In Episode 15 Mike and Derek get together after a long hiatus away from the mics marked by Mike’s ascendancy to the ranks of Directeur Sportif of the hottest U.S. cycling team on the Pro Conti scene and Derek’s frantic preparations as the father-to-be of identical twin girls. Mixed in with the jokes, insults, and blathering is a fair bit of discussion about bike racing and a recap of the 2014 Tour de France.

Thanks for tuning in. Watch for future editions (fingers crossed) of Race Radio with the boys, including chat about general racing, bike tech, and other random ramblings. You can follow them on Twitter @flammecast and @Michael_Creed.

Drum roll, please, and the results are:

Alan Hall – Coffee – @alan_hall

@flammecast @Michael_Creed Mur de Huy is the answer. I drink coffee cause I’m no pussy. I’m a dirty dawg. Medium jersey fuckers. #EPOcoffee

— alan hall (@alan_hall) November 15, 2013

Erik Englund – Coffee – @erikbe

@flammecast @Michael_Creed Huy Lewis and de Mur’s. #epocoffee

— Erik Englund (@erikbe) November 16, 2013

Justin Lebb – Coffee – @justinlebb

@Michael_Creed @flammecast – Mur de Huy, which is as steep as Mike’s naturally styled hair in the morning hours #EPOcoffee

— Justin Lebb (@justinlebb) November 19, 2013

Kat Zalenski gets the jersey – @kittyzal

@Michael_Creed and @flammecast I’m not your mother and I listened. Is it The Mur de Huy? #EPOcoffee

— Kat Zalenski (@kittyzal) November 20, 2013

Honorable mention to Chris Kreidl – @ckreidl for being the first to answer correctly and cleverly, but since he’s the team mechanic for Mike Creed and the Smart Stop Mtn Khakis team, he is unfortunately disqualified from any winnings.

@CyclismasEditor @flammecast @michael_creed i “rode” the mur de huy in 2012 2 days before the race. had to stop halfway. too fat. #epocoffee

— chris kreidl (@ckreidl) November 15, 2013

Can the Lucky Winners contact us directly and we will get your prizes shipped to you !

In Episode 14 Mike and Derek host their own version of the Algonquin round table for two, and exchange barbs and witty repartee for the better part of an hour. Mixed in with the jokes, insults, and nattering is a fair bit of discussion about bike racing and a recap of the 2013 road season. You’ll also get hair styling tips, some funny Chris Horner sleeptalking stories, and a chance to answer a trivia question and win some nifty coffee and jersey prizes from Paniagua.cc. Just listen to the podcast for the question, and tweet your answer in the most creative way you can (given the constraints of 140 characters) to Derek or Mike with the hashtag #EPOcoffee. The guys will select four winners who will be notified via Twitter sometime next week after you’ve all recovered from the stupefaction of this podcast.

Thanks for tuning in. Watch for future editions of Race Radio with the boys, including a regular chat about general racing, bike tech, and other random ramblings. You can follow them on Twitter @flammecast and @Michael_Creed. You can follow Paniagua @paniaguacc.

In Episode 13 Mike and Derek reconnect after a bit of a hiatus following the World Championships, and Derek recounts his adventures at the Cycle Show in Birmingham, England, including the thrill of seeing Pantani’s 1998 race bike mixed in with lots of modern-manufactured drek. They then move on to deconstruct the Worlds Road Race and the Team GB implosion after Cav’s 100km pull at the front,  and other assorted and sundry race and random chatter.

Thanks for tuning in. Watch for future editions of Race Radio with the boys, including a regular chat about general racing, bike tech, and other random ramblings. You can follow them on Twitter @flammecast and @Michael_Creed

Show notes:

Paidi V Boonen

http://worldwidecyclesblog.com/2010/08/08/the-day-paidi-met-tom-boonen/

Sam V’s Vivani

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUyjyyGCAAEwDMh.jpg:large

Fitzy V’s Jean Francois Bernard

http://worldwidecyclesblog.com/2007/01/22/fitzy-retires/

In Episode 12 Mike and Derek get us caught up on what’s happening post-Tour de France and pre-Vuelta, including team shakeups and the transfer merry-go-round ride. There’s been some racing going on with the Tour of Poland, the Tour of the Arctic, The Tour of Utah, Eneco, and they touch on that, as well as the sponsorship issues affecting pro teams right now. They also get sidetracked talking about Mike’s ongoing anger issues with Mormons and him coming to terms with being the bottom rung on the ladder.

Thanks for tuning in. Watch for future editions of Race Radio with the boys, including their upcoming series for the Vuelta, and a weekly chat about general racing, bike tech, and other random ramblings. You can follow them on Twitter @flammecast and @Michael_Creed

Show notes:

BMC Sack Manager

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15064/Leaving-chief-directeur-sportif-position-Lelangue-and-BMC-Racing-Team-part-ways.aspx

Sky no place for Wiggins ?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/richie-porte-im-ready-to-lead-sky-at-2014-giro-ditalia

Transfers

http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/transfer_list_2013-2014/

http://www.cyclingfever.com/transfers.html

Sticky Bottle photos

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/western-lakes-cc-has-an-orica-green-edge-bus-moment-at-ballinrobe-two-day/

Colombians bullied out of the Break

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15143/Tour-of-Poland-Darwin-Atapuma-takes-revenge-stage-victory-as-Riblon-attacks-into-yellow.aspx

Peter Stetina to BMC

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/peter-stetina-signs-with-bmc

In Episode 11 Mike and Derek recap Stage 18 from Gap to Alpe d’Huez, Stage 19 from Bourg-d’Oisans to Le Grand Bornand, Stage 20 from Annecy to Annecy-Semnoz, and the final stage from Versailles to Paris finishing on the Champs-Elysées. They give us their overall impressions of the 2013 edition of the Tour de France, and compare their high and low points of the grand bouclé. We also get the scoop on Creed’s future career as a bus driver at the Tour of Utah and the Tour of Colorado. Thanks for tuning in to the entire Tour de France series with Mike and Derek. Watch for future editions of Race Radio with the boys, including their upcoming series for the Vuelta, and a weekly chat about general racing, bike tech, and other random ramblings. You can follow them on Twitter at @flammecast and @Michael_Creed

In Episode 10 Mike and Derek recap Stages 16 & 17, and look forward to Stage 18, the double ascent of Alpe d’Huez. We hear why Derek thinks Froome is like a kid who’s got a superpower he just wants to show off, and the guys talk about some of the surprising performances of the Time Trial as well as some possible strategies for grabbing time back from Froome tomorrow and shaking up the GC.

Show Notes:

What an “outlier” is.

Derek talks mentions Ross Tucker and Science of Sport.

“Finally, the last thing I’ll say to the people who don’t believe in cycling, the cynics and the skeptics: I’m sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. I’m sorry you don’t believe in miracles. But this is one hell of a race. This is a great sporting event and you should stand around and believe it. You should believe in these athletes, and you should believe in these people. I’ll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets — this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it. So Vive le Tour forever!”

– Lance Armstrong (or possibly another winner of the Tour de France, maybe even Mike Creed)

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

In episode 8 Mike and Derek review Stage 12 from Fougères to Tours and Stage 13 from Tours to Saint-Amand-Montrond, and recap what happened when Saxo-Tinkoff put Sky in the hurt locker, isolating Froome and splitting the peloton apart. They also tease us with the hint of anecdotes we’ll never get the chance to hear…

In episode 7, Mike and Derek review Stage 10 from Saint-Gildas-Des-Bois to Saint Malo, try to make sense of the Cav/Veelers sprint situation and talk about what happens in general in a full-gas sprint and how it isn’t for the faint of heart. They also review the ITT of Stage 11 from Avranches to Mont Saint Michel and discuss what the results mean for the coming days of the Tour. They also explain what negative splits mean, and strategy for time trialling, hydration, and power and dish a little bit for good measure.