The Singletracks Origin Story
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In this episode, we talk about how Singletracks got its start in the late 1990s and also talk about where the site is headed in 2016 and beyond.
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| 0:38.6 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today it's me, Greg, and I'm here with singletrax.com co-founders, Jeff and Leah Barber. Thanks for joining me today, guys. Thanks, Greg. Thanks. So today we're going to talk about how single tracks got it start. |
| 0:41.4 | Single tracks has been around for quite some time now, and I'm interested to hear from Leah and Jeff about the idea that was behind the website in the beginning. |
| 0:48.7 | So to you really get started, when did you guys start mountain biking? |
| 0:52.3 | I actually started mountain biking in high school. |
| 0:55.6 | So that would have been like the mid-1990s. I mean, I had always ridden bikes off road. |
| 1:02.2 | And actually, in middle school, I asked for a 10-speed bike for Christmas. And the bike I had in mind was like a road bike you know one of my |
| 1:11.9 | neighbors had one and I thought that was a lot of fun to ride around Christmas morning I ended up |
| 1:16.2 | getting a mountain bike you know it's knobby tired 26er bike and I was honestly I was a little |
| 1:21.5 | disappointed I was like man this isn't what I thought it was but it did have gears and you |
| 1:26.1 | know I quickly rode it around the neighborhood and |
| 1:28.1 | started riding it in the backyard and, you know, there were like woods kind of around our house. |
| 1:33.1 | And so I would do a lot of that kind of mountain biking. |
| 1:36.4 | How about you, Leah? |
| 1:37.4 | It wasn't really until college that I started mountain biking. |
| 1:41.1 | And Greg, you know that Jeff and and I we have a pretty long history together |
| 1:45.8 | we were in high school together and that's when we started dating and as much as I'd like to give |
| 1:50.6 | Jeff some credit for getting me into the sport he was he was a small part but I did have a group of |
| 1:56.3 | college friends that got me into mountain biking it was actually while I was co-opping at Georgia Tech |
| 2:02.8 | at a company in North Carolina. A friend did a weekly ride there. He was way into bikes. His name |
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