Show Notes
We sat down with Micha Rudolph to talk about his Trail Building Commuter, a project bike that recently won the Leaf Cycles Klunker Custom Challenge. As the forebears of modern day mountain bikes, Klunkers hold a special place in history and adding the utility of bringing your trail building tools to the spot presents an interesting bridge to the cargo bikes and micromobility solutions of the present day. We get to hear all the details of the bike and the tools, the trials and tribulations of the build and, of course, the emotional rollercoaster of finishing the project in time for the contest. Micha's enthusiasm and passion for bikes, trail building and the community really comes through in our chat and it was great to catch-up on his recent move back home, his work at Schwalbe and how that may have changed his view on what makes a great skid!
Micha also put together a lovely document about the project with all the details and many more photos for you to have a closer look (in German) - download here.
More from Skids & Giggles Mountain Bike Podcast
We sat down with Colin and Antoine Massart from Massart Biketrails as well as our former guest and fan favourite Greg Jolliffe.
We sat down with Bram from Essar Cycles to get to know the story and the brain behind his steel creations.
Pascal sat down with Stefano Nucera for a podcast experiment of sorts, co-hosting each other’s podcasts for a chat about bikes, our stories in the sport so far, cycling communities, gravel, enduro, fixie crit and alleycat racing in Berlin, beers in the broom wagon, losing one’s bike packing virginity and, of course, Stefano’s non-alcoholic beer brand, Zeer.
We sat down with Reto Aebischer for a journey deep into the Afterlife.
For this one, we sit down exactly how we imagined it in the early days of the podcast: Just two good buddies having a chat, talking about bikes and things that could be. After almost 4 years and over 80 episodes, we could finally make it happen!