TPM Episode 441: Bas van Steenbergen, Pro Biker
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Bas van Steenbergen has been a dual threat on his mountain bike for over a decade. Part racer and part freerider, Bas has the rare ability to compete at the highest level in both disciplines. While that's cool, his story is even better. Growing up overseas with his equally as rad little brother Tom, Bas, raced BMX until he moved to Canada and bought a mountain bike. And while he got on a big bike later than most, that didn't stop him and the rest is history. On the podcast, we talk about the status of the bike industry, sponsorship, Downhill, Rampage, content and more. Little brother Tom van Steenbergen asks the Inappropriate Questions.
Bas Van Steenbergen Show Notes:
4:00: Snowboarding, the bike industry, carnage after the pandemic, sponsors, bike compoundnds, movies, his crazy upbringing, biking in EU,
22:00: Liquid Force, Feel the Pull and get 15% off your LF Purchase by using the code Powell15 at checkout
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25:00: Shift to MTB, breaking his first bike, Downhill, his younger brother Tom, racing, travel, and Rampage
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42:00: More Rampage, events, his first big win, and how long will he race
50:00: Inappropriate Questions with Tom Van Steenbergen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.3 | It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and I'm still in total shock that I no longer have my wife by my side. |
| 0:22.5 | I've been such an emotional wreck lately. |
| 0:25.1 | I find myself crying all the time and when I start crying, I can't stop. |
| 0:29.6 | It's like a faucet opens up and my tears come pouring out. |
| 0:33.5 | It's this whole grief thing. |
| 0:34.8 | I've never experienced anything like it. |
| 0:37.4 | It's like my partner in life I've never experienced anything like it. |
| 0:45.8 | It's like my partner in life, Ange, is frozen in time at 42 years old, and Keaton and I are left to put the pieces back together and figure out our lives. |
| 0:51.3 | And that was never the plan. I was supposed to grow old with Ange, and now I'm not going to be able to get to do that. |
| 0:54.4 | And I feel cheated out of a big part of my life. I find myself waking up every day. |
| 0:56.5 | And when Anne was sick, I'd wake up and I'd forget about everything for a minute. |
| 1:00.9 | I'd wake up, I'd feel good. |
| 1:02.1 | It seemed like life was great. |
| 1:03.5 | And then after 30 seconds, I'd remember that she had cancer. |
| 1:06.3 | And it was like, holy shit, our life totally sucks. Now I wake up, and I'm in tears the second I look over, and I don't see Ann's next to me. |
| 1:15.5 | So that's when it hits me right when I get up and look over. |
| 1:18.3 | And then I'm stuck in my house working all day, which is a place that I spent every minute of |
| 1:22.8 | every day for nearly the past three years with Ange. |
| 1:25.9 | And before the past three years, before this whole cancer shit started, |
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