S8 Ep86: Service Course | Episode 12 | Hackers & helmets
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
They also consider the wider issues of data security in cycling and find out why Strava became a problem for Area 51 and GCHQ.
Tom also finds out about a prototype wheel that cleans up air pollution as it spins. There's more too as Tom and Lizzy take a look at the various different systems that helmets use to protect you from head injuries, and catch up with Ian Boswell to find out how his recovery from a career ending concussion is going.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Service Course by the cycling podcast with Lizzie Banks and Tom |
| 0:13.7 | Walley. |
| 0:14.7 | Lizzie, what the hell is that noise? |
| 0:17.2 | Well welcome to the podcast Tom and as usual it is absolutely throwing it down in the middle |
| 0:21.9 | of this glorious British summer which we are all experiencing in the UK. |
| 0:27.1 | Well it's funny actually I mean a lot of the sort of peak district based pros are about |
| 0:32.4 | to get back to racing. |
| 0:34.2 | Matt Elisrand, the call for me is an amateur who has gone back to his team in France. |
| 0:38.7 | So any peak district riders who have managed to keep training to the extent that you guys |
| 0:44.8 | have deserve everything you get in the races because the weather has been a trotious round |
| 0:49.0 | here for the last two months. |
| 0:50.6 | It's been pretty bad and by the magic of podcast by the time you guys hear this I'm not |
| 0:55.5 | going to be at home. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm probably going to be in Siena on my way or maybe mid race in Strader Bianchi and it's |
| 1:02.6 | going to be pretty warm. |
| 1:03.6 | So I've actually been cycling around at home doing all my training with as many clothes |
| 1:07.5 | on as I can and my friends are all like why are you wearing new warmers and armours and |
| 1:11.9 | a Gile and I'm just trying to make myself really hot because we have not had a very |
| 1:16.1 | barmy summer here and we've had a lot of rain but I'm really looking forward to getting |
| 1:20.0 | to Italy and finally getting the season underway again. |
| 1:24.2 | Well let's talk about it. |
| 1:25.2 | I mean obviously we've got a lot to get through in this episode and I'll go through what's |
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