Olly is a Dad!!

The Ride Companion

TRC Media House

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Ride Companion, Olly opens up about becoming a Dad, the intense reality of birth, life in and out of hospital, sleep deprivation, and what the first days with baby Wilf have been like. During the episode the lads also talk about Davi's up-coming trip to Sea Otter, MTB's identity crisis, eat some weird snacks and share watching and listening recommendations.

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0:00.0	Maybe we've got an identity crisis in mountain biking.
0:03.0	We need to just take something, roll with it.
0:05.7	Yeah.
0:06.3	You know what I mean?
0:07.4	Like, what everyone wears the same thing?
0:09.0	Or just some direction.
0:12.2	You watch NBA players turn up for a game.
0:14.8	It's like a catwalk.
0:17.0	Yeah, I've seen.
0:18.1	They look ridiculous.
0:19.1	Yeah, they do.
0:19.4	I think we want to have, yeah, I think we want to have, like, turn up in Dungarees and a flat cap.
0:27.5	Yeah.
0:28.2	And Jackson turn up in full Louis Vuitton.
0:40.8	All right.
0:42.5	We're back.
0:43.4	We're back.
0:46.2	And we're clapping before we've done the clapboard.
0:47.5	We're clapping ourselves.
0:48.5	We're clapping ourselves.
0:49.3	Whoever thought. What we call this episode.
0:51.3	Yeah.
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