Cycling Conversations with inGamba

The 2027 Tour de France route has just been announced, and before anyone starts debating watts per kilo and summit finish counts, James Startt and Ed Pickering want to talk about haggis in Edinburgh, the bakers of Wevelgem, cassoulet in Toulouse, and what awaits riders at the top of the Puy de Dôme. Between them, they’ve covered dozens of editions of the race, and the conversation covers far more...

What does it take to turn a one-day bike race into a monument? To make a climb so familiar that fans around the world hold their breath every time the peloton turns onto it? Scott Sunderland has spent the better part of three decades figuring that out, first as a professional cyclist racing the cobbles himself, then as a team director at CSC and Sky, and now as general race director of Flanders Cl...

Katie Boling has spent nine years in her role at inGamba, but before that, she was already looking for adventure, from racing Ironman to spending two years of backpacking across 55 countries. When she first arrived at our home in Borgholecchi over a decade ago, she knew she’d found her place, and since then, she’s helped build the inGamba community into what it is today. Host Molly Hurford and cre...

The UCI Road World Championships have come to North America for the first time in decades, and inGamba was on the ground in Montreal to bring you behind the scenes of the city. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt trade the race bubble for the neighborhood streets of Montreal to put together four vignettes of a city that we’ve come to love.  First up is Sébastien Arsenault...

Contemporary artist Zio Ziegler makes the case better than almost anyone that a long bike ride and a long day in the studio can feel the same. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt sit down with Zio, whose work has shown in museums from Tokyo to Milan to Basel, for a wide-ranging conversation about creative obsession, the discipline of simplicity, and of course, a shared lo...

He guided Tadej Pogacar to his first Tour de France victory. He helped Mark Cavendish become one of the most prolific stage winners of a generation. He arrived in Belgium at seventeen with $300 from his mother and a bike, and figured out the rest. Allan Peiper may not be a household name outside the sport, but inside it, he is one of the most quietly consequential figures of the last five decades....

What does it feel like to watch the Tour de France as a spectator after winning it four times? Chris Froome found out this past July, and it turns out it takes him right back to being sixteen years old in a boarding school common room in Johannesburg, watching some of the greats battle through the mountains and thinking: I want to get there one day. Now, he’s on a mission to help other young rider...

The Tour de France is not just a bike race. It is a traveling circus, a moving theater through one of the most geographically diverse countries in the world, and this episode captures both ends of that spectrum: the quiet, often forgotten heart of rural France, and its most mythic mountain: Mont Ventoux. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt are joined first by Ed Pickering...

The most Tour de France victories of any bike brand—and a Louis Vuitton collab that stopped the cycling world in its tracks. This week, host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt sit down with Fausto Pinarello of Pinarello, and Douglas Ryder, the team manager behind the WorldTour team Pinarello-Q36.5. These men have shaped what winning in style looks like in professional cycling...

What does it feel like to ride through a vineyard and actually understand what's in the glass waiting at the end? That's the thread running through this conversation—and two guests who live at the crossroads of cycling and wine are the perfect people to pull it. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt sit down with Aldo Sohm, multi-time North America's Sommelier of the Year,...

What does it feel like to show up to your bike already prepped, your route loaded, your tires perfect — with nothing left to do but ride? For the women who joined inGamba's sold-out Calpe women's week this past February, that was just the beginning. Cycling Conversations with inGamba co-host Molly Hurford sits down with two Kates who made it happen. First up is Kate Veronneau, the force behind the...

What does eating alone have to do with riding bikes? More than you'd think—and this episode makes a compelling case for both. Host Molly Hurford is joined by writer Colin O'Brien and inGamba creative director James Startt for a conversation around two features from the new issue of inGamba’s latest issue of The Magazine . Colin's piece "Party of One" is a love letter to the art of dining solo: the...

Our creative director and award-winning cycling photographer James Startt and inGamba The Magazine guest editor Ed Pickering joined cycling journalist Molly Hurford to discuss the a very relevant feature in the new edition of The Magazine: A celebration of cubism and futurism that begins, surprisingly, at Paris-Roubaix. James was also on the ground at the race and shares his experience watching Fr...

What does it take to win monuments, wear the yellow jersey, become a cyclocross world champion, and raise one of the greatest cyclists of all time? Adrie van der Poel does it all. In this episode, inGamba's James Startt sits down with the cycling legend for a wide-ranging conversation that covers nearly 20 years of professional racing, the tactical sprint that shocked Sean Kelly at the 1986 Tour o...

The Tour of Flanders is more than a race — it's a cultural phenomenon, a brutally hard monument, and for the Flemish people, something close to a world championship. In this episode of Cycling Conversations with inGamba , host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director and award-winning cycling photographer James Startt sit down with two riders who've lived it from the inside: Portuguese pros Ser...

Welcome to cycling conversations with inGamba, where we celebrate the art and the culture of the sport - the rhythm, the ritual, and the refinement that surrounds it. inGamba means in the know, and as with our cycling tours, these conversations are meant to bring you behind the scenes in our world.  This is the space for when sport meets elevated living: where a former pro racer dissects the bruta...