Cycling Conversations with inGamba

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Welcome to cycling conversations with inGamba, where we celebrate the art and the culture of the sport - the rhythm, the ritual, and the refinement that surrounds it. inGamba means in the know, and as with our luxury guided European cycling tours, these conversations are meant to bring you behind the scenes in our world.  This is the space for when sport meets elevated living: where a former pro racer dissects the brutality of racing a Classic, followed by a cycling-CEO sharing their favourite spot for a post-ride Negroni. Along the way is our creative director and award-winning cycling photographer James Startt who joins cycling journalist Molly Hurford, to unpack the cultural currents shaping the sport and the destinations that make it so beautiful.  To learn more about our award-winning bike tours and to join us, visit ingamba.pro

  1. 15h ago

    Someday Is Not a Date: Katie Boling on Community, Solo Travel & the Scheduling Joy

    Katie Boling has spent nine years in her role at inGamba, but before that, she was already looking for adventure, from racing Ironman to spending two years of backpacking across 55 countries. When she first arrived at our home in Borgholecchi over a decade ago, she knew she’d found her place, and since then, she’s helped build the inGamba community into what it is today. Host Molly Hurford and creative director James Startt sit down with Katie for a conversation about what inGamba's community actually looks like from the inside, why solo travel is less solo than people expect, and why someday is not a date worth putting on your calendar. The conversation covers the surprising reality that a large portion of inGamba guests arrive alone, and why that often leads to the deepest connections of any trip. Katie talks about the art of matching people to the right group before they even pack their bags, why Women's Weeks have become so important to our calendar, and why the months most people overlook when it comes to cycling— January, February, March — are some of the best times to be riding in Europe. Find the full inGamba trip calendar and Katie's piece on choosing the right tour for you in the show notes at ingamba.pro.

    Someday Is Not a Date: Katie Boling on Community, Solo Travel & the Scheduling Joy

  2. Sep 28

    Postcards from Montreal: Road Worlds, Cycling Clubs, Smoked Salmon & the Best Record Store

    The UCI Road World Championships have come to North America for the first time in decades, and inGamba was on the ground in Montreal to bring you behind the scenes of the city. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt trade the race bubble for the neighborhood streets of Montreal to put together four vignettes of a city that we’ve come to love.  First up is Sébastien Arsenault, president of the race organizing committee, who has been dreaming of this event since 2013 and describes the decade of political headwinds, sponsor hunts, and public convincing it took to get here. Then Jake Greenberg of Chez Greenberg, Montreal's hyper-local, Jewish-inspired smoked salmon institution in Mile End. Then Paul's Boutique, a 25-year-old record shop on Plateau with a bright yellow facade and a back room that James calls a goldmine. And finally, Guillaume of Le Club, the pioneering cycling cafe that has become the unofficial Montreal home of the pro peloton, which now runs over 100 community events a year, roasts its own beans, and recently expanded into a full cycling boutique next door. inGamba's 2027 trip calendar is now live and booking fast. Find all upcoming trips at ingamba.pro/trips

    Postcards from Montreal: Road Worlds, Cycling Clubs, Smoked Salmon & the Best Record Store

  3. Sep 23

    Where Art and Cycling Meet with Contemporary Artist Zio Ziegler

    Contemporary artist Zio Ziegler makes the case better than almost anyone that a long bike ride and a long day in the studio can feel the same. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt sit down with Zio, whose work has shown in museums from Tokyo to Milan to Basel, for a wide-ranging conversation about creative obsession, the discipline of simplicity, and of course, a shared love of the bike. Zio speaks to how his career has been built on constantly outpacing his own aesthetic instincts, from graffiti and street art to the large-scale totemic figures and stripped-back tree paintings. He also gets into why he still struggles to call himself an artist in public, why social media optimizes against the kind of decade-long thinking serious painting requires, and what Jackson Pollock's drip paintings have to do with the mathematics of the human nervous system. The cycling connection runs deep: Zio loves to ride and has even joined us on an inGamba trip in the past.  Cover photo: Bryson Malone

    Where Art and Cycling Meet with Contemporary Artist Zio Ziegler

  4. Sep 1

    Inside the Peloton for 50 Years with Allan Peiper

    He guided Tadej Pogacar to his first Tour de France victory. He helped Mark Cavendish become one of the most prolific stage winners of a generation. He arrived in Belgium at seventeen with $300 from his mother and a bike, and figured out the rest. Allan Peiper may not be a household name outside the sport, but inside it, he is one of the most quietly consequential figures of the last five decades. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt sit down with the Australian-born directeur sportif, now a strategic consultant to Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe, for a conversation that ranges from sleeping on doorsteps at French amateur team ACBB in the late 1970s to the parking lot at Planche des Belles Filles in 2020, where he crouched behind a car and cried after Pogacar crossed the line. In between: twelve years of cancer treatment, a chemotherapy recovery that ran straight into the most important Tour de France of his career, and a front-row seat to what it actually takes to build a grand tour winner. The conversation also turns to Remco Evenepoel's second place at this year's Tour, the interdepartmental masterclass that got him there, and why emotional intelligence now matters as much as VO2 max when it comes to identifying and developing talent. In this episode: Leaving Australia at seventeen with $300, and racing the Track World Championships in the US on a borrowed bike—and still getting silverWhat he saw when a nineteen-year-old Pogacar losing his passport in Australia and stayed completely calmThe 2020 Tour: hiding Pogacar from the race lead, the bike change zone at kilometer 32.6, the junior cassette on Planche des Belles Filles, and why Jumbo-Visma didn't do their reconTwelve years managing prostate cancer alongside a career at the highest level of the sportWhat it took to get Remco Evenepoel to the Tour de France as a 2.0 version of himselfWhy VO2 max alone is not enough, and what he looks for instead in young talent

    Inside the Peloton for 50 Years with Allan Peiper

  5. Jul 29

    Cycling Legend Chris Froome on Retirement, What’s Next, and Why Mont Ventoux is a Favorite Memory

    What does it feel like to watch the Tour de France as a spectator after winning it four times? Chris Froome found out this past July, and it turns out it takes him right back to being sixteen years old in a boarding school common room in Johannesburg, watching some of the greats battle through the mountains and thinking: I want to get there one day. Now, he’s on a mission to help other young riders in Africa do just that with the Froome Foundation—and you can help his mission. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt sit down with the four-time Tour de France champion and seven-time Grand Tour winner just days after his first Tour de France as a spectator, hosting guests on early morning rides with Skoda. We chat about the three career moments that still stand out above everything else, what it was like to run in cycling shoes up Mont Ventoux with a broken bike and the yellow jersey in 2016 compared to  winning on Ventoux in 2013 so completely spent that he had to get oxygen at the finish line. Then the conversation turns to what comes next: Chris grew up in Kenya, and that connection to East Africa has never left him. The Froome Foundation is now taking shape, with the goal of giving young East African riders access to bikes, education, and a genuine pathway into professional cycling. The foundation's first fundraising experience, a small-group ride through the South of France roads Chris trained on throughout his career, is coming up in August—and spots are still available. To learn more about the Froome Foundation trip or to inquire about spots, visit: https://ingamba.pro/trip/chris-froome-foundation-private-experience/

    Cycling Legend Chris Froome on Retirement, What’s Next, and Why Mont Ventoux is a Favorite Memory

  6. Jul 17

    Deep France And The Giant Of Provence: The Soul of the Tour with Eros Poli and Ed Pickering

    The Tour de France is not just a bike race. It is a traveling circus, a moving theater through one of the most geographically diverse countries in the world, and this episode captures both ends of that spectrum: the quiet, often forgotten heart of rural France, and its most mythic mountain: Mont Ventoux. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt are joined first by Ed Pickering, editor-at-large on our recent issue of The Magazine and author of the Substack "Cycling, the Universe and Everything," for a conversation about La France Profonde, the deep rural interior that the Tour passes through every year between its famous mountain stages. Ed and James, between them covering more than 50 Tours on the ground, make the case that these overlooked flatlands and rolling farmlands are not filler but the true soul of the race: more cows than people, cassoulet in summer heat, and roads suspended in time. Then Eros Poli, former winner of the Mont Ventoux Tour stage, joins to talk about the mountain that changed his life. His 1994 solo stage win atop Mont Ventoux in blistering heat with no team car support and a can of warm Fanta as his only mid-climb rescue, remains one of the most improbable and beloved moments in Tour de France history. That win, documented in the film Grinta, is now being celebrated at film festivals around the world. Eros shares what the Ventoux demands of anyone who attempts it, and what the Tour de France Femmes riders can expect when they race to its summit for the first time this year. In this episode: What is La France Profonde? Ed and James define the "empty diagonal" that sits at the heart of every TourWhy bike racing needs wide open space, and why France has itThe best things to eat in rural France (cassoulet wins, narrowly)Eros on his 1994 Ventoux stage win: the heat, the solo attack, the warm Fanta, and the bow to the crowdHis advice for riders climbing Ventoux: "The grinta is inside you. You cannot get it from your watch."Craving France in real life? inGamba's 2027 France expansion adds the Burgundy region to our trip list, and our Provence trip runs regularly. Find everything at https://ingamba.pro/destinations/france/

    Deep France And The Giant Of Provence: The Soul of the Tour with Eros Poli and Ed Pickering

  7. Jul 2

    Winning in Style with Fausto Pinarello and Douglas Ryder

    The most Tour de France victories of any bike brand—and a Louis Vuitton collab that stopped the cycling world in its tracks. This week, host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt sit down with Fausto Pinarello of Pinarello, and Douglas Ryder, the team manager behind the WorldTour team Pinarello-Q36.5. These men have shaped what winning in style looks like in professional cycling. In this episode: The Pinarello origin story: from a bicycle shop in Treviso to the most decorated grand tour bike in historyThe recent Louis Vuitton x Pinarello collaboration and why fashion and cycling keep finding each otherQ36.5's heat management strategy for what could be a historically hot Tour de FranceTom Pidcock: GC contender, stage hunter, and what makes him an unusually mature leader—and sets him apart from other ridersWhat to expect from the team in their first Tour de France under the Pinarello-Q36.5 name Interested in joining an inGamba trip on some of the iconic Tour de France roads? Reach out at ingamba.pro/contact and we’ll help you plan your perfect trip!

    Winning in Style with Fausto Pinarello and Douglas Ryder

  8. Jun 22

    Cycling, Wine & the Art of Paying Attention: Aldo Sohm & Brian Nygaard

    What does it feel like to ride through a vineyard and actually understand what's in the glass waiting at the end? That's the thread running through this conversation—and two guests who live at the crossroads of cycling and wine are the perfect people to pull it. Host Molly Hurford and inGamba creative director James Startt sit down with Aldo Sohm, multi-time North America's Sommelier of the Year, wine director at Le Bernardin, and author of Wine Simple and Perfect Pairings, and Brian Nygaard, cycling journalist, former press officer and then team manager at Leopard-Trek, philosophy graduate, and winemaker behind his own California label, Oceanic.  The conversation covers why the bike is one of the best tools for understanding terroir (feeling the temperature drop as you climb from Lecchi toward Radda is worth more than any textbook), how running a World Tour cycling team and running a winery share more DNA than you'd expect, and why our Chianti Classico cycling trip keeps earning its way back onto both their tables.  In this episode: Why cycling and wine culture keep finding each other — generosity, slowness, attentionRiding as a way to understand microclimate and terroir firsthandBrian on being a press officer and then team manager at Leopard-Trek, managing a vineyard through Covid and California wildfires, and launching OceanicAldo on reading the room: why AI will never replace a good sommelierChampagne with steak? Aldo makes the caseEmerging wine regions worth paying attention to right nowRapid-fire pairings for every cycling moment Find Aldo at @AldoSohm on Instagram and at the Aldo Sohm Wine Bar in New York. Find Brian and his wines at @OceanicWine on Instagram. Interested in pairing your inGamba trip with a specific wine region or joining Aldo himself on a trip next April? Reach out at ingamba.pro/contact

    Cycling, Wine & the Art of Paying Attention: Aldo Sohm & Brian Nygaard
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Welcome to cycling conversations with inGamba, where we celebrate the art and the culture of the sport - the rhythm, the ritual, and the refinement that surrounds it. inGamba means in the know, and as with our luxury guided European cycling tours, these conversations are meant to bring you behind the scenes in our world.  This is the space for when sport meets elevated living: where a former pro racer dissects the brutality of racing a Classic, followed by a cycling-CEO sharing their favourite spot for a post-ride Negroni. Along the way is our creative director and award-winning cycling photographer James Startt who joins cycling journalist Molly Hurford, to unpack the cultural currents shaping the sport and the destinations that make it so beautiful.  To learn more about our award-winning bike tours and to join us, visit ingamba.pro

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