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The Adventure Stache

Bjorn Riley on Scott-SRAM training camp, painting, and his near-fatal snake bite

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

Outdoors, Interviews, Society & Culture, Current Events, Culture, Photography, Adventure, Mountain Biking, Celebrities, Inspirational, Basketball, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneur, Cycling, Athletes, Sports

4.9727 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Payson stops by XCO National Champion Bjorn Riley’s apartment in Girona to hear about his training camp in South Africa with his new team, the one and only Scott-SRAM. They also discuss the part of winning a race that people don’t often talk about: the terrifying moment when you decide to throw caution to the wind and just go for it. Then, Bjorn pulls out some of the artifacts he’s found in abandoned buildings on rides in the Spanish countryside and recounts his experience of getting bitten b...

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0:00.0

On those long endurance days, I make sure that the quality is still good, but if there's 30 minutes where I'm trekking through some bushes and I'm finding this weird abandoned house or going searching through this abandoned house, it is what it is. It's going to make me so much happier. And for me, I've noticed those long days are honestly a rest day because I'm just like so mentally free to do

0:23.0

whatever I want and I'm still training but if I wasn't training I'd still be doing the exact

0:27.4

same thing. Yep. So it's just I'm just viving. It's showtime everybody. Showtime! You've been

0:36.0

living in a dream world, Neil.

0:38.9

This is the world as it exists today.

0:43.8

Life moves pretty fast.

0:46.2

You don't stop and look around once in a while.

0:48.7

You could miss it.

0:51.8

Listen, we talk about practice.

0:55.0

Repeat on the dude's room.

0:56.6

Donnie, you're out of your element.

0:58.9

I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.

1:02.8

Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.

1:07.5

This is the adventure stash with Payson McAlvin.

1:12.1

Hi, everyone. We're back from Morocco and back to our regular hour plus sit down interviews here in Gerona.

1:19.9

If you missed it, we did daily post-stage recap pods during all four days of Sahara gravel.

1:30.3

And they were really fun. But today bjorn riley who is current u.s xio national champion the pretty much undisputed king of style

1:38.3

and all around very interesting guy joins us right after returning from Team Camp with his brand new squad,

1:45.3

Scott Sram, and tells us all about it and much more. I really enjoy this one. We honestly

1:52.4

only cut it off because it was 8.15 p.m. and we were all getting pretty hungry. Please enjoy.

2:00.6

Today's episode is brought to you by Epic Rides,

2:03.4

purveyors of the Great Whiskey Offroad, one of my all-time favorite events. Their storied

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