Ep. 151 ~ Jesse Turner with Slow Southern Steel bikes
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
This week we are talking with Jesse Turner who is the custom bike maker and artist behind Slow Southern Steel based out of Fayetteville, AR.
Jesse started this new company less than a year ago and I've been following with interest since the beginning. I love to showcase and support people who are following their passion and doing things to make the cycling world a better place. I'd certainly include Jesse in this category. His first job was in a bike shop as a mechanic, he would go on to get an Art degree, and then become a welder. If you mix all that with a person who is passionate about bikes and an Arkansas native you get Slow Southern Steel.
For a full writeup and photo gallery of Jesse's original shop, plus lots of bike photos, check out www.BikesorDeath.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, |
| 0:05.3 | and I'm your host. And on today's episode, we are talking with Jesse Turner, who is the custom |
| 0:12.4 | bike maker and artist behind Slow Southern Steel based out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Jesse is less than a year into this new endeavor, |
| 0:25.5 | and he's already having success with one of his bikes ending up on the podium of Rule of |
| 0:32.0 | three just a few weeks ago, and that bike was raced by Andrew Honor Ma. I was in the Wachita area of Arkansas |
| 0:39.4 | riding the Lovett Trail just on a little vacation and I reached out to Jesse to see if our |
| 0:44.7 | stars would align and if we could hook up for a podcast. I was lucky enough that he was willing to |
| 0:50.1 | drive down. We had a chat on a park bench in the Joplin campground area. And then after we |
| 0:58.0 | chatted, Jesse got to go ride on the Lovett Trail and I headed back home to Texas. For those of you |
| 1:05.0 | who have wanted to hear me and the Bikes for Death podcast talk more about bikes, this episode is for you. We're going to be |
| 1:13.7 | talking about bikes pretty much the whole time, but in true Bikes for Death fashion, we're going to |
| 1:18.4 | get to know Jesse a little bit first. Before we get into what makes slow Southern steel special, |
| 1:25.1 | we have to know about the man behind these amazing machines. |
| 1:29.3 | So of course, Jesse brought his personal bike with him to this interview so he could ride it. |
| 1:34.7 | And I think before I even shook his hand, I swiped his bike from his hands and took it on a |
| 1:39.7 | quick little jaunt. And I immediately fell in love with it. It was kind of ironic that his in seamen mind |
| 1:47.1 | is, it has to be like within centimeters. It was so dialed and set up perfectly just for me |
| 1:53.8 | and it fit me great. And it really did ride. Well, like Jesse says in this podcast, it rode like a bike, but it rode like a damn good |
| 2:03.0 | bike. I also really like the aesthetic of this bike that he personally rides and all the |
| 2:08.1 | bikes that he makes. And so while I was there, I also took the opportunity to do a quick |
| 2:13.6 | photo shoot with Jesse and his bike and of the bike itself. And Jesse also sent me some |
| 2:19.7 | pictures of his shop and this jig that he built when he was just getting started. So after you |
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