S13 Ep73: Hot Stuff and A Sunday In Hell | Stage 2 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
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VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the cycling podcast at a 2025 tour de France with Lano Bernie, Graham Wilgoss and Friends, brought to you in association with Van Rizont. |
| 0:24.1 | Today, we're in Boulogne-sur-Mair. |
| 0:33.5 | Hot stuff, gents. I've got an image of Francois sort of thrusting away in the disco, the |
| 0:39.9 | 1970s discos of Marseilles in my mind. No small irony of coming into our episode with Donna |
| 0:46.5 | Summer's greatest work. A cover from the brass band entertaining the crowd, keeping everyone warm |
| 0:52.5 | in Arras. |
| 0:59.5 | Today, where the race passed through early doors, while it was still anything but summer, |
| 1:03.0 | absolutely hooning it down as we left for the start. |
| 1:09.4 | For the race start this morning, Lionel, and the rain surely added to the chaos on the roads of Northern France today. |
| 1:10.7 | And that meant that for us in the |
| 1:12.7 | cycling podcar the best laid plans as they often do at the tour don't always work out the |
| 1:18.4 | way that you think they will no they certainly didn't we're recording in early evening the sun is |
| 1:24.9 | shining it's a little bit breezy but we're in valenciennes now where the stage starts |
| 1:30.3 | tomorrow we're staying at a place called le grand duke which francois we've stayed here before a couple of |
| 1:35.4 | times i think for pari ruby certainly during the tour de france when we were here with mitch docker |
| 1:40.5 | and we recorded around this very table it's a lovely place in the outskirts of Valenciennes, |
| 1:47.2 | but today I had a brilliant plan. We were going to have a really relaxing Sunday. We're going to |
| 1:52.5 | ease into the tour with a picnic at Kilometer 92, more about why the significance of Kilometer 92 |
| 1:59.0 | at the end of the podcast. |
| 2:05.6 | But we ended up at Arras, which was a sort of degree of... Serendipity. |
| 2:07.4 | Serendipity, exactly, was kilometre 29. |
| 2:10.5 | But we ended up with a coffee in the rain at kilometre 29. |
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