We're Increasing Downhill World Cup Prize Money by 30%
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This episode has serious old school TRC vibes! In this episode of The Ride Companion, Olly and Davi discuss everything you need to know heading into the 2025 downhill World Cup season. Including team moves, breakout picks, fantasy tips, and some insights from the inside.
We also announce ourselves as the unofficial World Cup podium sponsor... we're Increasing World Cup Prize Money by 30% by giving an extra £1,000 to any rider who shouts out The Ride Companion on the podium... will anybody do it?
During the episode we also discuss Bernard Kerr's pre-season crash and what it means for his year, why have Gates offered up the $100,000 prize?, Our top fantasy MTB picks for round one, Rachel Atherton rumours, finding passions, Olly's Slovenia trip, is MTB too expensive and loads more!
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| 0:00.0 | It's a deal. |
| 0:00.8 | It's a deal. |
| 0:01.7 | If you win a World Cup, okay, set the parameters. |
| 0:04.4 | Look at the terms and conditions now. |
| 0:07.0 | You only get to say it once. |
| 0:10.3 | So if you win a World Cup, when I said a grand, I meant yen. |
| 0:13.2 | And you say the ride company on the podium, grand. |
| 0:17.7 | Yeah, a bag of sand. |
| 0:27.8 | We're in. |
| 0:29.4 | Are we on? |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to the Royal Companion. |
| 0:31.2 | We're in the internet. |
| 0:54.7 | Dude, I'm actually really excited about this episode because the race season has come up quick on me. It does. I haven't prepared. No. Whereas someone in the room has. Have they? Who is it? It's you. Can we find that person? It's you. So you did a podcast the other day with needles, right? Yeah, correct. Dude. Yeah, we've launched obviously the race, we've launched, obviously, the race companion fantasy down hill website, platform, ecosystem. So this is the new version. So we've launched another podcast, yeah, which is going to be needles actually doing like a solo episode. Who could be better? Who could be better, mate? The voice of downhill. The voice of downill comment. The voice, one of the voices of, |
| 1:11.4 | one of the voices of Daniel. |
| 1:13.9 | You can't say voice of down all because I feel like Rob's got that. |
| 1:18.3 | He's got the voice, isn't he? |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.0 | But Andrew is one of the dudes, right? |
| 1:23.6 | It's commentator, like he's just super knowledgeable, former racer. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.3 | Who better to talk about the inside |
| 1:28.9 | you know inside inside inside the tape you can't thank you it's a shame because otherwise you could |
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