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The Ride Companion

#114 Helen Gaskell

The Ride Companion

TRC Media House

Sports, Wilderness

4.9533 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Helen Gaskell is a former professional downhill mountain bike rider who started her career at just 8 years old. During this episode of The HKT Podcast Helen shares some incredible stories from her days on the World Cup circuit, how she first secured sponsorship, becoming a brand ambassador for Specialized, starting her own MTB insurance business plus much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a new feature.

0:03.1

Like the wristbeeps.

0:04.4

It is, in it?

0:06.3

Yeah, the heart rate goes up like now.

0:08.1

You're like, oh, okay.

0:09.5

People on the internet are actually listening.

0:11.4

It's weird.

0:13.6

All right, let me do your official introduction.

0:17.0

Again, I always make a bit of a joke on these things that we've been going back and forth for ages trying to sort this out.

0:22.2

But again, we legitimately have been going back and forth for a while.

0:26.4

But a really interesting story, I guess, as to how you've ended up coming on the podcast, which is that I got injured.

0:33.0

I put out the bat signal to see if anyone had any recommendations for insurance people i don't know what

0:38.9

you call it insurance companies and whatever and your name came up so much it was insane and i think

0:44.9

that's a testament for the service that you do for what you've done for other mountain bikers so yeah

0:49.4

massive congratulations on that because i think that's a very sort of valid use case of what you do that

0:55.1

it is working and that people will give you props and recommend you so um so yeah you jumped on

1:01.4

helped out with an episode of the ride companion and then i was like actually i just want to sit

1:05.7

and talk to you and see what comes up so welcome officially to the hookit podcast you're welcome

1:13.3

absolutely pleasure absolute pleasure and uh it's been a while since i've done one of

1:17.3

these regular ones so i might be might be a little bit rusty usually i got my my southern

1:23.2

co-host hanging out but he's not here today so yeah i'm not oh no definitely not definitely not

1:31.3

he's a rare human um so yeah it's been a while since i've done one of these i'm kind of excited actually

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