Episode 167: Nicolas Roche is a Gravel World Champion... among other accolades

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

He'll be the first to point out that it's masters world champion, but a win's a win and he has more gravel world championship titles than I do! Probably more than you too ;) Nicolas Roche has plenty of good stories to tell and lots of great insight from his years in pro cycling. As a World Tour racer to the trenches of a gravel race -- the literal trenches, as he broke his hip earlier this year -- Nico's year has not been easy, but he's ended on a high note. Lots to cover so please enjoy this episode. Visit www.bicycleaccidentlaw.com and call up Matt Scarborough for any cycling incidents or accidents. Get a free gift with your next purchase of AG1 including their new AGZ at www.drinkAG1.com/tedking

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0:00.0	Hello and happy fall.
0:05.6	Welcome back to King of the Ride podcast.
0:08.2	We are right in the thick of it.
0:10.4	The fall, that is, we seem to have gone straight from a nice autumn, directly into deep winter, basically overnight.
0:16.8	I think we've had snow six of the past seven days here in Vermont.
0:20.1	I've been skiing once already.
0:22.5	And Thanksgiving is still more than one week off.
0:25.3	Crazy.
0:26.7	And speaking of crazy, we have a newly crowned world champion on our show today.
0:32.3	Nicholas Roach is our guest, return guest, I will add, as he and I sat down in early spring,
0:38.8	2023, as Nico was at that point, first setting foot into this gravel world, the ambassador
0:44.5	world of modern cycling. He has some hopes and dreams and expectations, not to mention
0:51.8	a previous successful career in the world tour. So the world was his
0:55.3	oyster. That conversation was more than 60 episodes ago. So please zip back to episode 106 if you're
1:01.6	interested in hearing what was happening then. And so I thought it was time to check back in,
1:07.6	see how those hopes, dreams, and expectations have gone. In fact, it was even in the immediate
1:13.9	conclusion of that conversation in 2023 that I wanted to have him back because that was a shortened
1:19.0	episode, just about a half hour in length, as the two of us had to rush off to the pre-race meeting
1:23.4	before mid-south. So a little bit overdue. Lots to cover since then. Lots to cover that we didn't touch on
1:29.3	in that first episode. Among his talents is Nico is a commentator for the Tour de France and the UCI
1:34.3	Road World Championships, so he is great at spinning a yarn. This is a fun one. Please enjoy.
1:41.3	And before we begin, as we head deeper into the fall, the days are getting shorter, darker,
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