Honest Bicycle Program

Honest Bicycle Program #85 – Extremely Affirming Screed

We discuss the worst conditions we’ve raced in and how to deal with it, cycling style and The Rules, and Cannondale-Drapac’s crowdfunding of their team. Episode Links iTunes (Subscribe! Leave us a review!): The Honest Bicycle Program mattio Twitter: @_mattio Frances Twitter: @Francestastic Greg Twitter: @grolby Email us at honestbikeprogram@gmail.com

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Honest Bicycle Program #84 – I Don’t Wanna Be A Brand

This week, Dan Chabanov of the Richard Sachs Cycling Team joins us over the airwaves! We follow-up on our discussion of race and opportunity in cycling from the previous episode, then we talk some Red Hook Crit and, of course, cyclocross. Episode Links iTunes (Subscribe! Leave us a review!): The Honest Bicycle Program mattio Twitter: @_mattio Frances…

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Honest Bicycle Program #83 – Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose

Race in bike racing, money in bike racing. For once we touch on some actual hot topics in cycling. Also, mattio went to Track Natz. How did that go? It’s the Wide Angle Podium Donation Drive! Please help support our show and the network! You know… monetarily. Episode Links iTunes (Subscribe! Leave us a review!): The…

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Honest Bicycle Program #82: Giro de California

For a change, we talked mostly about pro cycling this week. What?? Episode Links iTunes (Subscribe! Leave us a review!): The Honest Bicycle Program mattio Twitter: @_mattio Frances Twitter: @Francestastic Greg Twitter: @grolby Email us at honestbikeprogram@gmail.com

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Honest Bicycle Program #81 – Take Note of Some Guy On A Podcast

This episode is about the Tour de France. And the Giro Rosa. Definitely not about cyclocross. Tour. Giro Rosa. No ‘cross here. No sir/ma’am. Episode Links iTunes (Subscribe! Leave us a review!): The Honest Bicycle Program mattio Twitter: @_mattio Frances Twitter: @Francestastic Greg Twitter: @grolby Email us at honestbikeprogram@gmail.com

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Honest Bicycle Program #80 – We Love Our Old People

After an unplanned hiatus (sorry!!!) HBP is back! And we’re fired up. This week, we go deep on a payout fiasco at the Nutmeg State Games Criterium, and chat about the Hammer Series and what that all means. Greg talks kind of a lot on this one. Whoops. Episode Links Erin Faccone – Nutmeg Games:…

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Honest Bicycle Program #79 – The Campy Parts Affair

It’s a jam-packed HBP this week! First mattio fills Greg in on the various scuttlebutt going around the world of cycling, before settling in to a discussion of illness and allergies, and how a little bit of structure in your life can make a world of difference when it comes to fitting in that riding…

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Honest Bicycle Program #78 – A Hard Month

This week it’s just Greg and mattio while Frances is on sabbatical. We take a rummage through mattio’s parts bin, share some revelations about racing while short, and talk about Caley Fretz’s great piece on The Little 500 in VeloNews. We also talk about a string of tragedies in bike racing over the last month,…

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Honest Bicycle Program #77 – Forever Old

In the 77th episode of HBP, we talk a bit about the Tour of Flanders (an American winner!!), the significance of tactics in bike racing and early spring bikes (ugh). Plus, 80’s one-hit wonder megahits! Episode Links iTunes (Subscribe! Leave us a review!): The Workingman’s Honest Bicycle Program mattio Twitter: @_mattio Frances Twitter: @Francestastic Greg Twitter: @grolby Email us…

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Honest Bicycle Program #76 – Politics, Pro Cycling Edition

We unzip our flies and take aim at that third rail: disc brakes are back on the agenda! We talk about yet another controversy, and consider the role of facts and reason in this debate (spoiler: it’s minimal). Also, some new rim tech from Mavic of all people, and a reminiscence about the good old…

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