Ep. 181 ~ Daniel Connell, aka "Dirty Dan"
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Connell has become a regular on the bikepacking race scene and in the cycling community. You will often see him on Trackleaders under his trail name, Dirty Dan. It was under this pseudonym that he recently set a new FKT on the Race Across Arizona and will be lining up in a couple of weeks to race the Tour Divide for the 4th consecutive year. Each year he's done it he's been able to shave a day off his finish time. This year he's on a new bike and gunning for a 15 day finish.
His entry point into cycling was a 4,000+ mile bike tour with a buddy from California to Columbia in 2017 after graduating college. Armed only with a bike, some gear, and very little planning of what was to come. It was on that trip that he found the bike to be the "perfect form of travel". Since then he's only progressed as a traveler and cyclist racking up credentials too numerous to list, but to give you a taste, here's what he's done so far in 2024:
Baja Divide
Transcordilleras race (Colombia)
Bikepacking trip all over Colombia
Double Everest
Stagecoach 400
Tour de Los Padres
Race Across Arizona
He's packed more into the first 6 months of this year than many will experience in a lifetime. It feels like every time I log into social media he's on another trip or lining up in another race. I've grown fond of following him on all of his adventures. He brings with him a big smile and a big appetite for adventure, fruit, and white milk. All of which we discuss on today's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, |
| 0:05.2 | and I'm your host. And on today's episode, it is my pleasure to welcome Dan Connell to the podcast, |
| 0:11.7 | also known as Dirty Dan. You will oftentimes see him lining up to races under that pseudonym. And he has been a busy, busy boy. In 2024 alone, it feels like |
| 0:25.6 | every time I turn on social media, he is on a different trip, a different adventure, or a different |
| 0:32.0 | race. And I have grown really fond of just following him on social media. He's always going on epic |
| 0:39.9 | adventures. He seems to always have a smile on his face. And he has an infectious love for fruit, |
| 0:48.8 | all of which we will be discussing on today's podcast. He is also lining up in a couple weeks for the Tour |
| 0:56.7 | Divide, and this will be his fifth consecutive year to take on that route. He first rode the |
| 1:04.4 | Tour Divide in 2020. Technically, he did the Great Divide Mountain Bike route, and he toured it in 2020, not even aware that there was a race that took place. |
| 1:16.0 | And so in 2021, he lined up to race the Tour Divide and he's been back every single year since. |
| 1:24.1 | And every single year, he shaves a entire day off of his time. So on today's episode, |
| 1:31.3 | we're also going to be talking about his experiences on the Tour Divide up till now and how he's |
| 1:38.6 | feeling what he's looking forward to and what his goals are going into Tour Divide for the fifth consecutive year. |
| 1:47.7 | I absolutely loved having him on the podcast. He is a pleasure to chat with and I hope you enjoy it as |
| 1:56.6 | much as I did. So let's get into it. But first, let's take a moment to thank the people that made |
| 2:02.7 | today's episode possible, starting with our latest batch of patrons, of which there are none this |
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| 2:24.7 | It is thanks to the community that the Bikes for Death podcast has been around for five years. |
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