Actually, the best 45 minutes of bike racing

Spin Cycle

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

He's Ganna Poel up the Pog-gio! And other Milan-San Remo puns.

How good was that weekend of bike racing? This week's Spin Cycle kicks off looking at Pogačar's team tactics in light of a behind-the-scenes video that dropped after the race. Things seemed to go mostly to plan, but did they?

Then, why can't cycling have more races like MSR? How do you build proper launchpads? We have some ideas.

Plus, Mads Pedersen's gut is not a place you want to be, the UCI Track Champions League bit the dust, Marc Madiot thinks France is best, and Vingegaard is back riding again.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the spin cycle podcast, everybody.
0:08.8	I'm Kaylee Fretz.
0:09.9	Today on the show, the best 15 minutes in bike racing is now the best 30 minutes.
0:15.1	Mess Peterson had a yucky drink.
0:18.9	And David Lepartier is down to nine jobs.
0:23.0	Congratulations, David.
0:24.1	Let's get to it.
0:29.2	Welcome to Spin Cycle.
0:31.7	Kit Nicholson.
0:32.9	Did it be a good weekend.
0:33.8	Hello.
0:34.0	It was a chaotic weekend for you.
0:35.2	Oh, you had a very long weekend.
0:39.3	Yeah, it was chaotic is the word, yeah. And welcome, Johnny Long.
0:41.3	Hello, hello, welcome.
0:42.3	Well, you both know what we're going to be talking about here.
0:45.3	We had my favorite bicycle race happened over the weekend, and we got two of them, which is even more exciting than normal. Yeah, really.
0:55.3	No, not really.
0:56.3	I have to caveat out that.
0:58.9	It is, as I said in the intro, I think it's the best 15 minutes in bike racing.
1:03.7	And this weekend we got 30 minutes.
1:07.4	In fact, we actually got 45 because we got women's race. We actually got a women's race first.
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