In this episode we look at the opening week of the Giro & ponder who are the real men and who are the big girl’s blouses (not wanting to disrespect women, of course!) We are growing slightly weary of the Wiggo & Froomey Tour leadership spat & we welcome the return of the Cross Country [...]
In this episode we bring you a season roundup & nominate our rider, race & team of the year. We also bring you some further discussion on Sky’s zero-tolerance policy. We have an interview with Mike Jardine of Rare management, organisers of the Fort William World Cup. Mike is just back from China where he [...]
In the first of our Extras, Gary talks to mountain biking superstar Tracy Moseley about her unconventional 2012 season and about that crash. Please leave us a comment below or e-mail us at veloclubdonlogan@gmail.com - we’d love to hear from you! You can also use the Wiggle & Chain Reaction Cycles links to help [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In this episode we are out & about. We attended an exhibition of work by the excellent cycling artist Richard Mitchelson, held in Ronde, a bike shop with a difference, in Edinburgh. We chatted to Rich about his exhibition & about cycling in general. We also spoke to Ronde’s owners, the two Neils. We also [...]
In this episode we discuss the historic victory of Sky’s Bradley Wiggins in Paris-Nice & the great overall result for team-of-the-pod Vacansoleil. We have a brief chat about Tirreno Adriatico and also discuss yet more rumours of a breakaway league. In mountain bike news, we look forward to the start of the season in Pietermaritzburg [...]
In this episode we try hard hard to disguise our ambivalence regarding the start of the new season in a couple of week’s time. We muster up enough enthusiasm to chat about the forthcoming Tour Down Under and the winners & losers in the Pro Team selection process. We have an early nomination for VCDL [...]
In this episode we discuss the UCI’s plans to introduce a doping tribunal in the hope of speeding up the hearing process & avoid the kind of drawn-out saga currently being played out with Alberto Contador. In other UCI-related news, we report on the allegations in Swiss newspaper, l’Illustre, suggesting that Vino paid Alexander Kolobnev [...]
In this episode, Bertie bags a bride. We discuss Contador’s recent nuptials and his ongoing CAS hearing which should be entering its endgame. We also discuss the Rasmussens, Alex & Michael, one of whom has escaped the wrath of the UCI and the other who was trying to escape the wrath of his wife & [...]