Welcome to our 2012 Tour de France preview episode. Jam-packed with ill-informed opinion, reckless predictions & downright anti-Spanish racism. In a brief diversion, we get side tracked into discussing the excellent interview of Stephen Roche, carried out by Jack Thurston of The Bike Show. Jack did an absolutely brilliant job of putting Stephen on the [...]
In this episode we round up the Dauphiné & the Tour de Suisse & discuss the implications of the results for the Tour de France contenders. We ask “where’s the love?” for poor old Andy Schleck who seems to have been on the sharp end of some stinging criticism before his exit from the Dauphiné with [...]
We Brits are a curious lot. We are living through an age of unprecedented national success in cycling but somehow we seem desperate for an excuse for it all to end. Bradley Wiggins has just won the Critérium du Dauphiné for the second year in a row, in convincing fashion (and we all know that with Brad [...]
Last year, I pondered Andy Schleck’s future and apparent credentials as a one-day-likely Tour winner. Okay, so technically he is a Tour winner after the Contador saga finally played out but – let’s be honest – that doesn’t really count, does it? Over the last few weeks some fairly gaping wounds have opened up over [...]
In this episode we round up the Giro with talk of Thomas de Gendt’s stunning breakaway victory on the Stelvio & Ryder Hesjedal’s win in the overall. We ask whether Garmin have come of age as serious Grand Tour contenders. (The Competitor Radio interview with Jonathan Vaughters that Gary mentioned, can be found here) [...]