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2AM Raids and NEW BIKE DAYS

2

HOLY Td F - Sam's BACK! Pogačar Strikes, Uno-X Takes Yellow, & The UCI Loses Its Mind

3

Tour de France GC Grades, Fragile TPU Tubes, & PACKFILLER LIVE IS BACK!

4

Pogačar’s Warning Shot, Visma’s Collapse & The 15 Worst Cycling Fashion Crimes

5

Mattress Injuries, Cognitive Load Limits & Real vs. Fake Bike Tech

6

The Death of the Dauphiné & The "Softest Podcast in Cycling"

7

Did Tech Ruin Unbound Gravel? & The 20-Gram Disqualification

8

Giro GC Shakeups, Riverside Dust, & The Cyclist Without a Bike | The Packfiller

9

The State of Amateur Road Racing is Broken (Literally)

10

Bloom (DRINK) and the Cost of Cycling

11

Pogi's Masterclass & The 2026 Giro d'Italia Preview! 🇮🇹

12

The Amateur Ego, Remco’s Redemption, & The Death of eMTB

13

Paris-Roubaix Chaos, 300 Watts, & The Broom Wagon Trivia | The Packfiller

14

The 320W Lie, Pogačar’s Triple & UCI Hypocrisy

15

446 Watts vs. Broken Chains: Flanders Preview & Gravel Disasters

16

Pogačar’s 900W Alien Attack & The Keyboard Directeur Problem

17

"St." Patrick and The Old Guard

18

Pogačar's 80km "Alien" Solo & Launching Project Reclamation

19

The Butcher’s Bill: Opening Weekend and Wrangling the Waples

20

The Dad Tax & Opening Weekend

21

The $340 Bike Race?! Remco's Masterclass & UCI Dirty Secrets | The Packfiller Ep. 515

22

The Bionic Commute & The Doctor’s Gideon Orders

23

Bike Racing Fans STAY AWAY (not really)

24

Fat Bikes Suck, and Other Observations

25

NOT a Redneck!

26

How 2 Get Fast, With The OG THREE

27

25... and Scene.

28

A Very Special Packfiller Christmas 2025

29

Will Creatine Make Me FAT?

30

Sensitive Grundle

31

"Family..." - Vin Diesel

32

An Exercise in Sophomoric Behavior

33

Young Guns

34

To All The Bikes I've Loved Before

35

Burn Out, or Fade Away?

36

Batting 500

37

Learning Curve

38

Race of the Falling Paul?

39

For the Love of it.

40

Worlds on the Way

41

This Episode Needs a Glossary

42

Dry Jackson

43

Enough is Enough

44

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

45

Assumptions of Paul's Saddle are WAY off.

46

Back in Ze Day...?

47

"The King of Foreplay"

48

Post Tour Wrap with the OG Three

49

Last Week of Le Tour (Men's that is)

50

Rock n' Le Tour

51

I Couldn't Name This Episode What I Wanted

52

How's Your Cycling Life?

53

GOAT's 80th

54

Talking and Dealing With Sh#$

55

MASS START EVERYTHING

56

OG Three Addressing The TT

57

Giro d' Riverside

58

Now What?

59

Bloom - DRINK!

60

Average for the Ardennes?

61

Two Ones and a Four?!

62

Rethinking Racing and Roubaix

63

Finding Flanders

64

Everyone Peed!

65

No Podium? Doesn't Count.

66

Strade Maui?

67

Is your spouse a Volkswagen?

68

Packfiller Does EPO

69

How Much?

70

For the LOVE of Bikes, But Which One?

71

For us, this is a quickie!

72

Which Waples is Best?

73

Plannings and Celebrations

74

Subscribe and SAVE

75

Predictions, Perspectives, and Pontifications

76

And to all a Good Night

77

Jingle Jang, it's an OG Thang (Sorry)...

78

Cue Mariah

79

Thankful for Camelot

80

Comparison is the Thief of Joy

81

Cycling Senate Session

82

Time After Time

83

The Poo Show

84

Sam's Draft

85

Pillsbury Pat Boy

86

Good to the Last Drop

87

Aim for the Hard Floors, PLEASE!

88

Season Recap... Too soon?

89

Bad Days and Bambi

90

A Toast...

91

Is Jackson Breaking Up With Us?

92

It all starts with... and then I quit.

93

A Bunch of Bike Dorks in a Basement

94

What are the Olympics Without Glitter?

95

On My "Deek"

96

The Packfiller Perspective - Making Cycling

97

Cycling is a Demon, and Other Musings

98

TdF and Dealing With The Heat

99

Racing, Racing, Racing

100

TdF Preview, Game, and, well, Beer

101

Sprinter Goats

102

Listener Questions and Pick on Pat Night

103

Remembering RC3 and Recruiting Ryan

104

Comparing Goats?

105

Club Fit Skinsuit on a Group Ride?

106

Dark Pat, and Crotch Seams

107

Living Vicariously Through Sam

108

Think Pink

109

Paul Makes THE SOUND

110

Oh Mighty Aerothema...?

111

A Roubaix Kerfuffle

112

Holy Week and Saddle Stuff

113

Tornado Dave

114

"As We Age..."

115

Addressing Aero

116

More Yellow and Black Than A Stryper Concert

117

Cycling's Gains and Lows Post COVID...

118

Changing Cycling

119

Claiming Camelots

120

Segments, Sickness, and Sandbagging

121

A Waples Free Weeknight

122

Admitting Your Demons

123

Spitting Out Objectives

124

The 2023 Pack-ie Awards

125

A Very Special Packfiller Christmas 2023

126

Who Wants To Live Forever?

127

Motivation vs. Anxiety

128

Crap, is Paul what holds the show together?!?!

129

Consolidate This

130

Aero or Comfortable

131

Two Old Men Walk into a Bar...

132

Sam, Cool it...

133

State of the LBS, and Being Included

134

Nobody's Got Core

135

So Long Peter, Beer Miles, and Gravel?

136

The Packfiller at 400

137

Most Embarrasing Indoor Training?

138

Domination - Good?

139

Better Loving Through Bikes

140

They're Purple

141

"Team"

142

Jackson's Cathartic Potty Mouth

143

Worlds and "What Not"

144

Paul's World Championship Level Peeve

145

The Packfiller Interviews - Ben King

146

Sam's Forked Tongue

147

Le Gang's Back for Le Final Week of Le Tour

148

Le Tour de Bike Shopping (and France)

149

Marginally Mental Gains

150

The Packfiller Interviews - Sean Lally of Cycle Systems

151

Raining The Tears de France

152

@NavigatingNewbie

153

The Packfiller Interviews - Anne Marije Rook, Unbound Gravel XL 2023

154

Who Stands With Sam?

155

Have We Gone Soft?

156

Pink Points, Pervy Pils, and Damned Drivers

157

Everything's R Rated in David's Mind (Tonight)

158

Keep My Mom Out of This!! (And other methods of besting your inner a-hole)

159

Aero Lips, and Proper Fueling

160

Crit Ethics and Pink Picks

161

Sum up the Spring, and Judging Vitamins

162

The Ardennes, and How and When to Give a F**k

163

Tin Foil Hat Helmets

164

Holy Week

165

Waiting on the Waples

166

It Takes More Than A Finger Full

167

The OG Three on How to Save Green

168

The Scoop on Sam

169

(Unintentional) Beer Fight at the Rim Brake Bar

170

Stepping up to the bar, and picking the Belgians

171

Shh... They’re Gone. Let’s Talk About Gravel.

172

Nooch On My Corn

173

Perspectives From Team BD/ED Geritol

174

Motivation, Racing, and The Doctor Will See You Now

175

Nah, I’l be Fine (and other stuff cyclists say)

176

Get Into the Groove

177

2022, Meh, or Yeah?

178

The Packfiller Christmas Special

179

Fact or Crap, The Christmas Edition

180

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like...

181

Just F’ing DO IT!

182

The Relationship Cycle

183

Taking the Chaos INTO Winter

184

The Good, The Bad, and The Shorter

185

An Indoor Halloween

186

Arms on the Bar

187

Pat’s n’ Ass

188

The Packfiller Interviews - Mile Heads

189

The Worlds of Glue and Stink Bugs

190

Brian’s Worlds

191

Crashing Tantrum, Anyone?

192

Step Up, Cyclists

193

Starting With Sex Talk, and Ending With What do do With 10K

194

Spain, Nairo, and WTF is the NCL?

195

La Vuelta a Packfiller

196

The In Between, and Dealing With Doping

197

Le Femmes (avec Packfiller?)

198

THE Recap to End all Recaps. Oh, and Knightwing’s ”Incident”

199

Le Tour, Week 2, and the Ongoing Crit Beef

200

Week 1 of Le Tour, and a Horrible Cliche

201

Le Tour, week one, inside and...Wout.

202

The Tour de France, through the eyes of The Packfiller

203

Creative Events, Approaching Tour, and a Visit From a Good Friend

204

”Hey Peter!” and Cycling in the Movies

205

Dealing With F-ups

206

Why Put on a Bike Race?

207

The Highs and Lows of, well, the Two Wheeled Life

208

The First, The Best, and Some Fun Chaos Bike Podcasting

209

Is Anyone Ever Truly READY?

210

Giro Time!

211

Grading the Classics, and Sam’s Insanity

212

The Classics Aren’t Finished Yet, and Panache

213

Roubaix and Retro

214

Amstel and Cycling in a World Without Racing

215

The Packfiller Interviews - Marty Jemison and The Classics

216

Let the Flandrian Games Begin!

217

OKAY! We will talk about dropper posts now.

218

Is there a time to forgive?

219

A Little Fun with Stereotypes for Cyclists

220

No EFX, but plenty of cycling to talk about...

221

Get Ready for the Cycling Legends!

222

Keeping it Fair and Clean?

223

Cycling and Being a True Valentine

224

Going Full Belgian in the Cold?

225

Is Cycling Too Dangerous?

226

Indoor = Punishment

227

A Night of Touchy Topics

228

Content or Racing?

229

End of the Year, and Cycling INFORMATION

230

A Very Special Packfiller Christmas, 2021 Edition

231

Live From The Island of Misfit Toys

232

Transfers, Loneliness, and the Gift of Giving

233

The Peloton Fad and Gift Guide, Part1

234

The Return of Coach CC (to The Packfiller)

235

Testing the SYSTM, and the PACC Proposal

236

All the Tech Questions You Ever Wanted to Ask!

237

The Indoor Cycling Adventure Awaits?

238

The Problem With Bikes

239

Now What, Cyclists?

240

Roubaix Rewind and Reflections

241

End of the Season... WAIT THERE‘S MORE?!?!

242

The Worlds are Here! (Well, the rest of them)

243

Approaching Season‘s End?

244

A World Without Bikes = A Backpack Full of Rocks

245

Fad, Flop, or Fantastic

246

Son of a...And Tactics

247

Doom and Gloom (but not all of it)

248

La Vuelta and Pre Race Practices

249

Keeping it Social

250

Tour's Over, Olympics Aren't, and THE CLASSIC BEGINS

251

2021 BWR - How to Get Through Hell

252

The Packfiller - On The Road

253

TdF21 - A Well Earned Rest Day

254

TdF SUPER HOT UPDATES

255

Tour Time 2021

256

Play Nice, Crit Style

257

This is Why We Can't Have Nice Gravel

258

The Bike Will Always Be There (wait for it)

259

Giro d' Friends and Foes

260

Giro d' Best and Worst Surfaces

261

Giro d' Etiquette

262

Giro Marxism

263

Cycling's Crossroads

264

Justification for Dummies?

265

Meet The Professor

266

The Packfiller - Spring Break Remote Edition

267

The Packfiller - A-Holes Among Us

268

Trainer or Lifer?

269

The MoJo Diaries - Ep. 1 - The Beginning

270

To Ride or To Race, that is the Question

271

Mathieu Van Der WATTS, Richie Roll Cage, and what to ride when there are no bikes.

272

"Opening Weekend" and Passion vs. Addiction

273

There is NEVER ENOUGH TIME

274

A light in the distance, and RACING!!

275

The Packfiller - END THIS DEBATE! (Well, maybe)

276

The Packfiller - 2-2-21 - CX and a Full House

277

Tom? Training, CX Worlds, and Watercarriers.

278

The Packfiller Interviews - Gabriel Benjamin

279

The Innovations, and the Total Screw Ups - The Biased Edition

280

The Packfiller Interviews - Matthew Stephens

281

Predictions, Training, and Professor Paul

282

Knightwing, and the Packfiller 2020 Awards

283

Don't Throw Away 2020 Just Yet...

284

A Very Merry Packfiller Christmas

285

UPVCC, Uncle Ricco, Trust the Tarmac, and Drinks at the Packfiller Bar and Grill

286

Google Thoughts...

287

The Packfiller 12/1/20 - Tours (Virtual), Tools, and Toys

288

A Very Special Packfiller Thanksgiving - 11/24/20

289

The (Unendorsed) Packfiller Challenge Begins

290

The End, but yet, The Beginning? (yeah, that was intentionally cheesy)

291

Election Distractions - Listen for positive mental health

292

The Packfiller Interviews - Chris Sidwells

293

Races, Ideas, and A Very Special Halloween...

294

The Season That Had To End

295

How Much More?

296

The Packfiller Interviews - Michael Morkov

297

FLECHE (for fantasy), Liege, Oopsies, and, oh, the Giro.

298

Almost Too Much To Handle?

299

End of The Tour (and boy, was it a biggie) and so much more...

300

TdF Week Three, and SO MUCH MORE

301

The 2020 TdF - One Week Down, and WOW.

302

The 2020 Tour - Four days in...

303

Tour de France Preview - With a chance to play along!

304

Races and Crashes and Flops, oh my!

305

The Packfiller - Post Classic Show

306

Racing Bikes is Fun (to watch)

307

The "Season" is here, and hitting a slump

308

The Packfiller Classic DIY Stage Race - How to and Race Bible

309

The Packfiller Classic Begins

310

Lucy Diaz - Colorado Classic's Return

311

In Search of a Challenge!

312

Rights of Passage

313

Amongst all of the silliness, an important discussion

314

Laura King

315

Four Talking About Thirty (for thirty)

316

Anything Good on TV?

317

News and Motivation (along with some challenges)

318

Some Good News?

319

Alex Howes

320

JJ's 21BD 2020 - How to do "Bikes and Beer"

321

Theo de Rooij

322

Old Guys Watching Old Races, Ep. 1

323

Ronde Van Quarantine

324

Racing in 2020, with Dave Towle

325

The Man Behind the Mic - Brad Sohner

326

Quarantine Blues

327

Solo, by choice, and Ben Wolfe

328

Ted King

329

CoronaNOT!

330

Anne Marije Rook and Peloton Orange

331

The Pat and Paul Show

332

Back in the Saddle... Wait, WHAT?

333

The Return of Ian Boswell

334

He's here. We're going to get drunk.

335

Bike Fit, or Bike Fat?

336

Simply Huge Episode - Boomer vs. Snowflake

337

The End. Of the decade, that is...

338

Peter Stetina

339

HO HO OOOH!

340

Old Friends, and Some Gravel

341

Steve Cummings

342

If it's cold in the studio, does that make me a Wim Hof-er?

343

Packfiller with Bike Fit Sam

344

Back in the Belgian Saddle Again

345

Packfiller Bike Towns - Seattle

346

Packfiller LIVE - Todd Schumlick

347

Pat McQuaid

348

ThE PunIShMeNt EpIsoDE

349

Group Effect - You Need It.

350

Almost as big of a train wreck as the Worlds coverage... Almost

351

Amanda Batty - More Butts on F'ing Bikes

352

Dr. Sara Mitchell

353

9/9/19 - We Solve Everything

354

Ryan Trebon - The Return

355

CO Classic, Vuelta, and MORE

356

Cycling and Music

357

Lucy Diaz - Colorado Classic

358

Tour Withdrawals

359

Tour Rest Day #2 - The Plot Thickens

360

Tour "Rest Day" Show and Studio Ribbon Cutting

361

Tour Weekend Recap, and Just. Plain. Riding

362

Tour Preview, Old Friends, and A New Game

363

LBS and All Things Gravel

364

6/18/19 - Motivation?

365

The Power Can Be Yours - Chuck Kenlan of ORBA

366

Gravel, Kanza, Track, and Ashton Lambie

367

24 Hours of BIKE TOWNS, Giro, Racing, and Therapy for Pat

368

Checking in with Amanda Batty, and Women's Cycling, Continued

369

5/17/19 - Double Episode, Part 2: The State of Women's Cycling, ASO, AToC, and Anne-Marije Rook

370

5/17/19 - Double Episode, Part 1: Rules Tweak, and Cascade Cycling Classic Preview

371

Issues, Giro, Cali, and what would you do for an 11% Beer?

372

Break's Over - New Promises

373

2019 Road Preview and Opinions Galore

374

New Year, New Bike, and Phil Gaimon

375

Perspective for the Holidays, and Sir David McQuillen

376

Farewell to Paul, and Bobby Julich

377

One Bike Down, and Amanda Batty - The Return

378

Bob Roll

379

Get Offa My Lawn - Lifetime Cyclists

380

Mother Nature Hates Me, and Joshua Berry

381

Updates, Promises, and JOM from GravelCyclist.com

382

The Tour is Over, THE KITS ARE COMING, and Serena Bishop Gordon

383

Le Tour Musings, and Cillian Kelly

384

TdF "Preview" (Okay, after Stage 1)

385

Pat's "Troubles" and Lennard Zinn

386

Pizza and Beer, Live, with Jason Oestreicher

387

Cold Slap of Reality, and Spencer Newell

388

Packfiller LIVE - BikeTown Utopia?

389

Packfiller LIVE - The Old Guard

390

Pat's Hit the Wall, and Craig Undem

391

CLASSICS, Belgians, and Logan Owen

392

Spring, Static, and Robin Farina

393

Packfiller LIVE, First of 2018

394

Snow go away! - and Dave Towle

395

Real Bike Racing, and Bart Bowen

396

Two Podcasters Together = Danger, and John Galloway

397

The Fat Bike Experiment, and Ian Boswell

398

Wintertime Musings, and Charlie Kelly

399

Packfiller LIVE 4 - A New Hope

400

Packfiller LIVE 3, Tokyo Drift

401

New Digs, and Chris Carmichael

402

Back in the Studio, with Tom Danielson

403

Packfiller LIVE Seattle

404

Packfiller LIVE

405

Dog Days of Summer Roundup, and Frank Strack

406

Tour de France Daily (and full episode) - Rest Day, and George Mount

407

Tour de France Daily - 4 What the holy hell?!?!

408

Loss of a Voice, and Mara Abbott

409

Only run when chased, and Shonny Vanlandingham

410

The End is Nigh? Ted Chauvin

411

New Year, New Promises, with Mark Hodgson

412

It's all in the timing and Amanda Batty

413

I'm not dead yet, and Steve Porino

414

No. Way. - Mark Hodgson

415

Time to Freak OUT, and Keith Bontrager

416

Pat's Moment, and Ivan Dominguez

417

Expectations, and John Stamstad

418

The Father's Day Massacre, and Carl Decker

419

Sorry for the Serious, and Josh Colley

420

Another Member of the Family, and Alison Dunlap

421

Gary Fisher

422

Catch up rants, and Jamie Paolinetti

423

First World Problems, and Bob Mionske

424

Sean Kelly

425

Simple Rules, and Phil Anderson

426

Adulthood, and Marty Jemison

427

Stephen Roche

428

Take a joke, and Tainted Blood - Jill Yesko

429

Dream Teams, and Phil Miller, UCI and USAC

430

Frank Strack - Velominati.com

431

Superheroes Exist! - Ned Overend

432

The Art of Art - Don Walker

433

Double Feature! Ryan Trebon and Tinker Juarez

434

Darebee.com, get as buff as the Caped Crusader

435

Marianne Martin

436

Ian Boswell of Team Sky

437

The Last Show, right before Pat screwed it all up.

438

Strava talk, with bonus Trump impressions!

439

Critical Cheating

440

ABM - Bike reviews, days of suffering, money rants, and advice for tri bars.

441

Bald guys = dopers? (Not really)

442

Tour Recap - FINALLY, and Other ABM Fears

443

Announcer with THE Announcer

444

Recap with Dirt Riders, IronMen, and a Beer Challenge

445

Tour 2015 Preview, and some other stuff...

446

Death of the Theme on National Beer Day

447

Packfiller's Spring Festivus! (for the rest of us)

448

Ask Sir Pat 2: Tokyo Drift

449

2015 Tour of Sufferlandria GET TO THE FINISH!

450

2015 Tour of Sufferlandria, Audio Race Bible, Stage 9

451

Tour of Sufferlandria, 2015, Audio Race Bible, Stage 8

452

Tour of Sufferlandria, 2015 Audio Race Bible, Stage 7

453

Tour of Sufferlandria Audio Race Bible, Stage 3, and Q and A With Sir Pat

454

Tour of Sufferlandria, Audio Race Bible, Stage 6

455

Tour of Sufferlandria Audio Race Bible, Stage 5

456

2015 Tour of Sufferlandria Stage 4 with Sir Jared McLintock

457

2015 Tour of Sufferlandria Stage 2 with Sir David Triska

458

Tour of Sufferlandria Podcast, Intro and Stage 1 with David McQuillen

459

End of the Year, Getting Fat, and Getting Pissed.

460

Elements of Style, with Sir David McQuillen

461

Running? Let's not make a habit of this... or blame ex pros.

462

Pop and Lock, Fool! Oh, and the End of the Tour.

463

Rest Day #1, TdF 14

464

Tour Time, '14!

465

To ABM or not… WAIT, HE'S BAAAAACK!!!

466

To Sandbag or Pose, that is the Question...

467

The Knight of Classical Junk Miles

468

ABM, and Angry at Health Clubs

469

Tour of Sufferlandria Report, and a bit of the Mark!

470

The Rocky Road to Roubaix

471

I AM NOT A HOARDER!!!!

472

ABM Again... The death of racing?

473

Pour some sugar on me...

474

All by myself...

475

Tour 13 Preview, with Velominati's Frank Strack

476

A little Pat on the back, and alternatives...

477

The Return of the Velominati

478

Pat and Mark are back, and a little dirty.

479

Sugar and Spice?

480

Just sit back, and let Uncle Mark spin ya' a yarn...

481

The Bike Guy's Perspective...

482

Girls, Girls... Women.

483

On Location!! With BEER!!!

484

Pat time... Steve Bauer Interview

485

I'll tell you what's dumb, Maverick...

486

Recap of the Tour of Sufferlandria and reason to carry on.

487

The Tour of Sufferlandria Preview.

488

Christmas, New Year, and some funny SH**!!!

489

Bitter, old, man. And a Bucket.

490

50 and still here!

491

Bikes, Boys and Beer.

492

ALL RIGHT ALREADY!

493

Cher's Premium Rush from PEDs.

494

A Cyclist's Take - Alexi Grewal

495

How are things in LA?

496

Sport, Competition, and Game, OH MY!

497

Le Tour and MORE

498

A Cyclist's Take of the first week of Le Tour

499

Rage...taking...over.... MARK SMASH!!

500

Mistakes mistakes mistakes...

501

Fifty FIVE ways to leave your beverage.

502

Classics BIATCH!!

503

They keep pulling me back in...

504

Races and Juniors and Sickness, OH MY!

505

Havin' my baby...on Fat Tuesday.

506

Solo with Gogo

507

State of the, um... training?

508

Past, Present, and Skinny?

509

Wishing, faking, and ranting

510

Man. Myth. Legend. - John Howard

511

Coach? I don't need no stinking coach!

512

Sweet, beautiful suffering.

513

Beverage for thought...

514

Holy effing ess...

515

The best and the worst.

516

Technical difficulties lead to beautiful rants

517

Sayings, Surprises, and Sacks

518

Off the leash!

519

News Flash! (Kinda)

520

Tour de Withdrawal

521

And what have we learned today?

522

Wait for it...

523

Shouldn't we be outside?

524

Time to catch up

525

60 minutes in 40

526

Pat's just holding on...

527

Better than a Brit Wedding

528

A 'Taxing' Discussion...get it?

529

April Fools

530

Packfiller Podcast 3-17

531

Last Man Standing numba frigging 1

532

Packfiller Podcast 3-5

533

Packfiller Podcast 2-17-11

534

Packfiller Podcast 2-3-2011

535

Packfiller Podcast 1-20

536

The Packfiller Podcast, 1/6/2011

537

Packfiller Podcast 12-29 with Timex's Chris Thomas