SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (March 24, 2026) — “Racing isn’t everything.” Coming from Olympian and six-time U.S. Elite National Champion Erin Huck, that statement carries weight. Huck has spent much of her life chasing results at the highest level of the sport—lining up at World Cups, World Championships, and the Lifetime Grand Prix—while simultaneously building a career as an engineer. For years, her world revolved around start lines, podiums, and performance.
But recently, her perspective has shifted.
Cycling has always been woven into Huck’s family life. Today, she and her husband Andrew are passing that love of bikes on to their young son, Brennan—just as Huck’s parents, Terrie and Al, once did for her. Yet it took a quiet moment at a local race in Boulder to spark a deeper realization.
The scene was familiar: Huck standing on the podium while Andrew helped Brennan prepare for his Strider race. It was the rhythm of their lives—bikes equaled racing. But in that moment, Huck began to question what cycling really looked like through her son’s eyes.
“That moment made me realize that bikes, to Brennan, had been all about racing,” Huck says. “It sounds silly, but it was kind of an aha moment—almost a life-changing realization. We suddenly saw that bikes are about so much more than racing.”
That realization sent Huck back to her own childhood. Long before elite competition, cycling meant something simpler: family trips, days spent exploring the mountains, and the freedom of moving through the world on two wheels.
“We had a little pop-up camper with a rack on top of the car,” recalls her mother, Terrie Huck. “Most of our vacations were planned around riding bikes, traveling to different places, and exploring.”
Those early experiences—unstructured, adventurous, and shared—formed the foundation of Huck’s lifelong connection to the sport. Racing came later. The love of riding came first.
Now, Huck wants to recreate that same foundation for Brennan.
The result is Cycles of Life, a new film project that follows the Huck family on a bikepacking journey through the Colorado mountains. Spanning three generations, the trip steps away from competition entirely. There are no race numbers, no finish lines—just miles of trail, time together, and the simple act of riding.
It’s a return to what bikes can be at their core: a vehicle for connection, exploration, and joy.
For Huck, the project is both personal and universal—a reminder that while racing can define a career, it doesn’t have to define a life on two wheels.
“Those moments weren’t about podiums or placings,” she reflects. “They were about family. About freedom. About joy.”
Cycles of Life invites viewers to look beyond the finish line—and to remember why they started riding in the first place.
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