King of the Ride

Episode 13: Stephen Hyde — US National Champion and All Around Badass

On the eve of Stephen Hyde’s final mountain bike race of the season, Ted and Stephen sit down to catch up on the goings-on of this well travelled, multi-faceted cyclist. Talking cyclocross in Florida, playing the guitar internationally, and his top tip to aspiring pros!

Episode 12: Billy Starr — Founder & Executive Director of Pan-Mass Challenge

Want to see more people on bikes? Billy Starr has discovered the magic formula, bringing 6,315 into the 39th annual Pan-Mass Challenge! The event has raised just shy of $600 million for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana Farber Institute. Starting this podcast with a little final 2018 Tour de France summary and analysis, Ted and Billy talk shop, the past, present, and future of the entire sport of cycling.

Episode 11: Richard Fries — Friend of Cycling so Friend of Yours

Does texting and riding bikes have you down? Too many cars? Too few bikes lanes? If there's too much negativity directed towards cycling, you need some Richard Fries in your life! Richard is a livelong cyclist, has worked in nearly every facet of the sport, serves as longtime Executive Director of MassBikes, and now helps bring more people get into to cycling with the Best Buddies organization. Richard is one of the nicest and most well spoken people to ride a bike.

Episode 10: Tour de France Special! Andrew Ference — NHL Stanley Cup Champion

After the JAM Grand Fundo, Ted caught up with NHL champion, bike rider extraordinaire, and all around great guy Andrew Ference. Covering topics way outside purely bikes and hockey (although those get their fair play also), this is a conversation you don't want to miss.

Episode 9: Jeremy Powers — Aspire Racing

Jeremy Powers has made a tear across the cyclocross scene. The most dominant racer for years, he's a master of his craft, and was crafty enough to start the JAM Fund to support development of cyclocross especially in his native New England. The ever smiling Jeremy and Ted sat down after the biggest fundraising event for that organization, the JAM Grand Fondo.

Episode 8: Farid Noori — Mountain Bike Afghanistan

Farid Noori is the founder of MTB Afghanistan, an organization meant to bring empowerment to his native country of Afghanistan. Currently a student at Middlebury College, Farid reached out to Ted years ago with the intrepid hopes of building cycling infrastructure back at home as well as to pursue elite athletic hopes of racing in the Olympics under the Afghan flag. He's definitely on the right track.

Episode 7: Tim Johnson — Clergyman of all things bicycle

Tim Johnson is a friend of the bicycle and a friend of Ted's. He taught Ted to brush my teeth after bike rides and he teaches hoards of people throughout the land why the bicycle is an incredible tool for change, for empowerment, and betterment. Tim is a lifelong racer with a sliver of fitness that he can let out of the bag now and again. Tim and Ted caught up on day one of the 6 day, 500 mile traverse, the #tourXnewengland.

Episode 6: Jim Merithew — Creative Director at inGamba

Jim Merithew is a photographer by trade, a writer by talent, and one of the most creative minds you'll ever encounter. Jim started the website Element.ly, he was the photography director at Wired.com at the advent of the modern internet, and now his mind spins 1,000,000mph with ideas as creative director at inGamba tours. Jim is a crack up and spouts ideas with Ted how to improve the entire sport of cycling. Just a heads up, the audio hits a hiccup a 20 minutes, so apologies for the ambient noise.

Episode 5: Austin McInerny — President of NICA

Austin McInerny is the president of NICA, the coast to coast, high school mountain biking league. NICA is the leading feeder of young Americans getting into the sport of cycling and Austin is at the helm leading the charge. Austin and Ted sit down to a conversation at the NICA headquarters in Berkeley, CA where Austin has risen from coach to board member to head of the board to now president.

Episode 4: Jim Meyer — Quarq founder

Amidst driving cross-country, moving from California to Vermont, Ted swings through an eyeopening Spearfish, SD. The original beacon was the Gold Rush Gravel Race, but Spearfish is also home to industry leader Quarq. Ted and founder Jim Meyer have been happily acquainted since as early as 2008, so the two had lots to catch up on across the cycling spectrum in their ten year history.