Welcome Fall! As the height of the cycling season comes to a close, we're preparing ourselves for the impending sales of quarter one in 2022! We discuss how Predator has always provided custom frame geometry and the importance of translating those philosophies into our newly available 3D printed cleat adapters. Our pro version custom cleat adapters allow our elite cyclists to improve their cycling potential and maintain our adaptive approach to fitting the component to the rider and not the rider to the component!

It's only August, but our little 3D printing elves have been busing filling our shelves in preparation for winter sales! We've quietly, yet not so quietly been adding more and more varieties of our cleat angle adapter packs both on our website and Amazon store! Check out the availability as well as our new Cleat Safeguard Shim and Pedal Washers! We've also been extremely focused on implementing our new cloud organization platform and discuss how we plan to "Predator-ize" the Zoho software package to elevate our internal workflows.

Listen to our extended conversation about the importance of 3D print simulation! We've previously discussed how early-on simulation can alleviate design and manufacturing problems as new technologies are quickly shaping the manufacturing world. This past week at the Olympic games, this very situation arose during a cycling event featuring new 3D printed titanium bars and ended in a game-altering disaster! Get our take on pushing the limits and the possibilities of failure.

We welcome back our first repeat guest this week, Curt Chan! Curt is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Ansys as well as a long-time pal of Predator Cycling! Curt previously joined us in Ep. 10 to discuss the Ansys Start-up program and graciously enters today's episode to talk about topology optimization more narrowly and how Ansys Discovery is creating dynamic innovation in the simulation industry. We talk concept, function, 3D additive exploration and more!

Course Drop! Aram's fifth Linkedin Learning course posted this year is now available for those interested in honing their sketching skills. Click the link below for a free 24-hour viewing link to see "Fusion 360: Sketching Fundamentals." We're discussing the takeaways from this course as well hitting on current Tour de France news, 3D print cleat adapter updates, and new Predator branding! https://www.linkedin.com/learning-login/share?forceAccount=false&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Flearning%2Ffusion-360-sketch-fundamentals%3Ftrk%3Dshare_ent_url%26shareId%3DsZMlWRD4SS%252BTJZB9ifmvqA%253D%253D

It's that time of year! The Tour de France is back and providing lots of entertainment this year from new sponsorships... to spectator crashes...to our favorite, new technology! Join us in episode 25 as we briefly discuss new design components spotted on frames in this year's tour and how the industry is evolving.

Summer school is in session! Learn about composite manufacturing while you're sipping your umbrella drink on the beach this summer! The third course in Aram's "Composite and Manufacturing" series is now live and available on LinkedinLearning.com. Catch up on videos 1 & 2, and then round out your class with part 3: Simulation and Validation. Linkedin Learning is an invaluable asset where professionals provide online courses highlighting their areas of expertise for subscribers to the students and learn at their own leisure. Listen to our discussion about the series more in-depth in Ep. 24 and check out the learning link below! https://www.linkedin.com/learning-login/share?forceAccount=false&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Flearning%2Fcomposite-design-and-manufacturing-03-validation-and-production%3Ftrk%3Dshare_ent_url%26shareId%3D3sznUS7dTqqmEMbraFRjqA%253D%253D

We're back after a two week hiatus! As we get back into the swing of things, we discuss how Predator has restructured our processes across all platforms for the past 8 years. As a small business, there are no mapped outlines steering our organizational and production endeavors! Rapid growth equals growing pains! Let's discuss.

We've been putting in some long hours here! Join Ep. 22 to listen to Aram's night time CNC machining adventures. Currently, we're cutting RF20 molds and have run into quite a few recent scenarios. Strategies are at play!

This week we're extending our ongoing conversation about NVIDIA's Omniverse software platform. Join us as we welcome Mike Geyer, Industry Marketing Mgr. at NVIDIA, in our discussion about an elaborate virtual ecosystem that's not just futuristic fan-fiction, but a real-life malleable network that is enhancing communication applications across multiple industries.