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Re-Cycle: How Robert Millar lost the 'Stolen Vuelta' and finished second again one year later
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - August 31, 2021 18:26 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIn 1985 and 1986, mercurial climber Robert Millar twice came one step away from becoming Britain’s first Grand Tour winner – only for a combination of bad luck, mismanagement, Machiavellian machinations and team alliances to thwart him. We remember how the Scot fell short of glory in controversi...
Re-Cycle: Pippa York and the 'Stolen Vuelta'
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - August 31, 2021 18:26 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIn 1985 and 1986, mercurial climber Philippa York twice came one step away from becoming Britain’s first Grand Tour winner – only for a combination of bad luck, mismanagement, Machiavellian machinations and team alliances to thwart her. We remember how the Scot fell short of glory in controversi...
When Federico Bahamontes gifted the 1957 Vuelta to rival Jesus Lorono
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - August 26, 2021 03:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIn this episode of Re-Cycle, we re-count when Federico Bahamontes blew a 16-minute lead to hand his big rival Jesús Loroño the yellow jersey on a plate It was one of cycling's bitterest rivalries and that fateful Vuelta 1957 took things to a new level. But there’s much more than there seems t...
When Rudi Altig defied teammate Jacques Anquetil to win the 1962 title
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - August 20, 2021 22:17 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIn this episode of Re-Cycle, we re-count the time Rudi Altig defied teammate Jacques Anquetil to win the 1962 Vuelta. Frenchman Jacques Anquetil entered the 1962 Vuelta a España aiming to become the first rider in history to win all three of cycling’s Grand Tours. But the time trial sp...
When Floyd Landis did the impossible on the road to Morzine
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - July 15, 2021 07:35 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIn this episode of Re-Cycle, we look back on a ride that really was too good to be true. A day after handing the initiative to Oscar Pereiro for a second time following an implosion at La Toussuire, Floyd Landis turned the 2006 Tour upside down. Going clear on the first of five climbs 120km f...
Eros Poli's historic Mont Ventoux attack: How some quick thinking, a little James Brown and a hot can of Fanta fired a giant to victory
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - July 06, 2021 19:07 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIn this episode of Re-Cycle, we’re riding with Eros Poli, a man famous for being the tallest rider in the peloton as well as finishing last in the Giro d’Italia, while also piloting Mario Cipollini to multiple stage wins. Then, on a sweltering day in the Tour de France, Poli went on the attack e...
Abdel-Kader Zaaf: The trailblazing Algerian who rose above racism to outsmart and out-earn his legendary contemporaries
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - July 01, 2021 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsSunstroke and a bottle of wine made Abdel-Kader Zaaf a household name at the 1950 Tour after he passed out on his bike then, in a daze, rode back towards the peloton. A year later, the Algerian trailblazer finished last after launching the move that ended the grieving Fausto Coppi’s bid for yell...
When Rini Wagtmans denied Eddy Merckx to become the accidental yellow jersey
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - June 26, 2021 05:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIn the first of our 4-stage Tour run of Re-Cycle, Felix Lowe tells the story of the accidental yellow jersey. Eddy Merckx’s bid to wear the Yellow Jersey from start to finish at the 1971 Tour de France was scuppered when his Molteni teammate Rini Wagtmans took the race lead by mistake on a cra...
When Bartali beat Coppi and the Giro unified war-torn Italy in 1946
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - May 27, 2021 02:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIn this episode of Re-Cycle, Felix Lowe turns back the clock to June 1946, just a few months after the end of World War II. A reduced field took to the start of the Giro d’Italia in Milan, with Italy divided and in turmoil. His career derailed by the War, Gino Bartali’s third victory in the Gir...
When Cadel Evans rode through the mud to pip Vino at Montalcino
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - May 18, 2021 16:06 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsIt’s rightly gone down as one of the most legendary stages in the Giro d’Italia: when the race hit Tuscany’s Strade Bianche amid a deluge of rain turning the usually dusty affair into a mud slick. Stage 7 of the 2010 Corsa Rosa, saw world champion, Cadel Evans prove too powerful for Alexandre V...
'His face was no longer that of a man' - Charly Gaul and an apocalyptic day on Monte Bidone
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - May 13, 2021 03:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsLuxembourg climber Charly Gaul braved blizzards and frozen temperatures on Monte Bondone to win Stage 20 of the 1956 Giro. By doing so, the ‘Angel of the Mountains’ overturned a seemingly impossible deficit to take a heavenly overall victory as his rivals gave up or hitched a lift to the summit....
The legacy of The Lion King | Part Two of the Mario Cipollini saga
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - May 08, 2021 10:04 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsPart Two of a Cipollini two-parter. As Mario Cipollini moved towards retirement, his flaws were amplified, his words were heard differently and his true nature became clear. "In the pantheon of Giro greats – the names that have really shaped the history of the event – he wasn’t fit to shine t...
When Mario Cipollini broke Alfredo Binda’s Giro d'Italia stage record | Part One of the Cipollini saga
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - May 06, 2021 02:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsPart One of a Cipollini two-parter. Alfredo Binda’s record of 41 stage wins in the Giro d’Italia stood for 70 years, until Mario Cipollini went one better. With his wavy blonde locks, bulging biceps, and a penchant for an eye-catching skinsuit, Super Mario was as ruthless as he was fast. Cipo ...
When Philippe Gilbert owned The Ardennes
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - April 15, 2021 04:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsFor 10 days in the spring of 2011, Philippe Gilbert was invincible. Having won Brabantse Pijl, the Amstel Gold Race and La Fleche Wallone, he held his arms aloft in Liege at the race most dear to his heart. A decade on, Felix Lowe recalls a mesmerising run on home roads with the brilliant Belgia...
'Second doesn't exist' - When Backstedt denied Museeuw in his final Paris-Roubaix
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - April 08, 2021 08:09 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsSwedish powerhouse Magnus Backstedt felt so strong going toe-to-toe with Johan Museeuw in 2004’s Hell of the North, he even questioned whether there was a chain on his bike. Felix Lowe recalls the Lion of Flanders’ last major race, when a flat tyre stopped him sprinting for a record-equalling vi...
'That was my best chance' – When Adrie van der Poel denied Sean Kelly in Flanders
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - April 01, 2021 02:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsThirty-four years before Mathieu van der Poel won the Tour of Flanders, his father pipped Sean Kelly to the line. Felix Lowe turns back the clock to 1986, and the race in which the Irishman would come closest to glory in the only Monument that would forever elude him. Re-Cycle is narrated by G...
The ‘toughest bike race ever’: When Eugène Christophe braved blizzards at Milan-San Remo
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - March 18, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsWe’re winding the clock back a bit further this week to 1910 and a spectacle we will never again see in cycling. Before he became the first man in history to wear the Tour's Yellow Jersey, Eugène Christophe battled mountains of snow, freezing temperatures and even wore the wrong trousers to tak...
King Kelly’s supreme seven-year reign at Paris-Nice
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - March 11, 2021 03:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsNo one has shone brighter in the Race to the Sun than Sean Kelly, who won seven straight editions after Stephen Roche’s GC victory got the wheels turning for Ireland in 1981. Felix Lowe recalls Kelly’s formidable streak, after speaking to the man who dominated the likes of Bernard Hinault and La...
King for a day: When Ian Stannard outfoxed the Wolfpack at Omloop
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - February 25, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsRe-Cycle is back for a third season - and we kick off with the day Team Sky's Ian Stannard pulled off one of the surprises of the century at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 2015. Outnumbered three to one, Britain's Stannard outfoxed a stellar Etixx–Quick-Step trio of Tom Boonen, Niki Terpstra and Stij...
'Hell starts here' - When Jimenez won the first ascent of the Angliru
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - November 05, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsThe fearsome Angliru immediately became a Vuelta a España legend on its introduction to the race in 1999, when Spanish climber José María Jiménez was first to conquer the mountain. We remember a mythical win shrouded in fog and controversy. Re-Cycle is written by Felix Lowe, narrated by Graham ...
Fans spat at him, tried to shove umbrellas into his spokes: When Caritoux overcame not just the odds to win La Vuelta by the narrowest grand tour margin
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - October 29, 2020 08:36 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsJust when you thought Tao Geoghegan Hart’s Giro d’Italia victory over Jai Hindley was a close-run thing, we rewind to the 80’s and the closest a GC battle has ever been In 1984, French rookie Éric Caritoux was called up at the 11th hour to replace the legendary Sean Kelly and make his Vuelta a ...
'Until he'd killed the bull, he wasn't happy' - The riddle of Ocana's only Vuelta victory
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - October 22, 2020 02:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsOn the 50th anniversary of Luis Ocaña's breakthrough 1970 Vuelta a España title, we recall the first Grand Tour of the volatile Spaniard’s colourful career – and ask why it did not lead to more triumphs for the nearly-man Eddy Merckx thought of as his biggest threat... Re-Cycle is written by Fe...
'The most beautiful surprise of my life': When Kelly’s cool head set up Roche’s Triple Crown victory
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - October 01, 2020 03:03 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsNerves of steel from the Irish underdogs saw Stephen Roche ride to the Rainbow Jersey at the 1987 World Championships, becoming only the second man in history after Eddy Merckx to wear it after winning the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France. But he got a big helping hand from Sean Kelly. Re-Cycle...
Putting the 'Great' into Great Britain: When Tom Simpson conquered the world
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - September 24, 2020 02:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsA mix of leg power, cunning and killer instinct from charismatic Yorkshireman Tom Simpson saw him outkick Rudi Altig to take the Rainbow Jersey in San Sebastian. Felix Lowe winds back the clock to 1965, when Major Tom banished British cycling's inferiority complex. Re-Cycle is written by Felix ...
'He wrote the legend of the Tour': The remarkable tale of Alex Virot
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - September 03, 2020 02:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsAn artist and adventurer who flew planes and crossed oceans; an intrepid reporter who rubbed shoulders with presidents, kings, popes and dictators; a pioneering broadcaster who brought the Tour to life, and in doing so, paid with his own. In this week's Re-Cycle, we remember the remarkable figu...
The Woman in White: When Magni thwarted Coppi after an insult from his mistress
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - August 13, 2020 02:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsAs Re-Cycle returns, we look back at the 1956 edition of Il Lombardia, when Fiorenzo Magni – incensed by some goading from the so-called Woman in White – denied Fausto Coppi a sensational sixth win in the autumn Classic as the leaves were falling on the poster boy of Italian cycling’s career. R...
'This f****** jersey's mine!': Lance Armstrong goes deep into the red at Luz Ardiden
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - July 09, 2020 03:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsFew Tour de France stages have caught the imagination quite like the day Lance Armstrong crashed on Luz Ardiden before fighting back for victory. We rewind to 2003 and the extraordinary centenary Tour tussle between Armstrong and Jan Ullrich. Re-Cycle is written by Felix Lowe, narrated by Graha...
'Terrible! Unimaginable!' - The day Eddy Merckx's reign finally ended
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - July 02, 2020 03:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsA desperate Eddy Merckx's seemingly indomitable grip on the Maillot Jaune was prised loose when Bernard Thévenet reeled in The Cannibal on the climb to Pra Loup at the 1975 Tour de France. We recall the punches, punctures and brutal controversy for Re-Cycle. Written by Felix Lowe, narrated by G...
'I fell 70m off a mountain': When Van Est plunged off the Aubisque and Koblet was king
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - June 25, 2020 03:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsFelix Lowe remembers the first Dutchman to lead the Tour de France: Wim van Est, in 1951. But he crashed 70m into a Pyrenean ravine – and was lucky to escape with his life – before Pédaleur de Charme Hugo Koblet reigned supreme. Re-Cycle is narrated by Graham Willgoss and produced by Pete Burt...
'I fell off a mountain, and survived': When Van Est plunged off the Aubisque and Koblet was king
Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast - June 25, 2020 03:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsFelix Lowe remembers the first Dutchman to lead the Tour de France: Wim van Est, in 1951. But he crashed 70m into a Pyrenean ravine – and was lucky to escape with his life – before Pédaleur de Charme Hugo Koblet reigned supreme. Re-Cycle is narrated by Graham Willgoss and produced by Pete Burt...
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