Miranda Miller on DVRGNT Minds, Burnout, & Riding All the Bikes (Ep.180)

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Miranda Miller is best known as a gravity MTB racer — and former DH World Champ — but she’s been branching out widely in her career, including riding a lot of gravel, and on this week’s episode of Bikes & Big Ideas we sat down to talk about what drove her to take a risk on something new; her DIVRGNT Minds project; highlighting lesser-known riding destinations; and a whole lot more.
Miranda Miller (photo by @graeme.meiklejohn)
Miranda Miller is best known as a gravity MTB racer — and former DH World Champ — but she’s been branching out widely in her career, including riding a lot of gravel, and on this week’s episode of Bikes & Big Ideas we sat down to talk about what drove her to take a risk on something new; her DIVRGNT Minds project; highlighting lesser-known riding destinations; and a whole lot more.
Miranda Miller (photo by @graeme.meiklejohn)
Miranda Miller on DVRGNT Minds, Burnout, & Riding All the Bikes (Ep.180)
Miranda Miller on DVRGNT Minds, Burnout, & Riding All the Bikes (Ep.180)
Miranda Miller on DVRGNT Minds, Burnout, & Riding All the Bikes (Ep.180)

Miranda Miller has done a lot of different things in her career, from winning DH World Champs to racing the EWS (and now EDR), but in the last few years she’s branched out more than ever and is having more fun than ever before. So we sat down with Miranda to chat about her DVRGNT Minds project and how she charted this new course for her career; getting into gravel riding as a gravity-oriented mountain biker; the Downhill Southeast scene and the return of grassroots DH racing; and a whole lot more.

TOPICS & TIMES:
DVRGNT Minds & moving away from full-time racing (1:40)
Returning to DH? (9:35)
Getting into gravel riding (10:58)
Choosing riding destinations (16:46)
The Japanese mountain bike scene (18:27)
Racing goals (23:06)
Downhill Southeast, and the reinvention of the US DH scene (28:38)
Miranda’s 2023 plans (33:16)

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2 comments on “Miranda Miller on DVRGNT Minds, Burnout, & Riding All the Bikes (Ep.180)”

  1. Hi David,

    Just listened to and enjoyed your episode with Miranda Miller.
    She mentioned Glen Jacobs project in Norway, but didn´t remember the name of the place, and I am pretty sure she was talking about Hogevarde(Høgevarde, don´t ask me to pronounce it) :-D

    As in this mini-doc about their first project there:
    Not ridden there myself, yet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juxlm5dorLU

    • That place looks incredible. I need to make a Europe riding trip happen one of these days, but the list of destinations is already impossibly long…

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