Lael Wilcox is an ultra-endurance legend. And yet, aged 20, she’d barely ridden a bike. It was only when she started a new job 6km from her home and realised cycling was the most efficient way of commuting that she turned to two wheels. A love affair was born. And then she realised she was damn good at it. Now 36, Lael’s won almost everything she could dream of: the 6,800km Trans Am Bike Race; holds the women’s course record for Tour Divide (4,418km); has the fastest known time for the Arizona T...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 6
We have a little treat for our Just Ride listeners this week! While Rob and Eliot come from the world of mountain biking, our listeners know that Just Ride is all about every type of cycling discipline imaginable. But today we’ve got a little clip of a show that lives and breathes mountain biking, week in, week out: The Downtime Podcast Downtime is the most in-depth mountain bike podcast out there and delves deep into the world of downhill and enduro. Host Chris Hall chats to world champions, fu...
Apr 16, 2024•16 min
When Covid hit and a global lockdown saw the whole world forced to adapt to a new normal, Matt Jones headed into his back garden and started building. A year later he’d crafted some incredible jumps in his yard and turned his YouTube account into one of the most must-watch mountain bike channels on the platform. Matt’s career has been fascinating. One of the world’s best slopestyle riders from a young age, the lure of content creation and the success of his YouTube channel took him down a path p...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Rob and Eliot were on-site this weekend for round two of Red Bull Cerro Abajo – this time in Guanajuato, Mexico. Straight from the commentary booth the guys hopped on to record a bonus Just Ride reflecting on the action, talking through the wild runs through the streets of Guanajuato, Juanfer Velez's incredible win, the raw emotion of the event and much more! We’ll be back next week for episode five of Just Ride season two!
Mar 26, 2024•21 min
When Joff Summerfield set out to ride around the globe on his handmade penny farthing in 2006, he sold absolutely everything he owned to fund the adventure – and start with a clean slate. As he set off, his whole world was packed into a small rucksack on his back and some panniers on top of his penny farthing. Joff’s story is one of the most stunning that Rob and Eliot have discovered on Just Ride so far. Most of it must be heard to be believed! From being robbed at knifepoint in Ecuador and acc...
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 4
To say that Annemiek van Vleuten won it all is an understatement. The Dutch cyclist retired last season at the age of 41, having accomplished pretty much, well… everything in women's road cycling. In the coming years much will be written and spoken about Annemiek’s achievements - and in truth it would make a remarkable Hollywood blockbuster. Winning a world title with a broken elbow, overcoming illness and launching an outrageous solo attack to win the inaugural Tour de France Femmes, losing Oly...
Mar 05, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Rob and Eliot were on-site for the inagural Red Bull Hardline Australia. Join Rob and Eliot for a special bonus episode as the guys chat through all the wild moments from Maydena, the first Hardline outside of Wales, the first female Harline run ever claimed by Gracey Hemstreet, a new Hardline winner with Rónán Dunne and much more! We’ll see you next week for our third episode of season two.
Feb 27, 2024•16 min
Rachel Atherton is a certified mountain bike hall of famer and if Rob and Eliot listed out her entire list of achievements then we wouldn’t have time for anything else on this week’s Just Ride. The queen of downhill, Rachel made headlines in 2023 for returning to the World Cup scene after overcoming a long-term achilles injury and becoming a mother for the first time. Not only did she compete in Lenzerheide but, in typical Rachel fashion, she won. That was her 40th World Cup win, a remarkable 17...
Feb 20, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 2
When Geraint Thomas first rode the Tour de France in 2007, he wasn’t even expected to make it past the first week. A track rider then, a year away from winning gold in Beijing, the Welshman gritted his teeth to survive the mountains of France and finish 140th. Never in his wildest dreams did he expect to return 11 years later and win the famous yellow jersey. Thomas’s career has been remarkable in both its longevity and scope, winning gold on the track at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, conquering c...
Feb 13, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 1
"The fear is always there but it depends how much you tune into it and how much you listen to it.” Swedish mountain biker Emil Johansson might be the most successful slopestyle rider in the history of his sport but, as he reveals in this episode of Mind Set Win, fear is still an emotion he experiences every time he puts his helmet on. To launch his bike off staggering jumps and perform innovative tricks, the three-time Triple Crown of Slopestyle winner explains how trusting in his ability and no...
Dec 12, 2023•14 min
For the final episode of Just Ride season one we turned the microphones back on our two hosts: Rob Warner and Eliot Jackson! After welcoming 11 fascinating guests this season, we thought it was about time our audience got to know Eliot and Rob a little better. How did they go from racing downhill to becoming commentary stars? How did they find their transition from the bike to the commentary booth? And, of course, who has been their favourite Just Ride guest of the season?! As we take a short br...
Nov 28, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 12
When Rob Warner commentates on five-time downhill world champion Loïc Bruni, he calls him the professor – and it’s easy to see why. The Frenchman is not just a serial winner, but also a deep thinker about what he calls the best sport in the world: downhill mountain biking. We’ve reached episode 11 in Just Ride season one, so Rob and Eliot thought it was about time they called up a legend of their own sport to tell the audience all about the complexities of downhill, from the technical challenges...
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 11
If last week's episode has left you wanting more bike … don't worry we've got you. On Mind Set Win, BMX legend Daniel Dhers joined hosts Cédric Dumont and York Peter-Klöppel to reveal his key to competing at the highest level. Daniel talks about being prepared for something to go wrong at any moment – no matter how unlikely it seems. He also talks about how this attitude has enabled him to build a long and successful career. it’s not about always having the perfect solution in stressful situatio...
Nov 07, 2023•18 min
Emily Chappell had barely ridden a bike until she moved to London after university and became a cycle courier. Quickly discovering a love for cycling led her on a life-changing journey, which culminated in winning the fearsome Transcontinental Race. The British cyclist and author has led a remarkable life and joined Rob and Eliot on Just Ride to talk about ultra-endurance racing, attempting to race on no sleep for three days, and finding slugs in your helmet after a night snoozing in a field. Th...
Oct 31, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Tom Pidcock has won world titles on his mountain bike and cyclocross bike, and taken an iconic stage of the Tour de France atop the fearsome Alpe d’Huez. And he’s only 24. The British superstar has the cycling world at his feet, so Rob and Eliot gave him a call ahead of his final mountain bike World Cup appearance of the season and welcomed him as the latest guest to Just Ride. The INEOS Grenadier spends his winter racing cyclocross and then switches between MTB and road racing across the rest o...
Oct 17, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Dame Laura Kenny’s list of achievements goes on, and on… and on. The most decorated British female Olympian of all time, the 31-year-old is the undisputed queen of the velodrome. So, who better to teach Rob and Eliot all about the ins and outs of track cycling than the woman with five Olympic Golds, countless world titles, and who just so happens to be married to Britain’s most decorated Olympian and fellow track star, Jason Kenny? Anything Laura doesn’t know about riding on the track isn’t wort...
Oct 03, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Meet Australian Cameron Wurf and you quickly wonder: is there anything he can’t do? An Olympic rower-turned-pro-bike rider, Cam is now one of the world’s best Ironman athletes – all while racing on the road for one of the leading men’s road teams, the INEOS Grenadiers. He’s raced in the world’s biggest gravel event, Unbound, and is planning an assault on the tortuous multi-stage mountain bike race Cape Epic with INEOS team-mate Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. Now 40, he’s as determined as ever to keep c...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 7
If you know mountain biking you’ll know Brett Tippie – and if you don’t know mountain biking, then you’re about to meet one of cycling’s true characters. The phrase ‘larger than life’ doesn’t really do Brett justice. A mountain bike pioneer in the 1990s, Tippie was at the forefront of the freeride movement, introducing a new genre of mountain biking uninterested in race results, but pushing the limits of what was possible on a bike. Brett became one of the world’s first fully professional freeri...
Sep 05, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Harriet and Robin are two of the current and future stars of freeride – and they also happen to be best friends. Harriet was on-track to become a BMX Olympian before deciding that her heart lay in freeride, while Robin went from a full-time career in the army to become the first woman to land a back-flip in competition in 2021. Yet the duo don’t see themselves as trailblazers – they just see themselves as bike riders. Despite their modesty, Harriet and Robin are part of a wave of women freerider...
Aug 22, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 5
What happens when you realise the thing that has given you purpose and identity in life is no longer making you happy? That was a question that slopestyle icon Brett Rheeder had to contend with in 2019, as he first started to wonder about retiring from competition. Three years later he roared back to win Red Bull Rampage, an iconic freeride mountain biking competition held in the Utah desert, for the second time with a whole new mindset – and then finally stepped away from competing for good. Br...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 4
On the eve of the World Championships in Glasgow, Rob & Eliot are joined by UK rider Evie Richards – one of the most positive, inspirational, and infectious characters on the circuit. Evie has always been ambitious. She dreamt of competing at the Olympics as a child, initially as a hockey player, but after discovering a love for cycling in 2013, she made a switch to racing bikes and achieved her dream by representing Team GB in Tokyo. She is one of Britain’s most promising cross-country and ...
Jul 25, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 3
With the world’s most famous race well underway, Rob and Eliot are joined by one of the most successful domestiques in modern cycling history, Luke Rowe, to break down everything you need to know about the Tour de France. The Ineos Grenadiers rider has raced in the Tour eight times and been part of the winning team on five occasions. He has also been disqualified and even finished last! Here Luke talks in detail about the different roles each rider takes up in a team, the tactics (and bad behavi...
Jul 11, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 2
“It’s a slippery slope, you will get addicted.” Rob and Eliot's tour guide is Red Bull athlete, Payson McElveen; professional mountain biker and serial champion. He talks about his love of endurance riding, the freedom that comes with gravel riding and what it is about the community that has got everyone wanting to find out more. They compare gravel with the early days of mountain biking and ask the questions we all want to know; how much of the course is gravel? Where did it come from? And, mos...
Jul 11, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Join Rob and Eliot for Season 3 of Just Ride as they delve into a new array of cycling adventures. They're back on your screens and in your ears, speaking to the most famous faces from the world of mountain biking, road cycling, and everything in-between. We've got some incredible guests planned - and we will be bringing you Just Ride from all around the world. Come and join the ride! New episodes are released every other week. Get in touch with us @robwarner970 & @eliotjackson or email us a...
Jun 28, 2023•1 min
