Alexey Vermeulen, pro cyclist

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Alexey Vermeulen began his career racing on the WorldTour circuit for Jumbo Visma. After falling out of love with the road scene, he decided to transition to gravel and mountain bike racing in 2018. Since then, his results have included second and first place finishes at the Iceman Cometh in consecutive years, and third at Belgian Waffle Ride. In this conversation, he talks about his decision to change the trajectory of his career early on, and the steep learning curve of switching from road ...

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0:00.0	I wasn't able to talk to sponsors when I was on a world tour team.
0:03.5	And that's a very big disconnect for me when these companies are putting in a lot of money.
0:07.6	And riders aren't able to even provide any value beyond being a collective.
0:12.3	And that's one of the things I changed when I moved to the whole private tier model is I want to have that conversation with the person who's in charge of the creative side, the brand side, the cash side.
0:22.2	It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
0:27.0	You've been living in the dream world, Neo.
0:30.7	This is the world as it exists today.
0:35.6	Life moves pretty fast.
0:37.9	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:40.3	You could miss it.
0:43.6	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:46.7	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:48.3	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:50.7	I see.
0:51.2	You think this has nothing to do with you.
0:54.6	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
0:59.2	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:04.1	Hey everybody, welcome back to the show.
1:06.3	Today we have a conversation with a friend of mine and a competitor of mine, someone I do battle with many times a year.
1:17.9	Alexi Vermeulen.
1:19.4	Alexi I wanted to have on the show because he's had quite the pendulum swing of sorts.
1:26.1	He started his career at one end of the spectrum in the
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