The 200th Episode From A Mountain Lodge! (Listener Questions Special)

The Ride Companion

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Massive thanks to YOU for helping us get to 200 episodes of The Ride Companion!

In this episode Olly and Davi sit down in a Welsh mountain lodge for a general catch up and to answer your listener questions. In this episode Olly and Davi dive into the origins of the podcast, Olly's epic Bikepark Wales challenge, Travis Pastrana ghosting Davi, Robot Wars, Deaks' weird feet, bucket list guests, favourite crisps and Freedom Ride.

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0:00.0	Man, I've got a bit of an issue at the moment.
0:03.5	I'm double blue-tick red.
0:07.0	No reply off Travis Pastrana.
0:09.2	Two messages.
0:10.4	Goodwood's coming up, mate.
0:11.5	I know.
0:11.9	It's fast approaching.
0:12.6	You can't triple message, can you?
0:23.1	All right.
0:24.2	We in.
0:25.4	We're in.
0:30.8	This episode is coming at you live from the Gatheon Lodge.
0:32.4	Gathing Lodge.
0:34.3	Bikes outside in the car.
0:35.6	Feel free to break into that.
0:37.4	This is where everyone stays isn't it yeah this
0:38.3	seems to be the house in wales man it is it's like um oh what's it like it's like where everyone
0:43.5	stays it's like the ritz carlton it's like queenstown of wales it's like queensstown of wales
0:48.8	ritz carlton is much better sorry it's much funnier yeah it's much not's much... Not bad. I'm not on it. I'm tired.
0:55.0	I'm tired.
1:10.1	I should do the click-y thing, shouldn't I? Yeah, if you want. And then we can carry on. What are we calling it? It says, no guest and no mate. Okay. We could have got a guest, couldn't we? We could have. Shoulda woulda coulda?
1:10.5	Yeah.
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