FGF Podcast 508 | Trash Free Trails & building a bike from only European parts

This week Andi talks to Hannah about the European Bike Project – a project to build a full suspension mountain bike from entirely European sourced frame and components. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But when you get down to the figurative nuts and bolts it’s not so straight forward, or indeed cheap.

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@ralf_holleis got so excited about our challenge to build the best 100% European made bike that he got all the parts within a couple of weeks! He made some mistakes though. Can you help Ralf? He still got time to do it better – with your help he might be able to score 2nd place! Follow #theeuropeanbikechallenge! Unbezahlte Werbung / Unpaid Advertisement #theeuropeanbikeproject #theeuropeanbikebattle #madeineurope #europeanmanufacturing #madehere #locallymade #buylocal #bikepartsmadeineurope #mtb #mtbenduro #enduromtb #endurolife #freeride #freeridemtb #downhill #downhillmtb #mtbdownhill #mtblife #mtblove #mtbtech #biketech #mtbtalk #mtbtuning #biketuning #mtbriders #framebuilding #madeingermany #germanframebuilders

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Following on from that Hannah has an in-depth chat with some of the people behind the Trash Free Trails movement on how it came to be and what we can all do to help. Their State of Our Trails Report will start to be released on 13th July, and will provide some of the first data on just how much of a problem we have out there.