The Speed Episode Gets Weird (Again)
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week's episode is a quick-fire catch up with Davi and Olly as they race the clock, talking winter riding, long johns, sauna chats, Facebook Marketplace rabbit holes and getting properly hyped for The Ride Companion Christmas Ride at BikePark Wales.
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| 0:00.0 | I wear long johns. |
| 0:01.1 | Are you partial to long johns? |
| 0:02.9 | I'm partial. |
| 0:03.6 | I love long johns. I'm partial. Yeah, I'm partial to some long johns. I wouldn't even say I'm partial, actually. I'd say I'm full long john. My problem with long johns, dude. I should be called long john in some ways. Long John Wilkins. Yeah. The problem is with long johns is once I've put them on, I don't ever want to take them off |
| 0:21.0 | so then I'll get like |
| 0:23.0 | you know The problem is with Long Johns is once I've put them on, I don't ever want to take them off. |
| 0:21.1 | So then I'll get like, you know. |
| 0:25.0 | Fungle. |
| 0:25.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.2 | Not fungal, but you know what I'm trying to say. |
| 0:29.2 | It's the speed round. |
| 0:41.3 | Right, we've got to get 23 minutes of clips. |
| 0:45.3 | We just got to speak so fast. Basically it's my fault. I've got to go to physio appointment. |
| 0:50.3 | And my fault because I'm going out for dinner. |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, you are? So both of our faults. |
| 0:55.3 | Okay. Mine's in six hours. Short episode, short episode, because Davey's going to dinner in six |
| 1:00.9 | hours time. Yeah, I get time anxiety, but it's not that bad. |
| 1:06.3 | Just waiting outside your dinner. Are you going to talk about your dinner? Where are you going |
| 1:10.4 | tonight? |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, could do it. Yeah. I mean, it's not interesting at all. But some people... I think it is. |
| 1:21.4 | No, I don't know. Some people might remember we had my sort of business coach, now friend slash acquaintance. Guru. Guru, Tom Pinshard on the podcast. Start of the year, actually, I think it was. |
| 1:28.9 | And he talked probably in that about he does these dinners, |
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