We deserve better bike gear.

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What’s the relationship between SCUBA & biking? MIT Intern/SCUBA expert Janice Tan explains: 

Do you like scuba diving? It’s really awesome when you’re in the water moving weightlessly in the blue, seeing turtles and manta rays right ahead of you or exploring a shipwreck. You don’t feel it in the water, but getting in and getting out is such a pain. There’s the huge oxygen tank that feels like it weighs as much as me, sticky wetsuits that take years to get into, flippers that make you walk like a dolphin on land and I can go on…

I see a parallel between scuba and biking. When you talk to bikers, everyone tells you how much they love riding their bikes. Whizzing down the roads, complete freedom and control over your journey, not being stuck in traffic. Pure bliss. The part of riding that irks me, is everything before and everything after. Check out a list of ALL the bike gear you could possibly need to go cycling:

Source: Toronto Star

Not only do you need it, you need to remember to bring it and remove it. How many times did you have to go back up to your apartment because you forgot your bike lights? Lugging your helmet and bag of lights, pumps, gloves etc. around school? Not really the coolest of looks and definitely the #1 cause of losing your gear (assuming you didn’t leave it on your bike to be stolen).

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could have a bike built in with everything you need that you can leave on and not have to think about it ever? At Gotham, we are working on building out a range of bike stuff that will be the last thing you ever need, which you can leave on your bike to use and never have to worry about it again.

Can you build a bicycle out of Q-tips and gum? Can you start a fire using only a glass of water? Then Gotham wants you! Here’s the scoop:

Gotham Bicycle Defense Industries launched on Kickstarter (the 2min bike light video is fun to watch) a year ago with the world’s first anti-theft bike light. Now we’re building more products for urban cyclists and looking for talented MechE to join our team at the Senior Engineer / CTO level / Technical Co-founder level.

What you’ll bring:
- A love for biking
- Brilliance and creativity
- Awesome bike product ideas
- Experience with mechanical design of products in Solidworks
- Experience with rapid-prototyping
- Building prototypes with your own hands: (3D printing, wood working, machining, etc).
- Experience in designing for manufacturing bike products
- Experience with managing overseas manufacturing is a plus (our factories are in China)

What Gotham brings:
- A love for biking
- Awesome bike product ideas
- A fun, entrepreneurial team that loves building and loves biking
- Experience in commercializing bike products
- Experience in making kick-ass Kickstarter products
- Experience in design for manufacturing and volume manufacturing
- Salary plus equity

If you want to join a fast-growing startup and bring your bike product ideas to life, let’s talk: please email yourfriends[-at-]bikegotham.com

Shipping Update: Everyone will have a Defender by early October!  Read below for more details.

We are working with a few excellent factories with brilliant manufacturing engineers, skilled (and well-paid) technicians, clean factories, and assembly lines that would make Henry Ford drool.  All this to make the world’s best bike lights.
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Update: Shipping for Early Bird backers starts in 1 week! Other backers, shortly thereafter.

“Slava, is your next blog post going to be about Apple again?” asked Dave Auerbach, a friend and social entrepreneur from MIT.  ”Nope,” I responded.

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