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The Ride Companion

The Blake Samson Story - The Ride Companion Episode 30

The Ride Companion

TRC Media House

Sports, Wilderness

4.9533 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Blake Samson joins Olly Wilkins and Davi for episode 30 of The Ride Companion. During the episode Blake shares some very personal stories about growing up in Zimbabwi and how he came to live in the UK. Blake also talks about his come up in the mountain bike industry, his first sponsorship deals, YouTube, how he came to work for Global Mountain Bike Network. plus much more.

Big thanks to Blake for joining us for this episode and for being so open and honest about his life. It's really a fascinating story...

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0:00.0

He actually has the Wi-Fi router inside his body as we speak.

0:15.0

Look how crystal clear it is the logos, everything.

0:20.0

Everything. Alright guys, I think we're on.

0:21.9

Hey, what's up, guys? Hey, man.

0:25.4

It's episode 13, we've got Blake Samson as a guest. Thank you for joining us.

0:30.3

Thank you very much for having me.

0:32.4

Take 18. That's not it, is it?

0:35.2

We're trying. We're trying. This this is take 18 who knows if the internet

0:39.0

won't we've recently had uh johnno jones who's a nightmare and you as guests

0:45.0

which i'm not the nightmare it's both wife face the nightmare no you're both excellent guests the

0:51.1

best but you both have bad internet it turns out yeah it's all part of the

0:55.4

fun in it sometimes at the end of the day you know it's it's all about riding bikes not about

0:59.7

being on the internet but sometimes you need to merge bury finn it can be a nightmare yeah weirdly

1:04.7

my phone's got good internet really yeah you've just used it all up on your computer

1:10.1

haven't you?

1:11.8

Yeah, I haven't I?

1:14.1

Silly, silly.

1:16.5

How are you, dude?

1:17.7

Very good.

1:20.7

I am rather not that much tired.

1:21.7

I'm not that tired.

1:24.1

We've just had a newborn little baby boy.

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