Ep. 1167: Mountain Biking in Pakistan - Greg Robidoux Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Mountain Biking: Greg Robidoux on Wild Early-2000s Tour of the Himalayas Race in Pakistan, Food Poisoning, Terrorist Hideouts, and Epic Adventure Stories. Greg Robidoux joins us today to share some truly wild stories about mountain bike racing in Pakistan in the early 2000s in the Tour of the Himalayas. From food poisoning to terrorist hideouts, this episode is short, but packed full of adventure and will have you dreaming up what you can do if you’re willing to go for it!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. We talk with adventures from around the globe to give you the inspiration you need to get started in the outdoors or keep moving if you're already there. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Caleb. I am pleased to |
| 0:24.7 | announce that as of today, that is January 13th, my dad, Kurt, has successfully landed in Tanzania |
| 0:33.5 | and will, I believe tomorrow, begin the long trek, the expedition to climb Mount Kilimanjaro |
| 0:42.3 | as part of the fundraiser for We See Hope. |
| 0:45.3 | Well, he's gone, I'll be stepping in a little bit more to do a few of the other episodes |
| 0:50.3 | in addition to the Friday Revisited episodes, and as I hear news, I will, of course, |
| 0:57.4 | keep you all updated and let you know what he's up to. In today's revisited episode, Mason |
| 1:03.8 | interviews Greg Robido. And this is a short but really powerful and impactful episode with lots of great stories about Robido Mountain Bike Racing in Pakistan in the Himalayas. |
| 1:20.8 | From food poisoning to terrorist hideouts. |
| 1:24.4 | This episode has a little bit of everything. |
| 1:27.2 | I hope you enjoy it. Here's Mason. |
| 1:31.0 | All right, folks, today, very interesting episode, something I'm excited here about. I hear |
| 1:37.5 | there's some good stories in here as well. We're going to be talking about cycling. |
| 1:43.5 | Cycling in Pakistan, cycling in the Himalayas just cycling |
| 1:48.3 | in these different places and some cool stories associated with it Greg Robidoe welcome to the show |
| 1:53.9 | thank you thank you very much for having me yeah yeah so I always ask this first |
| 1:58.8 | where are you coming from and is that that home? And if not, where's home? |
| 2:04.5 | So born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Somehow I've avoided the Boston accent for the most part. |
| 2:11.5 | I was going to say, you're born and raised. I didn't realize that. Well, what did you grow up doing? |
| 2:16.7 | You know, being there, you know, folks heard in the intro, you do, you know, physical, you know, some training now, some physical therapy, some, you're in the cycling world. But what did you grow up doing? Did you play sports? Did you go outside a lot as a family? And how did you get into it? Yeah, we were, I had kind of a unique childhood. |
| 2:35.6 | You know, my, unfortunately, my mother was very sick when I was young. |
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