How Calirado Kid makes riders laugh while also making a difference
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Joe is the Calirado Kid, a Sacramento-based mountain bike content creator known for posting hilarious bike-related videos on Instagram, TikTok and Youtube. This summer he's teaming up with a nonprofit organization called Adventure Scientists to encourage riders to help document biodiversity in California.
- How did you first get into mountain biking?
- Do you think mountain bikers take riding too seriously?
- Why do you think mountain bikers like to make so many excuses about riding? What are some of the most effective ones you use yourself?
- What do you do when you catch yourself making an excuse during a group ride?
- Tell us about Adventure Scientists and the California Biodiversity project.
- How exactly do mountain bikers collect biodiversity samples? What does that process look like on the trail?
- What types of samples are being collected, and how will they actually be used to support conservation?
- What’s the weirdest or most interesting thing you've encountered on a mountain bike trail?
- How do you balance entertainment with making a positive impact?
- What’s your favorite trail system to ride in California?
- What else are you working on right now — anything exciting coming down the pipeline for your social media channels?
Get involved at adventurescientists.org and follow @caliradokid on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody wants to know the latest trail conditions, but not everybody wants to go on social media to get them. |
| 0:06.0 | Some riders, especially younger ones, are missing your social posts entirely. |
| 0:11.0 | Trailbot is the smarter way for trail managers to communicate updates without relying on social media. |
| 0:18.0 | Don't let the algorithm bear your posts, easily share conditions and closures |
| 0:22.6 | to your website, social media, and the app all at once. Best of all, it's free. Trailbot is used by over |
| 0:30.1 | 260 trail systems in 17 states and is growing fast. Over 50,000 riders have installed the free iOS and Android apps to get |
| 0:40.4 | official updates with optional push notifications without having to see what their weird relative |
| 0:45.5 | posted on social media. So spend less time babysitting Facebook and more time building, |
| 0:51.5 | maintaining, or advocating for trails with TrailBot. |
| 0:55.0 | Learn more at Trailbot.com. |
| 0:58.0 | That's TrailBOT.com. |
| 1:01.2 | Trailbot, no algorithms, just trail conditions. |
| 1:05.2 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 1:07.6 | My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Joe, the Cali Rado Kid. |
| 1:12.5 | Joe is a Sacramento-based mountain bike content creator known for posting hilarious bike-related |
| 1:18.6 | videos on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. This summer, he's teaming up with a nonprofit |
| 1:24.2 | organization called Adventure Scientists to encourage writers to help document |
| 1:29.1 | biodiversity in California. Thanks for joining me, Joe. Stoke to be here, man. It's going to be |
| 1:34.6 | great. Yeah. Well, so a lot of your videos, which I think most of our listeners have probably |
| 1:41.1 | seen, are really funny, in part because they're so relatable. So I'm curious to know kind of your mountain biking story. Like how did you get into mountain biking? How long have you been riding? All of that stuff. Yeah, it's so funny when it comes to the relatability thing. Like a lot of people like, where do the video ideas come from? And it's like, I've done all these things. I've walked into a bike shop and didn't know |
| 2:01.1 | that the bike didn't come with pedals. I've, you know, so these, a lot of these jokes stemmed from the stuff I've experienced from beginning to now. And so, and I'm still fumbling along the way. Like, if you asked me to set up my suspension, it would be impossible. Like, it's just not going to happen. To this day, I still don't know everything about bikes. And so I'm still learning. |
| 2:19.1 | Every time I learn something, it's something funny. to happen. Right. To this day, I still don't know everything about bikes. |
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