
The Roller Door
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S1 Ep 7Ben Cathro on changes to World Cup Downhill regs, riding technique, bike setup, and the Pinkbike DH team
Hello and welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast, where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. In this episode Garen Becker— today chats with a true champion for the sport of mountain biking-- Ben Cathro is a longtime downhill racer, mountain bike skills coach, creator of the excellent video series How To Bike, and team manager-- and racer for Pinkbike's world cup downhill team. We chat about technique, bike tech, ebikes as a training tool, changes to the world cup race program for this year, and more. Links to Ben's youtube channel and the How to Bike series are below. We hope you enjoy! Cathrovision How to Bike
S1 Ep 6Out to Lunch™: nothing is ever good enough for Kiran MacKinnon
EWelcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. This episode is the first in a series we're calling Out to Lunch: In these episodes we'll dig into a particular subject with the people behind the product: in todays case, that subject is the Santa Cruz 5010, and that person is everyon's favorite human dyno, Kiran MacKinnon. Is there something you'd like to know about Santa Cruz Bicycles? Or mountain bikes in general? Don't forget to write in with questions, statements, judgements, accustations, and musings that pertain to our beloved sport of mountain biking . It's what we're here for. The email is [email protected]. We hope you enjoy, and we hope to hear from you. Oh and a reminder that our 15 seconds of music comes from La Luz. The track is Morning High.

S1 Ep 5Why Santa Cruz Product Manager Jack Russell rides e-bikes exclusively
Welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast, where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. In this episode Garen talks with Jack Russel. Jack's an industrial designer turned product manager here at Santa Cruz. Wide range of topics today, and big time nerd alert-- we talk about the evolution of bike geometry, aluminum vs. carbon, Jack's move from engineering to product management and what those two jobs mean here at Santa Cruz, airplanes, and of course, ebiking! Jack and I share an office, so he's an easy guy to get on the podcast-- so if you have any questions for Jack, or if you thik of any topics you'd like us to cover, please let us know by emailing us at [email protected].

S1 Ep 4Keegan Swenson recaps winning the Belgian Waffle Ride and sets his sights on the Cape Epic
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S1 Ep 3JT Barse, Production Manager at Santa Cruz Bicycles follows heart, moves west, finds home
Hello and welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast, where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. This time on the Podcast we've got JT Barse. Jt tallks about a crazy couple of years-- moving to Santa Cruz from the mid west, running the wheel departemnt and eventually the whole of production here at the Santa Cruz HQ. We talk about changes to process over the last few years, the glory of ebikes, and meeting his life partner.... while becoming Boy George. Jt's always a pleasure to talk to. so if you have any questions for him about the cogs that keep this machine turning, please let me know by email at [email protected]. We hope you enjoy! Questions? Email us -- [email protected] Oh, and if you're into the 5 seconds of music from our intro, that's La Luz.

S1 Ep 2Greg Williams explains the ambitious goals of the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship
Hello and welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast, where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. This week Greg and Garen chat through Greg's journey to the Downieville area, how SBTS was founded, and what they're up to these days, like rising from the ashes of the Dixie fire, the connected communities project. If you'd like to find out more, SBTS can be found at sierratrails.org. We hope you enjoy!

S1 Ep 1Peter Mueller Wille of Santa Cruz Bicycles: mad, then glad about ebikes
EHello and welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast, where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. Peter is a senior design engineer at Santa Cruz Bicycles. Garen and Peter chat about Peter's development path at SCB, our design process, changes to the Santa Cruz Highball, ebikes, and a bit about what makes Peter tick outside of bikes. We hope you enjoy!