The Piste Take

Send us Fan Mail With the all conquering German Women's Team Sprint team winning their 4th title in the row, Will Tidball bringing home the bacon for GB in the final race of the night alongside standout paracycling performances from Jenny Holl & Sophie Unwin, Jody Cundy and an outstanding win for Daniel Abraham Gebru of the Netherlands in the C5 Men's Scratch, Day one of the UCI Trac...

Send us Fan Mail On this bonus episode of The Piste Take, for the first time ever we answer questions from our listeners! Is super worlds a good concept? What is the perfect gearing for a 200? Do ex riders make good coaches and many more! We finish off by ruining most relationships with have with friends and riders with giving our final shouts for podiums at worlds. Keep your ears peeled for our d...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we speak to the founder of Velobike Glenn Catchpole. Velobike is a manufacturer of unique and advanced track cycling equipment. Likelihood is, you use some of their kit already. Glenn has led the charge in making top end tech accessible for the whole track cycling community. We discuss the journey of Velobike from it's first chainring, the tech he has produced...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest this week is Olympic silver medallist, triple Commonwealth champion and double junior world champion Ellesse Andrews. We catch up with her from the NZ holding camp in Grenchen and listen we us as we learn about her unique journey through the sport and the challenges of transferring from endurance to sprint. Impressively, she is one of the only riders to ever medal at eli...

Send us Fan Mail After a short hiatus, we're back this week starting off with a short race round-up of the recent Asian & Pan Am Champs and other UCI C1s on the calendar. Our guest is the recent winner of the Cottbus GP Keirin, Nicky Degrendele of Belgium. We hear about her 'comeback' season this winter with 4th at European Champs and podium places at Nations Cups. We learn of N...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome our first in-studio guest and Lewis' long promised coach - Mehdi Kordi. Track Coach with the all conquering Dutch track programme over the last 5 years, Mehdi offers his insight into their success. With culture, quirky dutch pronunciations & the toll of coaching high on our agenda, this week's episode is a must listen! Listen to the end to hear Mehdi'...

Send us Fan Mail For this week's episode of The Piste Take, we bring on one of track cycling's biggest stars & personalities, Dan Bigham. In our view one of the most influential figures on our sport for the last 20 years, Dan is the current World Team Pursuit Champion with GB, race engineer for Ineos and was the aerodynamicist who turned track cycling on it's head in his time wi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we welcome our first Olympic Champion to the podcast, Kelsey Mitchell. A relative latecomer to the sport, we hear about the family BBQ that changed Kelsey's life, her road to Olympic gold and racing since. While Lewis hasn't backed her for the Paris Olympic podium (she's not bitter), we got the chance to understand the year since Tokyo and how she's g...

Send us Fan Mail This week we're dropping an extra bonus episode for all your track cycling needs as we catch up with Matty Richardson to review the overall UCI Track Nations Cup Series for 2023. Jonny tries (and possibly fails) to explain the Olympic Qualification system, we hear about Jonny, Lewis & Richo's highlights & lowlights of the series. Listen right to the end to hear a...

Send us Fan Mail This week we catch up with Ally Wollaston, women's track endurance breakout star of 2023. Ally's won 4 gold medals in the Track Nations Cup for New Zealand across Omnium & Team Pursuit alongside bronze medals in the Madison. We hear about the story behind the rapid progress of the NZ Women's Team Pursuit, how a change of coaches has been instrumental to Ally&apo...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3 we welcome our first endurance rider to the podcast: Rasmus Lund Pedersen. One of the world's top team pursuiters, Rasmus is an Olympic silver medallist, former World Champion & World Record holder, 2x European Champion and winner of the last 2 rounds of the Nation's Cup with the Danish team. We learn about Danish naming convention, hear about Rasmus&apo...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 2 we catch up with 2 time World Championship & Commonwealth Games Medallist, Sophie Capewell on her recent successes at the Nations Cup in Cairo. We discuss the new era of British Women's Sprinting, changing coaches and overcoming the tragic passing of her father Nigel. With Sophie and the rest of the GB Women's squad in the frame for success at a home Wor...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Matthew Richardson as the first guest onto the Piste Take. Listen in to find out how Richo got on at the recent Nations Cup in Jakarta, some sick stories on his way to victory in the UCI Track Champions League 2022.  We look ahead to the next 18 months and how the runup to Glasgow 2023 & Paris 2024 is shaping up for Richo.