Bikes & Big Ideas
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Bikes & Big Ideas
Bikes & Big Ideas is the weekly podcast from BLISTER that's dedicated to bringing you the most interesting conversations, news, and developments in the bike world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ashley King of Significant Other Bikes on Full-Suspension Frame Development, Production vs. Custom Frames, & More
Like most small framebuilders, Ashley King launched Significant Other making custom rigid frames, but she turned that model on its head by launching t...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino & Simon Stewart (June 2026)
Mike had to make a trip back to Mexico to help his 97-year-old Mom move, and amidst spider bites, broken windows, explosive dog diarrhea, and the usua...
Manitou on the New Mezzer & Mezzer LT
The long-travel single-crown fork landscape has shifted a ton since Manitou unveiled the original Mezzer in 2019, and the new second-generation versio...
Spot’s Ryan Palmer on their New Lightweight Trail Bike
Spot’s Ryan Palmer and Simon Stewart have been talking about bikes for years, so when Spot dropped their new Diggity 125 Trail bike, Simon quickly wou...
Gravel Hall of Famer Yuri Hauswald on His Unbound Return & Racing for Charity
Gravel Hall of Famer Yuri Hauswald is coming out of retirement at age 55 to raise money for the Life Time Foundation by racing the Unbound Gravel 200,...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino & Simon Stewart (May, 2026)
Mike and Simon unpack the first DH and XC World Cup of the season, and there’s a whole lot to talk about, including course drama, fast Frenchies, DH h...
Hannah Otto on the ‘Hardest Climb in the World’
Hannah Otto has been reeling off an impressive streak of mountain biking FKTs over the past few years, and now she’s added a road bike one to the list...
Reviewer Reports: Sea Otter Recap, eMTB Power Wars, & More
We’re back and (mostly) recovered from Sea Otter, so David and Simon sat down to discuss the highlights and main trends from the show. And we’re busy...
Vessel Bike Project’s Ultra-Customizable High-Pivot Frames
There aren’t a lot of options for truly custom full-suspension frames out there, and the few that do exist tend to be very expensive. But Vessel Bike...
Pivot Founder Chris Cocalis on Their New Insanely Powerful Shuttle AMP’d, XC Race Bike Design, 32” Wheels, & More
Pivot just launched their new Avinox M2S powered Shuttle AMP’d, so today Pivot founder Chris Cocalis talks us through the development process, the dec...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino & Simon Stewart (April, 2026)
The frame building community lost an integral parts supplier with the closing of Paragon Machine Works, so today, Mike and Simon talk about what happe...
Hans Rey on the eBike Power War & Why it Could Cost us Trail Access
Hans Rey joins Simon to discuss the letter he wrote to the bike industry about crazy-high eBike power numbers and the total disregard for the existing...
Daniel Yang on 32’’ Wheels, the Evolution of Wheel Sizes, & More
Are 32’’ wheels going to take over the MTB world, or become a flash in the pan like plus-sized tires did a decade ago? How did the bike industry take...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino & Simon Stewart (March, 2026)
Today, Mike and Simon discuss what's happening, and not happening, with the investigations into the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and...
Kavenz on Developing the Bonded VHP X Frame
The current Kavenz VHP bikes come with a sticker that says “Made from aluminum: we give a shit,” a nod to the recyclability and (purportedly) lower en...
Danny MacAskill on the Trick That Haunted Him, Creative Jogging, Nipple Height, & More
How many times have you attempted a trick or a move in a row before finally getting it? It’s probably a lot fewer than 400. Today, Danny MacAskill bre...
Reviewer Reports: New eMTBs From Pivot, Norco, Orbea, & More
David Golay shares why he hasn’t jived with any of the eMTBs he’s ridden so far, and if the new light-assist bikes from Orbea and Norco he’s been spen...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino & Simon Stewart (January, 2026)
Today, Mike and Simon discuss the invasion of Minneapolis, the killing of fellow cyclist Alex Pretti by ICE, and how the cycling community united in s...
Neko Mulally on the 2026 Frameworks Roster, Bikes, & More
Frameworks has just added Aaron Gwin — the most successful American DH racer of the modern era — to an already-stacked lineup of Asa Vermette and Anna...
Best Bikes of the Century, Part 3
We’re wrapping up our Best Bikes of the Century series, so today, Blister reviewers Zack Henderson, Xan Marshland, David Golay, and Simon Stewart reve...
Manitou & Reynolds on 32’’ Wheels
Will 32’’ wheels have staying power, or will they be another flash in the pan like plus-sized tires? Either way, they’re coming, and we sat down with...
Reviewer Reports: Chain Dampers, Gearboxes, High-Pivots & More
We’ve got a lot of interesting drivetrain-related testing going on right now, from our just-published roundup of chain damping devices to multiple gea...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino & Simon Stewart (December, 2025)
Today, Mike joins us from Loretto, Mexico, and on his way down there, he stopped in Los Algodones to get his rotten teeth fixed in what's become known...
2025 Red Bull Rampage Winner, Hayden Zablotny
Hayden Zablotny showed up at Red Bull Rampage and became the first rookie to win since Brandon Semenuk did it back in 2008. Hayden’s path to the top s...
Vali Höll on Her 2025 Season & the Dissolution of the YT Mob
Vali Höll is in the midst of one of the most dominant runs we’ve seen in World Cup DH racing, taking her third consecutive overall title and fourth co...
Reviewer Reports: Lal Katana, Norco Sight VLT, Yeti LTe, & More
We’re currently testing a huge array of bikes, from the super-efficient Norco Revolver, to the long-travel, Bosch CX-equipped Yeti LTe, with a whole l...
Gamux Founder Pascal Tinner on AON Racing, the ‘Trophy Truck,’ & More
Gamux has never done things the conventional way and takes pride in that. But they aren’t being different for the sake of being different, either. Fou...
Reviewing the News w/ Mike Ferrentino & Simon Stewart (November, 2025)
For November’s Reviewing the News Episode, Mike clues us in on what's been going on in the Cyclocross season so far. Then we have a bunch of bike indu...
Best Bikes of the Century, Part 2
In Part 2 of our series on the Best Bikes of the Century, Simon Stewart, David Golay, and Xan Marshland are back, plus Zack Henderson also joins them...
Best Bikes of the Century, Part 1
Today, we’re kicking off a new series for Bikes and Big Ideas: we’re setting out to identify the best bikes of the 21st century from over 30 brands. W...
Reviewer Reports: Bikes Big & Small, Wet-Weather Gear, & More
The days are getting short and the weather is turning foul, but we’re still testing a ton of new bikes and gear. David Golay and Zack Henderson sat do...
The Future of Rampage & How to Fix It
Since its inception in 2001, Red Bull Rampage has demanded athletes walk a fine line between risk and reward, and the unfortunate injuries that go wit...
Priority Bicycles on the High-Pivot, Belt-Drive, Gearbox Vanth Enduro Bike
Priority Cycles may be a new brand to the full-suspension MTB world, but they’ve got a ton of experience building belt-drive, gearbox bikes — and now...
Madrone Cycles on the Jab Derailleur & Going Head to Head w/ SRAM and Shimano
Madrone Cycles got its start making parts to repair a variety of SRAM mountain bike derailleurs, but now they’re taking on a much more ambitious proje...
Rocket Ramps on Building Trails, Ramps, and Action Sports Infrastructure
Rocket Ramps built a progressive bike park in the sovereign nation of Picuris Pueblo in northern New Mexico that has grabbed headlines and the attenti...
Paladin Bikes on the Wild-Looking AM1, Machining Frames & More
Paladin Bikes was founded by a group of robotics engineers who love bikes and wanted to build their own — and do it in the US. The AM1 is the result,...
Reviewing the News w/ Dylan Wood & Simon Stewart (September, 2025)
September delivered some incredible bike racing, featuring the Mountain Bike and Road Bike World Championships, the Lenzerheide World Cup DH and XC, a...
Reviewer Reports: Yeti LTe, Chromag Reazon, Trek Fuel LX, & More
We sat down to talk about Chromag’s growing full-suspension lineup, and how the new Reazon slots into it; Trek’s surprising move to turn the Fuel into...
Big Race Results & Big News From Enve
With their athletes taking wins at the Tour de France and Red Bull Hardline, Enve has been having a hell of a summer. So today we’re talking with Enve...
The Incredible Cycling Talent Coming out of Durango Devo
The list of world-class cyclists that have come out of the Durango Devo junior cycling program is astounding. Christopher Blevins is on a tear and is...