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.

02/10/2025

The inaugural UCI road World Championships on the continent of Africa took place in Rwanda last week. Dominated - again - by Tadej Pogačar, the men’s road race was widely dubbed ‘the hardest edition ever’, but was it really? Team USA’s Larry Warbasse joins Daniel Friebe and Li...

28/09/2025

Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they analyse the men's elite road race at the 2025 UCI World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda. No spoilers here.

28/09/2025

Join Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton as they analyse the 2025 women's UCI World Championship road race in Kigali, Rwanda. No spoilers here but stand by for an account of a stunning edition of the race for the rainbow jersey.

25/09/2025

The inaugural UCI road World Championships on the continent of Africa take place in Rwanda this week. The first few days of racing threw up one major surprise, the next few could yield more - and Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie & Brian Nygaard are on review & preview duty here.

18/09/2025

Listen up class! The Cycling Podcast Féminin has returned after our post Tour de France Femmes summer break and we have that back-to-school feeling.

14/09/2025

Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.

13/09/2025

The end is almost in sight — this is our 20th daily podcast from the Vuelta a España 2025, recorded on the road as the race heads towards Madrid. Each episode brings race analysis, rider interviews, and daily postcards from Spain.

12/09/2025

Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.

11/09/2025

Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.

10/09/2025

Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.

09/09/2025

Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.

Two weeks down, one to go.        #🇪🇸
08/09/2025

Two weeks down, one to go. #🇪🇸

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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.