AngryMountainBiker Show

I address a listener complaint and rant about plastic bags in tonight's podcast. And, I talk a bit about getting involved in your local trail club.

Today I break down 105 year old Robert Marchand's record breaking bike ride and also talk about some cold weather riding tips, and a way to get acclimated to high altitude while you're sleeping.

An 85 year old man did a sub 4 hour marathon. I rant about how most of what we think of as age related decline is actually due to lack of physical activity.  I also break down what's In vs Out in 2017 in mountainbiking, and break down a GMBN video pitting an enduro bike against a cross country bike in a race.  Enjoy!

Cross Country vs Enduro Race

NY Times Article on 85 year old marathoner

VitalMTB piece on what's in and out in 2017

Happy New Year--start the year off by taking the hard track. In today's episode, I talk about my wheels, my resolutions, and solo climbers Alex Honnold and Dan Osman. And I break down the lawsuit filed by the Bitterroot Backcountry Coalition which is sueing the US Forest Service to regain access to 180K acres of wilderness in Montana.

Alex Honnold Tribute Solo to Dan Osman

Dan Osman's original solo

I took some excerpts from a few of my interviews and put them together in tonights show. Hear the best from Martin Fernandez, Naz Ahmed, Russ Adam, Sean Johnson, and Frank Raiti.  Happy New Year to all my guests and listeners. I've really enjoyed building this show in 2016 and look forward to many more interviews and rants in 2017. See you on the trail!

Visiti Afghan Ascend to Help

Sean's site

Martin's site, Best Rides DC!

Hi everyone, Will Niccolls here. In today's show I thought I'd do something different now that I have a few more listeners and the show has grown a bit. I've dug into the back catalogues for one of my favorite interviews of the past few months. It's with my old friend Rob Raker. Rob is an incredibly talented guy and a true inspiration. He's been a rock climber and outdoor adventurer for fifty years and a professional filmmaker and documentarian for over 20.  We met on the rocks in Morrison Colorado many years ago and have renewed our friendship in the last year as he has traveled to the DC area to undergo treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer.   Rob is a man of many talents, rock climbing, filmmaking, kayaking, cycling, birding, photography. One of the many interesting things he's done over the past years is work with Erik Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber to reach the summit of Everest. You'll hear Rob talk about some of his adventures with Erik here. Now, I'm still pretty new to podcasting and listening back to this I wish I was a better interviewer and that I'd figured out some of the audio engineering tricks that I now know, but I went ahead and remastered the original track so that the sound may be a bit better, and Rob is such an interesting guy that I think the interview holds up ok despite my weaknesses. His candid discussion of his experience battling cancer is particularly important so I hope you enjoy this and I'll be back with new shows in the next days. Meanwhile enjoy this and let me know your thoughts!

Today I ramble about a lot of stuff. Why explaining things to people is not only useless but it robs them of the experience of being wrong, especially as it relates to movement skills like rock climbing and mountain biking.

The Red River Gorge is in Kentucky, a beautiful area with a bunch of world class climbing, and now a 100 mile mountain bike race in September, 2017.  I break it down, and also rant about low fat half and half for a while!

Red River Gorge 100 MTB Race

My friend Andres Rodriguez is a mountain biker and beer connoisseur and joins me in the studio to introduce some delicious and interesting beer  choices for your consideration this holiday season.

Today I break down why standing up on your pedals more than you probably do is going to make you a better a rider.  I also give you three, no, wait, FOUR foundational strength exercises so you can finally keep up with your girlfriend. Or boyfriend.