Rob Reed Mountain Bike Journalist (#62)

Trail EAffect Episode 62 Rob Reed Mountain Bike Journalist

Topics Covered:

• The Rob Reed Backstory
• Starting up Arizona Offroad Adventures
• Getting an internship at Bike Magazine
• Becoming the Editor at Bike Magazine
• Transition from Bike Mag to Freelance Journalism and some of the assignments Rob took on
• Writing Way of the Snowboarder Book
• How Freelance Journalism paved the way to reviewing high end SUV’s in the mid / late 2000’s
• A hard left into the Software industry from journalism – Founding MomentFeed
• Transitioning out of MomentFeed back to journalism with Forbes Life
• Going full circle to reviewing high-end vehicles again, now for Forbes
• Park City and the move from So-Cal to Park City for Mountain Biking…
• Going Deeper on the Diversity of Riding in the riding in Park City
  • Community XC Trails VS Lift Access Trails
  • All Day Epic Rides of Mixed Park City Trails and Lift Access Riding
• Testing Sram AXS Flight Attendant before it was released on a Specialized S-Works Enduro
• A discussion about Enduro Bikes and Downcountry Bikes
  • How Modern Bike have gotten so good
  • How anything between 120mm and 160mm of travel is no-man’s land for bikes
• FM
  • Huge Diversity in Guests
  • Can easily binge listen to the 15 episodes that are live
  • Ashley Korenblat
  • Cycling is a State of Mind and exploring that on Cyclogy.FM
• Rob Reed Words of Wisdom
  • Find Something in Life that you can win at
• Where you can find Rob Reed – AKA Max Gladwell

Links:

Cyclogy.FM Podcast: https://www.cycology.fm/

Clicks 2 Bricks Podcast: https://www.clicks2bricks.fm/

Rob Reed on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robreed/?sh=3da997a02078

Way of the Snowboarder on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Way-Snowboarder-Rob-Reed/dp/0810959399

Mountain Trails Foundation: https://mountaintrails.org/

Mountain Biking Park City: https://mountainbikingparkcity.com/

Deer Valley Mountain Bike Park: https://www.deervalley.com/things-to-do/activities/mountain-biking

Western Spirit Cycling Adventures: https://westernspirit.com/

Max Gladwell on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVsUQ-9sNUJmGkUqRjw1UZw

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