Tech Trailblazing, The Armstrong Era & Life After Pro Racing - Christian Vande Velde

Christian Vande Velde raced at the highest level throughout his 15-year career in the pro peloton, he has competed at 2008 Summer Olympics and a whopping  18 Grand Tours. With two top-10 performances and multiple team victories including a 4th place in the Tour De France in 2008 Christian career was inspirational. Post-retirement, Christian is a NBC sports commentator & entrepreneur and in this chat with Anthony about being the first to use bike computers, skin suits and how the sport has evolved.  Today's show sponsor is Wattbike. I've played around with a lot of indoor training tools and they don't come any better than the Wattbike Atom. You can now get 10% off the Wattbike Atom at wattbike.com in their limited time sale. So if you are thinking about a smart bike or like me a turbo was proving frustrating then now's a good time to buy Today's show is also brought to you with special thanks to our amazing on-going sponsor Factor Bikes The heart beat of our community & best place to reach me is Twitter  Want to watch full interviews on video? Check out our new Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/roadmancycling?sub_confirmation=1 Our full back catalogue of episodes https://anchor.fm/roadman-cycling-podcast My gift to you is 14 days of free coaching. To Claim your gift go to www.roadmancycling.com/14daygift Support this podcast by buying me a beer https://www.patreon.com/anthony_walsh For coaching inquiries https://www.roadmancycling.com