The American Peloton

We went to Gateway Cup! Saw some great racing and got some inside scoops for y'all from the final American Crit Cup stop of the calendar. We'll talk about the Gateway weekend, and plenty of other racing in America, and some that just features Americans on this episode of The American Peloton.

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A couple horrific crashes lately have started a new conversation about safety, especially barricades. Legion of LA's Ty Magner's post on IG seems to have broad support from elite riders, but what possible solutions are out there? In other news, we had some exciting racing (that we couldn't watch) at TOAD and one absolute shocker at Salt Lake Crit. The ACC is half over! We're getting into it LIVE on The American Peloton.

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We went to Tulsa Tough 2024! Awesome racing to kick off the 2024 ACC. On the men's side we had huge rides from some smaller squads/individual riders like Luke Lamperti, Michael Garrison, Clever Martinez. Tough weekend for the teams we would have called the favorites going in (Legion of LA, Blazers, Reign Storm). Some of that was due to the chaos and crashes Tulsa is known for. On the women's side we had some totally different racing dynamics. Everyone wanted in the break, but no one wanted to work, except LA Sweat. If your maiden name isn't Schneider or Ryan, it's going to be an uphill battle in a bunch kick this year so it was surprising others weren't more committed to a small move. We're getting into it all this week, LIVE on The American Peloton.

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Racing is in FULL SWING here in the USA. We've got crits. We've got stage races. We've got nationals. Jonathan and Ben were out at Speedweek and saw some of the most exciting and dynamic races of the 24 season. We'll talk through the shocks and revelations from all the post NCL collapse racing in America. Is it the end of the Legion of LA era? Did Ribble Rebellion disrupt the global crit scene? Is Reign Storm the best crit team, even though Project Echelon swept the nats podium???? We're getting into it LIVE on The American Peloton.

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Devastating announcement from the NCL ( National Criterium League ) today leaves a lot of riders and staff in the lurch. Special guest Madeline Pearce joins us to parse it all out. We'll talk about what this means for the 24 season, and why you should care even if you weren't planning to watch the NCL races.

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A quick discussion of the recent racing in Belize and Jamaica. Kind of a debacle for the Miami Blazers down there, and a strong performance from WHBH. With that, the pre-season racing is over and REAL RACING IS HERE. Redlands this weekend on the West Coast, and Sunny King Crit opens up the USA Crits Series here in Alabama. We're talking about who's racing where, hot takes, predictions, etc on THE AMERICAN PELOTON.

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Cory Williams is headed from Legion of LA to the sister team of Miami Blazers. Does this shift the balance? Is this Blazers year? Meanwhile NCL teams Miami Nights and Denver Disruptors continue to strengthen their rosters after big cuts late last year. We're also talking about who's racing where!? NCL, ACC, USA Crits, CRIT.... it's a lot to untangle this season and teams are going to have to pick a focus.

It's the off-season and we're podcasting at z2 winter pace, but there's still somehow a ton to talk about in the world of American road bike racing. We go over the loss of GCN+ and what that means for watching European races in America, but also how our American races go out to the world. The USCX, NCL, Maryland Cycling Classic, they were all going out to cycling fans world wide on GCN+. Then we go over several transfers including what I would call the first top tier rider to defect from the Legion of LA men's squad. The meat of this episode is a look back at the '23 season in the form of a team tier list. We're wrangling the vibes. Who's stonks are up, who's are down?

We've referenced Will Hardin's youtube POV videos a lot this season on the show, so it was awesome to have him on fresh from his race at Legion's inaugural edition of CRIT Championship Tour in St Pete Florida. We talk about his experience there, his jump to the NCL Miami Nights for next year and branch into all corners of bike racing from there.

Check Will's youtube here (including a great video from CRIT Championship St Pete): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDalH56GNgoMd0qTHNf9Gw

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