Sir Bradley Wiggins’ Café Aficionado

Café Aficionado’s daily series exploring how the past might help us predict the immediate future of the 2025 Tour de France continues, as Bradley and co-host Rosie look at Monday’s stage 3 from Valenciennes to Dunkerque.

Bradley explains why a simple change in the wind direction might drastically impact how this plays out, delves in to his expectations for a true sprinters finish and explains why this, of all stages, has him feeling at home in Café Aficionado...

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Presented by⁠ Sir Bradley Wiggins⁠ and Rosie Mansfield

Researcher: Luca Unwin

Production Manager: Ross Aitken

Social Video Producer: Rosie Mansfield

Produced and Edited by: Toby Gilles

Executive Producers: Faye Stewart, Ashley Unwin & Dominic de Terville

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Café Aficionado’s daily series exploring how the past might help us predict the immediate future of the 2025 Tour de France continues, as Bradley and co-host Rosie look at Sunday’s stage 2 from Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Bradley talks us through his expectations for the longest stage of 2025,  the fuelling required for its punchy conclusion and reflects on why this year’s Grand Départ will have helped the riders feel part of the Tour from the off.

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Presented by⁠ Sir Bradley Wiggins⁠ and Rosie Mansfield

Researcher: Luca Unwin

Production Manager: Ross Aitken

Social Video Producer: Rosie Mansfield

Produced and Edited by: Toby Gilles

Executive Producers: Faye Stewart, Ashley Unwin & Dominic de Terville

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The first of Café Aficionado's daily, mini episodes throughout the Tour de France, as Bradley and his new co-host Rosie use the past to explore what might happen during 2025, stage by stage.

Bradley delves into the specifics of the 1st stage of 2025, the emotions of being on the start line for the greatest race in the world, and gives his predictions for this year’s Tour.

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Credits

Presented by⁠ Sir Bradley Wiggins⁠ and Rosie Mansfield

Researcher: Luca Unwin

Production Manager: Ross Aitken

Social Video Producer: Rosie Mansfield

Produced and Edited by: Toby Gilles

Executive Producers: Faye Stewart, Ashley Unwin & Dominic de Terville

Recorded at: Outset Studio London Bridge

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Ireland’s Stephen Roche remains one of only three men to have won cycling’s triple crown – the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and the UCI World Championships Road Race in the same year.

In this episode he joins Bradley and Graham to talk through his extraordinary achievement in 1987, which included today’s feature climb, the Col d’Aubisque, during The Tour.

Hear how Stephen outwitted rivals who thought they’d beaten him, utilising his love of mind-games and extraordinary heart to destabilise his victims.

He recounts going to war with his own teammate to set up the chance for the Triple Crown, and his embarrassment as wearing a skin-suit, now viewed as a pioneer, that took him to an incredible 1985 win up the Aubisque.

Meanwhile Brad and Graham recount the tale of a rider who had to be rescued from a ravine with a make-shift rope made from inner-tubes, and Stephen battles Brad in our Ultimate Cyclist feature as we debate the all-time greatest tactician.

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Café Aficionado is sponsored by CAMS, the UKs leading accident management company helping thousands of cyclists get back on the road.

Credits

Presented by⁠ Sir Bradley Wiggins⁠ and Graham Willgoss

Guest: Stephen Roche

Researcher: Luca Unwin

Production Manager: Ross Aitken

Social Video Producer: Rosie Mansfield

YouTube Editor: Theo Stocklin

Produced and Edited by: Toby Gilles

Executive Producers: Faye Stewart, Ashley Unwin & Dominic de Terville

Recorded at: Outset Studio London Bridge

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In 2018 Geraint Thomas became just the third Briton to win the Tour de France, joining Sir Brad in that elite group. In doing so he became the first man ever to win a stage up the iconic 21 hairpins of Alpe d’Huez whilst wearing the yellow jersey.

Joining Sir Brad and Graham in the café for this episode, Geraint reveals how he and Team Sky leader, Chris Froome, wrangled over the battle for yellow as he rode for history on the Alpe and tells of another occasion on the climb, “a memory I’ll never forget,” when he clung to the coattails of two of the sport’s all time greats as they battled for supremacy.

And if you’re wondering what it’s like to ride the Tour de France with a broken pelvis then Geraint can tell you…

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Credits

Presented by⁠ Sir Bradley Wiggins⁠ and Graham Willgoss

Guest: Geraint Thomas

Researcher: Luca Unwin

Production Manager: Ross Aitken

Social Video Producer: Rosie Mansfield

YouTube Editor: Theo Stocklin

Produced and Edited by: Toby Gilles

Executive Producers: Faye Stewart, Ashley Unwin & Dominic de Terville

Recorded at: London Broadcast Studio

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Brad's early cycling hero was Tom Simpson. In the 1960s Tom’s name was as well-known to the British public as Bradley was in 2012, having become the first - and still only - Briton to win the Tour of Flanders, aged just 23. Tom was hugely popular, and was even voted Sports Personality of the Year at a time when cycling needed a big name to boost its profile in the UK.

Brad and Tom are interlinked in ways you wouldn’t think possible. From family connections, to their status as British national sporting heroes through their pioneering achievements on two wheels. 

In this episode, Brad and Graham are joined by Tom's nephew, cycling journalist, photographer and publisher Chris Sidwells, to celebrate Tom's career and discuss the tragic events that led to his death just one kilometre from the summit of the brutal climb of Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour de France.

Brad reveals how, without Tom, he may never have become a cyclist at all and shares how he paid special tribute to him when he raced the stage in 2009. 

And Brad and Chris debate which cyclist's panache would see them added to the profile of our Ultimate Tour Rider.

Find out more about The Tom Simpson Cycling Festival

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Credits

Presented by⁠ Sir Bradley Wiggins⁠ and Graham Willgoss

Guest: Chris Sidwells

Researcher: Luca Unwin

Production Manager: Ross Aitken

Social Video Producer: Rosie Mansfield

YouTube Editor: Theo Stocklin

Produced and Edited by: Toby Gilles

Executive Producers: Faye Stewart, Ashley Unwin & Dominic de Terville

Recorded at: London Broadcast Studio

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Introducing the brand new podcast from Sir Bradley Wiggins - sharing

Every week, Sir Brad and co-presenter Graham Willgoss (broadcaster, journalist, and all-round cycling obsessive) are joined by one of the biggest names in the sport to take you behind-the-scenes and into cycling history with stories, insights and anecdotes full of the magic and emotion that make the sport so special.

In this preview episode Sir Brad and Graham reveal their vision for the podcast, some of the big-name guests they’ll be welcoming to the show each week, and the story behind the title, Café Aficionado.

** New episodes out every Tuesday from 24th June 2025 **

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Credits

Presented by Sir Bradley Wiggins and Graham Willgoss

Researcher: Luca Unwin

Production Manager: Ross Aitken

Social Video Producer: Rosie Mansfield

Produced and Edited by: Toby Gilles

Executive Producers: Faye Stewart, Ashley Unwin & Dominic de Terville

Recorded at: London Broadcast Studio

Sir Bradley Wiggins' Café Aficionado is an Atomized Studios production.

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