New Bike Day & A POV Podcast Experiment!
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
It's just Davi and Olly in the studio this week and.. it goes exactly how you'd expect.
Davi has a new bike day and brings his new Marin Alcatraz dirt jump bike to work (nothing hits like a fresh hardtail), which turns into a bigger conversation about why you don't actually need the best bike to have the most fun. The lads talk about Hardline Tasmania being cancelled, the Super Bowl let down and end up debating UK geology, winter riding, and whether mountain bike culture is slowly losing its soul. We also experiment with a pair of Oakley x Meta glasses in the studio (which gets weird), talk about wether pov is the future of podcasting and answer your listener questions!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is this the most boring segment of the show that we've ever had? |
| 0:03.7 | Maybe, it could be. |
| 0:04.8 | Boilers might take it. |
| 0:06.1 | Well, basically, it's broken it down into all the different kind of rocks. |
| 0:19.5 | We are on, and on the clipper board today. |
| 0:23.4 | I was going to write Davy's New Bike Day, but the penrod episode, Davy's New Bike Day! |
| 0:30.3 | I thought you were going to say you've written on what we're planned to talk about, which is pretty accurate. |
| 0:35.9 | What, nothing. |
| 0:36.8 | Nothing. |
| 0:38.1 | Now, we've got loads today. We've written the schedule nothing. Nothing. No, we've got loads to that. |
| 0:39.3 | We've written the schedule for the episode. We've got loads. We've got itinery. We're good to go, dude. Yeah, dude. New bike day. Let's go straight into it. Look at you with your new bike. Hipes, mate, genuinely. It's that time of year, isn't it? I think it is, isn't it? |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.5 | Look at the weather, mate. |
| 0:54.9 | I mean, it is that time of year, isn't it? I think it is, isn't it? Yeah. Look at the weather, mate. |
| 0:54.6 | I mean, it is that time of year if it was for riding skate park. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.7 | Indoor. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, true. So. Which it's not for. So you've got a hard tail behind you. What is it? Tell us about it. Yeah, man. I've got a new Marin Alcatraz dirt jump bike and it gives me the feels, instant feels I think, |
| 1:21.3 | because when I really think about it, so the reason I've not had one, I did have a Marin before and then I kind of gave it away thinking I was going to replace it with a DMR, which I never did. |
| 1:33.7 | And I don't know why. |
| 1:34.6 | It's because I got busy and whatever. |
| 1:37.3 | And then where I live especially, there's a very small trails window. |
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