CyclingTips Podcast

Saturday’s thrilling Giro stage can teach us lessons about creating chaos and excitement in the middle of Grand Tours. Caley, Ronan, Kit, and Shoddy sit down to talk through the weekend’s racing, plus look ahead at the mountainous final week.

It was a thrilling week of racing at the Giro d'Italia, from a historic stage win for Biniam Girmay to breakaway victory to the first Italian stage win. It came with surprises too, not least of which was a cork straight to Girmay's eye. Caley, Ronan, Jonny, and Shoddy break it all down.

The first real GC day, a glorious Thomas De Gendt breakaway, and Mathieu van der Poel's tactical nous (or lack thereof) highlighted a week of racing at the Giro d'Italia. Caley, Ronan, Amy, and Shoddy are back to discuss it all and look ahead to the sprint days to come. 

Plus, Shoddy reports in from Itzulia Women and Amy explains why Demi Vollering has been simply unbeatable.

In today's episode: The Giro is back on the Italian mainland and the sprinters have had their first opportunities. Caley, Ronan, Dane, and Kit break down two excellent sprints then discuss a wild stage 7, Trek's tactics, and what might happen this weekend on Blockhaus.

This week on the CyclingTips podcast Caley, Dane, Ronan, and Shoddy dig into the first three stages of the Giro d'Italia, including discussions of early GC moves, possible points jersey contenders, and surprise TTs. Then the crew looks ahead to the first mountain stage on Mount Etna and then pick out some possible breakaway winners for the next week. Plus, we hear Mathieu van der Poel defend his spaghetti ketchup.

The Giro d'Italia kicks off on Friday from Budapest and in this special preview episode Caley Fretz, Dane Cash, and Jonny Long get together to discuss the route, the favorites, who might surprise and more.

This week on the CyclingTips Podcast we dig into Rohan Dennis’ uphill time trial collapse, Aleksandr Vlasov’s Tour de France chances, Simon Yates’ hot-and-cold Giro preparation, and wonder aloud where Ivan Sosa has been all this time. Plus, does pro cycling need safety cars? Should rider safety outweigh the organic unfurling of a race?

This week on the CyclingTips podcast we discuss the final two one-days of the men's and women's Spring Classics: Liège-Bastogne-Liège and La Flèche Wallonne. Plus, the Tour de Romandie is this week and we are a little over a week from the first Grand Tour of the year.

The CyclingTips podcast reports from the roadside of Paris-Roubaix.

What made this edition so fast and how have the Ineos Grenadiers become the team of the Spring this year?

The CyclingTips team reports cobble-side from Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift where the conditions couldn't be more different from last year.