This week, it’s back to basics as Greg and mattio bid adieu to Cadel Evans and discuss some of his most badass moments. Then, the Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor – up for discussion are the elite women’s and elite men’s race. The elite women’s race was amazing, the men’s race… less amazing. But we…

Greg and mattio are joined once more by Frances Morrison for a light-hearted discussion of the cool places we’ve ridden bikes and what we like about them. We hope the Pioneer Valley tourism board is paying attention. The special charms of collegiate racing and the challenge of dressing for races in a hot car also…

This week, we are joined by very special guest Frances Morrison to discuss #CXNOTS, the junior race debacle from the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships and pay equality for women in elite cycling. We have many links this week, which are not required for understanding but may interest our listeners. Find them at standarddouble.com/whbp/13. Episode…

Technical Consultant and Correspondent Ian Schmidt returns for the second week running as we discuss taste in bikes among Boston-area podcasters, before diving into discussing the bikes we’ve dinged and dented over the course of our racing lives. It turns out that a bicycle is a remarkably robust machine, and much of the damage that…

WHBP is back for 2015, and wasting no time in getting rad and exciting as we bring on our WHBP Technical Consultant/Correspondent, Ian Schmidt. Feathers fly over career choices and beer before we get into the meat of the show: Greg just bought a power meter! Is this choice WHBP-Approved? And what do we think about…

This week, it’s all about racing etiquette. Yelling “inside!” in corners, putting your hands on people, telling everyone around you to hold their line – Greg and mattio have opinions on all of these actions. Racing etiquette is about both safety and respect for you and your fellow competitors, how do we race hard and keep…

The WHBP Holiday Spectacular double album special! Greg and mattio unveil their Holiday Shopping And Money-Spendering Guide, sprinkled liberally with unsolicited relationship advice from Greg. After an intermission about beer (where, surprise, Greg has some complaints), the guys dive into what they’re doing during their respective off seasons , even dispensing something vaguely resembling actual information along…

In a free-ranging, de-bourbonated edition of WHBP, the guys take on the clinchers v. tubulars “debate,” undertaking some media criticism along the way. The conversation meanders its way around to the foibles of cantilever brakes in the mud and snow (spoiler alert: they don’t work) before concluding with a heartwarming recounting of how a local…

Greg and mattio discuss the ins and outs of winter bikes and winter riding in their respective homelands of Boston and Minneapolis. Then Greg has a rant about the push to wide rims on road bikes, while mattio tries to talk him down. Episode Links iTunes (Subscribe! Leave us a review!): The Workingman’s Honest Bicycle…

In this Thanksgiving special, mattio and Greg have some suggestions for the sport of billiards, some thanks to give and a whole lot of questions about cats on velodromes. Episode Links Superprestige Spa-Francorchamps Final Lap (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22QMgnRXr54 Superprestige Spa-Francorchamps Parcours: http://www.sport.be/cyclocrossfrancorchamps/2014/nl/parcours/ Cat on the Kuipke velodrome (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=setdl8H7e2I mattio Twitter: @_mattio Greg Twitter: @grolby WHBP Theme by Chris Norton Read…