The Big Dumb Ride
The Big Dumb Ride
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.
S2, Episode 5: Across Andes with Cynthia Frazier
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.
Feb 15, 2023
1 hr 6 min
S2, Episode 4: Ups and Downs with Meena Aladdin
What goes up must come down, and then back up, and then down, and then...
Jan 30, 2023
59 min
S2, Episode 3: Finding Out with Nate Baker from Hush Money Bikes
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.
Jan 17, 2023
55 min
S2, Episode 2: BDR the TVA with the Hosts of the Big Dumb Ride
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/
Jan 2, 2023
1 hr 38 min
S2, Episode 1: Mountain Cat 100 with Emily Monroe
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.
Dec 19, 2022
56 min
Episode 11: The Underground Railroad Ride with John Shackelford
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.
Mar 17, 2021
54 hr 38 min
Episode X: Covering Ground with Watts Dixon
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.
Mar 10, 2021
56 hr 54 min
Episode 9: Ellen and Mindy, Unbound
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.
Mar 3, 2021
1 hr 2 min
Episode 8: The Big Dumb Run with Ultra Runner Patrick Sweatt
Patrick runs across Tennessee, all the way across Tennessee, with nothing but a book on tape and a cargo vest.
Feb 24, 2021
Episode 7: FKT the GAPCO with Dylan Stagner and Jeremy Gardner
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.
Feb 17, 2021
1 hr 5 min
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