The Detour Podcast

We chat with Team Bike Exchange DS Matt White on the eve of the opening 8.6km ITT of the 2021 Giro d'Italia.  We find out how their GC hope Simon Yates is travelling and what are going to be the tactics over the following three weeks.

We chat with 2021 Melbourne to Warrnambool champion Jensen Plowright about his fantastic win over the weekend and Olympic Gold Medalist Scott McGrory gives us an update on how things are shaping up for the games in Tokyo.  We also take a look at the main contenders for the Giro ahead of the opening ITT on Saturday.

Mark Cavendish described Mark Renshaw as the 'Worlds Greatest Lead Out Man.' We chat with Mark about his his career and the highs and lows of the pro tour circuit, and what life's like post cycling.

Jay Vine chats with us after bursting on the European scene finishing 2nd at the 2021 Tour of Turkey by a mere 1 second.  We ask Jay about his path to the professional ranks and how he landed his contract on the back of winning the Zwift Academy Challenge.

We chat with Aussie Cofidis rider Nathan Haas about his ten years competing at the top level in World cycling.  Nathan burst onto the scene back in 2011 winning the Jayco Herald Sun Tour and then the Japan Cup and hasn't looked back since.  We chat about the highs and lows of his career both on and off the bike.

With Paris-Roubaix postponed until October we thought why not bring together two champions of the race together, 3x winner Fabian Cancellara and 2007 winner Stuart O'Grady.  They both give insights into their victories and the secret to the strong chemistry in the CSC team back in the mid 2000s.  Fabian talks about what it was like racing with Stuart and what really happened on the day S...

We chat with Canyon–SRAM rider Tiffany Cromwell after her solid ride at the pointy end of the 2021 Tour of Flanders.  We chat about her off season in Finland and what it's like to have a partner who races F1.  We also chat with TDU Race Director and former pro Stuart O'Grady about the mens edition of Flanders and his memories of running third back in 2003.

We check in with 20 year old young gun Sarah Gigante to see how she's settled into European life after competing in her first Italian race last week.  We then chat with Team Bike Exchange's Grace Brown after her amazing win at DePanne and get her thoughts on the rest of the season.

We chat with Team Bike Exchange Head DS Matt White to get his thoughts on Milan San-Remo, Paris-Nice and Tirreno Adriatico and to also look ahead to the up and coming classics and Ardennes.  We also wind the clock back to 2012 and relive the amazing win by Simon Gerrans at MSR and the day he lost his bananas at De Panne.

We chat with another Aussie young gun Lucas Hamilton fresh off finishing 4th on GC at Paris-Nice.  We chat with Lucas about his season so far in 2021, the disappointment of having to pull out of the 2020 Giro and what his ambitions are for the future.

Heinrich Haussler is one of Australia's most underrated riders.  He could have easily been a winner of two monuments and has had his fair share of injury setbacks.  We chat with him about his Tour de France and Vuelta stage wins, relocating the Germany as a young teen, near misses in the classics and his return to form in 2021.

Luke Durbridge joined the UCI World Tour back in 2012 and was an inaugural member of the GreenEDGE team.  Since then he has won the Australian National TT title four times and the road race back in 2013.  He has also won two Giro Team Time Trials and held the leaders jersey at the Daulphiné.  We chat with him about his career including some incredible victories he has been apart of...

Cameron Meyer is a superstar on the boards winning 6 World Track Titles and is preparing for his first Olympics since the 2008 Beijing games.  He recently claimed back-to-back Australian National Road Titles against all odds when chasing the leaders the entire race.  We chat with Cam about his amazing journey from the recent championships to his early days with Garmin and GreenEDGE.

Sarah Gigante and Luke Plapp both originated from the Brunswick Cycling club in Victoria Australia and are on the cusp of taking on the world of cycling after their standout performances over the past couple of years.  Sarah is a multiple Australian Champion in the TT and won overall classification at the Santos Festival of Cycling breaking the womens record up Willunga Hill.  Luke is be...

We chat with Team BikeExchange's Luke Durbridge on the eve of the final stage of the Santos Festival of Cycling.  Luke claimed the opening stage and held onto a 2 minute GC advantage after an exciting week of racing.

We chat with Team BikeExchange leader Simon Yates about his rollercoaster 2020 season where he was forced to abandon the Giro after contracting COVID-19.  We ask about how it feels to race against his brother Adam for the first time and his goals for 2021.

We're joined by 2011 Tour de France champion Cadel Evans and race director and former pro Scott Sunderland to dissect the 2020 season as well as the challenges COVID-19 had on race organisation.  We also have a fascinating chat about the 2008 Tour de France. Scott talks about the struggles Carlos Sastre had inside the CSC team and Cadel's opens up about his battles within the Silence-Lotto or...

We chat with Allan Peiper after being claimed the no 1 Sports Director in the world for the year 2020.  Allan opens up about his career and how he got through some really tough moments when he first moved to Belgium as a 17 year old with little money.  Allan chats about the 2020 Tour de France and how much the race win has impacted him.  

We chat with American and former pro rider Tyler Hamilton about his career with US Postal and his famous run ins with Lance Armstrong over the journey.  Tyler opens up about the struggles he experienced during his racing career and how tough the process was to write his book 'The Secret Race.'  Tyler now is helping riders to transition into their post cycling careers through his work wit...

We chat with former pro Christian Van de Velde and Matt White about the formation of the Garmin Slipsteam team and the dramas on and off the bike as they rode into the unknown.  We also chat with Christian's father John about his days on the track and their families deep cycling roots.

In the last of our 'Tandem' series with Telstra Connected Cycling we chat with Aussie Simon Clarke about how he made it on the pro circuit and the highlights of his career to date.  He opens up about the 2009 World Championships when he helped Cadel Evans to victory and what happened in the team meeting the night prior to the race.  We also chat about his time at GreenEDGE and the famous...

In this special Telstra Connected Cycling webinar we are joined by Belgian cycling legend Bernard Moerman and Professor Jamie Anderson to talk about the theme of transitions. We explore why so many professional cyclists struggle with transitioning to a life after the peloton. On the flipside,  we also talk about how a bunch of former Australian professional cyclists have found their way into...

Fresh off announcing his retirement after 17 years in the pro peloton, Pieter Weening joins us live.  We also chat with Mitchelton Scott DS Matt White to chat about Pieter's career and highlights during his time at GreenEDGE.

We are joined live by former pro Bridie O'Donnell to chat about the 2021 cycling season.  TDU race director Stuart O'Grady gives us an update on the challenges facing the TDU after the recent COVID outbreak in South Australia.  And we check in with Alexander Woolley from Telstra during their weekly Zwift ride.

We chat with on of the most interesting Aussie cyclist Adam Hansen.  Adam's career spanned over 13 years including a record that will not be beat completing in 20 Grand Tours in a row from 2012 to 2018, breaking a 57 year record in the process.  We chat about his amazing career and interests off the bike, including making his own cycling shoes.