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Spin Cycle
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Episodes
Spin CyclePlaceholders: Are we the hunters or the hunted?
Dane Cash, Jonny Long, and Kit Nicholson join Caley Fretz on this week's Placeholders to talk about where the Ineos Grenadiers find themselves in 2024, the…
Spin CycleWheel Talk: Another stop Down Under
Matilda Raynolds, or Tils as she’s known to the members of the Wheel Talk Podcast Discord group (available to members of Escape Collective), joins Gracie and…
Spin CycleMen's Tour Down Under stage 6: Wrapping up an intriguing TDU
Rupert Guinness, Ronan Mc Laughlin and Matt de Neef breakdown a fascinating final stage of the men's Tour Down Under and discuss the race's biggest winners and…
Spin CycleMen's Tour Down Under stage 5: Back to Willunga!
Join Rupert Guinness, Ronan Mc Laughlin and Matt de Neef as they dissect stages 4 and 5 of the men's Tour Down Under. The first, another sprint stage where…
Spin CycleA Performance Process Geek Warning from the TDU pits
The 2024 WorldTour season is under way at the Tour Down Under and Escape Collective is on the ground all week bringing you the latest news, tech, and Escape…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Why so many teams are on last year’s bikes
Dave and Ronan are in thick of the Tour Down Under and have a whole lot of new (and old!) race tech to discuss. The industry has woken up from the holiday…
Spin CycleMen’s Tour Down Under stage 3: Sprint mastery and a Mexican phenom
Rupert Guinness and Ronan Mc Laughlin join Matt de Neef to dissect stages 2 and 3 of the men’s Tour Down Under. Daring late attacks, super sprint lead-outs, a…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: It's always silly season in cycling
Jonny Long, Abby Mickey, and Dane Cash join Caley Fretz on this week's episode of the Placeholders to discuss the latest in the apparently unending stream of…
Spin CycleMen's Tour Down Under Stage 1: Sprinting out of the gate
Rupert Guinness and Ronan Mc Laughlin join Matt de Neef to kick off the first men's race of the season. The crew talks takeaways from the pre-race chatter, the…
Spin CycleWomen's Tour Down Under Stage 3: Emotions were high atop Willunga
Dave Rome is back on hosting duties with Matt de Neef and Gracie Elvin to chat about stages 2 and 3 of the women's Tour Down Under. Both days delivered…
Spin CyclePerformance Process: Coaching in the World Tour with Jacob Tipper
Performance Process returns for 2024 with the latest in our series delving into how and why World Tour racing is getting so much faster. Coach Jacob Tipper is…
Spin CycleWomen's Tour Down Under Stage 1: Gorge road disrupts expectations
Dave Rome takes Abby's place leading the podcast on the ground in Adelaide to talk about the first stage of the women's Tour Down Under. Our favourite tech…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Function-over-form, our favorite gravel shoes, and we’re off to TDU!
Dave and James have lots of spy photos to discuss this week! Factor’s got a revamp of its Ostro VAM lightweight road bike about to break cover, and Specialized…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: Nobody can leave Plugge Corner
Jonny Long, Kit Nicholson, and Dane Cash join Caley Fretz to take the inside line into Plugge corner and continue the ongoing conversation about Mathieu van…
Spin CycleWheel Talk: Dream teams and Aussie pressure
Abby, Gracie, and Loren are back to talk about Tour Down Under, what Willunga means for the race, our dream teams, and more. Have questions for us? Let us know…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Our favorite handlebar tapes, and what we look for in them
Geek Warning is back for the new year! In this week’s episode, Dave and James chat about some mysterious Boa dial failures and how some pros are using gravel…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: MVDP is in his villain arc (does he recycle?)
This week on the show: Red Bull's buy-in at Bora-Hansgrohe, Mathieu van der Poel's spit, Ronan's beard, and our New Year's resolutions for professional…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: No angled levers for you!
Following a break for our inaugural Awards episode, Dave and Ronan return with an episode of a familiar format. There’s plenty on the minds of the geeks, plus…
Spin CycleGeek Warning Bonus Ask a Wrench ep: Preparing for winter
The Geeks are back for another round of Ask a Wrench. In this member’s bonus episode, Zach (of Boulder Gruppetto), James, and Dave answer a bunch of technical…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: A Christmas quiz special
Jonny Long hosts the final Placeholders episode of the year, a quiz showdown with Iain Treloar, Kit Nicholson, and Ronan Mc Laughlin. Who will emerge as the…
Spin CycleWheel Talk: Wait, do we have high hopes for the 2024 Giro?
For our final episode of the year, Gracie, Loren and I chat the recent Giro d’Italia Women route announcement, development pathways from Australia for women…
Spin CyclePerformance Process: How to do 'high-carb' with Tim Podlogar
This week's Performance Process is the latest in our series delving into how and why World Tour racing is getting so much faster. The first of our deep dive…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: It’s time for our annual awards!
We’re skipping the usual news this week because it’s once again time for our annual tech awards! 2023 was certainly a memorable year for a multitude of…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: December drama, Uijtdebroeks uncertainty
On this week's Placeholders, Abby Mickey, Jonny Long, Kit Nicholson, and Iain Treloar cover the uncertainty surrounding where up-and-comer Cian Uijtdebroeks…
Spin CycleWheel Talk: Finding a new home at Movistar with Floortje Mackaij
On this week's Members Only Escape Collective Wheel Talk Podcast (phew), Abby chats with Floorje Mackaij about moving from DSM to Movistar after 10 years with…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Has the bike industry reached peak gravel?
Hoo boy, it’s been a big week in tech, and our resident geeks had a lot to talk about. It was just a matter of time before Cervelo jumped into the e-bike…
Spin CycleGeek Warning Bonus: How to build out your home workshop
It's time to treat our members to another bonus episode of the Geek Warning podcast. This week, Brad Copeland – former World Cup pro mechanic and now service…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: A sad Campag-no-show
Ronan Mc Laughlin, Kit Nicholson, Dane Cash, and Joe Lindsey all join Caley Fretz on this week's Placeholders to talk Campagnolo, the media landscape, swords…
Spin CycleWheel Talk: Getting EF Education-Cannondale off the ground
With 2024 just around the corner Abby chatted with EF Education-Cannondale’s new General Manager Esra Tromp about the process of building a team from scratch…
Spin CyclePerformance Process: The whys and hows behind the increase in World Tour racing speeds
This week's Performance Process is the first in a series delving into how and why World Tour racing is getting so fast. Year after year we see average records…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Our favorite road helmets, mega-pricey chain lubes, and cheap Pinarellos
Good chain lubes can extend the life of your drivetrain, and bad ones can shorten them – but do you know how much that might actually cost you? A new online…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: Brown shorts and Rigo's empire
On this week's Placeholders, Dane Cash, Kit Nicholson, and Abby Mickey join Caley Fretz to bid farewell to AG2R's iconic brown shorts, discuss some…
Spin CyclePerformance Process: Frank Overton on the Optimize app, sleep data, and wearables
Surprise. We are interrupting our usual fortnightly episodes of Performance Process to bring you a bonus episode with Frank Overton of FasCat coaching. When we…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Plummeting bike prices and our favourite dropper posts
This week's regular (and free!) episode of Geek Warning has James Huang, Zach Edwards (of the Boulder Grupetto), and Dave Rome back on the mics. With only a…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: Super blood worms
Jonny Long, Kit Nicholson, and Ronan Mc Laughlin join Caley Fretz on this week's Placeholders to talk about the changes behind the scenes at the Ineos…
Spin CycleGeek Warning Bonus Ask a Wrench ep: Wax, grease, and degreasing
It's time for another bonus episode of The Geek Warning podcast, exclusive to our members. This week, Brad Copeland – former world cup pro mechanic and now…
Spin CyclePerformance Process: Finding a way with Mehdi Kordi
In this week's Performance Process, we talk to Mehdi Kordi, PhD and Head Coach (Track Sprint) at the Dutch National Cycling Federation. Kordi recently coached…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Shedding mud and our favourite eyewear
A quieter week in the world of tech news means Dave and Ronan have more time in this week's episode of Geek Warning to ramble about what's on their minds…
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Emergency episode: The demise of GCN+ and the GCN app
News dropped on Wednesday that GCN+ and the GCN app will be shuttered in December. We have thoughts. We have emotions. Caley Fretz, Joe Lindsey, and Cosmo…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: Cycling is on the beers
This week on the show: Jonny’s adventures in Asia, Geraint Thomas getting on the beers, and some doping news out of Spain. Unfortunately, the GCN+ news broke…
Spin CycleGeek Warning Bonus: Ask a Wrench
The Geeks answer your questions. The Geek Warning podcast is growing! Today, we’ve launched our first bonus episode exclusively for Escape Collective members…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: A car collaboration we like
What do Aston Martin, Lizard Skins, Cinelli, Chris Froome, and bleed kits all have in common? We’re not entirely sure, but they’re all discussed in this week’s…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: Should Pogačar change his approach next season?
Dane Cash and Cosmo Catalano join Caley Fretz on this week's Placeholders to discuss Tadej Pogačar's recent comments about his calendar and how he plans to…
Spin CyclePerformance Process: Aero testing 101
Aerodynamics have taken over cycling in the past decade or two. From frames to wheels to clothing, riders can now aero-optimise every aspect of their ride. We…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Our favourite road pedals and Lotus’ new road bike
An unexpected stop-ride notice from SRAM, a new bike from Lotus, and thoughts on tyre widths and pedal choice gave our tech team plenty to discuss in this…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: GC Wout won't
The Placeholders crew talks Wout van Aert's GC chances, league talks, Saudi money, Quintana's return, and gravel at the Tour de France.
Spin CycleWheel Talk: End of Year Awards
Abby, Loren, Matt, and Gracie wrap up the season by handing out some awards to the best team, best rider, best race finish, and more.
Spin CycleGeek Warning: Tire pressures are trending lower, but road racing frames are getting … stiffer?
Merida and Polygon have just announced some interesting new gravel bikes, and Campagnolo's new Hyperon road wheels are a far better value than the flagship…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: Sepp Kuss gets a parade and the Tour route is unveiled
On this week's Placeholders, Dane Cash and Kit Nicholson join Caley Fretz to discuss Sepp Kuss's victory parade in Durango, the Tour route unveiling, gravel…
Spin CycleWheel Talk: The ups and downs of being a woman in cycling journalism
This week is a very special episode. Abby sat down with friend of the podcast Rebecca Charlton to chat about cycling through pregnancy, missing the first Tour…
Spin CyclePretty Serious Bike Racing: Closing the book on the 2023 season
Ruth Winder joins Dane Cash and Cosmo Catalano to wrap up the 2023 road racing campaign. The crew talks Guangxi and Chongming Island, and ponders some of the…
Spin CyclePerformance Process: From sh*t to superpower with Jumbo's performance director
To listen to the full episode, sign up at Escapecollective.com/join. Given the team's incredible success in 2023, one could be forgiven for assuming…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: The road drivetrain market is starting to get very crowded
Who said road riding was dead? Clearly a lot of industry folks haven’t gotten the message. Lauf just introduced its first road bike, Classified and TRP are…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: Cycling needs Pippo Pozzato’s dreams
This week's episode dives into Pippo Pozzato's dreams to rebuild Italian cycling, taking cues from Flanders Classics. Plus Ronan, Kit, and Caley discuss an…
Spin CycleWheel Talk: The future of women’s cycling is bright!
This week Abby, Matt and Loren talk about some exciting up-and-coming riders, as well as the dilemma of Lidl-Trek’s five new 18-year-olds, the Tour of…
Spin CycleGeek Warning: We’re listening, too
Welcome back to Geek Warning, the show that proves the world of cycling tech never stops. This week we published our vision for covering tech news. In…
Spin CyclePlaceholders: The merger that wasn’t
Iain Treloar and Jonny Long join Caley Fretz to talk about the Jumbo-Visma merger that ultimately did not happen, the Ineos Grenadiers, Gravel Worlds, and…
Spin CycleWheel Talk: The problem with Jumbo-Visma
This episode was supposed to be about team captains but got slightly derailed by two topics none of us thought we would have to talk about in 2023: no live…
Spin CyclePretty Serious Bike Racing: He won another one?
Cosmo Catalano and Dane Cash discuss Tadej Pogačar's second Monument of the season and third straight victory at Il Lombardia, as well as talking gravel…
Spin CyclePerformance Process: Everyone fails at 40 minutes
Welcome to a taste of the first episode of Performance Process, a podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. To listen to the full episode, you'll need…