Horse, Rampage, Women’s Protective Gear, & More
Last year, we sat down with Casey Brown right after the first iteration of Red Bull Rampage to feature a women’s category to chat about what it meant...
Reviewing the News w/ Dylan Wood & Simon Stewart (July 2025)
Why didn’t Jackson Goldstone race Red Bull Hardline in Wales and give us the highly anticipated showdown between him and Asa Vermette? Dylan and I div...
Our New Mountain Bike Buyer’s Guide
Our new Mountain Bike Buyer’s Guide is live, and while it takes some cues from our Winter Buyer’s Guide — the eleventh edition of which is in the work...
Stashed’s Elliot Tanner on Making Innovative Bike Storage Systems
Stashed founder Elliot Tanner has many talents, like making ultra-light climbing gear and designing components for Marker’s Kingpin touring binding. B...
Reviewer Reports: Enduro Bikes, Italian Suspension, & More
The Pivot Firebird and Propain Tyee don’t look super different on paper — they’ve got about the same suspension travel, generally similar geometry, an...
BTR’s Paul ‘Burf’ Burford on Rat Bikes & Making Affordable UK-Built Frames
Our Bike Editor, David Golay, has a long history with BTR. Back when 26’’ wheels were still the norm, he found them while making a wide search for a b...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino (June 2025)
In the June edition of Reviewing the News, we start with some good news regarding the GOP’s withdrawal of the proposal to sell millions of acres of pu...
Portland Design Works’ Erik Olson on Making Products for the Everyday Cyclist
Since 2008, Portland Design Works (PDW) has quietly been designing products that inspire people to commute by bike, ride to the grocery store, or to s...
Reviewer Reports: New Bikes, Shimano Di2, & More
We’ve been testing a massive range of bikes, from the XC-oriented Kona Hei Hei to the long-travel, full-power Santa Cruz Bullit, so David, Simon, and...
Chris McCaffrey on Riding His Bike Around the World
Ultra-fast long-distance bike rides have garnered a lot of attention of late, headlined by Lael Wilcox’s record-setting circumnavigation of the planet...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino (May 2025)
In the May edition of Reviewing the News, we start with some good news regarding the return of Revel Bikes and the acquisition of Rocky Mountain by fo...
The Transformation of Esker Cycles w/ Tim Krueger
Esker Cycles came on the scene in 2018 with a couple of sleek carbon fiber mountain bikes featuring an unknown Dave Weagle suspension platform called...
Breaking News: Revel Bikes is Back — and So is Revel Founder, Adam Miller
There is big news in the bike world today: Revel Bikes is back. And Revel’s founder, Adam Miller, is now once again the owner of Revel. It was almost...
Reviewer Reports: Tons of Suspension, Long Travel Enduro Bikes, Trickstuff Brakes, & More
Fox has launched a ton of new suspension over the last month or so, and we’ve been testing just about all of it. So David and Zack sat down to chat ab...
The Resurrection of Kona w/ Jacob Heilbron
In April of 2024, Kona Bikes set up their tent at Sea Otter, then promptly tore it back down when Kent Outdoors, who owned Kona at the time, pulled th...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino (April 2025)
There’s no doubt that Spring is a busy time in the bike world, with lots of news, early-season racing, new products being launched, and the consistent...
Outlier MTB on Product Design, Founding a Company, & Their Wild Looking Flat Pedals
There’s a fine line to walk in developing a new product, especially as a new brand without an existing track record. Make something plain and in line...
Cascade Components’ Stumpjumper High-Pivot Conversion
High-pivot bikes are generally thought of as super planted, smashy, gravity-oriented bikes, but that isn’t inherently true, as some shorter-travel hig...
Lal Bikes on the Supre Drive & Katana Trail Bike
Lal Bikes’ Supre Drive offers some compelling upsides over a conventional derailleur drivetrain, but it also needs a frame built around the system. La...
Reviewing the News w/ Dylan Wood & Simon Stewart (March 2025)
Spring is here, and things are busy in the bike world, giving Dylan and Simon lots to talk about in our March edition of Reviewing the News. They kick...
Atherton Bikes on Their Development Process, Gearboxes, & the A.200.G
Mountain bike gearboxes have had a small but vocal set of proponents for over a decade but have yet to see widespread adoption. That might be changing...
House of Looptail on Remaking Vintage Mountain Bike and BMX Tires
Finding period-correct tires has become next to impossible or prohibitively expensive when restoring vintage mountain bikes. Bike industry veteran and...
Reviewer Reports: Tons of Bikes, Chain Damper Shootout, & Much More
David Golay and Zack Henderson sat down to chat about a ton of the new gear we’re currently testing, including bikes across the travel spectrum, some...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino (February 2025)
Another month has gone by, giving Mike and Simon plenty to talk about in the latest edition of Reviewing the News. In the last episode, they were supe...
George Brannigan on the State of World Cup DH, Hardline, the Motorhead Edit & More
George Brannigan announced his retirement from World Cup Downhill at the end of the 2024 season — but he’s not done racing, and just put up a very str...
Reece Wilson on forming AON Racing, Partnering with Gamux, Belt Drives, Gearboxes, & More
Following his 2020 DH World Championships win, Reece Wilson’s downhill racing career got a massive boost that helped land him a spot on Trek’s Factory...
Camille Balanche on Yeti’s Return to World Cup DH, the State of the Sport, Injuries, & More
Camille Balanche had an outstanding 2022 race season, winning the World Cup Overall title, and carried that momentum into 2023 before a horrifying cra...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino (January 2025)
Trump’s tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico are high on Mike and Simon’s lists of topics to talk about — and it looks like there will be some uncert...
Reviewer Reports: Bikes, Shocks, Wheels, & More
The Kona Process 153 and Transition Sentinel V3 have about the same suspension travel, not super different geometry, and were both developed by compan...
Ministry Cycles on Testing, Production Challenges, & the Psalm 150 V3
When we last spoke with Chris Currie — the man behind Ministry Cycles and the striking Psalm 150 frame — he had just sent a prototype frame off for la...
Gear of the Year, 2024
Mountain bikes are, in many ways, better than ever, but we’re also seeing fewer and fewer bikes that feel like truly specialized tools for a specific...
Vorsprung on the Telum, Rapid Revalve, Shock Tuning & More
When we last sat down with Steve Mathews from Vorsprung, he shared a lot of the high-level details of their then-unreleased Telum shock. But he needed...