Coach Jeff Podcast #667 – Cycling Podcast #024 – Scotty D

March 11, 2018·1 hr 23 min·7 clips

Scotty D describes the meticulous process of stitching up tubular tires on a front porch, a skill now nearly forgotten.

Podcast 667 arrives already full to the brim. Coach Jeff dates it as 11 March 2018, calls it episode 24 of The Cycling Podcast, and settles in for a long chat with Scotty D from Bike Shop CX. The setup is simple enough: two bike people talking for about an hour and a half, with Jeff pointing listeners toward Scotty's show and his own site before the proper yarn gets moving. The excerpt lives in workshop territory. A bikepacking setup with a friction shifter up front and click shifting at the back opens the door to a broader talk about how much bag and mounting choice has grown. Jeff loves the little bits. He talks through Wolf Tooth mounts, water-bottle cage holes, down-tube and seat-tube options, and the way riders can now carry more than bottles inside the main triangle. That gear talk turns personal fast. After close to 54 years of riding, Jeff pushes back on the idea that bikes should feel old to him by now. The shed still gives him the same spark. The exchange keeps that loose energy, like one rider naming a part and the other instantly remembering a build, a track, or a half-formed plan. BMX pulls the conversation sideways. Jeff talks about returning to BMX around 60, while the idea of a 26-inch setup gives the nostalgia a grown-up frame. Nothing here is polished flat. Jeff repeats himself, circles back, and talks through the sprawl, which is why the chat keeps its shed-door warmth instead of turning into product copy. The outro owns the mess. Jeff thanks Scotty D, sends listeners back to Bike Shop CX, apologizes for running way over time, and signs off with the show's train-to-race refrain. It is messy in a good way. The charm is hearing old enthusiasm stay young, mate: shifters, bags, BMX bars, and all the small bits that keep a rider poking around the workshop.

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A loose, gear-heavy cycling chat for riders who still love the shed as much as the road.

Coach Jeff and Scotty D turn an over-time catch-up into the sort of cycling conversation that starts with bikepacking gear and ends wherever the shed leads.

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Press play for a mate-to-mate bike chat that goes deep on workshop tinkering.

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