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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

The Legendary Chris Akrigg Shares His Creative Approach to Riding

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Chris Akrigg is known around the world for his incredible bike handling skills and his creative approach to riding on anything with two wheels. His latest series of videos, The Process, focuses on creating fun and challenging bike features out of natural surroundings.


I talk with Chris about how he keeps his trials riding skills sharp and fresh, and what makes technical trail challenges so appealing to him. Chris speaks about injuries over the years, and how he approaches recovery with the same competitive, can-do spirit as his riding. We also talk about taking risks, his favorite projects over the years, and what Chris has in store for the future.


Watch Chris in action on his YouTube channel and on the Mongoose channel.

--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

Transcript

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0:00.0

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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

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0:20.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.1

My name is Jeff, and today my special guest is Chris Akegrig.

0:27.9

So Chris is known around the world for his incredible bike handling skills and his creative

0:33.6

approach to riding on basically anything with two wheels.

0:36.9

His latest series of videos

0:38.5

focuses on creating fun and challenging bike features out of natural surroundings. Thanks for

0:44.5

joining us, Chris. Now they know you're doing. Doing great. So you're known for your trials,

0:49.2

riding skills and for being able to ride pretty much any bike anywhere. How did you get started and how do you develop those skills? I guess the reason I sort of started riding was my dad. He was motorbike trials rider. And then as a young kid, I used to sort of like, you know, have a little bike, and he just used to throw that in the trailer with a motorbike, and I just go and, you, obviously like pretend to be a motorbike rider on my little push bike and then, yeah, I guess

1:13.7

no real reason, just, you know, having fun and just logical progression, you know,

1:18.1

you just get better and better and then it got to a point where I wanted my own motorbike

1:21.8

and I started riding to motorbike trials for quite a long time before cycle trials.

1:30.0

And then, yeah, there was a local event on a British championship round and he used to ride pushback trials sort of in the background but didn't

1:35.9

it was just like a bit of a thing that I did one I couldn't get the chance to ride a motorbike so like

1:41.0

but I was pretty handy on a on a push bike and so went and did this competition. I actually won the class that I ended. And I was like, yeah, this is, this is pretty good fun. Like, you know, this is a, like, this is a sport, like, in its own right. So I sort of like, it just got, you know, I started riding bicycle competitions and doing pretty well. And then it just got to a point where my dad was like, well, you can do one or the other, you know, it's like I was spending a lot of time, you know, on my push bike and not as much the motorbike, and just sort of made a, made a choice and then just went, you know, just started doing pushback trials more than doing the British Championship series.

2:17.8

Cool.

2:21.1

Well, I mean, I haven't done any motorbike riding myself.

2:24.5

I mean, it seems like once you do that, you would just want to do that all the time.

2:30.3

You have all that power and, you know, speed, not in trials, but it seems to me weird that you would choose the push bike.

2:32.1

What was it about that that, like that made it more interesting for you?

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