Loam Hunting, Secret Tech & Olly's Surprising New Hobby
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Loam hunting, superbikes, and downhill! This week Olly and Davi discuss why riders are obsessed with loam, World Superbike vs MTB, BMC's possibly secret XC dropper tech, Olly talks about his trip to Les Gets to discover a new hobby, Ronan Dunne's insane run and Theo Erlangsen winning the internet. We also talk Cerro Abajo in Italy, Billy Bolt's Red Bull Tyne Ride, the future of urban racing, answer your listener questions and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We got a zone near here that we call the Loman Qualicium, and that is the Roman Coliseum, |
| 0:07.6 | but it's Qualicium because it's quality loam. |
| 0:18.1 | Okay, all right. |
| 0:19.2 | To those listening, visually, we're now in the dark, |
| 0:23.4 | and we're going to have like a intro, |
| 0:25.8 | which the lights turn on, right? |
| 0:27.4 | Visual effects, some call it. |
| 0:28.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:29.2 | So that's reason alone to tune in. |
| 0:32.0 | 100% online. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.8 | On the online. |
| 0:35.1 | Oh, God, he's really killing it today. |
| 0:36.8 | On the online. On the online. We're on the online. Okay. So welcome to the stage. This is going to be like a proper, this is like a proper show. You do me in and show. I'll do you on. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Standing at six feet tall from Sheffield, England, Davey Boe. |
| 0:59.0 | I think that's actually good. |
| 1:00.0 | We should have got the exposure and then you do a spotlight. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | Do you have, so, or are we actually, how do you think this is going to work? |
| 1:08.0 | The light's going to come on when both of us are introduced. Yeah, I think I'm thinking more when you clapped it. Okay, yeah, that's a really good idea. Okay, to those just listening, the lights came on temporarily, and now they've gone back down to the... What would you say? That's like an Arctic mint glow? Arctic mint. Glacial glow. It's like a glacial glow. Oh went in the glacier We can talk about that Please Um So I'm like So I've done I've done your one Yeah And then you do my one And then I click the board And then the lights come on And it's like Trisha basically If you're listening to this And not watching Trisha Yeah it's like one of like one of those like... We're way trashy here than Trisha. |
| 1:45.3 | Yeah, we are. |
| 1:47.3 | In the blue corner, |
| 1:49.3 | standing at a terrifying five foot seven inches. |
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