Ep. 210 ~ Tyler "Freakin" Reynolds, Texas Slowdown SS Triple Star
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
Tyler "Freakin" Reynolds and the First Texas Triple Star
In 2025 the Texas Triple Star was born.
Complete all three events in the Texas Showdown Series, in the same category, within a calendar year, and you'll earn a handmade belt buckle crafted by Texas builder Kyle Gilbert.
Last year the series became official with the addition of West Texas Showdown, and seven riders stepped up to attempt the full trilogy.
By the end of the year only one rider was left standing.
Tyler "Freakin" Reynolds.
Racing in the Slowdown Singlespeed category, Tyler completed the entire series and etched his name into Showdown history.
Tyler's Triple Star Stats
- ETS – 1d 9h 37m — 2nd place
- CTS – 1d 4h 37m — 1st overall
- WTS – 1d 15h 45m — 1st place
Total Time: 4d 5h 59m
The time to beat for the Slowdown SS category.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast presented by Old Man Mountain. |
| 0:05.0 | As always, my name is Patrick and I am your host. And I apologize right off the bat. I am |
| 0:10.4 | battling a virus that I think is a cold. But I'm really late getting this episode out to y'all |
| 0:18.2 | and I'm really excited about it. So I want to push through and |
| 0:22.0 | get this out to y'all. So I'm sorry if today I sound a little icky, but we're going to get |
| 0:26.6 | through this and I am really excited about my guest today. Today I'm talking with Tyler Freakin |
| 0:31.9 | Reynolds, who is another amazing human athlete. We had a great conversation. Tyler is the manager of Trek West |
| 0:40.8 | University in Houston and the night before we hosted a bikepacking clinic in his shop and then |
| 0:46.8 | the next morning we recorded a podcast. Tyler is relatively new to bikepacking, but he was the first and only person to ever complete the |
| 0:57.9 | Texas Triple Star Challenge, which is our version of the Triple Crown. |
| 1:03.3 | Originally, I was calling it the Showdown Triple Crown or the Texas Triple Crown or something |
| 1:07.5 | like that, but I decided that we already had a bikepacking triple |
| 1:11.8 | crown and there wasn't need or maybe even room for another triple crown. |
| 1:17.7 | So we've rebranded ours. |
| 1:19.5 | Now the Texas Showdown series, if you complete the entire series in a calendar year, we call |
| 1:24.7 | it the Texas Triple Star. |
| 1:26.4 | And that is a nod to the Lone Star state and makes it a |
| 1:31.3 | little bit unique. But anyway, enough background on that. That is what the Texas Triple Star is. |
| 1:36.8 | And if you complete the entire series in the same category in a calendar year, win a beautiful handmade handcrafted belt buckle by |
| 1:48.3 | the one and only kyle gilbert they are freaking awesome uh you can actually see it in today's |
| 1:54.1 | episode if you're watching on youtube and in 2025 that was the first year that we have rolled |
| 2:00.4 | out the entire texas showdown series meaning it was the first year that we have rolled out the entire Texas Showdown series, |
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