Chris Porter has long been known as one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of the longer/lower/slacker trends in mountain bike geometry, and his Geometron bikes have pushed the envelope further than just about anything else out there. Chris has opinions on a whole lot more than just bike geometry, though, and in our recent conversation we got his takes on wheel sizes, eBikes, suspension tuning, Vladimir Putin(?), and a whole lot more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

• Background & motorcycles (2:16)
• Founding of Mojo & trashing a rental house (5:46)
• Experimenting with geometry (10:24)
• Mondraker & Fabien Barel (17:47)
• Partnership with Nicolai (26:42)
• Trail Nirvana (34:35)
• “eBikes ruined it” (36:37)
• Geometron Bikes (44:32)
• Tradeoffs in bike design (50:38)
• Craft vs. Math in bike setup (55:58)
• Wheel sizes & the death of 27.5? (58:12)
• Chris’ Big Idea (1:11:51)

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