Jono Jones is back for his annual first-guest-of-the-year episode of The Ride Companion!
In this episode, Olly and Jono reflect on 2024, diving into Jono’s biggest achievements and his journey from working in the city to pursuing a new project. They explore the balance of risk versus reward that led Jono to take the leap.
Jono also shares stories of riding the infamous Red Bull Hardline course with moto enduro legend Jonny Walker, growing up with his brother Matt Jones, and how the two rediscovered their passion for riding together after years apart. The lads also discuss Olly’s unexpected fears, Gee Atherton’s insane trail builds, terrible races, what it really takes to be a pro rider, and much more…
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Chapters
00:00:00 Jono Jones is on the podcast!
00:02:58 Jono’s 2024 year review
00:07:00 Magic Mind
00:09:10 Working in the city & Risk vs reward
00:21:00 Hyrox vs Hardline
00:25:30 Growing up with Matt Jones
00:34:40 Understanding how to be a pro rider
00:39:44 Invisiframe
00:41:11 Hardline with Matt
00:47:30 Riding with Jonny Walker
01:01:45 What’s Olly scared of?
01:08:12 HUEL
01:10:30 Risk
01:14:07 Gee Atherton builds INSANE features
01:22:09 The worst Crankworx event ever
01:31:40 The politician
01:35:00 LIKE & SUBSCRIBE
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22 Comments
Absolutely loved this episode! Jono needed to call Matt to explain the physics of Jonnys bike 😂
Well I recently had a big off on a step up that Olly did recently. I didn't weigh up all my options and dead saliored straight to my ass…… So if you fancy talking me through how to land it one day Olly hit me up 🤣.
These two are so lovely. Good show!
Olly, outstanding show. I really appreciated this one you do a fantastic job interviewing and asking excellent questions and jono is in fact a great person. I could sit there and listen to him talk all day long cuz he's funny and quite intelligent. It'd be great if you could make more programs like a series of programs with you and jono. Any subject. I saved this program in three places on my YouTube channel. Thank you very much for doing it look forward to more of your comical ways. Peace for Oregon.
Loving Jono 'buffering' as he thinks of what to say next…. 😉
How is it a year since the canyon crash?!? Scary!!!
Jono and Matt are prob the best bros alive. They seem like good dudes and are entertaining
Top lads.
Absolutely amazing podcast super entertaining.
Btw moorewood bikes are South African. The desginer Patrick Moorewood now owns a different bike company Pyga bikes they are handmade alloy bikes. Moorewood ending there production and stuff was due to internal conflicts with Patrick and the other investors im pretty sure
1:01:05 I really want to see @outsidebrendan pick up on that winglet idea
Great to watch 👏 olly and Jono are electric together. I think it would be hilarious for jono and Olly mums to film a video😂 a grown up take your child to work day 😂😂😂
Is it just age/wisdom that makes is chill out as we get older? Or is it learned from others as well? If nobody chilled out with age, would we? I'm 40 now and I definitely feel it myself, so I push myself harder mentally. Maybe not the best idea but it's how I see my riding
look up the name rich fronin and watch his crossfit doc. trust me, you wont be disappointed
Thanks for making my work day go by faster! Cheers 🍻 mates from Tennessee
"why can he overshoot and stop" cmon man, basic physics – much larger contact patch with tyres. Its not hard lol.
Best thing to watch while working on a Friday 😉
Bring on the silliness, let it rip! I reckon most of us in here would love it… we're all just as daft as each other really you know! 😂
Love this! Was eager hear from Jono and his city job!
What a lying c.nt , the reason he does not talk about banking is he knows people hate bankers .
The explanation of people making deposits and banks lend them out is a lye. He knows its double entry book keeping, credit conjured out of thin air by the banks making us all poorer.
And the wurst part is he's part of the green wash net zero lenders,,,,,douch bag.
RISK ? risk on loans ? bollocks ,,, he knows the government will bail out the banks so its risk on lends as much as you can get those coms.
Motorbike transfers the weight into the ground safely where the mtb has to keep the momentum fully forward as it can’t handle the downward force in the same way
Blahdy great bloke – seems completely genuine.
"Familiarity….ah,theres that word again"
Olly nodding in agreement "you said it really nicely though" 😂💀 i don't know why but this cracked me up.