Hello and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I'm your host. This is a show that talks about bikepacking, adventuring, and the cool people who make up the sport. On this show, I got a chance to sit down with a guy named Chris Stevenson. He's currently on the Adventure Cycling Association's Southern Tier Route. So that goes from California to Florida.

And I just found out about a year and a half ago that it goes through a little town in

Texas called Navasota, which is about 18 miles north of me.

Ever since I found that out, I've been kind of watching social media, seeing if I could

find somebody who was riding across America.

And I was going to offer to go and pick them up and ride with them for a little bit.

And yeah, pick them up, give them a place to crash for the night and feed them and let them take a shower.

Yeah, so about a month ago, I saw Chris on Instagram and he was on the southern tier route.

I saw his come on my way, so I reached out to him, and sure enough, he took me up on my offer,

went and picked him up, brought him home, and got cleaned up.

And it turns out he had some mechanicals.

And it was a good thing that I did pick him up because he probably wouldn't have made it too

much further.

And to the east of us, there's not going to be a lot of options for bike shops and whatnot.

But I'm going to put that store on hold for a little bit.

I'm going to let the episode play.

And then I'm going to pick that back up afterwards and kind of do the rest of the story

afterwards.

Because after we recorded it, there was some drama or bike bike mechanical issues um i've been waiting for an opportunity

like this originally i wasn't doing a podcast and i was just going to you know hang out with a

cyclist but ever since i started doing a podcast i really wanted an opportunity to just

pick up a stranger and go.

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