Chris Akrigg on the art of trials, lost videos, ebikes and more...
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Olly and Davi are joined by the legendary Chris Akrigg!
From his humble motorcycle trials beginnings to becoming a household name in mountain biking, during this episode Chris shares his journey of self-filming, honing his skills, and turning his passion into a profession.
Chris also opens up about why he stepped away from competitive riding, the Danny MacAskill effect on trials, riding brakeless, what happened to the watercycles video and reflects on the evolution of his career and content motivations, including his embrace of ebikes and much more…
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| 0:00.0 | So it just boiled down to like, E wanted it taken down. |
| 0:05.5 | And it's like, if you don't do this, we're going to put these lawyers on. |
| 0:09.5 | I just said, literally said, what, it's like, if you don't take it down in this amount of time, |
| 0:14.5 | we're going to do X, Y and Z to you. |
| 0:16.1 | And I'm like, all right then. |
| 0:18.4 | So what if I just don't take it down hello and welcome to the podcast today we have |
| 0:31.3 | chris acrigg oh oh i caught myself yeah you can tap yourself |
| 0:35.8 | clap yourself it's good you're allowed're allowed. You're allowed to. |
| 0:38.7 | Hi. |
| 0:39.2 | Thanks for coming, man. |
| 0:40.1 | Appreciate you. No problem at all. It's the first time I've had a guest come down and have an experience. Stay in a hotel, go out for dinner. It's been really nice. Already, it's been lovely. I had an experience, yeah. Yeah, it's definitely. and experience. |
| 0:51.5 | We're that bad. |
| 0:52.5 | We put you in the cheapest hotel. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:54.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:55.5 | It's good, yeah. |
| 0:56.5 | Me and the road has got on well. Yeah, definitely. And it's that bad. We put you in, okay, the cheapest hotel. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 0:55.6 | It's good, yeah. |
| 0:57.4 | Me and the road to we can't afford. Yeah. I can't find the hierarchy. We got on really well. You're all right, sharing a room with a stranger, aren't you? Save with the area. You're the boss. You can go first. It's fine. Now I appreciate you coming down. |
| 1:10.0 | We honestly have been going back and forward for ages, |
| 1:12.8 | aren't we trying to line this up? |
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