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CyclingTips Podcast: Should cyclocross be in the Winter Olympics?

This week on the CyclingTips podcast…

Dylan Groenewegen left Team Jumbo-Visma with one year left on his contract to join Team BikeExchange and Burger Kingwill sponsor Italian ProTeam Eolo-Kometa in 2022.

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Nerd Alert podcast: The ins and outs of 3D-printed saddles

3D printing is the hottest new development in manufacturing, and as far as cycling goes, saddles have curiously emerged as an area that has seen the most widespread application with several models on offer from both Fizik and Specialized (and more to come, surely).

Although they’re horribly expensive, 3D-printed saddles have also proven to be freakishly comfortable while still being extraordinarily light and highly supportive. But what makes them so comfortable? When might they become more affordable? And why do they have to look so weird?

In this week’s episode, James sat down with folks from Fizik and Carbon — the 3D-printing development partner for both Fizik and Specialized — to get the nitty-gritty details on what 3D-printed saddles are all about, and where they’re heading from here.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Nettie Edmondson and her decision to retire

This week Nettie Edmondson joins Gracie Elvin on the podcast to chat about her decision to retire, her Olympic journey, being yourself, and what she plans to do next. 

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CyclingTips Podcast: Lefevere's sudden interest in women's cycling

This week on the CyclingTips podcast… 

We discuss Patrick Lefevere and his recent announcement that he would sponsor NXTG, a U23 women’s team, via his company Experza. 

Mark Cavendish finally set pen to paper for the 2022 season while Team DSM is down another rider. 

For Nerd Nugget, James talks about possible e-bike incentives if the Build Back Better bill actually gets passed, and how it might have real effects on bicycle commuting in the United States.

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CyclingTips Wahoocast: A close look at SYSTM

In the latest of our deep-dives with the people behind new products, we sit down with coach to the stars (Rohan Dennis, Evelyn Stephens, Taylor Phinney, and many more) Neal Henderson, Wahoo’s Mac Cassin, and former pro Ian Boswell to dig into Wahoo’s new training app.  

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Wahoo. As always, we ask anything we want.

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Freewheeling Podcast: With the Olympics over track riders take to the road

Lucinda Brand is on top of the cyclocross world, but can she keep it up? 

Ceratizit-WNT announced their first new rider for the 2022 season and BikeExchange Jayco has finalized their roster. 

Abby chatted with Kasia Niewiadoma about what makes a great domestique and why she is thankful for Tiffany Cromwell. 

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Nerd Alert podcast: Designing a cyclocross race bike that isn’t a gravel bike

This/next week’s episode of the Nerd Alert Podcast has dropped a little early. That’s because it’s a timely chat about the new Cervelo R5-CX cyclocross race bike that was just announced. 

Our guests for this episode are Cervelo’s director of product management, Maria Benson, and the company’s engineering manager, Scott Roy. Dave Rome fills in as host and chats about all the nerdy details of the new model (such as the new threaded bottom bracket!) that was designed specifically for Marianne Vos and Wout van Aert. 

It’s worth a quick note to say that while the regular CyclingTips podcast does occasionally do special sponsored episodes that take a deep dive on new bike releases, this isn’t one of those. Rather we just thought it would be interesting to have a candid chat about the discipline-specific design elements that some of the world’s best racers request.

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From the Top: Building Cervélo

I would argue that Cervélo is one of the most innovative bike brands in the cycling industry. Back in the 1990s when they first started, almost everyone else was focusing on lightweight bikes. Cervélo, meanwhile, was busy pioneering bicycle aerodynamics. I’ve ask engineers at various bike companies which brand impresses them most with regards to engineering and innovation, and overwhelmingly I hear them say Cervélo.

The genesis of Cervélo started in 1995 when two young engineering students named Phil White and Gerard Vroomen met in the composites lab at McGill University in Canada. Over a span of 15 years they went from building a crazy aerodynamic time trial bike as a university project to creating one of the most disruptive and loved bike brands in the world. 

But what many people don’t know is that as wildly successful Cervélo was up until 2011, it was a pressure cooker of constant financial challenges which ultimately led Cervélo towards insolvency. That ultimately led to Gerard and Phil selling the business to Dutch holding company, PON. 2008-2011 had been the perfect storm for Cervélo with the global financial crisis, setting up a professional team that was far more successful than anticipated, and an unscrupulous lender which led to the company’s troubles.

Thank you to Malcolm Bloedel for producing this episode and Ashley de Neef for composing the music.

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CyclingTips Podcast: Bernal and Van Aert are already planning for July

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The Beking festival attracted top talent in Monaco over the weekend. Egan Bernal wants to race the Tour de France next year. And speaking of the Tour de France, Wout van Aert hopes to land the green jersey in 2022.

Cyclocross was in full swing over the weekend but the next World Cup in Antwerp has been cancelled.

For this week’s Nerd Nugget, Ronan talks about his lengthy guide to buying a balance bike. 

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Nerd Alert podcast: Loved products that didn’t make our top 10s

This week’s episode of the CyclingTips Nerd Alert podcast sees tech editors Dave Rome and Ronan McLaughlin take control of the airwaves. 

They chat about new headset bearings that apparently can’t be killed, some big industry news, and a few new features you can expect to see on Zwift. 

Ronan and Dave then share a few of their most loved products for this year that didn’t make their respective Top 10s.

And finally, the episode wraps up with a teaser of what they’re working on for CyclingTips now.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Carmen Small on directing post cycling career

Retired professional cyclist Carmen Small joins the podcast to talk about her career, arbitrating for an Olympic spot in 2016, and how she got into directing once her career ended due to a concussion.

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CyclingTips Podcast: Sagan should race Life Time's six-race series

Dane called up Kimo Seymour to learn a bit about Life Time’s new six-race off-road series in 2022. 

Peter Sagan is in the news and it’s not great. Mark Cavendish had a nasty crash on the track at the Ghent six day.

Team BikeExchange’s women’s team is coming along nicely for 2022. 

And Ronan is trying to find the best indoor training set up in a new series on the site focusing on a variety of different “pain caves”. 

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Nerd Alert podcast: Turns out some bikes are more sustainable than others

Trek released an inward-facing sustainability report a few months ago, and it’s eye-opening.

The document doesn’t paint an especially rosy picture (e-bike haters will have a field day with this one), but it does provide some very useful information along with a solid roadmap for how to improve things.

In this episode, The Nerds sit down with Trek’s director of brand marketing and public relations, Eric Bjorling, to discuss some of the details of the report, and also ask some hard questions about how to deal with some of its inconvenient truths.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Puck Pieterse bunny hopped right into our hearts on Sunday

Loren, Amy, and Abby discuss the new EF Education Tibco-SVB team and potential roster.

Amy spoke with Rukhsar Habibzai, a refugee from Afghanistan who will ride for USA based Team Twenty24 in 2022. We recommend you also read Iain’s story on the UCI’s Afghan Cycling Federation led evacuation. 

On Sunday the Tabor World Cup was fast and furious. Puck Pieterse may not have won the race, but her performance was pretty impressive. 

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CyclingTips Podcast: The problem with professional cycling contracts

Geraint Thomas had his training bike stolen, and promptly returned. The EF Education First-Nippo firing and un-firing saga. And Wout van Aert is getting into the NFT business. 

The Giro d’Italia 2022 route has been announced. 

And for Nerd Nugget, James chats MPR ratings…for bikes?

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Nerd Alert podcast: Are we finally getting turtle shells for indoor cycling?

The Nerds have been pining for some sort of Mario Bros and Zwift mashup that lets us toss turtle shells at our competitors, but Zwift still seems to be too serious for these kinds of shenanigans. However, a new indoor bike called Tiltbike from UK outfit Muoverti nevertheless gives us some hope that we’ll see something like that from someone because built into one of its levers is — for real — a joystick!

Will our prayers ever be answered? We chat about some other tech news items in this week’s show — and answer a bunch of Ask a Mechanic questions, as usual — but really all we care about is the turtle shells.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Grace Brown: Dealing with pressure

Gracie Elvin is back on the Freewheeling podcast. In this episode, she calls up former teammate Grace Brown to talk about her role in the peloton, how she deals with pressure, cycling development in Australia, and what she is looking forward to in 2022. 

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CyclingTips Podcast: EF is joining the Women's WorldTour

This week on the CyclingTips podcast…

EF is joining forces with Tibco-SVB to upgrade the long-running team to a Women’s WorldTeam program. Chad Haga is joining Rally, as the team continues to bolster its roster. And, why you should care about the new UCI Track Champions League.

For today’s Nerd Nugget James is curious about Tom Pidcock’s Pinarello cross bike. 

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Nerd Alert podcast: Aero gravel wheels are coming

Aero road wheels are everywhere these days, but it turns out the idea is much harder to execute when it comes to gravel.

Why is that, you wonder? We ask the questions, and Hunt wheel engineer Luisa Grappone has the answers.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Was 2021 a "transition" year?

Abby, Loren and Amy chat 2021 as a whole. Who impressed, what were their favorite races of the year, and which events fell short.

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