Interview: Richard Oakes

The Equation

An episode of the Cycling Legends Podcast podcast, hosted by Cycling Legends Media, titled "Interview: Richard Oakes" was published on July 15, 2025 and runs 66 minutes.

July 15, 2025 ·66m · Cycling Legends Podcast

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Richard Oakes was a successful junior racer before pursuing a high-flying business career. He returned to top-level competition in 2019 in a personal quest to see how fast he could go. In the course of doing so, he has won masters titles on the track at national and world level and in 2023, at the age of 54, set a new Masters Hour World Record.In 2025 he published The Equation, co-written with our very own Chris Sidwells. Richard sat down with Chris recently to talk about the book which isn’t so much a memoir but a manifesto you build for your life.You can buy The Equation on the Ohten or Cycling Legends website:Ohten GroupCycling LegendsYou can follow Richard via the following links:StravaInstagramLinkedIn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Richard Oakes was a successful junior racer before pursuing a high-flying business career. He returned to top-level competition in 2019 in a personal quest to see how fast he could go. In the course of doing so, he has won masters titles on the track at national and world level and in 2023, at the age of 54, set a new Masters Hour World Record.

In 2025 he published The Equation, co-written with our very own Chris Sidwells. Richard sat down with Chris recently to talk about the book which isn’t so much a memoir but a manifesto you build for your life.

You can buy The Equation on the Ohten or Cycling Legends website:

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You can follow Richard via the following links:

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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