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The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast takes listeners to the heart of professional cycling with weekly episodes and daily coverage of the Grand Tours.
Founded by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie in 2013, The Cycling Podcast is one of the longest-running independent sports podcasts.
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Join Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard in Barolo country for a discussion about the Giro d’Italia’s frantic chase between the break and bunch. Expect some wine chat, general disgust at...
· 58 min 8 sec
For most directeurs sportifs, especially one who spent his most important years as a cyclist in Italy, taking and defending the maglia rosa might be a euphoric experience. It is indeed for Trek-Segafr...
· 39 min 21 sec
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard in a sunny square in Genoa after stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia. We go on the hunt for focaccia, break down the way the breakaway captured the stage and...
· 1 hr 3 min 15 sec
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined in Reggio Emilia by Brian Nygaard to assess stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia, which – as expected – ended in a sprint finish. Along the way there’s conversati...
· 55 min 36 sec
La Gazzetta dello Sport is much more than just a newspaper. Founded in 1896, ‘La Rosea’ or ‘The Pinky’ (or also just ‘La Gazza’), quickly became an Italian institution and some would argue a cultural...
· 43 min 37 sec
The Giro d’Italia resumed after the rest day with an historic stage and an unfortunate moment on the podium. Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie discuss a stage that had all the hallmarks of an Italian...
· 1 hr 1 min 24 sec
It’s the rest day and Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie have been in Abruzzo staying at a vineyard with a pair of jacuzzi pools in the garden. Rest assured, the press conference episode was not record...
· 1 hr 16 min 24 sec
We left the story of the 2012 Giro d'Italia on the eve of the Stelvio stage on the penultimate day of the race with the destiny of the maglia rosa still delicately poised. Ryder Hesjedal had trimmed...
· 29 min 42 sec
The first of the Giro d’Italia’s big mountain stages to Blockhaus shuffled the general classification but kept the race very much alive. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they assess the winne...
· 56 min 11 sec
Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie in Napoli, the home of pizza and Ciro Scognamiglio, as they recap stage eight of the Giro d’Italia. We discuss a second Giro stage win for a breakaway specialist...
· 58 min 21 sec
The first of a trilogy of difficult stages in the Giro d’Italia took the riders from Diamante to Potenza. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie outside the busy Barmacia as they unpick the stage and e...
· 1 hr 35 sec
This is the tenth anniversary of one of the closest grand tours of all-time, decided by just 16 seconds after a two-week tussle between two very different riders. The Canadian Ryder Hesjedal and the...
· 21 min 19 sec
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie made it to Scalea despite being stuck behind the e-Giro for more than 50 kilometres. Fortunately, the Giro d’Italia peloton was racing a lot less aggressively than yest...
· 53 min 5 sec
It’ll soon be safe to go back in the water – which is good news for Lionel after he lost his sunglasses to the Strait of Messina while recording this episode of The Cycling Podcast from Scilla. Lion...
· 1 hr 9 min 6 sec
The Giro d’Italia returned to Mount Etna and the climb crowned a first-time stage winner and a new wearer of the maglia rosa. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they recap the fourth stage and...
· 58 min 6 sec
The Giro’s Grande Partenza in Budapest came two years after its intended date and hence was even more eagerly anticipated. Hungary had is venerable, beautiful capital, beguiling landscapes and a cycli...
· 58 min 16 sec
The Giro d’Italia’s final stage in Hungary produced the expected sprint finish after a ride round Lake Balaton. In this episode, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie have found a German bar in Héviz to r...
· 1 hr 7 min 40 sec
The shortest stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia promised to also be one of the most significant - the first of just two time trials in this year’s Corsa Rosa and a truth serum for the many pretenders to...
· 1 hr 6 min 4 sec
The Giro d’Italia rolled out of Budapest on Friday morning and we were on the ground in Hungary to see it. An uphill finish at Visegrád castle promised drama and the stage certainly delivered. In the...
· 1 hr 24 sec
Attila Valter is one of three Hungarian riders lining up at this year’s Giro d’Italia. The other two, Erik Fetter of Eolo-Kometa and Barnabás Peák of Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert, will also enjoy rapturou...
· 33 min 19 sec