Heidi Franz on surviving the Zaaf debacle and returning to the pro peloton

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

In 2022, Heidi Franz was approached with an enticing offer: B&B Hotels-KTM, a revamped team with a sky-high budget and some of the biggest WorldTour riders set to sign on, wanted her on its roster. But after months of unfulfilled promises and extensive press coverage, the team collapsed, leaving Heidi and dozens of other riders without a team right before the 2023 season. When an unknown team called Zaaf approached her and several other would-be B&B team members, there was nowhere els...

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0:00.0	Somehow, the team owner found out that it was me and this teammate.
0:07.0	And he couldn't actually speak to me on the phone because he didn't speak English.
0:11.0	But there was one particular camper drive that we did from Belgium to Italy.
0:17.0	And in this drive, he called one teammate who spoke French just to scream at her in the phone and tell her that he knew it was me.
0:25.0	He knew it was my other teammate.
0:27.3	And that, like, we were going to pay for what we did.
0:31.3	It's showtime, everybody.
0:33.5	Showtime!
0:36.1	You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
0:38.3	This is the world as it exists today.
0:43.3	Life moves pretty fast.
0:46.3	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:49.3	You could miss it.
0:51.3	Listen, we're talk about practice.
0:55.9	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:57.4	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:59.8	I see.
1:00.3	You think this has nothing to do with you.
1:03.7	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:08.4	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McElvin.
1:13.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the show. Really excited to bring you Heidi Franz today.
1:18.4	Another episode recorded here in Gerona, Spain. We're certainly not going to be running out of guests anytime soon. Pretty incredible roster to pull from here. Just a town that is absolutely rabid for
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