Ep. 59 - Erik Binggeser aka Truemarmalade
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Erik and I met at a Bikes or Death group bikepacking trip right before the world shut down thanks to a coronavirus. Since then he's been wholed up in his Austin apartment in lockdown. With some extra time stuck indoors he's been finding ways to stay active and engaged with the cycling community. Early on he rode 1,000 miles on his training in a month, then he gave himself a stick and poke tattoo, but his latest project really caught my attention, along with many of you I'm sure. You may have seen his animated film "Studio Ghibli Campout" featuring a bearded wizardy looking character riding through a Studio Ghibli Film. Erik is the creator and stars in the film that was made with the assistance of Alison Mae Bonham. It is a uniquely beautiful film that fills you with emotion. For me I watched with a tinge of somberness as it felt like Erik was reaching out to the cycling community and saying "I really wish I could be out riding with my friends, but here's a beautiful gift that I made from my apartment instead". I found myself longing for simpler times and looking forward to group rides again.
Like his film, Erik is a beautifully unique person and our conversation is a reflection of that. We talk robots, hacking, pokemon go, bikes, padded vs non-padded, riding with diabetes, and lots more good stuff.
Erik, it was great to catch up again, stay well my friend, and we'll ride again some day soon!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | As always, my name is Patrick, and I am your host. |
| 0:06.5 | And at the beginning of the show, I like to thank my newest patrons. |
| 0:11.2 | Unfortunately, this week, nobody signed up. |
| 0:14.0 | So instead, I want to give a shout out to my second longest ever patron. |
| 0:21.5 | Last week, I gave a shout out to my longest supporter. |
| 0:25.1 | So this is my second longest supporter. |
| 0:27.4 | We got Paul D. |
| 0:29.2 | He has been a member since March 30th, 2019, which is 19 months, I believe. |
| 0:35.7 | So shout out to Paul D. |
| 0:37.3 | Appreciate it so much. Thank you for |
| 0:39.6 | supporting the show for a really long time. It means a lot. If you would like to support the show |
| 0:45.8 | and help it to continue to grow, I made it easy for you. Just head over to Bikes for Death.com |
| 0:52.4 | and you'll see options to sign up as a patron, which is a |
| 0:56.6 | monthly donation. It's a sustaining member, anywhere from like a dollar to $10. It really, like, |
| 1:02.2 | whatever. I've said this before, but if everybody that listens to this podcast donated a dollar |
| 1:09.3 | a month, I could pretty much retire from my other job, I think. |
| 1:14.4 | So it really counts. And also on patron, whenever I get to $500 a month, I'm going to start a |
| 1:22.2 | separate podcast called Shifting Gears that's going to be a patron-only podcast as a way to say thank you. |
| 1:27.9 | So when we get to 500, I'm going to launch that. |
| 1:30.7 | And we're at like 425 right now. |
| 1:33.0 | So get in close. |
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