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 86 - Greg Minnaar on the Honda DH Bike, World Cup Racing, and Staying Fast Forever

Episode 86 - Greg Minnaar on the Honda DH Bike, World Cup Racing, and Staying Fast Forever

Can you imagine having the skills, fitness, strength, and mental fortitude to win a single World Cup downhill race? That's essentially impossible for all but a few of us, regardless of how hard we tra...

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Episode 85 - Is the Red Bull Rampage Too Slopestyle?

Episode 85 - Is the Red Bull Rampage Too Slopestyle?

Our sport is full of gnarly people doing gnarly things, be it cross-country racers pushing their bodies to the limit, downhillers finding the limits of traction and handling, or just that local rider ...

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Episode 84 - Explaining RockShox's Computer Controlled Suspension

Episode 84 - Explaining RockShox's Computer Controlled Suspension

Rather than you reaching down to flip the pedal-assist switch, Flight Attendant manages the fork and shock's compression in real-time, constantly adding or subtracting damping as required and, importa...

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Episode 83 - Does Carbon Fiber Belong On Mountain Bikes?

Episode 83 - Does Carbon Fiber Belong On Mountain Bikes?

Given that our needs can vary from having to survive being tossed aside mid-air at the dirt jumps all day, meeting some cross-country racer's fetish for being the lightest such and such on the market,...

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Episode 82 - Behind the Scenes at Field Test

Episode 82 - Behind the Scenes at Field Test

Just as with previous examples, this Field Test was all about comparing test bikes to each other, a cage match of sorts but on the trail, and the fleet included some of the most interesting bikes on t...

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Episode 81 - You've Got Questions, We've (Maybe) Got Answers

Episode 81 - You've Got Questions, We've (Maybe) Got Answers

Today's episode sees Mike Kazimer, Henry Quinney, RC, and I get through around half of the questions I had originally planned on answering. There'll be another Q&A podcast in the near future, but this...

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Episode 80 - The Best Vehicles for Mountain Bikers

Episode 80 - The Best Vehicles for Mountain Bikers

While we all love riding bikes, sometimes our vehicles go hand-in-glove with our sport. Today's podcast sees Alica Legget, Mike Kazimer, James Smurthwaite, and I talk about the vehicles that make sens...

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Episode 79 - What's The Future of eMTBs?

Episode 79 - What's The Future of eMTBs?

There was much dissent when eMTBs first began to show up on Pinkbike, with both commenters and a few editors being less than enthusiastic about battery-powered bicycles on the homepage. Fast forward a...

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