Talking Luft! with Colin Strickland. S3.E8

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Rapha presents Talking Luft! If you loved last week’s episode with the king of gravel, Colin Strickland, you’re gonna love this week’s Talking Luft! Colin is an American fixed-gear bike racer turned gravel racer, and as you would have heard last week, an all round awesome guy. In his spare time he fixes up Diesel engines and has started his own garage renovating 1950s Spartan Travel trailers, even working with his coveralls thrown over his kit sometimes! After hearing his story last week, I knew it would be a lot of fun to talk some luft with Colin. And it didn’t disappoint. We chat the lack of luft in the gravel scene, the early days racing in old pro kit & no shirts, an epic at Oregon gravel, the best of pros, bikes, coffee and spirits. And so much more! It was just a great chat, with so many fun stories thrown in there. I know you’ll love the listen as much as I did recording. Enjoy! And stay tuned next week for my episode with Columbian Pro cyclist at Team EF Education EasyPost Esteban Chaves. Cheers, Mitch Listen Listen & subscribe to this series on the Life in the Peloton website, at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GooglePlay, Stitcher, Youtube or your favourite pod app. Or listen below: Show Notes Episode breakdown: 0:00min to 1:35 – Snippet from last week’s episode ‘Red Hook Master to Gravel legend’ Colin Strickland 1:35min to 3:45 – Talking Luft Intro 3:45min to 32:00 – Talking Luft with Colin Strickland 32:00min to end – Outro . . . 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 now. 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	I don't actually understand how I don't actually understand how you've sort of mastered both of them.
0:26.8	So that's why the question is, would you like to go back to Redhawk?
0:29.5	The answer again, absolutely not.
0:31.3	You could not pay me enough.
0:33.3	Why?
0:33.8	Why?
0:34.9	You've just talked so fondly of it.
0:37.0	I've lost the skill. I was in it. You know, I was living it. I was riding the bike. I was wearing my skinny jeans. I was listening to a lot of rock and roll. You know, it was a moment.
0:46.6	But I don't have the, I don't, man, you know, it's a young man's game. I'm good. I'll watch it. I'll drink the beer.
0:55.5	And watch you young lads duke it out on these breakless suicide bikes. Yeah, it's two. It's
1:01.8	too. You know, there's a sweet spot. I hit it when you like, honestly, yeah, I'm, I'm good at
1:05.9	bike riding, but I'm not the best. I hit things. I'm, I ride smart. I hit the, like, I hit the, I hit the discipline
1:14.5	when it's like winnable and just peaking, right? Like that's, work smart, not hard. Like, shit,
1:21.7	I hit Red Hook and then it got really hard to win. And I couldn't win it anymore. So I went
1:25.9	over to gravel. Sure enough, won a bunch of
1:28.5	those and now they're really hard to win and I might just go work on diesel trucks.
1:32.3	Yeah. Well, that was Colin Strickland, the king of gravel, the king of Red Hook.
1:47.3	I had him on the pod last week, and of course I've got him right here on Talking Luft this week.
1:52.8	Guys, welcome to Life in the Peloton, Talking Luft, presented by Raffa.
1:57.4	I've got a cracking episode, as always, for you this week. As I said, Colin Strickland
2:02.4	talking Luft. Colin, of course, is working with Raffer as well. And I loved hearing his
2:07.9	opinion on working with the company because I have an opinion. You guys have got an opinion,
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