Canadian Cycling Magazine Podcast
Kanal-Details
Canadian Cycling Magazine Podcast
Cycling stories from across Canada and around the world. We talk to pros who ride on the road and the trails. We also talk about gear, riding and training. It's bikes, bikes and more bikes, eh.
Neueste Episoden
131 Episoden
Maghalie Rochette blasts into the cyclocross season with new book and tour
https://www.maghalierochette.com/Maghalie Rochette is coming into the cyclocross season hot. She’s released a new book. Currently, her CX Fever Tour—w...
A deep dive into Trek’s new, versatile Fuel platform
Trek has just launched a versatile trail platform in its new Fuel. Riders here at CCM have been fans of the previous Fuel EX and the Slash enduro bike...
Rob Britton’s Unbound Gravel XL win and the types of rides he wants to do next
A run-in with a badger, a gentlemanly pee break, a spectacular sunset and some amazing competition—those were just a few of the features of Rob Britto...
Digging into the debates that shaped Shimano’s wireless XTR groupset
Shimano has released the latest version of its long-running, iconic XTR group, the brand’s flagship mountain bike set. XTR Di2 M9200 finally brings Sh...
How rising star Mara Roldan went from a nomadic lifestyle to a home on a WorldTeam
You’ve seen Mara Roldan in the mix at some of the biggest races this year. She was in the breakaway at her first Amstel Gold Race and managed to finis...
Two riders go DIY to race gravel (and more) at the highest level
Recently, Andrew L’Esperance and Alexis Cartier kicked off their North American race season. At the Sea Otter Classic gravel race, L’Esperance finishe...
How did so many Canadians end up on a French ProTeam?
Winspace Orange Seal is a Women’s Pro Team based in France. Yet, it has a rider from Alma, Que., one from Vancouver, one from Guelph, Ont., and a ride...
World championship medallist Emilly Johnston leaps to the next level with her dream team
Two days before Emilly Johnston won the Argentario instalment of the Internazionali d'Italia Series, she chatted about all the new changes that have o...
From MTBer to pro roadie: How Toronto’s Noah Ramsay won Zwift Academy
Sprinting against Jasper Philipsen, navigating a slippery go-kart track, powering up a climb in Spain trying to put out more watts than three other fi...
Track cycling star Mathias Guillemette sets his own route on the road
As a kid, Mathias Guillemette would get stuffed into the back seat of his parents car, wedged between a cooler and luggage, bikes all around, his olde...
Tales of mud, crashes and celebrations at the Canadian cyclocross championships
Recently, the country’s top cyclocross riders took on a slick, muddy course in Lévis, Que., site of the 2024 national cyclocross championships. Just p...
Trash talk and disses from the cyclocross sidelines
A mother tells her son that he sucks. A pro, on his way to a race win, lobs a retort revealing local knowledge. A masters rider can’t stop thinking ab...
Woods, Gee, Leonard and more—Interviews from the biggest road cycling events in Canada
How long will Michael Woods continue to race? What was it like for Michael Leonard in the breakaway in Montreal? Is Derek Gee giving up birding?
...
Becoming legendary: The evolving influence of Micayla Gatto in mountain biking
This past August, the day after Micayla Gatto’s 36th birthday, the freerider, filmmaker and artist was at a boatyard in Squamish. She was there to fix...
AI and training insights from a Toronto cyclist working to make riders stronger
Years ago, Armando Mastracci got a recumbent bike that could provide him with heart rate, cadence and power data. As Mastracci trained on the bike ind...
The cloak-and-dagger story of how mountain biking became an Olympic sport
In March 1993, four men met in secret on a beach in Cuba. The topic of discussion was mountain biking. Could they take the still-young cycling discipl...
Podcast: How a Toronto rider became a U.S. national champion
This past spring, Ashlin Barry won two junior national championship titles: one in the time trial and one in road race. The Toronto rider snagged the...
Riding in the heat: What you need to know
Recently, Environment and Climate Change Canada delivered its summer seasonal forecast. It looks like things will be hot, or at least most of the coun...
How a pair of mountain biking siblings became front-runners for the Olympics in one weekend
At the recent cross country World Cup in Nové Město, Isabella Holmgren had her one shot to qualify for the Olympics. Her brother Gunnar also had to do...
New Shimano GRX Di2: A deep drive into the electronic, 12-speed gravel groupset
Bike component maker Shimano has launched its new GRX Di2 groupset, which features 12-speed cassettes and semi-wireless shifting. On this episode of t...
Behind the scenes at the Giro d’Italia
This episode was just getting polished up as both Michael Woods and Riley Pickrell were involved in crashes in Stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia. Before th...
Stephen Roche discusses Tadej Pogačar's chances of winning the Giro, Tour and worlds
Stephen Roche has accomplished what only one other rider has done: won the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and the road world championships in one year....
Chaos on the European roads and splinters on the track: Olympic hopeful Sarah Van Dam faces them all
With the final Nations Cup of the season nearing, Sarah Van Dam was in Milton, Ont., with the Canadian squad getting ready for the event. Since the Ol...
Mel Webb’s ultra-endurance cycling adventures
Mel Webb, who has taken on such challenges as the Atlas Mountain Race and the Alberta Rockies 700, can weave the zany and the serious tougher almost e...
Road cycling myth-busting with Kevin Field
Kevin Field is back on the pod. Longtime listeners will remember Field as Mr. Moneyball of Canadian Cycling. For years he’s been analyzing data to hel...
Year-end cycling inspiration with Sami Sauri
Dirty Reiver, Migration Gravel Race, bikepacking in the mountains of Turkey and Across Andes—these are some of the big rides that Sami Sauri took on t...
Top Canadian cycling stories of 2023
World championship wins in two disciplines, a repeat rainbow jersey on the track, World Cup wins in downhill and cross country, a Tour de France stage...
Six stars of Canadian cyclocross
Cyclocross nationals is just a few days away. The competition is returning to Victoria as are many of the athletes who competed at last year’s event....
A team of six started a winter bikepacking trip, only three finished
In March 2023, Nick Khattar and five others embarked on a 1,340-km bikepacking trip from Terrace, B.C., to Haines, Alaska. The riders pedalled hardtai...
Go behind the scenes at the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal
Derek Gee reveals a heartwarming story about how he came under the spell of the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal. Isabella and Ava Holmg...
A deep dive into Michael Woods’s Tour de France stage win
He did it. But man, was it close. Michael Woods won a stage at the Tour de France this past July in a dramatic fashion on the Puy de Dôme. In this ext...
Just how far can gravel champ Devon Clarke go?
When Devon Clarke lined up for the national gravel championship race this past April, most riders and fans didn’t really know how fast she was. Sure,...
The uphill battles of gravity rider Kasper Woolley
Enduro rider Kasper Woolley has had a terrible run of luck in the past year. In August 2022, a rider going the wrong way on a pump track smashed into...
The Ottawa mechanic who’s worked at 21 Tours de France
Motorola, U.S. Postal and Garmin-Sharp are some of the teams that Geoff Brown has worked on, preparing and fixing bikes for the biggest road races, in...
How to plot a 14,000-km bikepacking route from coast to coast
Since 2018, Matt Kadey has been designing bikepacking routes. Some of his most popular tracks include the BT 700, the Grand Nith Ramble and No Winter...
Derek Gee, the Giro d’Italia and the seconds that count
How did Derek Gee do it? How did he get into breakaway after breakaway at the recent Giro d’Italia? And what’s next for the Ottawa rider who impressed...
Olivia Baril has Grand Tour victories in her sights
At stage races this season, Olivia Baril has been in the mix. Recently, the rider from Rouyn-Noranda, Que., sprinted against Demi Vollering, Annemiek...
Building a cyclist’s mental toolkit with Mark Beaumont
Mark Beaumont has the world record for circumnavigating the world by bike. He also documents his big rides—down a massive volcano or from Cairo to Cap...
There’s more going on in a 4:16 team pursuit than you know
From within the infield at the recent Track Nations Cup in Milton, Ont., athletes snagged medals, joked, made vows out of frustration and looked ahead...
The wisdom of Geoff Kabush
On the eve of Geoff Kabush’s birthday, the mountain biker, gravel racer and underbiker covers a range of topics: the evolution of bike tech, the right...