Ep. 77 - Bobby Wintle, We Trained all Pandemic for This
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 237 minutes
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Summary
Many of you will know Bobby Wintle as the larger than life figurehead of District Bikes and MidSouth Gravel (formerly Land Run 100). That's how I knew him too until my interview with Dr. Seth Wood, when I learned how he had donated a portion of the proceeds from the very first Land Run to help with Seth's medical bills, and then continued to foster than relationship to this day. Hearing that story told me there was a lot more to Bobby than just great hair, a perfect smile, a great hugger, and I was eager to hear his side of the story.
Just a month after my interview with Seth I found myself back in Stillwater, OK across a picnic table at Lake McMurtry from Bobby Wintle with a bottle of fine bourbon for us to share. And share we did! After fours hours, and almost a full bottle of bourbon later, we pushed stop on the recorder. What we captured that evening is a side of Bobby that I think few get to see because he is so busy and has so much demand on his time. It's a rare thing these days to be locked into a conversation with someone in this manner. It's why I love long form conversations, you can't fake it for 4 hours (especially not when borbon is involved), so what you get is a truly authentic window into who a person is.
I appreciate Bobby so much for his willingness to honestly and authentically share so much of himself on this episode. It was an absolute pleasure getting to know him and I'm so stoked he's on Team Bike. For this episode I recommend you schedule a long bike ride, or pull up a chair and pour a glass of your favorite drink, and join Bobby and I for our conversation at Lake McMurtry....
I'll see you there!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, |
| 0:04.9 | and I am your host. And today's episode is with Bobby Wintel. And if you don't know, Bobby, |
| 0:11.5 | he is half owner of district bikes there in Stillwater, Oklahoma, along with his wife, Crystal. |
| 0:17.4 | And they are also the co-founders of Mid-South Gravel, which was formerly called Land Run. |
| 0:23.9 | I've been wanting to talk to Bobby pretty much ever since I started podcasting, but he's a very, |
| 0:29.2 | very busy guy. He's pulled in every single direction possible, and he's kind of hard to nail down. |
| 0:35.6 | But my motivation to interview him definitely increased after I interviewed Dr. Seth Wood on a previous episode. |
| 0:43.3 | And I found out that that very first year that they held the land run 100, they donated a portion of the proceeds to Dr. Seth Wood and his recovery that he sustained when he was hit by a kid while he's |
| 0:57.3 | commuting to work one day. And not only that, but they really continue to foster that relationship |
| 1:03.0 | and bring Seth into the community and where he still is today. And it's just a beautiful |
| 1:07.9 | story that shows the power of this community. And, man, |
| 1:12.8 | when I heard that, I was like, okay, I really, really, really want to talk to Bobby. And talk we did. |
| 1:19.6 | He showed up with a very fine bottle of bourbon. And we literally just chatted for four hours. |
| 1:27.0 | I'll tell you what, if you've ever wanted to hang out |
| 1:29.4 | with Bobby at camp with a bottle of bourbon one-on-one and just listen to him tell stories, |
| 1:36.0 | this may be as close as you will ever get. Or maybe not. Maybe you'll catch him one day and |
| 1:41.5 | have a four-hour conversation with him. But until then, I would invite you to pull up a chair, schedule a long bike ride, and join us as we weave in and out of stories from Bobby's life, his experiences running a gravel event during a pandemic, changing the name of land run, owning district bikes, and so on and so on. |
| 2:03.0 | The truth is, is that Bobby has endless stories, and he's super passionate about this community, |
| 2:09.4 | about bikes, about what he does. He's passionate about everything. He's just all heart. |
| 2:13.8 | And this is why I love long-form conversations, because it is through these that you really, |
| 2:20.4 | really get a sense of who somebody is. |
| 2:22.6 | Because if you sit down with somebody with a bottle of bourbon for four hours and you just |
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