Hello and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I'm your host.

And I'd like to start off by thanking this week's newest patrons. We got Eric W. and Brad D.

Thank you guys for being here. Thank you for supporting the show. And if you'd like to support the show, you can head over to Bikes for Death.com and check it out.

There's lots of ways whether you sign up as a Patreon. You give a over to Bikes for Death.com and check it out. There's lots of ways

whether you sign up as a Patreon. You give a one-time donation through PayPal. You could order

some merch, some cool shirts or something. And honestly, one of the easiest things you can do to

support the show is just leave a five-star review on iTunes. That's one of the best ways that you

can support the show.

It helps other people find out about it and gets them addicted to this beautiful, beautiful thing we love to do called exploring the world on a bicycle.

And I would like to give a special shout out to Bo Kruger.

I recently found out that she may be the youngest listener and fan of the show when her dad sent me a picture of her wearing one of my Bikes for Death shirts. So Bo, I wanted to thank you for being a fan of the show. I hear you are tearing up some single track on your bike with your dad, and that is so, so very rad.

So keep it up.

And don't forget to thank your dad for being an awesome dad and taking you out there and riding bikes.

There's a lot of dads that don't do that, and you're pretty lucky to have a dad that wants to go out there and have fun and ride bikes with you.

And, Bo, I hope you will be specifically inspired by today's guest, who is Andrew and Katie

Strimpke. They were the first people to ever complete a yo-yo on the Colorado Trail race.

Now, a yo-yo means that they rode the entire length of the

Colorado Trail and then turned around and rode it back where they came. They were the first people

to do that, and they did it on single speed. It's truly an incredible story. They didn't even

intend to do a yo-yo. They were just going to go ride it, and then they decided a week before to yo-yo it. Why not? Why not just knock out the whole thing in one go? I guess it makes it easier for getting back to your car, right? Maybe it's just a logistical thing. All right, everybody. Thank you all for being here so much. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad I'm here. And that's all I got. So let's get on with the show.

You load up your bike. You ride away from home. You could be with your friends or you could be

alone. You ride for a day or maybe more. You just love being in the great outdoors. Everything you need is strapped to your boss,

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