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.
12/01/2026
From the Archive: At home with the Yates Brothers | 2015
With Simon Yates announcing his retirement last week, we’ve re-issued an episode made just over a decade again when the twin brothers were at the beginning of their career.
In November 2015, Lionel Birnie travelled to meet Simon and Adam at their local cafe to find out what makes them tick. At the time, they’d just completed their second year with Orica-GreenEdge.
Simon stayed with the Australian team for 11 seasons, winning the Vuelta a España in 2018. He moved to Visma-Lease a Bike at the beginning of last season and pulled off a stunning overall victory in the Giro d’Italia and added a stage win at the Tour de France. Although there were rumours then he was contemplating retirement it still came as a surprise that he decided to end his career on the eve of the new season.
That leaves Adam in the peloton, about to start his fourth season with UAE Team Emirates.
This episode takes us back to the early days and it makes an interesting listen knowing now how their careers would pan out.
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11/01/2026
Thirty-Six Summers In France with James Startt.
In 2025, The Cycling Podcast released 21 episodes of KM0 exclusively for Friends of the Podcast subscribers (with an additional 15 on our free feed thanks to the support of those subscribers).
The most recent episode features photographer and journalist James Startt, whose long association with the Tour de France was recognised by race director Christian Prudhomme and record stage winner Mark Cavendish in July.
James covered his 36th consecutive edition of the Tour in 2025 and before he was presented with his commemorative plate he spoke to Lionel Birnie in the Village Départ about how the race, and the media, have changed since the early 1990s.
Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com to access our back catalogue of more than 300 episodes plus our KM0 episodes in 2026.
10/01/2026
🎧 Trapdoor: The World Tour promotion and relegation battle
Our coverage of the 2026 road racing season gets underway next week. In the meantime, listen to Trapdoor, Daniel’s three-part look at the latest UCI World Tour promotion and relegation battle.
The first episode is on our free feed (released on November 19) looks at the ‘Astana Miracle’. At the start of the 2025 season – the last of the UCI World Tour’s three-year cycle – the Kazakh squad was staring relegation in the face. But a clear strategy designed to win points throughout the year saw them ease well clear of demotion.
09/01/2026
Happy New Year to all our listeners.
The Cycling Podcast will be back next week with our now traditional Speculation Episode looking ahead to what the 2026 season has in store.
In the meantime, catch up on some of the episodes we released over the festive break.
The final stage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain marked the end of an era for British cycling. It was Geraint Thomas’s final road race after a long, glittering professional career which saw him win Olympic gold medals, rainbow jerseys and the 2018 Tour de France.
Back in February, Lionel Birnie took a trip to Cardiff to see where it all began for Geraint Thomas – the Maindy Flyers junior cycling club. Meet the people inspiring the next generation of cyclists in South Wales.
This episode of KM0 was released on our regular feed thanks to the support of our Friends of the Podcast subscribers.
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29/12/2025
This episode is KM0 is free for everyone to listen to thanks to the support and generosity of our Friends of the Podcast subscribers. You can get an annual subscription at https://thecyclingpodcast.com which will give you access to an archive of more than 330 special episodes ...
22/12/2025
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, we continue to round up the biggest stories from the ‘Costa crawl’ of pre-season training camps, with our spotlight this week falling on Lidl-Trek and their new star signing Juan Ayuso.
19/12/2025
You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout… would all be worthy advice for our co-hosts on this episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin. Yes, quizmaster Rose Manley, defending champion Rebecca Charlton and perennial quiz loser Denny Gray are back for another ...
16/12/2025
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by fellow journalist Dani Arribas for a special bulletin from UAE Team Emirates’ December training camp.
12/12/2025
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by fellow journalist Daniel Benson for a look at how RedBull-BORA-hansgrohe are gearing up for the 2026 season.
02/12/2025
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as we run the rule over the 2026 Giro d’Italia just presented in Rome.
27/11/2025
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Tudor Pro Cycling stalwart Larry Warbasse discuss some of the more intriguing and controversial news stories of the last few weeks.
27/11/2025
Oi you, loser! Or should that be winner? Yes on this month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, we discuss our picks for the winners and losers of the season. Our very own losers Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton pick out a few notable performances – both for g...
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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.
ORLA CHENNAOUI joined Sky News as Northern Ireland Correspondent in 2006 and covered stories including the Omagh bombing trial and reported regularly on the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Shortly afterwards, in 2007, she moved to the Sky News Centre in London where she stepped into a presenter role which saw her front all programmes on Sky News from Sunrise to News at Ten.
Orla was Northern Ireland’s Olympic Games correspondent for London 2012, and reported from Rio 2016 for Sky Sports News HQ.
A former athlete, she became the all-Ireland triple jump champion at the age of 18.
