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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 68 - Mountain Biking's Unsung Heroes

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Episode 68 is all about the unsung heroes of our sport, from the pioneers in the early days, under the radar ultra-distance racers, talented photographers, underappreciated event organizers, and even a brilliant freerider-turned-rocket scientist who wheelie dropped the Large Hadron Collider while interning at CERN. Yes, that's a true story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Levy,

0:13.1

and today's show is all about the unsung heroes of our sport. Today, we're going to talk about

0:17.8

the people, maybe some products and places as well, that

0:21.1

have made a positive impact on mountain biking, but maybe haven't quite received the kudos that

0:25.9

they deserve.

0:27.0

Now, as usual, we're going to get into the news and questions before we get into our chat

0:31.4

about unsung heroes.

0:32.5

So that means that you've got about 15 minutes or so to think up three or four examples of unsung

0:38.8

heroes of your own that deserve some thank yous before you guys disagree with our picks.

0:45.8

Now, I've got Mike Kazimer with us today. Kaz, to be honest, I had a real hard time

0:50.8

coming up with my unsung heroes. There are some obvious ones that I don't think

0:55.3

qualify is underappreciated. I might rustle some trail feathers. Yeah. I might rustle some

1:03.7

feathers here, but I don't think the trail builders are really unsung heroes, because we all love

1:09.1

them. And we sing them.

1:11.4

We sing them.

1:12.2

I love them.

1:12.8

Thanks, guys.

1:17.6

There are some underappreciated trail bullers out there.

1:20.6

There's plenty of places where people don't even think how that trail got there.

1:23.7

So I think they can still be, you can sing about them more if you like.

1:24.1

Okay.

1:24.6

Okay.

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