Interview With Ethan Quehl: Pro Downhill Racer, Trailbuilder
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast we talk to pro downhill racer Ethan Quehl about riding fast on big bikes and his gig as a trail builder. Plus, Ethan fills us in on the burgeoning market for building personal pump tracks in peoples’ yards.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. |
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| 0:11.0 | Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. |
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| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | Today, it's me, Jeff, and I'm here with Aaron and also a special guest, Ethan Kwell, pro mountain bike racer and trail builder. Thanks for joining us today, Ethan. No problem, Jeff. Thanks for having me. So on this podcast, So we want to talk a little bit about trail building and the types of stuff that you're working on. |
| 0:40.6 | But I wanted to start off. Thanks for having me. So in this podcast, we want to talk a little bit about trail building and the types of stuff that you're working on. |
| 0:40.6 | But I wanted to start off by asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself. |
| 0:44.6 | As you know, I've pretty much gone my whole life racing on two wheels ever since I was three years old. |
| 0:51.3 | And whether it be a little bit of BMX in motorcross from five years old and and uh |
| 0:56.2 | I was nine actually a cool thing is I got to race in the the Georgia dome on those little KTM 50s it was |
| 1:02.3 | it was so sick oh my god 60,000 fans and you're like this nine year old kid you're like oh yeah |
| 1:08.2 | that's right, ladies. |
| 1:14.7 | And but now, and then so then I got into mountain biking around eight years old. |
| 1:18.7 | And that's kind of where it all started, really. |
| 1:21.4 | And I got into mountain biking and then, you know, |
| 1:24.6 | raced cross country until I was about 16 years old. |
| 1:26.6 | And that's when I, you know, found downhill. |
| 1:29.2 | And yeah, once you drink that Kool-Aid you obviously don't go back ski lists are sweet and uh so you know that year i kind of |
| 1:35.9 | raced a few races won the amateur series overall at snowshoe series a few other races here and there |
| 1:42.2 | and then when i was 17 i went really i went. And, you know, I was trying to qualify for both worlds cross-country and downhill. And I flatted on the last lap. I was leading, flatted on the last lap. And, you know, I didn't make it in. And then with the downhill thing, it was blew a turn, ended up sixth. |
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