The Vintage Downhill Podcast

Mike Ferrentino has lived a life devoted to bikes.  A former bike shop mechanic and racer - his hands on gritt influenced his writing style, where he told hundreds of stories with humor and wit.  He went on to run marketing for large manufacturers, was involved in bike advocacy and continues to write and wrench to this day. You can find Mike's latest at his substack https://thegrimyhandshake....

From competing in trials, to downhill, to dual slalom - to epic adventures all around the world, Hans has had some truly epic adventures. We cover a few of them in this conversation with the living legend, Hans No Way Rey!

Frank Wadelton, AKA Frank The Welder discusses his contributions to mountain biking. In his time, Frank has made bikes for some of the best riders and best companies on the planet. He's innovated and created multiple products along the way. Frank is a living legend! #downhillbikes #downhill #mtb #downhillracing #freeride #cycling

Joins   The Vintage Downhill Podcast to discuss British cycling. How he helped reinvigorate the British Downhill Series to a healthy, thriving race program, to re-creating the Malverns Classic and turning it in to the worlds greatest celebration of cycling! Live on youtube, spotify and everywhere! #mtb #cycling #downhillbike

Brett Tippie, The Godfather of Free Ride joins The Vintage Downhill Podcast to talk old school freeride, free ride bikes and a healthy helping of day jokes. #mtb #downhillmtb #vintagedownhill #freeride

Josh Bender joins the VDH podcast and tells some insane and hilarious stories from his times: Growing up in Alaska and learning to be an independent wild man. Mountaineering and climbing the biggest mountains in North and South America. Creating "Team Mate´" his first free-ride adventure Sponsors wanting nothing to do with him cause he's too dangerous! Karpiel Jah Drop Rampage And m...

Lars Tribus talks about his early days racing DH, his many cool vintage DH bikes and crazy stories along the way.  https://www.instagram.com/thevintagedownhillpodcast/ #downhillbike #downhillmtb #cycling #vintagebike #vintagemtb #retrodownhill #oldschoolmtb #freeridebike #freeride #mtb #bike #biking #mtbiking #huck #hucking #riding #mountainbike #mountainbiking #vtt #offroad #ride #moto #dirt #dir...

Nigel Page,  the British legend, downhill and dual slalom phenom joins The Vintage Downhill Podcast to discuss his history in racing DH and gawk over his cool bikes! #downhillbike #downhillmtb #cycling #vintagebike #vintagemtb #retrodownhill #oldschoolmtb #freeridebike #freeride #mtb #bike #biking #mtbiking #huck #hucking #riding #mountainbike #mountainbiking #vtt #offroad #ride #moto #dirt #dirtb...

1999 Qranc Team Reunion Podcast  With Nathan Rennie, Johnny Waddell, Jared Rando and Team Manager - Mark Rodgers. The guys recount their ascent from unknown Aussies to coming to America and dominating the North America race circuit. They get in to trouble seemingly everywhere they go - and somehow avoid jail, and end up on the podium instead. This one is EPIC. Thanks to Mark and Mal for helping pu...

Matti Lehikoinen joins the Vintage Downhill Podcast and discusses his history in DH Racing, all his rad (and wacky) DH bikes. What is was like to race for Honda on the secretive RN01 bike and more!  #downhillbike #downhillmtb #cycling #vintagebike #vintagemtb #retrodownhill #oldschoolmtb #freeridebike #freeride #mtb #bike #biking #mtbiking #huck #hucking #riding #mountainbike #mountainbiking #vtt...

We discuss Shaums' history in the sport, geek out on rad bikes and his current ventures in training and coaching up and coming riders and olympic athletes.

Joining us next on The Vintage Downhill Podcast, Zapata Espinoza discusses his career in the mountain bike industry - telling stories, building stoke and building brands. 

In this episode of the Vintage Downhill Podcast we catch up with Alex Morgan of Buffalo Composite Designs. A self taught engineer, bike builder and downhiller; Alex - along with his brother Hawke - has been designing, building and racing carbon downhill bikes since the early 1990's. Innovating such things as the "2X4" multi-pivot bikes, internally geared DH bikes and the worlds firs...

In this episode with OG Freerider Kris (Krispy) Baughman, we discuss the early days of freeride, how the original Redbull Rampage was started and created, we geek out on bikes, discuss his training methodology and a LOT more!

In this episode of The Vintage Downhill Podcast we catch up with Nathan Rennie, world champion downhiller, world record holder and mountain biking phenom. He shares with us many stories of his time racing, secrets to success and current business The Victory Lab - coaching and training for up and coming racers. Nathan can be found online at  https://www.facebook.com/NathanRennieDownhillChampion and...

This was a fun and rollicking conversation between the VDH Podcast - Chuck and Jamie - and Gary Fisher. Gary is an energetic and animated person who has 50 years experience in cycling. He was critical in bringing the mountain bike to market and played a role not just in creating the sport but also innovations such as 29" wheels, Genesis Geometry (long, low and slack) and more! We hope you enj...

The Vintage Downhill Podcast discusses the history of the Intense M1 with Intense Cycles CEO and founder, Jeff Steber. This was super fun as Jeff came prepared with lots of cool bikes to show during our discussion. Jeff is a super rad dude and we love that he's part of our community Tune in, turn on and rock out with the VDH Podcast!

In this episode of the VDH Podcast we catch up with Brent Foes of Foes Fabrication and discuss his history in the sport of mountain biking, creating the fist long travel suspension bikes. We discuss his design philosophy and methodology and back ground in off-road racing trucks and motorcycles.

In this episode of the VDH Podcast we catch up with Dave Turner of Turner Bikes and discuss his 30+ year history with mountain bikes, from racing in the 80's, to helping develop the Horst Link in the 90's, to creating some of the industries most notable Downhill and trail bikes in the 2000's. Dave has a breadth of knowledge that is uncommon, even amongst his peers and is an all arou...

In this episode we discuss the originals of the Vintage Downhill Group, get to know each other a bit and talk about our plans for the future of the group and the podcast. Join us!