Selling mountain bikes all over the planet (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Jeff Cayley joins Adam to talk about selling mountain bikes all over the planet and making some of the best outdoor and mountain bike gear, parts, and accessories you can buy. They have a killer YouTube channel as well.

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Featuring:

• Jeff Cayley – Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Video: Yeti Cycles Factory Tour
• Video: Revel Bikes Factory Tour
• Yeti Cycles
• Revel Bikes
• Worldwide Cyclery
• KETL Mtn Apparel
• Trail One Components
• Bad Birdie Golf Apparel

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Depot (00:00:37)

https://depot.dev

3. Start the show! (00:02:51)

4. Who is Jeff? (00:04:35)

5. Sharp with business (00:11:11)

6. Learning by going (00:22:13)

7. I can do this (00:26:06)

8. Adam gushes a bunch (00:33:06)

9. The effects of creating content (00:43:17)

10. Casting for YouTube from the inside (00:46:43)

11. What is Jeff riding? (00:51:36)

12. Yeti over Revel? (00:54:44)

13. Content frequency is down? (00:57:30)

14. Sponsor: Retool (01:06:47)

https://retool.com/agents

15. Does posting to YouTube directly effect sales? (01:08:46)

16. H-E-B to TrailOne and KETL (01:24:24)

17. Developing high-end bike products (01:32:14)

18. Taking KETL to the next level (01:36:12)

19. Are you using AI? (01:42:39)

20. KETL Golf Apparel (01:53:07)

21. What's next? (02:01:03)

22. Wrapping up (02:04:24)

23. Closing (02:07:10)