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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 71 - The Story of Mountain Biking’s Most Interesting Man: Richard Cunningham Pt. 2

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

RC tells about his time at Mountain Bike Action and testing some of the wildest - and most unreliable - bikes ever created, his opinion of the internet before and after joining Pinkbike, his most important lesson for writing bike reviews, thoughts on e-bikes, and he answers a handful of reader questions.

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0:00.0

Hey Pinkers, welcome back to another episode of the Pinkbike podcast.

0:13.3

This one is number 71, and more importantly, it's the second part of our chat with one of

0:18.5

of cycling's most interesting people, Richard

0:21.0

Cunningham.

0:22.1

Better known is R.C. in these circles.

0:25.0

But before we kick this off, if you haven't listened to Part 1 of our chat yet, press

0:28.9

pause on this and pull up episode 67 right now.

0:32.7

I'm going to be honest with you, though, RC. and I don't even talk about bikes until the

0:36.5

very end of that

0:37.7

podcast, but there are some pretty crazy stories in there. R.C. tells us how he flew a plane

0:43.2

solo before taking a lesson, building his own planes, his father working for NASA, building

0:48.9

the lunar landing, landing gear, all sorts of wild stories, and we even get to some wheels near the end with motorbikes,

0:57.1

the early days of mountain biking in California, and RC's own brand, Mantis Bicycles.

1:03.5

Who, R.C., thanks so much for doing this.

1:06.1

I'm not sure we're going to be able to fit the rest of your story in just one more episode.

1:10.1

So we're going to get rolling, but it might be, story in just one more episode. So we're going to get

1:11.0

rolling, but it might be, we might have to do episode three and four, eh? Hopefully not.

1:17.8

That might be too much. I think there's a lot of people out there hoping for exactly that.

1:22.1

So as always, subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any of RSI's wild stories or the

1:28.0

pick bike team arguing about bikes or something for an hour every week. And one last thing

1:32.9

before we start, you guys posted some questions for RSI under the last one of these that we

1:38.3

did. So I'm going to ask him those at the end of this episode. So make sure to stick around

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