The BikeRadar Podcast

BikeRadar’s senior technical writer, Simon von Bromley, grabs 10 minutes with Max Sciandri, Movistar Team’s sporting director, after stage 18 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia. While the riders recover in the hotel, Sciandri explains what the support staff get up to every evening during a Grand Tour, and what measures the team takes to ensure the riders can perform at their best day in, day out. Sciandri also offers insight into the team’s tech choices and tactics for the stage 20 mountain time trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back for another mini-series on the future of gravel. It wouldn’t be BikeRadar if we didn’t chat about shiny tech developments in the off-road, drop-bar world, but we’re also going to explore how gravel riding and racing are evolving, and as well as the role of new off-road communities.Join host Katherine Moore as we chat to fellow cycling journalist Ben Delaney, based in Colorado US, and our very own Jack Luke about the genesis of gravel and take a look into the BikeRadar crystal ball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Big news in the world of road groupsets as Campagnolo launches its first wireless electronic groupset – Super Record Wireless. In the process, Campagnolo has also ditched the iconic thumb shifter.Read the rest of our Campagnolo Super Record Wireless coverage:£4,499 Campagnolo Super Record Wireless groupset ditches thumb shifters and rim brakes – https://www.bikeradar.com/news/campagnolo-super-record-wireless-groupset/Read Oscar Huckle’s first ride review – https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/components/groupsets/groupset-road/campagnolo-super-record-wireless/Why I lament the death of Campagnolo’s thumb shifter – https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/the-death-of-campagnolos-thumb-shifter/Two dream-spec Italian bikes with Campagnolo's Super Record Wireless groupset – https://www.bikeradar.com/news/campagnolo-super-record-wireless-bikes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s time for another Tech Q&A episode, this time focusing on road wheels and tyres. Senior technical editors Warren Rossiter and Ashley Quinlan team up with Tom Marvin to discuss rim widths, tubeless woes, tyre pressures, and how clicky your freehub should be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom, Rob and Luke have decades of mountain biking experience between them, and so have racked up many riding regrets, near misses and situations that didn’t quite work out. In this episode, they share their biggest riding regrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Senior technical editor Warren Rossiter’s been in the bike industry for decades, but now more than ever he’s finding there’s some cycling kit he’d certainly prefer to see the back of. Here, fellow senior technical editor Ashley Quinlan and BikeRadar video presenter Tom Law sit down with Warren to hash out the top seven things (we had to stop him there!) he’d rather were consigned to the history books.We cover everything from helmet covers to cycling’s enduring problem with the use of arguably unnecessary plastics.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of the BikeRadar Podcast, Jack Luke, Tom Law and Simon von Bromley look back at the biggest cycling tech news from the last oh-so-busy few weeks. Among a deluge of other news, we’ve seen no fewer than three headline road bike tyre launches from Pirelli, Specialized and Vittoria. Resident tyre nerd Simon gives us the lowdown on everything we need to know about these sweet new treads. CeramicSpeed has also released a new super-fancy lube designed for super-long rides in super-bad weather (just in time for summer in the Northern Hemisphere). The trio discuss this new slippery ointment – or, more accurately, listen to Simon extol the virtues of immersion waxing for the zillionth time. Finally, Tom tries to explain what makes the Forbidden Druid trail bike interesting to Jack and Simon – a pair of smooth-brained roadies who don’t know an idler pivot from a kickback. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this bumper 2023 Road Bike of the Year special, BikeRadar’s road and gravel test team of Simon von Bromley, Ashley Quinlan, Warren Rossiter and Katherine Moore, sit down to discuss the top bikes from each category. Split into Gravel, Budget Road, Women’s Road, Aero Road, Performance Road and Endurance Road, the team discuss which bikes shone in each hotly contested class and reveal this year’s winners.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode out test team of Rob Weaver, Al Evans and Tom Marvin discuss their top three bikes from the 2023 MTB Bike of the Year test, covering a total of 24 bikes, split into Trail, Enduro and eMTB categories.They discuss the pros and cons of each bike, as well as revealing the winners in each of their respective categories.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

BikeRadar digital writer Jack Evans speaks to Jenny Graham, the fastest woman to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle. They discuss Jenny’s new book about her Guinness World Record-breaking ride and the story behind its title, Coffee First, Then the World. Jenny explains why she favours unsupported over supported riding and shares her ultra-endurance cycling tips. Plus, find out why she nicknamed her faithful Shand bicycle “little pig”.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices