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

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 188 - The Heaviest Freeride Moments in Nothing's For Free (with Tippie and Westerlund)

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Episode 187 - Getting to Know Taj Mihelich

Episode 187 - Getting to Know Taj Mihelich

In our Getting to Know series we're taking time to sit down with Pinkbike contributors and staff and getting to know them better. If you're familiar with our website, you've probably spent a great dea...

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Episode 186 - Getting to Know Mike Kazimer

Episode 186 - Getting to Know Mike Kazimer

You may have seen our "Getting to Know" series of interviews, where we talk with the great and good of racing and mountain biking to understand to them better or maybe just familiarise ourselves with ...

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Episode 185 - Randemonium #2 - Hanging out With SRAM's Chris Mandell

Episode 185 - Randemonium #2 - Hanging out With SRAM's Chris Mandell

Sometimes, we just like hanging out. Our friend Chris Mandell, who works for SRAM, was up in Whistler at the same time as us and I thought it would be fun to have him on, ask him some questions he pro...

6 Jul 202354min

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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 20231h 1min

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