Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of the Bikes Sword Death podcast. I'm your host

Patrick and today I sat down with Greg Hardy who is the owner and founder of Rock Geist. They're

based out of Asheville, North Carolina and they make some cool shit so we had a lot of fun talking.

Greg was a great first guest. He made it easy on me. Really enjoy talking to him.

And I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. So here we go. Let's get to it.

I came in the door. I said it before. I never let the mic magnetize me no more.

But this bite me, biting me to rhyme. I can't hold it back. I'm looking for Greg Hardy.

Hello.

We're live.

Awesome, man.

Yeah.

Thank you so much for inviting me, well, allowing me to come to your shop here in

Asheville, North Carolina.

So we are in Rock Geist World headquartersquarters right now. Yeah, man. Definitely

invite. Absolutely. Welcome and happy to have you. Yeah. Very excited. You seem to be a busy man.

It seems like last weekend you were doing like a county fair or something. Yeah. Last weekend I was in

Charlotte for the Whitewater Center

outdoor market festival. But yeah, there's a lot of the falls of busy season.

It's prime riding in western North Carolina, the southeast in general. And so a lot of

races going on are about to happen. And of course, the outdoor outdoor market scene. Brewery talks, we got to talk tonight if you're going to be around. Definitely invited to that at Architebrewing. That's what I'm saying. So last weekend you did that. Now you're sitting here with me on a Friday. We're recording a podcast. Then then after this you got to cut it off and you're

going to go give a talk on bike packing is that just a day in life of owning a shop i mean you know a year

ago no absolutely not it's it's definitely grown um in the last probably year and a half that's when

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