Talking Luft! With Jai Hindley

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Well I know you loved his last appearance on the pod, my recent chat with Australia’s one and only Giro d’Italia winner, Jai Hindley, where we heard some epic stories about his early cycling career and his meteoric ascent to the top of the pro cycling ranks. So he’s back today for the Talking Luft! treatment and I just couldn’t wait to put a few curly questions to him. Jai Hindley is a real Aussie gem in the European peloton. He has been riding and racing his bike since he was six years of age, all he has ever wanted to be is a pro cyclist and just loves everything about the sport. His love of the cycling eras of old made me really want to test out his knowledge and see if I could really put him to the limit. We talked Giro ups and downs, and what it feels like to gain the confidence to know you can finish out a Grand Tour, and just get better and better. We talk casquette style, where I was a little surprised to find out it’s not really his thing. We went back in time to discuss the pre-helmet days of cycling in the early 90s, and some of the best kits and team rosters of all time. We chat race food, drinks of choice, what makes a good roommate on tour, and whether he is more of a bus or a team car kind of guy. He passes my name the bike test with flying colours, with some pretty impressive knowledge of cycling throughout all the eras. And of course, I just had to ask him the all-important question, if (and in Jai’s case, when) you do become world champion during your career, how are you going to wear that rainbow kit. I loved chatting with Jai and finding out some of the lesser-known things about him for this episode of Talking Luft! and I hope you have a laugh and enjoy listening along. If you missed the Life in the Peloton episode, Jai Hindley – For the love of cycling, head back and take a listen! Cheers, Mitch

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0:00.0	And then I've just like ridden up this climb with, yeah, at the front of a of a
0:18.3	of a juror stage and I was just like line blown. And then we had another week of racing leg and were you nervous that it was going to run out that feeling yeah I'll just shit my pants at the way it was gonna fall off for sure yeah but then I yeah like I said in the first welter I did I knew like
0:34.6	the third week then I come together so yeah I was like oh I mean it could go either way but I knew like, good week, then I come together. So, yeah, I was like, oh, I mean, it could go either way, but I'm feeling bloody good, so let's just go with it. And, and then, yeah, we had, like, these, these hard stages. I think I was, like, fifth or something on GC going into that last week. And then, and then, yeah, we had some epic days and then we had that like
0:54.6	stelvio day where like rowan just you know rimmed everyone's legs off and yeah and then I ended up
1:01.7	winning the stage and it was just like massive that was like my first pro win well that was the episode I did with Jai Hinley a couple of weeks ago.
1:16.7	If you haven't heard that episode, I highly recommend you go back and listen to that one
1:22.1	because it is a classic.
1:23.7	He's a classic guy, a great guy.
1:26.3	And that's a great episode to hear. He's full story. And especially
1:29.4	as we're in the Giro right now, it's Giro Fever. Welcome to the podcast. This is Talking Loft.
1:36.5	And yes, I do have Jai Hinley for you. This podcast is being brought to you by Rafa, our proud
1:42.9	partners. And speaking about Giro, let's speak about it.
1:46.8	The EF, switch out kit, it's here. I wait for it every year. I love what Raffer do with this.
1:52.8	It's almost the best thing that EF have a pink jersey because they're clashing with the
1:57.2	Myglara Rosa. So that means, which is the leader's jersey in the Giro, if you didn't know what that is,
2:02.7	that means they must change their kit for the Gero. An amazing opportunity to get another kit in the season.
2:10.2	You know how much I love kit. And this year, what Raffer have done, it's pretty interesting.
2:15.5	They've done a switchout which is using up to 70% of recycled Raffer have done, it's pretty interesting. They've done a switchout which is using up to
2:18.5	70% of recycled Raffa kit to make up that jersey. It's a cool idea. They've got all this
2:24.9	old fabric lying around. They're like, what are we going to do with this? Let's make this crazy
2:29.7	kit. Check it out. You'll see it in the peloton. If you haven't seen it, get across the
2:34.7	Raffer website because they're also doing an excess collection as well. The same sort of feel,
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