Hardline Tasmania Bench Racing & Predictions
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Red Bull Hardline Tasmania is just days away. Let's go bench racing and make some fun predictions!
Olly and Davi break down the full rider list including Jackson Goldstone, Asa Vermette, Bernard Kerr, Troy Brosnan, Sam Hill, Aaron Gwin, Roger Vieira, Gracey Hemstreet and more plus, who's missing, who's under the most pressure and, why Hardline might be changing. The lads also make Hardline Tasmania podium predictions, unpack winter riding guilt and survival strategies, share what they've been watching and listening to and somehow end up deep in Lunch & Learn chaos. Get involved in the comments on YouTube with your podium picks and you could win a Focus frame and more!
Red Bull Hardline Tasmania goes down February 7–8, live on Red Bull TV.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my, this is boring chat. |
| 0:03.9 | Straight up. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm glad I took hold of that. |
| 0:06.6 | Number two reason why you've not been riding in the winter. |
| 0:17.8 | Should we do an intro? |
| 0:18.8 | Yeah, what do you want? |
| 0:21.5 | What I was thinking was, we could say this is the ride companion. |
| 0:28.6 | What can we say? |
| 0:29.6 | We could say, it's the ride companion, Red Bull, hardline, Tasmania, pre-show. |
| 0:36.2 | We're here, We're excited. |
| 0:39.0 | Ready for some bench racing. How good is it? We're back with an exciting event to kind of |
| 0:44.8 | not cover because we're pretty useless at that, but like just be excited about with everyone |
| 0:50.6 | else. I agree with you. We are pretty useless at it. But we're trying. |
| 0:54.6 | Well, |
| 0:55.6 | are we? I don't know if we're really trying. I think if we're trying, we could do it, but like I just enjoy it. The problem is I am a fan of the sport and I enjoy experiencing it as a fan. I think if you can get properly, you've got really going hard. Yeah, we're not journalists. We're not journalists at this stage. |
| 1:10.7 | We could give it a go, I don't know. |
| 1:12.6 | You can have a good crack at it. |
| 1:14.3 | Interesting time. got really going hard. Yeah, we're not journalists. We're not journalists at this stage. You know what I mean? |
| 1:10.9 | We could give it a go. |
| 1:12.1 | I don't know. You can have a good crack at it. Interesting times because it's February and we've got a race on our hands. Months ahead. That's what I think it is. This is the perfect time this is. You think? Perfect time. We're deep in endless rain, right? Yes, in the UK |
| 1:27.7 | 100%. |
| 1:29.1 | I just put an Instagram post up |
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