You Inspire Us

Join us this week for another bonus episode of quick-fire questions with our guests! This week our question was: What is one thing you want to do for yourself this year? Eliot will listen and comment on the answers of Martin Söderström, Hannah Barnes, Tomomi Nishikubo, Brooklyn Bell, Mylo Fowler, Scotty Laughland, Emil Johansson, and Kurt Sorge. Make sure to subscribe so that you're the first...

Surprise! Even though we're in between seasons at the moment, we thought we'd be extra generous and bring you a BONUS episode this week. We asked our guests the following quick-fire question: When you started riding bikes, what did you at first think was impossible that today feels easy? Eliot will dissect the answers of Martin Söderström, Hannah Barnes, Tomomi Nishikubo, Brooklyn Bell, My...

We’re ending the first season of You Inspire Us with one of Slopestyle’s greatest: Emil Johansson. This MTB superstar just keeps racking up titles. In this past year alone Emil has had a perfect season, winning all four Crankworx stops and claiming his fourth world championship title. His current 13 wins makes him the most successful Slopestyle champion in the history of the sport. In this episode...

This week we’re speaking to Kurt Sorge, one of the greatest freeride mountain bikers of all time. Kurt is a three-time winner of Red Bull Rampage and has filmed iconic videos in some of the world's most stunning and remote places. He is also one of the founders of the Fest Series, a series of freeride MTB events organized by riders themselves. In this episode, Kurt explains how he got into mtb...

Brooklyn Bell is truly a Jill of all trades. Not only is she a mountain biker and a professional big mountain skier, but Brooklyn also works as a graphic designer with a knack for storytelling. Brooklyn uses her art to raise awareness of the importance of diversity in outdoor sports. In this episode, Eliot and Brooklyn talk about how Brooklyn got into mountain biking and how she creates alter egos...

As a mountain biker, Scotty got his start racing the Downhill World Cups and the Enduro World Series. He then transitioned to a career as a presenter for the Global Mountain Bike Network where he created more than 400 daily videos that racked up over 40 million views. Today, Scotty divides his time as a professional athlete and a content creator. Tune in to hear Scotty's tips for getting the b...

Mylo Fowler is a Navajo photographer who has shot for the National Geographic, Adobe Lightroom, Nike, and more. His interest in photography started while working at a tourist shop in Northern Arizona. There he saw photographers struggling to capture the local canyons because of the low light, and made it his mission to capture the beauty of his Navajo land. In recent years, Mylo has been combining...

If there is one person who's not afraid of adventure, it’s Hannah Barnes . Not many people can say that they sailed a boat themselves from the UK to Norway at the age of 15, or biked down a glacier at the Megavalanche MTB race. After getting on a mountain bike for the first time as a teenager, cycling has become one of Hannah’s sports of choice — among many others. In this riveting conversatio...

Tomomi Nishikubo doesn’t shy away from a world-first trick. This might be why over the past couple of years, Tomomi’s biggest video projects have racked up over 13 million views. Initially starting out in motocross at the age of five, Tomomi soon moved on to riding trials. After becoming Japanese Trials Champion twice in 2016 and 2017, he decided to focus on producing his riding videos full time....

Have a listen to our first ever episode, which was live streamed from Crankworx in Innsbruck, Austria. Eliot speaks to Martin Söderström, freeride MTB legend who started out right when the slopestyle scene was just getting started. This episode was recorded right after Emil Johansson’s record-breaking 12th Crankworx slopestyle win – Martin and Eliot will break down why his run was so epic. Not onl...

Introducing You Inspire Us , a podcast brought to you by Thule about people who inspire us to live a more active, fulfilling life. Every other week, downhill mountain biker and sports commentator Eliot Jackson will dive into conversations with athletes, adrenaline-seekers, and all-around adventurers. We're kicking off the podcast with our BIKE EDITION – the first season about all things bike....