Maybe this guy scored it from an older sibling maybe that girl dropped a few hundred bucks on Grailed maybe that 17-year-old got one at Hot Topic. There’s no one kind of person who wears them. “I always have ideas.Lately, I’ve been seeing vintage Sublime T-shirts all over the place.
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“A blessing and a curse for me is that my creative brain just like never switches off,” he said ahead of a busy spring schedule. Official details aren’t available yet, but in the meantime, McElveen is planning to travel to Arkansas to work on a media project that’s been in the works for months now, something similar to the out-of-the-box ideas that have set him apart from other mountain bikers. “We wanted to try to create something that really showcased what these modern off-road, kind of multi-surface bikes are capable of,” McElveen said about the event.
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The two racers have full control over the route planning, while others are tasked with organizing the event. Strickland has Hispanic heritage, while McElveen’s parents met and married at Big Bend National Park, which sits just above the US-Mexico border.īike events have seen a decline in the mountainous desert region in recent years, and the pair felt they could bring something new to the table. Strickland and McElveen both grew up outside of Austin, Texas and both have connections to the West Texas borderland region. McElveen has also jumped into the world of gravel racing, in addition to marathon mountain bike racing (Image credit: Red Bull Content Pool) Not afraid to do things differently, McElveen is now involved with developing a new gravel event in Texas with fellow Red Bull athlete and 2019 Unbound gravel winner Colin Strickland. But if McElveen had stuck to pursuing XCO racing, maybe he wouldn’t have jumped into the emerging discipline to become the current Mid South gravel race champion or a top-five finisher at the Unbound race in Kansas. The podcast episode served as a final push to make the jump out of the bike industry.īack in 2016, gravel riding and racing had not yet fully enveloped the bike industry. One of McElveen’s industry contacts sent him an email saying he would be leaving the bike industry to pursue a career change to become a firefighter. The gripping episode about jumping out of planes and fighting fire led to real-world inspiration. Out of about 400 smokejumpers in the country, Schoppe is one of nine women in the profession. Smokejumpers are an elite class of firefighters who parachute to the sites of wildfires, often in remote corners of the US. Last fall, he aired a three-hour-long episode with Martha Schoppe, who is a smokejumper. The genius of McElveen’s show, whose title is a reference to the racer’s mustache, is that he doesn’t just stick to cycling or sports.
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His manager showed him a list of guests and possible conversations he could have with fellow professional athletes, and that’s what sold him on the idea. And so, to me, a podcast sounded like fitting in.” And so, fitting in just really kind of terrifies me I guess. That's probably one of the reasons that I did end up taking that trip to Mongolia. “And that's kind of guided my career throughout. “If there's one thing that I've always been really afraid of is conforming and not being original,” McElveen said.
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The medium was really starting to take off, but he was afraid that he didn’t have anything unique to bring to the landscape. Initially, McElveen was against the proposal he received from his marketing manager at Red Bull for a podcast. Red Bull encourages its athletes to take on projects that aren’t necessarily related to racing, which is how The Adventure Stache Podcast came about. He signed with Red Bull and started wearing a personalized helmet from the energy drink and sports marketing behemoth. Not only did McElveen gain momentum racing marathon mountain bike and gravel events, but he also gained new sponsors. McElveen found a home in marathon mountain bike racing and non-traditional projects (Image credit: Colin Kerrigan / Red Bull Content Pool)