Surfing Trails on a Bike without Pedals

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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