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The Adventure Stache

Seth Alvo of Berm Peak

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

Outdoors, Interviews, Society & Culture, Current Events, Culture, Photography, Adventure, Mountain Biking, Celebrities, Inspirational, Basketball, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneur, Cycling, Athletes, Sports

4.9727 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

With 2.5 million subscribers, Seth Alvo (founder of Berm Peak and Seth’s Bike Hacks) runs one of the most popular mountain biking channels on Youtube. Sharing hacks, reviews, and off-road adventures, he's built a passionate audience from a demographic that is largely ignored by the industry. The web developer-turned-content creator attributes his success to being the antithesis of a professional athlete. A self-professed nerd, he started out sharing tips and tricks for people who were new to ...

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0:00.0

I wanted to be the Bill Nye, the science guy of mountain biking, where I'm making it accessible

0:05.4

to everyone.

0:06.2

And what I found is I was getting messages, hey, Seth, I'm getting my first mountain bike,

0:10.8

thanks to you.

0:11.4

Or, hey, what mountain bike do you think I should get?

0:14.1

And so we were actually creating mountain bikers, not only creating mountain bikers, but also

0:19.5

just making people view mountain biking in a more

0:23.3

positive light and demystifying what it is. Some people didn't even know what it was. It's like,

0:27.4

wait, normal people go off of jumps. I thought only professionals go off of jumps. Like,

0:32.1

there were all these things that even if nobody was asking the question, I knew that some of

0:37.1

them were just kind of like going along and nobody ever explicitly explained what those things were.

0:42.3

It's showtime everybody! Showtime!

0:45.3

You've been living in a dream world, Neil.

0:49.3

This is the world as it exists today.

0:55.0

Life moves pretty fast.

0:58.0

You don't stop and look around once in a while.

1:00.0

You could miss it.

1:02.0

Listen, we talk about practice.

1:06.0

Repeat on the dude's room.

1:08.0

Donnie, you're out of your element.

1:13.5

I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.

1:17.5

Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.

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