S13 Ep9: KM0: Never Mind The Balearics – Trofeo Palma

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🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

That's a wrap for the Challenge Mallorca. Lionel Birnie heads to Palma for the final race in the series hoping for dry weather and an incident-free race. Then he reconvenes with Rob Hatch in a soggy, Sunday evening Sóller to recap the day.

We hear from Michael Valgren of EF Education-Easy Post and Lotto sports director Dirk De Mol about the cancellation of Saturday's race.

And Lionel and Rob take a detour to Palma's two famous velodromes – one old, one new.

We play out with The Cycling Podcast's original punk, François Thomazeau. He was once a member of a punk band called Special Service and we hear their track Marseille ou Kingston.

Thanks for listening, the regular episodes will return this week to review the week's other racing.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the final episode of Nevermind the Ballyericks. This is the cycling podcast,
0:05.3	recorded at the Challenge Mallorca and supported by our title sponsors, Sports Tours International.
0:11.2	If this mini-series has inspired you to visit Mallorca and you want to discover the island by bike,
0:16.3	why not enter the Mallorca 312 Closed Road Sportive, which is held at the end of April. There are three
0:23.0	distances to choose from the full 312 kilometres or 225 kilometres or 167 kilometres both of which
0:31.3	are perfectly decent days out in the saddle and all three routes will give you a great day cycling
0:36.9	across this stunning island.
0:38.3	Now the event is officially sold out but Sports Tours International still have entries available
0:43.3	and they can get you to the start line in style. You may have to be quick though because places are filling fast.
0:50.3	There are three or four night packages to choose from, starting at £585 per person.
0:55.9	Sports Tours International will take care of you and your bike throughout the trip.
0:59.8	There's stylish accommodation very close to the start finish line, so no long transfers on race day.
1:05.4	Go to SportsTorsinternational.co.uk, for full details of the Challenge Mallorca 312 or the many other trips they offer.
1:13.1	Whether you want to ride one of the world's best sportives or watch the pros in action at the classics or the Tour de France,
1:19.5	Sports Tours International have it all covered. We'd like to thank them for supporting the cycling podcast as our title sponsors during this first couple of months of the season.
1:28.9	It's enabled us to make this series of Kilometer Zero, which was originally to be exclusively for Friends of the podcast subscribers, free for all.
1:36.6	So thank you to them. Now it's on with the show. It was an early start for me this morning, this Sunday morning here in Mayorka.
2:06.6	I had to get down to Palmer early because the race is starting at 1015 local time, which is pretty early by today's standards.
2:14.6	And the reason for that is because they want to finish the race
2:18.1	early so that everybody can get to the airport and get away to wherever they need
2:23.3	to be next whether that's home or off to a training camp or maybe heading straight
2:28.1	to another race because early season races come thick and fast now don't they the
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