The Big Dumb Ride: Recent Episodes
Andy Karr and Sarah Sladen
A podcast dedicated to the joys, miseries, and lessons left unlearned from your big dumb bike rides. If you ride or race bikes for long enough, you're bound to have one (or many) bike rides that were ill-conceived, didn't go as planned, or that were just plain hard. But these are the rides that give stories to tell and teach us a thing-or-two about who we are and remind us why, no matter how ridiculous the endeavor, we love to ride our bikes. This is a lighthearted, interview style podcast dedicated to exploring the misadventure stories from some of your big dumb rides.
Join us on the 5th episode of Season 2 of the BDR. We chat with Cynthia, AKA Watt Wagon, about imaginary nutcrackers, volcano emojis, organizing gravel races, and some of the biggest, dumbest rides out there.
On today’s episode with chat with Nate Baker, co-owner of Hush Money Bikes, about coming home to Lancaster, PA, uncrustables, forest swords, planning big dumb rides like the Fall Fuckaround and the Hootananny, and his biggest, dumbest ride of all: a highly unexpected open heart surgery and the recovery journey to getting back to doing what he does best: fucking around and finding out on two wheels.
In this special episode we change things up a bit by forgoing the guest and instead recap our own big dumb ride: the 2021 Trans-Virginia Bike Route. Check out the official TVA website here:https://www.transvirginia.org/ and Andy's account of the ride on the Radavist:https://theradavist.com/serendipity-on-the-tva-550-miles-and-a-roll-of-superia-x-tra-400-film/
Emily joins the hosts of the Big Dumb Ride to kick off season 2 in style. We talk about everything from gas station hotdogs, to why mountain bikes are great for yeeting off everything, to bent chainrings, and of course underground bike racing and the wonderfully unique MTNCAT100.
John joins us to share the incredible story of his 1,100 mile adventure across the american south and his plans for advocacy, learning as he goes, and some big dreams.
Join us on this, our tenth (tenth?!?!) episode of the Big Dumb Ride where we talk with Greensboro, NC bike shop owner Watts Dixon about a life of big dumb rides, shop life, and just life. We couldn’t dream up a better way to mark this milestone than going deep with such an interesting, and compelling, guest.
Mindy Simmons and Ellen Tarquinio join us to recount their simultaneous experiences contending with Kansas' most famous gravel bicycle race, among other things on this laughing fit riddled episode of the BDR.
Patrick runs across Tennessee, all the way across Tennessee, with nothing but a book on tape and a cargo vest.
Dylan and Jeremy set out with a single minded focus: set the fastest known time from Pittsburgh, PA to Washington, DC along the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal trail network. With a few late surprises, everything had to go right for them to do it. Listen to this episode to find out how it went.
Dan Henry joins us to describe his most epic misadventure gone wrong. While on a work trip, and intending only to sneak a short ride in before a big meeting, he ends up getting a much bigger adventure than he had prepared for.
Edrie experiences close contact with a mailbox, finds her passion, and becomes a champion on this positivity infused hour of stoke on this week's BDR podcast.
Nearly 4,200 miles. Nearly 165K' of climbing. It's our biggest, dumbest ride yet. The Transam is America's premier ultra endurance bicycle race, and our friend Ken will tell you all about it.
Bike MS raises more money than any other cycling event for any other cause — Molly joins us to describe what her first go at that event has created for her.
We chat with Alex about how to make bike racing more fun, keeping cross weird, gas station food, and why he decided to make the east coast’s hardest mountain bike race even harder by forgoing gears and suspension
An event as unique and entertaining as Steve himself, the Huracan is considered the ultimate off-road endurance event in Florida, featuring over 100 miles of single track, remote doubletrack forest roads, deep water crossings, plenty of critters, and more sand than is present in the rest of the world.