S13 Ep126: Ampt Up To 12 | Stage 3 | Lloyds Tour of Britain 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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OUR SPONSORS, LLOYDS
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 | Welcome to the cycling podcast at the 2025 Lloyd's Tour of Britain Men, brought to you by Lloyd's. |
| 0:07.6 | My name's Lionel Bernie and this week we're on the road following the British national tour for the first time, thanks to sponsorship from Lloyd's. |
| 0:15.0 | The men's professional Lloyd's Tour of Britain has a great history stretching back to 1987 and in recent years some of the |
| 0:21.8 | superstars of the sport have finished on the top step of the podium including Julian |
| 0:26.1 | Alaphilippe Matthew van der Paul and Walt Van Art. Lloyd's became title sponsors of the race in |
| 0:31.0 | 2024 and we're now a few days away from finding out which rider will succeed last year's |
| 0:36.8 | winner Stephen Williams as |
| 0:38.4 | Lloyd's Tour of Britain champion. So far, one man has a strong grip on the coveted green |
| 0:43.6 | Lloyd's Tour of Britain leaders jersey, but that could all change in the coming days. So let's |
| 0:48.4 | head out onto the roads of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire for stage three of the Lloyd's Tour |
| 0:52.9 | of Britain. Lloyd's, they're at every stage. |
| 1:05.8 | Welcome to the cycling podcast's coverage of the Lloyd's Tour of Britain with me, |
| 1:12.8 | Graham Wilgos and with Daniel bringing you our Vuelter-Espania coverage every evening on the ground. Joining me on the Lloyd's |
| 1:19.0 | Tour of Britain virtual breakfast sofa is Lionel Bernie and Lionel. We're now together to the end, |
| 1:27.2 | aren't we? |
| 1:28.0 | We are indeed. |
| 1:29.1 | And this is a sort of professional bike race that I can really buy into. |
| 1:32.6 | I've been able to commute today. |
| 1:34.7 | I drove up to Milton Keynes, about 35 minutes from my house for the start in Buckinghamshire this morning. |
| 1:42.5 | And I've driven back from Ampt Hill in central Bedfordshire this afternoon |
| 1:46.2 | and recording back in the alternative home of cycling here in Not Watford and yeah quite nice to be |
| 1:53.8 | able to sleep in my own bed tonight but we'll be on the road tomorrow we'll be up to the midlands |
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