Talking Luft! with Dylan Van Baarle

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

You all know my love for Paris Roubaix, and in that sense I have some cycling royalty on the pod for you this week. Chatting with none other than the man who conquered this year's Hell of the North, Paris Roubaix winner, Dylan Van Baarle. I was keen to hear a bit about Dylan and what makes him tick on and off the bike so I sat down with him while he was in Australia for the UCI Road Worlds and got Talking Luft! Pro kit style, Oreo rice cakes, coffee shop stops, his favourite seat on the bus, the riders who inspire him, best & worst roommates, Netflix on race and a whole lot more! This was a bit of fun. Enjoy this listen and stay tuned next week for my final LITP episode of the season, On Road with me to the Worlds. Cheers, Mitch Listen Listen & subscribe to this series at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GooglePlay, Stitcher, Youtube, on the Life in the Peloton website, or your favourite pod app. Show Notes . . . 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. . . . Merch Talking Luft and Official LITP casquettes are back in stock. Shop now! Shop LITP casual Merch anytime online at our store. From casual caps to mugs, logo tees, sweaters and much more.. 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 Life in the Peloton’s 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. I grew up watching those highlights and the music became part of my childhood. When I set out to create Life in the Peloton I knew that theme song was what would set the scene and capture the essence of Life in the Peloton. 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.

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0:00.0	When I get this idea, it's like the most urgent thing in the world for me.
0:26.9	So then, like, I wanted to ride across the country, so that's the next thing I have to do.
0:31.0	And then when I was lining up for that race in Israel, I was like, okay, if this goes well,
0:36.5	then I want to fly home to Alaska, put together
0:40.2	a new bike, ride from Alaska down through Canada to Banff, take a week off, and then race
0:46.4	a tour divide, which goes to the Mexican border. So I already had this like idea and I knew it
0:51.8	would like the timeframe would fit. And then I was like, that's what I need to do next and then I started looking like at the women's record of the tour divide and I'd never raised it but I toured parts of the route and I knew like it's not technical it's dirt roads and at that time my friend had the record, and she, it was, she averaged like
1:11.1	145 miles a day for 19 days, which is a long time to do something.
1:18.1	But I was like, I'm averaging that distance on single track.
1:21.5	I could definitely do it on dirt road.
1:46.4	Yeah. Well, that was Lael Wilcox, the episode that we had last week, a great episode, and ironically, we had that episode up when I was riding up myself doing a bikepacking trip on my way to the World Championships.
1:47.4	As you can probably hear now, or maybe you can't, but I'm in the car on my way back to
1:51.9	Melbourne.
1:52.3	I'm not that silly.
1:53.9	I'm not riding back.
1:55.0	It is raining outside.
1:56.9	And yes, I had my friend from Raffa, Alan Aquani.
2:00.2	He drove the van up, the party van, the infamous
2:03.5	Life in the Peloton van up for me.
2:06.0	We had it at the World Championships and now I'm getting a sweet ride back to Melbourne.
2:10.6	Up at the World Championships, I was hanging out with Raffar, our partner in the podcast this
2:15.5	year and we had a great time up there.
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