32" Wheel Debate, Sea Otter, Japan Loam Hunting & Mexico Street Race Builds
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Ride Companion, Davi and Olly are finally back in the studio for a proper catch-up after a wild few weeks of travel and big life moments.
Davi breaks down the full California trip, from cruising the Pacific Coast Highway and visiting Sea Otter, to heading to Marin Bikes HQ and reflecting on a full-circle moment that started with a teenage dream of living in America.
Olly shares the plans behind his upcoming Japan trip, why he's obsessed with hunting perfect loam and why Japan might be one of the dream mountain bike destinations he's been thinking about for years.
There's also a deep dive into the madness of building and testing an urban downhill/freeride course in Mexico, including extreme heat, huge crowds, cartel helicopters, Slavic's wild crash, judging freeride runs, Sam Pilgrim, Bienve Aguado, Nikolai Rogatkin, Wes Sends and the future of young MTB talent. Plus, the lads discuss Sea Otter, Marin Bikes, the birthplace of mountain biking, baseball caps, riding shorts, job satisfaction, street racing and loads more...
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| 0:00.0 | Is the summer of shorts? |
| 0:01.7 | I'm doing it. |
| 0:02.5 | No. |
| 0:02.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.0 | Really? |
| 0:04.7 | I'm a big riding shorts fan. |
| 0:07.1 | Nothing pedals like a set of riding shorts. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm going to be out in shorts. |
| 0:10.6 | Interesting. |
| 0:11.3 | This. |
| 0:11.7 | Okay. |
| 0:12.8 | Shorts and short t-shirt? |
| 0:15.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.9 | Really? |
| 0:16.6 | Shorts and no t-shirt, dude. |
| 0:26.9 | Oh my goodness, we're on. |
| 0:28.3 | We're back. |
| 0:29.8 | It's been a while. |
| 0:31.0 | It has been a while. |
| 0:32.7 | Especially when this episode comes out. |
| 0:34.3 | It'll have been a while while. |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah. |
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