- What's up? Welcome to Ventum HQ. Come on in.
(intro music)
We're here in Ventum HQ in Heber City, Utah.
We moved to the area late last year and super excited
about our surroundings.
I don't know if you saw
but pretty gorgeous outside.
It's gorgeous inside. Here we go.
So we're here in our lovely show room
featuring some of our awesome builds.
We've got our Ventum Ones setup here.
Ventum NS1s, some hydration on the wall
little seating area and we've got our Iron Man
world championship special paint jobs.
This is from last year 2019.
This is from the 40th anniversary, year before that,
and we got some cool custom painted ones down there as well.
Then this is where all the big decisions get made
check it out.
So we've got our conference room here with some
of our pros on the wall.
We got the very speedy Lauren Brandon and Cody Beals.
This is a custom painted Ventum One
with some rotor build.
Pretty cool and
Leanda Caves
first place finish.
We're going to continue on.
So much to show you, so little time.
This is some cool art that I really, really do love
it's our tech specs on our frames.
This is what we sent to China to get the molds
and bikes built properly.
Then we just turned them in to art.
So we got the Ventum One and S1.
So not only do we make some rad bikes here
we make some awesome kits.
Partnering with Wattie Ride etc.
This is our favorite the man, the myth, the legend
DIA as a kit.
All right, so we should probably show you the rest
of the place right?
Let's take a ride.
Here we go.
Keep up there Tarron. Come on now.
This is some of our crew here.
Something special in the works right here.
Check out this 3D printing. We can't really
tell you what it is right now and you really can't
tell what is is which is perfect.
So we're mocking up some rapid prototypes
for some awesome 2020 products.
This, right here, something very special
but we're going to have to wait til the end to show you.
So I wanna show you this. We love producing
some awesome content here at Ventum.
And this right here Empire Pass first snow of last year
and that is the man, the myth, the legend Barret Brandon
riding in a crazy situation, in my opinion,
but it makes for great art.
Not only do we make some rad bikes here at Ventum
we have some awesome ping pong tournaments.
Let me tell you this Dia is not number one.
Sorry Dia. I'm taking over.
Additionally we've got a spin studio.
Full of the latest Wahoo Kickrs and head wings.
Some awesome TVs to keep your mind from going numb.
Little mood lighting via Dia.
This is where the magic happens right here.
This is Dia's special NS1 build.
Full custom painted. Camoed out.
When you're done with your spin sesh.
We have some lockers, showers both men and women,
get cleaned up, go back to work.
Not only that we have all our, you know,
places for bikes for employees.
So it's just a hodge podge of rides here.
This is my custom NS1. Kind of murdered out.
With ceremy tap and I've got, it's kind of funky,
I got a 700CF front, 650B in the rear,
don't ask why. I can't tell you.
We got some gravel-ish testing going on with the NS1.
We keep on moving.
So this is where we have lunch. Super exciting stuff.
I dunno. I know. Trust me. It's important.
We got some demo fleets here.
Ventum ones, Ventum Zs and NS1.
This is our warehouse.
Not only do we store and build everything here.
We have parties, sometimes.
So if you have a dirty bike
this is where it gets cleaned right here.
Right here we've got some of our top mechanics here.
We've got Chris working on a custom painted Ventum One.
We got Bobby working a Ventum Z.
Not only do we have this warehouse where all the bikes
get built and shipped from here.
This is pretty cool
All the small parts you can figure.
We got bike valves, we got rear mounts, we've got bolts
of every shape and size.
We carry all the inventory needed
to build the bikes our customers purchase.
From countless Shimano drive trains, bearings,
bolts, bars, meters,
cranks, everything, tires.
This is where the bike box get built.
We're pre assembling a bunch of boxes
for NS1 orders that are in the queue.
More frames looking for homes.
This is really cool. This is the NS1 box right.
So you order an NS1, you get it in the mail
this is what it comes out like.
It is, hello I'm yours.
Fold it open.
You're going to start your journey right here.
Boom. So there's no bike in this right now
but when you open it up the bike fits in there.
All you have to do are put wheels, your seat post on
and you're ready to roll.
All right so you've seen the warehouse,
you've seen the ping pong table,
you've seen the spin studio,
you've seen the front office,
let's go upstairs and see where all the decisions get made.
We're up at the top level of Ventum HQ.
We've got a wonderful wellness yoga area.
Genius at work. She is busy. Sorry we can't open that door.
Let me introduce you to our chief financial officer
Barret Brandon. This is Barret. He controls all the money
and all the decisions.
[Brandon]-Checks, balances, debts, credits.
- There we go.
[Brandon]-Yeah
- Wow look at that. Ebbada.
[Brandon]-Hired.
[Brandon]-Balancing sheets.
Ebbuda. It's all about Ebbuda.
We got some things over here you really shouldn't look at.
But just more offices. This is where management team
makes all the decisions.
This is my office. Please don't look too closely.
It is atrocious right now.
We've had back to back productions.
I told you not to look in there.
Yeah it's a bit of a mess. Need to organize.
All right so, we'll go back downstairs
and I'll show you what's behind door number three.
So we saw this door. It's really exciting.
This is where, legitimately, the magic happens.
We're gonna go into the studio and there's something
special inside I want to show you all.
So this is our production studio.
Photos, videos, anything you can think
of we are producing it in here and look and see
check this new bike out. This is the refreshed Ventum Z
with Shimanno 105 build and Enve wheels.
Price point 3499.
What we have here is the newly refreshed Ventum Z.
Continuing with our proprietary and award winning
race winning design, coupled with Shimanno 105.
We're bringing the price point down to the masses.
Yet we're specking it with the OEM Enve wheels.
Price with Enve wheels 3499.
So just like Ventum One the Ventum Z has our
proprietary hydration system and it completes the frame
and makes this faster with hydration than with out.
No other bike can make that claim.
So the Ventum Z with the 105 and Enve wheels
will be available now as you are watching this.
Check it out. Ventumracing.com
Thank you visiting Ventum HQ.
You've seen, you've conquered.
You've drank our coffee.
It's time for you to head back to Canada.
Love you long time Tarron.
So what's up trainiacs.
Thank you to Ventum for hosting me over the last three days.
It's been really cool. I've been hearing
all around the industry that your head office
is really neat and yeah. As far as head offices go
this is pretty cool. So very thankful that you hosted me
for three days that I was in Utah as auntie K and I
gradually acclimatized into cold weather
coming from Santa Barbara, going back to Winnipeg.
So it was really neat to see this whole new setup
that you've got and with all the changes and new bikes.
Ventum Z, new kits, new shirts for Tarron and just
so everyone knows the Ventum Z is the entry level bike
that is the price accessible bike for the Ventum line up.
And it has still that same geometry that the high end
Ventum One has with that same lack of a down tube
so that you're front is really nice and stable.
You don't get off the bike feeling tired
but it's at that nice entry level price point.
I actually have one at home that I use for training
quite regularly and from what I hear, the majority
of the Tri bikes that they actually sell because
of that awesome price point is the Ventum Z.
Good bike. So that's training ax if you aren't already
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