Ep. 198 ~ Eric House, Atlas Mountain Race on Singlespeed
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 173 minutes
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Summary
I'm stoked to bring you my latest chat with Eric House fresh off his finish at the Atlas Mountain Race in Morocco. After being laid off from his job in September he decided to go full send on bikepacking and has an epic 2025 planned. Probably most notably, he'll be doing all three of the Nelson Tree's Mountain Race series on a singlespeed. Something no ones ever done before!
He's got a lot more on his plate for 2025 as he tries to pack in as many adventures on his bike as he can during this time of unemployment. We go over all his plans for this year on today's episode. We also have a healthy does of fun tangents and a brief period where we both take off our pants, a Death or Death first haha! Most importantly, we hear about his experience at AMR this year and what a successful year will look like to him.
Eric and I met up in the Sam Houston National Forest which was the perfect backdrop to an awesome chat. He's one of the nicest, most down to earth humans I've met and he's pretty damn good at riding bikes too. All of which contribute to a helluva good chat.
Eric's able to do all of this in part to support from his sponsors, who he'd like to personally thank:
- Old Man Mountain
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- K-Lite
- Doom Bars
- Race Ready Repair
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | As always, my name is Patrick, and I'm your host, and I am super excited to bring you a conversation |
| 0:11.2 | today between me and Eric House, who just got back from the Atlas Mountain Race, which he |
| 0:17.6 | completed on a single speed in true rock star fashion and that is just the start of |
| 0:25.5 | what Eric has in store for an absolutely epic 2025 race calendar which we're going to dive all |
| 0:33.0 | the way into on today's episode but maybe most notably is he is taking on the three Nelson Tree |
| 0:40.4 | Mountain Race series on a single speed, and he's doing quite a few others as well. So we have a lot |
| 0:48.9 | to talk about in today's episode, and it was an absolute pleasure to get a chance to sit down with Eric. |
| 0:55.4 | He is just one of the coolest, nicest, most down-to-earth human beings I've ever met, |
| 1:03.1 | and he also happens to be a pretty darn good bike rider, too. |
| 1:07.1 | So I really hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. |
| 1:10.7 | But before we get into it, |
| 1:12.0 | let us take a moment to thank the people that made today's episode possible starting with |
| 1:16.7 | our latest batch of patrons. This week, we'd like to thank Aaron Newberry and Annie Belota |
| 1:23.0 | or maybe Balata for signing up to be sustaining members of the Bikes or Death podcast. |
| 1:29.4 | We really appreciate your support. And if you would like to support this work, you can find out |
| 1:35.4 | more over at patreon.com forward slash bikes or death. And today's episode is also brought to us |
| 1:42.8 | ad free by my friends over at Old Man Mountain. |
| 1:46.3 | During today's episode, Eric and I are both supported by Old Man Mountain. |
| 1:50.2 | We end up chatting about them and their products for a little bit. |
| 1:53.0 | So if you're influenced to buy some Old Man Mountain products for yourself, |
| 1:58.5 | just remember that we have a coupon code for 10% off so at checkout |
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