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Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for our second weekly show of the year,

brought to you by Join Cycling.

Actually, I love doing the weekly shows, Benji. They were an initiative of last year with join, bringing them to life.

And now I feel like we have to have them to do news rounds up,

Randolphs, particularly at this time of the year with so many races,

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