Reece Wilson: From Factory Rider to AON Racing Team Owner, The State of Downhill & More
The Ride Companion
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Reece Wilson is in studio for a well overdue podcast!
Former Downhill World Champion Reece Wilson joins the podcast for a deep dive into his career so far, from his switch from motocross to downhill to the highs and lows of racing at the elite level. We discuss his decision to leave a secure factory contract to build his own team, Aon Racing. Reece opens up becoming a part owner of GAMUX, the challenges of building a race program from scratch, insights in to the evolution of training for downhill, dealing with major injuries, and his thoughts on the future of the sport under Warner Bros. Discovery. Plus, much more...
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| 0:00.0 | The biggest crash, I think I've had on a mountain bike at that time. And I couldn't remember, I remember the whole crash, but it was like I was a cloud inside my brain, and my body was just rattling down the hill. So I don't know if there's a form of being knocked out where you're aware, but you're numb. And that's what it was like. So I made, did I hit my spine? Did I tweak my neck? |
| 0:21.1 | I really don't know. |
| 0:22.4 | But because I got up and I was physically okay, I was cut, but I had no broken bones. |
| 0:27.3 | Well, you kind of just carry on. |
| 0:29.1 | And I was oblivious to head injuries at that point. |
| 0:31.3 | Right. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Ride Companion. |
| 0:46.3 | Today we are joined by, you'll like this. |
| 0:50.8 | Former UCI Mountain Bike Wheel Champion, |
| 0:58.0 | the Flying Scotsman, Reese the Fleece, the Scotchotch barnet i came up with that one it's quite good the bagpipe blaster the tartan tornado we can keep going oh that's good there |
| 1:05.4 | reese wilson there we go thanks for having me what an intro wow wow when you said re Reese the fleece last night I was like I'm putting that in my little thing that made yeah he can thank my mum for that one personally personally the Scotch Barnet yeah that's good that's good yeah I like the turtron tornado I've never heard that one before. Tartan tornado, yeah. You can use those. |
| 1:27.8 | Butt patches start out of year. |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah, yeah, good idea. |
| 1:29.8 | Pretty sick. |
| 1:30.3 | I've always thought about that. |
| 1:31.1 | Something needs to bring back the butt patch. |
| 1:32.4 | They do. |
| 1:32.9 | It's been too long. |
| 1:34.5 | Butt patches are sickest thing. |
| 1:35.5 | It's easy in downhill too. |
| 1:36.5 | You don't have the seat in the way. |
| 1:37.9 | That's true. scene that was good was when branded Netflix and Chill for Def Group 1. |
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