Episode 91 - Riding Every Double Black in the Whistler Bike Park with Christina Chappetta

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4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Christina Chappetta set out to ride every double black in the Whistler Bike Park in a single day because, er, why not? If you're hoping to get to Whistler in the future, or if you just appreciate a solid day of riding, this episode might be for you. Christina explains how she planned the day, why it was far from a slam dunk, and what made it such a rowdy seven hours of descending.

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0:00.0	You didn't just wear a diaper the entire time?
0:02.3	That's how community you were.
0:03.3	I didn't.
0:04.1	I wasn't going to say it like that.
0:05.5	But since you've called me out, I did.
0:07.3	I'm like,
0:07.9	Hey, everyone and welcome back.
0:16.7	Hey,
0:17.0	everyone and welcome back to another Pink Bike podcast.
0:19.9	I'm Mike Levyvy and today I've got
0:21.4	Christina Chappetta with me for this episode because I was on the homepage last week. I saw a video of
0:26.7	her trying to ride every double black trail in the Whistler bike park which is a pretty solid way to
0:32.0	spend the day given that there are 22 of them. So Whistler is a big place that's full of all kinds of trails and I feel
0:40.3	like it's also in a lot of riders top five places to visit one day. So I wanted to get
0:45.3	Christina on the show to see what her day was like, what went right, what went wrong, hear
0:50.3	about all the trails, of course. So first, Christina, I see you in all of these videos,
0:55.8	sometimes doing ridiculous things. Can you tell the people, is that like your job description
1:01.7	at Pickbike? What is your job description? That is a loaded question, Levy. What is my job
1:08.5	description? Well, technically, I'm just a video presenter, but I did get
1:14.7	hired originally two years ago with the intention of covering Enduro content specifically,
1:21.9	because, you know, we totally acknowledge that Enduro is awesome. And I personally love to race indoor races and so that
1:29.8	was kind of the whole goal there but you know with pandemics and things going on my job titles
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