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Nerd Alert Podcast: Inside the company that sells carbon to bike brands

This week’s episode of Nerd Alert is devoted to all things carbon fibre. CyclingTips’ Global Tech Editor, James Huang, gets on the phone with Jason Gabriel of Toray Advanced Composites, the company that provides much of the raw material to carbon bike manufacturers all over the world. Ever wanted to know what carbon fibre is? …

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From the Top: The remarkable story of Phil Liggett

Over the next few episodes of From the Top I switch gears to speak to iconic individuals within the cycling industry, to better understand how they got to where they are. First up, I speak to Phil Liggett about how he got his start in commentating, how he met Paul Sherwen, how he’s been doing …

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CyclingTips Podcast: Real Tour, virtual Tour, and ranking our mechanic skills

Bike racing approaches, and with it plenty of bike racing-related news. We run through news from the Tour de France, La Course, and the Virtual Tour de France, plus dig into Chris Froome’s decision to jump to Israel Start-Up Nation.  Then, a spirited debate: How do our podcast hosts stack up as home mechanics?  Click here for …

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Freewheeling Podcast: Kate Leeming, a Modern Explorer

This week, we forgo the usual news and focus an entire episode on Australian adventure bicycle rider Kate Leeming. Leeming was the first person to ride a bike in an unbroken line across Africa, the first person to ride a bike across the entire Namibian coastline, first woman to cross new Russia unsupported on a …

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From the Top: How Skratch Labs was built

So many of the businesses we’ve discovered in this show have been ‘happy accidents’, so to speak, and Skratch Labs embodies that very same organic-build-and-hustling spirit as many others. Skratch was founded by two longtime friends, Dr Allan Lim and Ian McGregor, who were both sidelined from the sport at the time. They both described …

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