Episode 233 - Tara Llanes on Reinventing Herself As a Wheelchair Basketball Paralympian
The Pinkbike Podcast27 Maalis 2024

Episode 233 - Tara Llanes on Reinventing Herself As a Wheelchair Basketball Paralympian

Tara Llanes has been wildly accomplished at the high levels of multiple sports - BMX, MTB, and wheelchair basketball, not to mention wheelchair tennis - and she also has a whole lot more life experience to share. In 2007, in what she thought was her second-to-last race before retiring from her career as a mountain biker, a devastating crash changed things for her. She spent the next several years going through intense processing, a move to Canada, some serious mental low points, a growing interest in tennis, and much more before she found herself on the basketball court to improve her speed as a wheelchair tennis player. Wheelchair basketball stuck. Tara clearly knows how to train hard, and that continues to take her far. She's now preparing for her second Paralympics, this one in Paris, and plans to then step away from high-level competition - retiring the right way this time. Brian and I sat down with Tara in Vancouver, where she lives, to talk about that whole process. While we imagined this episode would end up the same length as most of our podcast episodes, we just kept finding more conversation. Tara is clearly smart, capable, an incredible athlete, and seriously strong as a person, and we were glad for every minute she spent with us.

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Episode 184 - What Makes the Perfect Trail?

Episode 184 - What Makes the Perfect Trail?

Henry, Kaz and Dario talk about what would be in their favourite trail. What it needs to have, what they love, and what they'd gladly live without. Do they want tech? Jumps? Or just some nice turns in...

30 Kesä 202351min

Episode 183 - Making Bikepacking as Unpleasant as Possible with Tom Bradshaw

Episode 183 - Making Bikepacking as Unpleasant as Possible with Tom Bradshaw

Ex-Pinkbike presenter Tom Bradshaw has been doing a lot of traveling since he left Canada. However, on a quick trip back to BC we got a chance to chat with him and find out what he's been up to, why h...

23 Kesä 202345min

Episode 182 - Pivot's Wild Prototype DH Bike with Bernard Kerr

Episode 182 - Pivot's Wild Prototype DH Bike with Bernard Kerr

After months of speculation, Pivot's prototype downhill bike broke cover in Lenzerheide last week. Bernard Kerr has been testing several versions of this bike through the off season—due in part to the...

16 Kesä 202358min

Episode 181 - BMX Backgrounds and Breaking Bikes with Taj Mihelich

Episode 181 - BMX Backgrounds and Breaking Bikes with Taj Mihelich

Taj breaks lots of bikes and parts, in ways that you may not be familiar with. We discuss what bike parts are allowed to break, and what is unforgivable. We also send out a challenge to any product ma...

8 Kesä 20231h 1min

Episode 180 - Sitting Down With the Man Behind Red Bull's Race Tapes

Episode 180 - Sitting Down With the Man Behind Red Bull's Race Tapes

If you've seen some of YouTube's biggest hits, you've probably seen some of Boombox's work. Whether it's PBA, Fast Life or Red Bull Racetapes, the production company has had a huge hand in lots of lar...

1 Kesä 202349min

Episode 179 - MTB Fashion Failures & Tedious Trends

Episode 179 - MTB Fashion Failures & Tedious Trends

Henry, Kaz, and Dario talk about fashion trends in mountain biking - the good, bad, and mostly ugly.

24 Touko 20231h 3min

Episode 178 - Why We Suck at Mountain Biking

Episode 178 - Why We Suck at Mountain Biking

The internet is full of articles, videos and even podcasts telling you how to get better, but today we're asking the other question, why are we bad in the first place? What areas are we weakest at, an...

12 Touko 202352min

Episode 177 - Randomonium: Paragliding, Chairlift Riding, DH Bikes, & AI

Episode 177 - Randomonium: Paragliding, Chairlift Riding, DH Bikes, & AI

Enjoy a wide ranging conversation with Alicia Leggett, Mike Kazimer, Dario DiGiulio, and Henry Quinney. The topics of this week's podcast include everything from paragliding lessons, downhill bikes, b...

28 Huhti 202343min

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