The Odd Tandem Cycling Podcast with Bobby Julich and Jens Voigt

Just over a week ago, Harry Tanfield was preparing for the 2025 season like most professional riders have been doing. Any thoughts of training camps and offseason rest were cancelled however, when his team Saint Piran announced their sudden closure. Saint Piran were one of two British UCI Continental teams competing in 2024, the other, Trinity Racing, had announced the closure of it's road offerin...

Bobby and Jens return to the El Tour de Tucson and host a special episode looking back at 40 years of Olympic history. Back in 1984, Nelson Vails became the first, and to date, only black American cyclist to achieve an Olympic medal when he won a sprint silver in Los Angeles. 20 years later, Bobby himself earned an Olympic silver on the streets of Athens. In 2024, Chloe Dygert earned her second Ol...

Bobby and Jens take their monthly dip into the mailbag and answer your questions on managing family life, the jerseys they'd love to add to the peloton and whether the US will host a major race on home soil again soon. Join us on social media by searching for @Oddtandem on Twitter, Blue Sky, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok. And if you want an ad free version of this podcast head to Patreon.com/OddT...

Antonia Niedermaier's sporting career began on the ski slopes of Germany. She won the U20 ski mountaineering world cup before transitioning to cycling full time in 2021. Just three years into her pro career she has a palmares that many would envy - two U23 titles in the time trial as well as medals in the U23 road race in Zurich this year - and to top that she won the queen stage of the 2023 Giro...

Pavel Sivakov has found comfort in change. After six years at Ineos and Sky he traded one super team for another - joining UAE Emirates for the 2024 season. A key lieutenant to Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France and Il Lombardia he faced off against his teammate in national colours at the World Championships this year and was the only man capable of sticking with the dominant Slovenian in the mid...

Brennan Wertz is the latest American to don the stars and stripes for the gravel discipline after overcoming rivals including Keegan Swenson Colby Simmons. In this wide ranging chat with Bobby and Jens - he talks about why he's welcoming the world tour riders to the peloton and the radical changes he predicts for the discipline in the immediate future. Follow the podcast on Facebook, Instagram, Tw...

Cadel Evans has achieved many accolades during his career, part of a small select group of riders who've won both the rainbow bands and the yellow jersey - Australia's first Tour de France winner and now - the first guest to appear alongside Bobby and Jens three times. We discuss what a route announcement is actually like for riders, whether Mark Cavendish could come back and who the route actuall...

Bobby and Jens open up the mailbag as they attempt to find answers to your cycling questions. How many races can Pogacar win in rainbows? What can cycling learn from biathlon? And what did Bobby just learn about his race ending Tour de France crashes? All this and more in this months mailbag. Remember to send your questions in the comments below... via our Odd Tandem social media channels or at Od...

Bobby and Jens catch up with Thibau Nys after his breakout year on the road. This year he combined a cyclocross campaign with 9 wins on the road. He tells Bobby and Jens how he pushed on this year, how he prepares for his races and how he deals with having his dad as his boss... Join our Patreon now to get an ad free version of the podcast and your name in the titles patreon.com/OddTandem And chec...

This is the second time Bobby and Jens have sat down with Kristen Faulkner - a little over two years ago she spoke to us about her battles to survive in the peloton, how her rivals refused to follow her wheel - as they considered her too risky to follow and how challenging that initial step had been into the sport. Even then it was clear to see Kristen was destined to succeed - she'd already won t...

In September 2024, Lael Wilcox rolled into Chicago completing a three month, 18000 mile odyssey. Lael had just broken the world record for circumnavigating the globe, breaking the previous best time by more than two weeks. This isn't the first time the Alaskan native has set a new bar for others to meet. She's twice been the fastest finisher at the Tour Divide - racing from Banff in Canada to Ante...

Jamie Whitmore was dominant in her Xterra, offroad triathlon's elite series. She won 37 races, 6 national titles and a world championship on her way to a position in the sport's hall of fame. After a pain in her leg wouldn't cease, she sought treatment, where doctors discovered spindle cell sarcoma, a form of cancer that attacked her sciatic nerve. She was lucky to survive cancer and complications...

Taco van der Hoorn burst onto the scene thanks to his incredibly aggressive racing style, and his narrow handlebars. He won a stage at the Giro d'Italia from a breakaway as well as wins at the Renewi Tour and the Brussels classic. But in 2023, at the Tour of Flanders Taco's life changed. A crash while he pushed to join the breakaway left Taco with a concussion that sidelined him for the next 16 mo...

Bobby and Jens open your messages and attempt to make sense of the World Championship road races in Zurich. Find out what the boys think about brutal climbs, odd gear rations, backward brakes and a unique cycling time machine! Check out the Odd Tandem on Social media by hunting for @oddtandem on Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. This podcast is available in video on the @oddtandem Youtube c...

Riley Amos is enjoying a career year. He recently won his first rainbow bands by securing the U23 short track title in Andorra, shortly after a 7th place finish at the Olympic games - the best performance ever by an American man. He's dominated the U23 World cup with five straight wins in this year's competition... and is returning to north America to close out his season, and planning to secure a...

Kasia Niewiadoma breaks down the exceptional 2024 Tour de France Femmes sharing the inside track of that incredible victory. Kasia also had a life changing year away from the road, marrying her long term partner Taylor Phinney. Now she joins the podcast to discusses her goals in cycling and her plans for the future. Check out the video version of this podcast on our youtube channel and ad free at...

Sven Nys is a cyclocross superstar, he has two world titles in the discipline, leads the powerful Baloise Trek Lions team and now guides his superstar son Thibau's career. He popped into speak with Bobby and Jens about how he dominated his sport, and how he passes on what he learnt to the next generation. This episode of the Odd Tandem is also available in video form by searching for The Odd Tande...

Tom Dumoulin was one of the most successful riders of his generation. A Giro d'Italia winner, a world TT champion, a stage winner at every grand tour and an Olympic medallist. His decision to step away from cycling during 2021 shocked the sport, and Tom admitted he'd lost his passion for the sport. When he returned few expected him to return to his competitive best. But Tom was able to secure a se...

If you google "cycling doctor" you are met with a wall of doping allegations, and shady behaviour. But the modern generation of doctors are looking to shake those connections. Ineos' Dirk Tenner was a successful track and field athlete before shifting his focus to medicine. A specialist in orthopaedics he is the first man the riders see when they break a bone. This conversation sees Bobby and Jens...

Bobby and Jens are joined by Producer Mark as we dive into the mailbag and answer your questions. This week we discuss if gifting a stage, or even a race is a good idea, the best and worst roadside encounters with fans, unpicking the complex international languages of the peloton and find out why Remco Evenepoel is so dominant! Send us your questions for the next mailbag oddtandem@shockedgiraffe.c...

Silvan Dillier is a key part of the Alpecin-Deceuninck team. His role as a domestique saw him spent more hours at the head of the peloton at this years tour de France, than any other rider, as he worked for team leaders Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen. He joined Bobby Julich and Jens Voigt shortly after the Tour de France had concluded to share his thoughts on a historic edition of Le Gr...

Kim Andersen is Bobby and Jens' favourite sporting director. Unlike most of the coaches that looked after them in their careers, he is still at the very top - having just returned from DS'ing Lidl-Trek around the Tour de France. Hear why Bobby blames Kim for unexpectedly long journeys in the car, why he thinks his stood the test of time and what the team have planned for the Vuelta. Join our Patre...

Dani Rowe has achieved an awful lot in her career. By the age of 22 Dani was already an Olympic Champion, a triple world champion and double European champion. But Dani's road to the top was far from straight forward. Plucked from the obscurity of a school maths lesson she would face constant rejection from the famed TeamGB track programme only to fight her way back to gold at her home Olympics in...

Riley Sheehan is in his first full year in the pro peloton. Last year as a stagiaire he lived every rider's dream - winning one of cycling's oldest classics, Paris-Tours. The result led to him being signed to a three year deal by Israel Premier Tech where he's followed up his strong first act with a solid performance in the spring classics. But Riley's route to the world tour was far from conventi...

At the age of twenty Josh Tarling has already earned a European Championship and a World bronze medal. Now he's heading to his first Olympic games with his eyes firmly fixed on an Olympic medal. He caught up with Bobby and Jens from his training camp in Puigcerdà, Spain as he revealed how he plans to take on Remco Evenepoel, Ganna and more. Join our Patreon now to get an ad free version of the pod...