Sam Reynolds Joins AON Racing! DarkFest 10th Anniversary Plans & Belt Drive Freeride?!
The Ride Companion
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🗓️ 9 February 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Reynolds drops into the studio to announce he's signed for Reece Wilson's AON Racing team! In this episode of The Ride Companion, we dive into why he made the move, his custom GAMUX bike with a Gates belt drive, Pinion gearbox, and Manitou Dorado forks, and whether it's ready to tackle DarkFest's massive jumps.
Sam also talks about the state of freeride, industry struggles, and whether young riders are missing out on opportunities. Plus, fatherhood, risk vs. reward, and his biggest-ever flip at Matt Macduff's compound. And with DarkFest's 10th anniversary on the horizon, we talk new quarter pipes, pushing limits, and how freeride has evolved over the past decade
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| 0:00.0 | There's this guy on a farm that says we can build like a crazy big step-up, so let's just, let's do it. And we told the farmer, we were like, right, make it 10 meters tall, make us a pile of dirt, 10 meters tall, and we'll come and shape it. And he was like, yeah, okay, cool. And we thought, like, we'd tell him 10 meters tall because he'll make it like, realistically, five, six, seven. We arrived and it was literally 10 meters tall. we're like, ah, okay. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah, you know. make it like realistically, five, six, seven. We arrived and it was literally 10 meters tall. |
| 0:21.6 | We were like, ah, okay. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, you know, this is this then. |
| 0:26.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, today we have the one. |
| 0:38.3 | Sam Reynolds, everyone, Sam Reynolds. |
| 0:40.3 | I was going to do a big intro. |
| 0:42.3 | It couldn't be done. |
| 0:43.3 | That was plenty of bigger. |
| 0:44.3 | That was plenty of big enough. |
| 0:45.3 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:46.3 | Thanks for coming. |
| 0:47.3 | Nice to be back. |
| 0:48.3 | It's well exciting. |
| 0:49.3 | Lovely to have you. |
| 0:51.3 | Super. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, we use the microphone on ours. |
| 0:56.8 | So yeah, super excited to be back. |
| 0:57.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:05.3 | I actually did have a really long intro because I quite enjoy doing funny long intros, especially for my friends, like the godfather free, all that stuff. |
| 1:08.9 | But we actually can't begin this podcast |
| 1:12.1 | because it's available visually as well as audio. |
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