S14 Ep3: Burn Baby Burn
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
WorldTour racing is back with the Tour Down Under underway in Australia. The Cycling Podcast returns to recap the action from the first three stages and the latest news from the pro peloton.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie, and our very own in-house professional cyclist Larry Warbasse discuss UAE Team Emirates’ rip-roaring start to the year, as well as the predictions we didn't get from Larry last week. There is a detailed meditation on Larry’s 14-year search for the perfect training formula—and the peloton’s broader search for equilibrium in a sport that is increasingly data-obsessed, sometimes at the expense of mental and physical wellbeing.
Derek Gee-West certainly experienced his share of emotional turmoil while attempting to change teams last autumn. We hear from Lidl-Trek’s newest recruit on that saga and how close he thinks he can get to the likes of Pogačar and Vingegaard.
Artwork photograph: UAE Team Emirates XRG / ph. SPRINT
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| 1:42.6 | Hello, welcoming you on January 22nd, birth date in 1889 of Henri Pelichier, who once abandoned |
| 1:51.8 | the Tour de France while second in general classification because his hotel refused to serve |
| 1:56.4 | him a bottle of wine. |
| 1:57.4 | Had I been covering the tour at the time, Henri would have received my whole-hearted solidarity. My name is Daniel Freeber. I'm the host of this episode of The Cycling Podcast, in which we will try to temper all petulant instincts and figuratively ride on into the cycling season, which has just begun physically in the last couple of days. Joining me in that pursuit today is a man whose long-standing affection for the tour downender is well known it's Lionel Bernie good-day Daniel good-day Larry so authentic |
| 2:23.6 | that accent and Lionel you've never you've never abandoned you haven't yet abandoned the |
| 2:27.0 | sort of France because you haven't been served a bottle of wine in a hotel but I've considered, I've considered abandon the Tour de France |
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