Steve Geall on being a BMX AND mountain bike pro, the golden era, stunt work and riding with Dave Mirra
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Steve Geall is a legend of the UK BMX and mountain bike scene and we're stoked to have him on The Ride Companion this week!
During the podcast we discuss how Steve discovered BMX in the late 80's and competiting in the early competitions to became a National Champion. Steve talks about falling out of love with the BMX, buying his first mountain bike, turning pro on the Giant team and racing the first world cups. Steve also talks about being a stunt man on 101 Dalmations, why he still loves riding dirt jumps and all aspects of mountain biking and much more....
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| 0:00.0 | You did? |
| 0:01.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:01.7 | What happened? |
| 0:02.5 | Well, we were riding Mr. Blobby and obviously he's like... |
| 0:04.6 | You were riding Mr. Blobby? |
| 0:05.8 | No, I was riding with Mr. Blobby. |
| 0:08.2 | Dude. |
| 0:08.5 | He didn't riding. |
| 0:11.6 | All right. Welcome to the show. The one and only is here. Movie star intro. I thought |
| 0:25.8 | that's what we're doing. Movie trailer intro. Yeah. One. No, we can't. We can't. We can't. |
| 0:32.5 | Steve Gill. Welcome. Welcome to studio. Happy to have you here. Thanks. Happy to have you here. happy to have you here super stoked we've just |
| 0:41.1 | been on a ride yep it's wet and you don't deal with wet don't do wet dude i like your style mate |
| 0:48.8 | i'll be like your style me guys to be fair i like it and when i'm riding it's fine it's just |
| 0:53.6 | the whole aftermath clean i can't be dealing with that. No. Would you have said also during, did it increase sort of moaning levels a bit or? No, I didn't moaned at all. I think Deeks was moaning. Yeah, Deeks moaned a bit. Yeah, I was for it all fine. Yeah, no moaning, no. Okay. Love it. Good tracks out there. Good tracks. Good fun. Good track. |
| 1:10.8 | Good fun. No, I was for it all fine. Yeah, no moaning, no. No. Okay. Love it. |
| 1:12.0 | It's good tracks out there. |
| 1:12.6 | Good tracks. |
| 1:13.0 | Good fun. |
| 1:14.1 | Good fun. |
| 1:26.7 | Yeah, so you're not waterproof then, no. Definitely not. Never been. No. Never been. What happens? You swell up if it's like it. Yeah, real bad. Like a sponge. Bloat. we actually had a whale of a time considering you're on a borrowed bike |
| 1:29.5 | ibe yeah |
| 1:31.0 | nice we actually had a whale of a time considering you're on a borrowed bike eb yeah |
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