The BikeRadar Meets Podcast | Chris Porter on all things geometry and suspension

We sit down with Mojo Rising guru Chris Porter, a man with a vast amount of knowledge when it comes to bicycle geometry and suspension

Mojo's Chris Porter expertly refreshes Seb's fork, ready to take on the demanding test track with maximum suppleness

Andy Lloyd

Tom Marvin

Published: May 26, 2020 at 10:15 am

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Mountain bike geometry and suspension kinematics might seem like a bit of a dark art but if one man knows his stuff, it's Chris Porter.

The man behind Mojo Rising and the now legendary Geometron mountain bike brand has spent decades riding, testing, designing and hypothesising about how mountain bike geometry and suspension all works – and how it should, probably, work better.

Pre-lockdown, we sent our own suspension guru, Seb Stott, to the depths of the Forest of Dean to discuss the intricacies of suspension and frame design, and plenty more to boot.

Chris has a bit of a reputation as a talker, and there's plenty to discuss, so we've split the interview in to two parts.

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Tom Marvin

Senior technical editor

Tom Marvin is a technical editor at BikeRadar.com and MBUK magazine. He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. With more than twenty years of mountain biking experience, and nearly a decade of testing mountain and gravel bikes, Tom has ridden and tested thousands of bikes and products, from super-light XC race bikes through to the most powerful brakes on the market. Outside of testing bikes, Tom competes in a wide range of mountain bike races, from multi-day enduros through to 24-hour races in the depths of the Scottish winter – pushing bikes, components and his legs to their limits. He’s also worked out that shaving your legs saves 8 watts, while testing aerodynamics in a wind tunnel. When not riding he can be found at the climbing wall, in his garden or cooking up culinary delights.
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