Off The Back Podcast

We travel to South Lake Tahoe to watch the finish of Stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California. Kasper Asgreen takes the win, and Tejay van Garderen the yellow jersey. We also talk about our ride with Ride Across America cyclist, Mike Conti, and our conversation with Velonews journo and podcaster, Fred Drier.

We recap our first day at the Amgen Tour of California. Got our first interviews with Kiel Reijnen and Kasper Asgreen and experienced our first day here with Press Passes. The buffet was delicious.

In this episode we swap accents, interview our friend Joe about the ride to Ellensburg that he organizes every year, and wrap up some racing news.

In this episode we catch up on the last couple of weeks of riding, talk through our love and hate relationship with Speedplay pedals, and recap the last 2 weeks of Ardennes races that wrap up the spring classics.

Matt's Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/57006

danny's Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/3919213

Speedplay Zero Pedals: http://www.speedplay.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.zeropedalsystem

Amstel Gold Finish: https://youtu.be/J6rA9zou0PU

Fuglsang slides in Liege Bastogne Liege: https://youtu.be/eGVExz7fw5Q

Danny convinces Matt to get a bike fit and we talk about Matt's favourite race of the season, Paris-Roubaix.

What moments in our cycling lives inspired us to go deeper into cycling and we talk Alberto Bettiol taking EF Education First's 4th Monument, the 2019 Ronde van Vlaanderen.

We share from our experience what to do, and what not to do when building your bikes, Matt shares his most embarrassing building bodge, and we talk spring classics and about Wout and Matthieu (again!)

Matt and Danny share their favourite/favorite cycling gear and share their impressions of Milan-Sanremo, the Primavera, by using the metaphor of water boiling.

We talk about our week bicycling, the new Wavecel Helmets from Bontrager/Trek and how to pronounce Bontrager, Team Sky becoming Team Enios, and we recap the most confusing week of the year: Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice!

We recap our week of disasters, talk Strade Bianche, take an official Off the Back deep dive in training and riding, and Danny talks metric.

Strade Bianchi Results: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/strade-bianchi/2019/result

Strade Bianchi Video Recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XnfAypEnFM

Athlete Comparison Chart (w/kg): https://decaironman-training.com/2013/12/09/powerlevels-ftp-pros-vs-humans/

VeloNews Fast Talk podcast: https://www.velonews.com/tag/fast-talk-podcast