We sat down with Colin and Antoine Massart from Massart Biketrails as well as our former guest and fan favourite Greg Jolliffe.

Earlier in 2024, the boys were building the “Dreamline” for a Kriss Kyle edit in Glassie Bike Park and that video got released later in the summer to much fanfare. The trail itself is part of the bike park now and open to the public for everyone to enjoy!

In our chat, we get to hear some more insights into the build of the line, about working with Kriss and the many challenges of digging trail in the Scottish countryside. But the conversation turns into much more than that as we dive into the “heart in the art” of trail building, the inspiration and influences coming from the community, competing builders, multi-faceted athletes like Kriss, different disciplines or other sports altogether, progression in the sport and what it means to actually put these very diverse “dreams” of what a trail should be into the dirt.

• All of our "trail building" episodes
• Greg Jolliffe: Instagram, Jolliffe Builds, Ep17
• Massart Biketrails: Instagram, Website, Colin, Antoine
• Dreamline videos: Edit, Build series Ep1, Ep2, Ep3 and Ep4
• Kriss Kyle: Instagram, Youtube
• Glassie Bike Park: Instagram, Trailforks, Ray Will

We sat down with Bram from Essar Cycles to get to know the story and the brain behind his steel creations.

Unlike some of our other guests, Bram’s journey starts with the conviction that yes, of course, he can make his own bikes. It’s just a matter of finding out how and the number of different side projects along the way.

Over the years, Bram has created some eye-catching frames and we get to hear all about his approach and philosophy to making bikes, his experiments, successful and otherwise, dual flex pivots and a missed opportunity for a patent, and of course, what the future holds for Essar Cycles and getting more people riding his creations.

• Essar Cycles: Instagram, Email
• Reto Aebischer: Ep82, Ep48
• Stefan Lorenz of Scar Cycles: Ep50
• Bryson's hardtail
• Chris Porter interview on Pinkbike
• Egerie

Pascal sat down with Stefano Nucera for a podcast experiment of sorts, co-hosting each other’s podcasts for a chat about bikes, our stories in the sport so far, cycling communities, gravel, enduro, fixie crit and alleycat racing in Berlin, beers in the broom wagon, losing one’s bike packing virginity and, of course, Stefano’s non-alcoholic beer brand, Zeer.

Stefano is the host of the Broomwagon Podcast and naturally, when two podcasters sit down for a chat, conversation flows at warp speed. We did indeed cover a lot of ground and that’s not even all that we talked about. That being said, this was certainly not the last time I sat down with Stefano, for a podcast, a Zeer or otherwise.

• Trans Madeira Debrief
• Stefano Nucera: Website, Instagram
• The Broomwagon Podcast: Website, Instagram, Spotify
• Zeer Brewing: Website, Instagram
• Pascal's bike packing route: Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3