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Pisgah Podcast
by Drew and Mangler
Mountain biking news and info from western North Carolina by Drew and Mangler.
Episodes
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Pisgah Podcast - 180- Hurricane Helene recovery check in
Hurricane Helene has left Western North Carolina devastated. From the large city of Asheville to the hollers of Old Fort, Bat Cave, Mortimer and more, have all seen destruction. We've got friends all up and down these blue ridge mountains and felt it was time to check in with them and give you…
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Pisgah Podcast - 179- Pisgah Area Sorba Summer update
We got a kickstart from Daniel and Natalie at Pisgah Area Sorba to crank this thing back up, so here we are! We've got the PAS folks on the mics to give us some updates on new trails and whats new in the scene while we've been away. Did you get an email from SORBA main too? if you didn't, here's...
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Pisgah Podcast - 178- Back Country Horsemen of Pisgah
Ever been so deep in Pisgah that you thought no one had touched that zone in forever but then you come across some fresh cut timber trail clearing and you’re completely flabbergasted that someone brought a saw waaaay back there. Well, that someone was the Back Country Horsemen of Pisgah and we…
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Pisgah Podcast - 177- Brevard College Cycling 2023
Matt Zuniga, a rising senior with the Brevard College Cycling team stops by to give us the run down on what these crazy college kids are up to, their operation and what their favorite rides are. Drew and Mangler wrapped up a busy year of downhill with a Central America visit and dropping a new…
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Pisgah Podcast - 176- Rockgeist
About 7 months ago we dropped by Rockgeist so Drew could get a fancy custom bag made for his Tallboy and spent the morning documenting the process of making a bag the crew and the makings of Rockgeist with Greg Hardy PHD. So after 7 months, Drew has great things to say about his bag but some…
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Pisgah Podcast - 175- New trails listen tour
Western NC has been sprouting up some new trails over the summer so like any good podcast producers, we wanted to deliver some sweet sounds of ripping. Drew and Mangler convinced Adam Hobbs to join in as they visit some new trails at Chestnut Mountain and Old Fort. IF you have rolled the rock on...
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Pisgah Podcast - 174- Year of the Trail
NC has legally declared 2023 as Year of the Trail so we got some of those behind the scenes of this movement on the mics to talk about the who, what and why. Daniel Sapp and Seth Alvo of Backslope along with Beth Heile from Friends of Valdese fill us in as we hung out at Berm Peak. October 21st…
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Pisgah Podcast - 173- USFS User Fees, We’ve Got Answers
Like many of you, we had lots and lots of questions regarding the proposed user fees for Pisgah Ranger district for mountain bikes and equestrians. So after a week of gathering questions, our friends at Pisgah Area SORBA got a lot of them answered from the USFS and brought us that info. Huge…
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Pisgah Podcast - 172- The Future of Polk County, Little White Oak Mountain Trails
Little White Oak Mountain may be an unfamiliar name for most listeners, but you’re going be remembering it after listening to Craig Lee of Community Trail Designs and Ed Sutton of Trail Dynamics fill us in on the juicy details of the soon to be project. 900’sh feet of descent on a south facing...
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Pisgah Podcast - 171- Nick Bragg chasing KOP
Nick Bragg is no stranger to podiums and he’s also a real good friend of the podcast but after our interview with Eric Wever / Pisgah Productions for episode 166 we decided to put Nick on the spot and inquire about his thought on chasing the King of Pisgah for a second time, cause he’s already…
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Pisgah Podcast - 170- Rachel Pageau
On the mic this week is French-Canadian World Cup downhill racer Rachel Pageau, fresh on a new bike and straight from the top step of an enduro win! Also, spring is still deceiving us, but winter is returning. Some prescribed burns around WNC and the regional racing season is firing up! If you…
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Pisgah Podcast - 169- Tallboy Judgement Showdown
Ever had that feeling the bike shop crew was laser eyeball judging your bike? Yea, us too. So we put mics on some bike industry pros named Mike and allowed them to shame us on our bike setups, or did they? Also, we’ve got the Ride Kanuga winter enduro race results. If you have ever had trouble...
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Pisgah Podcast - 168- Landmark Learning, wilderness first aid
We often play in the woods far from civilization, thats what we do, so what happens if you or someone from your riding crew get hurt? Well, we took those questions to Justin Padgett of Landmark Learning, a learning specialist for the outdoor community that specializes in wilderness first aid. We...
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Pisgah Podcast - 167- Handup Gloves
If you’ve been to a bike fest, you probably had a good time with the Handup Gloves crew. So we ventured across the mountain to Chattanooga Tennessee to indulge in a good time and get the story on how Handup became the fun havers and good timers that they are. If you have ever got to a trail head…
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Pisgah Podcast - 166- Pisgah Productions
Pisgah Productions has been one of the main racing promoters of western NC for many years now. Bringing you such death marches as PMBAR and Pisgah 36 but also more fun races like the 111, 55 and Pisgah Enduro. So we caught up with Eric Wever, the creator of Pisgah Productions to talk about its...
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Pisgah Podcast - 165- Gravelo Workshop
Drew and Mangler ripped laps at Ride Rock Creek for New Years day on their enduro sleds, its team transfer season and also, is it gravel season? Is that a thing? To find out more, we met up with the new shop Gravelo Workshop in North Asheville to find out more on their new shop focused on coffee...
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Pisgah Podcast - 164- Jolanda Neff Pisgah Interview
Jolanda Neff, Olympic Gold Medalist and multiple world champ title holder sits down with us to chat off season in Pisgah and more! A once rogue trail network gets legalized, bike raffles and winter solstice. If you came to the UCI WC DH live stream for the DH race but stayed for the XC then go...
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Pisgah Podcast - 163- Ride Rock Creek Bike Park
Neko Mulally guides us through what we can expect on visiting the new Ride Rock Creek Bike Park, the location, the trails, the shuttle, what it took to build the place out and other fun info. The park opens December 9th and is operated by the crew from Ride Kanuga. Drew and Mangler run you…
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Pisgah Podcast - 162- Max Beaupre interview
We’ve been watching Max tear up the local and soon to be global race scene and build some sweet trails out at Kanuga and the soon to open Rock Creek bike parks so its rad to sit him down and find out where this dude gets all this energy from! Lots of stoke to go around. And we recap a bit of this...
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Pisgah Podcast - 161- 2022 race season wrap up
The racing season around western NC has almost come to a close and we’ve got Chris Bennett of NCCX to talk about the upcoming NCCX Grand Prix race this weekend at Jackson Park. Also this weekend is Upstate SORBA cranksgiving taking place at Ride Kanuga. So still some race fun to participate in!…
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Pisgah Podcast - 160- Endless Bike Girl, Shanna Powell
If you’ve been around western NC trails frequently enough, theres a strong chance you’ve caught Shanna Powell ripping around having fun in her cat ears and fairy wings. Drew caught up with Shanna to find out more about her path to bike riding, making drive train parts and pushing ladies to shred....
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Pisgah Podcast - 159- Pisgah Area SORBA with new exec director
Pisgah Area SORBA recently brought on Natalie Narburgh as the executive director so we got her and president Craig Ruhland on the mic to give us a little more behind the scenes look and sort of a how its made on the club, what they have going on and whats in store for the future of the...
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Pisgah Podcast - 158- Rocky Knob’s new trail, Jumbo Shrimp
Following up from last episode on Rocky Knob’s history, we have a gathering of Boone locals to celebrate the opening of RKP’s newest trail Jumbo Shrimp, a blue “back country” descent off the top of the mountain. We caught up with some of the shredders and shakers of the high country scene to hear...
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Pisgah Podcast - 157- Rocky Knob History
We flash it back to an older podcast project that Mangler did a few years ago with trail boss Kristian Jackson on Rocky Knob Mountain Bike Park. Rocky Knob opened up a new trail recently so we wanted to share this older podcast to get people up to speed on some of the backstory before our episode...
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Pisgah Podcast - 156- Ohlins USA
Did you know… yes, Ohlins USA is based in western NC! We got Jake Thompson Jacobson on the mic to chat about Ohlin’s history in western NC, the twin tube damper and weird bikes. And if you’ve ever blessed the rains down in Africa, then go ahead and click subscribe!
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Pisgah Podcast - 155- Old Fort Gateway trails opening
The trails are open! Phase one of the Old Fort trails have opened, called The Gateway, its the first introductory part of the system to have trails for all. We had a super secret guest reporter cover this opening for us, so HUGE thanks to Adam Hobbs. Are you as happy as we are that the Old fort...
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Pisgah Podcast - 154- Season ender for Downhill Southeast
The Downhill Southeast series wraps up the season this weekend at Beech Mountain Resort. There's a lot of tight races for season champs so we got the DHSE emcee and past guest, Trill Will on our mic to talk some details on how things are shaking up and shaping up for this weekends race. Have you...
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Pisgah Podcast - 153- Schoolhouse trail and the Mortimer project with Kristian Jackson
We got a ton of rain this week while we’ve been cooped up inside and yes it has been dry, but let's point it to those better draining trails for a few days first. The Mortimer project has been one of those “other Pisgah” projects we hear about but don’t really get much follow up on after the…
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Pisgah Podcast - 152- Berm Park and Luv Trails follow up
After a few busy weeks we have the berm park episode featuring Seth's bike hacks, Eric Porter and Peter Mills of Elevated Trail Design along with some follow up questions with Arrie from last weeks episode to fill in some details on Luv Trails. Lots of cool things happening in the near future and...
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Pisgah Podcast - 151- LuvTrails
Arrie Rossouw and Hugh Moran from Luv trails sat down with us to give us the details on their new micro localized trail donation platform, LuvTrails. Ride wherever, use your strava and with a predetermined amount pledged per mile, you can give back to those that brought you that fun ride. If you...
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Pisgah Podcast - 150- Fifth Element camping and racing szn is back
Nick from Fifth Element camping sits down with us about making the best camper inserts for western NC’s best vehicle. Also, downhill southeast, world cups and more! If you ever optimized every last centimeter of your vehicle for sleeping and storage then go ahead and click subscribe!
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Pisgah Podcast - 149- Story Time: Huracan 300ish with TJ, Rusti and Regis
Listen to Brevard's top amateur homeless bike packers as they recount their adventure of a 374 mile loop in central Florida on some very tough terrain. It's a story with many ups and downs and even some unders. Tj, Rusti and Regis are some fine humans and kudos to them on completing this amazing...
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Pisgah Podcast - 148- Charlotte’s oldest but newest Mtb park
Charlotte's Airline mountain bike park might have sat somewhat dormant for a few years before being publicly open, and there's a good story behind it. Listen along as Will Washam from the Tarheel Trailblazers fills us in on the behind scenes battles to bring a new bike park along with a slew of...
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Pisgah Podcast - 147- G5 Ground breaking and Old Fort catch up
The G5 trail collective celebrated a ground breaking ceremony for the more than 40 miles of trail that will be built in the Old Fort, NC area. What was expected to be a decent gathering of around 50 people turned into a massive gathering of over 200 people in a field off Jarrett Creek road, that...
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Pisgah Podcast - 146- Elevated Trail Design’s Peter Mills and new brunch spots
Trail building and new trails are a hot topic right now. So after some back and forth we finally got Peter Mills of Elevated Trail Design on the mic to talk Berm Park / Chestnut Mountain along with a slew of his other trail projects going on right now. And if you’re looking for some new brunch...
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Pisgah Podcast - 145- New TN bike park, Vee Hollow with designer Chris Kehmeier
After hearing whispers of a new private bike park over near Pigeon Forge, TN, Mangler crossed over the mountain to meet up with designer, Chris Kehmeier to get the details and go for a pedal at Vee Hollow bike park. Oh, also its free to ride! If you are ready to have a festive holiday weekend…
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Pisgah Podcast - 144- The dudes reflect on a year of awesome MTB podcasting!
After a year of producing this podcast, Drew and Mangler reflect on what they’ve taken away from sharing, learning and experiencing all of these episodes and what’s in store!
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Pisgah Podcast - 143- Dr Baker Perry on southern Appalachian weather and WNC gift guide
Kinda hard not to nerd out on weather living in the mountains so we got Dr Baker Perry from App State on the mic to talk Appalachian weather and some of his wild expeditions to install weather stations in the far reaches of the world. Also the dudes round up some gift guides that help support the...
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Pisgah Podcast - 142- Southern Slow tech, Cranksgiving and NCGP wrap ups
Mangler ventured down to Alabama to find the southern slow tech on Boulder Ridge trail at Oak Mountain State Park with local Lon Cullen. With both NCGP and Cranksgiving going down on the same weekend, the dudes drew straws to cover the events and have some good wrap up details for ya. If you…
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Pisgah Podcast - 141- NCGP Cyclocross race and Cranksgiving coming up
Drew caught up with both Chris Bennett and Kerry Warner to talk about the upcoming NCGP UCI Cyclocross race going down this weekend (11/20) at Jackson Park in Hendersonville. Also, Cranksgiving is going down at Ride Kanuga this weekend with events taking place Friday-Sunday. If you ever watched…
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Pisgah Podcast - 140- Body Care for Mountain Bikers
This is going to be a long listen but we wanted to have all of this combined into one episode. As mountain bikers we put a lot of wear and tear on our bodies. We demand a lot of power, take impacts, stress and tweak things, this list goes on. So we wanted to round up some of our favorite body...
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Pisgah Podcast - 139- Clint Spiegel and Industry Nine history
Industry Nine has been around the western NC mountain biking scene for a long time and we knew little bits of the history but it was great to have Clint dive into not only I-9’s history but some other industry history as well. If you ever set upon a career in robotics but wound up making...
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Pisgah Podcast - 138- The Riveter scene and Harvest Jam wrap up
Drew attended The Riveter’s Harvest Jam to close out summer and caught up with Elizabeth and Joey to get the scoop on the jam, their events and just overall vibe, which is good! If you ever went to a bike park and ended up becoming a climber then go ahead and hit that subscribe button!
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Pisgah Podcast - 137- Cross is here with the NCCX!
Drew sat down with Tim and Laura from NCCX to talk about the 2021 cross season and its history in western NC just as the other bike disciplines wrap up for the year. But don’t worry, there are still tons of other rad things popping off! Have you ever done an Enduro and a UCI CX race on the same…
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Pisgah Podcast - 136- Neko Mulally, Snowshoe wrap up and its bike light szn
Neko is fresh off the 2021 World Cup season and we thought it would be a great time to catch up with all the things he has going on, especially his bikes for kids raffle. How wrong was Drew with his World Cup predictions and these cooler temps means its getting dark earlier, its bike light szn!...
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Pisgah Podcast - 135- I Heart Pisgah, Snowshoe World Cup predictions and vacay is over
I heart Pisgah is doing great things to protect Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests so we got the details on their push for Big Ivy protection, Drew gives us a run down on his predictions for World Cup finals and also, his vacation is over. Back to work! If you had plans to go to Snowshoe to...
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Pisgah Podcast - 134- unfun Fred and Pisgah Area SORBA update
Tropical storm Fred wreaked havoc on many areas in western NC and the Pisgah Ranger District zone took a beating. We got Daniel Sapp from Pisgah Area SORBA to fill us in on forest damage and then also, what’s up with Black Mountain trail?! Mangler just got back from Whistler and Drew is heading...
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Pisgah Podcast - 133- Josh Patton coach and mechanic
Josh Patton wears two very important hats, US mechanic for the YT mob and head cycling coach at Lindsey Wilson College. So we sent him a mic to hear all about balancing those two jobs. Tropical Storm Fred is dumping rain on western NC, Drew got a new bike and Mangler was without power, again. If...
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Pisgah Podcast - 132- Hoobastank’s Chris Hesse rides Pisgah and DHSE season recap
Hoobastank swung through western NC on their Summerland tour with Everclear, Wheatus and Living Colour so their drummer, Chris Hesse hit us up to go for a bike ride and a Kitsuma lap ensued! Drew runs us through the season wrap up of the Downhill Southeast series and everyones going to Snowshoe!…
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Pisgah Podcast - 131- Fire Mountain Trails and mega race run down
Cherokee, NC has lot more going on than the casino. We got Jeremy Hyatt on the mic to fill us on on how the Fire Mountain trail system has gone from an idea for locals to being a mountain biking destination. Also, we caught up on all the races that went down to give you a quick recap on some...
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