The DJ Zesty story: Medical trials, UK dirt jumping and new sponsors!
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
DJ Zesty (Andy Lehmann) is in studio! Olly and Davi sit down with DJ Zesty to hear how a jump bike and a patch of woods in Swinley led him to building world class freeride courses in Queenstown. Andy shares his journey through the UK trails scene, competing in Dirt Wars, digging for Natural Selection, living out of a van, surviving medical trials to fund trips and now, signing to the DMR Pro Team with support from YT Industries.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's do an announcement, dude. Come on. Yeah, come on. All right. This whole journey, this career arc. |
| 0:04.5 | This true. |
| 0:05.2 | Been leading up to this. This moment. This is it. This moment. |
| 0:08.7 | This is it, dude. |
| 0:13.9 | Today's guest, I'm very excited about. I'm very excited because the last six months I've been watching |
| 0:23.2 | Very um jealously on Instagram that's right he's fresh off the plane from New Zealand DJ Zesty and |
| 0:32.5 | eleanor and clap him in dog hype to have you on. Thanks for joining us. Thanks, man. Thanks for having me. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Can you do a short introduction? I'd love you to do a short introduction. How would you define yourself? It's actually a really good question because it's like, I would say you're up and coming. You're very exciting watch for me. Thank you. Seeing you out in New Zealand was very exciting. Obviously, I've ride with you lots over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dirt jumps. But what would you define yourself as as a mountain biker? Ah, yeah. I don't know. Like, um, started off like dirt jumping. Uh, I i mean mainly just like pottering around the woods |
| 1:12.9 | in like swinley swinley forest local oh you swindler local still now uh yeah yeah i just just moved |
| 1:21.5 | back in with the parents of getting home so okay yeah haven't been back there since okay |
| 1:27.1 | is yeah tough contrast real tough contrast. A little bit. Yeah, dream track to baby makers. Oh my goodness. I don't know. I'll go back at some point. It's pretty fun. But yeah, that's like where I started. I just like had like a hard tail for a while. So you actually started riding mountain bikes in Swinley Forest? Yeah, yeah, I just had a jump bike and like I couldn't afford like a proper mountain bike. So I had a jump bike and then just rode down like down all tracks there. Yeah. I say down all tracks like slight. Slight gradient down. Slight gradient tracks, isn't they? How old are you? |
| 2:01.5 | 24? |
| 2:02.3 | 24, dude. Honestly, watching your Instagram whilst you've been away, I've just, it's just like watching, it's like something I can't do. I can't be that young and free now. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it's annoying. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're annoying. queens town living it's like at some point of um at some point in the year |
| 2:20.4 | in the winter as well when it's as rain as can be |
| 2:23.4 | just your instagram feed fills up with all these queenstown shots |
| 2:27.3 | yeah and you're one of them making me jealous |
| 2:30.7 | sorry bro |
| 2:32.1 | unfollow but i don't know, you can't lose, I suppose. But yeah, |
| 2:38.7 | no, it's like quite a long time away from home. But I don't know, it's also like, I know, |
| 2:43.6 | like I won't be able to do it forever. So, well, yeah, absolutely killing it. So how did you get |
| 2:49.0 | into biking? Like, what's your, What's your, what's your story? |
| 2:53.4 | Just like, yeah, like pottering around the woods with my dad and, I don't know, I think |
| 2:58.7 | I was always like into like extreme sports as a kid and they weren't like very like |
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