Andrew Taylor is Riding His Mountain Bike in All 48 Continental US States and Shares Stories from the Road
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Taylor is a professional freeride mountain biker who set out last year to ride his mountain bike in all 48 Continental US states. He’s still on the road with just a few more states to go and joins us to talk about his motivation for the trip and the equipment he’s using to make it happen. Andrew also shares some of his favorite mountain bike trails and destinations so far, and the surprising things he’s learned along the way.
You can watch videos from the trip on Andrew’s YouTube channel.
--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks
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| 0:23.2 | My name is Jeff, and today I'm going to be talking with Andrew Taylor. |
| 0:27.4 | So Andrew is a professional free ride mountain bike athlete who set out last year to ride his mountain bike in all 48 U.S. states. |
| 0:35.9 | He's still on the road with just a few more states to go, and today, |
| 0:39.6 | I believe he's joining us from his van. Thanks for joining us, Andrew. Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 0:45.2 | So how did you get into mountain biking and free ride specifically? So actually, like, growing up |
| 0:51.2 | in Santa Rosa, California, I lived right across the street from a place |
| 0:55.6 | called Annadale State Park, which offered a bunch of solid mountain bike trails. So I grew up just, yeah, |
| 1:03.2 | ride my bike after school over there quite a bit. And I had a lot of friends growing up that |
| 1:08.7 | were doing the BMX dirt jump thing. And we had a solid set of dirt jumps in town. |
| 1:13.6 | So it was kind of like the perfect timing where I believe it was like specialized, launched like their P-series bikes, and dirt jump mountain biking started to become a big thing. |
| 1:24.3 | So I really went from like kind of dabbling with some racing into just the whole free ride |
| 1:30.5 | dirt jumps scene. And yeah, I haven't really looked back since. Yeah, that's cool. I mean, |
| 1:35.7 | were the dirt jumps, were these like sanctioned dirt jumps or were these like things people had |
| 1:40.4 | just built like kind of unofficially? Yeah. So we had in the city of Santa Rosa behind the skate park, they were kind of these |
| 1:49.0 | unofficial jumps that were built by a big BMX crew that was a bit older than I am. |
| 1:54.2 | And eventually the city saw what they were doing and wanted to make it legal. |
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