Good day, everyone. Well, here we are talking Luft. We're back, episode three, and yes, I've got him.

Turbo-Durbo, Luke Derbridge, he's back. Can't do a season without Derbo. Love talking to Durbo, and I know you guys love hearing from him too.

And we've got a great talking for you this week. It is the Classics Edition. I've had to think up some new questions

for Derbo so it's 4.0 but we're talking a little bit about the classics. I always love

talking to Durbo on the eve of the classics to find out what's going on over there. Get a little

bit more information about the classics for you guys to help understand what that racing is all

about. The podcast this year is sponsored by Raffer. They're helping me

produce the podcast for you guys, both Life and the Pelton and Talking Luf. And speaking of the

classics, what Raffer do on the 9th of April, which is Perri Rube, they do a day in hell.

They do it all over the world at the different clubhouses. Of course, I'm in Melbourne, so I'm going to go and check out the day in hell in Melbourne. The one in Melbourne this year, if you're in Melbourne, you should come along and check it out because it is an Alley Cat Compass Challenge. What that actually means is there's a route, they've got six locations, and you just got to navigate to these checkpoints, get your card stamped and move on to the next location. So you can choose any way you want.

But they're going to be down cobbled lanes around velodromes all in the spirit of Parirubay.

I love that. A day in hell, of course. That was my favourite race. So I love reliving the vibe of that,

especially around the cobbles in Melbourne. And just, you know, heading back to the clubhouse at the end and watching one of my favourite additions with a cold beer, they're going to have fritz there. It's going to be a real Belgian vibe. That's the day in hell on the 9th of April. Wherever you are, that's where it's going to be. Check it out. I'm looking forward to the one in Melbourne anyway. On to this episode and what I'm going to do with Derbo

is talk about those classics like I said, but of course spin some questions around for him

in Talking Luft, a little bit more classics focused. And seeing as we're talking about the

classics, one thing that is very we're talking about the classics,

one thing that is very, very important in the classics,

because the hard racing, the cold conditions,

is that immune system.

Everyone's falling by the wayside,

whether it's crashes, whether it's sickness,

and it's almost like the best of the best

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