S8 Ep105: Kilometre 0 – The Rider
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we hear from the author and from former professional Laurens Ten Dam, who has made a film inspired by the book, plus cycling writer Max Leonard, who has traced the route from the book, and from Tom Southam the EF Pro Cycling sports director.
If you'd like to watch the documentary His Twenty-Two Was Still Clean it's on YouTube.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the mobile 4-smell from Tim Cabay. |
| 0:13.6 | It's great to be here for you. |
| 0:15.8 | The dance. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello Tim, it's Richard Murrer here from the cycling podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | We'd love to talk to you about your book, The Rider. |
| 0:24.8 | Stage 6 of the Third of France is visiting Monte Guelvo's week, as you will know that |
| 0:28.7 | no. |
| 0:29.7 | And we've spoken about your book to Lawrence Tendam, to Tom Sovem and Max Leonard who retraced |
| 0:35.2 | the tour of the Monte Guelvo and has written about it. |
| 0:38.1 | And it would be great to include your voice to in our podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | You may be at your bike, I can see from Strava that you're putting in some huge distances. |
| 0:46.8 | But please do get back to me and look forward to hearing from you. |
| 0:49.9 | Thanks. |
| 0:50.9 | You are listening to Kilometre 0 by the cycling podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Power by Zwift, the fitness app where fun is fast. |
| 1:04.5 | Meruess, Luzer, June 26, 1977. |
| 1:09.5 | Hot and overcast. |
| 1:11.3 | I take my gear out of the car and put my bike together. |
| 1:14.5 | Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes, non-racers. |
| 1:19.3 | The emptiness of those lives shocks me. |
| 1:23.2 | The cycling podcast bedtime story read by Richard Moore and Knightley Ritual on the |
| 1:27.6 | Tour de France that we've kept very well hidden. |
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