Ep. 91 - Kyle Gilbert & Nick Ybarra on their ETS Experience
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
The inaugural East Texas Showdown is over and now comes the podcasts! Hearing everyones stories after their rides as we shared food and beverages was a true pleasure, enjoyed by all. It was really probably the magic sauce that made this event special. I went to Austin shortly after the race and recorded 3 episodes with five guests and I look forward to sharing some of that post race fodder with you over the next couple of weeks. First up are Nick Ybarra (Showdown, 4th) and Kyle Gilbert (Showdown,. 6th). We meet the Wednesday after the race at Kyles workshop in Austin, which made for a cool backdrop to our conversation.
On this episode Nick and Kyle share their experience on this years ETS. It was both of their first bikepacking race and they had different approaches. For example, Nick wore sandals for, had rim brakes, carried very minimal gear, and no aero bars. Whereas, Kyle was clipless, with disc brakes, ran aerobars, and lived on crackers. It created some good conversation about different approaches to the same course.
It was a lot of fun for me to get to hear about my event from their perspectives. I had all kinds of concerns as a first time racer director with a brand new route, but as I heard more and more stories like these all of my concerns have been squashed. The feedback I got from participants was overwhelmingly positive. In fact, a Spring date was highly requested and we are happy to make that happen. Dates coming soon!
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Schedule
Oct. 21st at 6:00pm - 12-15 mile mellow gravel ride
Oct. 22nd 8:20-11:00am & 2-5pm - Bikepacking Summit
- @7:30pm I'll be interview Cjell Mone' with a live audience
Oct. 23rd at 9:00am - Dangerbird Group Start
Contact Matt Mason for more info!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes or Death podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | My name is Patrick, and I am your host. |
| 0:06.4 | And on today's episode, I caught up with a couple East Texas Showdown participants in Austin. |
| 0:14.8 | Got a chance to chat with Kyle Gilbert and Nick Yarborough at the same time. |
| 0:25.4 | There at Kyle's workshop in Austin. |
| 0:33.1 | I actually took a little podcasting trip to Austin and interviewed five people in less than 20 hours, |
| 0:39.7 | I think. I interviewed these gentlemen on Wednesday night, and then the next day I interviewed Katie McGuire and Alicia Danz and Hannah Simmons the next day. So you're going to be getting |
| 0:47.1 | a lot of East Texas Showdown goodness in your podcasting feed for the next little bit. And while |
| 0:53.4 | we're talking about the East Texas Showdown, |
| 0:56.5 | let me just give you a little report. |
| 0:59.1 | It was in every way I could imagine a huge success, |
| 1:04.8 | except for the weather. |
| 1:06.1 | But everybody who did the race, |
| 1:10.0 | luckily did not blame me for the weather. I was carrying a ton of |
| 1:14.8 | guilt about it. But I was worried that people were going to punch me when they saw me. But that |
| 1:22.1 | wasn't the case. In fact, Cal Gilbert on the podcast today, when he got done, he gave me a hug and told me it was great |
| 1:29.4 | and thanked me. In fact, that was a sentiment that many people expressed throughout the weekend. |
| 1:36.8 | I was really worried about the rain, but everybody kept in good spirits and kept the attitude |
| 1:43.1 | of, hey, I signed up for it, and they also realized |
| 1:46.8 | that I don't control the weather, and no one held that against me. But fortunately, the rain |
| 1:52.4 | cleared up about 3 p.m., 3 or 4 p.m. on day one, and the rest of the weekend was absolutely |
| 1:59.7 | perfect weather conditions. |
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