My industry, composite materials and engineering, is a dark art.

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We are absolutely the guys in the shadows and we have to be, because the brand, the brand,

you know, we're saying it out in our company, the brand is everything.

We must protect the brand. We're played by the brands to do the work that they either can't do themselves

or don't want to do themselves, and don't have the resources to do.

Hello, it's Tom here. I'm, well, you found me in the kitchen because a nice chap called Lee has just been around the house.

He's fixed my coffee machine. My coffee machine's not been working for like two weeks.

And so, yeah, I'm going to treat myself to a very much after 11 cappuccino, actually, not a cappuccino, it's going to be a flat white.

Welcome to Service Course. Enough about my coffee machine.

This is an episode without Lizzie this month. That's because Lizzie is over in the States at a training camp.

I miss Lizzie, but I'm absolutely delighted that she is back.

Really? She's back training. She's living the life of a pro cyclist.

So that's great news. Lizzie will be back next month.

And also, I think we'll hear from Lizzie over Christmas if our planned trip to Not Watford comes about.

You can hear about that in a Friends of the Podcast special to come, hopefully.

This month's episode, well, it's a chap with a chap called Paul Farrell.

Now, Paul has been in the bike industry for about 25 years.

Before that, he'll tell you all about it. He was in the oil business.

He's got a fascinating story. He's a fascinating character.

He is one of these guys, as he says, who looks in the shadows of cycling.

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