The Rouleur Podcast

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The Rouleur Podcast episodes

October 14, 2021 Rouleur Tech Podcast - Roubaix Recap
Paris-Roubaix is not just the hardest of the Classics, it's also a unique test-bed for some of the latest - and least expected - bike racing technology. Rouleur Digital Editor Peter Stuart is just back from his first Hell Of The North and he's been sharing some of his tech discoveries with host Dan Cavallari. Out this year go tubulars, rim brakes and double wrapped bars, replaced by tubeless clinchers, discs and even 1x gear systems. If it's good enough for Lizzie Deignan, it's good enough for us.
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35 min
October 05, 2021 Rouleur Conversations - The Midlife Cyclist
Grow old. Get Fast. Don't die. Good words to live by, and the original working title of Phil Cavell's book The Midlife Cyclist. Phil is best known as the co-founder and CEO of high-end London bike store Cyclefit, and a leading expert on the science and bio-mechanics of cycling. Phil talks us through the realities of staying fit and fast past forty, fifty and over; why the current generation of older riders are nature's crash-test dummies and why biological evolution will probably see women routinely outperform men at endurance events.
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24 min
September 30, 2021 Rouleur Tech Podcast - Carbon Repair
There are so many myths and misunderstandings about carbon frames - they break easily, they're impossible to repair, the ride deteriorates with age, you can't leave them out in the sun. In this episode Dan Cavallari goes in search of the truth with the help of carbon expert Cameron Frazer of Driven Technologies. The good news is a decent carbon frame will probably outlast you. Unless you drive into your garage with it still on the roof rack. But you knew that, right?
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39 min
September 23, 2021 Rouleur Conversations - Lora Klinc on Primož Roglič, and Cattle Auction from Issue 106
Slovenia is a cycling superpower - with two out of the three Grand Tour winners this year and an Olympic time trial gold for Primož Roglič. A new book by Roglič's partner Lora Klinc was designed to explain the mysteries of the international peloton to Slovenia's legion of new cycling followers, and the English-language version is surprisingly informative for even the most knowledgeable fan. Also on this episode, Daniel Stewart's examination of xenophobia in bike racing from Rouleur Issue 106.
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32 min
September 16, 2021 Rouleur Tech Podcast - Supersapiens
Supersapiens hit the headlines recently when the UCI banned use of the glucose monitoring system in races. Company founder and CEO Phil Southerland, who also founded Team Novo Nordisk with a roster comprised entirely of type 1 diabetics, declared it a backward step from the governing body, citing improved rider health and welfare possibilities with the new technology.
Supersapiens co-founder and CTO Gagan Chaudhari joins us to explain how the system works, what the benefits are, how to monitor fuel intake and what the future holds. It’s food for thought, literally.
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34 min
September 09, 2021 Rouleur Conversations - Rouleur Edition 106 The Empowerment Issue
How do we make cycling - as a sport and a way of life - as diverse as possible? That’s the central question in Rouleur edition 106 - The Empowerment Issue. And it’s the theme of this podcast. We hear from cycling coach Thea Smith on how her club is trying to attract more women, non-binary and trans people through the gates of the venerable velodrome in London’s Herne Hill. And from Will Butler-Adams of Brompton on how the bike industry has a vital role to play in rebuilding society after the pandemic.
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37 min
September 02, 2021 Rouleur Tech Podcast - BMC and bike design
Swiss brand BMC are leaders in technological developments in the bike world. From their base in Grenchen, BMC’s team of engineers at the Impec lab develop new ideas and push the boundaries of what can be achieved in bicycle design for any terrain. Stefan Christ, head of R&D at BMC, joins host Dan Cavallari to explain what they get up to in their mysterious lab, and what we can expect to see coming out of the brain factory in the future. Both Dan and Rouleur’s digital editor Peter Stuart have visited the BMC HQ on several occasions, and a whole lot more besides. Peter chips in with his take on who is really putting in the hard yards on R&D.
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47 min
August 26, 2021 Rouleur Conversations - Emma Pooley and The Art of Cycling
Emma Pooley is more likely to be found running up hills these days than cycling up them, but the competitive spirit that led her to Olympic medals, world championships and multiple stage and race wins is still strong. She joins presenter Ian Parkinson from her home near Zurich to talk about retirement, the current state of the women’s pro scene and why she’s about to run 100km through the mountains. She also delivers a personal warning about the dangers of too much sun and not enough sunscreen. Tan-line cultivators listen closely.
And what can cyclists learn from the great philosophers? Author James Hibbard argues that - from Plato’s search for the ideal to Nietzsche’s struggles in the Alps - there are lessons there for anyone who rides.
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36 min
August 19, 2021 Rouleur Tech Podcast:Lael Wilcox Unbound
Ultra-Endurance rider Lael Wilcox was the fastest woman at Unbound 2021. She sits down with host Dan Cavallari to discuss going fast over 350 miles of gravel. While it's all about the legs and the heart, bike tech plays a vital role in multi-day races in the wilderness. From making the right choice of aero bar or flat bar, choosing the best power banks and bringing a reliable head-torch for those nighttime mechanicals, Lael doesn't leave a single element of her gear to chance. Evidently as averse to an idle mind as an idle body, Lael also explains how she rode across Alaska while listening to East of Eden on audiobook, and in one race stayed awake by scaring herself stiff listening to Stephen King's It.
We promise this podcast will be a little less jarring.
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40 min
August 12, 2021 Rouleur Conversations - La Vuelta with Olga Ábalos and Tim Moore

This edition is dedicated to La Vuelta, too often the poor relation of its French and Italian equivalents. Olga Ábalos, editor of Rouleur's Spanish sister magazine Volata, admits the race has an identity crisis but praises the organisers' willingness to experiment and try new things. Like the Gamoniteiro, this year's novelty climb, which will subject the world's best riders to a series of near vertical cattle grids.
Tim Moore, who chronicled his attempts at riding the Tour and the Giro in his books French Revolutions and Gironimo, has finally tackled La Vuelta. Never one for the easy option, he retraced the route of the 1941 edition, 4500 kilometres in the middle of a heatwave and a pandemic. He joins presenter Ian Parkinson to share the story of Spanish cycling's forgotten anti-hero Julián Berrendero.
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29 min