Welcome back to the Cykna Tips Podcast, everybody. It is Monday, August 16th. The Welter has begun,

or Norway is on. Silka has some socks or something.

We chat with the new world record holder

for Everisting, in fact Ronan, also a world record holder for Eversting talks to the new world record holder for Eversting later in the show.

We've got all that coming up for you and most of the usual crew.

Shoddy is on I think bath and bedtime duty at the moment so we do not have shoddy today

but we have Abby Mickey. How are you Abby?

Hello yep good. And Rona McLaughlin how are you, Abby? Hello, yep, good.

And Ronan McLaughlin, how are you Ronan?

I'm good.

What is this Vuelda, you speak of?

It's the smallest of the grand tours, the least consequential.

Okay, first of all, that's not true.

And second of all, we're about to do like a 45-minute podcast about it, followed by two two more of them if you want people to listen to those podcasts I feel like we should not say that but again it's also not true

I just said it to just to get dain's reaction. Yeah, to that I just want people Dane's reaction to that.

I just want people to listen to our show, that's all.

The Felt is here.

We're stoked about the Velt.

Today was the first uphill stage, uphill finish and it was good. We're going to talk about it in just a second but before we do

Today's episode is brought to you by Continental during the Tour de France this July

Continental released their GP5, 5000s with the highly anticipated tan sidewalls.

This is very exciting. If you like me, believe that the only proper color for a sidewall is tan.

...