Cycling Legends Podcast

Vuelta Feminina! Giro! Lincoln Grand Prix! It's all happening at once, but that's no problem for our dynamic trio who just talk about other stuff anyway. Belgian toothpaste, for example, which may possibly give you a very different ring of confidence. Join Chris, David and Gary for nutrition and hygiene tips with some occasional bike racing thrown in for good measure.📸 The Lincoln Grand Prix is one of the UK’s most prestigious domestic races and the one with the longest continuous history. First raced in 1956, only the global COVID outbreak in 2020 has prevented its running. Pictured here, Huddersfield CC’s Bob Eastwood narrowly edges out Tony Hewson to take the inaugural victory. (Credit: unknown/via ITP events.)RECOMMENDATIONS 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_RBugJadNdxjeqxs2gMMgDSi76UxYSxouqb74SFjvAyHWolf Alice - The Clearing https://www.wolfalice.co.uk/music/ Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Chris Sidwells throughout this year’s men’s Giro d’Italia for some little slices of Corsa Rosa history.It’s 1924 and you’re a woman who plans to ride the Giro d’Italia. But there’s no women’s Giro in 1924. Not a problem for Alfonsina Strada!In this first show, Chris tells the remarkable story of ‘the Devil in a Skirt’.🎵 Giro d’Italia by Trabant 33, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.🎙️Intro/outro voice generated by elevenlabs.ioGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So Spring is over then. After 8 weeks of breathless single-day race action, it’s almost time to knuckle down for the long-haul of the first Grand Tour of the season, but the Classics have given us a tantalising glimpse of what we might expect should the stars align in July and beyond. Join Chris, David and Gary to look back at a Spring to remember.📸 While the men’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege first took place in 1892, it only took another 125 years before the inaugural women’s race was held. Anna van der Breggen’s victory in 2017 saw her make history, completing an unprecedented Ardennes treble after taking Amstel Gold and La Flèche Wallone in the preceding week. (Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)RECOMMENDATIONS 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_RBugJadNdxjeqxs2gMMgDSi76UxYSxouqb74SFjvAyHGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Toot toot! It’s all aboard the Paul Seixas hype TGV but not before we dissect 2 nail-biting Enfers du Nord. It’s been a week of cycling history being made in real time and expectations being defied. Again.RECOMMENDATIONS 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_RBugJadNdxjeqxs2gMMgDSi76UxYSxouqb74SFjvAyHThin Glass and Thin Ice - Reg Barnett https://regbarnett.co.uk/Cycling Legends 04 Flandriens - Chris Sidwells (who?) https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/products/cycling-legends-04-flandriens-by-chris-sidwells?srsltid=AfmBOooSSdVAIAwrujlAR_JaFh5fE1FDn5OzRHPhhx1PMEU6Mwja2L6IGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reg "Reggie" Barnett enjoyed a long and distinguished cycling career between 1965 and 1977, turning professional after. A six-time national sprint champion, he turned professional after competing for Great Britain in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He went on to race domestically for teams including Holdsworth‑ Campagnolo, Falcon, TI‑Raleigh, and later his own Barnett‑Edwards‑Shimano squad.In this candid interview, Reg chats to Chris Sidwells about racing in the 1960s and 70s.Reg’s autobiography, Thin Glass and Thin Ice, is available directly from Reg himself at https://regbarnett.co.uk/Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Despite our best attempts, it really is all about Flanders in this episode. Oh, and some 1970s progressive rock. Join Chris, David and “Whispering” Gary for a look back at two memorable Rondes Van Vlaanderen, with a sprinkle of noodly guitars and occasional yodelling. You don’t get this over at Lionel Birnie’s, do you?📸 The Lion of Flanders himself, Johan Museeuw, taking the first of his 3 Ronde Van Vlaanderen victories at the 1993 edition of the race. Museeuw competed in 16 editions of de Ronde from 1989-2004, finishing on the podium no fewer than 8 times. (Credit: Piet Van Belle and Marc Herremans, via KOERS Museum of Cycle Sport)RecommendationsJenny Ross, artist - www.jennyrossary.comDavid’s Substack - https://substack.com/@dstan58?r=nsm6y&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=imageSimpson Nouvelles Cycling Scholarship - https://gofund.me/32eacc351 Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The garlic bread and olives of Australia and the Middle East are done and the main course of single-day racing in northern Europe is about to be served. Chris, David and Gary look ahead to Openingsweekend and the Spring Classics in general.📸 The single-day race first known as Omloop Van Vlaanderen was first held in 1945, becoming the somewhat more familiar Het Volk two years later before adopting its current guise as Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 2009. The 1947 edition was won by the man shown here, Albert Sercu, pictured after winning that year’s Dwars door België (Dwars door Vlaanderen today), just a week earlier. If you think the family name sounds familiar then you’d be right. Albert’s son who was 2 years old when the photo was taken would go on to dominate the six-day track scene, as well as being a multiple Giro and Tour stage winner. His name? Patrick, of course. (Credit: KOERS Museum of Cycle Racing collection via Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Colourised by Cycling Legends Media 2026)RECOMMENDATIONS AND SHAMELESS PLUGSBeatles Anthology (Disney+) - https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-cab32c53-c3f8-4879-86f5-c8e4a1657338No One Rides Alone - The Tour de MMN 2025 Film - https://tinyurl.com/MTMONFilmMaking the Most of Now - Chris Philips Interview - https://shows.acast.com/64ef4b8cf714670011477528/685d22f07cd58072a5d346a1Tom 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-X2fwGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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 [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 [email protected]! 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ho, Ho and thrice Ho! It’s our 25th Feed Zone of the year to ring in the 25th day and all it entails. Our 3 unwise men are visited by a spirit of Feed Zones past, the Packfiller’s very own Patrick Bulger to chat about:What pro kit is on our Santa listsHighlights and lowlights of 2025Our hopes for the new seasonBest (and worst) of the new kits; andDid you ever get a bike for Christmas?All in your bumper Christmas and New Year double issue Feed Zone from Cycling Legends Media!You can check out Packfiller - the world’s longest running cycling podcast* - LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm Pacific at https://youtube.com/@packfiller?si=1h0OvHzaWRra3mwd*PossiblyRecommendationsConcept2 ERG Rower - https://www.concept2.co.uk/ or https://www.concept2.com/‘Shot Ready’ - Stephen Curry - https://amzn.eu/d/92qKpL3 or https://a.co/d/2Zxqc5nGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luca Kuhn launched her eponymous women’s cycling apparel brand in 2023 and from the 2026 season we are delighted to say that Luca will be kitting out Simpson Nouvelles Cycling. Luca sat down with Chris Sidwells and Simpson Nouvelles team owner and manager David Walters to talk about her journey, building communities for women cyclists and supporting Simpson Nouvelles from next year.Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.Luca’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 board!Is your business interested in partnering with Britain's only U23 elite women's team? Drop Chris Sidwells a line at [email protected] on line!Website www.nouvellescycling.co.ukFacebook https://www.facebook.com/NouvellesCycling?Instagram https://www.instagram.com/NouvellesCycling Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hot on the heels of the last episode announcing the Simpson Nouvelles 2026 line-up, David and Chris chat to a rider who, as well looking ahead to next season in the road, is currently causing a stir in domestic and European cyclocross. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Freya Whiteside!📸 Freya on her way to 5th overall and 3rd in the U23 category during Round 4 of the Lloyds Cyclo-cross National Trophy Series 2025/26 at Sandwell Valley Country Park in November 2025. (Andy Smith Photography https://www.andysmithphotography.co.uk/)Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.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 board!Is your business interested in partnering with Britain's only U23 elite women's team? Drop Chris Sidwells a line at [email protected] on line!Website www.nouvellescycling.co.ukFacebook https://www.facebook.com/NouvellesCycling?Instagram https://www.instagram.com/NouvellesCycling Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just to prove that it’s not just good things that you can have too much of, an impromptu Feed Zone takes to the ether barely a week after the last one. A new points system from the UCI, Wout Van Aert and news from Simpson Nouvelles Cycling are but three of the topics on the agenda as we try (and fail) to keep to time.Plus, get your nominations in for your favourites of the year. What was your cycling moment of 2025? Who was your hero, villain, favourite race, whatever? Drop us a line at [email protected] and we’ll throw it in the mix in our Christmas Special on 21 December!📸 Lucinda Brand’s win at this weekend’s World Cup in Terralba was her 52nd consecutive cyclocross podium, overtaking Marianne Vos’ previous record. But Brand is no slouch on the road either, with no fewer than 28 pro wins on narrow tyres. She’s seen here launching the attack that would earn her the very top spot on Omloop Het Nieuwsblad podium in 2017. (Credit: LC/Tim De Waele/Corbis)RecommendationsCycling Legends 4 for £60 while stocks last!! https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/collections/cycling-legends-illustrated-booksGood Bye, Paul Sherwen, and Thanks https://www.bikeraceinfo.com/commentary/stanley-david/2018/2018-Paul-Sherwen-Goodbye.htmlFun While it Lasted (Live) - Massive Wagons https://youtu.be/6nYXyd7z6YA?si=eDWE4-5w7Oc5JmQLGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Walters talks to Chris Sidwells as he announces the Simpson Nouvelles line-up for 2026 and plans for the new season. Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.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 board!Is your business interested in partnering with Britain's only U23 elite women's team? Drop Chris Sidwells a line at [email protected] on line!Website www.nouvellescycling.co.ukFacebook https://www.facebook.com/NouvellesCycling?Instagram https://www.instagram.com/NouvellesCycling Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The pros might now be returning to their training regimes but there’s no off-season for the Feed Zone. Obviously there’s plenty of off-topic but in our more lucid moments we talk about the new American pro team run by George Hincapie and ask whether we should let bygones be bygones or is is “once a doper, always a doper”? We also look forward to seeing Africa’s first UCI women’s team take to the stage in 2026, plus there’s other new team chat, World Cup cyclocross and we raise a glass to pro cycling’s latest newly-weds. Just not as big a glass as Fernando Gaviria apparently does tho’. The new Feed Zone: enjoy responsibly.📸 30 January 1966: the familar sight of Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor going head to head, but in a most unfamiliar setting at the Fontenay sous Bois cyclocross. The race itself was quite remarkable and not just for having two Tour de France legends competing. First run in 1961, Fontenay sous Bois, near Paris, was an "American-style" ‘cross race with riders competing in pairs, each riding alternate laps. Each team was made up of a cyclocross specialist and a routier, or all-rounder. Paired with Jean Graczyk, it would be Poulidor who prevailed over his great road rival, with Maître Jacques finishing third, riding with Jean Stablinski. (Credit: Le Parisien Libéré)RecommendationsLuke Rowe “Road Captain - My Life at the Heart of the Peloton” - https://amzn.eu/d/0RI0JqlLUCA Premium women’s cycling and spin wear - https://www.rideluca.com/Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Crits, kermesse, cyclocross and cowbells! It’s been a busy second season at Simpson-Nouvelles, with the team juggling UK and Belgian commitments. Team manager and owner David Walters talks to Chris Sidwells about the ups and downs of the year while preparing to do it all again in 2026.Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.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 board!Is your business interested in partnering with Britain's only U23 elite women's team? Drop Chris Sidwells a line at [email protected] on line!Website www.nouvellescycling.co.ukFacebook https://www.facebook.com/NouvellesCycling?Instagram https://www.instagram.com/NouvellesCycling Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lord have mercy! It’s the vice episode! Drugs are back, tell a friend. Or at least biological passport anomalies are back. Is illegal betting the next bad thing for pro cycling? We wouldn’t bet against it (badoom-tsh!). Plus six-day racing, Euro cyclocross and recommendations to generally make your life better.📸 The end of the road season historically meant the end of regular earnings for a few months, so many riders headed to the velodrome and the lucrative six-day circuit. Patrick Sercu was the greatest six-day rider of all time, winning no fewer than 88 times in a track career that spanned 3 decades and saw him amass over 1000 victories on the boards. These also included an Olympic gold in Tokyo in 1964 and 2 professional World Championships in 1967 and 1969. Sercu was no slouch on the road either, winning 6 Tour de France stages (including the Green Jersey in 1974) and 13 stage wins in the Giro d’Italia. Here we see him at the Rotterdam Six in 1976, taking a slingshot from that other rider who was no slouch on the boards, long-term six-day partner and fellow Belgian, Eddy Merckx. (Credit: Rob Mieremet/Anefo/National Archive of the Netherlands)RecommendationsAKT London - Get 15% off with Gary’s shameless link https://aktlondon.refr.cc/refer-a-friend/u/garyfairley73?s=sp&t=cpYoga with Adriene - https://youtube.com/@yogawithadriene?si=7VpbBEyTSKSIdWurThe Dr Ida Rolf Institute - https://rolf.org/rolfing.phpGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sans or Avec Zwift? That is the question. Chris, David and Gary are already looking forward to next July and August after the routes of both Tours de France are announced. Ventoux, Col d’Eze, Montjuic and Le Markstein are but some of the names whetting the collective appetite with only 8 months until both Grand Departs.The team also look back at the World Track Championships that concluded at the weekend in Santiago, with varying successes for their respective nations, and look even further back to Eddy Merckx’s legendary Hour in Mexico City. Plus ‘cross is back and just what is it with the Brits and hill climbing? (We’re not sure either.)📸 This past week saw the glitzy presentation of the routes of the 2026 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. But the race wasn’t always announced with such razzmatazz and it wasn’t until Jean Marie LeBlanc’s stewardship of the race in the 1990s that each year’s route was announced with anything more than a press conference. Indeed, the inaugural edition of the world’s most famous bike race was announced to the world on 19 January 1903 in a single column in L’Auto. (Credit: unknown/via lefrancophille.com)RecommendationsA House of Dynamite (Netflix) https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81744537?s=i&trkid=283039074&vlang=en&trg=cp“Prisoners of Geography” - Tim Marshall https://amzn.eu/d/fItw2i7Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And so to Il Lombardia, via Rwanda and a whole host of other places. The traditional end of the season is upon us already and the guys might have a few things to talk about, not just Tadej Pogacar. Okay, but quite a bit of Tadej Pogacar. In other news, we begin the campaign for Remco Evenepoel’s assault on the Hour Record, Quinn Simmons impresses us once again, there is no ‘you’ in team according to the Dutch women’s gravel squad and - speaking of squads - just what is the link between Eddy Merckx and Scotland’s 1978 World Cup football squad?📸 Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, Como, 13 October 1973. Eddy Merckx wins his third Giro di Lombardia (as it was known then) some 4 minutes and 15 seconds ahead of nearest rival Felice Gimondi. Or so he thought. Merckx would later test positive for norephedrine - a decongestant - and Gimondi was subsequently awarded the win. In April the following year, a commission would ultimately accept that Merckx had not knowingly taken the banned substance, having been prescribed a cough syrup by his doctor while suffering from bronchitis. His ‘victory’, nevertheless, was not reinstated. (Credit: Photo News)RecommendationsApollo Flight Journal https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/Gil Scott-Heron ‘Whitey on the Moon’ https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si=uNHXYe99dc8PKn8pCycling into the Darkness https://dstanley.substack.com/p/cycling-into-the-darkness?utm_source=publication-searchGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recorded live without a safety net (or an internet) at Harworth and Bircotes Town Hall on 12 September 2025 before an Actual Audience, Chris and Gary were joined onstage by Joanne Simpson to remember her father, Tom, and celebrate his World Championship win 60 years ago.Simultaneously, joyful, funny, poignant and at times deeply personal, you’ll want to hear this.Special thanks to Lee Stewart at Harworth and Bircotes Town Council who went over and above the call of duty to help make the whole thing happen.Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Back after an indecently long hiatus, the team regroups to catch up on all things bike racing, with some geopolitics, genocide and sporting boycotts thrown in for good measure.Along the way, we salute some newly-crowned TT World Champions and welcome women’s pro racing back to the Land of the Free.Photo: Elite racing returned to the USA this weekend with the third edition of the Baltimore Cycling Classic and the inaugural women’s edition, but the Land of the Free hasn’t always been so sparsely served by international pro racing. The Tour du Pont (known as the Tour de Trump for its first 2 editions) had varied fortunes during its 8-years on the UCI calendar, not least down to a May slot which clashed with the Giro d’Italia.This view of the peloton was taken during Stage 9 of the 1996 and final edition, from Blowing Rock to Charlotte North Carolina. Al Bello/Allsport/Getty ImagesRecommendationsJo Jackson Art https://www.jojacksonart.co.ukBen Musholt- ‘Mad Skills Exercise Encyclopedia XL: The Ultimate Guide for Strength, Bodyweight Training, and Home Fitness’  https://amzn.eu/d/iPi2qeGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dali! Hemingway! Picasso! Er, Elton John! Things get surreal as the Vuelta a Espana heads to Salvador Dali country, and little - if any - of it is related to the racing of bicycles. Doncaster celebrates a Grand Tour victory, presumably while Visma Lease-a-Bike were too busy filling in the insurance paperwork after their entire fleet of race bikes evaporated so we wonder just how hard can it be to fit a decent bike lock. Almost as hard as fitting a GPS tracking device in Romandie, it would appear.Photo: The Team Time Trial is one of the most spectacular sights in cycling, as demonstrated by Team Sunweb as they power through the equally spectacular salt lakes at Torrevieja on the way to a third place on stage 1 of the 2019 Vuelta. Credit Zac Williams/SWpix.comLinksPodium Analytics - https://podiumanalytics.org/ Tom Simpson Cycling Festival 7-14 September - https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/tom-simpson-cycling-festivalTeam Simpson-Nouvelles Supporter Club - https://www.nouvellescycling.co.uk/supporters-clubGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

France is still where it’s at as David, Chris and Gary look back on another historic Tour de France Femmes, but is the race grand enough not only for its name but for the women who light it up every summer? We have thoughts! Red Bull Remco Evenepoel opens our perennial salary cap discussion and we start passing the envelope around for Tadej Pogacar’s retirement collection. Don’t worry, it’s still a while off!Photo: Anna Van Der Breggen on bottle duties, back at the Dutch team car during the 2021 UCI World Road Championships. The 157.7km run from Antwerp to Leuven would be won for Italy by Elisa Balsamo, who held off Van der Breggen’s team mate, a charging Marianne Vos, in the final. (Photo by Kristof Ramon - Pool/Getty Images)Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! We’d love to hear from you.Tom Simpson Cycling Festival 7-14 September 2025Sign up at https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/tom-simpson-cycling-festivalSocial 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Champs Elysees is dead. Long live the Champs Elysees! After 3 weeks, 21 stages, 3302km and 14 stage winners, Gary, Chris, David and John actually find 5 things to talk about that aren’t Tadej. But he gets a mention anyway.Photos: The first and the latest riders to win on the Champs Elysees, the similarities between Walter Godefroot’s 1975 season and Wout Van Aert’s 2025 prior to them winning in Paris are striking. Busy Classics season and early stage races had yielded very little by way of results for either racer until the biggest race of the year arrived in Paris. (Credits: Getty)Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After 8 stages and 947km of racing, last year’s Tour de France Femmes came down to just 4 seconds on the Alpe d’Huez. With an extra stage and more names in the frame for the GC battle, Gary Fairley previews this year’s race.Music: A Month of Sleep - “So Alive”, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.comGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greg Lemond’s first Tour de France victories are writ large in the history of the race; his duel to the (almost) bitter end with team mate Bernard Hinault in 1986 and then snatching the Yellow Jersey from Laurent Fignon by a mere eight seconds 3 years later.Twelve months on from that momentous, historic afternoon on the Champs Elysees, Greg Lemond won his third Tour de France and in doing so joined an exclusive club alongside Philippe Thys, Louison Bobet, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault. Gary Fairley looks back at an edition of cycling’s greatest race that passes almost unnoticed in the shadow of Lemond’s other 2 wins.Music: A Month of Sleep - “Starry Eyes”, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.comExecutive producer: Chris SidwellsGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stunned by actually calling the second week’s play correctly, the team are both full of admiration for the Rumena Majica and just a little bit full of themselves. Collective back-slapping aside, Chris, David and Gary try to remember the last 5 stages while simultaneously keeping one eye on the Tour's upcoming final week. Whither Remco Evenepoel? Whither Jonas Vingegaard? And should pro cyclists have a 15 minute time-out between finishing a stage and speaking to the media? Lidl-Trek probably think so!Photo: This year’s Tour began in the Hautes-de-France region, birthplace of Amédée Fournier, seen here taking a well-deserved rest during the 1939 edition. Fournier won the opening stage from Paris to Caen and again on stage 5 from Lorient to Nantes. We reckon this photo is taken in Toulouse after a gruelling 311km stage 9 trek across the Pyrenees to Pau. The race would be won by Belgian rider, Sylvère Maes - the second of his pair of Tour wins. It would be 3 decades before another Belgian would with the Tour de France. Yes, you guessed, Édouard Louis Joseph Merckx. (Credit: AFP, Tour map (inset): ASO)LinksJohn Eustice (Facebook) - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0dpDocoiyMsjf7aNQuDf6GNcGhsU1GrYzGY49KBaiR8iuJHk9UWyCsS1WEHBGVXNil&id=603585333 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Crosswinds, crashes and chaos marked the opening few stages of this year's and there seems to have been no let-up in the crazy ever since. Walker from Yellowstone wins a stage and leads GC but will things be more Rip Wheeler than Beth Dutton in the second week?Gary, Chris, David and John look back at a most atypical first week and ponder wether in trying to improve his Tadejness, has Jonas lost some of his essential Jonasness and for just how long will Irish eyes keep smiling as the battle for the Geansaí Buí picks up as the Rás na Francach moves into the Pyrenees?Photos: The Angel of the Mountains, Charly Gaul, takes it easy, no doubt dreaming of Alps and Pyrenees. The Luxembourger won 10 stages of the Tour between 1955 and 1961 and won the race in 1958. Credit: unknown.Tour de France Map (inset): ASOGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

In April this year, the world of cycling lost a giant and the Cycling Legends family lost an uncle, a friend and an inspiration when legendary British racer Barry Hoban passed away at the age of 85. Barry rode no fewer than 12 Tours de France between 1964 and 1978. He would go on to win 8 stages along the way, setting a British record that would stand until Mark Cavendish surpassed that total in 2009In 2022 Chris Sidwells sat down with Barry to record a series of chats about his first experiences of riding cycling’s iconic races.In this episode Barry talks to Chris about riding his first Tour de France, in support of no lesser name than the great Raymond Poulidor in 1964. That year’s race would be eventful for both riders, but I’ll let Barry tell you about that.So enjoy the chat. Vive le Tour and vas y Barry!Photo: Barry Hoban (number 15, nearest) would spend his first Tour in the service of no lesser talent than Raymond Poulidor (number 19). Both would go on to have an eventful race. (Credit: via Chris Sidwells/Cycling Legends Collection)Episode Music (title/closing): A Month of Sleep - “Starry Eyes”, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.comBook: Barry’s autobiography, Vas y Barry! is available now from the Cycling Legends storeGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is it all over before a wheel has turned or will there be some twists and turns on the road from Lille to the Champs Elysees, 50 years after the peloton first graced cycling’s second-most famous cobbles?Join the team and a very special guest to preview the 112th Tour de France. No matter what, we think it will be a cracker!Image: ASOGet in touchDrop us a line or send us your Tour Haiku at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clive Phillips is a former British Army Officer who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.In late 2019 Clive was diagnosed with Multifocal Motor Neuropathy an ultra-rare neurological condition affecting motor function in the peripheral nerves. After starting regular treatment that keeps the worst symptoms temporarily at bay Clive was determined to use his skills and passion for adventure to take advantage of raise awareness of MMN and funds for research in to the condition and founded the Making the Most of Now project.In May 2025, Clive and a team of fellow British military veterans set off to ride 3200km around France, following in the wheel tracks of the first British team to enter the Tour de France in 1955. Chris Sidwells caught up with Clive during a rest day in Avignon to talk about the ride and MMN.You can find out more about MMN and support Clive’s fundraising at https://makingthemostofnow.co.nz/You can also follow MMN on social media at:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/making_the_most_of_now?igsh=MWcwcGUybWljOXY3Yg== Facebook https://www.facebook.com/makingthemostofnowTwitter/X https://twitter.com/makemostnowGet in touch with usDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 2025 road season careers toward the Lille Grand Depart like a Tom Pidcock film and the team are simply trying to hang on. Have we learned anything about the summer’s big guns from the Dauphine and Tours de Suisse? What have the UCI learned about seemingly arbitrary rule changes? (Don’t answer that.)We also bid a wholly disrespectful au revoir to Romain Bardet and a sycophantic bon anniversaire to cycling’s newest octogenarian Eddy Merckx. Come on, who would you least like to meet in a dark alley?Episode recommendations/shameless plugsSimpson Nouvelles Supporters Club - https://www.nouvellescycling.co.uk/supporters-clubRolling Stones - Goats Head Soup - https://open.spotify.com/album/6iVOz2hudE6dv5Yrcsw2c9?si=SIdqVJ8aSD-iRwnia89DbwDire Straits - Brothers in Arms - https://open.spotify.com/album/6Pz06FAaeym0JSqVqIkN56?si=AVsrXB4iQxqexuUkP2Ps3wSir Bradley Wiggins’ Café Afficianado podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/0fpeDR4pz81XsD81ssEBZF?si=qQSZy64mQ_mGr3X4W3t4uQCover photo: It may have been before he became the Cannibal but a no-less hungry Eddy Merckx looks on incredulously as reigning Maglia Rosa, Gianni Motta tucks into a bowl of spaghetti during the 1967 edition of the Giro d’Italia. There would be no second victory for Motta, who finished 6th behind Felice Gimondi that year. Merckx would only have to wait another year before winning his first of 5 Giri. The rest, as we know, is history. (Credit: Keystone/Keystone-France/Getty Images)Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In April this year, legendary British racer Barry Hoban passed away at the age of 85. The world of cycling lost a giant and the Cycling Legends family lost an uncle, a friend and an inspiration. During his career Barry won 8 stages of the Tour de France - a British record that stood from 1975 until the arrival or a certain Mark Cavendish 2 decades later. He also won 2 stages of the Vuelta a Espana and remains - in 2025 - the only British winner of the Gent Wevelgem.In 2022 Chris Sidwells sat down with Barry to record a series of chats about his first experiences of riding iconic races like Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders and the Tour de France.In this episode Barry talks to Chris about riding his first Ronde Van Vlaanderen - the Tour of Flanders - in 1966.Enjoy the chat and vas y Barry! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In April this year, legendary British racer Barry Hoban passed away at the age of 85. The world of cycling lost a giant and the Cycling Legends family lost an uncle, a friend and an inspiration. During his career Barry won 8 stages of the Tour de France - a British record that stood from 1975 until the arrival or a certain Mark Cavendish 2 decades later. He also won 2 stages of the Vuelta a Espana and remains - in 2025 - the only British winner of the Gent Wevelgem.In 2022 Chris Sidwells sat down with Barry to record a series of chats about his first experiences of riding iconic races like Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders and the Tour de France.In this episode Barry talks to Chris about riding his first professional road race world championships at Salanches in 1964.Enjoy the chat and vas y Barry! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Still trying to make sense of the Giro d’Italia, the team offer their hot takes on what went wrong and what went right on the roads from Tirana to Rome. Gary is unwittingly using the wrong microphone (again - sorry!) but just about manages to tout Marlen Reusser as the wildcard in the TdFF pack, Chris basks in the glow of deservedly excellent book reviews and David suggests a novel approach to dealing with concussion in grand tours that may not be as crazy as you think.Photo: Cafe Raids were a common feature of the Tour de France until the 1960s. While the Moselle Region is more commonly associated with its Riesling white wines, this photo from the 1921 race shows Swiss riders Henri Colle and Charles Parelenjoying some cold, frothy grain-based ravitaillement on the steps of a bar in Dalstein. The stage itself was a sinewy 300km ride from Strasbourg to Metz. (Credit: unknown)RecommendationsLael Rides Around the World - https://youtu.be/foZSVhTyEfQ?si=7zOWYMWDoRFqkGWqColum McCann ‘Twist’ - https://amzn.eu/d/fI278CZBikeRaceInfo - https://bikeraceinfo.com/commentary/stanley-david/2025/2025-Giro.htmlUlverston Brewing Company - https://ulverstonbrewingcompany.co.uk/Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“What would Barry do?” is our new mantra at Feed Zone Towers, although for starters he’d probably have remembered Lorena Wiebes’ name and who wrote ‘Jerusalem’. In between bouts of amnesia, we look back at an intriguing first week of the Giro d’Italia, pick out highlights from the Vuelta Feminina and Itzulia Women and fly off at tangents along the way. Buckle up! Photo: Alfredo Binda stops at the Foligno check point during stage 8 of the 1928 Giro d’Italia, a trifling 323km affair from Rome to Pistoia. Binda had taken the race lead 4 stages earlier but the pink leader’s jersey was still another years away. Stage 8 would be his fifth of seven stage wins on his way to his third Giro title but it wouldn’t be until his 5th and final Giro victory in 1933 that the ‘Trumpeter of Cittiglio” would wear the famous Maglia Rosa. (History Collection/Alamy Stock)RecommendationsRichard Oakes The Equation https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/products/the-equation?srsltid=AfmBOoq2TToq7PEldxz__7jIDatraGJBsBRjIuMBp05RCegb1hD5ApsbColin Hay: Waiting for my Real Life https://youtu.be/6bEJzzWM9hA?si=bY5TES12v52whO46Men at Work - Overkill (from Cargo (1983) https://youtu.be/RY7S6EgSlCI?si=ZIEJOKK0tX47TW4oMudgear https://mudgear.com/Sidwells on Tour! https://tickets.cyclinglegends.co.uk/Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our latest interview show, Chris talks to a young entrepreneur called Hamish Graham. Hamish has taken over the reins of, not just a cycling holiday company, but the first ever cycling holiday company. The business that in the 1960s founded Majorca as a cycling holiday destination and spawned a tourist industry. That earned its creator, Yorkshireman Doug Petty the Majorcan equivalent of a knighthood.The business is now called Sixty/8 (sixty8.cc), and Hamish has made it his own, offering packages in Majorca and Girona, and bespoke holidays in other iconic European destinations. In fact wherever you want to cycles, sixty8.cc can make it happen. Hamish is a very experienced racer, who although he got a place in a famous Belgian Kermesse team by at first being mistaken for someone else, made his mark in this tough Belgian school of racing, as well as elsewhere in Europe.Now he's trying his hand at endurance cycling, having just recently made his debut in the Dales Divide, a 600-kilometre mostly off-road bike-packing race from the Lancashire coast, across the Dales and North Yorkshire National Parks to the Yorkshire coast, and back again. You can read more about that on bikepacking.com As a fitting touch Hamish took some of Doug Petty's ashes with him for inspiration. Petty was Hamish's step-dad.It's a great story, give it a listen. LinksHamish’s Intagram https://www.instagram.com/hamishjsg?igsh=MWsxOWpzbjRqMmpiag==Sixty/8 https://sixty8.cc/Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How was your Spring then? Any better than Tadej’s? Worse than Lotte’s? Before cycling gets Grand Tour Fever we look back over the Classics of 2025 and ponder whether things really are as bad (or as good) as they seem for the Usual Suspects. Plus, we ask whether One Cycling actually is necessarily an evil and generally shoot the breeze about all things cycling. (Actually, more likely just all things.)Photo: Vittorio Adorni, Jacques Anquetil and Felice Gimondi eating spaghetti during the 1966 Giro d'Italia (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)Recommendations/Links/Shameless PlugsAlfabetti66 (Instagram) - https://www.instagram.com/alfabetti66?igsh=eHEzdzh3Y2ZqZnlSeth Godin - ”The Dip’ - https://amzn.eu/d/2dQ6gINSunGod Performance Eyewear - https://www.sungod.co/en-gb/West Sport Media/Simpson-Nouvelles - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJHgRvnCKhl/?igsh=djFiNnpzdmIzNWF2Simpson-Nouvelles Cycling https://nouvellescycling.co.uk/Tales from the Team Car podcast - https://shows.acast.com/tales-from-the-team-carGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1982, Steve Lovelace nearly died while chopping firewood with a friend in a remote field near his home in Wagoner, Oklahoma. Pinned to the ground and crushed by the weight of a tree slab, it took two hours for his friend and a local farmer to extricate him with a chainsaw. When he eventually arrived at hospital, doctors were unsure as to whether he’d live. A little over 3 years later, he became only the second disabled athlete to complete an Olympic-distance triathlon.Today, after series of other health setbacks, Steve continues to compete as a para-triathlete and is indeed a true Cycling Legend.LinksSteve’s website: thelastplacewinner.com YouTube: The Last Place Winner -a paratriathlon pioneer- Steve LovelaceGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cycling moves from Flanders via Roubaix to the Ardennes as the team pick over the bones of another breathless few weeks of racing. Plus: we look back at some of the tech from Paris-Roubaix; could it also be the end of the rear wheel as we know it (?); why so meagre pickings for the winners of bike races and we remember Barry Hoban, trailblazer, legend and friend, who passed away this week.Photo: Team Garmin-Transitions feed zone during stage 4 of the 2010 Tour de France, from Cambrai to Reims. David Millar takes his musette from soigneur Alyssa Morahan. Millar's team mate Julian Dean would narrowly miss out on the win, closing rapidly in the final but finishing second to Lampre's Alessandro Petacchi. The win was Petacchi's second of only 2 stage victories that year which would help him to winning the overall points classification, despite HTC Columbia’s Mark Cavendish winning 5. (Credit: Garmin-Transitions via Flickr)Recommendations/LinksBarry Hoban - Our Obituary https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/blogs/long-reads/barry-hoban-our-obituaryThe Backpedal -Cillian Kelly https://substack.com/@cilliankelly?r=nsm6y&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profileTom Simpson Cycling Festival, 7-14 September 2025 https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/tom-simpson-cycling-festivalFasten Switch wheel system https://youtu.be/2fNxa_dNIU4?si=rLXV6KXwY83UGPNpSimpson-Nouvelles Cycling https://nouvellescycling.co.uk/Tales from the Team Car podcast - https://shows.acast.com/tales-from-the-team-carGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Barry Hoban raced Paris-Roubaix no fewer than eight times between 1964 and 1974, becoming the first British rider to finish on the podium in 1972.In this interview from 2022, Chris Sidwells talks to Barry about his very first encounter with the Queen of the Classics.You can read all about Barry’s career in his autobiography,Vas y Barry, available again exclusively from the Cycling Legends store at https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/products/vas-y-barryGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

O, Holy Week! David, Chris and Gary are briefly rendered speechless as they look back on the weekend’s Rondes Van Vlaanderen. The guys also cast an eye towards Paris-Roubaix and ponder what it takes to win a cobbled Classic. Big love goes to Wout Van Aert and Primoz Roglic plus news from the Simpson-Nouvelles team whose formal launch took place at Herne Hill Velodrome last week.Photo: Dutch rider Henk Faanhof taking his feed as the race’s opening stage of the 1954 Tour de France passes through Rotterdam on its way from Amsterdam to Brasschaat, the first time that the Grand Depart had ever taken place outside France. Faanhof would take his only Tour stage win 8 days later on the 343km run from Angers to Bordeaux. (Credit: BNA Photographic/Alamy)Recommendations/LinksStyrkr Products -https://styrkr.com/Lux Readers - https://luxreaders.co.uk/Brian Grazer - “A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life” - https://amzn.eu/d/64BNtl4“Cycling Legends 04 - Flandriens” - https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/products/cycling-legends-04-flandriens-by-chris-sidwells“My PrP Injections” - David’s Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/dstanley/p/my-prp-injections?r=nsm6y&utm_medium=iosSimpson-Nouvelles Cycling https://nouvellescycling.co.uk/Tales from the Team Car podcast - https://shows.acast.com/tales-from-the-team-carGet in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a busy month for British Cycling, Gary caught up with Chief Executive Jon Dutton to talk about the Grand Departs for both the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes in 2027 and British Cycling's newly-launched strategy that will take the governing body and the sport in the UK into 2029.You can learning more about British Cycling's strategy at https://cloud.britishcycling.org.uk/article/our-strategy-2025Get in touchDrop us a line at [email protected]! 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 @cyclinglegends1WebsiteBooks, stories, podcasts and more at https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.