Cycling Legends Podcast

Luca Kuhn launched her eponymous women’s cycling apparel brand in 2023 and from the 2026 season we are delighted to say that Luca will be kitting out Simpson Nouvelles Cycling. Luca sat down with Chris Sidwells and Simpson Nouvelles team owner and manager David Walters to talk about her journey, building communities for women cyclists and supporting Simpson Nouvelles from next year. Music : “Starr...

Hot on the heels of the last episode announcing the Simpson Nouvelles 2026 line-up, David and Chris chat to a rider who, as well looking ahead to next season in the road, is currently causing a stir in domestic and European cyclocross. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Freya Whiteside! 📸 Freya on her way to 5th overall and 3rd in the U23 category during Round 4 of the Lloyds Cyclo-cross National Trophy...

Just to prove that it’s not just good things that you can have too much of, an impromptu Feed Zone takes to the ether barely a week after the last one. A new points system from the UCI, Wout Van Aert and news from Simpson Nouvelles Cycling are but three of the topics on the agenda as we try (and fail) to keep to time. Plus, get your nominations in for your favourites of the year. What was your cyc...

David Walters talks to Chris Sidwells as he announces the Simpson Nouvelles line-up for 2026 and plans for the new season. Music : “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of  www.epidemicsound.com . Supporters Club You can join the Club for as little as £10 and help support the development of women’s U23 cycling. https://www.nouvellescycling.co.uk/supporters-club Merch Show your support w...

The pros might now be returning to their training regimes but there’s no off-season for the Feed Zone. Obviously there’s plenty of off-topic but in our more lucid moments we talk about the new American pro team run by George Hincapie and ask whether we should let bygones be bygones or is is “once a doper, always a doper”? We also look forward to seeing Africa’s first UCI women’s team take to the s...

Crits, kermesse, cyclocross and cowbells! It’s been a busy second season at Simpson-Nouvelles, with the team juggling UK and Belgian commitments. Team manager and owner David Walters talks to Chris Sidwells about the ups and downs of the year while preparing to do it all again in 2026. Music : “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of  www.epidemicsound.com . Supporters Club You can join...

Lord have mercy! It’s the vice episode! Drugs are back, tell a friend. Or at least biological passport anomalies are back. Is illegal betting the next bad thing for pro cycling? We wouldn’t bet against it (badoom-tsh!). Plus six-day racing, Euro cyclocross and recommendations to generally make your life better. 📸 The end of the road season historically meant the end of regular earnings for a few...

Sans or Avec Zwift? That is the question. Chris, David and Gary are already looking forward to next July and August after the routes of both Tours de France are announced. Ventoux, Col d’Eze, Montjuic and Le Markstein are but some of the names whetting the collective appetite with only 8 months until both Grand Departs. The team also look back at the World Track Championships that concluded at the...

And so to Il Lombardia, via Rwanda and a whole host of other places . The traditional end of the season is upon us already and the guys might have a few things to talk about, not just Tadej Pogacar. Okay, but quite a bit of Tadej Pogacar. In other news, we begin the campaign for Remco Evenepoel’s assault on the Hour Record, Quinn Simmons impresses us once again, there is no ‘you’ in team according...

Recorded live without a safety net (or an internet) at Harworth and Bircotes Town Hall on 12 September 2025 before an Actual Audience, Chris and Gary were joined onstage by Joanne Simpson to remember her father, Tom, and celebrate his World Championship win 60 years ago. Simultaneously, joyful, funny, poignant and at times deeply personal, you’ll want to hear this. Special thanks to Lee Stewart at...

Back after an indecently long hiatus, the team regroups to catch up on all things bike racing, with some geopolitics, genocide and sporting boycotts thrown in for good measure. Along the way, we salute some newly-crowned TT World Champions and welcome women’s pro racing back to the Land of the Free. Photo : Elite racing returned to the USA this weekend with the third edition of the Baltimore Cycli...

Dali! Hemingway! Picasso! Er, Elton John! Things get surreal as the Vuelta a Espana heads to Salvador Dali country, and little - if any - of it is related to the racing of bicycles. Doncaster celebrates a Grand Tour victory, presumably while Visma Lease-a-Bike were too busy filling in the insurance paperwork after their entire fleet of race bikes evaporated so we wonder just how hard can it be to...

France is still where it’s at as David, Chris and Gary look back on another historic Tour de France Femmes, but is the race grand enough not only for its name but for the women who light it up every summer? We have thoughts! Red Bull Remco Evenepoel opens our perennial salary cap discussion and we start passing the envelope around for Tadej Pogacar’s retirement collection. Don’t worry, it’s still...

The Champs Elysees is dead. Long live the Champs Elysees! After 3 weeks, 21 stages, 3302km and 14 stage winners, Gary, Chris, David and John actually find 5 things to talk about that aren’t Tadej. But he gets a mention anyway. Photos : The first and the latest riders to win on the Champs Elysees, the similarities between Walter Godefroot’s 1975 season and Wout Van Aert’s 2025 prior to them winning...

After 8 stages and 947km of racing, last year’s Tour de France Femmes came down to just 4 seconds on the Alpe d’Huez. With an extra stage and more names in the frame for the GC battle, Gary Fairley previews this year’s race. Music : A Month of Sleep - “So Alive”, courtesy of  www.epidemicsound.com Get in touch Drop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com ! We’d love to hear from you. Soc...

Greg Lemond’s first Tour de France victories are writ large in the history of the race; his duel to the (almost) bitter end with team mate Bernard Hinault in 1986 and then snatching the Yellow Jersey from Laurent Fignon by a mere eight seconds 3 years later. Twelve months on from that momentous, historic afternoon on the Champs Elysees, Greg Lemond won his third Tour de France and in doing so join...

Stunned by actually calling the second week’s play correctly, the team are both full of admiration for the Rumena Majica and just a little bit full of themselves. Collective back-slapping aside, Chris, David and Gary try to remember the last 5 stages while simultaneously keeping one eye on the Tour's upcoming final week. Whither Remco Evenepoel? Whither Jonas Vingegaard? And should pro cyclists ha...

Crosswinds, crashes and chaos marked the opening few stages of this year's and there seems to have been no let-up in the crazy ever since. Walker from Yellowstone wins a stage and leads GC but will things be more Rip Wheeler than Beth Dutton in the second week? Gary, Chris, David and John look back at a most atypical first week and ponder wether in trying to improve his Tadejness, has Jonas lost s...

Richard Oakes was a successful junior racer before pursuing a high-flying business career. He returned to top-level competition in 2019 in a personal quest to see how fast he could go. In the course of doing so, he has won masters titles on the track at national and world level and in 2023, at the age of 54, set a new Masters Hour World Record. In 2025 he published The Equation, co-written with ou...

In April this year, the world of cycling lost a giant and the Cycling Legends family lost an uncle, a friend and an inspiration when legendary British racer Barry Hoban passed away at the age of 85.  Barry rode no fewer than 12 Tours de France between 1964 and 1978. He would go on to win 8 stages along the way, setting a British record that would stand until Mark Cavendish surpassed that tota...

Is it all over before a wheel has turned or will there be some twists and turns on the road from Lille to the Champs Elysees, 50 years after the peloton first graced cycling’s second-most famous cobbles? Join the team and a very special guest to preview the 112th Tour de France. No matter what, we think it will be a cracker! Image: ASO Get in touch Drop us a line or send us your Tour Haiku at cycl...

Clive Phillips is a former British Army Officer who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In late 2019 Clive was diagnosed with Multifocal Motor Neuropathy an ultra-rare neurological condition affecting motor function in the peripheral nerves. After starting regular treatment that keeps the worst symptoms temporarily at bay Clive was determined to use his skills and passion for adventure to take ad...

The 2025 road season careers toward the Lille Grand Depart like a Tom Pidcock film and the team are simply trying to hang on. Have we learned anything about the summer’s big guns from the Dauphine and Tours de Suisse? What have the UCI learned about seemingly arbitrary rule changes? (Don’t answer that.) We also bid a wholly disrespectful au revoir to Romain Bardet and a sycophantic bon anniversair...

In April this year, legendary British racer Barry Hoban passed away at the age of 85. The world of cycling lost a giant and the Cycling Legends family lost an uncle, a friend and an inspiration.  During his career Barry won 8 stages of the Tour de France - a British record that stood from 1975 until the arrival or a certain Mark Cavendish 2 decades later. He also won 2 stages of the Vuelta a...

In April this year, legendary British racer Barry Hoban passed away at the age of 85. The world of cycling lost a giant and the Cycling Legends family lost an uncle, a friend and an inspiration.  During his career Barry won 8 stages of the Tour de France - a British record that stood from 1975 until the arrival or a certain Mark Cavendish 2 decades later. He also won 2 stages of the Vuelta a...