Godfather of Freeride MTB Wade Simmons on Red Bull Rampage, Progression of MTB & More... Ep. 124

MTB Podcast

Worldwide Cyclery

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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today on the Podcast, we have the pleasure of hosting a very special guest: The Godfather of Freeride MTB, Wade Simmons. We catch up with Wade on what he’s been up to lately as well as his thoughts on the progression of MTB and Red Bull Rampage before jumping into some listener questions ranging from the weirdest MTB innovation to his favorite cheese and everything in between. Tune in! Submit any and all questions to [email protected] Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCxZoC1sIG-vVtLsJDSbeYyw Worldwide Cyclery Instagram: www.instagram.com/worldwidecyclery/ MTB Podcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/mtbpodcast/ MTB Podcast Website: https://www.mtbpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	Ladies and
0:05.0	the gentlemen,
0:06.0	welcome to episode 124 of the MTV Podcast,
0:10.0	presented and hosted by Worldwide Cyclery.
0:12.0	I am Jared. I'm Jeff. I'm Liam.
0:14.5	And you got Wade Simmons here coming live. Today we have the very special guest, the
0:21.4	Godfather of Free ride mountain biking are you
0:24.3	self-proclaimed godfather you don't you don't when you you have the godfather you don't say I'm
0:31.6	the godfather I just double checking you know what nicknames you can't make you know what I have another nickname too the mattress you can guess where that came from the mattress
0:42.0	Simmons mattress the beauty arrest mattress. The The The The beauty rest?
0:44.0	Wait, I did that all the time.
0:47.0	Hey, beauty rest.
0:48.0	Long time mountain bike free rider, actually the winner of the inaugural, the very first Red Bull
0:56.0	Rampage in 2001? 2001, yeah.
0:58.9	So if you've been in the mountain bike scene a long time, you likely know Wade's name and
1:02.4	like me as a young teenage boy
1:04.2	watched a lot of Wade on the television because you had VHS as a D. So we
1:09.6	actually watched TV back then. I was on a lot of TV back then. A lot of TV back then.
1:14.0	You just CDs, DVDs, you remember those?
1:17.0	So we're going to pick Wade's brain on various bike topics
1:21.0	and some of his history. And we're going to start out with our segments and instead of
1:25.1	Zach's words of wisdom as normal we're going to go with Wade's words of wisdom so what do you
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