Sir Bradley Wiggins’ Café Aficionado

In the final Café Aficionado of season 1, Brad and Graham debrief after the 2025 Tour de France. Is it one for the history books? Both covered the tour in different ways - Brad in Aspen and Graham on the ground in France, giving an episode that provides insight from all angles. In true Café Aficionado style the pair give their opinions and hot takes on what they saw, and delve into some of the cli...

Old pals Steve Cummings and Bradley Wiggins were once so close that Team Sky bosses had to stop them rooming together. Such was the laughter that there were concerns their performance would be impacted negatively, so it’s no surprise that this raucous episode, where the two-time Tour de France stage winner visits Brad and Graham at Café Aficionado, is packed with hilarious stories from their respe...

Luke Rowe is, for many, the greatest road captain of the 21st century, playing a key role in 5 consecutive Tour de France wins for Teams Sky and Ineos between 2015 and 2019. Focusing on one of the most dangerous elements in cycling - the cobbles - the Welshman tells Brad and Graham of his huge reservations about their continued use in the Tour de France. He explores whether the damage they do both...

In this episode Brad and Graham are joined by Andy Schleck, the man Brad most feared as he rode to Tour de France victory in 2012 and the closest rider he’s seen to Tadej Pogačar. The Luxembourger was retrospectively handed the 2010 Tour de France title after Alberto Contador, the man who controversially beat him by 39 seconds that year, was found to have taken performance enhancing drugs. That fo...

The Champs Élysées, the iconic conclusion to the Tour de France since 1975, helped Sir Mark Cavendish, the race’s most decorated stage winner, make his name. Four of his 35 stage victories came there. But one moment on the Champs Élysées remains the most memorable on a bike for both Cavendish and Bradley. In this extraordinary episode, “Cav” joins his old mate Brad and Graham Wilgoss to delve into...

As the Tour's riders take their 2nd rest of 2025, Sir Bradley returns with his verdict on some of the week's huge stories, centred on his history and knowledge of the great race. This episode, joined again by producer and sports commentator, Toby Gilles, Bradley reveals how there's not much rest on a rest day and how your planning for it can impact your GC chances. He also discusses why cyclists'...

As the peloton takes a well-deserved rest day Bradley returns with his verdict on the Tour de France so far, centred, in Café Aficionado tradition, in the history of the race. This episode, joined by his producer and sports commentator Toby Gilles, the 2012 winner discusses Tadej Pogačar's transformation into the "patron of the peloton" as he chases yellow and whether Jonas Vingegaard can mount a...

Time trials have often been pivotal to the destination of the yellow jersey. On one occasion in 1989 it even determined it, when Greg LeMond won the race on the Champs Elysées thanks to a final stage TT. Some of these moments inspired a young Bradley to become an all-time great in the discipline. In this episode Bradley moves into the guest chair alongside his son, up-and-coming rider and fellow T...

Café Aficionado’s daily series exploring how the past might help us predict the immediate future of the 2025 Tour de France continues, as Bradley and co-host Rosie look at Wednesday’s stage 5 - the first Time Trial of this year’s Tour. Bradley expresses his admiration for Tadej Pogačar’s latest extraordinary milestone, discusses the riders’ planning for a short Time Trial, and reveals how much tim...

One of the all-time great climbers, Pippa York, who rode during the 80s and 90s as Robert Millar, was an inspiration to many a British rider. As a quiet Scot who shied from the limelight, she developed a fearsome reputation in the biggest races, winning three mountainous Tour de France stages and the King of the Mountains jersey in 1984. In this episode, Pippa joins Bradley and Graham to discuss t...

Café Aficionado’s daily series exploring how the past might help us predict the immediate future of the 2025 Tour de France continues, as Bradley and co-host Rosie look at Monday’s stage 3 from Valenciennes to Dunkerque. Bradley explains why a simple change in the wind direction might drastically impact how this plays out, delves in to his expectations for a true sprinters finish and explains why...

Café Aficionado’s daily series exploring how the past might help us predict the immediate future of the 2025 Tour de France continues, as Bradley and co-host Rosie look at Sunday’s stage 2 from Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer. Bradley talks us through his expectations for the longest stage of 2025,  the fuelling required for its punchy conclusion and reflects on why this year’s Grand Départ wil...

The first of Café Aficionado's daily, mini episodes throughout the Tour de France, as Bradley and his new co-host Rosie use the past to explore what might happen during 2025, stage by stage. Bradley delves into the specifics of the 1st stage of 2025, the emotions of being on the start line for the greatest race in the world, and gives his predictions for this year’s Tour. Hit FOLLOW to make sure y...

Ireland’s Stephen Roche remains one of only three men to have won cycling’s triple crown – the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and the UCI World Championships Road Race in the same year. In this episode he joins Bradley and Graham to talk through his extraordinary achievement in 1987, which included today’s feature climb, the Col d’Aubisque, during The Tour. Hear how Stephen outwitted rivals who tho...

In 2018 Geraint Thomas became just the third Briton to win the Tour de France, joining Sir Brad in that elite group. In doing so he became the first man ever to win a stage up the iconic 21 hairpins of Alpe d’Huez whilst wearing the yellow jersey. Joining Sir Brad and Graham in the café for this episode, Geraint reveals how he and Team Sky leader, Chris Froome, wrangled over the battle for yellow...

Brad's early cycling hero was Tom Simpson. In the 1960s Tom’s name was as well-known to the British public as Bradley was in 2012, having become the first - and still only - Briton to win the Tour of Flanders, aged just 23. Tom was hugely popular, and was even voted Sports Personality of the Year at a time when cycling needed a big name to boost its profile in the UK. Brad and Tom are interlinked...

Introducing the brand new podcast from Sir Bradley Wiggins - sharing his legendary experience, encyclopaedic knowledge and love of cycling to give you the view from the saddle like never before. Every week, Sir Brad and co-presenter Graham Willgoss (broadcaster, journalist, and all-round cycling obsessive) are joined by one of the biggest names in the sport to take you behind-the-scenes and into c...