The TRC Race Team, Motorway Rules, A Pinkbike Award and More
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
The first Ride Companion catch up of 2026… and we're straight back into it!
We kick things off talking winter illnesses, whether 'man flu' is actually a thing, and why the placebo effect might be more powerful than people think, along with a few honest Christmas confessions (including why we're both useless at gifts). Lunch & Learn is back and we look at motorway lane rules what the rules actually say. We also cover winning Pinkbike Comment of the Year, New Year goal setting vs streak culture, Davi's newest hobby obsession, the idea of finally doing our bike test, and a huge 2026 partnership announcement for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | mate good good one i'm angry now but good one i feel like it got a response out of you that i wasn't |
| 0:06.0 | sure it was going to get i didn't know that you hated as much as you do i really also really |
| 0:10.4 | bothers me let us know in the comments below if you are also uh infuriated by the the uh how boring |
| 0:17.6 | is this is turned into like a... Mowing podcast. Yeah. |
| 0:37.9 | It's the first catch-up of 2026. |
| 0:39.2 | Yeah, how does that feel? |
| 0:40.8 | Doesn't it feel different? |
| 0:42.0 | Oh, it feels so different. |
| 0:43.8 | I hate that, dude. |
| 0:48.3 | The, oh, yeah, don't feel like a Sunday, does it? |
| 0:50.5 | Don't feel like Christmas, does it? You know, when people get married? |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah, what's married life like? |
| 0:54.0 | What does it feel different? Yeah. Or when you have a birthday, what's it like being the big insert number? You're about to find out the big. The big 23. The big two, three. How are you, mate? How is Christmas? |
| 1:11.5 | I'm good, thanks, dog. How are you? I'm all right. Hey, I'm okay. Yeah, all good. Happy to be back. Happy to be back amongst it. Yeah. Always feels a bit weird when we record these, doesn't it? Even though we've been together for the last day and a half. That's a problem. we sort of do the catching up |
| 1:27.6 | and then we're forced to do the catching up |
| 1:31.0 | but then I think That's true. Day and a half. That's the problem. We sort of do the catching up. |
| 1:28.7 | And then we're forced to do the catching up. |
| 1:31.1 | But then I think you hold some things back. |
| 1:32.9 | I've held some things back. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.1 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:36.6 | I was actually ill. |
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