Cycling Legends Podcast

Mama Mia! Milan-San Remo has not disappointed, from Pogi’s Poggio power to Cipressa carnage to a whole lotta Lotte doubters made schtum and all of it leaving us almost equally so. This is hardly ideal considering there’s an hour of podcast time to kill so we talk about some other stuff too. What did we learn from Tirreno and Paris-Nice? No bull with Isaac Del Toro, that’s for sure (oh, come on, everyone else has used it) but Visma-Lease-a-Bike seemingly have no shortage of moaning as well as a future title sponsor. We look ahead to more Flanders racing and also discover that Calalunya could be a bigger deal than we at first thought this season. All this plus culturally-insensitive climbs and news from Simpson-Nouvelles’ 2026 home debut at the ANEXO/CAMS Cicle Classic.

📸 Before the introduction of the Poggio in 1960 and the Cipressa in 1982, the Passo del Turchino was considered the decisive point of Milan-San Remo rather than the gateway to the Ligurian coast, where the modern race truly begins.The photo shows riders cresting del Passo during the 1922 edition, a race won by Giovanni Brunero, the first of his 3 victories in La Classicissima di primavera.(Credit: Fondazione Pirelli.)

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With a Little Help from my Friends - A Tribute to Matt Long https://mattlongtributealbum.bigcartel.com
Simpson Nouvelles Cycling Scholarship - https://gofund.me/32eacc351

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In ten days, the pro peloton goes from Belgium to Tuscany and then on to Paris-Nice by way of Tirreno. Yes, it’s that “careful what you wish for” time of the season when All The Racing happens at once and Gary has his annual meltdown. It’s a bumper show from the team so channel your inner Paul Seixas and try to hang in with us!

📸 Megan Guarnier led home a Boels-Dolmans 1-2 in the inaugural Strade Bianche Donne in 2015, thus beginning a remarkable record in this race for the team that in 2020 would become SD Worx. Their riders have won no fewer than 7 of the 11 editions of the race and 3 of those started in Siena this year.

Recommendations
Simpson Nouvelles Cycling Scholarship - https://gofund.me/32eacc351
Theo of Golden - Allen Levi - https://amzn.eu/d/09zlwWdT
A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it) - Sarah Alim Malik - https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/A-Brief-History-of-the-Universe-(and-our-place-in-it)/Sarah-Alam-Malik/9781398539983
Huberman Lab - Unlearn Negative Thoughts and Behaviours Patterns - Alok Kanojia - https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/unlearn-negative-thoughts-and-behaviors-patterns-alok-kanojia

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Can someone with Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN) ride the route of the Tour de France? That’s what Clive Phillips and a team of fellow veterans set out to discover during the Tour de MMN 2025. Following the 1955 Tour de France route, the team set out to see if they could follow in the wheel tracks of the very first British Tour de France team.

Clive sat down with Chris Sidwells this week to talk about the team’s experiences on the road and about the new documentary charting their progress, No One Rides Alone.

See No One Rides Alone, the documentary of the Tour de MMN 2025 across the UK this March.

Bristol - Fri 6 Mar, Watershed Cinema
London - Sun 8 Mar, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
Edinburgh - Tues 10 Mar, Dominion Cinema
Glasgow - Wed 11 Mar, Grosvenor Picture Theatre
Sheffield - Thurs 12 Mar, Curzon Cinema
Birmingham - Sat 14 Mar, Midland Arts Centre
Manchester - Sun 15 Mar, Contact Manchester
Oxford - Wed 18th March, Phoenix Picturehouse

Check out the trailer at https://makingthemostofnow.co.nz/no-one-rides-alone/

Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.

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Hard to believe, but it’s now ten years since the bright, unmistakable colours of Team Canyon//SRAM burst onto the Women’s WorldTour. Since then, they’ve stacked up more than ninety wins, a world title in the team time trial, over thirty national championships, six Grand Tour stage victories, and - of course - that incredible Tour de France Femmes win in 2024.

As they prepared for this season’s traditional Openingsweekend, Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto’s Marketing and Communications and Sports Director, Beth Duryea spoke to Gary from the team’s training camp in Spain to look back at the first ten years of one of pro cycling’s biggest - and most vibrant - teams.

Music: “Starry Eyes” by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.

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The garlic bread and olives of Australia and the Middle East are done and the main course of single-day racing in northern Europe is about to be served. Chris, David and Gary look ahead to Openingsweekend and the Spring Classics in general.

📸 The single-day race first known as Omloop Van Vlaanderen was first held in 1945, becoming the somewhat more familiar Het Volk two years later before adopting its current guise as Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 2009. The 1947 edition was won by the man shown here, Albert Sercu, pictured after winning that year’s Dwars door België (Dwars door Vlaanderen today), just a week earlier. If you think the family name sounds familiar then you’d be right. Albert’s son who was 2 years old when the photo was taken would go on to dominate the six-day track scene, as well as being a multiple Giro and Tour stage winner. His name? Patrick, of course. (Credit: KOERS Museum of Cycle Racing collection via Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Colourised by Cycling Legends Media 2026)

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Beatles Anthology (Disney+) - https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-cab32c53-c3f8-4879-86f5-c8e4a1657338
No One Rides Alone - The Tour de MMN 2025 Film - https://tinyurl.com/MTMONFilm
Making the Most of Now - Chris Philips Interview - https://shows.acast.com/64ef4b8cf714670011477528/685d22f07cd58072a5d346a1

Tom Simpson Cycling Festival, 6-13 September 2026
Get your tickets at https://cyclinglegends.co.uk/pages/tom-simpson-cycling-festival?srsltid=AfmBOoq-lT3u_RBugJadNdxjeqxs2gMMgDSi76UxYSxouqb74SFjvAyH

The Equation Live - Thursday 26 February
Join Richard Oakes and Chris Sidwells at the Clubhouse, Putney Embankment, London SW15 - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-equation-live-tickets-1981846220395?aff=ebdssbcategorybrowse&fbclid=IwdGRjcAP6sflleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEem4CUFWkDy-e7LtwQSSD_2TwtyoXYsrKjKRAGu0tHR8Qbb1hqM-oo1AahnL4_aem_cN55QHZE0pn-tt5Z1-X2fw

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