The Old Blokes Who Know Everything And Still Service The Wrong Machine

Troy turns 35 and celebrates by getting invited to an underground invitational trail race on the same course as Down Under 135. Pissing rain, waist-deep river crossings, a bloke who fell 15 meters off a ridge and was somehow the least hurt person out there. Then the brothers get into the stuff that actually grinds them down. Old blokes who carry deep institutional knowledge and still bring the wrong machine down to be serviced, their old man and his undefeated I-told-you-ya record, and the French backpackers who drove 34,000km around the country in an unregistered van and came out $50 in front.

In this episode:
- Troy's birthday race through flooded trails on a Down Under 135 course
- What a pacer actually does and why they do it for a free race entry
- Clinton Duke Elliott, the sparky turned engineer turned doctor who skydives and boxes
- Bobby and Folksy and the two-way street of old blokes at the mine
- Dad's I-told-ya record and the trade he was right about all along
- The Nike After Dark debate and whether three blokes should have been there
- The French backpackers who did a full lap in an unregistered van
- Seatbelt cameras, phantom fines and the camera every tradie should be scared of

Timestamps:
(00:17) Troy's birthday and the gray hair chat
(01:49) The underground invitational race in pissing rain
(04:40) A bloke falls 15 meters off a ridge and lives
(05:30) Tim's voice note on the run
(14:08) The handicap race, hunting and being hunted
(23:54) What the hell does a pacer actually do
(24:35) Clinton Duke Elliott, the generational lock-in
(34:14) Crib time and the fuel cap that got ripped out again
(35:51) Old blokes, institutional knowledge and the wrong machine
(41:02) Dad and his undefeated I-told-ya record
(44:35) The Nike After Dark half marathon blows up
(53:08) Male privilege, running at night and the strange look
(62:35) The French backpackers and the unregistered van
(67:53) Seatbelt cameras and the fine burden of proof
(72:00) Selling a bus with no roadworthy across state lines

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