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The Ride Companion

#096 Lewis Buchanan

The Ride Companion

TRC Media House

Sports, Wilderness

4.9533 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Buchanan is a professional mountain bike rider from the Tweed Valley, Scotland. Lewis turned professional at just 16 years of age and has ridden for some of the largest brands/teams in the world. For 2020 Lewis has been forced to change things up a little and has put together his own race programme which includes riding for Vancouver Island based Forbidden Bikes and pull in support from other brands. 

On this episode we take a deep dive into why he has made these drastic career changes and the challenges that he has been presented with, 2020 plans and some of the negative sides of being a professional mountain bike rider. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Alrighty. Let's get into it. All right, folks, what is up? Welcome back to another episode of

0:08.4

The Hooket Podcast. On today's show, I am joined by Lewis Buchanan. But before we drop in on this

0:13.9

episode, I want to say a quick thank you to some of the people who help make this podcast possible.

0:20.1

So, when it comes to cleaning and

0:22.0

maintaining your bike and kit, there is only one brand that I trust and that is Muckoff.

0:28.0

Mokoff are undeniably the household name when it comes to bike cleaning, maintenance and care

0:33.5

products. They also just launched a brand new range of riding apparel too, which includes

0:38.2

gloves, mountain bike shorts and technical riding jackets. Now, it's still grim outside, especially

0:44.7

if you're here in the UK or probably most of Europe. The trails are still wetter's

0:50.2

pocket and there's more chance of seeing a gray air on Rob Warner's face than you have

0:54.7

getting back from a ride with a bike that isn't covered in mud. So how, sorry Rob, so how about

1:02.4

a discount code on all Muckoff products? The folks at Muckoff have been very kind to set up an

1:07.6

exclusive discount code for listeners of this podcast. So just head over to

1:12.6

www.mukoff.com fill your basket and enter the code hkkT 15. That is all the

1:23.4

dubs muckoff.com code hk t 15 and that will knock 15% of all the dubs, muckoff.com, code HKT15, and that will knock 15% of almost everything on the website.

1:33.6

And don't forget, if you want to know more about muckoff, episode number 8 to 6 of this podcast

1:39.0

was with Alex Triminal, the MD, and it was a blast.

1:43.8

There's a bunch of people, guys, getting into the CBD industry for all the wrong reasons.

1:48.6

I mean, you can buy the stuff everywhere now.

1:51.5

It feels like from vape stores to petrol stations, I think my local sandwich shop even sells CBD too.

1:58.4

Don't trust a guy who's selling lottery tickets one minute and then telling

2:01.9

you the benefits of CBD the next. Or someone who's knocking up a quick bacon and egg sandwich

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