Cycling Legends Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Chris Sidwells and David Walters introduce a new season and a new name for Britain’s most exciting elite women U23 team in a historic year for British cycling.

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Resolutions, health tips and inspiration for the new year - we offer none of that as we stumble into 2025. Instead, settle yourself down for an hour of chat with Chris, David and Gary covering everything from neutralised moto-pacing to make races safer to the UK honours system. Plus we talk Six Days of Ghent (only 6 weeks late!) and remember the legendary Gianni Savio who passed away last week. God speed, Swiss Toni!

Recommendations

Moto Jimm https://www.instagram.com/motojimm?igsh=MWUxNGNiamhheHgxcQ==

"The Art of Suffering" - Kristof Ramon https://amzn.eu/d/5kXCKJp

Cycling Legends Flanders Experience https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/the-flanders-experience

Rapha Chamois Cream (as endorsed by C, Sidwells) https://www.rapha.cc/dk/en/shop/chamois-cream/product/CHC06XX

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Website

Books, stories, podcasts and more at https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/

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As both the Tour and the Tour de France Femmes routes are announced, British telly viewers wake up to the news that they're going to have to cough up for their annual dose of yellow jersey fever from 2026. This plus Demi Vollering adds animal welfare to her palmares and the guys inadvertently promote responsible and safe doping. Just say 'no', kids, unless you've under the supervision of a suitably qualified medical practitioner.

Recommendations

BikeFarmer (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/@bkefrmr

Ned Boulting - 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession - https://amzn.eu/d/jbs8yuv

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now - https://amzn.eu/d/bZIHqKz

Other stuff

Michael Hernandez punch up - https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/salt-lake-criterium-culminates-with-fist-fight-between-two-riders

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TI-Raleigh was a game changer. Most big professional cycling teams from the 1940s onwards were built around one man. He was the leader and the rest were there to support him. All the post-War greats; Fausto Coppi, Louison Bobet, Rik Van Looy, Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx had teams built around them, and for them alone. TI-Raleigh changed that.

In an episode from October 2022 and previously only available on the Cycling Legends subscriber feed, Chris Sidwells chats about the latest book in his Cycling Legends series and talks about some of the tales and the characters behind cycling's very first superteam.

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As the end-of-season devil makes work for idle podcasters, David, Chris and Gary ponder whether it's time for British Cycling to take a leaf out of the England football team's book and get Johnny Foreigner in to sort stuff out? This plus Track Worlds snippets, how to wind up the the World Tour in style and taking in the tragic news from Sir Chris Hoy.

Recommendations

The new look Cycling Legends website - https://www.cyclinglegends.co.uk

Fumpa Pumps - https://www.fumpapumps.co.uk and https://www.fumpapumps.co.uk

Takeaway Thieves - https://www.takeawaythieves.com/

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Lost? Aimlessly wandering the streets because it's that fortnight between the World Championships and Il Lombardia? Fear not as the Devil has been making work for idle podcasters.

Gary picks over some of the post-Zurich scuttlebutt, plus:

• Transfers - real and imagined/wished for
• Whither, Demi Vollering?
• If 24 hours is a long time in politics, 72 hours is ages in Eddy Merckx
• Paris-Tours

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Links

Spanking new Cycling Legends website! - www.cyclinglegends.co.uk

An Evening with Chris Sidwells (and Phil Bayton) Ride 247, Cirencester Tuesday 8 October - https://ride247.cc/products/an-evening-with-chris-sidwell?_pos=1&_sid=6e3047356&_ss=r

Music - 'So Alive' by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.

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QUALITY CONTROL ALERT: Apologies for Gary's sound issues. He'll explain all at the top of the show!

Triumph and tragedy in Zurich. Chris, David and Gary recap an epic weekend of elite racing at the UCI World Championships, all of which happened in the shadow of the tragic passing of 18 year-old Muriel Furrer following a crash in the Junior Women's race on Thursday.

People shouldn’t die racing bikes: https://dstanley.substack.com/p/people-shouldnt-die-racing-bikes?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

Recommendations

Tony Hewson “In Pursuit of Stardom: Les Nomades du Velo Anglais” (Mousehold Press, 2006) - https://booksplea.se/in-pursuit-of-stardom-les-nomades-du-velo-anglais-by-tony-hewson-9781874739418/?setCurrencyId=1

Rwanda Cycling (Threads) - https://www.threads.net/@rwandacycling

The Hot Damn! “Dancing on the Milky Way” - https://www.thehotdamn.com

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ANOTHER Grand Bretagne Grand Depart? Our favourite (and least favourite) Worlds wins. Plus dodgy cycling photos, most of which involve Tom Boonen and our recommendations to enrich your life!

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Recommendations

Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty - https://www.tompetty.com/pages/music?album=petty-country-a-country-music-celebration-of-tom-petty

One Good Thing oat and protein bars - https://weareogt.com/

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In the latest episode, Chris, David and Gary look back on a Vuelta a Espana that saw Slovenia wrap up its clean sweep of this year's men's Grand Tours. After Lotte Kopecky and Demi Vollering go the line again in Romandie, the team ponder their favourite cycling in-house spats. Plus Paralympic Gold for Lizzie Jordan and Danni Khan in Paris and Gary's even been to an actual bike race.

All this a more in a whopping NINETY-SEVEN MINUTE (count 'em) Feed Zone from Cycling Legends Media.

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Recommendations

It's Suicide Awareness Month in the USA but wherever you are, you are never alone.

• Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (USA) - Dial 988
• National Suicide Prevention Helpline (UK) - 0800 689 5652

H Mart, Asian Supermarket Chain - https://hmart.co.uk/shop/gb/ or https://www.hmart.com/

Global Peloton - https://globalpeloton.substack.com/

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Gary's in Kelso for stage 1 of the 2024 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men. It's noisy!

(Also, the post-race blues were recorded on Wednesday morning!)

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All music by A Month of Sleep and courtesy of Epidemic Sound - https://www.epidemicsound.com

This episode was powered by Sook Jai Coffee Shop, 45 Horsemarket, Kelso TD5 7AA

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