Cyclist Magazine Podcast

Team BikeExchange-Jayco's Sam Bewley joins Anthony and James from Girona, a few weeks before calling time on a career than spanned 14 years and took him from racing at Livestrong under the tutelage of Axel Merckx, to a brief stint at Radioshack with Lance Armstrong to a lengthy career at Orica-GreenEdge. He's learned a few things in that time, including how to eat, how to overtake like he's still...

Anthony find himself flying solo this week (just where is that James fella?) as he talks to Svein Tuft, the Canadian ex-pro of Garmin and GreenEdge fame, who once upon took time-trial titles all over the shop from Nationals to the Tour de France, but who beneath it all would probably rather have been bike-packing around the world with just his wits and a penknife. Interview starts at 5m40secs This...

This week Anthony and James talk to ex-national champ, ex-GCN presenter but still prolific broadcaster and all round top human, Matt Stephens, about, well... about everything. That's because one minute Matt will be hanging out with Bradley Wiggins, the next he'll be doing punditry at the Tour and then you'll suddenly find out he had a brush with NFTs, can explain blockchain, collects art and can f...

After nearly a decade as professional, Peter Stetina swapped skinny tyres for wide rubber, grew a tash and threw himself headlong into the gravel scene. Today he races as a self-styled privateer, competing at the sharp end of a newly emerging sport. Here he tells us why he loves gravel so much, why the UCI will change things, and tries to explain to Anthony how to use a tyre plug. Interview starts...

Imogen Cotter's 2022 season was looking rosy, the Irish road race champ had moved to Girona armed with a new pro contract and ready to take on the world, but in one fell swoop a horrendous road traffic accident nearly took it all away. Nearly. Because Imogen Cotter is a fighter, and here she shares her incredible journey from the back of an ambulance to getting back on her bike. This episode conta...

Cory Williams is the founder of US racing team LEGION, which as well as winning road and crit races all over the world, pushes for diversity in cycling with a roster of athletes from all walks of life. And Anthony Walsh is The Roadman Cyclist , and he joins James for the return of the Cyclist Magazine Podcast . We've missed you! Anthony and James speak to Cory about founding LEGION with brother Ju...

Phil Cavell helped pioneer bike fit with the early Trek teams, runs CycleFit in London, writes books, walks dogs, rides bikes and pens a monthly column in Cyclist magazine about how to keep riding into old age. He is also author of The Midlife Cyclist (Bloomsbury). James and Joe speak to Phil about training, sleeping and how it is a young rider can be throwing up after too much to drink one minute...

Cam Wurf rides for WorldTour team Ineos Grenadiers but is also a triathlete hoping to win the Ironman World Championships. James and Joe speak to Cam about the balancing act of cycling and triathlons, his former life as a U23 rowing world champion, his stint on Wall Street and being the ultimate training partner if you plan to win a Grand Tour. Interview starts at 13.00. This episode is brought to...

Fred Wright came 7th at the Tour of Flanders. The Bahrain-Victorious rider found himself out front at the biggest race in Belgium and finished with his best career result so far. What's next? Joe and James talk to Fred about his Flanders breakthrough, his future expectations, Paris-Roubaix, living with Ethan Hayter and why he looks up to Heinrich Haussler. Interview begins at 16.40 This episode is...

This week, James and Joe are joined by Tyler Hamilton. We all know who Tyler Hamilton is. It's been 10 years since Hamilton released his awarding winning book 'The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs'. It is one of the most candid accounts of cycling's dark past and lifts the lid on the systematic use of doping by Hamilton, US Pos...

This week's episode is with journalist, author and one third of the Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore. From his first Tour de France covered as press in 2005 to his award-winning podcast, Moore talks to Joe and James about the changing shape of cycling journalism, which team members have the best gossip and today's golden generation. For more on the Cycling Podcast, see here . This episode is brought...

The Roadman Cyclist Anthony Walsh is many things. A coach, racer, podcaster. Walsh believes he can use cycling as a tool for health happiness and longevity so Joe and James thought we'd ask him how. You can find out more about Roadman Cycling here . This episode is brought to you by GCN+, the home of live road cycling. UK Listeners to the podcast can get 25% off an annual GCN+ subscription by head...

Dame Sarah Storey is as inspiring as an athlete can be. 17 Paralympic gold medals. 40 World titles. 77 world records including the para-cycling Hour Records. Manager and Captain of her own race team, Storey Racing. Leader of the Skoda DSI Cycling Academy. South Yorkshire Active Travel Commissioner. Hosts James Spender and Emma Cole certainly had lots to talk about. After they'd finished discussing...

Nathan Haas has retired as a professional cyclist to take up a new life as a....professional cyclist. Haas is the latest WorldTour rider to give up the hustle, bustle of the pro peloton for life on the open off-road, as he goes full-time gravel racer. James and Joe talk to the Australian about why gravel, why now, where he thinks the gravel scene is going, whether UCI involvement is a good thing,...

Ever since watching Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly dominate the pro peloton in the 1980s, comic David O'Doherty has been obsessed with cycling. Joe and James dial in to David's home to dive into his amazing bike collection, his love/hate relationship with pro cycling in the 1980s and his recent Channel 4 show 'Along for the Ride' where he takes the likes of Richard Ayoade and Mel Giedroyc cycling ar...

Happy New Year! Welcome back to the Cyclist Magazine Podcast, haven't we got a treat for you. Starting the year as we mean to go on, we took one of the peloton's great animators, Romain Bardet, to the pub to talk about everything from the excitement of life beyond cycling, the pressure cooker of AG2R, his Tour de France dreams, new beginnings at Team DSM and his love of natural wine, Rugby Union a...

What do pro cyclists do at Christmas? We rang Team BikeExchange joker Chris Juul-Jensen to find out. James and Joe chat to the man who's name literally means Christmas in Danish about whether you should train on Christmas day, staying ready to race in the off-season and enjoying duck and caramel potatoes. We also talk the pleasure of getting dropped, drumming in The BroomWagons and Ginger Spice. I...

Ultra-cyclist Fiona Kolbinger is a special bike rider. The 26-year-old became the first female winner of the Transcontinental Race in 2019 winning in a time of 10 days 2 hours and 48 minutes, 10 hours better than second place. All the while, she's also training to become an oncologist too. She's inspiring, honest and very funny. There are some top notch stories from knowing a human's lim...

In 2019, Olympic gold medalist and two-time British National Champion Pete Kennaugh retired from the sport of cycling aged 29. Once tipped as the 'next big thing' in British cycling, Kennaugh found himself no longer driven to ride a bike and after years of inner conflict decided to close the pro racing chapter of his life. Three years on and Kennaugh is beginning to open up on why this happened an...

A Cyclist Magazine Podcast first as we are joined by not only by a relation of Kula Shaker's Crispin Mills but also Jordan Stephens, one half of Rizzle Kicks. It's Ned Boulting! Joe and James talk to Ned about commentating in China, buying Marianne Vos a dartboard, three-week Grand Tours without mountains, the correct pronunciation of Tadej Pogacar and much more. We also discuss the fourth edition...

The fall of the Berlin Wall, being part of the German army, being airlifted to hospital at the Tour de France, how cycling stopped him from being like a villain from Grand Theft Auto and how to form the perfect breakaway. Just some of the amazing topics we cover with the legendary Jens Voigt. Inspiring, insightful, hilarious, this is one not to miss! For more on the Specialized Crux mentioned at t...

Paris-Roubaix is back! After 900 days, the best race in the cycling calendar is back, get in! So to celebrate the Hell of the North's return and the inaugural women's Roubaix (what took them so long?), we decided to chat to bonafide legend of the race, winner from 2004, Magnus Backstedt. This is a man that lived, breathed and even ate the stones of Roubaix and he has some incredible stories to tel...

Cherie Pridham made history in 2021 by becoming the first female sport director of a men's WorldTour team. Joe and James caught up with Cherie to discuss her first season with Israel Start-Up Nation, directing her first WorldTour victory, visiting Rwanda and more. We also talk about her record-long stint at British Conti level as team manager of Raleigh and then Vitus Pro Cycling and how the Briti...

After two decades in the police as a firearms officer, Lee Stephenson suffered terrible mental health issues. In today's episode, he speaks to Joe and James on how cycling – and talking – helped to get his life back. For more on the issues discussed in today's episode, visit https://www.mind.org.uk/ Please remember to leave us a review, comment and make sure to share with your cycling friends. For...

'Bike riding is just bike riding and I couldn't always be there for my family when I need to be'. On this week's episode, James and Joe share a candid, honest conversation with Adam Blythe about why he retired from pro bike racing aged 30 for the sake of his family, the demise of Aqua Blue Sport, how racing 1x cost him race results, going for dinner with Oleg Tinkov and much more. Apologies for Jo...