Cyclingtips Podcast

Saturday’s thrilling Giro stage can teach us lessons about creating chaos and excitement in the middle of Grand Tours. Caley, Ronan, Kit, and Shoddy sit down to talk through the weekend’s racing, plus look ahead at the mountainous final week.

It was a thrilling week of racing at the Giro d'Italia, from a historic stage win for Biniam Girmay to breakaway victory to the first Italian stage win. It came with surprises too, not least of which was a cork straight to Girmay's eye. Caley, Ronan, Jonny, and Shoddy break it all down.

The first real GC day, a glorious Thomas De Gendt breakaway, and Mathieu van der Poel's tactical nous (or lack thereof) highlighted a week of racing at the Giro d'Italia. Caley, Ronan, Amy, and Shoddy are back to discuss it all and look ahead to the sprint days to come.  Plus, Shoddy reports in from Itzulia Women and Amy explains why Demi Vollering has been simply unbeatable. 

In today's episode: The Giro is back on the Italian mainland and the sprinters have had their first opportunities. Caley, Ronan, Dane, and Kit break down two excellent sprints then discuss a wild stage 7, Trek's tactics, and what might happen this weekend on Blockhaus.

This week on the CyclingTips podcast Caley, Dane, Ronan, and Shoddy dig into the first three stages of the Giro d'Italia, including discussions of early GC moves, possible points jersey contenders, and surprise TTs. Then the crew looks ahead to the first mountain stage on Mount Etna and then pick out some possible breakaway winners for the next week. Plus, we hear Mathieu van der Poel defend his spaghetti ketchup.

The Giro d'Italia kicks off on Friday from Budapest and in this special preview episode Caley Fretz, Dane Cash, and Jonny Long get together to discuss the route, the favorites, who might surprise and more.

This week on the CyclingTips Podcast we dig into Rohan Dennis’ uphill time trial collapse, Aleksandr Vlasov’s Tour de France chances, Simon Yates’ hot-and-cold Giro preparation, and wonder aloud where Ivan Sosa has been all this time. Plus, does pro cycling need safety cars? Should rider safety outweigh the organic unfurling of a race?

This week on the CyclingTips podcast we discuss the final two one-days of the men's and women's Spring Classics: Liège-Bastogne-Liège and La Flèche Wallonne. Plus, the Tour de Romandie is this week and we are a little over a week from the first Grand Tour of the year.

The CyclingTips podcast reports from the roadside of Paris-Roubaix. What made this edition so fast and how have the Ineos Grenadiers become the team of the Spring this year?

The CyclingTips team reports cobble-side from Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift where the conditions couldn't be more different from last year.

The CyclingTips podcast is back to preview the upcoming men's and women's Paris-Roubaix. SD Worx is the team to watch after a disappointing performance in the first Paris-Roubaix Femmes, and although they've been the team to beat this Spring, has the men's Jumbo-Visma team peaked too soon? Plus, with his leg broken Ronan has become an expert in data analysis, apparently. 

This week on the CyclingTips podcast... We break down the winning move from the women's Amstel Gold Race and talk about how the race can announce a male winner in the future. There were some notable developments in Itzulia Basque Country last week and Scheldeprijs did not disappoint. Plus Shoddy catches up with Allan Davis at Itzulia Basque Country. Ronan looked into why Wout van Aert can wear his Red Bull branded helmet while Tom Pidcock can not.

This week on the CyclingTips podcast... We have a lot to say about the men's and women's Tour of Flanders and the key moments from both events. With James out, we skip a Nerd Nugget this week but recommend checking out the bikes and tech Ronan saw while in Belgium over the weekend.

The CyclingTips crew get together to preview a potentially Wout van Aert-less men's Tour of Flanders and what will be a predictably unpredictable women's event on Sunday. If you missed Caley's words on Richard Moore they can be found here.

This week on the CyclingTips podcast... The Volta a Catalunya saw the young Colombian Sergio Higuita take a major general classification victory after the first three stages were dominated by Australians. In Belgium, Brugge-De Panne was hectic and E3 signalled a changing of the guard while both the men's and women's Gent-Wevelgem ended dramatically.

This week on the CyclingTips podcast... We chat everything Milan-San Remo from Mohorič to Pogačar vs Van Aert, especially that dropper seat post. We briefly get into Trofeo Alfredo Binda, but for a full breakdown check out this week's Freewheeling podcast. Plus, coming up this week we've got the Volta a Catalunya and a handful of men's and women's Belgian one-days.

This week on the CyclingTips podcast... We discuss Paris-Nice, especially the fantastic final stage, and Tirreno-Adriatico and look ahead to Milan-Sanremo on Saturday. Plus, Lorena Wiebes seems unbeatable in a sprint after her performance at Ronde van Drenthe. For this week's Nerd Nugget, James is excited to test an $800 road bike.

This week on the CyclingTips podcast... We discuss the very different tactics in play at the men's and women's Strade Bianche over the weekend. The first really important stage races are underway with Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico, and Paris-Nice, in particular, started with a bang for one team while others fell short. James chats about the new project from Lemond, what we know and what we don't know.

This week on the CyclingTips podcast... We chat in depth about the men's and women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the men's Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne. In case you want to read Iain's The dictator, the oligarch and the UCI president piece. James checks in to discuss Cervelo's new frames hiding in plain sight at the opening weekend.

In this special episode of the CyclingTips podcast, our Senior Features Editor Iain Treloar digs into the evacuation efforts of Afghan cyclists in the wake of the Taliban’s return.  Off the back of months of reporting, we reveal the bullying and blackmail behind a famous cyclist evacuation convoy backed by the UCI – and how the lists had been manipulated by the President of the Afghan Cycling Federation, Fazli Ahmad Fazli, to benefit family and friends instead of cyclists. With UCI backing, they received asylum, and Fazli received a major UCI award.   Since CyclingTips broke the story, whistleblowers have been directly targeted, and a cyclist that Fazli believed to be a CyclingTips source was kidnapped and tortured for four days. Death threats have been issued, and now the Taliban is being sent after cyclists – apparently at Fazli’s orders. In a message to one cyclist, he said that the Taliban were his allies, and wrote that “until they have sent me pictures of their dead bodies, I will not rest.” This is a r