Making Mountain Bikes Your Life – Ali Jamieson

Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast

Downtime MTB

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Hobbies, Leisure, Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ali Jamieson is the man behind the Trans-Savoie and Enduro2, however, despite living what, for many of us would look like the dream, life hasn’t all been plain sailing for Ali. As he prepares to launch an awesome new event, the New Zealand MTB Rally, Ali joins me to chat about his journey from full-time engineer to full time mountain bike guide and event organiser. Along the way, Ali has been diagnosed as bi-polar, taken on the French Government over their guiding laws, been bankrupt, and much more. This was a frank and open conversation that covers the highs and lows that life can bring. Please be aware that this episode does briefly discuss suicidal feelings. So, it’s time to sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Ali Jamieson.

If you want to find out more about the NZ MTB Rally, head to nzmtbrally.com or @nzmtbrally on Instagram.

To check out Enduro2, head to enduro2.org or head to @enduro2.fr on Instagram.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hall and this is the downtime podcast where we're going to be taking
0:07.6	you deeper than ever into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. Before we get stuck into this
0:11.9	week's episode, I've got a great offer for you from We are 1 Composites. If you're a long time
0:16.1	listening to the podcast, you'll know I've been riding Weir 1 wheels for years now. I've always been
0:20.5	a fan of what
0:21.0	they do and how they do it. And last week, they've yet again demonstrated just how awesome they are
0:25.6	by permanently reducing the price of their rims and wheel sets, as always, putting you the customer first.
0:31.6	So not only can you have wheels that are made with love and care from scratch right there in Camloops,
0:36.2	Canada, which ride insanely well,
0:38.3	a super durable and well supported by the team that made them, but now you can save even more
0:42.9	money with their reduced retail pricing and a very generous 15% off that, especially for
0:47.9	downtime listeners. That's right, for the month of August, we are one are generously offering
0:52.1	downtime listeners 15% off all their wheel sets,
0:55.0	rims and their do package bar and stem. So whether you want their new convergence wheels,
0:58.8	they're still very awesome revolution wheels or they're to package bar and stem now is your time.
1:02.8	You can get 15% off those reduced retail prices until the end of August, 2023,
1:07.8	by using the code downtime August 2023 at at we are one composites.com.
1:12.8	That's downtime with a capital D, no space, then August with the capital A, no space,
1:17.4	followed by the number 2023 at we are oneconvests.com. Please note, you must enter the code at the
1:22.8	very final stage of the checkout process on the confirm order page. If you're enjoying the podcast, then there's a few things you can do. First and foremost, share the podcast. Maybe that's telling your friends about the show, recommend in a specific episode to them that you think they're going to like or sharing the episodes on your social media. If you find that the podcast provides you with some value, maybe you've learned something that's helped you riding or your fitness, maybe it's got you stoked to go riding riding or to come back from an injury, or perhaps it's just a little something to pass the time when you can't be riding your bike, then it'd be awesome if you were able to do a little something in return to help the podcast continue and improve by setting up a small regular donation via my Patreon over at patreon.com for slash downtime podcast. That's Patreon spelt p-a-t-r-e-o-n.
2:03.7	A massive thank you to David Freina, Morgan Shah and Johannes who joined that list of lovely
2:08.4	patrons this week. Also, if you want to represent the podcast, then there's downtime t-shirt,
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