The BikeRadar Podcast
BikeRadar delve into the world of road and mountain biking to bring you the best tech content in cycling. Join the team for their weekly episodes and occasional bonus episodes.
Episodes
The Tech Q&A is back, with Jack Luke your host, and Tom Marvin and Warren Rossiter fielding your questions. This time around, the trio cover:
Are new bikes actually any better than old bikes?
How to improve hand comfort on the bike
Can you convert an MTB to a gravel bike?
Tips for fitting stiff tubeless tyres
The perfect brake bleed, according to Shimano
Carbon vs alloy mountain bikes, what’s better?
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April 16, 2025 • 26 mins
Colnago has launched the V5Rs, claimed to be the lightest bike it has ever made. The new bike is the replacement for the V4Rs, which has just had an enviable send-off at the 2025 Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix under Tadej Pogačar.
In this bonus podcast episode, digital editor Jack Luke sits down with road tech lead Ashley Quinlan to discuss Ash’s early impressions of the new bike from a press event on Lake Garda, Italy.
Of co...
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April 14, 2025 • 58 mins
George Scott and Simon von Bromley reflect on another classic edition of Paris-Roubaix, dissecting the tech trends that dominated this year’s race. From ever-wider tyres to gravel-inspired hacks, George and Simon chart the latest evolutions in Roubaix tech.
How Zipp’s radically wide 303 wheelset ushered in an aero revolution at Paris-Roubaix – https://www.bikeradar.com/features/tech/icons-of-cycling-zipp-303
Our tech predictions ...
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April 10, 2025 • 33 mins
With legit suspension and clearance for 50mm tyres, the latest gravel bikes are getting more extreme than ever. Jack and Warren discuss some of the latest trend-setting gravel launches, why big-tyred gravel bikes are good for pros and amateurs alike, and how you can choose the best gravel machine for your needs.
Ridley Ignite GTX – https://www.bikeradar.com/news/ridley-ignite-gtx
Lee Cougan Innova Super Gravel – https://www.biker...
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April 6, 2025 • 39 mins
For many cyclists, the continual churn of standards can be a nightmare. New ‘standards’ shoot up like Tadej Pogaçar on the Plateau de Beille, making our riding lives more complicated than necessary.
Innovation and new standards can make our bikes better, but too often the gains don’t feel worth the hassle.
With this in mind, Jack Luke sits down with Simon von Bromley and Tom Marvin to discuss their top picks for universal road ...
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April 3, 2025 • 43 mins
Holy Week is here! The biggest week in the one-day race calendar is here, with the Tour of Flanders on Sunday and Paris-Roubaix a week later.
The Spring Classics test riders and their equipment to the limit. It’s an annual tech feast for bike nerds so, ahead of Flanders and Roubaix, BikeRadar’s Simon von Bromley make their predictions for the trends that will define this year’s racing.
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April 2, 2025 • 24 mins
Ahead of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, BikeRadar’s George Scott speaks to Glen Leven, Team Support Manager for Lidl-Trek, to find out why the team is using gravel gearing for the Spring Classics.
This was an impromptu phone call following Mads Pedersen’s win at Gent-Wevelgem, so the audio quality isn’t quite up to our usual standard, but we still want to bring you this behind-the-scenes chat about the latest Classics te...
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March 27, 2025 • 25 mins
Fresh from the launch of her new book, Gravel Rides South West England, Freelance journalist and regular BikeRadar contributor, Katherine Moore speaks to Jack Luke about how to plan the perfect gravel route – or, as Moore puts it, “how to cook up a gorgeous gravel recipe.”
From the absolute basics to shockingly nerdy apps, this episode has something for gravel riders of all abilities.
Learn more about bridleways, restricted a...
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Freelance journalist and regular BikeRadar contributor, Katherine Moore, speaks to Jack Luke about her new book, Gravel Rides South West England, and shares three of her favourite routes.
Find out more about Katherine’s book: https://www.adventurebooks.com/products/gravel-rides-south-west-england?srsltid=AfmBOoqyqkIOiBKKl3jN29T-w7wdJR7hQf7g5z6b5fOeIJ2kPQEHB016
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In this news round-up, Jack Luke grills Warren Rossiter and Simon von Bromley on the new Cannondale Topstone gravel bike, Boardman’s value-packed SLR, and new tyres from Vittoria and Hutchinson.
Read more:
https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/2025-cannondale-topstone
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/boardmans-new-slr-promises-to-be-fast-for-all-four-seasons
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/hutchinson-blackbird-race-blackbird-al...
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In this episode of the BikeRadar Podcast, Liam Cahill sits down with Simon von Bromley to discuss the hottest tech trends from the first spring classic of 2025.
Back in the UK after a weekend in Belgium, Liam gives us the skinny on Visma–Lease a Bike’s head-turning helmets, all the unreleased kit the likes of Specialized and Zipp and trying to hide, and why some teams are turning to gravel groupsets for road races.
Enormous ae...
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February 18, 2025 • 39 mins
In this episode of the BikeRadar Podcast, Jack Luke sits down with Simon von Bromley to discuss Simon's belief that time trial bikes should be banned.
According to Simon, time trial bikes are dangerous, expensive, and bad for the sport – but how do his arguments stand up to scrutiny?
Tune in to find out…
Simon says: the UCI should ban time trial bikes
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In this episode of the BikeRadar Podcast, Simon von Bromley sits down with former pro road racing star, David Millar.
With national titles and multiple Grand Tour stage victories on his palmarès, Millar established himself as one of Britain’s best-known cyclists across a 17-year career.
Over a meandering conversation, Millar talks about his new role as brand director at Factor, road-racing tech trends, his take on the issue of ...
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January 26, 2025 • 31 mins
Last week, BikeRadar’s Jack Luke attended Velofollies, one of Europe’s leading bike shows, and saw a whole host of wonderful new tech.
Now back in the UK, Jack sits down with Simon von Bromley, to discuss his highlights from the trip, and why he thinks Velofollies may have usurped Eurobike on the cycling-show calendar.
For all our coverage from Velofollies 2025, head to BikeRadar.com
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January 19, 2025 • 43 mins
With the men’s and women’s WorldTour kicking off Down Under, Simon von Bromley and Liam Cahill sit down to discuss the latest bike and equipment trends in pro road cycling.
From Chinese bikes to the return of Campagnolo and big names on the move, there have been plenty of changes ahead of the new season, and there's much to discuss.
For a full rundown of all the WorldTour team bikes, head to BikeRadar.com:
2025 Men’s WorldTou...
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January 13, 2025 • 41 mins
Liam Cahill and Jack Luke have made some very silly cycling purchases in their time. The pair sit down to discuss the stupidest of the lot and share them in the safe space that is the BikeRadar Podcast. Can you relate? Share your stories at podcast@bikeradar.com
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January 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Heat training has taken the professional peloton by storm in recent years, promising improved cycling performance in all weather.
But what exactly is ‘heat training’ and how do you do it? To find out, Liam and Simon are joined by Dan Lorang, director of coaching and sports science at Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe, and Puck Alkemade, who holds a PhD in thermophysiology and is a physiologist and study coordinator at CORE.
Could heat tr...
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December 29, 2024 • 52 mins
The BikeRadar team has tested more than 500 products this year, but which ones stood head and shoulders above the rest?
In this podcast, Jack Luke hosts Simon von Bromley, Ashley Quinlan and Warren Rossiter to discuss their top picks for road and gravel.
From the best budget aero helmet to an ebike conversion kit, power meter pedals, electric shoe driers and more, tune in to find out which kit impressed us the most this year an...
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December 22, 2024 • 44 mins
With the 2025 WorldTour season just around the corner, Liam and Simon are joined by Dan Bigham, Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe’s head of engineering, to discuss what the big tech trends might be.
Starting with the question of whether there’s any low hanging aero fruit left to pick, the conversation moves onto the ongoing controversy over the relationship between speed and safety in professional bike racing.
The trio then discuss the U...
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December 15, 2024 • 36 mins
We have all bought some truly awful bike products over the years and there are plenty of pitfalls to make when spending money on cycling kit.
But a lot of products, while far too expensive, are still ones we really want.
Liam is joined by Warren and Ash to identify the offending items and help you avoid making the same mistakes.
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