{"podcast":{"title":"Overnight Success","slug":"overnight-success-599643","podcast_index_feed_id":599643,"rss_url":"https://publicfeeds.net/f/16659/overnight-success","website_url":"https://escapecollective.com","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/16659/images/5e33d017-02dd-425f-9a0e-5304abd3900a/YmE0Yy5wbmc.jpg","author":"Escape Collective (info@escapecollective.com)","episode_count":48,"summary":"A podcast about the founders, the innovators, and the remarkable people in the cycling industry and the stories about the icons they've created. Escape Collective is member-funded. If you like this podcast please consider supporting us by becoming a member: https://escapecollective.com/overnightsuccess/","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T18:19:52.098908+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/overnight-success-599643"},"episode":{"title":"Overnight Success: Building Factor Bikes","slug":"overnight-success-building-factor-bikes","published_at":"2024-08-16T20:54:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/overnight-success-599643/overnight-success-building-factor-bikes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/overnight-success-599643","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/7849a705","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/16659/149f0ec7-778c-4ba9-9660-15d793bb2329/7f4cd927.mp3","summary":"For many years, bike brands have been known to collaborate with automobile and Formula 1 companies in order to align themselves with their halo of high level performance, innovation and technology. But factor bikes started in reverse to that. Factor might seem like a relative newcomer in the market, and that's partially true. It's been a mere eight years since their bikes became widely available, but they got their start almost 16 years ago when a gentleman named John Bailey came along, who owned a Formula One data measurement and composites company. His company was called British Formula One, or BF-1 for short. John wasn't even a cyclist, but he wanted a project for his team of engineers to work on that showcased BF-1's capabilities and technology to his automotive market. He did this by launching a bike into the future and breaking every rule in the book. If you enjoyed this and want to hear more, please become a member of Escape Collective by joining here: https://escapecollective.com/member","meta_description":"For many years, bike brands have been known to collaborate with automobile and Formula 1 companies in order to align themselves with their halo of high le…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3800,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/overnight-success-599643/episodes/overnight-success-building-factor-bikes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/overnight-success-599643/overnight-success-building-factor-bikes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}