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#91 | Women’s Edition #1: HYPEBYKE, I Bike CC, and Corpus Christi BMX · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_02: What's going on y'all?
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  SPEAKER_02: Corpus Christi Rudgels back at it again.
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  SPEAKER_02: Today we have episode 91.
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  SPEAKER_02: Excuse me, the first ever women's edition.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're going to be having Lori from Corpus Christi BMX, Melanie from Hypebike, and iBike CC.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're going to be talking about the cyclist community in Corpus Christi.
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  SPEAKER_02: So uh, and real quick, this is the first women's edition ever.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: I wanted to pay homage real quick to Brittany Mute, who was the original OG podcaster, featuring leading ladies of Corpus Christi on a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_02: So she's got a whole archive, 200 plus 200 episodes on just Ladies of Corpus Christie.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's called the Leading Ladies of Corpus Christie Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can check out her iC archive in Spotify, Apple, Apple Podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's no longer doing it, but I feel like she lit the flame, she lit the torch, and I've just kind of taken taking it up and keeping it going for the ladies of Corpus Christie.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: What's going on, y'all?
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for having us today.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_04: We're so excited.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this is so cool.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_04: It is cool.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, real.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we're kind of like different corners of the cycling world, but we're in the same family for sure.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: Cycling is a family.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: For real.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I rode a bike.
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  SPEAKER_02: I can't remember the last time I rode a bike, but definitely bring back memories uh when I was younger.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: And when I had Melanie on episode 37, I can't remember.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: I think so.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you were on talking about the cycling, cycling community, and like it's amazing to me how much people are into it, you know.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: So just being able to talk about this and even uh like the safety of the roads and even the BMX track that we used to have a while back, and you're and you guys are uh bringing it back, working on bringing it back.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_02: And um, we were talking earlier about how the city has its own ideas and stuff like that.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_02: So we'll get into that for sure.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so I guess do you guys want to talk about that straight off, or we can talk about um well I think that uh first and foremost, we should probably um establish some definitions, right?
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Agreed.
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  SPEAKER_04: So BMX, do you guys know what BMX stands for?
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  SPEAKER_04: Melanie?
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  SPEAKER_03: I'd say bicycle something.
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  SPEAKER_04: It stands for bicycle motocross, and we're talking about pedal bikes.
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  SPEAKER_04: For some reason, a lot of people get it confused with motocross, and maybe because it's bicycle motocross, bicycle motocross, yeah.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Motoc.
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  SPEAKER_04: So it's we're not talking about motorcycle, motor, motocross bikes, we're talking about pedal bikes.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then within the sport of BMX, there's different styles of riding.
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  SPEAKER_04: So you have street riding, which is like um at skate parks or tricks on the street, and then you have trail riding, which is like dirt jumps, and then there's BMX racing, and that's what our family does, my family does, and what we're trying to bring back.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_04: And that is at USA BMX sanction racetracks.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I think that's pretty important to just establish that right away.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes, it they it's um it's a sport that it's um it's it's it's competition, an organized sport, yeah, and that holds competitions.
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  SPEAKER_02: So you uh the USA sanctioned is a must for that to have events and to hold races, yeah.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so having events and races, okay.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_04: The best way to kind of look at it is it's kind of like a league.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_04: If you're like in a league with football or soccer, um well, USA BMX is the the league, it's the governing league for BMX racing.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so the other one, it's that's that's it.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_02: So the track has to be a certain way as far as it being uh engineered and uh how do you say it like the yeah, um they they do have to approve it.
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  SPEAKER_04: USA BMX has to approve the design, and um, in order to ensure it, and um another way to kind of like compare is if you think about like a public pool, um, it has a gate around it, and um people aren't allowed to go in and swim in a public pool unless there's lifeguards there.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_04: So at a track, a USA BMX sanction track, it has to have a gate around it, and people aren't allowed to really just go in and ride it unless there's someone there operating it.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_04: And and that's because it's insured under USA BMX.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_02: So wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it has to be it has to have all that regulation to be able to do what you want to do at the silliness park, uh, where the old what the BMX track used to be.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_04: So to back it up a little bit, yeah.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_04: I'm Laurie Ling.
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  SPEAKER_00: My introduction was a little rough.
• 4:41
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• 4:43
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• 4:45
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• 4:51
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• 5:04
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• 5:10
  SPEAKER_02: So you're Lori.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm Lori Ling.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm here representing um Corpus Christi BMX.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_04: We are the newly approved 501c3 nonprofit.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_04: Um, as of last week, all of our paperwork and everything was approved.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_04: Um, thanks to our board members, we couldn't have done it without them.
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  SPEAKER_04: We have a dream team of board members um for our nonprofit, and I serve as the president on the board.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_04: And um, so our goal is to bring back BMX racing specifically at the Salinas Park, which is off Greenwood, where there was a um USA BMX sanction track for from 2012 to 2017, and it's abandoned right now at this point.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, yeah, and it's kind of like in the corner of the park two.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_02: I saw where it was at.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and Melanie, uh, you are part of iBike CC, you're right.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_02: So, real quick, I saw your video on YouTube with uh who was it, uh, Ride Bikes More.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: And you had a you had a 22-mile uh mountain bike ride.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, how did that change your perspective on cycling or even life?
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I I wasn't in a good space in that time, and I wasn't happy where I go, where I was going, like health-wise, mental-wise.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_03: And um you you wanted me to get emotional today, Hazoo.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_03: It was a very emotional journey.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_03: It really was because I wasn't in my in my right mind uh at that moment in time.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_03: I was it just felt like stagnant and just not going anywhere.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_03: And uh that ride that I took just kind of randomly, and sometimes that's just how it has to start.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um yeah, the universe just talks to you and tells you, you know what, you belong at this place at this time.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_03: And I was at that place at that time and made amazing friends and still friends today.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, on uh I went on a quick little bike ride to the store.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: Um, was can you get a lottery ticket?
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and um I just went and I was on my mountain bike.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_03: I saw like a whole bunch of road roadies.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, shout out to the rebels, by the way.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, a whole bunch of road crew uh just congregating there and they were like getting ready to go.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I said, I rolled up to them, just kind of, you know, being me being a you know, friendly person.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, when are we riding?
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_03: And they were like, right now, go get your helmet.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_03: And I was so I hauled ass home, grabbed my helmet, came back, and I didn't know they were gonna do like 22 miles.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't know that I was just going because it was a bike ride, and I knew I liked bike riding.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: And 22 late, yeah, 22 miles later with the with the night rebels on a mountain bike.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I I'm glad you understand it.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that tire.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_03: So it's gonna be different bikes are used for different things, right?
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_03: And I had no idea at the time, it was 2016, almost 10 years ago.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: Um, almost, yeah, 10 years ago, and then uh so on a mountain bike, it's a struggle.
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  SPEAKER_03: 22 miles, it's it's heavier.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_03: So by the next, so they ride on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and so by that was a Tuesday on Thursday.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_03: Don't you know I had a Facebook marketplace bike with a skinny tire, and I was ready for 50 miles afterwards.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_03: No, but I was it it really was elevating, like it really changed my mindset.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, because I I'm not a runner, like no, I I can't do that.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_03: So bike riding is the only exercise that if I'm not able to do it, I get upset about it.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's like, man, I miss that ride.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_03: I never regret a ride that I go on, but I always regret a ride that I miss.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_03: So uh it just it changed me for the better, and it just propelled me into this whole uh realm of riding to feel better, to balance yourself.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_03: You talked about balance earlier.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_03: She has a really cool uh scale tattoo on her arm.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_03: And and it's it that hit home with me because you do need balance.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, whether it's uh stress, there's some good stress and there's some bad stress, right?
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_03: So you have to balance your work and and fun life, and you have to balance your relationships.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_03: There's so much that goes into just living every day that that bike riding for me allows me to persevere through the bad stuff because it's just such a negative uh because it's such a positive impact to my well-being.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_04: So we did a um community bridge bike ride this morning that Hype Bike host, and I heard I overheard I overheard you talking about balance when you were writing.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_04: She was I watched I was watching her, she was riding with no hands.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_04: No, and I feel like that is just I mean, it's just a great example of because you have to keep moving in order to stay balanced on a bike, you have to keep moving.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_03: You can't stop, you can't stay still because on a bicycle you'll fall either side.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_03: So you have to maintain that balance.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_03: Interesting.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but in order to do that, you have to keep moving, you can't just abort mission.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, so speaking of your cycling from the early days to now, like how has it it evolved since then?
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_02: Gosh, so uh if you don't want to.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_04: So I would love to.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_04: Go ahead, Melanie.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_04: Melanie is at the heart.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_04: Melanie is at the heart of our um cycling community here in Corpus Christi.
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  SPEAKER_04: She's such a big leader in the in the bike world here in our local community.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_04: So I would love for you to go ahead.
• 10:28
  unknown: Thank you.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: Ladies edition.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so um, so the reason like hype bike came to be um was because I really uh appreciated what cycling did for me.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_03: And I wanted to bring that to other people because I know other people are struggling.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_03: They're going through whatever they're going through, and some of them need an outlet.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of our bike riders are going through their own um going through their own um struggles, right?
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_03: And so they need something, right?
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_03: Some people choose the negative the kind of wrong paths, right?
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_03: Alcoholism, drug abuse.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and that's that's not healthy.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_03: And so bike riding is a healthy alternative, and that's why I brought Hyde Bike.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_03: Um, with Nelson's help, what's up, honey?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh with Nelson's help, he's been there for me from the jump.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_03: And uh and so I just wanted to bring that that happiness and that balance to the community, and having high bike has allowed me to do that, and and it's also helped me get an insight into um people who don't do it for exercise or balance, they do it because there's uh that's their only option.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: Raven awareness, like for people that don't ride, because uh, real quick, Nelson's on YouTube.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he says hello.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, uh that iBike CC you mentioned last time, it just had me more conscious of the bike lanes that we have in town.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, some of them aren't even bike friendly, you know, and stuff like that.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_02: So just having that awareness for people that don't ride, I think, is important as well.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, so CC BMX, what drew you to BMX or what keeps you passionate about it?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_04: All right, so our story in BMX starts way back, specifically for my husband.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_04: He grew up in the south suburbs of the Chicago area, and um he started racing when he was young until he was about a teenager, and then he he rode for a stunt team.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_04: So they did uh events like shows, they did tricks like on ramps and stuff like that.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_04: And and then into his 20s and 30s, he really kind of focused on trail riding.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_04: He traveled around building trails, so he's kind of done all of it.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_04: Wow, but where our paths meet was in Austin.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm originally from Corpus Christi, but I went to college in Austin and he was there um visiting to build trails and ride trails, and um, that's where we met.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_04: So, in a way, I feel like our family exists because of bikes.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_04: Like if bikes hadn't have brought him to Austin, I don't know if our paths would have ever like crossed in this world, you know, him being from Chicago area and me from South Texas.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so in a in a sense, I feel like our family was like forged through BMX.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_03: Bicycles do that, they bring people together.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_04: So fast forward, we moved to Corpus, we get married, we have have some kids, three kids.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_04: And in this time, he kind of steps away from riding bikes.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_04: Um there was no there were no trails here for him to ride, and there there was no track, the track was already closed at the time.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_04: And um and he really didn't pick up bikes again until our oldest daughter, she's 10 now, until she was six, and she picked up her bike.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_04: And we saw that she loved loved riding bikes, and he wanted to ride with her.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_04: So, you know, the first thing they did they was they he asked her, do you want do you want to try racing?
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_04: And she said yes.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_04: And they they went actually to Greenwood because I mean there wasn't much online about it.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_04: We couldn't find out, like figure out if it was closed or not.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so they went there and it was closed.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_04: So he said, Let's find the next nearest track.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_04: And that happens to be two and a half um hours away in San Antonio at Lone Star.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_04: But my husband being the dedicated bike dad that he is, he took our daughter there, and um, she just she loved it, and uh, that's really what started it.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_04: For like that's where our racing BMX racing story begins.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_04: And we've been going there for four years now, and all three of my kids race now.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_04: My husband races.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_04: I don't race, but I'll say it now.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_04: If we get a track up and running in corpus, I will enter my first race.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_04: Challenge you right now.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_04: Challenge you right now.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_03: Melanie, I'm challenging you to sign up and race with me.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_03: I'll take it.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'll do it.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_03: I'll do this.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, oh wait, wait, what size tire?
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I don't know.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_03: I'm 20.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm 42, dude.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_03: I can please don't cruise.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we can do cruisers women's class.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_04: We can we can create you in.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_04: No, we'll be like a woman's class.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_04: Well, you have to have three to run a race.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_03: So we'll recruit.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna have to recruit some ladies building.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'll go on the guys.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_02: I'd that I'll do that for sure.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: It is a fun ride.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_03: It was it's it's so like empowering once you get up there.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_03: You're talking about the harbor bridge, right?
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: The new one.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: The new one, it's got a 10-foot path.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_04: I don't race, but I do ride a dirt jumper, which is kind of like a mountain bike.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_04: And um I today was my second time to do it.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_04: And the first time I did it, it was such a challenge.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_04: And um, because you know, I'm on one one gear.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_04: Uh my bike.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_04: It doesn't have it's not really oh, that's tough.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's I would single gear, no gear.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_04: Single gear, no fear, or bike or e-bike.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_04: But she's not one gear too.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_02: I am so is it wait, wait, hold on.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_02: Is that like the tr is it like a trend nowadays?
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_02: Or because I've seen it's a couple of other dudes.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_02: Who was it, Corpito's cruiser?
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, shout out Corpito's cruiser.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Corpito's cruiser.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_03: And the chomies, all of them.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_02: He was like, no weak legs, skinny legs, or chicken legs, no chicken legs, yeah.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_03: So then he says no e-bikes.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, what do you got against e-bikes?
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, so no chicken because they put in mileage, yeah.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_03: They put in heavy mileage.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_04: I I mainly like to ride trails, and but we'll go to San Antonio, ride trails around there, and pump tracks are fun too.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_04: And um, I like paved trails for fun also.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: So it's a different world between the type, yeah.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's very interesting.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but this time today, uh, I made a couple tweaks on my bike.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't I didn't wear a backpack this time.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_04: Last time I had a backpack and a drone in it, and it was like very heavy.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_04: So I learned, and uh so the first time I did it, I stopped and I walked a lot.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_03: We all do it at our own pace.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_04: Today I didn't walk any, and I only stopped two times.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_04: And actually, I've been kind of like training for this.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_04: Oh good.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_04: I've been really trying to like build myself up to do this.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_04: And uh, I was really proud of myself today.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_04: I was proud of you too.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_04: I was and um obviously she is such a big motivator, and I see her in front of me, like she's just pedaling, and she's not peddling, she's like, just keep pedaling, just keep pedaling.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_03: We have we have some guys on our crew that uh he his name is uh shout out to Scott, our bike mechanics.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_03: Shout out.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um, he um he was going on on the bridge, incline already and doing a wheelie.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, that was our last ride.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_03: Isn't that wild?
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay, because you know, and then he passes me up.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, that's crazy.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but I take it, I I respect it.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I've seen some of them dudes like they're not the most the back wheel the whole time they're cruising.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's wild, yeah.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_03: Talk about balance, yeah.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we we we go up on the bridge every Sunday morning.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_03: 8 a.m.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_03: We meet up at Hype Bike, give out donuts, drink some coffee.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: For bike for me so I can check out the code.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's a great time, and it I mean, it's a huge motivation for your personal like goals, too.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_04: What I seem to find for myself.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, is it it's gotten easier?
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: Is it too late to start riding a bike for somebody who's never ridden ever?
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_03: No, never ridden ever.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: I know Sharin, shout out to Sharin, right?
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: iBike CC, our lead on this.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_03: Um, she is getting a certification in teaching people how to ride bikes.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, absolutely.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_03: So she's she's working on that.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but no, I don't think it's too late.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_03: Or and and if you're if you feel like your balance may be a little off, try a tricycle.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, try a tricycle.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we'll make those because it, you know, triangle is the strongest shape I hear.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, try it, try that.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_04: And uh we start on an e-bike too, right?
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_04: Because you can switch back and forth, like pedaling.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, absolutely.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_03: Some assistance.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: If you do feel like your body may not be able to handle it, try an electric bike, get some assistance.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: That's what that's what they're for.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: Is the main thing it seems like for a bicycle.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_03: For a tricycle, it's a little different.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but uh we got you.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for sure.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh turning passion into mission isn't easy.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: Let's talk about how you turned your love for of cycling into a business and a community movement.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, your initial you initially dreamed of an indoor pump track.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um what did scaling back teach you about fell uh flexibility as an entrepreneur?
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh well it it taught me that sometimes the the bigger picture uh starts off small, right?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_03: You have to plant the the seed first.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: And um with and and truthfully, like without the infrastructure here in Corpus Christi, I'm kind of glad I started smaller.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um because let's let's be real, you even your your BMX track, how are how are kids gonna commute?
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_03: How are people gonna commute to the track?
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_03: Probably by bike, maybe.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_03: I mean going going out on a living area, take the bus, uh alternative uh uh vehicles, right?
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um so I'm kind of glad we scaled it back a bit because our city just isn't prepared for that type of influx.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um now I know I know I'm talking about like an indoor pump track versus a bicycle retail store.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: Um but scaling back helped me see a broader picture as to what was needed um or what what Corpus Christi could become.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: Um so I'm I'm grateful that I did it in this way.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um also an indoor pump track is very expensive.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_03: So it's uh oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_03: But it's basically uh a a track, but inside, and it it would have been like, well, I say it would have been, I mean, the hope is still there.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_03: The hope is still there, but um modular.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_03: So like what it's configured one day may not be the same as it's configured another day.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so that was the the original plan.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I'm glad I started where I did because I don't think our city was is quite ready.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we were talking earlier before, and just kind of aside from this uh uh topic, we're talking about um the the track at Salinas, right?
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_02: And how it compares to say the skate park, right?
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because the skate park is you can't, I mean it's not really geared toward events like you were mentioning earlier.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: So I wanna I don't know if the city council doesn't know about it or if they think it's like that.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_02: That's maybe the reason why.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_02: People have speculation.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: That's you know what I'm saying.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, absolutely.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_04: We I feel like that is a big challenge that we keep running into, is that um it's it's been hard to just explain to them what BMX racing is and what it looks like and how it's structured.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_04: And um, it isn't a pump track, it isn't you know, something that is just free uh for the public to go to at any point in time.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_04: There are some tracks, racetracks that are set up where there's a partnership between the who's operating the track and in say you know like the while it's sanctioned and having sanctioned events.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_04: And then the city um has freedom to do whatever they would like to do also.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_04: But the challenges that you see there is if you open it up to everyone, people aren't going to be respectful to the track.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_04: And in the end, we're gonna be paying lots of money trying to repair it all the time.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_04: If people are going out there on motorbikes or just um just damaging the track in you know whatever kind of way.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah for sure.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_02: It makes me think about like the the pools like because I take my kid to the pool and they lock they gate it you know what I mean and lock it whenever it's not in operation and stuff like that.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_04: So they could do the same with the the bike track the the and that's what it was for many years previously you know when it was operating under um STX BMX from 2012 to 2017 that's how it was set up it was a USA BMX sanction track.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_04: It was locked only and it was only open on the z the designated days which typically like take for example Lone Star BMX in San Antonio they have one day where they do um practice like on a Tuesday they race on a Thursday and race on a Saturday and then in between they might have some like some other like um clinics.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_04: Yes and um but they are only open during those times those scheduled times and then the rest of the time it's locked and um people aren't allowed to go on it.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_04: Oh man wow it was yeah I was uh so you were saying like does the is the city aware right I I don't know if the city is aware of what a sanctioned racetrack could bring it and that's what we've been trying okay to educate them and everyone on because to be fair the sport of BMX racing has been gone from our city for years now.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_04: And unless you grew up doing it or maybe you're from a different place and moved here a different place that had a track and moved here you probably don't even know what it is.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_04: And so we've been trying to just show them what it is and what it's all about and um that's just been like a big hurdle for us.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_02: So what what are some of the things that it could bring?
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_03: I mean um consider X games.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah it could bring some sort of um well okay so so having these events would bring revenue stuff like that to help okay absolutely exactly so every USA BM BMX sanction track like in Texas has the ability to host a state qualifier race.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_04: So this is one of the series that we do that we do the state races and then at the end of the year which is in I think two weeks they have a state final which is going to be in Houston and it's it's so much fun.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_04: I mean this is something that got me hooked in the sport too with just our family traveling to all these different tracks to go to these state qualifier races and we would make a a whole weekend out of it and if I may how many people do you think attend well hundreds and hundreds yeah in the hundreds and I I because I do drone videography and drone photography I always um take capture that footage while we're there and I have shown the city before and I've played it at city council I you know just for them to get a perspective like like look at all these cars and people are camping out all around the track and this brings all these people to come to your city and not only are they spending money um in hotels but at the restaurants and they're staying extra nights especially for corpus everyone that we speak to in this community you know all the different tracks that we go to around Texas they all say please bring the track back to corpus we want a beach vacation we want to we want to go down there and we want to spend the whole weekend and um hang out there and so everyone really wants this it's everyone is is really really rooting for this in in the BMX community funds itself it brings it brings the money to our city it's like duh right and if they don't and if they don't then I mean it'll nothing you know if if it's not right if we can't hold races and we can't have events then it's just a dirt track and um no one's gonna really travel for that.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_04: Do they have uh it makes me think of like the the schools you know I mean maybe there's it could be part of like a UIO yeah it could be yeah some of our board members are really trying to work uh oh a program with that too so it seems like there's a lot of money in the school system you know what I mean that could be an that's interesting that could be an interesting avenue yeah so I mean not only would it be great for the local community and you know just our local races bringing kids out it's such a positive sport it's a family sport it's a generational sport it's super cool to be out there and you see little kids from two years old um to their parents racing to their grandparents racing and um it's I mean there's just so many positive things about it.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah yeah yeah so not only and just at that level and um and it's also a sport for everyone.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_04: Take my son for example he's six years old and he's on the autism spectrum but where some team sports might not be for him he can ride his bike.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah this sport he loves this sport I mean he can do this I mean it's like a minute race or I mean depending on how fast you are and it could be up to a minute race and this is something he can hyper focus on.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_04: And so this is someone from you know like his skill set all the way to someone who's you know training for the Olympics because it's an Olympic sport also.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_04: Wow so that's amazing I just feel like it's a sport everyone belongs in in this sport.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_04: There's some something for everyone.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_02: So where so where are y'all at now as far as uh get getting the track back up again?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_02: Great question.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_04: You have been to city council you talk to them and all this stuff yeah what's happening at the moment right now so at the moment we are in design phase with um the park at Salinas Park the track is in the design phase and that sounds great which it is because we you know at this point yeah they're you know they're working on it but plot twist remix there was a$50,000 bond for design and a couple months ago the city went and hired their own AE architect engineer okay um to do a design at the track and this is not a USA BMX approved architect or designer.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_04: And essentially what they I mean it's still in in the process so but essentially what they were just going to just um fix up what's there and just resurface what's there and it wouldn't be a uh USA BMX sanction track.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_04: And um so they that money's gone.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_04: Oh and they told us too that there's no funds for construction at all.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_04: So we're just kind of confused like for one like why they they skipped us in a big step with the design and what you know their plans would be moving forward with this design.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_02: I mean they paid him like I shared it with her money's gone and nothing happened to the track.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_04: And essentially right and um and then there's no money to construct it.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_04: And if they would have worked with us from the beginning we could have provided a design with USA BMX for under that budget.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_04: Wow and potentially been able to shift some of that remaining design fund to construction fund.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know if you really can do that or not but that's what we were hoping and we we talked to Parks and Rec about maybe doing that.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_04: And um so they just skipped a big step with us and um I know Adam Rios he's on our board he's an amazing advocate for the alternative sports community here in Corpus and um he goes to city council and speaks a lot at public comments and he did mention it this past week on Tuesday.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_04: He did he did like let the the council city council know what's going on and um I think that they were a little bit shocked too because they didn't know.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_02: Really they didn't know about so did they know before they got their own architect that they needed it to be USA uh BMX certified?
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think so because they didn't consult us and that's kind of I think where the frustrations are lying with everyone is that we should have been brought to the table.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_04: Just like with the skate park at Westgouth that Adam helped get that built um you know they went straight to the skate the skate park designer they just went straight to one you know and they said you know like they had you know the specialist build it right and um you can't really skip that step you can't forget basically research needs to be done and but collaboration.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_04: But we're being very positive about it.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah and I think it's salvageable I think that it's not a hundred percent sign and sealed USC BMX um we've been in talks with them with the AE in the city and parks and rec and um we're gonna try to work together moving forward before it gets to that 100% design.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_04: So that's good.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah that's good yeah that's good to hear it it was kind of like um it's a bummer that it happened the way it happened but um we're gonna stay positive moving forward.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah we'll just say lessons were learned that yeah no lessons learned could have could have saved a lot of money too yep well collaboration is key it really I guess I really shouldn't have said I mean I I I'm skeptical sometimes and sometimes I pick a side and I'm trying not to so uh yeah it's kind of like you don't want corpus to do the corpus thing yeah like I'm like don't do the corpus thing we're trying to stop them from doing the corpus thing yeah yeah and this is an easy win what what percentage would you say it's kind of built already oh I mean the fence is there already you know um Jeff clicked the old yeah uh there wouldn't it wouldn't take a whole lot to get it um revamped up and running again um of course there's some things that we would like to improve we would like to at least have it sealed um and not just a dirt track we because um a smooth track is a track that people are gonna want to ride if it's bumpy and it's rough you know no one's really gonna want to ride it so part of it's already so it's part of it's already there.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_04: The blueprint is there the footprint is there um it wouldn't take a whole lot and with USABMX's help if they would have consulted with us in the beginning yeah we could have done this under budget with that$50,000 but bond money but it's you know it's we can't woulda coulda shoulda yeah yeah with it.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_02: So how how so how's iBike CC?
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_02: Because their their part is more like road safety for cyclists and stuff like that.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_03: Right uh there was that new um that new path that's coming up behind Carol Carroll High School.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_03: Um so ours is more along the lines of creating a a network of uh safe bike lanes um because sometimes paint just won't do it I don't know about you but a car weighs uh a lot uh my last the last time I checked it weighs a couple tons uh and paint is not gonna stop a vehicle from um crossing over paint yeah so that's that's more the initiative of iBike CC is making sure that people can are cyclists or or and then it goes beyond cycling really Jesus because you're talking about accessibility you're talking about mobility people who are are who are limited to a a wheelchair or some kind of hover round device uh or maybe um who are on foot um so it goes a little bit beyond just bike riding people who are um who don't have the option to own a vehicle we're talking about all of those people as well so opening up uh mobility paths if you will accessibility paths if you will safe mobility and safe accessibility so uh just take the notion out of cyclists right take take the take the take the bicycle out of your mind for just a split second we're talking about people getting from A to B to C to D all of all over corpus north to south east to west like a whole network of alternative methods of commuting so to speak wow so uh that's that's what iBike CC uh and even though we say iBike CC it's it's beyond that it's more than that cool so there's there's a new path opening up behind Carrol Lane uh there's some other um paths I in the works um we are now a 501 nonprofit organization as well cool um we we try to uh earn money to be able to implement uh uh right now we were looking at uh supplying libraries with bicycle tools so that people can go in tweak their bike if they need to cool uh children right children can pop into a library check out some tools yeah work on their bike uh putting trailheads uh I know Sharin is um she did the adopt a park uh so she once a month she goes and cleans up uh the park and it's a group effort um so I invite everyone to follow iBike CC to help get this movement going cool um but yeah uh it's it's it's important to be able to navigate safely through our city without the worry of of um of incident danger yeah thank you yeah it's really dangerous to walk on our streets man I think it was last year I did um a community ride with iBike and on the island with my daughter and um I I probably didn't even realize how dangerous it it was on some of those um it I mean like it's a bike lane but it's not protected like some you see in San Antonio and Austin how the what are they called the uh there's like a barrier like a divide media so to speak holes yeah and um just even if they could have some of those in like the more congested areas where traffic is a little bit scary and and I mean even like I live on Island I've lived there for 15 years and I didn't realize how scary it was with my daughter on the streets riding through the through the neighborhood.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_03: That's why we ride in groups yeah safety and numbers yeah you know yeah I think the get led guys I had seen them downtown and they were taking up both lanes and I was as a driver I was like you're in my lane you know what I mean it's cool we should do it just you're in my lane news flash essays we're allowed to be in the street yeah for sure for sure yeah no definitely so by law so by law uh bicycles are allowed to be in the street however um we need to maintain our full right the right site okay okay so slower traffic to we are slow yeah for sure so you guys are in the lane do your bikes have to have a certain I guess do I think in dot like like reflectors lights absolutely so you can get a citation if you don't have a front light or a rear light or reflectors.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_02: Reflect so do you have to have a light or just reflector lights yeah okay cool cool cool and so like municipal code says also that uh cyclists are not allowed to be on the sidewalk uh impeding foot traffic we cannot impede foot traffic wow so that yeah so really so where do we go where do we go exactly now legally we're allowed to be on the road with the cars of course we all know that's dangerous though right yes so that's why we're riding you get hocked at the oh absolutely we um I had I've had some friends that get harassed and stuff thrown at them yeah um I someone did a man I swear they were at least I don't know what's this three feet um a truck almost hit me on Wooldridge scared the living crap out of me I mean people are probably just on their phone oh absolutely and not even more so why we need something safer yeah because I'll admit I mean we're distracted right um myself included we're we're not prepared here uh we see people on bikes um but we're just not prepared as a as a community uh for the for for that method right we're not like sometimes we're not aware of not like San Antonio and Austin and um unfortunately a lot of us have to travel away from corpus to do the recreational thing that we love and to do it in a city that has it or provides uh provides it to us and um like even with uh with iBike CC I know that she she goes all the time like to just do the trails there and we don't have trails like that here and um we were invited to Austin sorry to interrupt oh no uh we were in Sharon and I were invited to Austin and we checked out their mile miles and miles long uh trail uh and it got you all the way around the city any resource you could think of it got you to it wow we we've proposed like um uh uh coinciding with the canal system the drainage system of corpus right so that all that's all a network and it's kind of like in between neighborhoods it's safe um so just pave that I don't know but put a sidewalk there yeah that way it it gets you where you need to go like Target I really need to go to Target I want to be able to go to Target on my bike right I mean yeah real quick I'm gonna uh I'm gonna shout out some podcasts real quick some local podcasts I wanted to mention some of you guys uh there's a lot uh let me see start with Recycle Corn podcast they're on episode 114 the walking leader podcast 322 episodes beer in the movie uh there are 371 episodes these are all locally based there's people either related to the city or from the city on these podcasts that dude talks it's a new podcast by Chris Longoria the Slow Rose podcast by Blake Joe and Andy Sports Roland uh sports with Roland with Roland Marie and Andy again Logan lit podcast right and high podcast they got like a network of podcasts paranormal distortion uh corpus christi spook central uh act actors creating together and then uh 361ccradio.com with Kirk D Logan um yeah he's he's got like a gospel it's radio gospel feel it's pretty cool you guys should check those out I wanted to shout those podcasts out to let you guys know obviously to shine some light on them pretty cool people here so check them out when you get a chance uh but yeah that's awesome you guys do how how do y'all think as far as cycling goes and mental health and all this other stuff how much of an effect do y'all think that has that cycling has on that whether good it allows me to deal with people on a daily how do you it's like a stress relief absolutely exactly it it is um I found myself like back in 2016 rewind with me if you will um I wasn't I wasn't happy dude like let's be real like I wasn't happy and I sometimes the grind of our daily jobs careers I mean if you're doing something that is in corporate I mean uh I'm just trying to stand understand like like put myself in your shoes yeah like what were were you going through like family issues was it's healthy stuff like that oh yeah I was like 40 pounds heavier I was like 40 pound 40 pounds heavier uh it was just a routine kind of work go home sleep eat sleep work go home eat sleep like in a funk yeah in a funk exactly that's the word and um you insert some and doesn't even have to be bike riding art an outlet right some sort of outlet cycling artwork uh getting involved in in something I know they have chess over here at community grocery yeah yeah a chess something that stimulates your mind and that gets you because you have balance going back to balance right you can have good stress and you can have bad stress yeah and you the way you let it affect you uh you know you know how people say oh you let that live rent free and you're having a head sometimes it it it's hard to get that out of there so and and when I'm me personally when I'm on my bike I don't think about anything I just think about myself on the bike on the road going that's it I don't think about oh man I need to prepare for battle of the bikes coming up October 30th we're gonna get battle next one I'm not thinking about that at that moment I'm not thinking about all the stuff that I need to do to prepare uh for anything I'm not thinking about anything I'm thinking about wow this is great the day is gorgeous wow that cloud looks like a duck you know I'm thinking about just random stuff that that makes me feel good I'm not thinking about all the stuff that stresses me out now when I get off my bike different story I have to have to come back in right is there like a strip where you go through like say a couple of days like you haven't ridden and you know that you have to go ride to relieve that stress do you know what I'm saying?
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yes kind of like working out like for me like 'cause I got ADD my mind is like constantly going and I just feel I get to a point where like I need to go and relieve some of this stress and That's how I do it.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_03: I've gotten to that point before where like maybe I didn't have time.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_03: I'll say it this way, I didn't make time.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's really what it's about.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's not that I didn't have time, it's that I didn't make time.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_03: So there's there's been a couple weeks where I didn't make time for myself.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's really what it is.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_03: It's making time for yourself.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and it just so happens that we get cool people to ride with us every Sunday morning at 8 a.m.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, how does How does community play a role in empowerment and I guess healing?
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_03: Say it one more time.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_02: How how does community play a role in in uh empowerment and healing?
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_03: You get to see and learn what other people are going through.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_03: And sometimes you you really just don't know what other people are going through, and it helps you get a perspective of man, I really hope that person gets where they need to be.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_03: But then at the same time, it helps you realize I'm grateful that my issue isn't their issue.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_03: Like uh I'm I'm glad that I'm where I'm at.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_03: It makes you grateful that that you're um that you're able to relieve that stress on a bike, and it it allows you to just have a different perspective.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yo, totally.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I wanted to mention your your swag you got going on.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, might be a mixture.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_04: Do you notice our hats?
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so you know, yeah.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_04: I'm a big fan.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_04: Uh thank you, Lauren.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_04: And oh, she just put these really cool checkerboard hats.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_04: Available now at Hype Mike 411 people treat.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, three three eleven people.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, what advice would you give someone to someone who feels intimidated about getting started?
• 45:46
  unknown: Okay.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_03: They don't pay your bills, so their opinion doesn't really matter.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_03: Uh no, keep going.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_03: Cultivate the passion for real.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_03: Just keep going, just do it.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, just do it.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_03: You either waste your time doing something that you're not gonna love, or you're gonna waste your time doing something you love.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'd rather the the latter.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_02: You're gonna get hated either way.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_03: Just keep going, do it.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, don't let anything stop you.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_02: Let me give you all some stickers real quick.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_02: So, so one of the coolest parts of cycling in the culture and uh the events that bring people together.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh let's see, one of the coolest parts of cycling is the culture and the events that bring people together.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so how did Battle of the Bikes start and how has it grown over the years?
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_03: Battle of the Bikes is a celebration of how long Hype Bike has been in business.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_03: So um it's uh a culmination of bicycles uh that are custom, that are unique, uh that are fabricated in such a way that's yeah, I saw vintage, yeah.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_03: Vintage BMX.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_03: So I saw that, and I'm excited to see your ride.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_03: Last time we talked about the whip.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm excited to see your whip.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so uh it's it's uh it's a showdown.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_03: Bring your best bike.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_03: Uh bring that that BMX you got, shine it up.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_03: If you have a custom ride or like a rat rod, uh bring that bad boy too.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_03: So, what's the most wildest one you've seen out there?
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, imagine there's all kinds of things.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that was our celebration last year.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_03: We had uh Liz Del Bosque, uh shout out, Liz.
• 47:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh they were in the her and her husband are in the lowrider scene.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so they do these um lowrider car shows, they're seasoned show showgoers.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know what the word is.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but and they brought uh La Troca Loca.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_03: So imagine a trike morphed into a Chevy truck.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's exactly what you just imagined.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_03: I'm still trying to imagine the tailgate like says Chevrolet on it.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_03: It does.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_03: So there's a there's a bed and bed, and actually.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_03: I'm pretty sure it says Chevrolet.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry if it's sorry.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but she brought the heat last year.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_03: She had like her rape, she had the like a skeleton riding it, like it was wild.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_03: And um, that was kind of like the most um like the most interesting, unique, like yeah, very unique.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_03: And then we have like these stretch cruisers where like people fabricate them to be longer than what they yeah, we're talking the limousine of bicycles here.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, um it's it's you're gonna have a great time.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_02: So, how does that how do these events help uh build bridges across different cycling communities?
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_03: Awareness, awareness.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_03: I if if it had one word, I'd say awareness because uh people sometimes don't realize that there's uh a bicycle community in Corpus Christi.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_03: We all have trucks, we have cars, we all have like you know, we we're all in vehicles, and so just seeing a bike, and I'm gonna say this because once I said it, I saw it everywhere.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_03: In every movie you watch, there's a bicycle.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_03: You're gonna see it now.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_03: I I truly believe it's unless it's like some movie from like what I don't know, like a nights tale or some old movie.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_03: But if you as soon as you start watching, like I'm sure you watch movies daily or whatever.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_02: Why do you think that is?
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_02: That's interesting.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_04: Well, if you think about it too, like a lot of people's core memories are always like, oh, you know, like I remember the day that I uh like rode my bike without training wheels, and it it's a part of a lot of people so many people's lives in their childhood, and and you don't really see that with a lot, you know, not to hate on any other sport, but I mean not everyone like not everyone's like I remember AI, like like skateboarded or surfed, or you know, like not everyone everyone thinks that, but I feel like a bike is such a big part of everyone's childhood memories and freedom.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_03: Think of freedom.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_03: Where would you go on your bike when you were younger?
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_03: Anywhere you wanted, right?
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like there was no limitation.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_02: It makes me think like you start crawling, you start walking, and then after you're walking, you're like, I want to go faster.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_02: So the bike's like a rite of passage.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_02: The bike is like the next passage.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_04: It's the milestone for sure, right?
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_04: It is absolutely so yeah.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, when I think about when I was younger riding bikes, I would go everywhere.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_03: Ditches, go collect tadpoles, like with your friends, until the until the street lights came on.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_03: Like you think of the the nostalgia of just being young and being free, not having to worry about bills and all that other adult stuff, man.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's another thing I think of when I'm on my bike, it's just like the freedom of it all.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool, man.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I want to I want to join you guys one of these days.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh for BMX, what's the energy like at track events?
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_02: How does it impact young riders beyond sports?
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_02: Beyond sport.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_04: I love all of the BMX events.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_04: I think that's what really got me hooked is when um I first started going to the State Series um specifically, because you show up and there's all these families there.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_04: And like I said, there's you know, it's generational.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_04: You see people from two years old on the strider bikes, those are the bikes without the pedals and kind of really push them.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_04: And um, all the way, you know, up to to grandparents, and uh everyone's got you know their uh canopies out, and um, this year we actually joined a team, uh shout out team aftershock.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_04: And they're it just there's a sense of camaraderie, and I love that about this sport, and everyone's so supportive too.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_04: Um, when the other tracks found out that we were trying to open this track here in Corpus, like all the track operators from uh Lone Star in San Antonio all the way to Midland, uh West Texas, and they said, What can we do to help you?
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_04: So this the community, the bike community, even though we're like in different corners, it's it's the same, it's the same vibe.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_04: It's just it's what it is.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_04: It's beautiful.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_03: So the right people find you, they really do.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um it's it's interesting how things just line up that way.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, same thing happened with the bike shop.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_03: Like you just meet and and the right people just gravitate towards you, and it lets it kind of remind you that you're in you're where you should be.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_02: How how does that make you feel like knowing that there's people in the community?
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_02: Did you think that there wasn't gonna be like at the onset, you know what I mean?
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_02: And then you've just it just they just popped up and you're like, oh shoot, does it care?
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_03: So so many things lined up in such a positive way that I didn't have time to think about the negative.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_03: Oh to be truthful, like it was it was almost too easy for all because people just they're like, Oh, bikes, I love bikes.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_03: Let me yeah, yeah, yeah, let me talk to this person.
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_03: And it it is uh you use the word exactly camaraderie.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_03: It really is no matter if you're BMX racing, no matter if you're a roadie, no matter if you're mountain biking, we all we're all brought together from different walks of life because we love bikes.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it makes sense that y'all want this the city's help and get making the keeping that camaraderie, I guess you can say, right?
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, absolutely.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_04: I think that uh for me when we started this journey um trying to bring the truck back, it we weren't the first ones to try to do this since it closed in um 2017.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_04: There's been multiple people that had made efforts to try to get this back.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_04: And what I was able to do was try to gather all those people and join forces because that I think was where it was kind of like falling apart, too.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_04: That there was all these different people trying on the convolution, and now most of us are on this board that we have created Corpus Christi BMX, and um, I think that that's really what's gonna make a difference and in the long run is that we are all doing this together, we're moving forward together, and and the city they gotta jump on with us, right?
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_02: Real quick, uh Martha Lynn Morales on YouTube says awesome many of you.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_03: Shout out to my mom, thank you.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for it.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for giving birth to me.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for giving birth to her.
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_02: Have you talked to these mem any one of the members have you talked to the council members individually, like send them an email, try to talk to them personally?
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, and um so since it was brought up at the last city council meeting in public comments, um several of the city council members have reached out to uh our board and said that they want to be involved moving forward, they want to be in our board meetings, they want to be in our parks meetings, um, that uh now that they are aware of what's going on, they want to see this move, they want to be, they're supporting it.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, they want to be a part of it and they want to help us.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_02: Are all of them on board or just uh some of them, yeah.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_04: I I haven't heard from all of them, but um um especially I think Eric Cantu is I was gonna say, do you want to mention a few of them?
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he he is the council member for that district where Salinas Park is.
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_04: So I know he has always been supportive of this, but you know, they're very busy, and this isn't a priority at the moment.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_04: And um it's a priority to us though.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, and that's you know, we want to help them.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_04: This isn't like we don't profit from this.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_04: Um, even in the future, like we we are volunteering our time.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_04: Um, there's no monetary gain out of this.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_04: Um, we we want to help them, and this this should be an easy win for them because who's gonna protest this?
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_04: You know, like who's gonna like there's this doesn't hurt the environment, like all the things that the city's dealing with it's negative right now.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_04: This is a positive, it's a community issue, yeah.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_04: And I mean, let's go corpus, like for sure, for sure.
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_02: Like, let's get a win.
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like, since I started the podcast, I was never really into my city.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_02: I've just like I said before, I've just kept to myself, my family, providing for my family.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_02: When I started it, I realized how much how many people like you guys actually care about the city, supporting local and stuff like that.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm just like team corporate, just like you, you know, and yeah, we think that that's something that we share is that we love our city and we don't want to have to travel away to do the recreational thing that we are or the sport that we even move out.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_02: Some people move out.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, for us, like to practice our sport, we have to drive two and a half hours away.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_04: And that's crazy.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_04: Imagine like if you did soccer or football, and just on a weeknight for practice, you had to drive for two and like five-hour round trip.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_04: And um, when you know, we're looking at this track over here and saying, like, this is 30 minutes down the street, like like what what can we do?
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this is just it's not sustainable, like traveling so much.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_04: And when we love our city and we want we want to have our sport here, yeah, for sure.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_03: Has this you brought up kind of like a good point you said uh what which council people are aware, which ones are engaged.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so just for um how you can make a difference, people watching, email, reach out to your council people, let them know it's something you want.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, um the squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_03: So um if it's something that you want to advocate for, uh watchers, viewers, um email, contact your city rep, go go do a uh what's it called, the speaking at the meeting.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_03: Public comment.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, public comment, there you go.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_03: Go to public comment.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_03: Um, really voice your opinion uh and and your stance on on these issues because uh if if the city doesn't know we need it, how's it gonna come if if nobody knows if nobody knows about it?
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_03: Or you know, so like um they can assume uh that things are wanted, but when you use your voice to propel forward, um that's when things really get done.
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_02: So with that public comment, does do the issues of that day have to be on your issue, or can you just comment?
• 57:59
  SPEAKER_04: No, like so.
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_04: For me, I'm a very visual learner.
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_04: Like I grasp things a lot better if I see it.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_04: Like someone can tell me something, but I gotta see it.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_04: So when I went, I played a video because you get three minutes, and you know, I put together a two-minute video of footage that I had captured just from different tracks um throughout the year, um, different events, and I played them a video, and that's something you can do also.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_04: And I know Shireen, she does like WebEx.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_04: She does.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_04: She does you can WebEx in.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so when you showed the video on that day, was the topics that they were no, I I started off by saying this this is um a city related topic.
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_04: It's not on the agenda, but we would love for it to be in the future, right?
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay, that's cool.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 58:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, definitely.
• 58:44
  SPEAKER_02: Man, this is awesome.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, is there anything y'all want to talk about or discuss that you haven't talked about yet?
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_04: Um okay, so something exciting that is coming in.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_04: Let me tell you the date.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_04: In November, on November 7th, the um Texas BMX Hall of Fame is hosting an induction ceremony here in Corpus Chrissy.
• 59:07
  SPEAKER_04: This is the first time that their organization is having their induct annual induction ceremony in in Corpus and also in a town that has no track.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_04: So that kind of shows how much you know they are rooting for corpus.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_04: They they want they want to come to Corpus.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_04: People want to visit Corpus, and that is also helping kind of um give us a more momentum too.
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_04: And um, but that whole weekend, I think the Friday night, they're gonna have like a little reunion, and Saturday morning high bike is going that Saturday morning high bike is gonna um host a community ride.
• 59:46
  SPEAKER_04: Nice, and then that afternoon, they're having the induction ceremony at the Double Tree on North Beach.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_03: So if we could get the track ready by November 7th, greatly appreciate it.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, thank you.
• 59:58
  SPEAKER_03: Don't embarrass us.
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_02: So make me look better.
• 1:00:02
  SPEAKER_02: That's fine.
• 1:00:03
  SPEAKER_03: I got some shovels.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_03: Go ahead and get it done by November 7th.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, so an upcoming event for us.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_03: We already kind of dropped it, right?
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, Battle of the Bikes.
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_02: Battle of the Bikes.
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_03: This Friday.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, you see, I'm shaking.
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_02: What's the date, exact date?
• 1:00:17
  SPEAKER_02: October 3rd.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_02: October.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_03: Celebrating three years on October 3rd.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, well, so it's Art Walk.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_03: So 6 p.m.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_03: So it coincides with Art Walk, with downtown management district.
• 1:00:27
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much.
• 1:00:28
  SPEAKER_02: Uh is Weird Corpus still shout out to them anyway.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I don't know if they're still engaged, but I know um Dusty and produce and they they throw massive block parties.
• 1:00:39
  SPEAKER_03: So uh that's always appreciated.
• 1:00:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but uh but yeah, October 3rd, celebrating three years, Battle of the Bikes, Texas Gunslinger Edition.
• 1:00:48
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so deck out your bikes, shine them up, get them rolling to 311 People Street on October 3rd.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_02: Dope.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's nice.
• 1:00:55
  SPEAKER_02: Real quick, I want to shout out some uh Facebook community.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks you guys for liking posts and stuff on the Facebook community page that we have, Corpus Christians community.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_02: You can post whenever you want, just you know, whatever, so people can have some type of awareness, people that follow this podcast.
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_02: So here's some commenters that we've been commenting Marisol Lopez, Rick Santana, uh Daniel Perales, John Deyano, Mickey Metal, Robbie Casas, Isaiah uh Brosig, uh who's it who else?
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Chris Longoria, James M.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_02: Clem, Neil Smith, Jay Everett, and Bob Bobby Vella.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for commenting on the Facebook community page.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_02: I put in try to put engagement engagement posts and stuff like that where people can comment.
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_02: And uh yeah, thanks for the for that that part of the community.
• 1:01:39
  SPEAKER_02: We're talking about community here.
• 1:01:40
  SPEAKER_02: And um, yeah, um, follow the uh Corpus Christi Originals community page if you want to be a part of that.
• 1:01:47
  SPEAKER_02: But thanks a lot, you guys.
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_02: So, women in cycling and entrepreneurship.
• 1:01:51
  SPEAKER_02: You want to go there?
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, sure.
• 1:01:54
  SPEAKER_02: So uh yes, since our first since it's our first women's edition, let's talk about being women leaders in cycling and entrepreneurship.
• 1:02:01
  SPEAKER_02: What challenges have you faced as women in this space and how did you overcome them?
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_03: No pressure.
• 1:02:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, right, zero pressure.
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um man, I uh I take examples from other businesses that are that have a heavy female influence on them.
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_03: Um, like uh even here in the building we're in, Sessie uh the Olivera, um, she owns Chica's Rock.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_03: Chica's Rock.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like that's a great community event, and I I admire her very much.
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's so cool.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_03: And um her and and um Tina Lane over at House of Rock, she she owns her her own, what is it?
• 1:02:41
  SPEAKER_03: I think she owns Gold Dust.
• 1:02:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:02:42
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, she's an influential person.
• 1:02:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um Melanie Munoz, she owns the Blue Shore Petal Lounge, uh, Tracy Guajardo, she like all these women who are entrepreneurs today, right now, we are kind of paving the way, right?
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and whether it's brick by brick or laying out the red carpet, I think uh females in just even this downtown region alone are making such great impacts to um to each other, right?
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_03: Learning from each other.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_03: Amazing.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and I I think uh so negative, no time, no time for negative stuff.
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_00: No, that's a good, I like that.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_03: And then um, I mean the the our male counterparts, super helpful.
• 1:03:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um actually the the late um Mr.
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_03: Hoover who owned the Noisis Lofts, he saw something in Hype Bike that I hadn't even seen when I was when we were creating it, and he had wanted a bike shop there, and um uh you know rest in peace, uh uh Mr.
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_03: Hoover, but uh he saw something that I hadn't and uh just his support uh was was influential all by itself.
• 1:03:55
  SPEAKER_03: His piece of advice to me was keep going.
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_03: So here I am.
• 1:04:00
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you for sharing that.
• 1:04:03
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I don't think I've had any any negativity from male counterparts either, like in what I'm doing specifically, trying to advocate for a BMX track here.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_04: Everyone's been pretty supportive, no one's really tried to mansplain anything.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_04: But uh I I definitely do wheels.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, okay.
• 1:04:27
  SPEAKER_04: I definitely had to ask my husband a couple of questions because uh I'm still learning about this sport too.
• 1:04:35
  SPEAKER_04: Um and but if you want to look at the sport of BMX um racing and just BMX in general, I would say that there is a gender gap.
• 1:04:44
  SPEAKER_04: There's definitely more males, boys that that ride and race.
• 1:04:49
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, what do you what do you see, Mel, like coming in to buy BMX bikes?
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_04: Is it mostly do you get many ladies?
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_03: Primarily uh our male counterparts, yeah.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_04: But um one thing that I see at the track is those girls are fearless.
• 1:05:05
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my gosh.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_04: My two daughters race and they make me so proud.
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_04: And um uh some of the challenges that they run into at the track, um, specifically like a local race, is there's not enough girls to make like a moto class.
• 1:05:21
  SPEAKER_04: Where do I sign up?
• 1:05:23
  SPEAKER_04: For just but and then they they end up um racing against the boys.
• 1:05:28
  SPEAKER_04: Silver lining there though, is the boys push them and sometimes they beat the boys, and that is a huge ego boost.
• 1:05:39
  SPEAKER_03: My favorite thing is when when uh a young man comes into the shop with like a flat tire or some something wrong with his bike, they see me suited up with my gloves and my apron, and I'm like, All right, let's get in here, right?
• 1:05:53
  SPEAKER_03: And they're like, Well, you're you're gonna fix it.
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_03: I love that.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna fix it.
• 1:05:58
  SPEAKER_03: I wish I were there to see that.
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna fix it.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_03: I'd be like, hello.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's interesting to see the the look in their eye, like oh also shout out to Taco, our other uh technician.
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_03: That's a cool name.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_03: I like that.
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_03: He's cool.
• 1:06:12
  SPEAKER_03: He only comes in on Tuesdays.
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_03: He's cool.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_03: He's a cool caddy.
• 1:06:17
  SPEAKER_03: Uh he just joined us uh a couple weeks ago and he's been doing amazing.
• 1:06:21
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah.
• 1:06:22
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, I always love the little the little look in the the young men's eyes when when a woman is working on it for them.
• 1:06:29
  SPEAKER_02: Is it is it mostly like the the same type of uh I guess problem when they come in, or is it no no, they're all different.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_03: All different kinds of things.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_03: They're all different, yeah.
• 1:06:36
  SPEAKER_03: We're learning something new every day.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, that's what's up.
• 1:06:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what advice would you give young women who want to start their own business or community project?
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_02: Go for it.
• 1:06:46
  SPEAKER_04: Just uh take the first step, just do it, you know, and go find your people and um start everyone's better together, you know.
• 1:06:54
  SPEAKER_04: You really have to like even I see this.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I have another community group, CC creators, and um, we're like a local creator group of photographers, videographers, drone pilots, um, just anyone who considers themselves to be creative.
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_04: Um I think that in that space a lot of us felt uh like you know we were on our own doing our own thing, but just coming together, it it's so it's so beautiful.
• 1:07:23
  SPEAKER_04: Like, and you can really you can make differences whenever you join forces and have a community.
• 1:07:30
  SPEAKER_04: Community is everything.
• 1:07:31
  SPEAKER_04: Community, absolutely, yeah.
• 1:07:33
  SPEAKER_04: Don't be scared.
• 1:07:34
  SPEAKER_04: Don't be scared.
• 1:07:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, don't be scared, don't do it.
• 1:07:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's better.
• 1:07:38
  SPEAKER_03: It's better.
• 1:07:38
  SPEAKER_02: Like Nike, just so you mentioned like I guess uh like more men than women in this in whatever in sports uh particularly.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_02: So how do you build confidence when you're the only woman in the room?
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_03: Lead the way.
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I like that.
• 1:07:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's how you build confidence.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_03: You lead the way and it it allows them to kind of follow suit in a way.
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_03: Uh some people say lead from behind.
• 1:08:08
  SPEAKER_03: So when you when you give people the the option to go forth, um and you're knowing that you got they know that you got their back, that builds confidence.
• 1:08:21
  SPEAKER_03: Um so well to me personally, um, I I do feel that uh leading from behind is just as important as leading up front.
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, what legacy do you need?
• 1:08:31
  SPEAKER_03: Right, how do you know I said it?
• 1:08:37
  SPEAKER_02: Just confidence in general for people is like and especially if you if you're doing something you never done before, you know what I mean?
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_02: How do you get I guess have the courage to be able to do it?
• 1:08:48
  SPEAKER_02: Most people even though you told yourself I'm gonna do this, you know what I mean?
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_03: Most people are more inclined to do something um confidently when there's someone next to them.
• 1:08:58
  SPEAKER_03: For sure.
• 1:09:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah that's how I do that's how I've observed.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_03: Or do it scared too.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:04
  SPEAKER_03: Let's not talk about ziplining in Alaska.
• 1:09:08
  SPEAKER_03: I was terrified about that.
• 1:09:11
  SPEAKER_02: I did it.
• 1:09:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, what's something that you've done scared before?
• 1:09:14
  SPEAKER_02: That zip lining in Alaska.
• 1:09:17
  SPEAKER_04: That was terrifying coming on this podcast.
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, I think I've never been on a podcast before.
• 1:09:24
  SPEAKER_04: This is my first one, and I was waiting for this one.
• 1:09:26
  SPEAKER_04: Oh yay, this is awesome.
• 1:09:29
  SPEAKER_02: It's awesome.
• 1:09:29
  SPEAKER_02: What legacy do you want to leave for future women writers?
• 1:09:35
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I I hope that we can open up this track at Selena's Park and it stays open for generations to come.
• 1:09:44
  SPEAKER_04: I I we want to set it up properly, and that's why you know we're kind of frustrated with the way the city's going right now, um, because we want it from the beginning to be a strong foundation.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_04: So it lasts for 40, 50 years.
• 1:10:00
  SPEAKER_04: And um, this sport, it's really just brought back to this whole region of South Texas because there's no track south of San Antonio.
• 1:10:08
  SPEAKER_04: Like on our Facebook page, sometimes we'll get people messaging in from Kingsville or the Valley, and they say, you know, we would love to come to a track in Corpus.
• 1:10:16
  SPEAKER_04: We can't go all the way to San Antonio, but we can come to Corpus.
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_04: So um, in the beginning, like when we started this effort, it might have been kind of selfish for me, like for my kids, you know, like I wanted to track for my kids, but after a while it evolved into something more, and we saw that we this is more than just us, this is bringing a whole sport back to a whole region, all of South Texas, and um and uh yeah, we hope that we can do that.
• 1:10:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's almost oh sorry you guys, what's going on, you guys, on YouTube?
• 1:10:48
  SPEAKER_02: Uh she loggirl rocks is carry on the legacy of BMX for Corpus Christi.
• 1:10:53
  SPEAKER_02: We have some great women writers that started here in the 80s.
• 1:10:56
  SPEAKER_02: These ladies make me proud.
• 1:10:58
  SPEAKER_04: I have a feeling that's one of our board members, Sharon.
• 1:11:02
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out Sharon.
• 1:11:03
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out Sharon.
• 1:11:04
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 1:11:05
  SPEAKER_04: Oh man, if you could ever get that group on just to talk about the history of BMX in Corpus Christi because there's a rich history.
• 1:11:15
  SPEAKER_04: It seems like BMX racing.
• 1:11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, as far as history in Corpus goes, it seems like there's a lot of history, like historical buildings, maybe are gone, you know what I mean, where people don't know.
• 1:11:26
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:11:27
  SPEAKER_04: People don't have a bike ride.
• 1:11:28
  SPEAKER_04: We were kind of going by some of them.
• 1:11:30
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, because we had we just got back from San Antonio from Friday.
• 1:11:34
  SPEAKER_03: Shout out to the Sorillos.
• 1:11:36
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but that's our bike crew.
• 1:11:38
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, we went to San Antonio and there was like missions everywhere, and just hilly and just culture.
• 1:11:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and I was thinking, like, where in Corpus Christi can we ride that really hits home, that really hits the culture of and the history of Corpus Christi.
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_03: And I and I I I even admitted this, I may be blind to it because I live here and I'm from here, and I maybe I just don't know.
• 1:12:01
  SPEAKER_03: So if you know of any historic parts of Corpus Christi, please share them with me.
• 1:12:05
  SPEAKER_03: I'd love to ride through them, take a group through, and just share in the history of that.
• 1:12:10
  SPEAKER_03: No, Lori, your your creator group went to the Colored Times building.
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that was amazing.
• 1:12:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that might be a different podcast, but yeah, that's definitely the amazing uh venture of talking about the historic part of Corpus Christi.
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_03: I saw that.
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 1:12:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I learned a lot from that too.
• 1:12:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and it's like I don't want that part of history to go because people will know about it.
• 1:12:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's almost like the the only history that we have that's been here forever is the ocean, you know what I mean?
• 1:12:35
  SPEAKER_03: The bay.
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_02: The bay, you know.
• 1:12:37
  SPEAKER_03: Well, now we have the courthouse.
• 1:12:39
  SPEAKER_03: We got the courthouse.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_02: That was in the news recently.
• 1:12:42
  SPEAKER_02: Did you?
• 1:12:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:12:43
  SPEAKER_03: I caught a little bit.
• 1:12:44
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know what's going on with it though.
• 1:12:46
  SPEAKER_02: There nobody wants to buy it.
• 1:12:47
  SPEAKER_02: Basically, if they wanted to buy it, they would buy it.
• 1:12:49
  SPEAKER_02: That's what the guy was saying.
• 1:12:50
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man.
• 1:12:51
  SPEAKER_03: So if you ask us, we're just gonna say make an indoor pump track.
• 1:12:54
  unknown: Oh yeah!
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_03: I heard our bridge is is being sold to another country.
• 1:13:01
  SPEAKER_03: So they're gonna be dismantling it and taking it for it and stuff.
• 1:13:04
  SPEAKER_03: Uh not sure where it's going, but maybe we'll see it in the future stuff.
• 1:13:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like that's historical, you know.
• 1:13:08
  SPEAKER_02: Like, because I I rode actually rode bike up there, took the ferry back.
• 1:13:12
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 1:13:13
  SPEAKER_02: It was a small one, it wasn't like the ferry way over there, but we took it back.
• 1:13:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I remember that as a child, you know, taking that up there.
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_02: So that's pretty cool.
• 1:13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's so cool.
• 1:13:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, before we wrap it up, let's end with something light and fun, a quick round so listeners can get to know you a little more personally.
• 1:13:28
  SPEAKER_02: First bike ever owned.
• 1:13:31
  SPEAKER_04: God mine was probably like a Barbie bike.
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, with a basketball short.
• 1:13:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um I oh man, I wish I could remember.
• 1:13:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure it was pink.
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, what about first coolest, like cool bike?
• 1:13:47
  SPEAKER_03: First cool bike.
• 1:13:48
  SPEAKER_03: I'd say my Fuji Supreme, my road bike.
• 1:13:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that was so like after remember, I said like uh I went on Marketplace and I found a like a little$250 road bike, which was a Scotante, um, which was a fun bike that was great, it was great, and then my level up was the Fuji.
• 1:14:08
  SPEAKER_03: So that's why I guess that's kind of uh why I say my my best bike.
• 1:14:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh, and then now I have like I don't know 50 of them.
• 1:14:15
  SPEAKER_03: I think I have a problem.
• 1:14:17
  SPEAKER_03: I have too many.
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_03: What fools?
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_04: What were you writing today?
• 1:14:21
  SPEAKER_03: I was riding a Kurahara, a 26-inch Kurahara BMX.
• 1:14:26
  SPEAKER_03: So Kurahara, if you think back to the movie E.T.
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_03: the little the bike that E.T.
• 1:14:31
  SPEAKER_03: is in, that's a kurajara.
• 1:14:33
  SPEAKER_03: They're made in Japan and uh it's it's um a staple, it's an icon.
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, awesome.
• 1:14:38
  SPEAKER_03: It's nice.
• 1:14:39
  SPEAKER_03: Let's check in it out.
• 1:14:40
  SPEAKER_03: And yours?
• 1:14:40
  SPEAKER_04: What was what would have to be?
• 1:14:41
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know, maybe like my DJ that I have now, my dirt number.
• 1:14:46
  SPEAKER_04: And um I think that it's it's opened up a whole new chapter for me, so maybe it's a little bit more sentimental, also.
• 1:14:52
  SPEAKER_04: As as yours, you know, the one that you brought up is probably has some sentimental value.
• 1:14:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:03
  SPEAKER_03: Everything's negotiable.
• 1:15:06
  SPEAKER_03: Run a business here we go.
• 1:15:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I gotta run women entrepreneurs.
• 1:15:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, come on.
• 1:15:12
  SPEAKER_02: Respect.
• 1:15:12
  SPEAKER_02: Dream bike setup if money wasn't an issue.
• 1:15:16
  SPEAKER_03: I think it'd be a setup more so than I want all of them.
• 1:15:21
  SPEAKER_03: One of each from every angle.
• 1:15:23
  SPEAKER_04: Um, yeah, I mean, yeah, I I mean, my husband is really the bike guru in our family.
• 1:15:30
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so I'm not sure.
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to the hubby, man.
• 1:15:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, shout out to watching someone.
• 1:15:39
  SPEAKER_04: Nelson.
• 1:15:40
  SPEAKER_02: The favorite route or ride spot in Corpus.
• 1:15:43
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, well, my favorite ride, community ride, is the bridge ride with a high bike on Sunday.
• 1:15:51
  SPEAKER_04: Every Sunday morning, 8 a.m.
• 1:15:53
  SPEAKER_04: And hopefully sometime in the future it'll be at um Salinas Park off the line.
• 1:15:59
  SPEAKER_03: You agreed.
• 1:16:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I really like the Southside ride.
• 1:16:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so uh there are times where we host a Monday Southside ride.
• 1:16:08
  SPEAKER_03: And the reason I like it is because there's a greenway over there.
• 1:16:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I forget the neighborhood.
• 1:16:12
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's off a slope.
• 1:16:13
  SPEAKER_02: Greenway, greenway?
• 1:16:14
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so a greenway means like uh a dedicated path for either walkers or runners or bicycles.
• 1:16:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, right.
• 1:16:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so there's there's actually a path back there.
• 1:16:23
  SPEAKER_03: It goes all the way to like Yorktown.
• 1:16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:16:25
  SPEAKER_03: So we start over at uh Adkins Middle School.
• 1:16:28
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and then we just ride.
• 1:16:29
  SPEAKER_03: We I don't know if you've ever seen that big old stork.
• 1:16:32
  SPEAKER_03: It's like made out of metal.
• 1:16:33
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, Oso?
• 1:16:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Oso Parkway.
• 1:16:35
  SPEAKER_03: There we go.
• 1:16:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Oso Parkway, yes.
• 1:16:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Oso Parkway.
• 1:16:38
  SPEAKER_03: And so it's a super wide street.
• 1:16:40
  SPEAKER_02: So cool.
• 1:16:40
  SPEAKER_03: And uh so that that one is uh probably one of my favorites, and then of course our beautiful seawall, and then our harbor bridge.
• 1:16:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um, all of those are gorgeous paths.
• 1:16:51
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I'm a little biased to Susan.
• 1:16:53
  SPEAKER_03: No, any any path on a bike I'm cool with, uh, it's I think you were going that way.
• 1:16:58
  SPEAKER_04: And the people that visit here, like they they would love to do all that too, you know?
• 1:17:03
  SPEAKER_03: And we actually had some people from New York visit us recently, and um, they rented some bikes from us, and they were here for about two weeks, and before they left, they said your group was like the highlight of our visit.
• 1:17:19
  SPEAKER_03: We're talking about people from New York, like they see probably all kinds of cool stuff.
• 1:17:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and and we uh it just so happened that it was my birthday on the 12th, and they were here during that time.
• 1:17:29
  SPEAKER_03: We had curbside karaoke, we had bike rides, we had all kinds of just fun stuff going on, and uh, I was so glad that they were here to just be part of it all.
• 1:17:40
  SPEAKER_03: And um uh, but yeah, you you bring up the tourists.
• 1:17:43
  SPEAKER_03: Um we have so much to offer them.
• 1:17:47
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and I just wish that uh we would really hone in on making it better.
• 1:17:52
  SPEAKER_02: How do they find out about like uh bike rides and stuff like that that they do come in from out of town?
• 1:17:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh mostly Facebook, uh Instagram, uh maybe.
• 1:18:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh social the social pages.
• 1:18:04
  SPEAKER_03: I post them there and uh Nelson posts them there.
• 1:18:07
  SPEAKER_03: Um so we we try to get it out there as much as we can.
• 1:18:10
  SPEAKER_03: And then people who find us and mosey into the store, they'll they'll ask us, are there any group rides?
• 1:18:16
  SPEAKER_03: And we share that information with them.
• 1:18:18
  SPEAKER_03: Amazing.
• 1:18:19
  SPEAKER_03: They show up.
• 1:18:19
  SPEAKER_02: Amazing.
• 1:18:20
  SPEAKER_02: Social social media is a huge part, yeah.
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's a good time.
• 1:18:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, must have songs on your riding playlist.
• 1:18:32
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, no pro uh that's that's my go-to.
• 1:18:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh do you listen when you ride most times?
• 1:18:38
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yes, I have a uh like a JBL speaker on the front of my bike.
• 1:18:41
  SPEAKER_03: So not just I listen, but everyone in front of me and behind me listens.
• 1:18:45
  SPEAKER_03: So we're all Kumbia all almost all the way through.
• 1:18:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:18:49
  SPEAKER_04: Uh lately for me, it's been K-pop demon hunters.
• 1:18:52
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
• 1:18:54
  SPEAKER_04: Not kind of joking, but kind of serious.
• 1:18:57
  SPEAKER_04: Uh that's just been on repeat.
• 1:18:59
  SPEAKER_02: Your daughter listens to it, yeah.
• 1:19:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, and that's just been on repeat in our house, so lots of K-pop.
• 1:19:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:19:06
  SPEAKER_04: I know all the words.
• 1:19:07
  SPEAKER_02: If you weren't riding my daughter's into that stuff, if you weren't into riding bikes, what would you be doing for fun?
• 1:19:14
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, sleeping.
• 1:19:16
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 1:19:17
  SPEAKER_03: I I really don't not running, yeah, not walking.
• 1:19:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:19:21
  SPEAKER_03: Um, art.
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm actually I'm actually a decent painter.
• 1:19:25
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 1:19:26
  SPEAKER_02: Some type of create creative outlet.
• 1:19:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'd probably be flying my drone.
• 1:19:29
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, that's what I do usually when I'm not doing the bike, bike community life.
• 1:19:36
  SPEAKER_02: So you started CC creators?
• 1:19:39
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, me and two other uh two other two other people who have since moved away.
• 1:19:44
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so I'm kind of like the lone founder here now.
• 1:19:49
  SPEAKER_04: But I really I I feel like it's it's a collaboration of everyone, and um we all make it happen.
• 1:19:58
  SPEAKER_04: So it's not just me, it's everyone.
• 1:20:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, my favorite one has to be uh our January meetup at Hype Bike.
• 1:20:08
  SPEAKER_04: That was a lot of fun.
• 1:20:09
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, thank you.
• 1:20:10
  SPEAKER_04: We just really try to show um a different perspective of corpus like a cool way to view it through either a lens or a video camera or a drone.
• 1:20:19
  SPEAKER_04: And um there's so many cool uh angles that people miss, and we're trying to just show that.
• 1:20:27
  SPEAKER_04: And um you made me blind.
• 1:20:30
  SPEAKER_04: That's cool, but yeah, that's a different podcast.
• 1:20:34
  SPEAKER_02: Episode 100.
• 1:20:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh is there a go-to food spot that y'all go after a ride?
• 1:20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh god.
• 1:20:44
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of hard.
• 1:20:44
  SPEAKER_02: There's a bunch of locals.
• 1:20:46
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh, well, on Thursdays, I don't know if anyone, if everyone knows this, but on Thursdays at Vernon's, it's steak night.
• 1:20:55
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah.
• 1:20:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we ride over there, grub on some steak, and then we ride back.
• 1:21:04
  SPEAKER_03: It sounds fun, but it's not like you're all right.
• 1:21:07
  SPEAKER_03: Where's Vernon's at?
• 1:21:08
  SPEAKER_03: Uh oh gosh.
• 1:21:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um that side?
• 1:21:10
  SPEAKER_03: No, no.
• 1:21:10
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it's right here a good block from Emerald Beach Hotel.
• 1:21:13
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, we're gonna be.
• 1:21:14
  SPEAKER_03: I forget the name of that street.
• 1:21:16
  SPEAKER_03: Can someone I don't know.
• 1:21:18
  SPEAKER_03: What's the name of that street?
• 1:21:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Gumbia.
• 1:21:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Emerald Beach Hotel.
• 1:21:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, whatever street that is.
• 1:21:23
  SPEAKER_02: By the Jesus statute?
• 1:21:24
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 1:21:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay.
• 1:21:26
  SPEAKER_02: Um, they want the numbers.
• 1:21:29
  SPEAKER_03: Well, now I'm concerned.
• 1:21:30
  SPEAKER_02: Steak night at the best.
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, steak night.
• 1:21:33
  SPEAKER_03: Steak night at Vernon's on Thursdays.
• 1:21:36
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, that's uh that's mid mid-ride.
• 1:21:39
  SPEAKER_03: It's not necessarily after our ride, but oh, also uh I I'm gonna have to shamelessly plug in Mr.
• 1:21:44
  SPEAKER_03: Lumpia, uh Filipino food.
• 1:21:46
  SPEAKER_03: That's my my sweet Nelson.
• 1:21:48
  SPEAKER_03: He makes Filipino food, so Filipino food is always on the menu.
• 1:21:51
  SPEAKER_02: Does he have a local spot anywhere?
• 1:21:53
  SPEAKER_02: We're working on it.
• 1:21:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, yeah, special order, special order.
• 1:21:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, for real.
• 1:21:58
  SPEAKER_03: So plug plug in the Mr.
• 1:22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Loompia nice.
• 1:22:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 1:22:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's a bunch of like creators that just create like on Facebook and hey, I'm selling this week, whatever, whatever.
• 1:22:06
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 1:22:07
  SPEAKER_02: Like Isaiah, Sarat Zay, Chef's Day, uh for real.
• 1:22:10
  SPEAKER_02: Is there anything else you want to mention before we go?
• 1:22:12
  SPEAKER_02: This is the outro right here.
• 1:22:13
  SPEAKER_02: Go for it, Larry.
• 1:22:15
  SPEAKER_04: I would love to come back.
• 1:22:16
  SPEAKER_02: Cool, go, yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, that would be cool.
• 1:22:23
  SPEAKER_04: Our goal really is from here on out is to try to educate on what BMX racing is, um to just keep spreading the good word.
• 1:22:33
  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, I would like to see like if schools had a BMX team coming together.
• 1:22:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, it'd be so cool.
• 1:22:41
  SPEAKER_04: It it is an Olympic sport.
• 1:22:43
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, and um it makes sense, doesn't it?
• 1:22:45
  SPEAKER_04: It makes sense to me too, and we're working on it.
• 1:22:48
  SPEAKER_02: It's awesome.
• 1:22:49
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm I'm sorry, I'm looking for like our sponsors for the battle of the bikes.
• 1:22:55
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm it's all good.
• 1:22:57
  SPEAKER_02: Appreciate you guys.
• 1:22:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, if you want to support the podcast, uh, we got some merch, corporate security originals.com.
• 1:23:03
  SPEAKER_02: We got t-shirts, hoodies, stickers, hats, and stuff like that.
• 1:23:07
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, also, we have we're in the market for sponsorships.
• 1:23:10
  SPEAKER_02: If you want to sponsor the podcast, uh, we have some packages that you can check out.
• 1:23:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Corpus CC Originals Podcast.com forward slash sponsor to help uh sponsor the podcast and keep it going for our community.
• 1:23:23
  SPEAKER_02: So uh that would be helpful if you're interested.
• 1:23:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, I found them.
• 1:23:27
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Coast Life Credit Union, thank you.
• 1:23:29
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Mr.
• 1:23:30
  SPEAKER_03: Lumpia, light me up, safety lights, retrospect bikes, Vellatrix bikes, downtown Corpus Christi uh district, Kink BMX, LBC Cycle, Snap Cycle, Jalapena Salsa.
• 1:23:41
  SPEAKER_03: Bring it coming in hot, Buena Onda Tattoo.
• 1:23:45
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and those are that's all the crew bringing you battle the bikes this Friday.
• 1:23:50
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 1:23:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yo, shout out to Corpus Christi Originals for having us here.
• 1:23:54
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Mr.
• 1:23:55
  SPEAKER_03: We appreciate you very much.
• 1:23:56
  SPEAKER_02: You're welcome.
• 1:23:57
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for coming on, and uh uh thank you for being a part of this first ever women's edition for Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
• 1:24:02
  SPEAKER_02: Not just that, about community and stuff like that.
• 1:24:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's awesome.
• 1:24:05
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what you're doing for cycling and the city, man.
• 1:24:09
  SPEAKER_02: Just we want the best.
• 1:24:10
  SPEAKER_02: We want like I want for that to happen for the community, especially the BMX, more safer roads, more routes, you know.
• 1:24:17
  SPEAKER_02: So hopefully that's uh I want to see more of that in the future.
• 1:24:21
  SPEAKER_02: So keep us updated for sure.
• 1:24:22
  SPEAKER_02: Uh for sure.
• 1:24:23
  SPEAKER_02: Support local events, shows, rides, just hop on hop on the bike and see where it takes you.
• 1:24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
• 1:24:28
  SPEAKER_02: I'm your host, Jesus Ladio.
• 1:24:30
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Maya back there, the producer, producing it for a shout out to Sound uh Produce Sound Studios.
• 1:24:35
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, this is Corporate Christie Originals podcast.
• 1:24:38
  SPEAKER_02: See you guys later.
• 1:24:39
  SPEAKER_03: Bye.
• 1:24:40
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for having us.