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BLISTER Podcast

Blister Speaker Series 2.1: Claudio Caluori

BLISTER Podcast

BLISTER

Wilderness, Bike, Gear, Snowboard, Outdoor, Sports, Ski, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS

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Summary

Last week, we kicked off season #2 of our monthly Blister Speaker Series at Western Colorado University, where we invite influential figures to come talk about how they are shaping the outdoor industry.

Our first guest of the new season was Claudio Caluori, the announcer for the World Cup Downhill series, a former pro XC and DH racer, the founder of Velosolutions, and the initiator of #pumpforpeace.

We touch on all of these things in our conversation, and get Claudio’s perspective on a wide range of topics and questions — including a number of good ones, once again, from the audience.

TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Was this the best World Cup DH season ever? (3:44)
  • Loic & Amaury’s battle (6:10)
  • Claudio’s career racing XC and DH (8:32)
  • Philosophy of “Going All-In” (10:08)
  • How did you start announcing World Cup races? (12:24)
  • Recovering from his big crash last year (13:15)
  • Claudio’s company, Velosolutions (15:13)
  • How #pumpforpeace is serving communities (22:04)
  • Lessons from working internationally? (24:10)
  • What unites the global bike community? (26:49)
  • Sustainability & our environmental impacts (28:13)
  • Western vs. Proust (34:21)

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Blister podcast, a program dedicated to interesting people, the great outdoors,

0:07.3

and a bunch of other stuff we like.

0:10.0

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing

0:14.5

and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

0:19.9

Last Tuesday night, we kicked off season two of our monthly blister speaker series at Western

0:25.8

Colorado University, where we host influential figures of the outdoor industry right here

0:31.6

in the beautiful Gunnison Valley of Colorado.

0:34.3

And our first guest of the new season was Claudio Colori, the announcer for the World

0:39.5

Cup Mountain Bike downhill series. Claudio is also a former pro cross-country and downhill racer

0:46.0

himself. He's the founder of Velo Solutions and the initiator of Pump for Peace. And so we touched

0:53.4

on all of these things in our conversation

0:55.5

and get Claudio's perspective on a wide range of topics and questions, including a number of

1:01.1

great questions once again from the Western audience. And side note here before we get started,

1:07.4

you might also catch me calling out Blister reviewer Eric Friesen, who was in attendance,

1:12.7

but as you will see, Eric deserved it. With that, let's get to my conversation with Claudio

1:18.9

Kalori. Very happy to be back. It feels like only yesterday we were in this room. Trust you all had a good summer and very excited to fire this speaker series up again and very excited about our guests tonight. But before we get to our guests tonight, I want to tell you a little bit about our next speaker series, which I'm very excited about. No offense,

1:45.8

Claudio. Some of you've probably heard the name, Honnold. Maybe you've heard about the

1:52.8

Honnold Foundation. And on October 8th, which is a Tuesday, October 8th at 7 p.m. Dory Trimble, who is the executive director of the

2:03.9

Honnold Foundation, is going to be coming here. If you guys know Dory, she is freaking

2:10.4

amazing and I'm very, very excited to get to introduce you guys to her. There's a little movie that came out.

2:18.8

Some of you may have heard of it called Free Solo.

2:21.2

And basically the short version of the story goes that this has just exploded the

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