BONUS: Orica Greenedge’s ‘Class Of ‘14’: The Day We Won the Giro TTT

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Life in the Peloton is proudly brought to you by MAAP Guys, the Giro is underway and that can only mean one thing; it’s time for me to wheel out that classic old LITP story of the time I rode the Team Time Trial at the 2014 Giro with the Greenedge boys and we only went and bloody won it!...What do you mean I bring it up every year? Seriously, though, this is one of my favourite episodes we’ve ever made. I know some of you will have heard it before when it was first released during lockdown, but there’s a lot of new listeners in the Pelo now who may not have heard me catching up with Orica Greenedge’s ‘Class Of ‘14’ Giro squad who took the win in the opening TTT in Belfast at the 2014 Giro d’Italia. This is a monster ep, with amazing stories from Svein ‘Sveino’ Tuft, ‘Cam-a-carzi’ Meyer, Michael ‘Bling’ Matthews, Michael ‘Heppy’ Hepburn, Pieter ‘Weendog’ Weening, Brett ‘Burt’ Lancaster, Matt ‘Whitey’ White, and - of course - my old mate Luke ‘Durbo’ Durbridge. What a line up?! I absolutely loved relistening to this, and reliving the memories from over 10 years ago. This was one of my best days on the bike, surrounded by an amazing group of guys who I’m still good mates with today. It’s the first rest day of the 2025 Giro today, so this should keep you excited before the racing kicks off again in Italy tomorrow. Sit back, relax, and enjoy; I hope you love it. Cheers, Mitch

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0:00.0	Well, guys, we thought we'd give you a blast from the past.
0:15.2	This is probably one of my favorite episodes.
0:18.9	This encapsulates everything that is the Giro. I'm talking about
0:24.0	the Giro de Tadalia, 2014, my first Giro, my Giro with the Orica Green Edge team, and actually
0:32.6	just my Giro with a bunch of mates. We started that Giro with a big focus on winning the time
0:38.5	trial up in Bells Fast, and what we do in this podcast is we recorded this in 2020, so six
0:46.0	years after we'd won that, I went back in COVID and called up all my teammates from that day,
0:52.2	and I wanted to recount the story.
0:58.4	We spoke with Swain Taft, he was my teammate, Michael Hepburn, Luke Derridge,
1:05.0	Ivan Centere Amita, Brett Lancaster, Michael Matthews, Cameron Meyer, Peter Weindog Weaning,
1:09.4	and of course I was there as well, nine riders back in those days, in the Grandies,
1:12.1	and what we do is we recount that day.
1:16.8	We also speak to the sports director, Matt White, who is in the car driving behind us.
1:22.4	And what followed after that? Because this was such an epic duo. But this is the duo. And that's why I wanted to bring this episode back to life, because this is what it's like every year at this race.
1:29.1	It's such a beautiful race. It's a roller coaster. There's such great moments. As you'll hear
1:33.6	in this story, we're on top of the world and then we'll write down on the very bottom with
1:38.9	crashes, sicknesses, and then we'll back on top again, taking the pink jersey.
1:43.7	Sit back and enjoy this one, guys.
1:45.5	This is, like I said, my favorite episode in the catalogue.
1:50.3	This is Life from the Belt on being brought to you by Map.
1:54.2	Guys, here we go.
1:55.7	Let's go back to 2014 in the Giro with Orricka Green Edge.
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