Ep. 50 - Leo Rodgers, One Leg :: Zero Excuses
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Episode 50 is coming in hot! Today's episode is with the charismatic, inspirational, and rowdy Leo Rodgers! He's made a splash in the cycling world recently with features in Bicycle Magazine, a Lucas Brunelle Film, and most recently signed with Crust/Ronsbikes/Ultradynamico factory PRO recreation TEAM. The attention is well deserved. When a motorcycle accident left him without a leg he reconnected with his childhood passion, bikes. The missing limb hasn't slowed him down and if you go ride with him he'll tell ya "don't worry I'll wait for you". As the Para Track 200m TT world record holder he can back it up! But he's not just at home on the track, he transcends all cycling cultural boundaries. Is he a roadie, track racer, gravel racer, tall bike FIXIE enthusiast, commuter? He's all of that, but mostly he's a man with a passion for the bike lifestyle that he promulgates with enthusiasm at every opportunity.
His story is a reminder that there are people who do more with less and they don't make excuses. Everyone will face challenges in life, no one is exempt, and those challenges will define the person that we become.
This was a really fun interview and I was stoked to get a little bit of Leo's time and bring a bit of his story to you. Happy listening, now go ride your damn bike!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. I am so glad that you could join me today for the 50th episode of the podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | And I had to get a special guest for y'all. So today on the podcast is Leo Rogers, who kind of made a splash recently. |
| 0:17.2 | He recently got a sponsorship with Ron's Bikes, Ultra Dynamico and Crust Bikes. He had a |
| 0:23.2 | bicycle magazine cover and a video that went along with it. And Lucas Brunelli just did a video on him as |
| 0:30.6 | well that's out on the YouTube. So he's been making a big splash. He's been riding bikes a long time. |
| 0:36.1 | Super inspirational guy. And oh yeah, by the way, |
| 0:38.9 | he only has one leg. And he's probably faster than you are. So definitely give this one a listen. |
| 0:44.3 | I was so glad I got a chance to check up with him. Stoke to hear about all his success and wishing him |
| 0:49.8 | all the success in the future. Also, in case you missed last week's episode with Mike Deion, |
| 0:55.9 | we discussed the upcoming Ride the Divide 10-year anniversary celebration that's happening on August |
| 1:01.6 | 2nd, and yours truly is going to be hosting it, which I'm obviously super excited for. |
| 1:08.4 | I checked in with Mike today, and he's got a lot of people signed up, which is |
| 1:13.6 | really exciting. It's going to be a big party online. You'll be able to ask any questions that you |
| 1:18.2 | have directly to the cast crew, the athletes. It should be a good time. Hopefully you can |
| 1:23.7 | join us on the live event. If not, it's still going to be available after. So you can just |
| 1:29.6 | head over to bikerdeath.com. The hyperlink is at the top of the page, and it's RTD10 party. If you |
| 1:38.4 | click that, I'll take you right to his website. It's an affiliate link, so Bikes or Death gets a little |
| 1:43.3 | bit of kickback for every |
| 1:44.7 | ticket that's purchased, so I appreciate that. So hopefully you'll join me, and we can |
| 1:48.3 | celebrate the film that kind of started at all, at least for me. And we can celebrate the film |
| 1:54.7 | that had a huge part in where we're at today in bike packing, especially me. It definitely |
| 1:59.7 | had a personal impact on my life and gave me the inspiration and really like put the idea in my head and put a visual to it and be like, oh, wow, yeah, okay, people are doing this. Check, check, got it. How do I do it? Let's go. So that's going to be exciting. Again, head over to my website, Bikes for Death. At the top, there's a hyperlink. |
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