Domestique Cycling Podcast

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  1. 4d ago

    How Michael Matthews went from two broken arms to Worlds Silver - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

    Michael Matthews joins Aidan Burgess on the Domestique Hotseat after taking silver at the World Championships in Montréal, 13 seconds behind Brandon McNulty. It is the end of a year that started with a horror training crash in March, when Matthews broke bones in both arms and his face. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com Matthews explains how he raced Worlds phase by phase, what it was like in a chase group where the USA had three riders, and why he replied to a critic who said he did not attack enough. He also talks about the moment in the helicopter after his crash when he thought his career was over, and the role his wife played in getting him back on the bike. There is plenty more. Matthews talks about the rider safety protest before Il Lombardia and how Remco Evenepoel ended up giving the speech. He tells the story of how a school sports test sent him from motocross to cycling, and how his under-23 world title in Geelong was celebrated. He also explains why every Lego set in his garage is linked to a training camp. Finally, he looks ahead: another try at Milan-San Remo, his special link to the Amstel Gold Race, and how his friend Tadej Pogačar is doing after his crash.

    How Michael Matthews went from two broken arms to Worlds Silver - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  2. 6d ago

    Paul Seixas makes history at Il Lombardia, what is next? - Domestique Cycling Podcast

    Paul Seixas won Il Lombardia at 20 years and 16 days old, the youngest winner in the race’s history. He set his own pace on the Civiglio with 19 kilometres to go, and only Tom Pidcock and Giulio Ciccone could hold his wheel, for less than a kilometre. He won in Como by 48 seconds over Enric Mas, with Ciccone third in his last race for Lidl-Trek. Remco Evenepoel won the sprint for fourth. Isaac del Toro lost almost five minutes with a bad knee. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com 👉  Get 20% off your first Tasting Box with the code DOMESTIQUE20 at https://mnstry.com 👉 Get 87% off your first 27 months for a VPN at https://www.domestiquecycling.com/surfshark We start with our own failed pick, and why Seixas skipping the European Championships looks so smart now. We give Mas the credit the previews did not, and talk about why riding your own pace is the only way to survive these riders. Then we ask whether UAE should have raced Del Toro at Gran Piemonte with a knee problem, and how Evenepoel still finished fourth after being dropped early on the Civiglio. Before the start, the whole peloton stood still in Bergamo for five minutes to protest about safety, and Evenepoel spoke to the crowd for the riders. We talk about why the riders organised it themselves, the van at the Coppa Bernocchi, the police motorbike at Tre Valli Varesine, and why the UCI’s new safety document is not enough. Then the bigger picture: should Seixas ride the spring Classics, did you see him at the Roc d’Azur the day after Lombardia, and can he beat Pogačar next year? We also cover Per Strand Hagenes winning Paris-Tours, Ciccone joining Pidcock at Pinarello-Q36.5, and what is left of the season.

    Paul Seixas makes history at Il Lombardia, what is next? - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  3. Oct 9

    Adam Hansen On Why Cycling Safety Keeps Stalling - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

    CPA president Adam Hansen joins Aidan Burgess on the Domestique Hotseat after a brutal end to the season for rider safety. Finlay Tarling died at the Volta a Portugal, a police motorbike rode into riders at Tre Valli Varesine, and the riders fought the Vuelta over its final stage in Granada. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com Hansen explains how the riders’ union works in practice. He covers how complaints in the peloton reach race organisers, what SafeR can and cannot force organisers to do, and why the Vuelta’s GC times were frozen only for the last lap. He also covers why new barrier standards arrive for WorldTour races in 2027, and what is still holding up GPS tracking for every rider. He also reveals something many fans will not know. When a rider is hurt at a race, the team carries the responsibility, not the race organiser. Hansen talks about what that means for accountability, and why he wants stronger helmet standards and airbags in the peloton. In the second half, Hansen defends the CPA’s support for the UCI in its court fight with SRAM over gear ratios. He argues that the case is now about whether the UCI can regulate equipment at all, and what could happen if it can’t. He also gives the CPA’s position on hookless rims and bigger wheels. There is also time for the lighter side: why the CPA president now flies his own plane to races, and the new shoe design he wants a pro to race next year.

    Adam Hansen On Why Cycling Safety Keeps Stalling - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  4. Oct 6

    Lombardia Without Pogacar: Can Evenepoel Finally Win It? - Domestique Cycling Podcast

    Il Lombardia is on Saturday, and for the first time since 2020 Tadej Pogacar will not win it. Remco Evenepoel goes to Como as the new European champion. In Slovenia he crashed on a descent, attacked again and beat Giulio Ciccone in a photo finish. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com 👉  Get 20% off your first Tasting Box with the code DOMESTIQUE20 at https://mnstry.com 👉 Get 87% off your first 27 months for a VPN at https://www.domestiquecycling.com/surfshark We look back at the Euros. Evenepoel crashed and got back on quickly. Ciccone stopped taking turns while Christian Scaroni chased alone in third. Belgium rode for one leader only, with Ramses Debruyne and Maxim Van Gils doing the work. Demi Vollering won the women's race solo in her first race as world champion. We also cover the Giro dell'Emilia, where Davide Piganzoli won, Tom Pidcock was second again, and Brandon McNulty attacked in the rainbow jersey. Then we turn to Lombardia: 239 kilometres from Bergamo to Como over the Madonna del Ghisallo. The finale is the same as in 2022, over San Fermo della Battaglia and Civiglio, with a fast descent to the line. Does that suit Evenepoel, Pidcock or Paul Seixas best? How does UAE split leadership if Isaac del Toro starts next to McNulty? Can Enric Mas win a classic? We also discuss Bram's stat that Evenepoel and Primož Roglič never shared a race day as Red Bull teammates. We finish with our podium picks and say goodbye to Bauke Mollema and Pello Bilbao, who both retire at the end of the season.

    Lombardia Without Pogacar: Can Evenepoel Finally Win It? - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  5. Sep 30

    Thor Hushovd slams safety in cycling "We have to take action" - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

    Thor Hushovd, former world champion and now general manager of Uno-X Mobility, joins Aidan Burgess on the Domestique Hotseat. This is the week the UCI confirmed new standards for finish barriers and a push for GPS tracking. Thor says the talking has to stop and the action has to start. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com He talks about what it is like to run a team of 50 riders and fear the worst phone call. He says every 10 metres of road holds a danger, and that he has had calls from parents asking if their sons are safe. He says the UCI, race organisers, teams and riders all have to take their share of the responsibility. Thor also looks back at the rainbow jersey he won in Australia in 2010. He talks about how aero suits, narrow handlebars and wind tunnels changed racing, and whether cycling needs shorter formats, like a criterium world championship, to reach a younger audience. Then it's Uno-X Mobility: why the men's team is only Norwegian and Danish, why the women's team is more international for now, and how the team keeps its trust-based culture as it grows. He also confirms that more signings are coming, including what he calls big names.

    Thor Hushovd slams safety in cycling "We have to take action" - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  6. Sep 28

    Everything You Missed at the World Championships - Domestique Cycling Podcast

    Brandon McNulty won the 2026 World Championships road race in Montréal. He attacked alone with 33 kilometres to go, held on by 13 seconds, and became the first American to win the elite men's title since 1993. Michael Matthews took silver the day after his 36th birthday. Mathieu van der Poel attacked from a long way out and still took bronze. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com 👉  Get 20% off your first Tasting Box with the code DOMESTIQUE20 at https://mnstry.com 👉 Get 87% off your first 27 months for a VPN at https://www.domestiquecycling.com/surfshark We go through the whole race. There was the 16 rider break, and France setting a brutal pace with Bruno Armirail on the front for four laps. Van der Poel took Oscar Onley, Quinn Simmons and Primož Roglič with him in a move that stayed out for almost 70 kilometres, and Remco Evenepoel kept fighting his way back after being dropped. Then McNulty went clear. Isaac del Toro, his UAE teammate, would not chase, and Matteo Jorgenson followed every counterattack. Tom Pidcock attacked again and again, and we ask whether those attacks helped the chase or killed it. We also talk about Paul Seixas cramping on the last lap at 20 years old, and the pressure on him in France. Should trade teams have this much influence at the Worlds? We also look at Matthews' silver after breaking both arms this spring, and Sallanches 2027 with 5,700 metres of climbing. In the women's race, Demi Vollering finally won the rainbow jersey. She was caught, attacked again on the last lap and beat Kasia Niewiadoma in the sprint, which completes the Triple Crown of Giro, Tour and Worlds. We also cover the UCI's fines for Eritrea's kit and Vollering's yellow card, then preview the European Championships in Slovenia.

    Everything You Missed at the World Championships - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  7. Sep 26

    Alice Towers' Crash That Ended Her Worlds - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

    Alice Towers should have been lining up for Great Britain at the World Championships in Montréal this week. Instead, a crash in a wet race in France left her unconscious, in hospital and with a concussion. She has no memory of it. Two weeks later she sits down with Aidan Burgess to explain what the injury has done to her. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com She is open about the symptoms. There was a pounding headache that felt like her heart was beating inside her head, and her fuse became so short that small things upset her. On her first ride outside she stopped to check her wheel, then her headset, before she realised the problem was her balance. She also explains the return to training protocol. It starts with 30 minutes on the trainer below 120 bpm, and any symptoms mean she has to wait another day. Then the conversation turns to the race she is missing. She talks about Zoe Backstedt's silver in the time trial and Team GB's plan to attack in the road race. She explains why racing a circuit with no radios is so confusing from inside the bunch. She also gives her picks for the podium and backs her EF Education-Oatly teammates, including defending champion Magdeleine Vallieres at a home Worlds. The last part of the episode is about her. Towers is 23 and in her first season at EF after three years at Canyon//SRAM. She talks about wanting more chances for herself without giving up the domestique work she loves. She would like to target the Ardennes, and she looks ahead to the 2027 Tour de France Femmes, which starts in Britain and goes through the Peak District roads where she learned to ride. She also has an opinion on whether women's cycling needs a three week Grand Tour.

    Alice Towers' Crash That Ended Her Worlds - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  8. Sep 22

    Andreas Leknessund On A Worlds Without Pogačar - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

    Andreas Leknessund joins Aidan Burgess from his hotel room in Montréal, the day after the World Championships time trial and just over a week after finishing the Vuelta a España. With Tadej Pogačar out after his Vuelta crash, the Uno-X Mobility rider says Sunday's road race is "more open than ever". 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com He talks through his own time trial, where he rode the 400 watts he was aiming for and still finished 32nd. He also explains what three weeks of the Vuelta do to a rider's legs, and how Norway approached the mixed relay after Katrine Aalerud crashed on the recon. Then the road race. Leknessund looks at Remco Evenepoel's fourth straight time trial title, Paul Seixas's surprise bronze, Mathieu van der Poel's long solo in Luxembourg and Wout van Aert's form from the Vuelta. Without Pogačar setting the race, he expects more tactics, more riders with a real chance and more room for early attacks, which is where his own chance lies. He also goes back to stage 7 of the Vuelta, his first Grand Tour stage win, with Tobias Halland Johannessen second on the day Norway lost King Harald V. After his near misses at the Giro, he did not believe he had won until the last kilometer.

    Andreas Leknessund On A Worlds Without Pogačar - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
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    Domestique Cycling
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
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