Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist.

Ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer Road and this is a special episode.

We have with a specialized offroads, Matt Beers, who is currently the South African Gravel and Marathon

Mountain Bike Champion, three-time Cape Epic Champion.

I'm sure you've all heard of him.

He's racing the Lifetime Grand Prix this year.

Matt, I've wanted to have you on the podcast

a really long time.

I'm really stoked to have you on here. This is going to be great.

Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm a, you know, kind of avid listener. It's always what I use for my training,

listening to you guys who you have one so honored to be here. Thank you

Yeah, stoked so I first heard about you man and Matt I want to clear this up. I want to get into your background. I feel like I actually heard about you because you used to race motocross.

Wasn't that like your thing? And then somehow you got into mountain biking and I feel like I might have heard Grant Langston or somebody else,

these famous motoc cross riders from South Africa

mentioned that there was some mountain bike or some motor guy gone mountain biker down there, but I could be wrong.

That's your background though, isn't it? How did you get into mountain biking?

Yeah that that is my background. I'm not sure if they even know who I am. I mean I know who they are. I looked up to them as a kid so

Possibly they've heard through the grapevine but yeah I raced motorcross for geez how long probably like 10 years I think I even came to the

states trained and raced at MTF, MOSAP's training facility.

Wow.

And yeah, I tried to do the whole Loretta Lins thing and got pretty close, but injuries, you know,

it's the kind of injuries of motorcross to go hand in hand and

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