Roadside Cycling Podcast

In this episode of The Press Room, I catch up with Ineos Grenadier and Australian Road Race Champion - Luke Plapp. We had a lot to cover since our first episode back in season 1 and so we began with the recent UAE Tour where Plappy was a force in the leadouts and showed his climbing potential finishing in the front group on both mountain stages including 5th on Jabel Hafeet. We also get Plapp’s opinion on the World's ITT course, his favourite Oakleys, his coffee obsession and he even shares some inside knowledge into the Australian Junior Worlds team traditions.

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Timestamps:

18:45 What happened in the UAE ITT 

21:25 UAE Mountain finales

27:00 Adam Yates V Pogacar

35:00 2022 Race calendar

39:00 Grand Tour in Luke’s first year?

41:30 Wollongong Worlds ITT course

43:30 Question time from the fans

49:45 Coffee

52:15 Junior Worlds blonde hair tradition

57:00 Nimbl cc shoes

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In this episode of The Press Room, I chat with Jay & Bre Vine who are representing Australia in the 2022 UCI Esports Cycling World Championships held on Zwift. Learn more about Jay’s path to the World Tour with the Zwift Academy & Alpecin-Fenix and Bre’s own selection into the Aussie team. We talk about a host of topics from whereabouts protocols for the National teams, IRL racing vs. Zwift racing, Bre & Jay’s training and preparation for the event and also the secrets to mastering the in-game mechanics.

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In this episode The Press Room chats with Freddy Ovett ahead of the 2022 UCI Esports Cycling World Championships held on Zwift. Freddy has endured a very interesting career trajectory within professional cycling. Freddy describes his journey navigating the top development teams trying to reach the World Tour to where he is now as a professional rider for Legion of LA and Australia on Zwift. We discuss the upcoming ESports World Championship on Zwift and his preparation for the event. 

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In this episode of the Summer Series I sit down with the new Australian Road Race Champion - Nicole Frain to discuss the Santos Festival of Cycling AKA Tour Down Under and also chat about her recent Nationals victory. Nicole shares some extremely insightful information and takes us into her mind on that last lap of Buninyong. We preview the Women's Santos Festival of Cycling stage race and talk about the key features of the race. 

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In this episode of the Summer Series, I chat with Australian cycling's rising star, Ruby Roseman-Gannon of Team Bike-Exchange. Ruby fills us in on her journey to securing her first pro contract into the Womens World Tour. Ruby details how she worked hard to overcome of her self-doubt and performance anxiety that came with the pressure of turning pro and, offers some great advice to young female aspiring cyclists on how to deal with this. We also talk about the Aussie Nationals (recorded prior to competition) and chat about her goals for the racing.

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In the first episode of the Summer Series we focus on the Bay Crits down in Geelong. Famous in Australia as the last 'tune up' race before Nationals. We learn a little about the history of the event and then hear from audio diarist Brenton Jones, Nick White, Jensen Plowright and Matilda Raynolds as they breakdown stages 1 and 2 of the race. 

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In this episode I sit down with the winner of the 2021 Women's Zwift Academy, Maud Oudeman. Maud will be racing for Canyon-Sram next year after winning the Zwift Academy competition at just 18 years of age! Maud shares more about her short time in road cycling thus far, details her own experiences from the Zwift Academy competition and also outlines what she is looking forward to in her first season with Canyon-Sram. 

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In Episode 9 I catch up with Zwift Academy Finalists Cooper Sayers, Rachael Wales and the Men's Zwift Academy winner - Alex Bogna. The crew give us a first hand look at what the Zwift Academy was like behind the scenes and give some insight to each of the key moments on the GCN series over on Youtube. 

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Jess Allen of Team Bike Exchange gives an inside look into the development and growth of the women's peloton as she enters her 7th year with the Australian WWT team. We chat about the difficulties of moving to Europe as an Aussie, winning the biggest races on the calendar with Annemiek van Vleuten, racing the first women's Paris-Roubaix and Jess's pipe-dream to put together an all-star WT criterium team and race in the US. 

This episode is sponsored by WestCycle, the peak body for bike riding in Western Australia and a representative voice for all bike riders in the state. 

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