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The Packfiller: Cycling Culture & Comedy — 528 episodes

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1

Bloom (DRINK) and the Cost of Cycling

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

"St." Patrick and The Old Guard

9

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

10

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

11

The Dad Tax & Opening Weekend

12

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

13

The Bionic Commute & The Doctor’s Gideon Orders

14

Bike Racing Fans STAY AWAY (not really)

15

Fat Bikes Suck, and Other Observations

16

NOT a Redneck!

17

How 2 Get Fast, With The OG THREE

18

25... and Scene.

19

A Very Special Packfiller Christmas 2025

20

Will Creatine Make Me FAT?

21

Sensitive Grundle

22

"Family..." - Vin Diesel

23

An Exercise in Sophomoric Behavior

24

Young Guns

25

To All The Bikes I've Loved Before

26

Burn Out, or Fade Away?

27

Batting 500

28

Learning Curve

29

Race of the Falling Paul?

30

For the Love of it.

31

Worlds on the Way

32

This Episode Needs a Glossary

33

Dry Jackson

34

Enough is Enough

35

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

36

Assumptions of Paul's Saddle are WAY off.

37

Back in Ze Day...?

38

"The King of Foreplay"

39

Post Tour Wrap with the OG Three

40

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

41

Rock n' Le Tour

42

I Couldn't Name This Episode What I Wanted

43

How's Your Cycling Life?

44

GOAT's 80th

45

Talking and Dealing With Sh#$

46

MASS START EVERYTHING

47

OG Three Addressing The TT

48

Giro d' Riverside

49

Now What?

50

Bloom - DRINK!

51

Average for the Ardennes?

52

Two Ones and a Four?!

53

Rethinking Racing and Roubaix

54

Finding Flanders

55

Everyone Peed!

56

No Podium? Doesn't Count.

57

Strade Maui?

58

Is your spouse a Volkswagen?

59

Packfiller Does EPO

60

How Much?

61

For the LOVE of Bikes, But Which One?

62

For us, this is a quickie!

63

Which Waples is Best?

64

Plannings and Celebrations

65

Subscribe and SAVE

66

Predictions, Perspectives, and Pontifications

67

And to all a Good Night

68

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

69

Cue Mariah

70

Thankful for Camelot

71

Comparison is the Thief of Joy

72

Cycling Senate Session

73

Time After Time

74

The Poo Show

75

Sam's Draft

76

Pillsbury Pat Boy

77

Good to the Last Drop

78

Aim for the Hard Floors, PLEASE!

79

Season Recap... Too soon?

80

Bad Days and Bambi

81

A Toast...

82

Is Jackson Breaking Up With Us?

83

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

84

A Bunch of Bike Dorks in a Basement

85

What are the Olympics Without Glitter?

86

On My "Deek"

87

The Packfiller Perspective - Making Cycling

88

Cycling is a Demon, and Other Musings

89

TdF and Dealing With The Heat

90

Racing, Racing, Racing

91

TdF Preview, Game, and, well, Beer

92

Sprinter Goats

93

Listener Questions and Pick on Pat Night

94

Remembering RC3 and Recruiting Ryan

95

Comparing Goats?

96

Club Fit Skinsuit on a Group Ride?

97

Dark Pat, and Crotch Seams

98

Living Vicariously Through Sam

99

Think Pink

100

Paul Makes THE SOUND

101

Oh Mighty Aerothema...?

102

A Roubaix Kerfuffle

103

Holy Week and Saddle Stuff

104

Tornado Dave

105

"As We Age..."

106

Addressing Aero

107

More Yellow and Black Than A Stryper Concert

108

Cycling's Gains and Lows Post COVID...

109

Changing Cycling

110

Claiming Camelots

111

Segments, Sickness, and Sandbagging

112

A Waples Free Weeknight

113

Admitting Your Demons

114

Spitting Out Objectives

115

The 2023 Pack-ie Awards

116

A Very Special Packfiller Christmas 2023

117

Who Wants To Live Forever?

118

Motivation vs. Anxiety

119

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

120

Consolidate This

121

Aero or Comfortable

122

Two Old Men Walk into a Bar...

123

Sam, Cool it...

124

State of the LBS, and Being Included

125

Nobody's Got Core

126

So Long Peter, Beer Miles, and Gravel?

127

The Packfiller at 400

128

Most Embarrasing Indoor Training?

129

Domination - Good?

130

Better Loving Through Bikes

131

They're Purple

132

"Team"

133

Jackson's Cathartic Potty Mouth

134

Worlds and "What Not"

135

Paul's World Championship Level Peeve

136

The Packfiller Interviews - Ben King

137

Sam's Forked Tongue

138

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

139

Le Tour de Bike Shopping (and France)

140

Marginally Mental Gains

141

The Packfiller Interviews - Sean Lally of Cycle Systems

142

Raining The Tears de France

143

@NavigatingNewbie

144

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

145

Who Stands With Sam?

146

Have We Gone Soft?

147

Pink Points, Pervy Pils, and Damned Drivers

148

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

149

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

150

Aero Lips, and Proper Fueling

151

Crit Ethics and Pink Picks

152

Sum up the Spring, and Judging Vitamins

153

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

154

Tin Foil Hat Helmets

155

Holy Week

156

Waiting on the Waples

157

It Takes More Than A Finger Full

158

The OG Three on How to Save Green

159

The Scoop on Sam

160

(Unintentional) Beer Fight at the Rim Brake Bar

161

Stepping up to the bar, and picking the Belgians

162

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

163

Nooch On My Corn

164

Perspectives From Team BD/ED Geritol

165

Motivation, Racing, and The Doctor Will See You Now

166

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

167

Get Into the Groove

168

2022, Meh, or Yeah?

169

The Packfiller Christmas Special

170

Fact or Crap, The Christmas Edition

171

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like...

172

Just F’ing DO IT!

173

The Relationship Cycle

174

Taking the Chaos INTO Winter

175

The Good, The Bad, and The Shorter

176

An Indoor Halloween

177

Arms on the Bar

178

Pat’s n’ Ass

179

The Packfiller Interviews - Mile Heads

180

The Worlds of Glue and Stink Bugs

181

Brian’s Worlds

182

Crashing Tantrum, Anyone?

183

Step Up, Cyclists

184

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

185

Spain, Nairo, and WTF is the NCL?

186

La Vuelta a Packfiller

187

The In Between, and Dealing With Doping

188

Le Femmes (avec Packfiller?)

189

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

190

Le Tour, Week 2, and the Ongoing Crit Beef

191

Week 1 of Le Tour, and a Horrible Cliche

192

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

193

The Tour de France, through the eyes of The Packfiller

194

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

195

”Hey Peter!” and Cycling in the Movies

196

Dealing With F-ups

197

Why Put on a Bike Race?

198

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

199

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

200

Is Anyone Ever Truly READY?

201

Giro Time!

202

Grading the Classics, and Sam’s Insanity

203

The Classics Aren’t Finished Yet, and Panache

204

Roubaix and Retro

205

Amstel and Cycling in a World Without Racing

206

The Packfiller Interviews - Marty Jemison and The Classics

207

Let the Flandrian Games Begin!

208

OKAY! We will talk about dropper posts now.

209

Is there a time to forgive?

210

A Little Fun with Stereotypes for Cyclists

211

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

212

Get Ready for the Cycling Legends!

213

Keeping it Fair and Clean?

214

Cycling and Being a True Valentine

215

Going Full Belgian in the Cold?

216

Is Cycling Too Dangerous?

217

Indoor = Punishment

218

A Night of Touchy Topics

219

Content or Racing?

220

End of the Year, and Cycling INFORMATION

221

A Very Special Packfiller Christmas, 2021 Edition

222

Live From The Island of Misfit Toys

223

Transfers, Loneliness, and the Gift of Giving

224

The Peloton Fad and Gift Guide, Part1

225

The Return of Coach CC (to The Packfiller)

226

Testing the SYSTM, and the PACC Proposal

227

All the Tech Questions You Ever Wanted to Ask!

228

The Indoor Cycling Adventure Awaits?

229

The Problem With Bikes

230

Now What, Cyclists?

231

Roubaix Rewind and Reflections

232

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

233

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

234

Approaching Season‘s End?

235

A World Without Bikes = A Backpack Full of Rocks

236

Fad, Flop, or Fantastic

237

Son of a...And Tactics

238

Doom and Gloom (but not all of it)

239

La Vuelta and Pre Race Practices

240

Keeping it Social

241

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

242

2021 BWR - How to Get Through Hell

243

The Packfiller - On The Road

244

TdF21 - A Well Earned Rest Day

245

TdF SUPER HOT UPDATES

246

Tour Time 2021

247

Play Nice, Crit Style

248

This is Why We Can't Have Nice Gravel

249

The Bike Will Always Be There (wait for it)

250

Giro d' Friends and Foes

251

Giro d' Best and Worst Surfaces

252

Giro d' Etiquette

253

Giro Marxism

254

Cycling's Crossroads

255

Justification for Dummies?

256

Meet The Professor

257

The Packfiller - Spring Break Remote Edition

258

The Packfiller - A-Holes Among Us

259

Trainer or Lifer?

260

The MoJo Diaries - Ep. 1 - The Beginning

261

To Ride or To Race, that is the Question

262

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

263

"Opening Weekend" and Passion vs. Addiction

264

There is NEVER ENOUGH TIME

265

A light in the distance, and RACING!!

266

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

267

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

268

Tom? Training, CX Worlds, and Watercarriers.

269

The Packfiller Interviews - Gabriel Benjamin

270

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

271

The Packfiller Interviews - Matthew Stephens

272

Predictions, Training, and Professor Paul

273

Knightwing, and the Packfiller 2020 Awards

274

Don't Throw Away 2020 Just Yet...

275

A Very Merry Packfiller Christmas

276

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

277

Google Thoughts...

278

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

279

A Very Special Packfiller Thanksgiving - 11/24/20

280

The (Unendorsed) Packfiller Challenge Begins

281

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

282

Election Distractions - Listen for positive mental health

283

The Packfiller Interviews - Chris Sidwells

284

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

285

The Season That Had To End

286

How Much More?

287

The Packfiller Interviews - Michael Morkov

288

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

289

Almost Too Much To Handle?

290

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

291

TdF Week Three, and SO MUCH MORE

292

The 2020 TdF - One Week Down, and WOW.

293

The 2020 Tour - Four days in...

294

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

295

Races and Crashes and Flops, oh my!

296

The Packfiller - Post Classic Show

297

Racing Bikes is Fun (to watch)

298

The "Season" is here, and hitting a slump

299

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

300

The Packfiller Classic Begins

301

Lucy Diaz - Colorado Classic's Return

302

In Search of a Challenge!

303

Rights of Passage

304

Amongst all of the silliness, an important discussion

305

Laura King

306

Four Talking About Thirty (for thirty)

307

Anything Good on TV?

308

News and Motivation (along with some challenges)

309

Some Good News?

310

Alex Howes

311

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

312

Theo de Rooij

313

Old Guys Watching Old Races, Ep. 1

314

Ronde Van Quarantine

315

Racing in 2020, with Dave Towle

316

The Man Behind the Mic - Brad Sohner

317

Quarantine Blues

318

Solo, by choice, and Ben Wolfe

319

Ted King

320

CoronaNOT!

321

Anne Marije Rook and Peloton Orange

322

The Pat and Paul Show

323

Back in the Saddle... Wait, WHAT?

324

The Return of Ian Boswell

325

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

326

Bike Fit, or Bike Fat?

327

Simply Huge Episode - Boomer vs. Snowflake

328

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

329

Peter Stetina

330

HO HO OOOH!

331

Old Friends, and Some Gravel

332

Steve Cummings

333

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

334

Packfiller with Bike Fit Sam

335

Back in the Belgian Saddle Again

336

Packfiller Bike Towns - Seattle

337

Packfiller LIVE - Todd Schumlick

338

Pat McQuaid

339

ThE PunIShMeNt EpIsoDE

340

Group Effect - You Need It.

341

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

342

Amanda Batty - More Butts on F'ing Bikes

343

Dr. Sara Mitchell

344

9/9/19 - We Solve Everything

345

Ryan Trebon - The Return

346

CO Classic, Vuelta, and MORE

347

Cycling and Music

348

Lucy Diaz - Colorado Classic

349

Tour Withdrawals

350

Tour Rest Day #2 - The Plot Thickens

351

Tour "Rest Day" Show and Studio Ribbon Cutting

352

Tour Weekend Recap, and Just. Plain. Riding

353

Tour Preview, Old Friends, and A New Game

354

LBS and All Things Gravel

355

6/18/19 - Motivation?

356

The Power Can Be Yours - Chuck Kenlan of ORBA

357

Gravel, Kanza, Track, and Ashton Lambie

358

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

359

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

360

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

361

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

362

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

363

Break's Over - New Promises

364

2019 Road Preview and Opinions Galore

365

New Year, New Bike, and Phil Gaimon

366

Perspective for the Holidays, and Sir David McQuillen

367

Farewell to Paul, and Bobby Julich

368

One Bike Down, and Amanda Batty - The Return

369

Bob Roll

370

Get Offa My Lawn - Lifetime Cyclists

371

Mother Nature Hates Me, and Joshua Berry

372

Updates, Promises, and JOM from GravelCyclist.com

373

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

374

Le Tour Musings, and Cillian Kelly

375

TdF "Preview" (Okay, after Stage 1)

376

Pat's "Troubles" and Lennard Zinn

377

Pizza and Beer, Live, with Jason Oestreicher

378

Cold Slap of Reality, and Spencer Newell

379

Packfiller LIVE - BikeTown Utopia?

380

Packfiller LIVE - The Old Guard

381

Pat's Hit the Wall, and Craig Undem

382

CLASSICS, Belgians, and Logan Owen

383

Spring, Static, and Robin Farina

384

Packfiller LIVE, First of 2018

385

Snow go away! - and Dave Towle

386

Real Bike Racing, and Bart Bowen

387

Two Podcasters Together = Danger, and John Galloway

388

The Fat Bike Experiment, and Ian Boswell

389

Wintertime Musings, and Charlie Kelly

390

Packfiller LIVE 4 - A New Hope

391

Packfiller LIVE 3, Tokyo Drift

392

New Digs, and Chris Carmichael

393

Back in the Studio, with Tom Danielson

394

Packfiller LIVE Seattle

395

Packfiller LIVE

396

Dog Days of Summer Roundup, and Frank Strack

397

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

398

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

399

Loss of a Voice, and Mara Abbott

400

Only run when chased, and Shonny Vanlandingham

401

The End is Nigh? Ted Chauvin

402

New Year, New Promises, with Mark Hodgson

403

It's all in the timing and Amanda Batty

404

I'm not dead yet, and Steve Porino

405

No. Way. - Mark Hodgson

406

Time to Freak OUT, and Keith Bontrager

407

Pat's Moment, and Ivan Dominguez

408

Expectations, and John Stamstad

409

The Father's Day Massacre, and Carl Decker

410

Sorry for the Serious, and Josh Colley

411

Another Member of the Family, and Alison Dunlap

412

Gary Fisher

413

Catch up rants, and Jamie Paolinetti

414

First World Problems, and Bob Mionske

415

Sean Kelly

416

Simple Rules, and Phil Anderson

417

Adulthood, and Marty Jemison

418

Stephen Roche

419

Take a joke, and Tainted Blood - Jill Yesko

420

Dream Teams, and Phil Miller, UCI and USAC

421

Frank Strack - Velominati.com

422

Superheroes Exist! - Ned Overend

423

The Art of Art - Don Walker

424

Double Feature! Ryan Trebon and Tinker Juarez

425

Darebee.com, get as buff as the Caped Crusader

426

Marianne Martin

427

Ian Boswell of Team Sky

428

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

429

Strava talk, with bonus Trump impressions!

430

Critical Cheating

431

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

432

Bald guys = dopers? (Not really)

433

Tour Recap - FINALLY, and Other ABM Fears

434

Announcer with THE Announcer

435

Recap with Dirt Riders, IronMen, and a Beer Challenge

436

Tour 2015 Preview, and some other stuff...

437

Death of the Theme on National Beer Day

438

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

439

Ask Sir Pat 2: Tokyo Drift

440

2015 Tour of Sufferlandria GET TO THE FINISH!

441

2015 Tour of Sufferlandria, Audio Race Bible, Stage 9

442

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

443

Tour of Sufferlandria, 2015 Audio Race Bible, Stage 7

444

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

445

Tour of Sufferlandria, Audio Race Bible, Stage 6

446

Tour of Sufferlandria Audio Race Bible, Stage 5

447

2015 Tour of Sufferlandria Stage 4 with Sir Jared McLintock

448

2015 Tour of Sufferlandria Stage 2 with Sir David Triska

449

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

450

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

451

Elements of Style, with Sir David McQuillen

452

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

453

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

454

Rest Day #1, TdF 14

455

Tour Time, '14!

456

To ABM or not… WAIT, HE'S BAAAAACK!!!

457

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

458

The Knight of Classical Junk Miles

459

ABM, and Angry at Health Clubs

460

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

461

The Rocky Road to Roubaix

462

I AM NOT A HOARDER!!!!

463

ABM Again... The death of racing?

464

Pour some sugar on me...

465

All by myself...

466

Tour 13 Preview, with Velominati's Frank Strack

467

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

468

The Return of the Velominati

469

Pat and Mark are back, and a little dirty.

470

Sugar and Spice?

471

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

472

The Bike Guy's Perspective...

473

Girls, Girls... Women.

474

On Location!! With BEER!!!

475

Pat time... Steve Bauer Interview

476

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

477

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

478

The Tour of Sufferlandria Preview.

479

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

480

Bitter, old, man. And a Bucket.

481

50 and still here!

482

Bikes, Boys and Beer.

483

ALL RIGHT ALREADY!

484

Cher's Premium Rush from PEDs.

485

A Cyclist's Take - Alexi Grewal

486

How are things in LA?

487

Sport, Competition, and Game, OH MY!

488

Le Tour and MORE

489

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

490

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

491

Mistakes mistakes mistakes...

492

Fifty FIVE ways to leave your beverage.

493

Classics BIATCH!!

494

They keep pulling me back in...

495

Races and Juniors and Sickness, OH MY!

496

Havin' my baby...on Fat Tuesday.

497

Solo with Gogo

498

State of the, um... training?

499

Past, Present, and Skinny?

500

Wishing, faking, and ranting

501

Man. Myth. Legend. - John Howard

502

Coach? I don't need no stinking coach!

503

Sweet, beautiful suffering.

504

Beverage for thought...

505

Holy effing ess...

506

The best and the worst.

507

Technical difficulties lead to beautiful rants

508

Sayings, Surprises, and Sacks

509

Off the leash!

510

News Flash! (Kinda)

511

Tour de Withdrawal

512

And what have we learned today?

513

Wait for it...

514

Shouldn't we be outside?

515

Time to catch up

516

60 minutes in 40

517

Pat's just holding on...

518

Better than a Brit Wedding

519

A 'Taxing' Discussion...get it?

520

April Fools

521

Packfiller Podcast 3-17

522

Last Man Standing numba frigging 1

523

Packfiller Podcast 3-5

524

Packfiller Podcast 2-17-11

525

Packfiller Podcast 2-3-2011

526

Packfiller Podcast 1-20

527

The Packfiller Podcast, 1/6/2011

528

Packfiller Podcast 12-29 with Timex's Chris Thomas