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Surfing Trails on a Bike without Pedals

Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:35:04
Publish Date: 2020-10-08 17:29:44
Description:

A bike without pedals? Dog mushing? Surfing mountains? Today’s episode is a mindbender, and the backstory here all starts with episode #22 of Bikes & Big Ideas, so you should listen to it if you haven’t already.


We’re talking today with Jordi Ponti from Barcelona-based Gravity Scooters, and we discuss how the idea of a gravity scooter came to be; the advantages of ditching your pedals — and seat posts; designing a DH scooter; dog mushing; and more.


TOPICS & TIMES:

 

  • Origins of Gravity Scooters (3:13)
  • Coming up with the downhill scooter (5:48)
  • Advantages of ditching the pedals (8:48)
  • Designing a DH oriented scooter (11:59)
  • Where are people riding these? (15:52)
  • Mushing (17:17)
  • Most common questions & reactions (21:04)
  • Brakes & wheel size (26:56)
  • Price (28:55)
  • Where can people demo a scooter (31:26)
  • Find Gravity Scooters on the web (32:46)




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