Cycling Legends Podcast

Mama Mia! Milan-San Remo has not disappointed, from Pogi’s Poggio power to Cipressa carnage to a whole lotta Lotte doubters made schtum and all of it leaving us almost equally so. This is hardly ideal considering there’s an hour of podcast time to kill so we talk about some other stuff too. What did we learn from Tirreno and Paris-Nice? No bull with Isaac Del Toro, that’s for sure (oh, come on, everyone else has used it) but Visma-Lease-a-Bike seemingly have no shortage of moaning as well as a future title sponsor. We look ahead to more Flanders racing and also discover that Calalunya could be a bigger deal than we at first thought this season. All this plus culturally-insensitive climbs and news from Simpson-Nouvelles’ 2026 home debut at the ANEXO/CAMS Cicle Classic.📸 Before the introduction of the Poggio in 1960 and the Cipressa in 1982, the Passo del Turchino was considered the decisive point of Milan-San Remo rather than the gateway to the Ligurian coast, where the modern race truly begins.The photo shows riders cresting del Passo during the 1922 edition, a race won by Giovanni Brunero, the first of his 3 victories in La Classicissima di primavera.(Credit: Fondazione Pirelli.)RecommendationsI’ve Had a Rose Let’s Talk About Feelings with Sam Lake https://shows.acast.com/ive-had-a-rose-lets-talk-about-feelings-with-sam-lakeWith a Little Help from my Friends - A Tribute to Matt Long https://mattlongtributealbum.bigcartel.comSimpson Nouvelles Cycling Scholarship - https://gofund.me/32eacc351 Get in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you!Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1Webhttps://www.cyclinglegends.co.uk

In ten days, the pro peloton goes from Belgium to Tuscany and then on to Paris-Nice by way of Tirreno. Yes, it’s that “careful what you wish for” time of the season when All The Racing happens at once and Gary has his annual meltdown. It’s a bumper show from the team so channel your inner Paul Seixas and try to hang in with us!📸 Megan Guarnier led home a Boels-Dolmans 1-2 in the inaugural Strade Bianche Donne in 2015, thus beginning a remarkable record in this race for the team that in 2020 would become SD Worx. Their riders have won no fewer than 7 of the 11 editions of the race and 3 of those started in Siena this year.RecommendationsSimpson Nouvelles Cycling Scholarship - https://gofund.me/32eacc351 Theo of Golden - Allen Levi - https://amzn.eu/d/09zlwWdTA Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it) - Sarah Alim Malik - https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/A-Brief-History-of-the-Universe-(and-our-place-in-it)/Sarah-Alam-Malik/9781398539983Huberman Lab - Unlearn Negative Thoughts and Behaviours Patterns - Alok Kanojia - https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/unlearn-negative-thoughts-and-behaviors-patterns-alok-kanojiaGet in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! Whether it’s your best of/worst of 2025 or just general bike chat, we’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1Webhttps://www.cyclinglegends.co.uk

Can someone with Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN) ride the route of the Tour de France? That’s what Clive Phillips and a team of fellow veterans set out to discover during the Tour de MMN 2025. Following the 1955 Tour de France route, the team set out to see if they could follow in the wheel tracks of the very first British Tour de France team.Clive sat down with Chris Sidwells this week to talk about the team’s experiences on the road and about the new documentary charting their progress, No One Rides Alone.See No One Rides Alone, the documentary of the Tour de MMN 2025 across the UK this March.Bristol - Fri 6 Mar, Watershed CinemaLondon - Sun 8 Mar, Riverside Studios, HammersmithEdinburgh - Tues 10 Mar, Dominion CinemaGlasgow - Wed 11 Mar, Grosvenor Picture TheatreSheffield - Thurs 12 Mar, Curzon CinemaBirmingham - Sat 14 Mar, Midland Arts CentreManchester - Sun 15 Mar, Contact ManchesterOxford - Wed 18th March, Phoenix PicturehouseCheck out the trailer at https://makingthemostofnow.co.nz/no-one-rides-alone/Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.Get in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! Whether it’s your best of/worst of 2025 or just general bike chat, we’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1

Hard to believe, but it’s now ten years since the bright, unmistakable colours of Team Canyon//SRAM burst onto the Women’s WorldTour. Since then, they’ve stacked up more than ninety wins, a world title in the team time trial, over thirty national championships, six Grand Tour stage victories, and - of course - that incredible Tour de France Femmes win in 2024.As they prepared for this season’s traditional Openingsweekend, Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto’s Marketing and Communications and Sports Director, Beth Duryea spoke to Gary from the team’s training camp in Spain to look back at the first ten years of one of pro cycling’s biggest - and most vibrant - teams.Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.Get in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! Whether it’s your best of/worst of 2025 or just general bike chat, we’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1

Kicking off 2026, Chris Sidwells hosted an evening at the Clubhouse in Putney, starring Simpson Nouvelles Cycling’s Erin Avill, team owner and manager David Walters, Luca Kuhn, CEO and founder of team apparel partner Luca, and Tara Andrews, Marketing Director of Raptor, whose bikes the team will ride this season.Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.Your fit, your ride, your Raptor. Discover the bikes made to move with you at www.raptorbikes.ccLuca’s cycling apparel fuses cutting-edge materials with understated, performance-driven design. Extensively researched and engineered for women in both road cycling and spinning, Luca empower women to ride without limits. Check out the range at https://www.rideluca.com/Supporters ClubYou can join the Club for as little as £10 and help support the development of women’s U23 cycling. https://www.nouvellescycling.co.uk/supporters-clubMerchShow your support with some of our merch. As seen at races throughout 2025! Sign up for news and order Simpsons-Nouvelles merch at https://nouvellescycling.co.uk/merchGet on line!Website www.nouvellescycling.co.ukFacebook https://www.facebook.com/NouvellesCycling?Instagram https://www.instagram.com/NouvellesCycling

Is something rotten in the state of Denmark’s GC hero’s team? Just what does it take to impress Roger De Vlaeminck? Not an eighth world cyclocross title, it appears. Have cycling fans gone mad (again)?Chris, David and Gary ponder all this and more in the latest Feed Zone.📸 He is perhaps regarded more highly as a coach/DS, but with no fewer than 4 Tour de France winners under his tutelage, Cyrille Guimard was no slouch on the bike, winning 7 Tour de France and 2 Vuleta a Espana stages between 1970 and 1974. Pictured here at the start of stage 1a of the 1973 Tour at Scheveningen in the Netherlands, Guimard is in conversation with that other legendary DS, Peter Post. (Credit: Bert Verhoeff for Anefo (Dutch National Archives))RECOMMEDATIONS AND SHAMELESS PLUGSTom Simpson Cycling Festival, 6-13 September 2026Get your tickets at https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/tom-simpson-cycling-festival?srsltid=AfmBOoq-lT3u_RBugJadNdxjeqxs2gMMgDSi76UxYSxouqb74SFjvAyHThe Equation Live - Thursday 26 FebruaryJoin Richard Oakes and Chris Sidwells at the Clubhouse, Putney Embankment, London SW15 - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-equation-live-tickets-1981846220395?aff=ebdssbcategorybrowse&fbclid=IwdGRjcAP6sflleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEem4CUFWkDy-e7LtwQSSD_2TwtyoXYsrKjKRAGu0tHR8Qbb1hqM-oo1AahnL4_aem_cN55QHZE0pn-tt5Z1-X2fw'Seeing' - Jose Saramago - https://amzn.eu/d/0iCnFEtGGet in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! Whether it’s your best of/worst of 2025 or just general bike chat, we’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1Webhttps://www.cyclinglegends.co.uk

The world is all over the place and cycling is not immune from the madness. Jay Vine finds a new way to crash in Australia, Lucinda Brand is suddenly rubbish* in Belgium and British Cycling finds a way to slight the nation’s best cyclocross racer. Again.(*Yes, we’re kidding - she’s still ace.)📸 Victor Harbour, South Australia, 21 January 1999: Stuart O’Grady takes stage 3 on the inaugural Santos Tour Down Under and with it the leader’s Ochre Jersey, which he will wear for the remainder of the race.RecommendationsSarah Hammer fundraiser - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sarah-hammers-journey/cl/s?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_GBHuberman Labs - Dorian Yates https://open.spotify.com/episode/14mWkxOpbERlXHLqDA6FyI?si=xIQRcGMiTTagXAVUw7EhyA&pi=J7yK-rYIQ8Wcq&t=0David’s Substack - https://dstanley.substack.com/Sonnet:visioN- https://youtube.com/@sonnetvision?si=fW20mL_rcYd2765mJeff Bogle - ‘Street Cats and Where to Find Them’ https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeff-bogle/street-cats-where-to-find-them/9780762489145/Get in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! Whether it’s your best of/worst of 2025 or just general bike chat, we’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1Webhttps://www.cyclinglegends.co.ukAn Afternoon With Chris Sidwells - Sunday 8 February 2026, Marsden, Huddersfield, West YorkshireJoin Chris as he delves into the complex, fascinating world of cycling’s greatest icons, sharing untold stories and unseen photos from some of the most iconic riders and races.https://www.marsdenmechanics.co.uk/events/cycling-legends-an-afternoon-with-chris-sidwells/Laatste Ronde https://youtube.com/@laatsteronde?si=Z0dMJH40p2WcC3_BDr John Cooper Clarke - Haiku #1 - https://youtu.be/hkH9BHS-ph4?si=Qpx7beyLJXRPpLbYJohn Cooper Clark ‘I Wanna Be Yours’ - https://store.johncooperclarke.com/products/i-wanna-be-yours-paperback-book-djc

The chimes of a new year have barely stopped their ringing and it’s already kicking off in the world of cycling. Join Chris, David and Gary as they try to make sense of a Kerstperiode packed with ‘cross, contract buy-outs and contract bye-byes. Why are riders simply packing it in? Will Belgium be relegated to “guest nation” status in cyclocross? And does Axel Merckx have a type? We think so!📸 Celebrating New Year with champagne is traditional, but how about celebrating with champagne IN Champagne? On stage 3 of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig did exactly that, outsprinting Marianne Vos and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio with a late attack on the uphill drag into Épernay. (Credit: ASO)RecommendationsThe Last Class - https://www.thelastclassfilm.com/Jon Batiste - Für Elise - https://youtu.be/-5YRhvH6Uys?si=DHwI0l6c6LOKTVvnnProtein: Everything We Need to Know (Channel 4, UK only) - https://tinyurl.com/yc2xpmntThe Packfiller Perspective - https://youtube.com/@packfiller?si=WPzN9_zFmGbwEstCThe Vintage Space: Absurdly Deep Dive into Apollo 13 - https://youtu.be/gQUHVYYHTb0?si=N8_KzxmwXD2YLWQGet in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! Whether it’s your best of/worst of 2025 or just general bike chat, we’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1Webhttps://www.cyclinglegends.co.ukAn Afternoon With Chris Sidwells - Sunday 8 February 2026, Marsden, Huddersfield, West YorkshireJoin Chris as he delves into the complex, fascinating world of cycling’s greatest icons, sharing untold stories and unseen photos from some of the most iconic riders and races.https://www.marsdenmechanics.co.uk/events/cycling-legends-an-afternoon-with-chris-sidwells/