The Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast Insight into the world of professional cycling. Meet the team behind The Cycling Podcast:

RICHARD MOORE is a journalist and author.

His first book, In Search of Robert Millar, won Best Biography at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. His second book, Heroes, Villains & Velodromes, was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He is also the author of Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France (Yellow Jersey, 2011) and Sky’s the Limit: British Cycling’s Quest to Conquer the Tour de

France (HarperCollins, 2011). Richard writes on sport, specialising in cycling, and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, skysports.com, the Scotsman and Procycling magazine. He is also a former racing cyclist who represented Scotland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at the 1998 Tour de Langkawi. LIONEL BIRNIE is a journalist, author and publisher. After training as a journalist he spent five years working for a local newspaper before joining Cycling Weekly in 1998. He covered the Tour de France for the first time in 1999. He covered the 2012 Tour, won by Bradley Wiggins, for The Sunday Times. The 2014 race will be his 12th. He established Peloton Publishing in 2010 and, after writing and publishing several football books, co-founded The Cycling Anthology series. The Cycling Anthology is published twice a year and comprises essays about professional cycling by some of the best writers and journalists in the world. In 2013, he published Hunger, the long-awaited autobiography of Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly. It was shortlisted for Irish Sports Book of the Year. DANIEL FRIEBE began writing on professional cycling midway through a Modern Languages degree in October 2000. He has covered every Tour de France since 2001. Now Procycling’s roving European Editor, he is the author of Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal, Mountain High and its sequel Mountain Higher, and collaborated with Mark Cavendish on his best-selling autobiographies, Boy Racer and At Speed.

19/07/2025

Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.

Tonight’s post-podcast dinner is a pint of nourishing lager. Every restaurant in Luchon said ‘non’ after 9.15, even a ta...
19/07/2025

Tonight’s post-podcast dinner is a pint of nourishing lager. Every restaurant in Luchon said ‘non’ after 9.15, even a takeaway pizzeria. On the plus side we’ll have plenty of room for cassoulet in Carcassonne tomorrow. Lionel’s first missed dinner at the Tour since an occasion when he and Richard ate petrol station sandwiches in the Alps one year.

18/07/2025

Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.

18/07/2025

Come and chow down on our Grand Tour sandwich episode! Deliciously filled with all the chat from a thrilling Giro d’Italia Women plus a look ahead to the imminent Tour de France Femmes in our mini feature about Breton cycling.

17/07/2025

Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.

16/07/2025

Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.

A meal fit for the maillot jauneLast night, Lionel & Graham headed to the hotel for dinner, where they ate chef Owen Bl...
16/07/2025

A meal fit for the maillot jaune

Last night, Lionel & Graham headed to the hotel for dinner, where they ate chef Owen Blandy’s evening meal, as served to race leader Ben Healy and teammates.

Our KM0 episode is online now in all the usual places.

Forget The Great British Bake-Off, this is The Great French Cook-Off. Lionel and Graham got to sample Owen’s rest day meal and heard about a day in the life of a pro team chef at the Tour de France and what goes into fuelling the riders to perform at their best.

Lionel piled his plate indecently high, sacrificing presentation finesse for quantity (!) Plus ça change.

You can listen to the episode in all the usual places, with thanks to our Friends of the Podcast subscribers enabling us to make this one free for all.

A big thank you to and everyone at and also to for the photo of Lionel, Owen and Graham.

16/07/2025

On the evening of the first Tour de France rest day, Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss headed to the EF Education-Easy Post team hotel on the outskirts of town for dinner.

It’s a rest day on the Tour and so it’s time to say a big thank you to ‘The Willing Goose’ for his outstanding contribu...
15/07/2025

It’s a rest day on the Tour and so it’s time to say a big thank you to ‘The Willing Goose’ for his outstanding contribution during the first week.

If you’ve not heard his adventures as part of the Tour’s publicity caravan the KM0 episode Join the Caravan of Love is on our regular feed now.

15/07/2025

In 1986, Shelley Verses became the first woman to work as a soigneur at the Tour de France, when she was part of the American 7-Eleven team's support staff.

14/07/2025

Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.

13/07/2025

Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.

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The Cycling Podcast Team

Meet the team behind The Cycling Podcast: RICHARD MOORE is a journalist and author. His first book, In Search of Robert Millar, won Best Biography at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. His second book, Heroes, Villains & Velodromes, was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He is also the author of Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France (Yellow Jersey, 2011) and Sky’s the Limit: British Cycling’s Quest to Conquer the Tour de France (HarperCollins, 2011). Richard writes on sport, specialising in cycling, and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, skysports.com, the Scotsman and Procycling magazine. He is also a former racing cyclist who represented Scotland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at the 1998 Tour de Langkawi. LIONEL BIRNIE is a journalist, author and publisher. After training as a journalist he spent five years working for a local newspaper before joining Cycling Weekly in 1998. He covered the Tour de France for the first time in 1999. He covered the 2012 Tour, won by Bradley Wiggins, for The Sunday Times. The 2014 race will be his 12th.

He established Peloton Publishing in 2010 and, after writing and publishing several football books, co-founded The Cycling Anthology series. The Cycling Anthology is published twice a year and comprises essays about professional cycling by some of the best writers and journalists in the world.

In 2013, he published Hunger, the long-awaited autobiography of Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly. It was shortlisted for Irish Sports Book of the Year.

DANIEL FRIEBE began writing on professional cycling midway through a Modern Languages degree in October 2000. He has covered every Tour de France since 2001. Previously Procycling’s roving European Editor, you’ll now see him on ITV’s cycling coverage, notably at the Tour de France and Vuelta a España. He is the author of Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal, Mountain High and its sequel Mountain Higher, and collaborated with Mark Cavendish on his best-selling autobiographies, Boy Racer and At Speed.