THE ROADMAN
CYCLING PODCAST

with Mads Würtz Schmidt — 2025 European Gravel Champion and Traka winner, 2026 Unbound Gravel 200 champion, racing for Specialized Off-Road

Mads Würtz Schmidt won the 2026 Unbound Gravel 200 in 9:14:51 with a solo ride through brutal mud. He breaks down the winning move, the late mechanical, pacing and tyres.

Armstrong lost all seven Tour titles to USADA in 2012. Ullrich, who also doped, still holds his 1997 win. The evidence and why no one took the jersey.

The overlooked TrainingPeaks number, aerobic decoupling, that reveals your durability, why two riders with the same power finish so differently, plus the fix.

The 1998 Festina affair, retold. Willy Voet stopped at the border with 400 doses of doping products, and how it engulfed Richard Virenque and the Tour.

Chris Harper of Pinarello Q36.5 breaks down how a World Tour rider fuels a Giro stage: 80 to 120g of carbs an hour, meal by meal, and how rest days differ.

In November 1927, a young Italian racer named Tullio Campagnolo stood freezing on a mountain pass in the Dolomites, unable to change gear because his...

with Secret To Improving Threshold

Most cyclists think they’re doing threshold training — but most are actually riding too easy to drive real FTP gains. In this episode, we break down what...

Marco Pantani's 5 June 1999 blood test, the 2022 anti-mafia commission's "grave violations", and the Trento prosecutor's file reopened in July 2024.