S13 Ep125: Stowmarket Value | Stage 2 | Lloyds Tour of Britain 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast coverage of the 2025 Lloyd's Tour of Britain, |
| 0:06.8 | brought to you in association with Lloyds. |
| 0:09.4 | The Lloyds Tour of Britain is the biggest free-to-attend sporting event in the UK, |
| 0:13.8 | and we're covering the race as it makes its way east to west this week, |
| 0:17.7 | from Suffolk, across Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire and into Wales at the weekend |
| 0:22.0 | when we'll find out who gets to take home the final coveted green Lloyd's race winners jersey |
| 0:27.6 | the race is a key event as riders seek to build their form for the road world championships at the end of |
| 0:33.3 | September and the Great Britain squad taking part in those championships will be sponsored by Lloyd's |
| 0:38.2 | 2 and the national team jersey features the famous Lloyd's horse. Now let's find out what happened |
| 0:44.1 | on the roads of Suffolk in stage 2 of the Lloyd's Tour of Britain with me, Graham Wilgoss. |
| 1:04.8 | We are doubling up this week releasing our Lloyd's Tour of Britain episodes first thing each morning |
| 1:10.3 | and continuing with our |
| 1:12.4 | nightly episodes with on the ground coverage of the Welter, Espania with Daniel. Think of it as, |
| 1:19.7 | well, as I said, in our first episode, a full English sausage beans with no one screaming |
| 1:25.8 | about the Queen having to eat it. |
| 1:28.8 | Tom Southern, if you miss that reference, please do go back and revisit our episode from yesterday. |
| 1:34.1 | But joining me again is EF Sporting Director, Director of Tom Southerm. |
| 1:39.6 | And Lionel Bernie back from his holidays, taking on the audacious, ambitious triple crown or quadruple crown, Lionel, having left the Giro early, done the birthday, Glastonbury double, and then gone straight into the tour. |
| 1:56.1 | And now you're bringing it home, bringing the season home with the tour of Britain. |
| 2:00.4 | I am indeed. I'm off for Stage three, which starts in Milton Keynes, and very much looking forward |
| 2:06.7 | to it. I enjoyed the full English breakfast reference, Davidei de Bramatti's disgust, |
| 2:12.4 | sausage egg, bake beans and so on, so on. But did you know that Gert van Bont, |
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