A big ol' Tour de France preview
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
It's Tour de France time! This is the last regular episode of Spin Cycle before it turns into the Tour Daily. Caley, Jonny, and Dane run through the weekend's national championship stories and then dive into a preview of the upcoming Tour de France, with a heavy focus on a wild first week. We've got picks (Fantasy and otherwise), guesses, even some rampant speculation.
This is Free Week at Escape Collective, so everybody gets access to After Dark this week. Today, we've got a look at Patrick Lefevere's reaction to our story about a rift in his team last week, an intense discussion of how much we'd pay for photos of his feet, plus member meetups in Lille, and a little tease of a story coming this weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Johnny Long here. If you're enjoying this podcast, I think it's a pretty safe bet that you might enjoy the rest of our Tour de France coverage too, which you can read over on the big website. |
| 0:11.8 | You click the articles that have the photos attached. You read the first 20%, you become intrigued, you then hit the paywall, so then you just pop in your card details, become a member, and then you get to enjoy all of the Tour de France coverage you could ever |
| 0:24.4 | possibly want. If you've been on the fence about signing up, I get it, but the tour is the perfect |
| 0:28.2 | time to try it all out. There's so much good writing, and I'll member only podcasts are great too, |
| 0:33.3 | so help us bring you the best stuff from the ground, the biggest bike race in the world, by heading over to escapcollective.com forward slash member. Go on, give it a go. |
| 0:41.3 | Go on, give it a go. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome back to SpinCycle, everybody. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm Kaylee Fretz. |
| 0:57.8 | Today on the show, we are previewing the Tour de France, which is less than a week away, |
| 1:04.1 | the contenders, the route, and obviously some of the little bits we are excited about. |
| 1:08.0 | Plus, we've got a whole crop of new national champions. Let's get to it. |
| 1:18.3 | Joining me today, Johnny Long, good to see you. We're going to be in a car for like weeks. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, can't wait. What are we going to talk about? I have no idea. And D Dan Cash, we're not going to be in a car, which makes me a little bit sad. |
| 1:30.6 | That's okay. I'll get all the messages on the WhatsApp, and I'll feel like I'm there. |
| 1:35.3 | Let's get right into it, boys. So we're going to kick off with a bit of national stuff, and then we're going to drop into our Tour de France preview. And we're going to spend more time. |
| 1:45.4 | We've done this in last couple years. |
| 1:46.3 | I think it makes a lot of sense. |
| 1:51.5 | We're going to spend more time talking about the first week than anything else in that preview because that's what comes first. |
| 1:53.2 | And we got plenty of time to talk about the mountains. |
| 1:55.1 | We got weeks to talk about the mountains. |
| 1:56.9 | But we're going to stay focused, I think, mostly on this sort of chaotic first week of the |
| 2:02.8 | Tour de France. But let's do some national championships first. So most countries run their |
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