S8 Ep124: Service Course | Episode 13 | Tour de France tech, saddles and sleuthing

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🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Service Course Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley discuss some of the new tech being ridden at this year’s Tour De France, Tom channels his inner Raymond Chandler as he starts his hunt for a rare cycling item, Lizzy delves deep into the world of saddles and finds out why you’re probably riding the wrong one.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Service Course by the cycling podcast with Lizzie Banks and Tom
0:13.6	Walley.
0:14.6	Well Lizzie, as usual, I'm in my shed.
0:18.8	Where on earth are you?
0:20.3	Well finally Tom, I'm not at home.
0:22.4	This time I am up in Switzerland.
0:24.2	I'm in the Swiss Alps and I'm up in our training base in Andermat and we've been here for
0:28.6	about a week and we're just about to head to the Giro in central and southern Italy,
0:33.6	which is pretty exciting.
0:35.3	You, I mean it's a busy season.
0:37.0	You must be on the road for a long time between now and the end of the season.
0:41.6	Do you ever get a chance to come home?
0:43.8	So actually I've not been away for that long really.
0:46.3	I think I came away a couple of weeks ago, came over for the European Championships,
0:51.0	Blue World Tour, Road Race, European Road Race, La Cours, did my own little Tour de France
0:57.7	and then we stayed with the team until the Giro and then from now it is going to be
1:01.4	pretty hectic kind of pending selection.
1:04.0	There's the World Championships and then straight after that it goes into the spring classics
1:08.7	but in the autumn.
1:11.3	And then it's just kind of yeah, the races are back to back really until we finish the
1:16.5	season.
1:17.5	So yeah, I'm not going to be going home for a while but it's nice.
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