Welcome back to the Cycling Tips Podcast, everybody. I'm Kayle Frets. It's Wednesday, October 5th.

I'm back home from Australia.

Brought some COVID with me, so I apologize if I don't sound great. With me today, Kit Nicholson,

how are you Kit? Okay, thanks. And Johnny Long.

Hello.

Hello.

And Ronin McLaughlin, how are you, Larrant, Ronin?

I'm good, yeah.

Thank you. We got a lot to talk about today.

We've got a lot to talk about today. We've got Remco Vinios Quick Step something going on there.

We're gonna dig into it a little bit. We've got Matthew Vanderbilt World, which is this weekend.

We've got some ridiculous finish to a race in Croatia,

some Cantana news, the final women's role to race of the season is this weekend,

and Ronan just got back from Easy Bake Ovening some sort of bicycle yesterday. So he's going to tell us all about it.

I'm not going to tell you all. I'm going to mostly tease you so that you go and listen to the dedicated Nurd Alert podcast that we made on site.

Just enough information to pick everyone's interest.

So, let's get into it. I think the place to kick off this week is with one of the biggest stories

that's been floating around the world of professional cycling over the last 10 days or so,

the Remco event a poll contract saga. Johnny, first and foremost, is there anything to this or is this just, what was it, was a fart in a bottle I think is what Patrick Liff ever called it?

Yeah.

Yeah, which is a phrase that I wasn't aware existed in English, but I'm glad it now does.

There was, I saw some questions online as to how he came up with that

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