S13 Ep88: The Living Daylights | Stage 13 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 48 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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INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour and Tour de France Femmes and six of the 10 stages before the rest day were won by riders using the Wahoo Element Bolt 3 cycle computer and Trackr heart-rate monitor – including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the better athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find our more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast at the 2025 Tour de France, supported by Wahoo Fitness. |
| 0:08.8 | Wahoo supports and sponsors more than half of the teams in the Tour de France, and today was Mountain Time Trial Day. |
| 0:14.6 | Very important to have a good warm up before the time trial effort. |
| 0:18.6 | And at the start, teams that were using the wahoo kicker trainers included |
| 0:24.1 | eF education easy post leadletrek and tudor pro cycling the wahoo kicker is the gold standard top of |
| 0:30.3 | wahu's range and the trainer changed the game for riding indoors it's really quiet incredibly |
| 0:36.1 | accurate and gives you proper hill simulations |
| 0:38.5 | up to a 20% incline. Plus, it connects over Wi-Fi now, so everything just works faster and |
| 0:44.0 | smoother. So whether you're training hard or you just want to ride when the weather is rubbish, |
| 0:48.3 | the kicker brings the road to your living room. It's compatible with most 8 to 12 speed cassettes, |
| 0:53.6 | plus the Zwift, click and cog. |
| 0:56.0 | If you're on more of a budget, the Wahoo |
| 0:57.7 | entry level kicker core is smooth, |
| 1:00.0 | accurate and quiet and works with all the |
| 1:01.8 | most popular apps too. To find out |
| 1:04.0 | more, go to |
| 1:05.3 | wahu fitness.com. |
| 1:07.5 | We should really get on with summarising |
| 1:09.3 | today's 13th stage the mountain time trial this is |
| 1:13.4 | the cycling podcast at the 2025 tour de france with lano bernie graham wilgoth and friends brought to you |
| 1:19.7 | in association with wahoo today we're in peregude well lionel tade Pogacca took his 20th win at the Tour de France |
| 1:33.4 | yesterday on Autocam in the Rainbow Bands when the worlds were not enough. |
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