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  • S13 Ep37: Storerčar

    S13 Ep37: Storerčar
    Apr 29 2025
    Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are your guides through the latest headlines and talking points from the world of pro cycling, this week assisted by Tudor Pro Cycling ace Larry Warbasse, fresh from his successful week at the Tour of the Alps.

    We look back at the latest Tadej Pogačar tour de force at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and invite Larry to speculate about the rest of Pogačar’s season. There’s also a trip to Coorevits Corner, where Remco Evenepoel’s underwhelming performance in La Doyenne gives Hugo food for thought.

    In the final part of the episode, Larry takes us inside Michael Storer’s masterful performance at the Tour of the Alps. We also ask: how far can ‘Storerčar’ go at the Giro?

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    1 h y 13 m
  • S13 Ep36: Arrivée | Liège-Bastogne-Liège women

    S13 Ep36: Arrivée | Liège-Bastogne-Liège women
    Apr 27 2025
    Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton dissect the final Classic of the 2025 Spring season, Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

    With the first two Ardennes Classics - Amstel Gold Race and Flèche Wallonne - going to unexpected winners, all of the big contenders were looking for the victory in Liège. Puck Pieterse arrived looking to get her second win of the week, whilst Demi Vollering was hunting her first victory since Strade Bianche in March. Plus Anna van der Breggen returns from illness, looking to become the most decorated winner of the race having been victorious twice before. But with the stage racing season upon us, every rider will be vying for their last chance for a precious Spring Classics win.

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    33 m
  • S13 Ep35: Arrivée | Flèche Wallonne men

    S13 Ep35: Arrivée | Flèche Wallonne men
    Apr 27 2025
    Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie for their post-race analysis following the best three minutes of the cycling season (that takes place on a Wednesday afternoon, in spring, in Wallonia).

    Yes, it’s the annual uphill cheeseroll competition (copyright Friebos). But just how far can we stretch the cheese analogies? What would win? A giant Camembert or 30 Mini Babybels? And what has New Year’s Eve in New York got to do with anything?

    There’s serious tactical discussion and lots of nonsensical talk about sunglasses too. You wouldn’t expect anything else.

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    43 m
  • S13 Ep34: Arrivée | Flèche Wallonne women

    S13 Ep34: Arrivée | Flèche Wallonne women
    Apr 23 2025
    Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray for a spoiler-laden arrival episode from the only race where the final 200 metres take longer than your average soap opera cliffhanger.

    Yes, it’s Flèche Wallonne — aka the Mur de Huy Showdown — and Puck Pieterse stole the spotlight with a perfectly timed, slow-mo sprint that could teach Hollywood a thing or two about dramatic tension.

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    34 m
  • S13 Ep33: Arrivée | Flèche Wallonne men

    S13 Ep33: Arrivée | Flèche Wallonne men
    Apr 23 2025
    Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie for their post-race analysis following the best three minutes of the cycling season (that takes place on a Wednesday afternoon, in spring, in Wallonia).

    Yes, it’s the annual uphill cheeseroll competition (copyright Friebos). But just how far can we stretch the cheese analogies? What would win? A giant Camembert or 30 Mini Babybels? And what has New Year’s Eve in New York got to do with anything?

    There’s serious tactical discussion and lots of nonsensical talk about sunglasses too. You wouldn’t expect anything else.

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    37 m
  • S13 Ep32: Marginal Dane

    S13 Ep32: Marginal Dane
    Apr 22 2025
    Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are back to examine the latest headlines and talking points from the world of pro cycling, this week aided by TNT commentator Rob Hatch.

    The Classics have migrated (slightly) south to the hills of Limburg and the Ardennes, with the Brabantse Pijl and Amstel Gold kicking off the final phase of the spring season last week. In the former, Remco Evenepoel completed a stunning return from injury to outsprint Wout Van Aert. Amstel saw an even more surprising denouement, with Mattias Skjelmose proving too quick - just - for Tadej Pogačar and Evenepoel.

    We ponder what this all means for the remainder of the Ardennes Classics, with a detour via Coorevits Corner. There’s also a look back at the life and times of British cycling legend Barry Hoban.

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    50 m
  • S13 Ep31: KM0: The Beast In The East

    S13 Ep31: KM0: The Beast In The East
    Apr 22 2025
    The Cicle Classic is England's answer to the spring classics. Paris-Roubaix is the Hell of the North so perhaps this ought to be known as the Beast in the East.

    The race celebrates its 20th anniversary this month, with the 2025 edition taking place on Sunday, April 27. Held in the East Midlands, the race criss-crosses the countryside, taking in rough, rutted farm tracks. If it was created today it would be considered a gravel race. The Tour of Flanders has the Koppenberg, Gent-Wevelgem has the Kemmelberg, Paris-Roubaix has the Arenberg – the Cicle Classic has Somerberg.

    Lionel Birnie explores the history and character of the UK's highest-ranked one-day race and hears from the founder Colin Clews who had the idea, Matt Stephens, who was third in the first edition two decades ago, Conor Dunne, who won in 2016 and James McCallum, who was on the podium in arguably the most dramatic and certainly the muddiest edition in 2012.

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    43 m
  • S13 Ep30: Sierra Yankee

    S13 Ep30: Sierra Yankee
    Apr 17 2025
    Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return to review the latest headlines and talking points from the world of pro cycling, this week in the company of Tudor Pro Cycling ace Larry Warbasse, aka ‘The Motown Maestro’.

    While the Classics leave the flatlands of Flanders behind and head south towards hillier terrain, Larry has been getting ready for his big goal of the spring, the Giro d’Italia, in Spain’s Sierra Nevada. We hear what he’s made of the duel that has provided the central plot of the Classics so far, Pogačar versus Van der Poel, and also about high-altitude Giro prep.

    There’s also Coorevits Corner and a look back at another remarkable week for team UAE Emirates, crowned by João Almeida’s victory in Itzulia.

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    1 h y 7 m
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