Ed Masters on the Spirit of Enduro, the Psychology of Racing & His Wild Hardline Pitch
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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We sat down in the heat of Hardline week with the one and only Ed Masters for a raw, hilarious, and surprisingly honest catch up. From the state of Enduro and why it lost (and is now regaining) its "spirit," to juggling downhill World Cups with injuries. Ed talks about how to get back into the "red zone" after setbacks, wild Hardline predictions, his genius pitch to open the event up to the public and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Enduro went through this weird thing where it was like the cool kid on the block. |
| 0:05.0 | Then COVID happened and then with all the changes and Warner Brothers taking over |
| 0:09.0 | and then they tried to make Enduro like mini downhills and stuff and it kind of lost its framework of what it really is |
| 0:18.0 | or like the DNA that made Enduro cool. |
| 0:20.0 | Do you mean the spirit of Enduro? |
| 0:21.9 | You said it. |
| 0:32.5 | We're in? |
| 0:33.5 | Oh, we're in. |
| 0:34.1 | We're in. |
| 0:35.4 | And we're on. |
| 0:36.0 | We're in and we're on and we're hot. |
| 0:37.4 | We are joined right now by the one and only podcast alumni Ed Masters. |
| 0:44.2 | Oh my goodness. |
| 0:46.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:48.0 | We spotted him over there in the mess hall and we're like, come on, let's go rip an episode. |
| 0:52.2 | Absolutely, yeah. |
| 0:53.5 | And we were just saying, you know, it's an honor to be here, IRL. I hope. Yeah, absolutely, Roe. Because, you know, I've only phoned in before. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, to be here with the TRC boys, IRL. Branded Mike's, all the stuff. The pleasure is all mine. So thanks for having me. It it's nice to see you mate quite we've sort of got quite a hot |
| 1:14.8 | set up right now aren't we it might be the the mend them the mend them are sweaty |
| 1:19.4 | we are we're cooking recently shaped my head as well so it'll be start it'll start |
| 1:24.9 | beating down shortly does it do that yeah do you need like the cap to |
| 1:28.0 | stop it uh you definitely need something like i'm a sweaty dude though really you think you deal with it |
| 1:34.0 | better than people like us who are from the uk you're from like a hot place i just sweat like yeah i'd |
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