The Drum Up Scottish cycling podcast The Drum Up

Andy Rafferty and I are at the European Championship Men's Road Race in Glasgow, lightly recap some of the other European championship events including TTs, track, and MTB, while watching the road race unfold and sampling the atmosphere around the course.

In this show I cover closed road circuits in Scotland, including my own experiences at the much-loved Ingliston near Edinburgh. There is news about the Fife Cycle Park, which is starting to be built, and an interview with Matt Ball of the Linlithgow Development Trust about the West Lothian Cycle Circuit, which is entering its final phase of funding.

In this show I interview Kevin Johnston of the Clydesdale Colts cycling club and who is also involved in the the Scottish trials club. We talk about how young riders can use trials bikes to get on bike skills quickly that can be easily transferred to mountain bikes.

In Motherwell they were looking to raise awareness of what he calls the best kept secret in cycling - how the trails bike can be used, and even with a simple grass area and cones course.

Any Scottish cycling Go-ride club can get involved and Kevin is keen to share the knowledge.

http://www.clydesdalecolts.com/

After that, keep listening I give a few thoughts about big event sponsorship based on my talking to a few major sponsors at the Motherwell tour series.

I interview Katie Archibald, who should need no introduction - multiple European champion on the track, a gold medallist in the Team Pursuit at the Rio olympics and recently crowned World Champion in the omnium.