Don't make a bet with Mads
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
If there's one thing we've learned over the first three days of the Giro d'Italia, it's never make a bet with Mads Pedersen. The Lidl-Trek rider is on fire, trimmers in hand.
In today's episode, Caley, Jonny, and Kit break down the Giro's opening weekend, question the morality of one of a big newspaper, learn the fate of the Tro-Bro Leon pig, and introduce the Farce-O-Meter.
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| 0:56.6 | Welcome back to the Spin Cycle Podcast, everybody. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Kaylee Fretz. |
| 1:00.3 | Today on the show, Mess Peterson does the double. |
| 1:05.3 | The Times is on our list, and there is a new group from Campanjolo. |
| 1:06.5 | Let's get to it. Okay. Welcome to SpinCycle Kit Nicholson. How are you? |
| 1:19.1 | I'm all right. Thanks. Excited? Excited? Well, I don't know. I feel like I'm recovering |
| 1:24.7 | from the weekend a little bit. You know, grand tour season is upon us. I feel like I'm the one that gets to sit here and be, it's like |
| 1:30.2 | 8 o'clock in the morning for me. So I get to be tired. But you know, that's the perfect time for bike |
| 1:34.9 | racing. Ah, true. Monday. Monday is a horrible day. Welcome, Johnny Long. How are you? Hello, hello. Yeah, good. You? |
| 1:45.0 | Great. The frosted tips are even closer to the camera with our... |
| 1:49.0 | My head... Yeah, I need... It's because I fit... my desk situation. I've got a very small desk, so now my head is even bigger than it usually is. |
| 2:01.4 | Let's get to it. Let's get to it. |
| 2:02.5 | So we've had the opening weekend of the Jira de Talia over the weekend and the Albanian stages all wrapped up. |
| 2:11.7 | We have two winners thus far. |
| 2:14.0 | We have Mess Peterson, stage one and three. |
| 2:16.6 | And Josh Tarling, stage two. Should we start with |
| 2:20.0 | meds? Mess. When I read it, I say meds, but it's closer to mess, we do think. Clearly came out of the |
| 2:28.0 | classics in flying form. And I think that the big thing for me is that if you remove Tadipagaccha |
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