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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 109 - Berm Peak's Seth Alvo on Making Videos 24/7, Soul Rides, and Building a Bike Park

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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There's more to it than a GoPro and iMovie...

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, I'm Mike Levy and welcome back to another Pink Bike podcast. Now I've got a question for you.

0:05.9

Who do you think is the most recognizable, most widely known mountain biker? Well, if we're talking about

0:12.7

who's going to be recognized at a trailhead, you could make a strong case for it being a man named

0:18.7

Seth Elvo, who lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

0:23.0

You might know him as Seth from Berm Peak, previously known as Seth's bike hacks.

0:29.1

Now, Seth has amassed 2.38 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, as well as another

0:35.6

800,000 subscribers on his side channel, Berm Peak Express.

0:40.5

He's done this by creating videos on everything from trail building, bike maintenance,

0:45.1

strange products, and even RC trucks.

0:48.1

I sat down with Seth for a bit to chat about how we ended up on YouTube, what it's

0:52.4

like creating videos all the time, building his own

0:55.4

bike park, traditional media versus YouTube, and all sorts of other things.

1:09.1

All right, Seth, thanks for joining us today.

1:11.5

So I think that a lot of riders know you from your YouTube channel that has like almost

1:16.6

2.4 million subscribers, which is pretty wild.

1:21.2

We're going to get to that at some point later on in the show.

1:23.7

But first, we do have to talk about how it started, what you were doing before you started doing this and all that stuff.

1:30.3

So, Seth, what were you doing before you started the YouTube channel?

1:34.3

I was building websites and just managing people's IT infrastructure.

1:38.3

I was sort of like a remote consultant.

1:40.3

And I say I was a web designer or a web developer, but I was doing kind of everything.

1:46.0

I just ended up with a few small clients and then got more. I knew how to fix things, knew how to

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