The Paceline Cycling Podcast

After a difficult week in which schedules just didn't meld (Vulcan or otherwise), the boys are back at it. This week's Very Important Question concerns clipless pedals.  On average, how many tries does it take you to clip your second foot in on uphill starts? A: First time, every time  B: 1-2 tries C: 2-5 tries D: Sometimes I just give up Fatty excerpts his interview with a remarkable young man wh...

We've got our results from last week's Very Important Question: would you still ride if you forgot your helmet at home and drove to the ride start. Patrick checks in from Las Vegas and the Interbike trade show. It sounds like he's happy he won't be going back there anymore. He recorded interviews with Chris Holmes, marketing director of Marin, and fellow North American Handmade Bicycle Show judge...

In our first VIQ (Very Important Question) we asked you, our audience, which foot you place forward when descending. We assumed most riders would indicate they put their left foot forward. We got an amazing 516 responses, so a pretty solid sample. As it happens Fatty, Hottie and Patrick all ride with their left foot forward. Responses: Left: 38% Right: 36% Alternate: 10% Don't Know: 16% This week'...

Patrick is away in Tennessee working on a feature for Bicycling Magazine on Memphis. Memphis' fortunes have changed in the last few years and the city has made a huge investment in infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians. Patrick says this has made the city wholly more livable and infinitely more worth visiting. Watch for his feature in Bicycling next year. Fatty has invented a new segment we...

Fatty had a meeting with a doctor that gave him an unusual frame of mind for this show. The colonoscopy made him hungry and maybe a little freer with his opinions. Some of those opinions regard his feelings about his performance at a new event called The Punisher. Apparently the final climb of the event was so tough that a majority of the fondo riders didn't even finish. According to Fatty, he fin...

So what do you do at the end of the season when you have massive fitness and all your goals achieved or finished? Fatty is busy compiling a new late-season race schedule now that he's flying, post Leadville.  As cyclists, we've all experienced stuff breaking, right? That just happens, part of life, and such. The question before us today is how you deal with it. We've got a couple of stories of bik...

Hottie and Fatty are back from Leadville. Are they ready to stop talking about it? Heck no. The talk about how their races went, how that's different from the result they expected, and their best guesses why. The boys actually Patrick a chance to talk about the race he did last weekend (yes, he actually raced, too!), Annadel, and how his performance sits somewhere between Fatty's and Hottie's, rel...

Fatty and Hottie (it's like Laurel and Hardy, only not) are in Leadville for the annual Leadville 100. They've unpacked, done some course recon and have taken their final rides ahead of the race. And now they are eating. We talk about those final preparations, Jonathan Vaughters' (name drop!) final training instructions. Seemingly the entire Fatty clan is either racing or providing support. The Br...

The idea behind the bonus Paceline “Tandem” podcast episodes is pretty simple: longform one-on-one conversations with people who love bikes. In this first episode, Fatty talks with Adam Lisonbee – a guy who’s been dreaming about and planning for the Tour Divide — a self-supported mountain bike race for the 2700 miles of the Great Divide. Fatty chats with Adam one week before Adam leaves for the ra...

Fatty and Hottie are busy packing for the looming rendezvous of each of their seasons: Leadville. Yep, it's that time once again. Fatty has a whopping six people in his contingent. The boys break down what they are taking with them, from clothing to tools and equipment and what food they will depend on. Fatty plays an excerpt of his interview with Adam Lisonbee about his preparation for and the re...

Fatty crashed and got a big raspberry on his hip. Went down on a wet descent right by a spot cyclists call Hamilton Falls because Tyler Hamilton fell there during the Tour of Utah. The staff here thinks they want to avoid that road at all cost. In the fall, because bad thing always have to happen when you fall on a road ride, Fatty ruined his best bibs. The upside? Because they were Rapha, they ar...

The Tour de France is into its final days and Chris Froome looks likely to win. With Fatty away on a job interview, Patrick and Hottie hold down the fort and discuss Froome, Team Sky, (Sir) David Brailsford, journalist hostility and parallels to another episode in history. Patrick even suggests that we stop asking riders if they are doping. Ha ha ha ha! Also, is it time to put Phil Liggett out to...

Fatty and Hottie went to Beaver, Utah, to partake in the wonderfulness known as the Crusher in the Tushar. Good suffering was had by all. Imagine an event that goes uphill more than downhill. Or don't. It doesn't sound easy, or fun. Fatty and Hottie interview organizer Burke Swindlehurst about the challenge, the attraction and the fun of the event. Last year, former bike shop owners Scott and Jani...

With Peter Sagan's recent expulsion from the Tour de France, all of social media has blown up with whether or not he caused Mark Cavendish's crash and what the appropriate action, if any, was warranted. As our man Patrick put it, "Pinning all of the problems of that sprint on Sagan is like pinning all of Watergate on John Ehrlichman." Hottie talks about the time he sort of got Saganed (new verb, y...

PressCamp took place in Park City last week and our man Patrick was in attendance. We open the show with his reporting on a few of the bikes he rode there. He checked out the new to the U.S. brand Factor, a new aero road bike from 3T, plus two new offerings from Pivot. Hottie met up with and interviewed the author of a new book on weight training. Jacques Devore is the owner of Sirens and Titans a...

Everyone is back in their usual chairs this week, thank heaven. Fatty is just back from the Vision Relay, an event he's been waiting for all season, and frankly, we at the Paceline have been waiting for him to do. He and his team kicked butt, but not enough butts. Say that three times fast. Patrick interviews Jim Cummins and LeLan Dains to see if they've caught up on their sleep and to talk about...

Patrick is back from Dirty Kanza and while there may be no place like home, he says there's no place quite like Emporia. Fatty is away on business, so it's the duo of Pattie and Hottie (Patrick/Padraig is going to hate that.) for yet another show. Patrick fills us in on his experience riding the Half Pint—the 100-mile ride—and just how the town of Emporia went out of its way to welcome riders from...

This week the Paceline is down to two, with Hottie and Patrick trading pulls. Patrick is in Emporia, Kansas, for Dirty Kanza. He'll be riding the 100 with the intention of getting back and then greeting the 200 finishers as they roll across the line. He interviews Adam Blake of Gravel City Adventure and Supply Company about how the town turns out for the event. And 2015 winner Yuri Hauswald talks...

This week we tackle every young boy's favorite topic. We discuss the struggles Tom Dumoulin experienced at the Giro, where he suddenly hopped off his bike and ran out of sight to respond to the call of nature. Fatty tells his Daisy story in which he encountered a port-a-potty at a point when he had given up hope and very nearly his bowel. Patrick has been in Arkansas this week. He began with a vis...

Are you feeling tired? We are, but not of doing this show. We talk sleep, ingredients of better sleep and the value of a good nap. We also discuss a few hormones that are involved and how much we dislike legs that throb after a hard ride. There's a new app called Rollout that helps you set up group rides or find group rides to join. Fatty talks to the developer Kevin Day. He comes to the conclusio...

This week, we ask a question: Are you okay with changing a ride’s plan? What do you do when a ride goes off plan? Fatty encountered some serious wind on a ride and had to ask himself a question. And what about when work is out of control and you miss some rides? How does that affect your training? Are you adaptable? Jonathan Vaughters has a surprisingly philosophic outlook on that lost time. We dr...

In this week's episode we discuss bike commuting because our man Hottie is now working for a radio station and his duties require him to be up at 3:00 a.m. to be able to make his eight-mile ride into work. We talk about the challenges of the work commute, from how to dress, cleaning up and changing and coworkers who don't comprehend adults on bikes. For our big interview, we talk to Mark Johnson,...

We got the band back together. Patrick is finally back from Japan and the Sea Otter Classic and tells tales of tiny roads, crazy descents and lots of hot water, not to mention a new mountain bike that might be the one to rule them all. Hottie interviews David Rose of Sage Titanium who talks about his love for the material and what makes his line of bikes distinct.

This week we talk vows—wedding vows and how they might be tested if one of you forgets your Camelbak. Patrick is back from Japan but at a bike launch for Marin Bikes while Fattie and Hottie hold down the fort. Fattie got a specific assignment from Coach Max Fat, aka Jonathan Vaughters; go flat stick for eight to nine hours. The Queen of Pain joined him and his family for a loop around White Rim. H...