The Rouleur Podcast

"Business as usual" is Alex Dowsett's verdict on this year's remarkable Giro D'Italia "People were like 'this is an epic Giro' and we're like is it? It's just hard". The Katusha Alpecin rider attracted an appreciative audience for his social media updates throughout the Italian race, and says he's going to carry on tweeting from inside the peloton. He also gives us his view on the controversial Stage 19. And staying with controversy, Rouleur's Stuart Clapp tries on Oakley's "upside-down" Flightjackets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Phil Burt spent twelve years as head physio at British Cycling, and five with Team Sky. He tells presenter Ian Parkinson how he's now planning to use that knowledge to help the rest of us. We look at the state of steel framebuilding with Saffron Frameworks' Matthew Sowter, Caren Hartley of Hartley Cycles and Andrew Denham of the Bicycle Academy. And Rouleur's Stuart Clapp has an unfortunate story involving a sex toy and a saddle sore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three pro riders with very different experiences of head injury discuss the tricky subject of concussion in the peloton. Sports like NFL and Rugby have clear procedures for dealing with athlete head injuries, but Brent Bookwalter, Matt Brammeier and Tom Skujins think cycling could do better, and their colleagues in the peloton need to be more aware. Rouleur's Desire Editor Stuart Clapp talks up Gore's new Shakedry jacket, and David Millar's long awaited film. Presenter: Ian Parkinson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter Sagan's brilliant victory in Paris Roubaix was overshadowed by the tragic death of Belgium's Michael Goolaerts. Ned Boulting joins presenter Ian Parkinson to discuss the race, the dangers of pro-cycling, the season so far and some of the challenges hanging over the Grand Tours: will the Giro really start in Israel, and if it does, will Chris Froome be riding? Three times Paris Roubaix winner Fabian Cancellara joins us from Utah with his thoughts on Sagan and Dillier's race to the velodrome and we grab a podium interview with Britain's junior Paris Roubaix star Lewis Askey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cobbles, dust, mud, history and blood. For many fans, Paris-Roubaix is the greatest of all the Classics - and for the latest Rouleur Podcast, we're all about the Hell of the North. Fabian Cancellara and Hennie Kuiper relive their victories while Magnus Backstedt and Roger Hammond relive their famous duel in the Roubaix Velodrome. Will Fotheringham discusses his new book, about one of the greatest cycling films ever - Jorgen Leth's celebration of the 1976 Roubaix, A Sunday in Hell. And Stuart Clapp remembers the time he saw Tom Boonen fit a whole energy bar into his mouth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk to Jacob Tipper and Ellie Green of Derby-based Team KGF, who've been taking on - and beating - some of the best track riders in the world. Presenters Ian Parkinson and Hannah Troop visit Derby velodrome to meet Cervelo-Bigla's Lotta Lepisto and Claire Rose, and hear why time-trial legend Matt Bottrill is making a racing comeback. Plus, Ian gets to try Endura's ultra-slippy new skinsuit on the boards, and Stuart Clapp is in Milton Keynes sniffing out gravel bikes and shiny shoes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Rouleur team try their legs at the London Club Roller Racing Championships (spoiler - they don't win), and talk Tour of Iran, Svein Tuft and his backwoods lifestyle and the complexities of commissairing. And Stuart Clapp wraps himself up in Brian Holm's winter kit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"It's not about the numbers, it's always about the aesthetics." Musician and actor Gary Kemp - of Spandau Ballet fame - traces the links between music and the mountains, and why so many musicians seem to take to two wheels. Gary, who became a keen cyclist after a dinner conversation with the broadcaster Robert Elms, explains his love for the hills, why he won't be riding the Etape again any time soon, and why he'll never be a slave to statistics. Ian Parkinson is also joined by Rouleur's Ian Cleverly, and technical editor Stuart Clapp - who's talking about lube. Don't encourage him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ian Parkinson looks forward to the 2018 procycling season with the help of three guests: Rouleur Editor Andy McGrath, Executive Editor Ian Cleverly and Peredur Ap Gwynedd - rock star and TdF commentator. Perry is the guitarist in the band Pendulum, but also reports on the Tour and other big races for Welsh TV channel S4C. They moan about their cycling hates in new feature "Get Down, Stay Down"; and this podcast also sees the first appearance of our new tech roundup "Stuart Clapp's Desire". Don't ask. Just listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the first podcast of 2018, Ian Parkinson is joined by three very different ex-pros. Fans' favourite Juan Antonio Flecha reflects on life out of the peloton and in front of the camera. And eighties stars Paul Watson and Tim Harris remember the last "golden age" of UK cycling - when city centre crits drew crowds of thousands and ANC-Halfords took on the might of the continent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.