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VCDL Extra – Brian Smith Part 1
10.30.12 | Permalink | 2 Comments

In this episode of VCDL Extra we bring you Part 1 of our interview with Brian Smith of Endura Racing, recently merged with Net App.

Brian tells us about his work with Cervelo Test Team and subsequently Endura Racing, and gives us some great insight into rising star Jon Tiernan Locke.

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Episode 41 – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
10.30.12 | Permalink | Comment?

In this episode, we bring you a farce based on evidence from serial perjurers and those who were coerced through threats & sweetheart deals.

Yup, with only one story in town, we just couldn’t ignore it. We also discuss how Sky (and other teams & riders) have dealt with the fallout.

Finally we look at how Team Sky came across in the recent documentary series, The Road to Glory.

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VCDL Extra – Tracy Moseley
10.10.12 | Permalink | Comment?

In the first of our Extras, Gary talks to mountain biking superstar Tracy Moseley about her unconventional 2012 season and about that crash.

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Episode 40 – Jazz Odyssey
10.01.12 | Permalink | 3 Comments

To celebrate 2 years of the VCDL Pod, we have tweaked our format a bit. Fear not though, it’s still the same cosy, fireside fan-chat between Gary & Graham as this week they discuss the UCI Road World Championships, Tyler Hamilton’s book, The Secret Race & the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup season.

As far as the Road World Champs is concerned, we ask whether we are reading too much into the post-race comments of Nicole Cooke & Emma Pooley (probably). Whether we were wrong to suggest Taylor Phinney was over-hyped (almost certainly) and whether Stannard could blitz the Classics if Sky supported him (we bloody-well hope so!)

We bring you our thoughts on Tyler Hamilton’s magnificant octopus, The Secret Race, and ask whether it is morally wrong for him to be making money out of a career of dishonesty.

Finally, we wrap up the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup with a season review and we trail (trail? geddit? – oh, never mind) an interview with Tracy Moseley. The full interview can be heard on our forthcoming VCDL Extra which literally no-one has been asking us to produce.

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Episode 39 – Drug is the Love
09.12.12 | Permalink | 2 Comments

In this episode we wrap up the Vuleta and we preview both the World Championships and the Tour of Britain.

We do our best not to avoid the unavoidable subject of Lance Armstrong’s recent USADA sanction and the release of Tyler Hamilton’s book.

We then turn our attention to the mud with a roundup of the 2012 Mountain Bike World Championships.

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Episode 38 – Kinky
08.20.12 | Permalink | Comment?

There is SO much cycling going on at the moment – where to start? Well, we start by wrapping up the Olympic track results & move on to the Vuelta. Can Sky support Froome? Is he truly a pure climber? Just two of the questions that we will probably not satisfactorily answer!

We then bring back some mountain biking news after a long hiatus with results from the World Cup & the Olympics. Getting more local for once, Graham bigs-up (or should that be big-ups) the Isle of Bute Cycling Festival

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Episode 37 – Above Us Only Sky
07.30.12 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Gary and Graham look back at the closing week of Le Tour and ponder “what next?” for Mark Cavendish and fat blokes in Team Sky kit and trainers. They also review the Olympic road races which feature mixed fortunes for Team GB.

In this episode, Gary attempts to usurp Graham’s leadership by cheekily making a bid to drive the show. In appreciation, Graham vows that Gary will have exclusive dibs on the forthcoming daily podcasts* covering the USA Pro Cycling Challenge which apparently starts next month.

Finally, the boys announce the winner of the VCDL/Velogames Fantasy Tour de France mini-league and the actually-randomly-drawn winner of a King of the Mountains casquette, generously donated by our mate Gary Rothera off of Rothera Cycling

(* No, not really)

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Episode 36 – Letter Bombs
07.10.12 | Permalink | Comment?

It’s the first rest day of the 2012 Tour de France. Find out how many of our pre-race predictions were wrong and see if we can make any more wrongerer ones!

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Episode 35 – Incrediboy
06.25.12 | Permalink | Comment?

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 spot & not letting him escape the difficult questions which, make no mistake, need asked and, more importantly, need answered.

Join our Velogames fantasy league using the league code 22090509 to be in with a chance of winning a £25 Chain Reaction voucher.

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Episode 34 – The Monkey Shot
06.18.12 | Permalink | Comment?

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 a fractured Sacral bone in his pelvis.

We have a great interview with the official photographer of Team Sky, Scott Mitchell. Scott’s daily Giro galleries can be found here and you can follow him on Twitter @modcyclingphoto.

We bring you all the news from our brilliant weekend at the Fort William World Cup & Gary has an interview with spanner legend, Monkey Vasquez (pictured). Our photos from Fort Bill can be found on our Photo Gallery page.

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