Ep. 204 ~ Andrew Onermaa, Tour Divide 1st Place Singlespeed

Ep. 204 ~ Andrew Onermaa, Tour Divide 1st Place Singlespeed

From Bikes or Death by Patrick Farnsworth

July 9, 2025 · 3h 19m · Season 1 · Episode 204

About this episode

Andrew Onermaa discusses his historic performance in the Tour Divide on a singlespeed bike.

This year's Tour Divide was one for the books - and the record books. With good weather and a very competitive field we saw dots moving so faster than anything we'd seen before, putting all the previous FKT's in potential jeopardy. Among those dots was Andrew Onermaa who was taking on the Tour Divide for the first time, and on a singlespeed! For much of the race Andrew's dot was ahead of the 2016 FKT set by Chris Plesko. It looked as though we were witnessing history as Andrew dug deep to stay ahead of the record. Towards the very end of the race reality would sink in as Andrew was forced to take the new CDT section (added since 2016) while Chris's dot took the highway to Antelope Wells. In the end Andrew would finish with a time of 15d 11h 15m, less than 3 hours behind Pleskos' FKT of 15d 8h 4m. Any way you look at it, this was a historic and impress run by Andrew, but we did take this opportunity to have a discussion about the differences in the routes and about FKT's in general on today's episode. A record would have been nice, but nothing can detract from Andrew's performance on his first Tour Divide attempt. He said on the podcast that the Tour Divide should feel like…

People in this episode

Host: Patrick Farnsworth

Guest: Andrew Onermaa

Topics covered

  • Tour Divide
  • singlespeed cycling
  • FKT
  • competitive racing
  • endurance sports

Keywords

  • Tour Divide
  • Andrew Onermaa
  • singlespeed
  • FKT
  • Chris Plesko
  • endurance cycling
  • competitive cycling

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