Ep. 49 - Mike Dion, Ride the Divide turns 10!
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
He didn't invent the Great Divide Route or the Tour Divide Race, but Mike Dion quite literally brought awareness to both with his 2010 film Ride the Divide. Many bikepackers I've met, including myself, credit it with their own journey into this new way of exploration. 10 years later, his film is still relevant as people are finding it for the first time and getting inspired with their own sense of wanderlust.
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary Mike is throwing a party and we are all invited. Most of the cast, crew, and athletes from the film will be online and taking your questions. There will be a live screening of the film with the option to listen in to the behind the scenes chatter amongst the cast and crew. If that wasn't enough, I will be hosting the live Q&A and moderating the conversation. To find out more and buy tickets click here (if you're seeing this on social media go to bikesordeath.com and click the RTD10 Party hyperlink at the top of the page).
Tune in to the podcast, get stoked, and join us online on August 2nd!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I am your host. And today's |
| 0:06.4 | episode is with Mike Dion. I am very, very much looking forward to this episode. I quite enjoyed our chat. |
| 0:15.2 | Obviously, I've been wanting to catch up with Mike for, well, gosh, ever since I started a podcast, he is the reason that I |
| 0:23.0 | and so many people were even introduced to bike packing with his film Ride the Divide. |
| 0:29.0 | So if you aren't familiar with Mike or you haven't seen Ride the Divide, I highly recommend that |
| 0:33.6 | you just push, pause on this episode and go give it a watch. |
| 0:38.2 | It is about the inaugural tour divide race that happened in 2008. |
| 0:44.2 | And Mike and a handful of others were there. |
| 0:47.2 | He filmed it. |
| 0:48.1 | And it's just a great story that really, in my opinion, inspired everything that we see now in bike packing. |
| 0:55.3 | I mean, it's what really put it on the map and kind of lit rocket fuel to it. |
| 0:59.3 | There was definitely a contingent. |
| 1:01.1 | Things were happening. |
| 1:02.7 | But when his film dropped, it's really, in my opinion, the thing that just pushed it over the edge. |
| 1:08.8 | So it's definitely worth a watch. And this |
| 1:11.9 | entire episode, we're pretty much talking about the film and Mike's experience with bike |
| 1:17.3 | packing and why he did the film and all of that. Because the 10-year anniversary of that |
| 1:24.3 | film release is coming out on August 2nd. And in conjunction with that, Mike is going to be |
| 1:30.3 | doing a live event to celebrate. And a portion of that is going to be a live Q&A and just conversation |
| 1:37.2 | with the cast and the crew and the athletes. And he has asked me to moderate that and kind of host that portion of it, which, of course, I agreed to. |
| 1:47.7 | So I'm looking forward to that. |
| 1:49.5 | It was actually pretty funny. |
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