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Welcome everyone, it's 2021 and the season is about to kick off and that means it's also time to kick off life in the Pellazon.

New season 2021, I'm very excited, I'm very excited to be back with the cycling podcast again and I want to welcome my co-host here, Lionel Bernie.

Welcome back to the series for another year.

Thanks very much Mitch, welcome back for a second year collaborating with us on the cycling podcast.

I'm really excited to see what you've got in store for us for 2021.

I'm very excited too, I felt like the limits were pushed last year and we discovered a whole new way of doing things which was great.

But I'm going to start this year with a banger. I've got my good mate on there, Heinrich Haussler, he's an Australian but he's also half German.

It's a really interesting story, he's just an interesting guy and I've been wanting to get him on the podcast for a long time.

Well this is a rider who's career I know really well, I mean it kind of pulled me up short to realise he's been a pro for 15 years now, making me feel slightly senior.

Turn pro for Gerrall Steiner in 2005 and he's also written for the Svelo Test Team which became Garmin Svelo after a merger,

rode a few years with I am cycling and currently with Bahrain who are going to be called Bahrain Victorious this year aren't they?

Well he's a sprinter, a classics man, British listeners may well remember Heinrich Haussler was the man that Mark Camadish picked by the narrowest margins in the 2009 Belanson Ramer and that was absolutely fantastic finish.

And that was a real purple patch for Haussler in the classics wasn't it because he was also second at the Tour of Flanders and sixth at Pau Rubai that year.

I think you're going to talk to Heinrich about his Tour de France stage win, his Aussie Championships win and hold on for the end of the podcast because he also talks about cyclicross and well I was really interested to hear his views on cyclicross racing and particularly the rivalry between Vanart and Vanderpoll.

Exactly and he's even been there doing it himself and that's what I found so interesting to hear his perception of the racing.

So hang in for that we preview the 2021 season as well. It's quite a long one but there's a heap in there and I just couldn't stop him talking and I loved listening so I hope you guys enjoy it too.

Sit back, get comfortable and enjoy this one.

I've got fellow countrymen here coming to his 17th year professional Heinrich Haussler welcome to the podcast buddy.

Thanks mate it's a pleasure, absolute pleasure.

I'm very happy to have you on this podcast because you are a guy that I've been wanting to have on here for a long time and especially I reason I want to have you on the podcast is I really love what you are as a cyclist in terms of you're a guy who came through the old times those times that I used to look at cycling as I was growing up you're still racing in those times and yet I got a chance to race with you and now you're still you've evolved through your whole career and you're racing in these new modern times which we've certainly seen the change over the last 10 years.

I hope you're ready for a big one mate are you?

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