S13 Ep148: Pog, Larry, Avoid
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
After a quick dip into the week’s headlines, including news of Oier Lazkano’s provisional suspension for biological passport anomalies, we open our mailbag and invite Larry to respond to your questions. From Madeira travel tips to the now familiar question of whether Tadej Pogačar is turning pro cycling into a snoozefest, we demand answers and Larry, happily, obliges.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello and welcoming you on Halloween. |
| 0:27.5 | That is October 31st, 2025. |
| 0:29.8 | Aptly enough, in the company of a professional bike rider, |
| 0:33.2 | briefly nicknamed the ghost early on in his pro career. |
| 0:35.4 | We'll find out by whom? |
| 0:35.9 | Why? In just a moment, my name is Daniel Freeber. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm the host of this |
| 0:38.2 | episode of the cycling podcast in which I and my ethereal podcasting companion will reflect on his |
| 0:43.4 | 2025 season and mainly in his case reply to some of the questions that you listeners have sent |
| 0:48.7 | in our direction over the last 24 hours or so.'s meet him then the motown manifestation himself |
| 0:55.5 | larry the ghost warbass larry we've heard this story before on the cycling |
| 1:00.2 | podgraphs but just remind us why were you once known as the ghost by a couple of your |
| 1:04.5 | teammates okay this was like a one day nickname many so yeah it was when I was a staguer and then yeah i don't know one day like |
| 1:14.6 | yeah i i just wasn't very present in the peloton next to them or whatever and then they said |
| 1:21.3 | they didn't see me the whole day so they just started to call me the ghost and and then yeah so then |
| 1:26.6 | yeah that really motivated me for the next day to make |
| 1:28.9 | sure that I never left their side. And I was no longer the ghost after that. So that's good. |
| 1:34.7 | I'm in a name and shame one of them because he's a bit of a friend of mine. Manuel Quinziato |
| 1:38.9 | was one of them, wasn't it? And I've actually raised this with him before, Larry. I've taken |
| 1:43.4 | him to task over this. |
| 1:45.6 | And he's very remorseful about this hazing, hazing episode. |
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