Talking Luft! with Alec Briggs. S3.E6

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Rapha presents Talking Luft! I’m Talking Luft with the legend from London, Alec Briggs. Alec grew up in SE London and has raced track, cross, MTB, road and made his way to fixed-gear racing in Red Hook Criteriums, or 'Moto GP on bikes’ as he was first introduced to it. He’s hugely passionate about cycling & getting people involved in the scene. As well as being a super talented rider himself, Alec went on to start his own team, Tekkerz CC, as a place to support young guns coming into the sport. Make sure you head back and listen to last week’s episode to hear all about it! I knew he would be a great guy to have on the podcast to not only hear his story but also to Talk some Luft. So this episode we jump into all the usual questions, how does he wear his casquette? Luft or no luft? He shares his favourite ‘training’ loop that’s a little more exciting than most, his favourite ever bike, we agree to disagree about the AG2R kit & he tells a war story that ends in triumph at a Red Hook Criterium. Plus a whole lot more! This was a lot of fun and I know you’ll love hearing more from Alec. Enjoy guys! And stay tuned next week as it’s time for some cobbled classics chat with Luke Durbridge. Cheers, Mitch Listen Listen & subscribe to this series on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GooglePlay, Stitcher, Youtube or your favourite pod app. Find show notes and more at the Life in the Peloton website. Show Notes Episode breakdown: 0:00min to 1:20 – Snippet from last week’s episode – Alec Briggs’ 1:20min to 4:45 – Episode Intro 4:30min to 33:20 – Talking Luft with Alec Briggs 33:20min to end – Outro . . . Check out Alec’s Most Re-watchable race – Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2015 – where Ian Stannard outlasts a breakaway with 3 Etixx-Quick-step riders. Watch the final 20km here: https://youtu.be/RW2DoqVnxYU . . . This episode is brought to you by Rapha, makers of the world’s finest cycling clothing & accessories and the worlds largest cycling club, RCC. Find out more about Rapha: their kit, their club, their events and awesome clubhouses at rapha.cc. . . . Keep in touch Find all our episodes, LITP news and merch on our website www.lifeinthepeloton.com Listen on all good podcast apps, and now on Youtube. Follow us on socials: Instagram: @lifeinthepeloton Twitter: @lifeinthepelo Merch Paris-Roubaix Caps are back for the classics! Jump over to our online shop to grab one in time for that Sunday in Hell! Shop LITP casual Merch anytime online at our store. From casual caps to mugs, embroidered tees, logo tees, sweaters and much more.. Theme Music The theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton. Subscribe Sign up to Life in the Peloton email updates to get the latest episodes and merch news straight to your inbox.

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0:00.0	When he came up to me afterwards, he's like, yeah, I'm doing this thing called Red Hook Crip. Do you like, do you want to come do it with me? And I was like, what year is this? This is 2015. So I'm like, 20. He was like, yeah, just come come do this. We can pay for some flights and stuff, and you can just, like, come race with us.
0:38.3	I was like, that sounds sick.
0:39.4	And I was like, he said it's like motor GP on bicycles. I was like, man, that's like my dream job. The reason I got into riding bicycles is because I watched motorbikes as a kid and I wasn't allowed to do that. I was like, next best thing is a bicycle, right? I think I was to make the engine noise in my mouth as a kid like, wow.
0:53.9	But that's pretty much what happened.
0:56.7	And then I did this Red Hook Crip thing, and I was like, this is sick. And then we just, I just kept doing that. And then one thing led to another, got chatting to more people. All the time I was getting paid to do it. I was like, this is mad. And then I went, I just want to keep doing this.
1:11.6	This is sick.
1:12.6	And then set up my own thing because I didn't want it to stop.
1:15.6	And now I'm here.
1:17.6	So yeah, that's kind of how it works.
1:18.6	Well, that was our guest last week, Alec Briggs, the owner of Techers CC.
1:35.7	A really great episode. He's from London. We speak about that London culture. Plus, we speak
1:41.0	about his career a little bit, which is a little bit different. As you can hear, we talk about the Red Hook Criteriums.
1:47.7	He's done a whole bunch of stuff.
1:49.3	Among many things, he's created his own team.
1:53.1	Techers CC, Techers Cycling Charisma.
1:56.4	Go back and listen to that episode if you want to hear anything more about that.
1:59.7	I've had some great feedback about that episode. I love chatting to him, but I really love chatting to all my guests and everyone loved listening to Alec. So go back and have a listen to that episode. We've got him here on Talking Luft as well. That's what's coming up. But I've actually been on a bit of an adventure this week. I went away with the Raffa crew, the RCC,
2:18.7	the Raffer Cycling Club members and I did a pilgrimage. Raffa put on a lot of rides for
2:24.1	their RCC members. They do prestige rides, they do pilgrimages, they do weekly group rides.
2:31.2	And I was able to chat with all the RCC members this week as we pilgrimage down from Sydney
2:36.0	all the way down to a place called Wogga Wagga where we competed in an event called the Dirty
2:40.8	130 and was great to chat to them why they've become members of Raffer.
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