Velo Podcast

Feb 08 2025 20 ep. 53 mins 882

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The Velo Podcast brings you inside the world of gravel and road racing with Velo's team of reporters and commentators.

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How to Own a Bike Shop: Booking Orders, Margins, Covid Sales, and Ebike Fires

Feb 08 2025 65 mins

Mike Levy sits down with Dan Sommer, owner of Jack's Cycle, to talk about the realities of running a bike shop.

Sleeping with a Scorpion: An Interview with 2024 Tour Divide Winner Meaghan Hackinen

Jan 31 2025 60 mins

If you're listening to this, there's a pretty good chance that you love to ride your bike. That can manifest itself in all sorts of different ways. Some of you like to do shuttle runs with your buddies on the weekend or go to the bike park. Some of you like to pedal up the hill. Some of you like to go down the hill. Some of you like to race your bike for a few hours. And some of yo

Braving Winter: How We Stay Warm Outside & How to Make Indoor Riding Suck Less

Jan 24 2025 72 mins

In this latest podcast, we're talking about winter riding from two different perspectives: the tips and tricks we’ve learned to stay warm during those cold rides, but also how to make your indoor riding suck the least amount possible on those days when you say, “Nah, I’ll just stay inside.” Besides that, we also get into the news. We dive into the latest 2024 UCI Crash Sta

Has Will Seen a Kangaroo Yet (and Other Tour Down Under Updates)

Jan 20 2025 31 mins

Will checks in from Australia at the Tour Down Under to fill us in on what has been going on in the women's race as well as the latest tech.

Our Worst Rides Of 2024... And What We (Hopefully) Learned

Jan 17 2025 94 mins

Will is on a plane going to the Tour Down Under, so it makes perfect sense that we have Senior Tech Editor Josh Ross in to talk all about marsupial pouches on bikes... right? Today's conversation was all about our worst rides of 2024. Alvin got a series of unfortunate flat tires. Josh went to bonktown and back. And Levy? He had some serious GI issues that forced him into a hotel ro

Cobble Crushing, Night Riding, and Heavenly Climbing: Our Favorite Rides of the Last Year

Jan 10 2025 78 mins

This week on the Velo Podcast, host Mike Levy is back with Alvin Holbrook and Will Tracy for the first official video podcast of 2025, and this week it’s all about reflecting on our favorite rides of the past year. A favorite ride doesn’t have to be the longest, hardest, or have any certain superlative attached to it — it just has to be memorable in one way or another. But b

What Is Mike Levy Doing Talking About Gravel Bikes?

Dec 20 2024 76 mins

This week on the Velo Podcast, we have something a little different for you as former Pinkbike editor extraordinaire Mike Levy joins the show to talk gravel and road bikes. Some of you are no doubt asking yourself right now: “Wait, isn’t he the mountain bike guy?” Right you are. He’s a multi-faceted person though who has spent the last year exclusively riding road and grave

Colnago’s Radical New Aero Bike Is the Fastest Ever — But Can People Get Past Its Looks?

Dec 12 2024 41 mins

Colnago has unveiled its first aero model in a long time, and it's turning heads. Called the Y1Rs, it's claimed to be the fastest bike in the pro peloton in part due to taking advantage of recently relaxed UCI rules on bike design. It's sure to provide an advantage to the likes of Tadej Pogačar this upcoming road season. Our tech team talked to Colnago about the new design and is

The Best Heavy Handed UCI Moments of the Year and Other 2024 Road Racing Awards

Nov 22 2024 47 mins

This week on the Velo Podcast, host Will Tracy is joined by European correspondent Andrew Hood and retired pro Bobby Julich to discuss the best races, athletes, and moments of the 2024 pro road cycling season. What were the best grand tours and classics? Who had a standout year or reached that next level? Who had the grittiest performance? And of course, who were the best riders of

Pirelli Wants to Make Your Tubeless Tires Foolproof, and the Future of Road Tubeless

Oct 25 2024 51 mins

Samuele Bressan might be the global marketing manager for Pirelli’s cycling division, but his experience goes beyond that, as product manager for the likes of Pirelli, Bianchi, Vittoria, and others. While we could go in a number of directions with regard to road and gravel bike tires with a brand as storied and prominent as Pirelli, we focused on what seems to be on everyone's mi