Tahnée Seagrave on Rediscovering Her Love for Riding, Speedsuit Controversy & FMD's Factory Future
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Tahnée Seagrave is on the podcast!
In this episode of The Ride Companion, Tahnée Seagrave reflects on the highs and lows of her career, from five years of injuries and nearly stepping away from racing to rediscovering her love for the sport. She opens up about the mental challenges of recovery, the impact of concussions and burnout, and how self-talk and mindset shifts helped her return to the top.
We also discuss some of the big talking points in downhill racing, including the Speedsuit that debuted in Fort William, the fairness of protected rider status, and whether the new UCI points system is helping women's MTB. Tahnée also talks about FMD becoming a factory team, the state of women's downhill, whether junior riders are getting enough time to develop and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | That was a turning point for me because, like I said, the very thing that would put me in, like, a horrible space was now with my personal life, helping me massively. And because I invested so much time and energy in that weekend, I was like, well, no one can take this away from me. I've put the work in here. I've got the result out of it. And I was just like, oh, this is why I do it. Like, I loved it so much. and I think that's when I kind of got the bug again. |
| 0:22.8 | I was like, I was just like oh this is why I do it like I loved it so much and I think that's |
| 0:21.6 | when I kind of got the bug again I was like I was like boys suck but bikes don't |
| 0:26.9 | on today's episode we have the one and only Tarnie Seagrave. Round of a four, wonderful. It's that anti-climax. I haven't seen this new intro. No. I like the idea of it, but I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, I know. So, yeah, it's new. So it's like, anyway, I'm going to show your picture |
| 0:54.5 | and it's basically just a lift off point. I feel like this needs to be closer. Yours is close. Yeah. You can go, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's nice. Perfect. So yeah, so basically, I'm going to show your photo and we're going to talk about what this photo means and it's just a lift off point because otherwise we you know where do we start this thing |
| 1:11.1 | there's so much to talk about. |
| 1:12.0 | I've not had you on the podcast in 2020. |
| 1:14.5 | It's not much to talk about we've not had you on the podcast since 2022 it's not |
| 1:14.9 | going to be she's back oh god that's not the starting point unless it's in the picture i don't know |
| 1:22.5 | it's not anyway it's just the picture is here's the picture oh Oh, nice. Okay. That's a nice one. You're expecting this woman awful. You're just like, whoa. There's a picture, all right. All right. So, I'm sure you're aware of what that picture is. So what is that picture? And why did you post it? And let's talk about that as a lift off point? |
| 1:46.9 | Well I thought I looked nice in the picture that's all posted. |
| 1:51.9 | Revealed. |
| 1:52.5 | Here we have it. |
| 1:55.3 | That was what, Montsen and 2023, I think. |
| 1:59.1 | I believe so. |
| 1:59.8 | Yeah. |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, me and Phoebe and the lift together on our way up for |
| 2:02.7 | probably first laps yep okay we I take a lot of selfies in the lift that's that's it's |
| 2:12.8 | there's nothing more to it it wasn't like a really nice moment or I think okay I think I think I've missed the book. I've missed the bit. So what I was kind of |
| 2:21.7 | aiming towards is the reason you posted it is because it was the end of 2023. And you start |
| 2:28.1 | and you put in your caption, where to start. 2023 was my first injury free season since |
| 2:33.5 | 2018. Oh yeah, it was. That's a good way to start, I think. Yeah first injury free season since 2018. |
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