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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Eric Porter.

Eric has been a professional mountain biker since 2003, getting his start as a semi-pro in 2001,

after winning the U.S. national championships in both downhill and slalom.

Eric has competed in everything from cross-country to free ride and slope-style competitions and is currently

sponsored by a bevy of brands including diamondback magura pock cliff bar camelback kenda and

reynolds listeners will certainly know eric from videos like last year's red bull video no room for

error shot along a hair-raising ridgeline trail in Alaska.

Thanks for joining us, Eric.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I've read that you started racing cross-country and eventually ended up competing in slope

style. How did that progression unfold for you?

Yeah, that's pretty opposite ends of the sport, I'd say.

Yeah, so I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and cross-country racing was what was accessible

to me, and I started hanging out at the local bike shop and then got a ride to one of the

races, and I loved it, and it was just riding trails as fast as you could.

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