First things first, what's your name and where do you come from? Tell us about the rock star days, how big were you - did people recognize you walking down the streets? You said you used to cycle behind the tour bus to get between gigs? What were you doing before NS? How did you first become involved with the MTB industry? When and why did you start NS Bikes? Have you found that there were any particularly difficult markets to get into?
Was there a point where you felt the NS starting to take off? Did it snowball, or was it slow and steady? What's your most popular product to date, and are there any products you regret making?
So what goes into designing NS products? Have you got any favorite business books or courses that helped you along the way? Anything that you'd recommend?
Looking back, is there anything you'd have done differently? What trends do you see coming in the future? You raced at the XC World Championships this year, how was that? Anything else you would like to talk about? Nov 7, You must login to Pinkbike. Don't have an account? Sign up. We were huge in the late 90's and early We played around shows over a period of over 10 years, which meant spending the greater part of our time on tour.
We were a proper rock band, with an attitude, but just enough melody in the songs to actually get us into the charts. So we had fans that listened to punk rock, and fans that liked Michael Jackson. Our audience was wide. Many of our songs received cult followings, we hear them being sung by drunk soldiers on their leave and they are played at college parties to this day.
