Bike touring music: Pedalshift Project 044 feat. Sprocket Podcast

This episode we talk about bike touring music. It’s such a personal thing, music… but we thought we’d take the time to chat about musical tastes, its role in our bike tours, and then build a cool Spotify playlist for your next tour, or to inspire you to build a new one for yourself.

This special mega-sized pod features our friends from the Land of Sunshine and Bunnies™️, Brock Dittus and Aaron Flores of The Sprocket Podcast.

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The Interview

Be sure to listen to The Sprocket Podcast 286 for part one of our hijinks. Then, come back fed and hydrated because this is a long one. Since this show is of unusual length, here’s the chapter breakdown:

00:00:10 Intro

00:06:21 Brock’s musical preferences

00:14:52 Aaron’s musical preferences

00:24:35 Tim’s music preferences

00:42:44 How we use music with bike touring

00:45:21 Do you like Metal?

00:51:38 Building the Pedalshift/Sprocket Podcast Playlist

00:52:05 Songs for first thing in the morning

00:56:36 Songs for long stretches

01:02:29 Songs for climbs

01:06:20 Sidebar: earbuds or no?

01:10:15 Songs for bombing down hills

01:17:53 Songs for transitioning home

01:21:26 Wildcards!

01:29:33 Thanks Brock and Aaron!

01:30:19 Closing

Bike touring music playlist

Check out the list embedded in the show notes, or if you’re a Spotify user look for Pedalshift Sprocket Project.

The usual music

The Pedalshift Project theme is America courtesy of Jason Kent off his self-titled solo album. Check out his band Sunfields‘ album, Habitat, wherever cool music resides. I heard Jason’s new album in January and it is AWESOME. More info when that drops this spring!