Chris Burkard, Rebecca Rusch, and Gus Morton on their fat bike trek across Iceland

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

4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today on the show, Payson is joined by photographer/adventurer Chris Burkard, “Queen of Pain” Rebecca Rusch, and adventure filmmaker Gus Morton to discuss their recent fat bike expedition across Iceland’s interior to forge a new route from North to South. The journey lasted six days and involved -23ºC temperatures and punishing wind and snow. In their first interview after the journey, they talk about how they prepared for conditions which are impossible to replicate outside of Iceland,...

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0:00.0	You know, on a fat bike, you take the slowest crashes of your life.
0:04.3	And then you take some of the fastest, most unexpected crashes of your life.
0:08.7	And I was like, I don't want this crash to result in, like, me busting my knee open, you know, or something like that.
0:15.0	And Gus just brought flats.
0:16.9	She just brought clipless.
0:17.9	I brought both.
0:18.7	And I was like on the fence like didn't know whether to go like you know go to the right go to the left
0:22.6	It's showtime everybody showtime
0:26.6	You've been living in a dream world, Neil
0:30.6	This is the world as it exists today
0:36.6	Life moves pretty fast.
0:38.8	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:41.2	You could miss it.
0:44.4	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:47.6	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:49.2	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:51.5	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:55.3	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:00.1	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:03.8	Hello and welcome back to the show.
1:05.5	This week, Rebecca Rush, Gus Morton, and Chris Burkard fresh off of their incredible trek via fat bike
1:13.0	from the north coast of Iceland all the way south to the southern coast of Iceland in winter.
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