Staying Fit, Fast and Fun With Carl Decker
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Carl Decker is a five-time Downieville champion, a three-time US singlespeed champion, and in 2008 he won the World singlespeed championship. He’s currently part of the Giant Factory Off-Road Team and just recently helped put on the Singlespeed World Championship race in Bend, Oregon.
In this episode, Carl talks about what it’s like to be a pro mountain biker and shares some of the competitive secrets he’s picked up over the years. We also talk about what makes singlespeed mountain biking so dang attractive and addictive.
--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. My name is Jeff and today my guest is Carl Decker. |
| 0:26.9 | Carl is a five-time Downeyville champion, a three-time US single-speed champion and in 2008 he won |
| 0:34.2 | the world's single-speed championship. He's currently part of the giant factory |
| 0:38.9 | off-road team and just recently helped put on the single speed world championship race held in Bend, |
| 0:44.8 | Oregon. Thanks for joining us, Carl. Hey, my pleasure. I want to start by asking you, how did you |
| 0:49.5 | get started? When did you start racing bikes? It's been a family affair since the beginning. |
| 0:54.7 | My dad was into bikes back before it was cool, I guess you could say. |
| 0:58.7 | And he actually like rode his Schwinn across the country when he was 20 years old, you know, back before, you know, sunblock and helmets and stuff like that. |
| 1:08.5 | So we were doing mountain bike races when I was nine. Wow. |
| 1:13.8 | Which predates mountain bikes for kids. So my brother and I were on BMX bikes. And my dad, |
| 1:19.4 | he was a state cop and he got some vacate by then. He built some vacation time and we'd spend like |
| 1:24.2 | a month every summer chasing local bike races and camping and and uh just |
| 1:29.0 | riding our vmx bikes yeah were there many other kids your age that were racing at that time |
| 1:33.9 | there were not that many we were kind of outliers and honestly it's hard to remembering because |
| 1:39.4 | we were little kids there were probably a lot of juniors but But, you know, when you're nine, my brother was |
| 1:45.1 | seven at the time. When you're seven or nine years old, like a 16 year old kid looks like a 28 year |
| 1:53.4 | old person because you just don't know, like, oh, that's a man, you know. So yeah, we had tiny |
| 1:58.3 | little bikes and, you know, we used to do some touring and we wrote to the oregon coast when in 84 you know i say this it kind of makes my parents sound like |
| 2:06.0 | terrible pushy little league parents but my brother and i were just begging to do this stuff like |
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