Ep 187 Bike industry veteran Bill Armas of Bell Sports, GT Bicycles, and Park Tool


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Feb 20 2025 93 mins   2

I was fortunate enough to meet Bill early in my career at GT Bicycles and he had a big impact on me in those early years. Bill is semi-retired currently after many great years in the industry. He started his career at Bell Helmets and was involved in the Bell V1-Pro development and sales programs. Anyone else have one of those hideous buckets back in the day, Sorry Bill :) He moved from Bell to GT Bicycles and that is where we met. Bill was in charge of helmets and soft goods at GT and generally keeping things together after the untimely death of GT/Riteway founder Richard Long. Bill shares the story of the day Richard passed and how that impacted him and everyone at GT, Richard was a one-of-a-kind leader and everyone working for GT wanted to make him proud. RIP. Bill later moved on to work for Park Toll on Minnesota for 9 years and has nothing but fond memories of his time there. He now calls San Diego home and spends much of his time coaching Girls Softball something he has done for many years and is one of the absolute best at it but he is too humble to brag about it. Don't worry we don't talk baseball in this episode. Hope you enjoy. Please note we hit some technical difficulties towards the end of the podcast so it gets a little choppy but worth sticking it out. Please support the podcast if you appreciate what we are doing at [email protected] and hit the support button at the top right of the screen. Thanks for your support.

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