Winning like Astana
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Spin Cycle. In this episode, Caley, Jonny, and Kit give Astana the props they've been yearning for (almost as valuable as UCI points). Then, a look at the youngsters of Romandie, a cluster of a TTT at the Vuelta, and a trip in the sad Visma Van.
Plus, Joe Laverick joins to discuss the Traka and how gravel has become a meme.
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| 0:57.1 | Welcome back to the SpinCycle podcast. I'm Kaylee Fretz. |
| 0:58.1 | Today on the show, we've got relegation, we've got a Welta cluster. |
| 1:03.0 | We are headed to the Visba van and a big gravel race happened. |
| 1:08.1 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:18.6 | Welcome back. Johnny Long, we missed you. Zin chal, mesemes. I'm back. Back at it. |
| 1:23.6 | Where were you again? You were in Southeast Ages somewhere. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, Vietnam. Lovely country. Lots of bike things. |
| 1:29.9 | Trying to, what have I missed? It feels like I've missed a lot and I've been trying to |
| 1:35.7 | catch up to speed. And like if you miss one or two weeks, even just the cycling, you cycle, |
| 1:41.3 | you're off the back. Not that much, I would say. |
| 1:45.2 | No. |
| 1:45.8 | Ardennes wrapped up. |
| 1:46.8 | We're headed into the Giro. |
| 1:48.0 | The Vuelta kicked off over the weekend. |
| 1:50.0 | It's all things we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:51.2 | So if you sound just totally lost at any point this podcast listeners, that would be why Johnny |
| 1:57.3 | sounds lost. |
| 1:58.1 | He's been away. |
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