Seth of Backyard Trail Builds Creates Jaw Dropping Ramps, Skinnies, and Bridges
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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We're re-sharing one of our favorite episodes from 2022, so be sure to listen in case you missed it! Check back soon for more fresh episodes.
Seth Gebel is a mountain biker and trail builder living in Missouri. His popular YouTube channel, Backyard Trail Builds, shows how he builds beautiful trail features like ramps, skinnies, and bridges using natural materials.
We ask Seth:
- Tell us how you got into mountain biking, and trail building.
- You’ve been building at Howler Bike Park this year. What were you working on there? How much of your time do you spend building on your own land versus paid projects for others?
- Where did you learn your carpentry skills?
- Is there a science to building features that are fun to ride, or is it guess-and-check?
- Have you had to progress your bike skills to keep up with your builds?
- You use a lot of natural wood as opposed to cut lumber, which seems to be pretty time consuming. Why make the effort?
- Is longevity a concern when building features out of wood? Are there things you can do to ensure features remain safe and durable for many seasons?
- Do you enjoy riding skinnies? What makes a good mountain bike skinny?
- Were you looking to start a YouTube channel initially?
- Your most popular YT video (so far) is about building a set of indoor rollers out of logs. What was the reaction to that video?Are you still using the rollers?
- Which builds are you most proud of?
- What’s next for your builds and your channel?
Check out the Backyard Trail Builds YouTube channel, and visit the Backyard Trail Builds website for more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Single Tracks podcast is brought to you by TPC, the Proz Closet. |
| 0:04.7 | Spring is the perfect time to upgrade, and TPC has an industry-leading selection of new and certified pre-owned bikes, plus frames, wheels, and accessories. |
| 0:14.8 | Each certified pre-owned bike is inspected, tested, and serviced, and every bike includes 30-day returns. |
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| 0:28.0 | on every order over 200. |
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| 0:37.4 | in the show notes. |
| 0:38.5 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | My name is Jeff and today my guest is Seth Gable. |
| 0:46.3 | Seth is a mountain biker and trail builder living in Missouri. |
| 0:49.9 | His popular YouTube channel, Backyard Trail Builds, shows how he builds beautiful trail features |
| 0:55.5 | like ramps, skinnies, and bridges, using a lot of natural materials. Thanks for joining us, |
| 1:01.4 | Seth. |
| 1:01.7 | Of course. Thank you. Well, tell us how you got into mountain biking, and then how did you move into |
| 1:07.9 | trail building? Uh, so I got into mountain biking, luckily by a cousin who was very into it. |
| 1:16.0 | I think I was like a sophomore in high school, and I had my little, what was it, like a trek Walmart mountain bike with, you know, it was a full suspension, but it was like the ones that like jingle around and have a lot of parts that are like kind of barely holding on. |
| 1:35.4 | And he took me to the hardest trail in the area what might be considered like a, you know, a double black kind of enduro downhill line. |
| 1:44.4 | And it was the hardest, most fun thing that I'd ever done. Like, like a, you know, a double black kind of enduro downhill line. Mm-hmm. |
| 1:45.0 | And it was the hardest, most fun thing that I'd ever done. Like, he took me there and it was like, what that? Like, what is this? I'm so tired and it's so hard, but then you get to do the downhill stuff. And it's like, you're just totally out of your element. It's like a weird feeling. It was, I'd never experienced anything like that because I was, I was like a big video game nerd. |
| 2:04.0 | I didn't do anything else. element. It's like a weird feeling. It was, I never experienced anything like that because I was, |
| 2:02.1 | I was like a big video game nerd. I didn't do anything else. I don't like conventional sports. So |
| 2:07.2 | he took me out and did that and it was like, oh my God, I want more of that for sure. Nice. But |
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