Ep. 152 ~ Ulrich Bartholmoes "Uba" the 2023 Tour Divide Winner
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2023
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday Ulrich Bartholmoes aka "Uba" finished the 2023 Tour Divide in first place with a time of 14d 2h 23m. For much of the race he was head of the record setting pace of Mike Hall. In the end he would finish only 4.5 hours behind that record setting run. Considering the rain, mud, and wind on this years Divide his time is beyond impressive.
I sat down with him the morning after his win at the Bike Ranch in Hachita, NM to capture this interview.
Please visit www.BikesorDeath.com to view a full gallery of images I captured of him during his ride and at the finish line.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast for what I hope is a really special |
| 0:05.1 | edition of the podcast. I am here at Jeff Sharp's Bike Ranch in Hachita, New Mexico for the second |
| 0:13.8 | year in a row. I'm here covering the end of the Tour Divide. And just moments ago, I got done chatting with Ulrich, who goes by Uba, and we just got done |
| 0:26.1 | having a chat here at the bike ranch just moments ago. |
| 0:31.6 | He finished the Tour Divide yesterday. |
| 0:34.9 | It's about 24 hours ago with a time of 14 days, three hours, and 23 minutes, |
| 0:41.7 | which has him as the second fastest finisher ever on the Tour Divide coming in four and a half |
| 0:47.2 | hours after Mike Hall's record. But Mike Hall did a different route. The route has changed a little bit since Mike Hall set his record. |
| 0:57.4 | And so we talked today on the episode about the two different routes and about the record and about how Uber feels about it, how he's feeling in general, and just all things toward divide. |
| 1:08.4 | So I am doing something new and we just got done chatting. I'm going to |
| 1:12.8 | edit this episode right now and get it out into the world. So I'm going to make this intro sweet. |
| 1:20.4 | But first off, congrats to Uba on an absolutely fantastic finish on this year's Tor Divide. |
| 1:26.4 | He and several others put on a hell of a show |
| 1:30.3 | and record or no record, he put in everything that he had and it was a lot of fun this year to be a |
| 1:37.5 | dot watcher. He gave us a lot to be excited about and a lot of reasons to be glued to our screens while we watch the dots traverse |
| 1:46.4 | all the way from Banff Canada down to Antelope Wells, New Mexico, along the Tour Divide. |
| 1:52.1 | So let's get into that chat with Uba, but first let's take a moment to thank the people that |
| 1:57.4 | made this episode possible, starting with our latest patron. We'd like to |
| 2:01.8 | thank Thoros Western for signing up to be a patron. And we would like to thank all 343 patrons that |
| 2:10.2 | support this podcast and help support things exactly like this. It's a 12-hour drive to get here from Texas, not to mention |
| 2:20.2 | wear and tear and just the opportunity cost of being gone. And I couldn't do this type of |
| 2:28.1 | podcasting without the support of my patrons. So thank you to everyone who supports this work. |
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