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-barry

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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)

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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-2025

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Lugworm haemoglobin and platelet-rich plasma? Are we bringing the noughties back here at Cycling Legends Towers? In Actual Cycling, we ask whether it’s time to crown Strade Bianche the sixth Monument and also just who decides what a Monument (or even a Classic) is. Plus: is Pogacar really ‘crazy’ to contemplate Paris-Roubaix, a decent week for American riders and livening-up team time trials. Phew!

Photo: Marcus Burghardt of T-Mobile takes a feed, Tour de France stage 10, 18 July 2007. The previous day, Burghardt had collided with a Labrador Retriever dog, destroying his front wheels and catapulting the German over the bars. (Credit:Friedemann Vogel/Bongarts/Getty Images)

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It’s Openinsgsweekend so it stands to reason that we’re team talking about doping in shinty and ballroom dancing. Talk does eventually turn to both Omloopen Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, plus more world records on the track, the return of a famous sponsor to cycling and a possible return to the UK for the Tour de France in 2027.

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Photo: Andy Hampsten in pink and much better weather, taking a musette from another Cycling Legends guest, Shelley Verses on his way to his historic 1988 Giro d’Italia win. Credit - unknown.

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In the 1980s, men's pro cycling was a closed-door to women, unless you were a podium girl, of course. In 1985, a 25 year-old from Connecticut changed all that.

Chris Sidwell chats to pro cycling's first female soigneur, Shelley Verses. In this hour-long interview from 2023 Shelley, who worked with 7-Eleven, La Vie Claire, Toshiba, TVM and Saturn, talks about learning the ropes and becoming accepted in the macho world of the men's peloton and supporting some of the best riders in the world.

Photo: Offside/L’Equipe

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Chris and David are joined by Erin Avill as we announce this season's line-up with some new faces and new flags join the team for 2025.

Erin also reflects on the learning-curve that was 2024 and looks ahead to the forthcoming season with Britain's most exciting women's U23 elite team.

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Theo de Rooij won 14 races in a professional career that spanned the decade from 1980 to 1990. Having ridden with the Panasonic team between 1984-1990, he then became a DS on the team for 4 seasons before joining Rabobank in 1996. He resigned from the Dutch team at the end of 2007.

Theo spoke to Chris Sidwells in 2023 about his career, riding behind the Iron Curtain and riding under – and then working for - the legendary Peter Post. He also found time to recreate his famous interview from the finish of the 1985 Paris-Roubaix!

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Does Alison Jackson listen to the Feed Zone? Probably not, but that doesn’t stop Gary from claiming his musical influence on the Paris-Roubaix Femmes winner.

in the real world, it’s Bartali goes to Hollywood as a forthcoming biopic of the Giro and Tour legend is announced, the guys discuss yet more changes on cycling’s small screen plus the European track championships and even make some rash predictions ahead of Het Nieuwsblad/Het Volk/Het Woke*.

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Photo Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi mugging for the camera, Col du Galibier, Stage 11, 1952 Tour de France. Credit - Agence France Presse

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Andy Hampsten is known to millions of cycling fans for THAT image taken as he attacked in Arctic conditions on the Gavia Pass on his way to take the Maglia Rosa during the 1988 Giro d’Italia,. He would then go on to become, so far, the only US rider to win the Italian Grand Tour.

In a show first aired exclusively for premium subscribers in January 2023, Andy talks Chris through some of the highlights of racing career, from riding as a rookie for Bernard Hinault to winning on l’Alpe d’Huez in 1992, and everything else in between.

Image: Giro d’Italia Stage 14, 5 June 1988 - Darcy Keifel

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