Feb 18, 2026
It’s just Davi and Olly in the studio this week and.. it goes
exactly how you’d expect.
Davi has a new bike day and brings his new Marin Alcatraz dirt jump
bike to work (nothing hits like a fresh hardtail), which turns into
a bigger conversation about why you don’t actually need the best
bike to have the most fun. The lads talk about Hardline Tasmania
being cancelled, the Super Bowl let down and end up debating UK
geology, winter riding, and whether mountain bike culture is slowly
losing its soul. We also experiment with a pair of Oakley x Meta
glasses in the studio (which gets weird), talk about wether pov is
the future of podcasting and answer your listener
questions!
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