Playing MAVRIX with Jono & Matt Jones!
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Matt Jones and Jono Jones join The Ride Companion to break down MAVRIX ahead of console release on January 22nd.
During this episode Matt and Jono give Davi and Olly a tour of the virtual world they've help create, the boys explain how it was built, what makes it feel so real and why it could bring a whole new wave of riders into mountain biking. Matt and Jono also share the future plans for the game, the intricacies of real world physics, the secret challenges Matt has never talked about and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Davey. |
| 0:10.7 | How you doing? |
| 0:13.0 | I'm good mate. |
| 0:14.0 | How are you? |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, I like your new shirt, dude. |
| 0:16.0 | I've gone for the lumberjack look. |
| 0:18.0 | What bike you on? |
| 0:19.0 | I'm on the marine. |
| 0:20.0 | Nice. Who's that? Who's that over there? It's an Alpine Trail. Who's that over there? That is the creators of this video game. It says Matt above its head. It's Jono playing. Don't be fool. It's so confusing the internet. We are just a stone's throw away from the hell farm in the game. |
| 0:40.1 | Yes. |
| 0:40.6 | And we're actually in the real-life hell farm here in undisclosed location. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcoming to the show, Matt and John O'Jocke. |
| 0:50.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:51.3 | This is a Mavericks episode. |
| 0:52.7 | Long time coming, boys. |
| 0:53.9 | Hiked to have you. Stoked. Hell yeah. Hell of a long time coming. Excited. We are. It's been a while since I've played a video game, I'll be honest. I can tell. Yeah. Okay. Hey, I think what unique experience this is, because we actually get to go around a world that you've made for biking. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, literally. 10 by 10, it's 100 square kilometers. Is that what it honestly is? Yeah, it takes forever to pedal across, just built for riding bikes and having your own little mountain bike career. Wow. It's like sitting down with Tony York to play Tony York Pro Skater. Yeah, it is. It is. It actually truly is. I mean, it's pretty mad that everything in this has been affected by the both of you. You know what I mean? Like the fact that you're riding a bike, you respect the outfit. I like your outfit, by the way, Dave. I think you're looking good. David, you don't have to just do like what you can do in real life in a car park. It's a game. That's way better than why I can do it in real life. That's a good thing because John, I just did a 360 bunny hop. |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah. like what you can do in real life in a car park it's a game so you know that's way better than why i can do it real life that's a good thing because john i just did a 360 bunny hop yeah i can do that |
| 1:48.8 | i just saw i just saw me in real life go off to go off and find a chairlift or something i don't know |
| 1:54.7 | okay why don't you talk to matt about this what started and i'll go for a rip. |
| 2:01.1 | Yeah, because I think we can record this and show people at home. |
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