S10 Ep131: Service Course | The Art of Cycling
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Tom and Lizzy try to find out why the sport of cycling brings out creativity like no other sport and they ask whether there is a line between a bike as a tool and a bike as a piece of art.
In this episode, we also hear from Abi Smith of EF-Tibco-SVB about how art is an important part of her life as a professional cyclist.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Tom Wally, welcome to Service Course. As ever, I'm joined by our France Correspondent, |
| 0:25.0 | Lizzie Banks, who has life over there. I can see Mum Blanc through your window. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, I'm glad you can, because I can't, because it's cloudy today. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, it's a bit of an artifice. You're an illusionist, which is so apt, given the theme of our episode today. |
| 0:46.0 | When the art world this week, can't we, Lizzie? |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, we are. We're going to be talking to some of the best custom frame painters in the world, but not just frames. |
| 0:57.0 | I mean, these guys paint everything that they can get their hands on. |
| 1:00.0 | We're going to be talking to Rad Tony over from Birmingham in the USA, in Washington, and also to Tom from Custom Flow in Hull, |
| 1:09.0 | a little bit closer to home. And also a bit later, we're going to be talking to my teammate from EF Education TIPCO, S.E.B. Abbey Smith, |
| 1:17.0 | who paints as a hobby, and she's also been painting her own shoes. |
| 1:22.0 | So hopefully we're going to give you a bit of insight into the lives of the custom painters, |
| 1:27.0 | and also how to do a bit of DIY yourself. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah, well, maybe we'll get to my DIY later. As you behind me, Lizzie, you can't see it. Just behind those records. |
| 1:38.0 | I have got a custom-painted frame. I say custom-painted. It's one that was just cooked in another, and then powder coated, |
| 1:46.0 | just to change the colour of it. But that's about as far as I've really gone. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm fascinated to hear this. But before we get to this, Lizzie, I have been sort of... |
| 1:57.0 | You know I have an interest in the sort of fringier areas of cycling technology, namely video games and graphene. |
| 2:06.0 | Well, I have been picking up on a few sort of stories that are around. |
| 2:12.0 | I've got a couple of stories for you before we get to the art. Let's play the tape. |
| 2:16.0 | So you might have seen a new product from Absolute Black on the market. Absolute Black are based out of Slovenia, |
| 2:22.0 | and we've spoken to Borat Fonda from the company before. We talked to him about Absolute Black's graph and lube, |
| 2:29.0 | lubricant contains graphene. Incidentally, Borat works in the lab with Tadeh Pogacar on performance gains. |
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