Turning the world into a mountain bike playground: Glen Jacobs

Glen Jacobs is the Director of World Trail and the first and only Australian to be inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. With his company Glen has designed, planned and constructed hundreds of projects in 20 countries and created more than 300km of purpose-built mountain bike trails in Australia. At the age of 12 the Queenslander began exploring the rainforest and building trails in Cairns. In the early 1990s Glen made a name for himself by producing some of the first ever Freeride videos and heavily influenced the sport of mountain biking as we know it today. This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Justin Walker (Editor Australian Geographic Adventure) and produced by Ben Kanthak at You can also

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Turning the world into a mountain bike playground: Glen Jacobs is an episode from Talking Australia by Jay Walkerden.

This episode is 29:02 long.

This episode was published on Dec 13, 2021.

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