S8 Ep39: Kilometre 0 | Memories of Michele
To mark the anniversary of the death of Michele Scarponi, we're revisiting this special episode of Kilometre 0 from 2017, in which his friends and colleagues pay tribute. The episode was recorded on the eve of the 16th Stage of the 2017 Giro d'Italia in which the peloton rode from Rovetta to Bormio, ascending the Mortirolo, the scene of one of Scarponi's finest hours.  Scarponi was sadly killed...
17m Apr 22, 2020
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S8 Ep38: A ramble in the Ardennes and questions about the Tour
In another bumper edition of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe enjoy a ramble through the Ardennes, recalling memorable editions of Liège-Bastogne-Liège and also discuss ASO's plans to hold the Tour de France at the end of August. 00:00 Introduction 07:50 François Thomazeau sings... This week, in honour of Bernard Hinault's win in the 1980 Liège-Bastogne-Liège,...
1hr 53m Apr 22, 2020
1hr 53m
S8 Ep37: MVDP
This week's episode is a Netherlands-themed ramble to go alongside our latest special for Friends of the Podcast, which is called Van der Poel. Introduction 00:00 Francois's song 8:16 This week François Thomazeau sings In the Dutch Mountains by the Nits – an homage to the Amstel Gold Race. Part one – An Amstel Gold Race ramble 11:48 In an extended ramble, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel...
1hr 33m Apr 15, 2020
1hr 33m
S8 Ep36: Explore | The Three Peaks
Join Lionel Birnie, Hannah Troop and Ian Boswell for an episode of Explore, looking at the world of adventure riding and bikepacking. It's the first of who-knows-how-many lockdown editions of Explore and although we can't travel the world on two wheels at the moment, the series will continue with stories celebrating the freedom, friendship and spirit of adventure cycling can provide. IN THIS EP...
1hr 9m Apr 13, 2020
1hr 9m
S8 Ep35: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | April 2020
In the April episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin we hear from riders living in lockdown, from Jip van den Bos, the Boels-Dolmans rider who took off backpacking, to Elise Chabbey, the Bigla-Katusha professional, a trained doctor who has returned to medicine to help people suffering with coronavirus in her native Switzerland.  Chabbey only qualified at the end of last year and was looking forw...
1hr 11m Apr 10, 2020
1hr 11m
S8 Ep34: Life in the Peloton – Ella Harris
In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker catches up with Ella Harris to talk about her journey from virtual world to the World Tour. The 21-year-old New Zealander won the Zwift Academy in 2018 and earned a pro contract with the Canyon-SRAM team. Harris enjoyed a promising start to the 2020 season – winning a stage of the Herald Sun Tour and the New Zealand time trial title – and is ...
39m Apr 08, 2020
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S8 Ep33: The Closest* Ever Paris-Roubaix
It's another bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast with plenty to pick and choose from if that's what you wish to do. The main focus is Paris-Roubaix, the Queen of the Classics, the Hell of the North, so let's run through what's in the show. 00:00 Introduction Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as they catch up with each other after a week of self-distancing. And hear from Team...
2hr 14m Apr 07, 2020
2hr 14m
S8 Ep32: Movistar and chill
Alberto Bettiol's Tour of Flanders, the Movistar documentary on Netflix and the latest on the coronavirus crisis and cycling –  this week’s bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast is really three shows in one and this  description can help you find the talking points you are interested in. 00:00 Introduction Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe get together on the phone from their separ...
2hr 14m Mar 31, 2020
2hr 14m
S8 Ep31: Service Course | Episode 8 | The perfect fit
In this month's episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley dive behind the scenes of some of the leading kit manufactures, designers and technology companies that are driving innovation in technical clothing. They speak to Angelo Trofa, designer of the only kit in the pro peloton from another Universe, the Canyon//SRAM kit from Rapha. Marie Cortal from Katusha Sport breaks down the ...
47m Mar 27, 2020
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S8 Ep30: Life in the Peloton – Talking Zwift with Kevin Poulton
With so many cyclists now confined to training indoors, Mitch Docker talks to his coach Kevin Poulton about the virtual cycling software Zwift. Back in 2016, Mat Hayman crashed out of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and fractured his arm. It looked like his Classics campaign was over but within days he was back training indoors, using Zwift, and less than six weeks later he crossed the line first in the ...
54m Mar 25, 2020
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S8 Ep29: Part 2: Marco Pinotti and Jonathan Vaughters on COVID-19
In this second part of this week's Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe speaks to Marco Pinotti, head of performance at Team CCC, and a resident of Bergamo, one of the cities in Italy that has been worst hit by coronavirus. In the second part we hear from Jonathan Vaughters, boss of the EF Pro Cycling team, who were the first to pull out of the Strade Bianche race a couple of weeks ago, about what th...
1hr 23m Mar 24, 2020
1hr 23m
S8 Ep28: Part 1: Gianni Mura and Milan-Sanremo
This week, we have divided the podcast into two parts, enabling those who want to avoid discussion of the coronavirus pandemic to self-isolate from the subject and enjoy a diverting hour or so listening to us talk about cycling. In this part one, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe pay tribute to the veteran Italian sportswriter Gianni Mura, who died last week, and talk about Milan-S...
1hr 23m Mar 24, 2020
1hr 23m
S8 Ep27: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | March 2020
In the March episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin there's lots of racing, with Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore picking out their moments of the early season – until it was stopped in its tracks by coronavirus.  There's a report from Richard's day in the Drops team car, with Bob Varney and Julian Winn, at Het Nieuwsblad, and we hear from Lizzy Banks, the Bigla-Katusha rider who r...
1hr 9m Mar 20, 2020
1hr 9m
S8 Ep26: Paris-Nice and pause
The world of professional cycling is not immune to the effects of the coronavirus and so the season has been put on hold after Paris-Nice. From their separate studios, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap what will be the final race for a while. Daniel was on the road covering a surreal edition of the Race to the Sun and he reports on the decision by organisers ASO to push on to...
1hr 17m Mar 18, 2020
1hr 17m
S8 Ep25: Life in the Peloton – Talking Classics with Luke Durbridge
Life in the Peloton is a packed episode of two halves this time as Mitch Docker and his good mate Luke Durbridge look back at the first Belgian Classics of the season before answering some great listeners' questions. Mitch and Luke used to be teammates at Orica-GreenEdge, now they live not too far from each other in Girona, and they caught up after Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuur...
1hr 26m Mar 12, 2020
1hr 26m
S8 Ep24: Cycling in the time of coronavirus
Strade Bianche may have been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy but Paris-Nice got underway and the opening two stages turned out to be more like mini Classics. Crosswinds caused chaos and whittled down the number of riders likely to contend for overall victory as the race heads towards the hills and, hopefully, the sun at the end of the week. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie...
1hr 20m Mar 11, 2020
1hr 20m
S8 Ep23: Explore | Coffee, croissants and cassoulet with Felicity Cloake
Explore returns to The Cycling Podcast as a monthly show following the seven-part debut series, which was release at the end of 2018. Lionel Birnie and Hannah Troop introduce the show, which will also feature regular contributions from former World Tour professional rider Ian Boswell. In this episode we meet Felicity Cloake, award-winning food writer for The Guardian and author of the excellent...
1hr 39m Mar 06, 2020
1hr 39m
S8 Ep22: Opening weekend
The season finally started, according to Lionel Birnie, with Belgium’s “Opening Weekend” comprising Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday followed by Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday.  The racing was thrilling, but there has been a lot of other news in the cycling world, from coronavirus and its possible effects on the upcoming races, not to mention the four teams still in quarantine in Abu Dhabi, to Gian...
1hr 21m Mar 04, 2020
1hr 21m
S8 Ep21: Service Course | Episode 7 | New kit day
In this month’s episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley take a look at the new kit that's arrived in the peloton for 2020. They hear from young riders, Mikkel Bjerg, Katrine Aalerud, Niamh Fisher-Black and her brother Finn, all of whom have recently stepped up to bigger teams, and talk about the challenges of using totally new equipment. There’s also a conversation with Cannondal...
41m Mar 02, 2020
41m
S8 Ep20: Life in the Peloton – Matt Keenan
Mitch Docker meets a man whose voice will be familiar to cycling fans throughout the world. For many, Matt Keenan is the voice of the Tour de France thanks to his lead commentary work which is heard by viewers in the US, Australia and anywhere that takes the world feed from race organiser ASO. Matt grew up in the same neighbourhood as Mitch and also dreamed of being a professional cyclist. When...
1hr 12m Feb 26, 2020
1hr 12m
S8 Ep19: Remco on fire
Is Remco Evenepoel the new Eddy Merckx? He's Belgian, he's 20 years old and he's won both stage races he's taken part in so far this season. Following up victory at the Vuelta a San Juan, the Deceuninck-Quick Step sensation won the Tour of the Algarve with a strong performance in the hills and an impressive time trial. In this episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Dani...
1hr 1m Feb 26, 2020
1hr 1m
S8 Ep18: A new Nairoman?
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap a great week of racing for Colombian riders and the EF Education First team. The outstanding performance of the week was by Nairo Quintana, who grabbed his first victories for the French Arkéa-Samsic by winning the stage to Chalet-Reynard, halfway up Mont Ventoux, to clinch the Tour de La Provence. Mean...
57m Feb 20, 2020
57m
S8 Ep17: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | February 2020
In the February episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin we hear from the new cyclocross world champion Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado and also from Danny Stam, who tells us how his team, Boels-Dolmans, has managed to attract a new sponsor, SD Worx. The new sponsor has signed up for four years, ensuring the future of a team that has set the benchmark for women’s teams. Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and...
46m Feb 13, 2020
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S8 Ep16: The Pogfather
In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the early season races and ask what the 2020 season has in store for Slovenian sensation Tadej Pogacar's after his victory at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. We also hear from Cameron Wurf, the former World Tour pro-turned-triathlete who has returned to the top ranks of professional cycling with Team Ineos.  The Cy...
56m Feb 12, 2020
56m
S8 Ep15: Life in the Peloton – Andre Greipel
In this episode of Life in the Peloton Mitch Docker meets Andre Greipel, the German sprinter who won 11 stages of the Tour de France between 2011 and 2016. The pair sat down to talk during the Tour Down Under and Mitch reveals that Andre has been a long-time listener to the Life in the Peloton podcast and asked when he would be invited to be a guest on the show. Mitch starts by asking Andre abo...
53m Feb 11, 2020
53m
S8 Ep14: Questions for Fuglsang and the reinvention of a Spanish institution
In this week’s podcast Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss all the latest racing and news and there’s an in-depth look at a team that’s been reinvented for 2020.  Apart from all the racing, Jakob Fuglsang, the Danish rider on Astana, has been subject to the allegation that he has been working with the banned doctor, Michele Ferrari. Any such association would constitute an anti-doping offen...
1hr 18m Feb 05, 2020
1hr 18m
S8 Ep13: Last of the Summer Wine
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the early season news and recap the Tour Down Under. There's also Luca Scinto's ban on power meters, the news that the UCI is considering a world championship for gravel racing and we discuss Peter Sagan's latest milestone – his 30th birthday. It was at the Tour Down Under a decade ago that Sagan firs...
44m Jan 29, 2020
44m
S8 Ep12: Life in the Peloton – Jimmy Whelan
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton, with Mitch Docker. The Cycling Podcast is delighted to welcome Mitch Docker and his excellent Life in the Peloton series to the fold for 2020. This is the first episode of a fortnightly series presented by the EF Education First rider Mitch Docker. Let’s hand over to Mitch to find out more… “Life in the Peloton started in 2016 and if ...
49m Jan 28, 2020
49m
S8 Ep11: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Tao Geoghegan Hart
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. This is the final episode of our mini series and it features Tao Geoghegan Hart, who Mitch ca...
24m Jan 27, 2020
24m
S8 Ep10: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Svein Tuft
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. The penultimate episode of our mini series introducing our listeners to Life in the Peloton f...
24m Jan 26, 2020
24m
S8 Ep9: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Mike Woods
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. This conversation with Mike Woods, the EF Education First climber, took place shortly after t...
22m Jan 25, 2020
22m
S8 Ep8: Service Course | Episode 6 | Gold Medal Machine?
In this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley take a close look at the new HB.T track bike that Team GB will be riding at the Olympics in Tokyo. A collaboration between Hope Technology and Lotus Engineering, the bike’s striking looks are certain to divide opinion. To find out more about the design, Lizzy spoke with Tony Purnell, the head of development at British Cycling. He be...
41m Jan 24, 2020
41m
S8 Ep7: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Luke Durbridge
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. Mitch's friend and former teammate Luke Durbridge is a regular guest on Life in the Peloton a...
22m Jan 24, 2020
22m
S8 Ep6: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Marcel Kittel
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. This time, let's hear Mitch's conversation with Marcel Kittel. They were teammates together a...
23m Jan 23, 2020
23m
S8 Ep5: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Daryl Impey
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. First up it's Daryl Impey, the Mitchelton-Scott rider who has experienced the highs and lows ...
23m Jan 22, 2020
23m
S8 Ep4: A trip to Girona to meet Mitch Docker
For this episode of The Cycling Podcast Lionel Birnie travelled to Girona to meet Mitch Docker. Melbourne-born Docker rides for EF Education First and is about to embark on his 12th season in the elite pro peloton. He came to Europe in 2009 when he got a contract with the Skil-Shimano team, then moved to Orica-GreenEdge, where he spent six years, before heading to EF Education First. In that ti...
1hr 25m Jan 21, 2020
1hr 25m
S8 Ep3: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | January 2020
The Cycling Podcast Féminin returns for 2020 with a look ahead to the new season and interviews with Morgane Gaultier, the UCI's women's cycling coordinator, and two talented young riders, Sarah Gigante and Pfeiffer Georgi. Gigante is the youngster who shocked her rivals by winning the senior Australian national road race title last year at the age of just 18. Now 19, she backed that up this ye...
56m Jan 17, 2020
56m
S8 Ep2: Ian Boswell on concussion and retirement
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe for a look at the week’s cycling news, including Bernie Eisel’s retirement and Bjarne Riis’s return to the World Tour as part of Team NTT’s management. This episode features an extensive interview with Ian Boswell, the American who spent seven seasons in the World Tour with Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin. Boswell has been forced to retire from r...
1hr 25m Jan 15, 2020
1hr 25m
S8 Ep1: Nice-Paris and other races in 2020
The Cycling Podcast returns after the Christmas and New Year break with our first episode of 2020. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as they each pick three things they're looking forward to in professional cycling in the coming year. From new teams to riders facing new challenges, big-name transfers and leadership dynamics, new places to visit and, yes, the prospect of goulas...
1hr 10m Jan 09, 2020
1hr 10m
S7 Ep184: The Christmas Cycling Scrabble Challenge
It’s Christmas, traditionally a time for people to come together and enjoy the simple pleasure of playing a friendly board game and a glass of eggnog. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and special guest Ned Boulting for The Cycling Podcast’s Christmas Cycling Scrabble Challenge. This is Scrabble, but not as you know it. Only words that have a clear and obvious link to the world of professional ...
57m Dec 23, 2019
57m
S7 Ep183: Service Course | Episode 5 | Wonder Materials and Space Elevators
Imagine a world without potholes. Imagine a bike frame that is stiffer than one made from carbon fibre yet 20% lighter. Imagine a bike that transmits a potentially endless amount of data, without any wires, and with all the sensors built into the components (and also your clothing). Imagine an elevator that could take you from the earth to the stars. Lizzy and Tom imagine all of those things an...
53m Dec 20, 2019
53m
S7 Ep182: Meet Flavio Zappi
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie travels to Bicester Village retail outlet, not to do his Christmas shopping but to meet former Italian pro rider Flavio Zappi. After a calamitously clumsy introduction at the Rapha cafe (sorry again, chaps!), Lionel talks to Flavio about his career as a rider in the early 1980s when he finished second in the king of the mountains comp...
1hr 32m Dec 17, 2019
1hr 32m
S7 Ep181: The Americans in Nice
In a follow up to a Friends Special from 2016, Richard Moore travels to Nice to meet up with American professionals Ian Boswell, Joe Dombrowski and Larry Warbasse, and also a couple of younger riders, Will Barta and Matteo Jorgenson. Boswell, Dombrowski and Warbasse are all at different points in their careers. After a serious crash in March, Boswell didn't race again in 2019 and is starting to...
1hr 6m Dec 10, 2019
1hr 6m
S7 Ep180: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | December 2019
In the final Cycling Podcast Féminin of the year the team look back on their standout moments of 2019 with Kasia Niewiadoma, Lizzy Banks, Maria Martins and Bob Varney. It’s been a difficult few weeks for one of the teams of the year, Parkhotel Valkenburg. Their world number one, Lorena Wiebes, is the subject of offers from bigger teams and another rider, Sofie De Vuyst, announced that she has t...
1hr 5m Dec 06, 2019
1hr 5m
S7 Ep179: Adam Blythe talks about retirement
The Cycling Podcast's 11-date Grand Tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland has reached its conclusion and Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are back with an episode recapping the cycling news. Former British national champion Adam Blythe joined us for two of our live shows – at London's Arts Theatre and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester – and in this episode he speaks about the de...
59m Dec 04, 2019
59m
S7 Ep178: On the road at the Grand Tour
This week's episode finds Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in the green room backstage at the Y Theatre, Leicester, before the ninth stage of their Grand Tour. We recap the theatre tour so far and answer some of the questions posed by the audience that we didn't have time to get to on stage. We also meet Stacy Snyder, the ceramist who has been making the beautiful cups for The Cyc...
1hr 1m Nov 29, 2019
1hr 1m
S7 Ep177: Service Course | Episode 4 | String Theory and Climbing Bikes
This month Lizzy Banks takes Service Course back to the place where it all began for her, Hill Climbs. It was the Sheffield University Hill Climb at Curbar Edge in Derbyshire where Lizzy first started to believe that she may have a serious future in the sport and so for this episode she goes back to her roots to look at hill climbing bikes in all their glorious eccentricities. The show features...
43m Nov 27, 2019
43m
S7 Ep176: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | November 2019
The November episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin includes a feature on arguably the greatest team in the history of women's racing, Boels-Dolmans. With both sponsors giving notice of their intention to quit, the Dutch squad faces an uncertain future. We speak to the team director, Danny Stam, its longest-serving rider, Christine Majerus, and former riders Lucy Martin and Nikki Brammeier. Orl...
1hr 5m Nov 22, 2019
1hr 5m
S7 Ep175: How to plan a cycling season, with Matt White
After travelling from Bristol to Belfast and reaching London on Monday night, The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour has reached its halfway point. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the week's news – double Tour de France stage winner Steve Cummings' retirement, the latest from Dr Richard Freeman's General Medical Council hearing and we hear from Matt White about how he sits down...
1hr 2m Nov 21, 2019
1hr 2m
S7 Ep174: Remembering Poulidor
The Cycling Podcast is currently on a theatre tour but Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Orla Chennaoui recorded this week's episode a few hours before taking to the stage at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall. They discuss the latest developments in the General Medical Council's hearing into former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman, and Shane Sutton's extraordinar...
52m Nov 14, 2019
52m