Skids & Giggles Mountain Bike Podcast

Ep 45 – Sandro Schmid: Living The Dream!

Skids & Giggles Mountain Bike Podcast

Show Notes

Pascal sat down with Sandro Schmid to talk about his journey with bikes, making a living in the bike industry and creating content in, and for, Switzerland. Through his social media channels on Youtube and Instagram, his presence at events, coaching, pump track shows and media projects, Sandro is one of the more recognisable mountain bikers in the country and it was interesting to retrace the steps that lead him to make riding bikes his career. Of course, a cornerstone of making his day to day work is living in a van full time and we get to hear some of the ups and downs of that. Finally, with "Living The Dream", Sandro launched his own line of clothes this year and he lays out some of the things he has in store for his brand for us.

As we have done for previous recordings in local dialect (examples here, here, here and here), Bryson and Pascal have a quick chat about the highlights of the conversation with Sandro for our English-speaking listeners. If you do understand Swiss-German, you can just skip forward to the main part.

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