Talking Luft! with Steve Cummings

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Rapha presents Talking Luft! I had the breakaway specialists on the podcast last week talking all the nitty gritty details about the theory of the breakaway. And this week I couldn't resist talking some luft with British former pro & breakaway master and current Sports Director for Team Ineos, Steve Cummings. In case you’re not familiar with Steve, he raced professional for 14 years, winning stages in the Tour de France & Vuelta a España among many others successes and made a name for himself for getting in and succeeding in breakaways. He’s a legend of a bloke as you’ll hear and we sit back and chat all the great Talking Luft topics. We chat cap style, racing with no helmets, 500 quid bike finds, favourite races & riders, training loops & rituals, his DJ name and an epic war story in true Stevo style from the Tour de France. That and a whole lot more. Enjoy this one guys! And stay tuned over the next couple of days for the release of our exciting Tour de France inspired T-shirt with Çois Cycling. We hope you love it as much as we do! They will be available exclusively at coiscycling.com. 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. Show Notes Check out Steve’s two Tour de France breakaway stage wins, 2015 here and 2016 here. Check out Stevo’s most re-watchable race: Chris Froome taking the win at 2018 Giro d’Italia Stage 19 . . . 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 We have an exciting new Tshirt collaboration with Çois Cycling coming up for the Tour de France. Stay tuned to our Instagram and website in the next days for the drop! You will be able to shop exclusively at coiscycling.com SOLD OUT! Our first release of our new Talking Luft cap has now sold out. Stay tuned for the next drop in the coming months. Paris-Roubaix Caps. Get your cap to wear at the Roubaix stage of the Tour de France now! Jump over to our online shop to grab one. Shop LITP casual Merch anytime online at our store. From casual caps to mugs, embroidered tees, 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

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0:00.0	I'm A bit of both, Mitch.
0:27.9	I was always, eventually, you know, I did, I think I did seventh once in Tireano, which is pretty good.
0:34.3	We finished up Terminilo, and I'd start these races, these week-long stage races and I'd often have in my head, let's, you know, let's keep the GC option open, but let's not like, if I lose time, it's not a big problem. And then sometimes it was like, I can't do GC, it's better I sit up, lose time straight away, and then I'll have more in the breakaway. So just, it really depended on the race. I was very clear on what I could do and what I couldn't do. Yeah, and where you could best help the team. I think there's, there's in cycling, there's always this thing, be in front, being in front, being in front, but eventually there's not enough space for everyone to be afraid of you know.
1:17.6	Now you'll just listen to Steve Cummings talking about the breakaway from last week's episode that I did about the breakaway theory, which not only featured Steve, but also
1:28.3	Tacco Vander Horn, the current breakaway master, and Ben Healy, who is a newbie to the
1:33.5	breakaway game in the World Tour, and also the flip side of the coin, Tim DeClerc, the Tractor,
1:39.3	L Tractor, who is the best guy controlling these breakaways.
1:43.3	So if you haven't heard that episode, get across and have a listen, because it's going to
1:47.0	make you understand a little bit more about the breakaway while you're sitting back watching
1:51.0	the Tour de France right now.
1:53.0	Life in the Peloton is brought to you by our proud partner Raffa, and Raffer is also partnered
1:58.0	with my old team, EF, EasyPosts, making some outrageous kits for the
2:03.6	men's world tour team and the women's world tour team. As I'm sure you've seen the new
2:08.6	Palace collaboration kit that was released for the Tour de France, it's pretty crazy and I'm
2:13.6	loving it. I'm jealous, but I'm loving it. But let's hear now from Ben Healy who's a
2:18.4	Neo Pro with EF and his experience so far working with Raffer. Yeah it's pretty cool you know
2:24.2	like growing up in the UK you see Raffer everywhere and it's that like luxury kit that everyone
2:31.1	wants you know. I've always like tried to buy raffer and you know
2:35.6	get the raffle winter stuff because oh man you need it here in the winter yeah I've had
2:40.0	bits and pieces here and there and it's always been like my favourite bits of kit but I've
2:43.6	never had obviously like the full set so yeah now I'm I'm with the F and I get all of that
2:48.6	stuff yeah it's it's pretty, pretty mega actually.
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