Did Not Finish

It’s the week of Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice in bicycle racing, and our factmaster Cillian brings a stat about his legendary compatriot and namesake Sean’s success at weeklong stage races. We also talk Strade Bianche, Demi Vollering as a great new cycling villain, and whether Pidcock should have stuck the knife in, before finishing up with a couple of bonkers reader emails. Long live Ireland&...

This week’s stat is a cobbled classic all-timer: no male rider has ever won Omloop Niewsblad and the Tour of Flanders in the same year. Our hosts Cillian, Harry and Stu discuss why that might be, as well as reviewing the racing from ‘Openingsweekend’.  Finally, real racing is back: Do you want Muur?!!!??! (yes, please).

Multi-discipline masters are the subject of the latest episode of DNF – who are the greatest cycling unicorns, and why did so many of them ride for Team Sky?  Cillian, Harry and Stu are back after a week away, sat astride a horse galloping onwards in the pursuit of cycling knowledge, with a saddlebag crammed with stats! 

While the Warner Bros. Discovery decision continues to send sizeable ripples, the trio unpack a fact that has its own repercussions through not just the year but entire cycling careers. Ready for lift off?

Warner's Brutal Decision… Wrecked Broadcast Direction… Whoops! Bicycling Dead… You see where we’re going with this one.  In episode 02 of DNF, we discuss the shattering news of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) hiking up the price to watch cycling in the UK and Ireland from £6.99 a month to £30.99 – what a bunch of corporate b*stards! Or is it that bad? Cillian and Harry speak about their time work...

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman start a podcast about cycling… In the first episode of Did Not Finish (DNF), Harry, Cillian and Stu debate why there have been so few rainbow jersey winners down under, tell stories about the curse of said jersey, and discuss their favourite Aussie riders ever. There’s also talk of Alberto Bettiol eating jelly babies straight out of a leather bag, a FIFA-e...

An episode about resolutions, shit brothers, signing to Life in the Peloton and moving in with Mitch Docker, and a double helping of fresh, hot news. Dig in!

Buckle up, it's a bumper edition. Harry & Stu welcome a bona fide pro cycling expert for Stage 16, none other than Cillian Kelly – that's doctor to you – sky-rocketing the show's pro cycling credentials. An hour-long chat about the good doctor's history – reaching back to the good old days of VHS – into the present day and beyond, we get to the soft centre of cold hard stats and see there's tr...

In Stage 15 of acclaimed pro cycling podcast Race Radio, Harry and Stu individually/together (what's the difference?) address rumours surrounding their slightly extended absence, bake a banana bread, confuse races, consider Wout van Aert's singing voice, get to grips with ultra, regale one another with stories from the fringes of cycling, and debate the pros and cons of attending a knobhead's jamb...

In which Harry and Stu practically pick up where they left off, Stu has the remnants of a late summer cold, Harry talks about life behind bars before recounting an outrageous dinner party outcome with a former pro cyclist of some repute (the two are not related), the most winning bikes of the world tour from a position of little authority and cursory research, we dream about live dream bike builds...

In which we allow ourselves to be caught up in Olympic fever (no rule 40 here), celebrate a raging Remco, remember Pauline's camper, lick the stamp/inside of Tom Pidcock's mouth, races with bikes but no cyclists, tentatively test the timbre, get briefly (very briefly) excited about track, consider vomiting in sports, leading nicely to a special challenge after Stu locates a storied piece of memora...

In which a weary traveler returns to correct some French, before commencing an earnest discussion on the following subjects: winning, alternative uses for the humble pannier, Lachlan Morton's emerald slippers have a BOA strap(?), Dickie Carapaz slips that Yates brother(s) like a turn on the front, Biniam Girmay gets an impromptu beat, Derek Gee's Gran Fondo has a special feature, S-Works is the on...

In which we talk – more or less chronologically – about the first week of the 111th Tour de France, which has (mild spoiler alert) been really rather good. Including but not limited to: Sean Kelly's dulcet tones, playing Playstation in a van, bag of sick, Cillian Kelly corrects us, DSM's work experience boy, we get the Galibier, our 'we met Mark Cavendish' stories (there's more than one), Vin Dies...

In this episode we talk about real American heroes, Ben O'Connor has a strop for show in that Netflix doco, great commentators (Steve Chainel, we're looking at you), villainous villains, the worst (on paper) teams and riders at the Tour de France, young studs on show, Bradley Wiggins declares bankruptcy, the second or third or fourth coming of the renaissance, Arnaud de Lie wears a new jumper and...

Another week, another pod, another guest. There's no stopping the Useless Postal content machine from cranking out cycling-adjacent substance. On this episode we’re delighted to talk turkey (other poultry also available) with Race Radio’s Motoman himself, none other than pro cycling photographer Zac Williams. We caught up with Zac fresh-ish from three weeks spent riding pillion at the Giro. He tel...

Lachlan Morton won UNBOUND Gravel on Saturday. But did you know he did it wearing a size small women’s aero helmet? And did you know he didn’t actually use the bladder pocket sewn into the back of his fancy new Rapha Project Blaero skinsuit, but shoved the bag down his front instead? And did you know that said bladder was actually filled with ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon*? All of these revelations a...

Well that's actually not true, because in episode seven of Race Radio, brought to you by cycling content confectioners Useless Postal, we do also hear a little bit about a Classique ride that's just happened in Essex. But if the Giro thang is still tickling your fancy, we've got a whole host of amusing (we hope) awards, bad moustaches then and now, Rob Brydon is maybe Geraint's uncle, Primoz Rogli...

The Race Radio train keeps on rumbling… Choo, choo! Speaking of, Harry and Stu obsess over the pink Giro train that rides alongside the peloton (if only this ‘Snowpiercer’ could have cleaned up the Stelvio for next week), discuss optimal rest day activities, compare Pog to renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci, delve into the bizarre ‘race’ within a race, the Giro-E, big man Jonathan Milan's Lidl feet...

It’s time for Episode 05 of Race Radio, in which the actual real life Filippo Ganna tells us what ice cream flavour he is, we discover Demi Vollering’s very corporate LinkedIn page, @alanma1984 leaves us a beautiful voice note, Harry sings another song (badly) while bragging about his 100% fantasy game predictions record, Stu reads some Pippo Pozzato-inspired fan fiction, and we do also talk a lit...

Amore infinito is here. We talk about how great the Giro is, the prowess of Tadej Pogacar, can grand tours still be fun when the winner is a forgone conclusion, who is the new Derek Gee, what flavour of ice cream would Filippo Ganna be, when is the general classification not the general classification, wildcard kit reviews, fond memories of being woken up by Juan Antonio Flecha in a ditch, remembe...

As Timbaland said in the intro of Aaliyah's Try Again, It's been a long time, we shouldn't have left you without a dope beat to step to. But worry not, we're back and talking about where we've been, the goings-on at the Ardennes, a few of its trends, Tom Pidcock's suit, Tadej Pogacar's leaving money on the table with a potential Henson Creature Shop collab, and a bunch of other stuff including the...

The boys are back for episode two of Race Radio with a punchy, pavé-tastic podcast on Paris-Roubaix. In the mail bag this week: Is domination boring? (yes)... Should MVDP mix up his finish line celebrations more? (yes)... Should riders celebrate minor placings more, as Pfeiffer Georgi did? (yes!). There’s also a terrifying tale of ghostly goats , a superstar DM slide-in for Useless Postal snapper...

‘Come in, Race Radio!’ 📻 Introducing a podcast that celebrates the weird, fun, sublime and stupid stuff that goes on in professional cycling. We talk silly weather at the classics, dubious podium fashion, nominate our not-so-serious awards for the coureurs of the cobbled races, get a dispatch from our ‘motoman’ at Flanders, photog Zac Williams, before hearing an exclusive excerpt of best-selling...