Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Wanna start your own bike brand? So did Esteban and Stephan - so thats exactly what they did. Two passionate young Colombian guys with a dream of bringing quality, affordable bikes to the people of Colombia. Lots of their components are sourced from China, so they share their unique insight in sourcing these parts and starting a bike brand.
Many thanks to the guys for their time.
Spiro bikes instagram: instagram.com/spirobicycles
Spiro bikes website: spirobicycles.com
00:00 Coming up...
00:59 Intro
03:20 The Interview
06:00 Background on Spiro
09:27 Why Start a Bike Brand?
18:50 Do People Care about Brands?
22:45 Spec'ing a Full Bike
30:07 Can you Guarantee 100% Reliability?
34:58 How to Start a Bike Brand?
42:36 Learning as they Go
45:52 How many Factories have you Visited?
48:32 Difference between Brand sizes and Factory sizes
56:20 Different Levels of Factory
59:05 Made in China Vs Made in Colombia
01:04:27 The Pan Dem Ic
01:14:05 Bodging your own Bike Vs Other Peoples' Bikes
01:17:50 How Much are Big Brands Paying for Frames?
01:22:15 About the Spiro Freedom
01:27:17 Entry Level Vs. High End
01:33:33 The Most Surprising Thing You've Seen
01:39:25 The State of the Brand
01:48:02 Outro
Wanna start your own bike brand? So did Esteban and Stephan - so thats exactly what they did. Two passionate young Colombian guys with a dream of bringing quality, affordable bikes to the people of Colombia. Lots of their components are sourced from China, so they share their unique insight in sourcing these parts and starting a bike brand.
Many thanks to the guys for their time.
Spiro bikes instagram: instagram.com/spirobicycles
Spiro bikes website: spirobicycles.com
00:00 Coming up...
00:59 Intro
03:20 The Interview
06:00 Background on Spiro
09:27 Why Start a Bike Brand?
18:50 Do People Care about Brands?
22:45 Spec'ing a Full Bike
30:07 Can you Guarantee 100% Reliability?
34:58 How to Start a Bike Brand?
42:36 Learning as they Go
45:52 How many Factories have you Visited?
48:32 Difference between Brand sizes and Factory sizes
56:20 Different Levels of Factory
59:05 Made in China Vs Made in Colombia
01:04:27 The Pan Dem Ic
01:14:05 Bodging your own Bike Vs Other Peoples' Bikes
01:17:50 How Much are Big Brands Paying for Frames?
01:22:15 About the Spiro Freedom
01:27:17 Entry Level Vs. High End
01:33:33 The Most Surprising Thing You've Seen
01:39:25 The State of the Brand
01:48:02 Outro
![Explore China by Bike: Dongshan Island [Chill VLOG Edit]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZCB5KyMUxu0/mqdefault.jpg "Explore China by Bike: Dongshan Island [Chill VLOG Edit]
A few months ago we headed over to Dongshan Island to do some work for Winspace / Velonuts. I threw together some of the shots from the day into this edit. Enjoy.
Normal programming will resume next week.
I chose to flag this as an ad even though its not, this is more of just a behind the scenes / chill video I threw together. Anyway, they paid for me to travel out there, so, I thought Id flag it as paid promotion.
The video I made for Winspace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LIbZJBaxW0
More about Winspace: http://winspace.cc
Music: deep house mix by Infraction")
