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Arid Cycles on Self-Taught Frame Design, the Spade Enduro Bike, & More
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Ethan Eggert is hard at work refining his Arid Cycles Spade Enduro bike, which has gone through three different suspension layouts, numerous geometry and kinematic tweaks, and one catastrophically broken frame — and he’s just 19 years old. We sat down with Ethan to get the whole story — including his plans to eventually offer bikes for sale — and it’s a good one.
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Ethan’s background & the inspiration behind Arid (1:30)
The Spade V1 & learning how to design a frame (7:02)
Geometry, suspension kinematics, & radical experimentation (13:37)
The Spade V2 & refining the recipe (21:53)
Frame failure (24:46)
The Spade V3 (28:56)
Commercialization & next steps (37:27)
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