Velo Podcast

The Giro d'Italia is here! This race always surprises, and this year is no exception. Fred Dreier, Caley Fretz, and Spencer Powlison discuss a controversial new downhill racing competition, the tricky first week, and make their picks for the overall.

Then, Spencer catches up with famous chef Chris Cosentino to chat about his No Kid Hungry charity and Chefs Cycle ride, plus ask him what he'd cook for famous cyclists, given the chance.

The Giro d'Italia is here! This race always surprises, and this year is no exception. Fred Dreier, Caley Fretz, and Spencer Powlison discuss a controversial new downhill racing competition, the tricky first week, and make their picks for the overall.

Then, Spencer catches up with famous chef Chris Cosentino to chat about his No Kid Hungry charity and Chefs Cycle ride, plus ask him what he'd cook for famous cyclists, given the chance.

The Giro d'Italia is here! This race always surprises, and this year is no exception. Fred Dreier, Caley Fretz, and Spencer Powlison discuss a controversial new downhill racing competition, the tricky first week, and make their picks for the overall.

Then, Spencer catches up with famous chef Chris Cosentino to chat about his No Kid Hungry charity and Chefs Cycle ride, plus ask him what he'd cook for famous cyclists, given the chance.

The Giro d'Italia is here! This race always surprises, and this year is no exception. Fred Dreier, Caley Fretz, and Spencer Powlison discuss a controversial new downhill racing competition, the tricky first week, and make their picks for the overall.

Then, Spencer catches up with famous chef Chris Cosentino to chat about his No Kid Hungry charity and Chefs Cycle ride, plus ask him what he'd cook for famous cyclists, given the chance.

The breakaway. It is perhaps the noblest form of victory, and the most difficult. Joining and then winning from breakaways is as much art as science, as much tactical awareness as strength. In this episode, Trevor Connor and Caley Fretz are joined by Cannondale-Drapac's escape ace Toms Skuijns, winner of two breakaway stages of the Tour of California, as well as VeloNews managing editor Chris Case, to discuss the tips, tricks, and tactics needed to make a breakaway move stick. Fast Talk is presented by Quarq.

The breakaway. It is perhaps the noblest form of victory, and the most difficult. Joining and then winning from breakaways is as much art as science, as much tactical awareness as strength. In this episode, Trevor Connor and Caley Fretz are joined by Cannondale-Drapac's escape ace Toms Skuijns, winner of two breakaway stages of the Tour of California, as well as VeloNews managing editor Chris Case, to discuss the tips, tricks, and tactics needed to make a breakaway move stick. Fast Talk is presented by Quarq.

The breakaway. It is perhaps the noblest form of victory, and the most difficult. Joining and then winning from breakaways is as much art as science, as much tactical awareness as strength. In this episode, Trevor Connor and Caley Fretz are joined by Cannondale-Drapac's escape ace Toms Skuijns, winner of two breakaway stages of the Tour of California, as well as VeloNews managing editor Chris Case, to discuss the tips, tricks, and tactics needed to make a breakaway move stick. Fast Talk is presented by Quarq.

The breakaway. It is perhaps the noblest form of victory, and the most difficult. Joining and then winning from breakaways is as much art as science, as much tactical awareness as strength. In this episode, Trevor Connor and Caley Fretz are joined by Cannondale-Drapac's escape ace Toms Skuijns, winner of two breakaway stages of the Tour of California, as well as VeloNews managing editor Chris Case, to discuss the tips, tricks, and tactics needed to make a breakaway move stick. Fast Talk is presented by Quarq.

The breakaway. It is perhaps the noblest form of victory, and the most difficult. Joining and then winning from breakaways is as much art as science, as much tactical awareness as strength. In this episode, Trevor Connor and Caley Fretz are joined by Cannondale-Drapac's escape ace Toms Skuijns, winner of two breakaway stages of the Tour of California, as well as VeloNews managing editor Chris Case, to discuss the tips, tricks, and tactics needed to make a breakaway move stick. Fast Talk is presented by Quarq.

The classics are over. Sad trombone. But Fred Dreier, Caley Fretz, and Spencer Powlison still have plenty to say about the Ardennes courses, Alejandro Valverde, Boels-Dolmans, and much more.

Plus, a look at a late stage of the 1988 Giro d'Italia that might have been even more crucial to Andy Hampsten's victory than the fabled Gavia stage, which includes a chat with Hampsten himself.