The Cyclist Pod - Show 42 - New Year's Revolutions 2019

Show 42 - New Year's Revolutions 2019

01/29/19 • 69 min

Raya and Stephen throw open the doors to 2019 and dive into theirs, and cycling's, plans for the year.

The events, the sportives, the training, the holidays, the imminent kit... it's all covered. Well, not all, but it's sauntered through, for sure.

This inlcudes details of the Pod's first ever trip overseas (well, Raya and Stephen cycling together overseas, specifically) and how you can get involved! (You can't. But if you listen closely enough there's enough details for you to stalk us. But please don't).

And a lighthearted chat about Park Run starts to snowball into a set of promises Stephen makes that will shape his 2019. Sadist BFF Raya is going to ruin him. Sorry, coach him. Still. Same thing.

Oh! And it's kit kit kit today! Proper shoes, proper pedals... and gloves. Oh the gloves. Listen out to one of our most favourite kickstarters of all time.

Also, a fairly innocuos Illuminati leaves our duo discussing superstition in cycling and making lots of unimpressed noises.

Finally, those noises turn to horse noises when some innovative laws to stop close passing by traffic are discussed alongside some fairly extreme, yet similar, ideas. Lights? Sticks? Defecating mid-ride? Check.

#BeMoreHorse. It'll make sense, we promise.

The Cyclist Pod (c) Stephen Grant and Raya Hubbell

www.cyclistpod.com

Music 'Zazie' c/o Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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Raya and Stephen throw open the doors to 2019 and dive into theirs, and cycling's, plans for the year.

The events, the sportives, the training, the holidays, the imminent kit... it's all covered. Well, not all, but it's sauntered through, for sure.

And a lighthearted chat about Park Run starts to snowball into a set of promises Stephen makes that will shape his 2019. Sadist BFF Raya is going to ruin him. Sorry, coach him. Still. Same thing.

Oh! And it's kit kit kit today! Proper shoes, proper pedals... and gloves. Oh the gloves. Listen out to one of our most favourite kickstarters of all time.

Also, a fairly innocuos Illuminati leaves our duo discussing superstition in cycling and making lots of unimpressed noises.

#BeMoreHorse. It'll make sense, we promise.

The Cyclist Pod (c) Stephen Grant and Raya Hubbell

www.cyclistpod.com

Music 'Zazie' c/o Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3

Previous Episode

Show 41 - The Christmas Party, live from a pub

Raya and Stephen are joined by car journalist and keen cyclist Ben Oliver as they decamp to the pub for their Christmas party.

To keep things moving along, they start with two drinks in them (aka their usual limit), and things get ... messy, rude, offensive, and most of all, hilarious.

Discussed, in borderline slander terms, are the Rapha sale, overseas cycling, alcohol and cycling, cycling and sex, more cycling, and we exchange Cycling related Christmas presents. To cap it off, they narrate Raya's Strava end of year video live on the pod.

But listen out for their new listener challenge, which will be hidden in their Stravas in 2019. It's... incriminating, childish, and will come back to haunt them.

They're drunk, it's rude, you've been warned.

Merry Christmas!

The Cyclist Pod (c) Stephen Grant and Raya Hubbell

www.cyclistpod.com

Music 'Zazie' c/o Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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Next Episode

Show 43 - Naming Conventions and MTB to Track

Raya and Stephen are back in a celebration of the mankind's greatest invention. No it really is, did you not know that? Steve Jobs worked it out. He said that 'computers are the bicycles of the mind', which makes bicycles the computers of the body. Erm. Actually we'll get back to you on that.

Anyway, it's another jam packed podcast. Yes, we're not that frequent right now (we are BUSY!) but we still pack them in when we do them. So we cover two main subjects in just the one podcast, with...

Naming conventions. Does your bike have a name. SHOULD your bike have a name? And where does it come from. And is it an it, or a girl or a boy? And has somebody cleverer than us already answered that? Almost definitely. Let's not forget, bikes are our babies. So Raya won't hard a nasty word said about them, protective bike mum that she is.

And then! Another major topic. Mountain biking - when you do it competitively, where do you go next? Paul Davies - who has done exactly that - has the answer(s). He's our main interview.

And added to all that, is details of our first ever Cyclist Pod ride out! "BEAT THE TRAIN" will be on Sunday June 16th and start in East Anglia (ish) and end in Sussex (ish). It'll involve a train. Or more likely than that, a bus replacement service. Listen for details.

Anyway, Raya and Stephen hope you enjoy it. Throw your hands up in the air!!! Or maybe don't. Because the Velominati has something to say about that. In fact, we've got something to say about the Velominati - including our new challenge to break as many rules as possible.

We've got our naughty helmets on, and this show is all the better for it.

The Cyclist Pod (c) Stephen Grant and Raya Hubbell

www.cyclistpod.com

Music 'Zazie' c/o Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3