Eliot Jackson, Pro Mountain Bike Life, & Bike Tips for All Riders...MTB Podcast Episode 76

MTB Podcast

Worldwide Cyclery

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4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

2:22 What is Eliot doing these days? 2:52 Eliot's journey to becoming a pro racer 5:48 Why he stopped racing 8:23 Eliot the underwear model? 11:15 Grow Cycling foundation 20:30 Cycling Culture - the good and the bad 30:10 What is Reggy? 32:44 What was it like presenting for Red Bull? 38:00 World Cup racing, behind the scenes 45:00 What can the average rider learn from World Cup professionals? 55:08 Audience questions 1:05:20 What is everyone riding? Today on the MTB Podcast, Jeff and Jared welcome pro mountain bike racer Eliot Jackson to talk about everything from downhill racing and bike setup tips to training habits and the future of mountain bikes. We even discuss his infamous Sea Otter crash from a few years back. Aside from racing bikes, Eliot is a Red Bull host, entrepreneur, and just overall good dude and he has a lot to say when it comes to the MTB industry. Most recently, his time has been spent creating and building the Grow Cycling Foundation, an organization dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion in cycling. Not only that, but he hosts his own podcast and manages the Reggy platform. Sit back and relax, this is a good one! Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zuEc_ZcsR4E Follow Eliot on IG: https://www.instagram.com/eliotjackson/ Eliot going OTB in slippers: https://youtu.be/nnbpMy9vM9c Grow Cycling Foundation: https://growcyclingfoundation.org/ Go Reggy: https://goreggy.com/ Grow Cycling Yeti SB150 Giveaway: https://go.rallyup.com/e38eff Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCxZoC1sIG-vVtLsJDSbeYyw Submit any and all questions to podcast@worldwidecyclery.com

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 76 of the MTV Podcast, presented by Worldwide
0:11.9	Cyclery, myself Jeff, my excellent co-host,
0:15.0	Jared, and our special guest, Elliot. Nice. This episode we are going to go over all sorts of things.
0:25.0	The various things Elliot is involved in.
0:28.0	He is basically a renaissance man, a humble human being, a professional mountain biker, co-founder of Gros Cycling Foundation,
0:35.2	founder of Reggie, and also a Red Bull Bike presenter.
0:38.4	Did I miss anything?
0:39.4	No, I think that's, yep.
0:41.4	Yep, yep.
0:42.4	Okay. So we're going to cover the various things Elliot's involved. I think that's, yep, yep, you all good.
0:42.6	So we're gonna cover the various things
0:44.2	Elliot's involved in.
0:46.3	We're also gonna talk about world-class level
0:49.2	pro-mountain bikers bike and component choices
0:51.8	and what's involved behind the scenes in their
0:54.2	sponsorship deals and how that plays into what they quote-on-quote choose to
0:58.2	ride and win on. We're going to discuss the most impactful things the average weekend warrior mountain bike rider can learn from World Cup level professionals.
1:07.0	We are going to answer your guys' questions covering all sorts of valuable topics all the way to useless and humorous questions. That should be entertaining. of course
1:15.0	what we are all riding,
1:17.0	bikes, trails, components, etc.
1:19.0	So it's going to be an action-packed episode.
1:21.0	Thank you guys for tuning in.
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