Ep. 1100: Ben Grannis - Biking ~6,000 Miles Around the US Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ben Grannis is a 26-year-old cyclist from Ridgefield, Connecticut, who embarked on a significant bike ride across America to raise awareness about distracted driving. A 2017 graduate of Kenyon College, Grannis was inspired by his father’s 1977 cross-country bike trip and his own experiences working as a trip leader for Overland Summers, an organization that runs teen adventure trips. Motivated by the tragic death of Merritt Levitan, an 18-year-old killed by a distracted driver during a bike tour, Grannis launched the Eyes Up Ride to support Textless Live More, an organization focused on combating distracted driving and promoting digital wellness.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:13.4 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.7 | Now here's your host, Kurt Lindbill. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello, friends. Welcome to the Adventure Sports |
| 0:22.3 | podcast. Today's episode is 1,100. That's kind of a milestone. 1100. And it is a revisited |
| 0:30.5 | episode with Ben Grannis and of course Mason Gravely. And they're talking about Ben's exploits of biking 6,000 miles around the United States. |
| 0:43.6 | It's going to be a fun one. |
| 0:44.7 | Thank you for listening in today. |
| 0:46.9 | And please do remember that if you enjoy this episode, share it with a friend. |
| 0:51.2 | Please tell someone about the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:56.1 | Now here's Mason. |
| 1:02.0 | So tell us, you know, I remember the last conversation we talked, it was a lot of back and forward. So I don't know if it'll be that way this time, but, you know, you did this huge, |
| 1:07.7 | huge bike tour across the country twice. |
| 1:13.2 | And for this, you know, folks have heard a little bit of the overview. |
| 1:16.3 | But tell us real quick, what has happened between when we first talked and now? |
| 1:21.5 | What have you been doing? |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.4 | So when we first spoke, I think I had just gotten home from finishing up the ride in San Diego, and I had just flown back to Connecticut, which is where I am now at my folks' place. |
| 1:39.6 | And shortly after I saw you at the athletic I went off on a road trip of actually comparable |
| 1:50.3 | length to my bike trip but in a car to interview a bunch of athletes excuse me athletes |
| 1:58.4 | who are sponsored by Maxis tires to talk about the cause that I've been riding for. |
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