The Cycling Podcast

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited June 2022
    It's still a very good podcast
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,235
    takethehighroad said:

    I can't say I'm a fan of Kate Wagner

    The latest episode was a good premise, touring around Slovenia, but I don't like that she's reading from a pre written script.

    Even with the KM0 episodes, they sound natural and still tell a story

    Just listened to that episode; much better than I had anticipated. Can tell she is a writer though, not just a bletherer.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,166
    takethehighroad said:

    I can't say I'm a fan of Kate Wagner

    The latest episode was a good premise, touring around Slovenia, but I don't like that she's reading from a pre written script.

    Even with the KM0 episodes, they sound natural and still tell a story

    I enjoyed it. You can tell the bits that are reading from her writing, but I like her way with words, so it's all good. It's more like a well written magazine article to sit alongside the usual episodes. Looking forward to part two with the Roglic interview.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,166
    wakemalcolm said:

    As long as it's not the guy who narrates Friebe's Ullrich book, I'll be happy.

    I've returned the audio book and started reading it.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    edited July 2022


    MAAP have done a collaboration with the cycling podcast, 3 jerseys with the brief "if the cycling podcast was a pro team in the 70s, 80s and 90s". I think there will be a vote.

    The green 70s one I think will be the popular favourite but I guess no prises for guessing which I like (based on my opinion of the EF Tour kit!).
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,822
    I love the checked on tbf, but looking at the prices of other kit I guess I won't be able to get one
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    I've got a couple of MAAP jerseys, they are really nice. But best purchased on some kind of deal... I've a training jersey and an aero hex one or something - which I bought on a deal with some shorts (it's the white one with black stripes Richard Moore was pictured in).

    The shorts are by far the nicest and most comfortable ones I've got, which is a huge shame as I think they retail about £190 usually. I rode 620km in them this weekend 😀
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,699
    On Zwift or IRL? 😛
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,166
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    ddraver said:

    On Zwift or IRL? 😛

    IRL!

    I did an Audax. 622k, 33 hours total (25.5 moving). I'm doing London Edinburgh London for some reason, so it was a practice...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Under rather tragic circumstances, the cycling podcast is turning into the Sugababes, an aural trigger’s broom.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    rick_chasey said:

    Under rather tragic circumstances, the cycling podcast is turning into the Sugababes, an aural trigger’s broom.

    I've enjoyed it tbh, not been listening to them religiously but they have been doing reasonably well I think.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    rick_chasey said:

    Under rather tragic circumstances, the cycling podcast is turning into the Sugababes, an aural trigger’s broom.

    Mitch Docker was good I thought, and they've been unlucky with Lionel returning home for his father's funeral and coming down with covid.

    Never Strays Car has probably been the pick of the pods though
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 913
    rick_chasey said:

    Under rather tragic circumstances, the cycling podcast is turning into the Sugababes, an aural trigger’s broom.

    I see it more like the Barbarians: an eclectic mix of available talent selected on the basis of the locality being visited.

    The availability of their core has always been an issue during what should be the highlight of their podcasting year; it just spotlights the compromises of this being a side hustle.

    It's free and I'm enjoying it although I want to like Boswell more than I actually am. He could do with being a little less earnest, (although not in a Hemingway fashion).
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  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 913
    +1, unexpectedly for Never Strays Car. The addition of 3rd and 4th wheels Lizzie and Pete has kept their straying within reasonable levels.

    Pete asking the pizza restaurant owner in Alp D'huez if it was always this busy on a Wednesday cracked me up.
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    Cake is just weakness entering the body
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,699
    I love the way Lizzie pricks the...I don't really want to say pomposity, but it kind of is...of Millar and Boulting in such a cute but devastating way.

    If ITV and ES are not waving post-retirement commentary contracts under her nose as well as Cav's they need to get on it!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited July 2022
    ddraver said:

    I love the way Lizzie pricks the...I don't really want to say pomposity, but it kind of is...of Millar and Boulting in such a cute but devastating way.

    If ITV and ES are not waving post-retirement commentary contracts under her nose as well as Cav's they need to get on it!

    Haha you just like the Yorkshire in Lizzie. (me too, I married one...)
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  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    TCP is v good, Never Strays Car is ok but Millar often appears to think his musings are profound whilst in reality they are merely fairly interesting - for sheer Oz bravado and Belgium insight look no further than Lantern Rouge Cycling
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,699
    edited July 2022
    Edit - wrong thread, spoiler etc
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,656
    rick_chasey said:

    ddraver said:

    I love the way Lizzie pricks the...I don't really want to say pomposity, but it kind of is...of Millar and Boulting in such a cute but devastating way.

    If ITV and ES are not waving post-retirement commentary contracts under her nose as well as Cav's they need to get on it!

    Haha you just like the Yorkshire in Lizzie. (me too, I married one...)
    Lizzie yesterday: "I feel *very* Yorkshire today" 😅

    She's very good value.
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  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    edited July 2022
    Phillipa York on the CyclingTips Podcast is excellent - casually dropping brilliant insight
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    From the latest Never Strays Car, who have you got for the male Trek-Segafredo rider who stuck Lizzie D with the bill for a $450 bottle of wine 🤔
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    r0bh said:

    From the latest Never Strays Car, who have you got for the male Trek-Segafredo rider who stuck Lizzie D with the bill for a $450 bottle of wine 🤔

    That 100% sounds like Cancellara behaviour
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    Sounded more like a current rider 🤔
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ciccone
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    Ciccone is the only one that has been definitively ruled out
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited July 2022
    r0bh said:

    From the latest Never Strays Car, who have you got for the male Trek-Segafredo rider who stuck Lizzie D with the bill for a $450 bottle of wine 🤔

    Jasper Stuyven definitely. He's known to like expensive wines (mentioned when he was on Watts Occurring). They hinted at it later in the podcast.

    Talking about Stuyven
    Kennaugh: "Maybe he's going to UAE next"
    Armitstead: "No he's re-signed"
    Kennaugh: "More bills for you to pay Lizzie"
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,235
    Well deduced Dr Watson.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited July 2022
    Cycling podcasts in July do nothing to dispel my general view that cycling journalists are mostly chancers on a jolly. They spend a lot of time talking about what and where they ate and drank.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited July 2022
    RichN95. said:

    Cycling podcasts in July do nothing to dispel my general view that cycling journalists are mostly chancers on a jolly. They spend a lot of time talking about what and where they ate and drank.

    1/3rd of a grand tour is “this is where you could go on your summer holiday”.

    Part of the whole bit. Not for nothing the Dutch speakers had prime time post-Tour dedicate a good third of the programme to discuss where the riders are and what’s nice around there.
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