Wandrer Encourages Riders to Explore New Roads and Trails by Bike
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Craig Durkin is the founder of Wandrer.earth, an exploration game that encourages people to explore new places by bike and by foot. He and his wife Pearl are also good friends, and we’ve been riding together regularly for a few years now.
In this episode we ask Craig:
- Are you still biking abandoned railroad tracks with this contraption?
- Why did you first get into mountain biking?
- What is Wandrer and how does it work?
- What are some of the interesting things you’ve see on your rides?
- Are there plans to create specific challenges for mountain biking, and MTB trails?
- Who would you say is the best MTB trials rider of all time?
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| 0:30.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:33.1 | My name is Jeff and today my guest is Craig Durkin. |
| 0:37.6 | Craig is the founder of Wanderer.Earth, an exploration game that encourages people to explore new places by bike and by foot. |
| 0:46.2 | He and his wife, Pearl, are also good friends, and we've been riding together regularly for a few years now. |
| 0:52.5 | Thanks for joining me, Craig. |
| 0:57.1 | So this actually isn't your first time on single tracks. Back in 2016, Aaron interviewed you |
| 1:05.5 | about a contraption that you built to ride bikes on abandoned railroad tracks. |
| 1:10.6 | I had forgotten about that until just now. |
| 1:14.1 | So, yeah, we posted a video of it, and he interviewed you and stuff. |
| 1:19.0 | I think I didn't really even know you at that time. |
| 1:21.0 | So I'm curious, you got any updates on how that project turned out? |
| 1:25.6 | That, I feel like I got about as far as I wanted to with that. |
| 1:31.5 | The design I had actually kind of ran into some kind of challenges in that it was two bikes side by side. |
| 1:41.1 | So it's one bike on each rail. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.7 | And where that gets tricky is when you're |
| 1:47.1 | going around curves in rails because, well, the inside rail is shorter than the outside rail. |
| 1:54.6 | And so like you need things to be really rigid in order for you to not like fall off of the rail generally. |
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