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Spin Cycle

Rabo's return and the cobbles are here!

Spin Cycle

Escape Collective

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week's Spin Cycle podcast opens with the news that Rabobank is returning as a sponsor for Visma-Lease a Bike, like a salmon returning a once-polluted river. Rabobank's history in the sport is long and somewhat sordid, and their departure due to doping scandals felt final. Well, now they're back. What does that mean? 

Then Caley, Jonny, and Dane preview the upcoming Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne races, analyzing route changes, potential contenders like Wout van Aert and Tom Pidcock, and the "Omloop curse." We touch on UAE's classics team and possible favorites for the races. Finally, we head into corrections corner. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, Kaylee Fretz here.

0:07.6

Got a big announcement for you.

0:09.6

We're trying to save you some money.

0:12.8

So we've been working behind the scenes and are thrilled to announce our new member purchase program.

0:20.6

Here's the deal. We have been talking directly with some of the

0:23.7

biggest brands in cycling. These are brands you already know and trust talking map, pock,

0:28.7

Velocchio, seven mesh, lots of great stuff in there. And through these conversations,

0:33.6

we've managed to secure you some pretty incredible member-only pricing.

0:39.6

Here's what makes this slightly different, and I want to be really, really clear about this.

0:43.2

We're not making a single cent from these deals.

0:46.4

This is not affiliate.

0:47.7

You know how most programs, they take a cut?

0:49.9

That's not what we're doing.

0:51.0

So every discount, every cent, goes straight to you, our members, because this is all

0:56.8

about making your membership work a little bit harder for you.

1:01.4

It's basically, we want to find a way to say thank you for being a member of Escape

1:05.6

Collective, and this is what we came up with.

1:08.4

Something that helps your membership pay for itself through real savings on gear that you are

1:13.3

buying anyway.

1:15.1

And guess what?

1:15.7

This is just the beginning.

1:16.5

We are currently in talks with dozens more brands.

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