The Big Dumb Ride

By Andy Karr and Sarah Sladen

A podcast dedicated to the joys, miseries, and lessons left unlearned from your big dumb bike rides. If you ride or race bikes for long enough, you're bound to have one (or many) bike rides that we

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How many episodes does The Big Dumb Ride have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.

The Big Dumb Ride episodes:

February 15, 2023 S2, Episode 5: Across Andes with Cynthia Frazier
Join us on the 5th episode of Season 2 of the BDR. We chat with Cynthia, AKA Watt Wagon, about imaginary nutcrackers, volcano emojis, organizing gravel races, and some of the biggest, dumbest rides out there.
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1h 6min
January 30, 2023 S2, Episode 4: Ups and Downs with Meena Aladdin
What goes up must come down, and then back up, and then down, and then...
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1h
January 17, 2023 S2, Episode 3: Finding Out with Nate Baker from Hush Money Bikes
On today’s episode with chat with Nate Baker, co-owner of Hush Money Bikes, about coming home to Lancaster, PA, uncrustables, forest swords, planning big dumb rides like the Fall Fuckaround and the Hootananny, and his biggest, dumbest ride of all: a highly unexpected open heart surgery and the recovery journey to getting back to doing what he does best: fucking around and finding out on two wheels.
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56min
January 02, 2023 S2, Episode 2: BDR the TVA with the Hosts of the Big Dumb Ride
In this special episode we change things up a bit by forgoing the guest and instead recap our own big dumb ride: the 2021 Trans-Virginia Bike Route. Check out the official TVA website here:https://www.transvirginia.org/ and Andy's account of the ride on the Radavist:https://theradavist.com/serendipity-on-the-tva-550-miles-and-a-roll-of-superia-x-tra-400-film/
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1h 39min
December 19, 2022 S2, Episode 1: Mountain Cat 100 with Emily Monroe
Emily joins the hosts of the Big Dumb Ride to kick off season 2 in style. We talk about everything from gas station hotdogs, to why mountain bikes are great for yeeting off everything, to bent chainrings, and of course underground bike racing and the wonderfully unique MTNCAT100.
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57min
March 17, 2021 Episode 11: The Underground Railroad Ride with John Shackelford
John joins us to share the incredible story of his 1,100 mile adventure across the american south and his plans for advocacy, learning as he goes, and some big dreams.
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March 10, 2021 Episode X: Covering Ground with Watts Dixon
Join us on this, our tenth (tenth?!?!) episode of the Big Dumb Ride where we talk with Greensboro, NC bike shop owner Watts Dixon about a life of big dumb rides, shop life, and just life. We couldn’t dream up a better way to mark this milestone than going deep with such an interesting, and compelling, guest.
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March 03, 2021 Episode 9: Ellen and Mindy, Unbound
Mindy Simmons and Ellen Tarquinio join us to recount their simultaneous experiences contending with Kansas' most famous gravel bicycle race, among other things on this laughing fit riddled episode of the BDR.
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1h 3min
February 24, 2021 Episode 8: The Big Dumb Run with Ultra Runner Patrick Sweatt
Patrick runs across Tennessee, all the way across Tennessee, with nothing but a book on tape and a cargo vest.
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February 17, 2021 Episode 7: FKT the GAPCO with Dylan Stagner and Jeremy Gardner
Dylan and Jeremy set out with a single minded focus: set the fastest known time from Pittsburgh, PA to Washington, DC along the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal trail network. With a few late surprises, everything had to go right for them to do it. Listen to this episode to find out how it went.
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1h 6min

FAQs about The Big Dumb Ride:

How many episodes does The Big Dumb Ride have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.