Hi, everybody. Welcome to King of the Ride podcast. Ted King here with another terrific show.

Luke Lamperti is our guest today. Now, Mateo Jorgensen, Quinn Simmons, Nielsen Paulus,

Brandon McNulty, Magnus Sheffield. We have an amazing group of American cyclists right now, and Luke is right up at the very

tip top.

The pride of Northern California, a race winner in the big leagues, a rider for the Powerhouse

Seudal Quick Step program, three-time Criterium National Champion, a very kind person, a generous person, but man-oh-man,

an animal on the bike. I was just recently talking to one of his contemporaries, literally just

yesterday, and in talking about this forthcoming conversation with Luke, this person was eager

to point out that he has never met someone as adept as Luke at moving around the bunch.

And that speaks volumes at this level of the sport.

Luke is someone that I've crossed pads with for a while now, as we're going to talk about today.

But in leading into this conversation, we were talking about the technical hiccups that come with Zoom Life.

And he pointed out that Zoom,

the computer phone application, is a not insignificant portion of how he went through high school.

First, of course, the pandemic, and then when he was riding and racing overseas, doing his

schoolwork across an ocean from his school and across a computer screen.

And I only point that out to show how much he has accomplished already at a young age.

He's going to turn 22 at the very end of 2024.

So just very cool to see his talent take off through the years and really watch where he's going to go.

You're going to enjoy listening

to this one. But quickly, before we begin, I really do drink AG1 because it is a priority of

mine to take care of my body, my fitness, my health. I really look after my nutrition. And when

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