{"id":2071427,"date":"2026-07-31T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2071427"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:28:40","slug":"marketing-vs-engineering-and-the-32-inch-bike-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2071427","title":{"rendered":"Marketing vs. Engineering and the 32-Inch Bike Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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    We missed last week because we were all deep in the woods in British Columbia testing, among other things, a 32-inch bike. We actually recorded a podcast while together but you will have to wait for that one. For now, we\u2019ve got Lisa Charlebois, Logan Jones-Wilkins, myself (Josh Ross), and host Mike Levy back in our home studios to discuss some of what we found in the forest.<\/p>\n

    We get rolling with news that Charlebois is riding seven centuries next week. That\u2019s right, she had a surplus of fitness after a planned event fell through, so\u2026 why not? Think you could do seven centuries in seven days? We talk to her about how she plans to motivate for it and we all go around the room to share our much lower highest-mileage weeks.<\/p>\n

    Next we answer listener questions but it\u2019s primarily about the big three aero bikes. I\u2019ve ridden the Factor One, the Cervelo S5, and the Colnago Y1RS, plus we throw the Specialized Tarmac SL9 into the mix. One of you out there wanted to know what I would choose to ride and why given those choices. The team graciously gave me a chance to sit in my happy place and discuss those aero bikes.<\/p>\n

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    Not for too long though. Pretty soon we rolled into questioning marketing vs. engineering in terms of bike design. We all have pretty strong feelings about who drives the conversation and why. Which is, of course, a perfect segue into discussing the 32-inch Salsa Fargo that we rode in Squamish.<\/p>\n

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    00:00:00 \u2013 Intro & Introductions
    \n00:00:50 \u2013 Lisa and 7 centuries
    \n00:13:30 \u2013 Riding in British Columbia
    \n00:29:55 \u2013 Listener questions and aero bikes
    \n00:41:20 \u2013 More listener questions and marketing vs engineering
    \n01:00:00 \u2013 Riding the Salsa Fargo 32<\/p>\n

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    Published July 31, 2026 11:28AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Velo-Podcast-thumbnail-Velo-site.jpg”] Josh Ross Published July 31, 2026 11:28AM Table of Contents \u2022Get right to the audio episode! We missed last week because we were all deep in the woods in British Columbia testing, among other things, a 32-inch bike. We actually recorded a podcast while together but you will have to wait for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2071427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2071427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2071427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2071427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2071427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}