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Cycling Legends Podcast
Cycling Legends Media
137 episodes
4 days ago

Join Chris Sidwells and the team for regular features, interviews, lively discussion and all the latest in pro cycling. Plus exclusive insights from Simpson Nouvelles Cycling, Britain’s most exciting elite women U23 team.


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Join Chris Sidwells and the team for regular features, interviews, lively discussion and all the latest in pro cycling. Plus exclusive insights from Simpson Nouvelles Cycling, Britain’s most exciting elite women U23 team.


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Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone 25-21

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)


Recommendations

A 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/fItw2i7


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4 days ago
1 hour 23 minutes 2 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone 25-20

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)


Recommendations

Apollo Flight Journal https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/

Gil Scott-Heron ‘Whitey on the Moon’ https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si=uNHXYe99dc8PKn8p

Cycling into the Darkness https://dstanley.substack.com/p/cycling-into-the-darkness?utm_source=publication-search


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3 weeks ago
1 hour 20 minutes 33 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Cycling Legends Live

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.


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3 weeks ago
57 minutes 42 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone 25-19

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 Images


Recommendations

Jo Jackson Art https://www.jojacksonart.co.uk

Ben Musholt- ‘Mad Skills Exercise Encyclopedia XL: The Ultimate Guide for Strength, Bodyweight Training, and Home Fitness’ 

 https://amzn.eu/d/iPi2qe


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1 month ago
1 hour 15 minutes 6 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone 25-18

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.com


Links

Podium Analytics - https://podiumanalytics.org/ 

Tom Simpson Cycling Festival 7-14 September - https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/tom-simpson-cycling-festival

Team Simpson-Nouvelles Supporter Club - https://www.nouvellescycling.co.uk/supporters-club


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2 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes 58 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone 25-17

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)


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Tom Simpson Cycling Festival 7-14 September 2025

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2 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 12 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone - Arrivée 2025

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)


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Photos: The first and the latest riders to win on the Champs Elyse's: the similarities between Walter Godefroot’s 1975 season and Wout Van Aert’s 2025 prior to them winning in Paris are striking. Busy Classics seasons had yielded very little by way of results for either racer until the biggest race of the year arrived in Paris. (Credits: Getty)


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3 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes 44 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Tour de France Femmes Preview 2025

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.com


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3 months ago
33 minutes 59 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Forgotten Yellow

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.com


Executive producer: Chris Sidwells


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3 months ago
16 minutes 31 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone Rest Day 2

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)


Links

John Eustice (Facebook) - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0dpDocoiyMsjf7aNQuDf6GNcGhsU1GrYzGY49KBaiR8iuJHk9UWyCsS1WEHBGVXNil&id=603585333


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3 months ago
1 hour 22 minutes 54 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone - Rest Day 1 2025

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 ask 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): ASO


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3 months ago
1 hour 11 minutes 50 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Interview: Richard Oakes

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 Group

Cycling Legends


You can follow Richard via the following links:

Strava

Instagram

LinkedIn


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3 months ago
1 hour 6 minutes 21 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
From the Archives - Barry Hoban: My First Tour


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 2009


In 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.com


Book: Barry’s autobiography, Vas y Barry! is available now from the Cycling Legends store


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3 months ago
28 minutes 14 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone - Grand Depart 2025

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: ASO


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4 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 16 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Interview - Clive Phillips, Making the Most of Now

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/makingthemostofnow

Twitter/X https://twitter.com/makemostnow


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4 months ago
1 hour 59 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone 25-12

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 plugs

Simpson Nouvelles Supporters Club - https://www.nouvellescycling.co.uk/supporters-club

Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup - https://open.spotify.com/album/6iVOz2hudE6dv5Yrcsw2c9?si=SIdqVJ8aSD-iRwnia89Dbw

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms - https://open.spotify.com/album/6Pz06FAaeym0JSqVqIkN56?si=AVsrXB4iQxqexuUkP2Ps3w

Sir Bradley Wiggins’ Café Afficianado podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/0fpeDR4pz81XsD81ssEBZF?si=qQSZy64mQ_mGr3X4W3t4uQ


Cover 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)


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4 months ago
1 hour 22 minutes 54 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
From the Archives - Barry Hoban: My First Flanders

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!


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4 months ago
24 minutes 20 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
From the Archives - Barry Hoban: My First Worlds

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!


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4 months ago
17 minutes 41 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone 25-11

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)


Recommendations

Lael Rides Around the World - https://youtu.be/foZSVhTyEfQ?si=7zOWYMWDoRFqkGWq

Colum McCann ‘Twist’ - https://amzn.eu/d/fI278CZ

BikeRaceInfo - https://bikeraceinfo.com/commentary/stanley-david/2025/2025-Giro.html

Ulverston Brewing Company - https://ulverstonbrewingcompany.co.uk/


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5 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes 21 seconds

Cycling Legends Podcast
Feed Zone 25-10

“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)


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Cycling Legends Podcast

Join Chris Sidwells and the team for regular features, interviews, lively discussion and all the latest in pro cycling. Plus exclusive insights from Simpson Nouvelles Cycling, Britain’s most exciting elite women U23 team.


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