Dan Wolfe on EDR's uncertain future, working for Pinkbike, the Irish mountain bike scene and more
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Dan Wolfe is a former World Cup downhill and EDR racer from Ireland, known to many for his live reporting from events for Pinkbike. During the episode, Dan talks about growing up in Ireland and how he discovered mountain biking through his older brother. He also discusses how he first started racing downhill, becoming one of the early riders to switch to enduro, and speculates on what the future could look like for EDR. Dan walks us through how he began managing social media accounts for Pinkbike, his true love for being at/reporting from events, and his keen eye for riding styles.
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| 0:00.0 | Are they all like similar? Oh Jesus. Do you know what? It's a little bit like the eye of Ceyron. You know the all seeing eye. You know, you see that? The all seeing eye. It's like a third eye. Tolkien's favourite chocolates. Yeah. Nice. |
| 0:32.8 | On today's episode, we have the one and only Irish stallion, they call him. |
| 0:33.8 | They're doing now. |
| 0:35.0 | Dan Wolfe. |
| 0:37.5 | Man, I'm going to use that. Thanks for joining this. Thank you for having me. They're doing now. Dan Wolff. Come on. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm going to use that. |
| 0:39.2 | Thanks for joining, dude. |
| 0:40.3 | This stallion. |
| 0:40.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:41.8 | The stallion. |
| 0:42.5 | Mate, I'm really hyped on this one because I feel like we've recorded probably seven podcasts worth seven two-hour podcasts worth of chat already. |
| 0:52.0 | And I don't feel like we're really getting close to the bottom of the barrel. There is no bottom. Hopefully we can screen. Just a long barrel to a no bottom, yeah. The biggest barrel. Hey, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. No, base six. Thank you very, very much. Further this travel guest, possibly. Yeah. Possibly for the studio, I think. Yeah. A ferry and a six-hour drive at sheer pace. Yeah, I'm here. Appreciate it. I made your Christmas party. You did, and it was good, wouldn't it? Which was nice. Yeah, it was probably like 20 podcasts worth of information at the Christmas party as well. Yeah. And you didn't even tell me to stop. |
| 1:30.6 | No, hey, I'm not like, shut off, Dan. |
| 1:31.3 | No, no, no. |
| 1:33.4 | We're all, it was like a podcast in it. It was like good conversation. |
| 1:34.6 | That's what I mean. |
| 1:35.1 | I'm not saying you talk too much. |
| 1:36.5 | No. |
| 1:36.9 | Well, we'll see in this next. |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:39.3 | I do. |
| 1:40.6 | We all feeling fresh, though? How are you feeling? Yeah, I feel alright. I woke up, I couldn't talk. |
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