“A lot of it was caused by greed”: Factor’s CEO on navigating “self-inflicted” bike industry chaos, Chris Froome’s set-up complaints, trickle-down track tech, and why rim brakes are never coming back

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“A lot of it was caused by greed”: Factor’s CEO on navigating “self-inflicted” bike industry chaos, Chris Froome’s set-up complaints, trickle-down track tech, and why rim brakes are never coming back

In a bike industry podcast special, Factor chief Rob Gitelis looks back over his 30 years of building bikes, the company’s “business as usual” approach to the Covid pandemic and its aftermath, and how he made the Aussies go three seconds faster in Paris