Sharing the Mountain Bike Stoke Around the World
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast I talk with Mike Brcic about the best ways to share the mountain bike experience with others, whether that’s leading a group ride or promoting mountain bike tourism in local communities. Plus, we talk about some of Mike’s favorite places to mountain bike around the world, including some up-and-coming spots to put on your radar.
Mike is the founder of Sacred Rides, one of the top providers of mountain bike tours around the world. He’s an educator with the Adventure Travel Association, and a Co-founder of Bikes without Borders, a non-profit dedicated to empowering marginalized communities through bike-related solutions. Mike’s latest venture, Mastermind Adventures, hosts small-group adventures for entrepreneurs in top outdoor destinations.
--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
| 0:08.3 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal. |
| 0:16.3 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | My name is Jeff, and today I'm talking with Mike Bersick, who is the founder of Sacred Rides, |
| 0:29.6 | one of the top providers of mountain bike tours around the world. |
| 0:33.0 | He's an educator with the Adventure Travel Association and a co-founder of Bikes Without Borders, a nonprofit |
| 0:38.6 | dedicated to empowering marginalized communities through bike-related solutions. Thanks for joining us, Mike. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm excited to be here. Looking forward to our chat. So you've been doing what you do for a long |
| 0:50.1 | time. What is it about biking that has you so stoked to share the experience with other people? |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, it's funny when I think about my history with cycling, any type of cycling, I was actually |
| 1:01.5 | a little bit of a late bloomer and I didn't actually learn how to properly ride a bike until I was |
| 1:06.4 | almost 10 years old. But when I did, it was just this crazy aha moment. And we lived on this, when I was |
| 1:15.3 | growing up, we lived on this street that was maybe about, I don't know, I want to say, 150, 200 yards |
| 1:21.6 | long. And when I first, you know, got my first bike, my parents said, you can bike on our street, |
| 1:27.4 | but we don't |
| 1:27.8 | want you to bike any farther than that. And I would just bike up and down the street, back and |
| 1:33.2 | forth for hours in a time. I just love being on a bike so much. And the neighbors all thought |
| 1:38.9 | I was a weirdo because I was just biking up and down. Like a caged animal. Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:44.3 | And then eventually they let me explore the neighborhood and there's this great little hill. |
| 1:48.8 | You know, I could climb up to the top of the hill and then bike down. |
| 1:51.5 | And it was just like this whole other world of just joy and adrenaline and thrills and freedom that opened up to me. |
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