Ep. 140 ~ East Texas Showdown 2023 Preview
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
As the East Texas Showdown heads into it's third year the excitement is growing and so are the questions. To help answer the questions we brought in a few past participants who are also competing again this year. Our guest are Kuya Takami who won the Showdown last year, Emily Miller who is hoping to ride the Slowdown without sleeping, and Brendan Hare who was our Pro Slow winner last year and is stepping up to the Showdown this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | As always, my name is Patrick and I'm your host. |
| 0:07.0 | And on today's episode, all roads lead to the East Texas Showdown. |
| 0:12.0 | We are about 30 days away from 210 riders descending upon Point Blank, Texas at the Bullet grill. And on today's episode, I'm joined by three |
| 0:26.8 | East Texas Showdown experts. We've got Brendan, Kuya, and Emily here to answer your questions. |
| 0:35.8 | So what we did is we sent out a questionnaire to everybody who is signed |
| 0:40.2 | up for this year's race and gave them an opportunity to ask anything that they want. And then |
| 0:46.4 | I brought in some experts who have done it before and are signed up to do it again this year. |
| 0:52.5 | And we get them to answer your questions and i chime in |
| 0:56.4 | here and there and add my two cents from time to time i cannot tell you how excited we all are |
| 1:03.8 | over here at bikes for death headquarters um i can tell from all the emails and the messages that |
| 1:09.9 | we're getting that you are excited too. |
| 1:14.0 | A lot still needs to happen in the next 30 days, and we are feeling the pressure, but we are not |
| 1:20.4 | worried. It is going to be a great event, and we are so looking forward to having everybody |
| 1:24.9 | out to the bullet grill in just about 30 days. |
| 1:30.3 | So today's episode, even if you're not participating in this year's event, I think you might |
| 1:35.9 | still get some benefit out of it. We are just talking about the East Texas Showdown event, |
| 1:41.5 | but we are going to be tackling topics like sleep strategies, how to charge |
| 1:47.0 | your devices, how to deal with dogs, and a lot of other topics that I think are applicable |
| 1:54.4 | regardless of what route you're doing. So even if you're not doing the showdown, but love |
| 1:59.8 | bike packing, I still think that you can get a lot out of this episode. Of course, if you're not doing the showdown but love bike packing i still think that you can get a lot |
| 2:02.0 | out of this episode of course if you just want to go ride in any of these routes this is also a |
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