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How They're Made: Bridgedale Bike Socks
Nov 13, 2024
Go behind the scenes at Bridgedale to see the people who make socks fit for your outdoor adventures.
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at Bridge Deale we believe it's little
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things that make the biggest difference
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to our lives it's little things that
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come together to make big things happen
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for over a century our socks have been
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one of the little things that transform
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your journey every
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day our passion experience and care for
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every tiny detail from our fit our
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Fusion technology and our guarant te
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have helped us create the world's most
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comfortable and injurying
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socks this is where it all starts from
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the consumer would ask us you can you
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design this or design that or ourselves
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let's do something different we take it
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in the
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MPD people is the first thing the way we
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treat people the way people work for us
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the attitude the whole the whole lot I
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think it's special I think it's special
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we have a group of people whether
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they're young whether they're old they
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all work together and working together
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for the same goal because they're all
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passionate about what they
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do first and foremost the components
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come in through the the main door
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Charlie will then put them into the
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position then they will be taken towards
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the
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winding we're not in at winding or we
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explained we fold or wind or twist
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whatever way you want to call it both
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Yarns together or more than two Yarns
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together but it will be natural fiber
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and it'll be manmade fiber this what
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creates the strength of a bridge deal
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sock what we do in here or the
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characteristics of it it's all down to
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what we do in
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here they will then transfer from there
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into the Knitting Room as well well all
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the components will come together to
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produce whatever style we need at that
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time
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I'm Trevor I've been here 40 years I'm a
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n so iJoy it I like it here you know
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good company you know I'm responsible
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for all 16 17 machines running there I
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look after oh socks are fantastic really
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are the best best ever like pure comfort
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you know pure
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Comfort well basically I'm maintenance
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which
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involves everything um from the lights
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not working to Machinery around the
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plant not
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working sometimes you have there to sort
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of try and fix things because you can't
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get parts maybe you know it takes a bit
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of time to order a new part so you have
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to try and repair it to keep the machine
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going and then wait until the new part
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comes so you know that's why this
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equipment is pretty vital you know to do
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the
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job so we're first in
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but everybody calls me pre everybody's
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really good to work with and everybody
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helps you you can go to anyone and sort
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of say if you're stuck ask for help and
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there's no problem helping
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you although the machines are making the
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S it's it's the people that are checking
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them and making sure that you know
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nothing's being missed you know we're
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only one part of call so many other
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people are checking them and making sure
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not only that we haven't missed anything
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but that it is all right where it's
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going before we even send it out to
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anyone
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once the batch is finished it will then
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go towards bulking where the socks I get
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to their finished size what they're
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trying to do is is break the Nyon so
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then that's it it is shrunk it'll not
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shrink anymore so you know that sock
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will always go back to that
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size after
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knitting and after Bing
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boarding is then to make them more
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presentable the socks will pass through
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the steam chamber and we get pressed and
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we come out go on the conveyor belt go
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on the boards ready for purring and
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examining as you've watched as we walk
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around the amount of people that handle
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the sock it's different it's different
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it's not automated you'll see Wilmer and
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you'll see Nadine checking every sock
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every sock is checked at P an
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examiner if we have a issue with like
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sock so for instance like if there was
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loads of like stitching in the socks um
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we could take them on to the Knitting
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Room and would fix the machine and look
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into it you know everyone's the sort of
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eye we go paramin then leaves for
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packing again it will be looked at every
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stock check to make sure they're right
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for the
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consumer what makes bridale special it's
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the people it's their passion their
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attention to detail and their
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determination to produce the best socks
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it's about our fit and our Fusion
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technology and the fact that we're
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constantly testing all of those things
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and that allows us to make the most
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comfortable and durable socks that
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people can
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buy in a nutshell we design and Niche
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socks which mean that people can go
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outside without having to think about
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their feet we do that for them that's
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bridgedale that's what we do
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