Feed Zone 25-2

Sans or Avec Zwift? That is the question. Chris, David and Gary are already looking forward to next July and August after the routes of both Tours de France are announced. Ventoux, Col d’Eze, Montjuic and Le Markstein are but some of the names whetting the collective appetite with only 8 months until both Grand Departs.The team also look back at the World Track Championships that concluded at the weekend in Santiago, with varying successes for their respective nations, and look even further back to Eddy Merckx’s legendary Hour in Mexico City. Plus ‘cross is back and just what is it with the Brits and hill climbing? (We’re not sure either.)📸 This past week saw the glitzy presentation of the routes of the 2026 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. But the race wasn’t always announced with such razzmatazz and it wasn’t until Jean Marie LeBlanc’s stewardship of the race in the 1990s that each year’s route was announced with anything more than a press conference. Indeed, the inaugural edition of the world’s most famous bike race was announced to the world on 19 January 1903 in a single column in L’Auto. (Credit: unknown/via lefrancophille.com)RecommendationsA House of Dynamite (Netflix) https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81744537?s=i&trkid=283039074&vlang=en&trg=cp“Prisoners of Geography” - Tim Marshall https://amzn.eu/d/fItw2i7Get in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1Webhttps://www.cyclinglegends.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

30 Okt 1h 23min

And so to Il Lombardia, via Rwanda and a whole host of other places. The traditional end of the season is upon us already and the guys might have a few things to talk about, not just Tadej Pogacar. Okay, but quite a bit of Tadej Pogacar. In other news, we begin the campaign for Remco Evenepoel’s assault on the Hour Record, Quinn Simmons impresses us once again, there is no ‘you’ in team according to the Dutch women’s gravel squad and - speaking of squads - just what is the link between Eddy Merckx and Scotland’s 1978 World Cup football squad?📸 Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, Como, 13 October 1973. Eddy Merckx wins his third Giro di Lombardia (as it was known then) some 4 minutes and 15 seconds ahead of nearest rival Felice Gimondi. Or so he thought. Merckx would later test positive for norephedrine - a decongestant - and Gimondi was subsequently awarded the win. In April the following year, a commission would ultimately accept that Merckx had not knowingly taken the banned substance, having been prescribed a cough syrup by his doctor while suffering from bronchitis. His ‘victory’, nevertheless, was not reinstated. (Credit: Photo News)RecommendationsApollo Flight Journal https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/Gil Scott-Heron ‘Whitey on the Moon’ https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si=uNHXYe99dc8PKn8pCycling into the Darkness https://dstanley.substack.com/p/cycling-into-the-darkness?utm_source=publication-searchGet in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1Webhttps://www.cyclinglegends.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

12 Okt 1h 20min

Recorded live without a safety net (or an internet) at Harworth and Bircotes Town Hall on 12 September 2025 before an Actual Audience, Chris and Gary were joined onstage by Joanne Simpson to remember her father, Tom, and celebrate his World Championship win 60 years ago.Simultaneously, joyful, funny, poignant and at times deeply personal, you’ll want to hear this.Special thanks to Lee Stewart at Harworth and Bircotes Town Council who went over and above the call of duty to help make the whole thing happen.Get in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

7 Okt 57min

Back after an indecently long hiatus, the team regroups to catch up on all things bike racing, with some geopolitics, genocide and sporting boycotts thrown in for good measure.Along the way, we salute some newly-crowned TT World Champions and welcome women’s pro racing back to the Land of the Free.Photo: Elite racing returned to the USA this weekend with the third edition of the Baltimore Cycling Classic and the inaugural women’s edition, but the Land of the Free hasn’t always been so sparsely served by international pro racing. The Tour du Pont (known as the Tour de Trump for its first 2 editions) had varied fortunes during its 8-years on the UCI calendar, not least down to a May slot which clashed with the Giro d’Italia.This view of the peloton was taken during Stage 9 of the 1996 and final edition, from Blowing Rock to Charlotte North Carolina. Al Bello/Allsport/Getty ImagesRecommendationsJo Jackson Art https://www.jojacksonart.co.ukBen Musholt- ‘Mad Skills Exercise Encyclopedia XL: The Ultimate Guide for Strength, Bodyweight Training, and Home Fitness’ https://amzn.eu/d/iPi2qeGet in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23 Sep 1h 15min

Dali! Hemingway! Picasso! Er, Elton John! Things get surreal as the Vuelta a Espana heads to Salvador Dali country, and little - if any - of it is related to the racing of bicycles. Doncaster celebrates a Grand Tour victory, presumably while Visma Lease-a-Bike were too busy filling in the insurance paperwork after their entire fleet of race bikes evaporated so we wonder just how hard can it be to fit a decent bike lock. Almost as hard as fitting a GPS tracking device in Romandie, it would appear.Photo: The Team Time Trial is one of the most spectacular sights in cycling, as demonstrated by Team Sunweb as they power through the equally spectacular salt lakes at Torrevieja on the way to a third place on stage 1 of the 2019 Vuelta. Credit Zac Williams/SWpix.comLinksPodium Analytics - https://podiumanalytics.org/ Tom Simpson Cycling Festival 7-14 September - https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/tom-simpson-cycling-festivalTeam Simpson-Nouvelles Supporter Club - https://www.nouvellescycling.co.uk/supporters-clubGet in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

26 Aug 1h 7min

France is still where it’s at as David, Chris and Gary look back on another historic Tour de France Femmes, but is the race grand enough not only for its name but for the women who light it up every summer? We have thoughts! Red Bull Remco Evenepoel opens our perennial salary cap discussion and we start passing the envelope around for Tadej Pogacar’s retirement collection. Don’t worry, it’s still a while off!Photo: Anna Van Der Breggen on bottle duties, back at the Dutch team car during the 2021 UCI World Road Championships. The 157.7km run from Antwerp to Leuven would be won for Italy by Elisa Balsamo, who held off Van der Breggen’s team mate, a charging Marianne Vos, in the final. (Photo by Kristof Ramon - Pool/Getty Images)Get in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you.Tom Simpson Cycling Festival 7-14 September 2025Sign up at https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/tom-simpson-cycling-festivalSocial mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

12 Aug 1h 14min

The Champs Elysees is dead. Long live the Champs Elysees! After 3 weeks, 21 stages, 3302km and 14 stage winners, Gary, Chris, David and John actually find 5 things to talk about that aren’t Tadej. But he gets a mention anyway.Photos: The first and the latest riders to win on the Champs Elysees, the similarities between Walter Godefroot’s 1975 season and Wout Van Aert’s 2025 prior to them winning in Paris are striking. Busy Classics season and early stage races had yielded very little by way of results for either racer until the biggest race of the year arrived in Paris. (Credits: Getty)Get in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

29 Juli 1h 10min

After 8 stages and 947km of racing, last year’s Tour de France Femmes came down to just 4 seconds on the Alpe d’Huez. With an extra stage and more names in the frame for the GC battle, Gary Fairley previews this year’s race.Music: A Month of Sleep - “So Alive”, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.comGet in touchDrop us a line at cyclinglegendspodcast@gmail.com! We’d love to hear from you.Social mediaCycling Legends - The untold story, the unseen photos Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinglegendsmedia?igsh=MW9ldTNhemF6aWVlcA==Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CyclingLegendsMedia?X/Twitter @cyclinglegends1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

24 Juli 33min