Gee Atherton: Bottling Fear, Mindset, Hardline Future & The Crash That Changed Everything
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
The legend, Gee Atherton is on the podcast!
In this episode Gee opens up like never before. From bottling fear and the brutal lessons of the Knife Edge crash, to the mindset shift that's carried him from World Cup Downhill racing into big mountain freeride projects.
We get into the story of Atherton Bikes and why the family had to start their own brand, why having a World Cup race team was non-negotiable, and what it really takes to build a bike/brand with his family. Gee talks about the future of Red Bull Hardline, why the course has to keep getting bigger, faster and gnarlier, how fear bonds the riders together, and whether it's spawning a brand new discipline: Super Downhill.
He also reflects on Rampage (two 2nd places), why walking away from a feature hurts more than crashing, and shares the training hacks that keep him riding at the top level after decades of injuries. Gee teases a brand new edit that almost required him to ride in a stab proof vest and his next big-mountain project in Nepal.
This is a rare look inside the mindset of one of the sport's most iconic characters, this episode is unmissable and we hope you enjoy it. If you do, share the episode with your friends!
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| 0:00.0 | And we're just kind of bouncing from, you know, project to project, you know, that new, the S series, the aluminium bike has been super popular and that's allowed us to create a bike that's, you know, super strong, available to more people, you know, at a price point and hopefully, top secret still, but something with a bit more of a lot of a bit |
| 0:22.4 | to it coming soon. |
| 0:24.4 | That's a nice teaser that, really like that, I like that. |
| 0:27.5 | They've told me, they specifically told me not to mention. |
| 0:30.8 | So you beep that, beep that. |
| 0:32.4 | Yeah, don't mention that there might be an evil. |
| 0:45.8 | Mate, I actually don't know how to introduce this one. |
| 0:46.4 | It's too much. |
| 0:48.6 | We've got a list here that we could go through. |
| 0:50.4 | Davey, what have we got on the list? |
| 0:55.8 | On the list, we've got nine World Cup wins, two overall titles, two world champs victories, |
| 1:02.1 | hardline inventor and winner, bike brand owner, bike park owner, Rampage second place, the list could go on. |
| 1:03.8 | Have the listeners guessed who it is yet, even though it's in the title. |
| 1:08.7 | Hyped to having me a G-Afton, everyone. |
| 1:11.7 | Hey! |
| 1:12.5 | Thank you, |
| 1:12.9 | lads. |
| 1:26.1 | A lovely intro. Finally. Well, it's actually hard to do one, dude. Yeah, that's difficult. It's difficult to get into, I imagine. Yeah. How would you summarize yourself? Well, I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have managed that list. I've forgotten about half of those things. |
| 1:28.2 | It would have been a lot shorter. |
| 1:29.8 | I actually had to check. |
| 1:33.1 | I had to check the World Cut wins. Because I think someone asked you when we were at Rampage and you actually missed one of them. |
| 1:37.3 | Really? Yeah. Yeah. So I had to check that it was right or not, but you were probably right. |
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