Tour de Todd

Eamon Lucas is in the midst of his season riding for a UCI continental team, Evo Pro Racing. At the moment he's close to 40 races so far this season. Eamon says he's raced in ZLM Tour to the Belgian semi-classic Scheldeprijs. The team is Irish registered but based in Belgium. We also touch on his time with the national track pursuit team earlier this year. With a midseason break Eamon sp...

This episode of the Tour de Todd Cycling Podcast I'm doing something a bit different. I recorded this episode during the last weekend of the Tour de France. I called up former pro Erik Saunders to get his opinion on the last weekend of race. We also talked about the new women's Tour de France with Zwift. Plus we touched on the American crit season and the recent fight at the Salt Lake Ci...

Mike McCarthy got his first taste of bike racing at the Kissena Velodrome. After a few years away from racing he picked it right back up at 14 years old. This time he began riding and racing in Central Park in New York City. By 1983 he got an invite to a junior winter camp at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He eventually became a 4 year resident at the OTC. In 1986 he won a nation...

Monica Van Haute graduated from college and ended up becoming team manger of PUCH Women's Cycling Team purely by being in the right place at the right time. Monica says it was a labor of love. She would drive around the country to races, prepare food for the racers, and handle all the logistics. Riding on the team ranged from Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Inga Thompson to Sue Novara-Reber. PUCH e...

Ron Kiefel got into cycling at the age of 13 when his dad bought "Wheat Ridge Cyclery" bike shop. the he got on his Nishiki ten speed he gained a lot of freedom. His first race was at the Denver Tech Center where he crashed 300 meters before the finish. By his senior year in high school in 1978 he'd made the junior worlds team with Greg Lemond. The team won a bronze medal in the tea...

Bill Clay got his first race bike when his grandfather took him down to Turin bike shop in Illinois. He eventually ended up at the Ed Rudolph Velodrome in Northbrook, Illinois. He knew right from the start track racing was his thing. In 1990 Bill did the Junior World Trials and did the fastest 200 of the competition. He then went on to win the match sprints. HIs win took him to Junior Worlds that...

Danny Van Haute started racing at the suggestion of his dad. Being a midwest guy he raced Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. He loved racing at Northbrook and Kenosha velodromes. He made the junior worlds team in 1976, Olympic teams in 1980 and 1984. By 1996 he was a coach for the endurance track team at the Olympics. After the Olympics he moved on to running pro road teams. Danny got to me...

Shane Kline got the but to race because of his uncle. His uncle had a birthday party at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center. Shane says it was the speed that intrigued him the most. He credits Bobby Lea, Kyle Wamsley and Jame Carney as some of his shepherds through the sport of bike racing. As a junior his focus was on the track. He won a couple of national championships. He even went to junior tr...

David Lipscomb got involved with the bike through his dad. Back in 1993 he began racing in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He took his skills of martial arts and applied it to the bike. As a Cat 2 he won quite a few races. But the desire to coach was tugging at him. He eventually started CIS Training Systems while working in finance in April 2008. Lipscomb was one of the first to use Zwift as a training...

Marianne Berglund grew up on a farm in Sweden. She literally grew up by the Arctic Circle. She got involved with the bike because she had a crush on a hockey player who riding with a local bike club. She progressed quickly and began racing with the junior men. She won multiple national championships and began riding with her country's national team. In 1983 she won the women's world road...

Bill Humphreys started riding out of necessity. He'd gotten into some trouble because of traffic tickets. So, he sold his car and bought a bike and began riding. He rode his bike everywhere in the San Diego area. he eventually started riding with the San Diego bike club. His first race was a time trial and got hooked to the bike. Two years later he would ride across America. He'd eventua...

Richard McClung did his first race in June of 1981 in Stillwater, Minnesota. The event was a circuit race on the infamous steep hill in the city. the next year he only did a few races but set his sight on upgrading to a category 2 racer. He spent his first tow years as a senior learning the ropes getting into moves. His second year as a senior was also when he began thing he could do something wit...

A bike to Richard Sachs is hard to put in words. Each frame he builds eventually leaves his hands and heads to the paint shop and the relationship ends there. He says all that's left is the opportunity to reflect on improvements and search for inspiration for the next. Richard has chosen only to work with steel. He's essentially self taught. . .let that thought marinate for a moment. At...

Giddeon Massie was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was introduced to the bike at 10. Racing soon followed. Massie ended up having the best of both worlds right at his doorstep. He had a world class velodrome to race and train on and world class athletes to compete and train with. Surprising enough Giddeon competed in road races, criteriums and even the team pursuit before he turned his atten...

The Tour de  Todd Cycling Podcast was invited to do a live episode in Boca Raton, Florida recently. I felt what better time to sit down with Charlie Issendorf, Zwift's event director about the online platforms' humble beginnings, its growth, and plans to sponsor this year's women's Tour de France. Enjoy

Ed Beamon is a man who loves all things cycling. His journey into racing started when he was already in his 20's. He quickly moved through the ranks and eventually became a pro rider for the Scott-Oldsmobile- Bi Kyle Team in 1990. Yet his career as a pro was short lived. He found his true calling when he transitioned into a team manager. The list of teams he's worked with are a who'...

Chad Hartley is a midwestern guy through and through. He was born and raised in Illinois. As a junior he dabbled in triathlons but it was the bike that was his calling. Versatile is the word I would use with him. He raced the track, road, and crits. He turned pro after a 6th place at the national criterium champs. His first pro team was one that eventually turned into Jittery Joe's. Chad even...

Scott Savory was born on the Caribbean island of Guyana. he started racing at a young age. At 18 he left the island moved to New York City. Once he moved to the Big Apple he didn't race right away. A chance meeting with a manager at his job got him back on the bike. Then another chance meeting with some Guyanese rider gave him direction. He began racing the classics of New York like Floyd Ben...

Austin Carroll is back on the bike and racing. In the early 2000's he was on the fast track to the Olympics. He raced for some high profile teams like Rock Racing to BMC. All the while he's racing the boards of the six days in Europe. And then he was gone! In his words he hated bike racing. Years would pass and he would move to Seattle and get married. It was a trip with friends that hel...

Hailing from Tasmania, Australia. Clay made his way to the states in 2006 as a 17yr old to race on the velodrome in Pennsylvania. In 2008 Clay turned professional with Kelly Benefit Strategies cycling and continued to progress through the ranks. Snatching his first big pro win in 2011, Clay signed for Smartstop pro cycling.  In 2014, Clay switched his focus to more criterium based races and became...

This is part 2 of the John Eustice interview. John Eustice was one of the pioneer American cyclists to break into the world of European pro cycling. He founded and captained the first U.S. team to race in the Tour of Italy and is a two-time U.S. professional champion. Eustice worked for ESPN and ABC Sports as a cycling analyst for the Tour de France from 1992 to 2006. He's organized race like...

John Eustice was one of the pioneer American cyclists to break into the world of European pro cycling. He founded and captained the first U.S. team to race in the Tour of Italy and is a two-time U.S. professional champion. Eustice worked for ESPN and ABC Sports as a cycling analyst for the Tour de France from 1992 to 2006. He's organized race like the Univest Grand Prix to the Harlem Skyscrap...

This episode of the Tour de Todd Cycling Podcast we're going to do something a little different. On this episode the focus is on the velodrome at Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City. I spoke with the man who runs the track, Lenny Hall and a new rider to track racing. Plus, at the end you'll hear about the upcoming flea market they're holding March 5th.    COME AND PARTICIPATE IN THE F...

This weeks podcast is with Tyler Locke, a professional cyclist with the Corratec Professional Cycling team. Locke started racing when he was 20 years old. Now 35 his racing is taking him from California, Miami to the Caribbean. The father of two says it's tough balancing family life with a heavy schedule of racing but somebody's got to do it. Tyler isn't a name that the average cycl...

Benoit Vetu began racing after seeing French sprinter Frederic Magne race. He never had a desire to race on the road. Once he began racing on the track his career took off. In 1992 he finished third in the kilometer during the French Track Championships. In 1994 he got third in the keirin and the kilo. In 1995 he won a silver in the team sprint with Florian Rousseau and Herve Robert Thuet at the W...