Jayco and Orica-GreenEGE boss Gerry Ryan has been appointed as President of Cycling Australia.

Jayco and Orica-GreenEGE boss Gerry Ryan has been appointed as President of Cycling Australia.

The Great Carnegie Crit Robbery. In their own backyard in Manchester, the Brits trumped in the medal tally at the Track World Cup. Michael ‘Chicken’ Rasmussen lays a half-dozen more bad eggs. Lance Armstrong confesses… to be clean in his comeback, and is willing to bet everything he’s already lost on it. The Helmet Debate rages on. Mark Cavendish, a self-proclaimed genius – in Sodoku.

Somehow, the geniuses that comprise the Cycling Central podcast trio of Al Hinds, Phil Gomes and Anthony Tan have managed to canvass, dissect, and extrapolate each and every one of these mind-bending topics into a show lasting no more than forty-five minutes.

Forty-one minutes and fourteen seconds, to be precise.

(What is the collective noun for a bunch of geniuses, anyway?)

Whatever. And if that’s not enough, we talk tough to ‘The Eliminator’, a.k.a. Paul van der Ploeg, to gauge his thoughts on the Victorian cycling mecca of Bright hosting the 2014 and 2015 national MTB championships.

Yibbida, yibbida, that's all folks - till next week, of course!

The Great Carnegie Crit Robbery. In their own backyard in Manchester, the Brits trumped in the medal tally at the Track World Cup. Michael ‘Chicken’ Rasmussen lays a half-dozen more bad eggs. Lance Armstrong confesses… to be clean in his comeback, and is willing to bet everything he’s already lost on it. The Helmet Debate rages on. Mark Cavendish, a self-proclaimed genius – in Sodoku.

Somehow, the geniuses that comprise the Cycling Central podcast trio of Al Hinds, Phil Gomes and Anthony Tan have managed to canvass, dissect, and extrapolate each and every one of these mind-bending topics into a show lasting no more than forty-five minutes.

Forty-one minutes and fourteen seconds, to be precise.

(What is the collective noun for a bunch of geniuses, anyway?)

Whatever. And if that’s not enough, we talk tough to ‘The Eliminator’, a.k.a. Paul van der Ploeg, to gauge his thoughts on the Victorian cycling mecca of Bright hosting the 2014 and 2015 national MTB championships.

Yibbida, yibbida, that's all folks - till next week, of course!

The Great Carnegie Crit Robbery. In their own backyard in Manchester, the Brits trumped in the medal tally at the Track World Cup. Michael ‘Chicken’ Rasmussen lays a half-dozen more bad eggs. Lance Armstrong confesses… to be clean in his comeback, and is willing to bet everything he’s already lost on it. The Helmet Debate rages on. Mark Cavendish, a self-proclaimed genius – in Sodoku.

Somehow, the geniuses that comprise the Cycling Central podcast trio of Al Hinds, Phil Gomes and Anthony Tan have managed to canvass, dissect, and extrapolate each and every one of these mind-bending topics into a show lasting no more than forty-five minutes.

Forty-one minutes and fourteen seconds, to be precise.

(What is the collective noun for a bunch of geniuses, anyway?)

Whatever. And if that’s not enough, we talk tough to ‘The Eliminator’, a.k.a. Paul van der Ploeg, to gauge his thoughts on the Victorian cycling mecca of Bright hosting the 2014 and 2015 national MTB championships.

Yibbida, yibbida, that's all folks - till next week, of course!

It’s an impassioned podcast this week at Cycling Central HQ.

The Twitter-dependent trio of Alexander Hinds, Phil Gomes and Anthony Tan find themselves fighting not with each other, as is so often the case, but with their emotions, as news of Ryder Hesjedal’s overdue admission to doping a decade ago is juxtaposed against the exuberant words of National Road Series overall winner Jack Haig – a rider from a different country, different generation, and, dare we say it, different class.

We talk to Haig about his superlative maiden year in the NRS, where he podiumed in no less than six events and won two including the Tour of Tasmania – notwithstanding his off-road mastery that also won him the under-23 MTB cross-country title.

From one rider’s positive experience to Ryder’s experience of doping without testing positive… Too little, too late? What about Slipstream Sport’s pledge to be completely transparent?

Anyway… Last weekend, Mark Frendo became the first Australian in eight years to win the Croc Trophy. Is this man who sounds like a character from The Lord of the Rings another Adam Hansen, and what is this we hear from Gomes about an Angliru of the Outback?

H.G.T. (that being Hinds, Gomes, and Tan) also touch on the future of Baden Cooke, and the worthiness of the most recent winner of the Velo d’Or.

The Passion Pod. Listen closely. Listen carefully. Listen now.

It’s an impassioned podcast this week at Cycling Central HQ.

The Twitter-dependent trio of Alexander Hinds, Phil Gomes and Anthony Tan find themselves fighting not with each other, as is so often the case, but with their emotions, as news of Ryder Hesjedal’s overdue admission to doping a decade ago is juxtaposed against the exuberant words of National Road Series overall winner Jack Haig – a rider from a different country, different generation, and, dare we say it, different class.

We talk to Haig about his superlative maiden year in the NRS, where he podiumed in no less than six events and won two including the Tour of Tasmania – notwithstanding his off-road mastery that also won him the under-23 MTB cross-country title.

From one rider’s positive experience to Ryder’s experience of doping without testing positive… Too little, too late? What about Slipstream Sport’s pledge to be completely transparent?

Anyway… Last weekend, Mark Frendo became the first Australian in eight years to win the Croc Trophy. Is this man who sounds like a character from The Lord of the Rings another Adam Hansen, and what is this we hear from Gomes about an Angliru of the Outback?

H.G.T. (that being Hinds, Gomes, and Tan) also touch on the future of Baden Cooke, and the worthiness of the most recent winner of the Velo d’Or.

The Passion Pod. Listen closely. Listen carefully. Listen now.

It’s an impassioned podcast this week at Cycling Central HQ.

The Twitter-dependent trio of Alexander Hinds, Phil Gomes and Anthony Tan find themselves fighting not with each other, as is so often the case, but with their emotions, as news of Ryder Hesjedal’s overdue admission to doping a decade ago is juxtaposed against the exuberant words of National Road Series overall winner Jack Haig – a rider from a different country, different generation, and, dare we say it, different class.

We talk to Haig about his superlative maiden year in the NRS, where he podiumed in no less than six events and won two including the Tour of Tasmania – notwithstanding his off-road mastery that also won him the under-23 MTB cross-country title.

From one rider’s positive experience to Ryder’s experience of doping without testing positive… Too little, too late? What about Slipstream Sport’s pledge to be completely transparent?

Anyway… Last weekend, Mark Frendo became the first Australian in eight years to win the Croc Trophy. Is this man who sounds like a character from The Lord of the Rings another Adam Hansen, and what is this we hear from Gomes about an Angliru of the Outback?

H.G.T. (that being Hinds, Gomes, and Tan) also touch on the future of Baden Cooke, and the worthiness of the most recent winner of the Velo d’Or.

The Passion Pod. Listen closely. Listen carefully. Listen now.

Jack Haig talks to Cycling Central's tenacious trio, Anthony Tan, Alex Hinds, and Philip Gomes about his meteoric rise on the domestic road scene, his plans for next year, and how far he can go in the sport.

Jack Haig talks to Cycling Central's tenacious trio, Anthony Tan, Alex Hinds, and Philip Gomes about his meteoric rise on the domestic road scene, his plans for next year, and how far he can go in the sport.