Wyn Masters Talks Shifting Focus, Secret Elite DH Performance Hacks, E-Bikes & Wyn TV's future

The Ride Companion

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Wyn Masters joins the show to talk about his move to Focus Bikes, how he's "shifting focus" after 17 years on the World Cup circuit, and why cooking lunch with your bike brand might be the ultimate vibe check. We dive deep into Wind TV's evolution, e-bike warm-up secrets, caffeine-fueled race prep, Jackson Goldstone's unconventional setup, and the psychology of qualifying. Plus, Wyn shares behind-the-scenes stories from the privateer project, why he skipped Andorra, and his dream of being a jockey.

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0:00.0	Are we on? What do you use before? Do you have any vocal exercises before you start
0:05.5	up Win TV? No, I don't really. I don't do anything. Do you do nothing? Yeah, I do
0:11.1	three minutes of yodling. And we got it on camera. Welcome to the episode.
0:27.6	Hello and welcome.
0:32.0	This is a special welcome to the team episode for the one and only.
0:35.1	My teammate, win masters.
0:37.3	Oh yes. Well excited. Thanks for having me uh stoked to join the team yeah yeah
0:43.2	and we've found a new focus in my life mate i've actually got that in my notes shifting focus
0:49.1	that was like the um shifting your focus did you come up with that yeah i was like that was like
0:54.0	that was a suggestion, yeah.
0:55.2	It's quite hard to not do the puns that everyone makes.
0:59.3	And now I'm a dad, so I have to do bad puns all the time.
1:02.3	You actually, it's actually a necessity, isn't it?
1:05.3	Yeah.
1:07.3	I'm actually mega-hyped.
1:15.5	Like, to have you, of all people on the on the team is wicked yeah stoke for it yeah it's just going to be a good time a lot of writing and uh yeah the
1:21.5	the brand really fits what i'm into yeah definitely more than i thought so before I knew the insides of it, you know?
1:30.1	Yeah.
1:30.7	So just going there, meeting all the people, riding with them and seeing what the brand's all about.
1:35.3	Yeah.
1:35.7	There's a lot, it goes a lot deeper than I thought it would have.
1:39.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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