NEVER STRAYS NOCTURNE: IT'S BACK!

For The Love Of Cycling

Crowd Network

Sports

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Recorded a couple of weeks ago, Ned chats to James Pope, the man bringing city centre racing back to London! Redeem your AG1 offer here! Oh, but do check out our merch. It's really good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Okay, well, why not? Why don't I do a sort of like conventional introduction to this podcast episode, like grown-up podcasts do, and I always forget to do?
0:20.1	You're listening to Never Strait
0:21.2	Far. My name is Ned Bolting and I'm in a kitchen in southeast London with a chap who I'm
0:25.7	about to introduce. He's looking nervously at me, but a bloke I've known for a long time.
0:32.0	James Pope, this is your kitchen. Yes, it is. We can definitely say it's your kitchen.
0:38.9	And James, we were just chatting. You made me a very nice cup of tea. You are, you've got some exciting news to announce.
0:43.9	Yep. But just as importantly in my mind, you're somebody who I've known for a long time and
0:49.6	whose story is absolutely fundamentally kind of interwoven with the story of cycling in this country
0:56.0	going back a couple of decades, right? Yeah. I mean, you've been involved right at the thick of it
1:00.3	in one way or another for a long time. Yeah, nearly 25 years now. 25 years. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
1:07.5	okay. Um, the exciting news is that, and I got wind of this, I don't know how, but a couple of months ago.
1:14.7	Oh, no, I bumped into you at the tour of Britain, that's right. That's right. The VIP and the hospitality somewhere in the top. And you were like, what are you doing here? Well, I haven't seen you for a long time. I mean, actually, I subsequently found out when I was drinking a cup of tea that you've done a whole load of things in your career that I had no idea about in the meantime.
1:30.6	But the news was, I'm subsequently found out when I was drinking a cup of tea that you've done a whole load of things in your career that I had no idea about in the meantime.
1:30.6	But the news was that you, you, back in the day, you used to organise a really exciting, very vibrant and hugely memorable series of races called the Nocturn series.
1:41.7	And the big news is, it's coming back.
1:48.2	Yeah, correct. Yeah, it's a new event,
1:56.2	bringing it back to the city of London. So I was one of the original co-founders with Rafa and Condor Cycles, and we ran the first event in Smithfield Market back in 2007, ran that event for 10
2:02.8	years in the city of London.
2:04.1	10 years?
2:04.4	Did it last for 10 years?
2:05.2	Yeah.
2:06.1	Developed to trust.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crowd Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crowd Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.