Ep. 81 - Tyler Wacker, Quit his job to cycle around USA!
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
At the beginning of 2020 Tyler Wacker quit his engineering job to cycle the circumference of USA on his Surly Long Haul Trucker. His plans were derailed when COVID shut down reliable camping and provisions along the way. When he did continue his tour, it wasn't to complete his tour around USA, instead he pointed his bike NE towards Boston. Where he would hop on a plane to Iceland where he is now a grad student in Isafjordur, Iceland, studying Coastal Communities and Regional Development. His bike exploits don't stop in Iceland!
Listen to this episode and learn about what motivates Tyler to pursue a life a little different than the norm.
I got to meet Tyler in Austin, TX while he was home during a break from school. I really appreciated the way he meaningfully approaches life by making choices that enhance his own life as well as the ones around him. He is also a wealth of information when it comes to Active Transportation, which is a subject we both enjoyed.
Tyler is heading back to Iceland, follow him on instagram @tyler_vision
Today's episode was supported by the new Wishbone from Rockgeist! It's a U shaped metal bracket that bolts to one of the seat tube bottle bolts and supports the side of the framebag from the outside. So basically an exoskeleton for the framebag, positioned low where the crank arm rotates around. It prevents the bag from ballooning out and getting a hole where it rubs the crank arm.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I am sick. |
| 0:06.8 | So right off the bat, I want to apologize for my voice. You're going to hear it a little bit now. |
| 0:12.2 | And then also as we get into my interview today with Tyler, we recorded this episode a few days ago. |
| 0:17.7 | I thought I was getting better. And it turns out my cold was just, I guess, |
| 0:22.8 | ramping up to get worse. So I do apologize for that, but hopefully by next week, it'll all be |
| 0:29.5 | cleared up and I will be right as rain. So we're going to make today's intro pretty short and |
| 0:35.2 | sweet. We're going to start off by thanking our newest patrons |
| 0:39.1 | that have signed up since last episode. So today we'd like to thank Angela Freeman, Christopher |
| 0:45.2 | Grady, Brad Langford, David Boswell, Derek Bowers, Jared Foster, Sally Turner, Brian Anderson, Lauren Davis, Aaron Wood, Josh Spears, Kyle Johnson, Pat Smith, Brian Arfman, Peter Stewart, Luke Galloway, Nick Doyle, Bobby Ellis, and Casey Hockmoot. And I need to give Casey a special shout |
| 1:16.0 | out because she has single-handedly solved the name pronunciation problem that I tend to face. |
| 1:23.3 | When she signed up as a patron in parentheses, she wrote her name out in the phonetical spelling of her name to make it easy on me. |
| 1:30.1 | So that's a pro tip. |
| 1:30.9 | If you want to help make it a little bit easier for me to get your name right, yeah, just include the phonetic spelling of your name in parentheses next to your name. |
| 1:40.1 | And hopefully I'll be able to get it right. |
| 1:44.1 | Today we've got a special guest from my friends over at Rock Geist. |
| 1:48.3 | Jen Weeks is here to tell us about a new product. |
| 1:52.5 | But Jim, before we get to this new product, why don't you introduce yourself? |
| 1:56.1 | Who are you and what do you do over at Rock Geist? |
| 1:58.8 | Hey there. |
| 2:00.2 | I'm Jen. I do many things at Rock Geist, |
| 2:04.3 | just like all of us do. Lots of makers making it all happen. There's seven of us, and I send out |
| 2:11.6 | the final products, essentially. I do a lot of the shipping, and I dress up the frame bags after they've been sewn by Jess |
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