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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Spin Cycle, Caley Fretz, Jonny Long, and Dane Cash discuss the rising chaos at UAE, the UCI's new gear limits, and Pidcock going really fast.

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0:56.5	Welcome back to SpinCycle, everybody. I'm Kaylee Fretz.
0:57.5	Today on the show, Drama at UAE, the UCI has some new rules and Tom Pidcock went pretty fast.
1:08.2	Let's get to it.
1:16.9	You like that intro, Johnny?
1:22.1	Yeah, I'd say it's, yeah, top 10% of your intros.
1:24.7	Little twists there here and there.
1:25.6	Yeah, why not?
1:27.2	Yeah. What did you think, Dan Cash?
1:28.4	I like the intro.
1:29.4	I like Johnny's face.
1:30.6	He put his hands on his face,
1:31.2	which is, I think,
1:33.8	is tailor made for a YouTube thumbnail.
1:36.8	I think we should start doing that for YouTube. Is that we have to pull one YouTube face
1:38.7	and then it's a Russian roulette of who I,
1:42.2	who I Photoshop out for the cover.
1:45.9	Also, is Russian roulette, you like to say that anymore?
1:46.4	Maybe not.
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