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Cycling podcast for race news, rider interviews and honest takes from inside the peloton. Melbourne AFL captain Max Gawn, WorldTour pro Luke Plapp and Alex Clements break it all down. Cycling news every Monday, long-form rider interviews every Wednesday, plus daily coverage through the Tour de France - alongside the Giro d'Italia, la Vuelta, the spring classics, the WorldTour and Australian racing. Race recaps, tactics, gossip and the odd terrible take.
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Ex-Ineos CEO John Allert on One Cycling, F1 and the Cycling Opportunity
Former Ineos Grenadiers CEO John Allert on running a Tour de France team, the collapse of One Cycling, and why he thinks cycling could be worth ten times what it is today.John went from McLaren CMO, where he …
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Former Ineos Grenadiers CEO John Allert on running a Tour de France team, the collapse of One Cycling, and why he thinks cycling could be worth ten times what it is today.
John went from McLaren CMO, where he built Bahrain McLaren as a side project, to running Ineos Grenadiers in the post-Froome, post-Bernal era. He takes us inside the team: what Sir Jim Ratcliffe expects, how you try to win the Tour when Pogačar is locked in for a decade, and why Ineos moved late on young talent.
We get into One Cycling, why it was seen as a breakaway, and why John still believes the current commercial model won’t last. He covers the F1 lessons cycling hasn’t learned yet, from the Concord Agreement to Drive to Survive, which he helped get McLaren signed up to. He also talks rider safety, the UCI’s new report, and why hospitality on a Belgian climb beats anything else in sport.
No Remco, No Van der Poel: Max Gawn's Team of the Year
Max Gawn picks his All-Australian team of the 2026 cycling season: Tadej Pogačar captains, with Isaac del Toro, Sepp Kuss, Felix Großschartner, Tim Merlier, Jasper Stuyven, Wout van Aert and Andreas Leknessund …
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Max Gawn picks his All-Australian team of the 2026 cycling season: Tadej Pogačar captains, with Isaac del Toro, Sepp Kuss, Felix Großschartner, Tim Merlier, Jasper Stuyven, Wout van Aert and Andreas Leknessund in the eight.
Plus the Titan Patagonia wrap from South America, with Max's top five and bottom five from the trip, from Jacket Gate to his final-stage chase in the GC battle.
Also this week:
- Primož Roglič is still unsigned. Where does he land, and at what price?
- The 2027 Giro d'Italia route against the Tour de France, and why the uphill time trial suits Luke Plapp
- Pogačar Down Under rumours, Australia dropping out of the top 10 nations, and the Pogačar doco
- Cyclocross: Thibau Nys wins the European title, and Lucinda Brand takes the win after Marie Schreiber's relegation
- Paul Magnier or Matthew Brennan in 2027, and how Lidl-Trek splits its leaders between the Giro and the Tour
Coming Wednesday: former Ineos Grenadiers CEO John Allert.
Social Club is brought to you by Giant.
Max's top five is presented by Pillar Performance. New customers get 15% off with code STANLEY15.
Titan Forest Patagonia Day 4: Jake Lever’s six crashes and Max’s stage win
Jake Lever and Sean from Beagle & Hound join Alex Clements and Max Gawn after the final stage of Titan Forest Patagonia, presented by Zwift. The first take got lost when nobody pressed record, so this is take …
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Jake Lever and Sean from Beagle & Hound join Alex Clements and Max Gawn after the final stage of Titan Forest Patagonia, presented by Zwift. The first take got lost when nobody pressed record, so this is take two.
Jake trained for the trip on Zwift in his runners with flat pedals. He calls it the hardest thing he’s done. He takes us through stage two in full: six crashes in 42km, most of them still clipped in, including the slatted bridge. Sean gets his right of reply on the hip tap, and explains why he dropped Jake two kilometres from the finish when Jake didn’t know the way. Max catches Alex on the last single track, takes the stage in the Stanley Street Social Cup, and says Alex drank all the Coke at the aid station. Also in this one: Jake’s gels turning out to be 50 grams of carbs, not 30, the roadworks Jake called great gravel, and 45 minutes of Jake talking to himself on a camera Sean forgot to turn off.
Presented by Zwift, and thanks to our Patagonia partner UFinancial: financial advice, mortgage broking and financial planning under one roof on St Kilda Road. Content by Beagle & Hound.
Max Gawn Rode 4 Hours in a Rain Jacket. It Never Rained | Titan Patagonia
Nick from St Cloud, the Fitzroy bike shop owner who built all our Giant Revolts, joins Alex Clements and Max Gawn after stage three of Titan Forest Patagonia, presented by Zwift.Nick came to Patagonia planning …
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Nick from St Cloud, the Fitzroy bike shop owner who built all our Giant Revolts, joins Alex Clements and Max Gawn after stage three of Titan Forest Patagonia, presented by Zwift.
Nick came to Patagonia planning to win, then found out he was racing former Flèche Wallonne winner Dani Moreno. Max rode four hours in a rain jacket and it never rained. Nick explains the Revolt SL range and why he went for 50mm tyres. You’ll also hear how Jake Lever rides Zwift in his runners, whether Tour riders get saddle sores, and how Max made Spanish news with a photo of the Peter Sagan who ignored him for five days.
Presented by Zwift, and thanks to our Patagonia partner UFinancial: financial advice, mortgage broking and financial planning under one roof on St Kilda Road.
Titan Forest Patagonia Day 2: Max Gawn tries to run his flat home
Max Gawn punctures in the final single track at Titan Forest Patagonia and tries to run his bike to the line. Ed Langdon joins Alex Clements after stage two, presented by Zwift, as the new leader of the Stanley …
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Max Gawn punctures in the final single track at Titan Forest Patagonia and tries to run his bike to the line. Ed Langdon joins Alex Clements after stage two, presented by Zwift, as the new leader of the Stanley St. Social Cup.
The Chileans don’t do steady climbs. They go 1%, 8%, 3%, 25%. This stage had a concrete wall at 25%, an aid station halfway up a 15% gravel climb, and a farm-track single track that was no place for a gravel bike. Jake Lever came off six times, once after his front wheel dropped into a gap in a slatted bridge. Then there was the 15km headwind across the valley at 11km/h, where Sean’s hip gave out right as his turn came up. Max ran down part of the single track before taking the car for the last kilometre. That makes him officially a DNF, but he’s third on bunch time in the Stanley Street Social Cup. Max also tells the Titan doco crew why Patagonia is a poor man’s Queenstown, and better for it.
Presented by Zwift. Ed’s training before the Everest was a few Zwift rides at home, and he rates the setup.
Thanks to our Patagonia partner UFinancial: financial advice, mortgage broking and financial planning under one roof on St Kilda Road.
Titan Forest Patagonia Day 1: Gawn vs Clements
The dailies are back. Alex Clements and Max Gawn report from day one of Titan Forest Patagonia, presented by Zwift, with Ed Langdon, Jake Lever, Nick from St Cloud and Sean riding for Team Stanley Street …
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The dailies are back. Alex Clements and Max Gawn report from day one of Titan Forest Patagonia, presented by Zwift, with Ed Langdon, Jake Lever, Nick from St Cloud and Sean riding for Team Stanley Street Social.
It was 120km on Giant Revolts, finishing with a 10km climb where the Garmin read 5km/h. Max rode tempo at the back all day and still finished a minute behind Alex, Ed and Nick. Also in this one: 10km of roadworks Max swears was Roubaix, a camp where the showers run cold and one charger blew the village’s power, the Colombian tentmate who moved out overnight, and Max’s two bikes getting searched at Santiago customs.
Presented by Zwift. Max does his training on Zwift at home, and it’s what got him race-ready for Patagonia.
Welcome UFinancial, our new partner for the Patagonia trip. Financial advice, mortgage broking and financial planning all under one roof on St Kilda Road, and Max has been with them for years.
Interview of the season | Max on Stuey O’Grady, Pogi and Carapaz
DescriptionMax Gawn joins from Thailand for a Wednesday Social Club. He reckons if Pogačar comes to the Tour Down Under, he falls in love with it and comes back three years running. And if anyone has the mail …
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Max Gawn joins from Thailand for a Wednesday Social Club. He reckons if Pogačar comes to the Tour Down Under, he falls in love with it and comes back three years running. And if anyone has the mail, it's Michael Matthews.
We unpack the points system and why being a top-three ProTeam is now the money spot in cycling. That brings in Euskaltel's late points dash for Mikel Landa, and the Oceania Champs heading to Adelaide in January with 250 UCI points up for grabs.
Also in this episode:
- Reflections on the Stuart O'Grady interview and the state of Australian cycling
- Max's 2015 Player Revue, and what free drink cards will get you
- Widar beats Pidcock in Guangxi, Simmons v Healy at the Japan Cup, Campenaerts wins the Eneco Tour and McNulty finally wins in the rainbow stripes
- Another car on the course, Adam Hansen's battle for rider safety, and the NOS investigation into Picnic PostNL
- Carapaz to NSN, EF's finances, Ayuso's tough first year at Lidl-Trek, Roglič playing the field and Matt White leaving Movistar
- Max's Patagonia prep, Zwift top-ups between running sessions, and why he might be a Giant Defy man for life
The Social Club is presented by Giant.
Max Gawn Sits Down With Stuart O’Grady | 2027 TDU
Max Gawn sits down with Santos Tour Down Under race director Stuart O’Grady to go through the 2027 route, stage by stage, the morning after Max and Ed Langdon Everested Willunga Hill.They talk leaving Willunga …
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Max Gawn sits down with Santos Tour Down Under race director Stuart O’Grady to go through the 2027 route, stage by stage, the morning after Max and Ed Langdon Everested Willunga Hill.
They talk leaving Willunga out of his first race as director. O'Grady explains how the men’s and women’s races will run on the same day, on the same course, for the first time in the Australian summer.
In this episode:
- Max’s Everest numbers: 8,911 metres, 13,000 calories and 21 hours in the saddle
- A short, steep climb three times in the final of stage one from Henley Beach
- Corkscrew twice on stage three, now turning right like the women did this year
- Willunga Hill from a new direction, and a Norwood to Stirling finale
- How points farming has changed the TDU, and Max on Jayco’s Australian identity
- The 2028 route Stewie’s already designed, and whether Pogačar is coming
Adam Hansen on GPS trackers, WADA and fixing cycling’s safety problem
CPA president Adam Hansen joins us fresh from the first UCI cycling reform meeting to talk rider safety, salaries and anti-doping from the inside.Heads up: the audio isn’t our usual standard, but what he shares …
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CPA president Adam Hansen joins us fresh from the first UCI cycling reform meeting to talk rider safety, salaries and anti-doping from the inside.
Heads up: the audio isn’t our usual standard, but what he shares is well worth pushing through for.
Adam takes us through what was discussed at the reform table, and how rolling road closures actually work after a week of vehicles on course in the Italian races.
He lays out his top five safety priorities, from GPS trackers and hookless tyres to helmets only rated to around 22 km/h, and why he expects trackers in every race by mid-next year.
We also get into the ITA night tests on Tadej and Jonas at the Tour, the flaws in the ADAMS whereabouts system that riders fear more than testing itself, why he believes the peloton is clean, and where airbags fit into the future of racing.
Trek Are a Watch: Max’s Top Five Transfers | Ciccone, Ganna
Max Gawn's top five transfers of the trade period so far, from Giulio Ciccone to Q36.5 and Filippo Ganna to Lidl-Trek to Ben Turner at Soudal Quick-Step.Plus Paul Seixas wins Il Lombardia, Per Strand Hagenes …
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Max Gawn's top five transfers of the trade period so far, from Giulio Ciccone to Q36.5 and Filippo Ganna to Lidl-Trek to Ben Turner at Soudal Quick-Step.
Plus Paul Seixas wins Il Lombardia, Per Strand Hagenes takes Paris-Tours, and Plappy is out of Guangxi with a fractured wrist.
In this Social Club:
- Alex hits the wall at the Chicago Marathon, and Jimmy Whelan v Kipchoge in Melbourne
- Max on being the heaviest Everester, and why no one over 115kg has beaten him yet
- Gravel Worlds in Perth, and whether Paris-Tours should be the sixth monument
- Remco's five-minute safety protest at Lombardia, ahead of our Adam Hansen interview
- Ciccone v Mauro Schmid, and how Australia sells the Tour Down Under to the world's best riders
The Social Club is presented by Giant. Max's Giant garage now runs to two Propels, two TCRs, an Anthem, a Fathom and a Revolt.
Max is back on Zwift since his Everest, right next to the sauna.
Sir Max Gawn Everests Willunga at 115kg | Remco, Ciccone, Lombardia
Max Gawn has Everested Willunga Hill: 39 and a half laps, 8,851 metres, no power meter and 115 kilos, alongside Ed Langdon and Hamish Blake.Plus Plappy on crashes and police motorbikes on the course in Italy …
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Max Gawn has Everested Willunga Hill: 39 and a half laps, 8,851 metres, no power meter and 115 kilos, alongside Ed Langdon and Hamish Blake.
Plus Plappy on crashes and police motorbikes on the course in Italy, Remco v Ciccone at the Euros, and who wins Il Lombardia.
In this Social Club:
- Max's Everest top five, the low points, and why the pub at the bottom matters
- Hot laps with Stuart O'Grady and Darren Hicks, and a road closed by the SA Government
- Ciccone's mid-contract move to Q36.5, Ganna to Lidl-Trek and Jordi Meeus
- UCI points now on offer for track, mountain bike and gravel
- Jimmy Whelan v Eliud Kipchoge at the Melbourne Marathon, and Plappy v Pidcock in China
The Social Club is presented by Giant. Max rode his Everest on the Giant Defy.
A Sports Director Has Never Crossed the Line First | Sam Bewley
Former GreenEDGE rider Sam Bewley joins us for a look at what goes on behind the scenes at a WorldTour team. Sam is now Head Sports Director at NSN. His job covers race strategy from the car, deciding which DS …
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Former GreenEDGE rider Sam Bewley joins us for a look at what goes on behind the scenes at a WorldTour team. Sam is now Head Sports Director at NSN. His job covers race strategy from the car, deciding which DS goes to which race, and helping recruit the riders who will shape the squad in 2028.
We talk about how NSN is rebuilding into a balanced team after Derek Gee's departure, and how you create a single culture across 25 nationalities. Sam also explains why race calendars and support riders often matter more than salary to young leaders, and how the invite system can leave teams stuck at races they no longer want.
He goes inside Biniam Girmay's Tour de France campaign and explains why the team stayed motivated without a stage win. He also remembers his first race as a DS, directing Chris Froome at the Tour Down Under, and shares the beer-with-the-mechanics approach he took to building trust in the job.
Teamwork Wins Races (8-Man Teams) | World Championships 2026 Recap
Brandon McNulty is the 2026 road world champion. Team USA's 8-man squad outplayed Mathieu van der Poel, Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert at the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal, and Michael Matthews …
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Brandon McNulty is the 2026 road world champion. Team USA's 8-man squad outplayed Mathieu van der Poel, Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert at the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal, and Michael Matthews rode to a heroic silver for Australia with almost no team support.
On this week's Social Club, Alex Clements and AFL captain Max Gawn break down the most chaotic Worlds road race in years. We cover how the race unfolded and how Team USA used their numbers perfectly, with Matteo Jorgensen and Quinn Simmons setting up McNulty's winning attack. We also get into why Belgium's plan fell apart, Isaac del Toro's huge workload for Mexico, and Tom Pidcock's late move. And we ask the big question: should Australia have sent a full team to back Bling?
Plus we recap Demi Vollering's thrilling win in the women's elite road race, Talia Appleton's fifth in the women's U23s, Jack Ward's top 10 in the men's U23s, the junior races, and the rest of the week in pro cycling.
Worlds Preview, Brownlow Night and Max's Everest Plan | Social Club
Max is fresh off fourth in the Brownlow, the best vote count of his career, and a red carpet interview that started with a question about the world wheelchair championship. He also talks Everest prep: seven …
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Max is fresh off fourth in the Brownlow, the best vote count of his career, and a red carpet interview that started with a question about the world wheelchair championship. He also talks Everest prep: seven laps of Mount Dandenong, roughly 40 climbs to go in South Australia, and a possible pub stop for a parma halfway through.
Plappy's back in Spain after an underdone return in Italy, and he's lining up in China next month, where a certain mountain bike world champion has just appeared on the start list. He also walks through the mechanics' nightly group chat, chainrings, cassettes and the tyre pressures that will horrify anyone still running 120 psi.
Then it's Worlds. With Pogačar out and Carapaz withdrawn, the road race is wide open. We break down Belgium's two-leader plan, whether the French can make it hard enough to drop Van der Poel and Van Aert, and why Del Toro might beat Remco and Paul Seixas in a sprint. Max gives his tips, Alex backs Lorenzo Finn as a smokey, and Plappy is dreaming of a Van Aert rainbow jersey.
Plus: the TT verdict on Ganna's future, Felicity Wilson-Haffenden's junior title, the Oceania Championships landing in Adelaide in January, a transfer round-up including Gall, Mühlberger and a possible Welsford move to Jayco, and Max's Top Five presented by Pillar Performance: the best fluffers in cycling.
Folded Teams, Unpaid Wages & Making the WorldTour at 34 | Aaron Gate
Aaron Gate made the WorldTour with Astana at 34. New Zealand's most decorated Commonwealth Games athlete joins us to talk through one of the most unlikely careers in the peloton. He won Olympic team pursuit …
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Aaron Gate made the WorldTour with Astana at 34. New Zealand's most decorated Commonwealth Games athlete joins us to talk through one of the most unlikely careers in the peloton. He won Olympic team pursuit bronze in London, then worked through a string of teams that folded underneath him, including Aqua Blue, which shut down with a single email in August, and Evo Pro, which still owes him half a season's pay.
Aaron takes us from hacksawing time trial bikes together before De Panne, to riding Madisons around Europe with Shane Archibald to qualify New Zealand for the worlds, to finally landing a WorldTour contract with Astana at 34. He also relives this year's Tour debut: a teammate's disc wheel flying at his head in the Barcelona team time trial, stitches in his face after stage two, then leading out sprints in the final kilometres. Plus Stefan Denifl, a voice note from Vinokourov, and whether LA 2028 is next.
Luke Tuckwell | The Roglič Apprenticeship, and a Worlds Debut
Luke Tuckwell's first Grand Tour was a three-week apprenticeship. He rode the Vuelta a España as Primož Roglič's climbing support, spent most of it on his wheel, and came out the other side named in Australia's …
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Luke Tuckwell's first Grand Tour was a three-week apprenticeship. He rode the Vuelta a España as Primož Roglič's climbing support, spent most of it on his wheel, and came out the other side named in Australia's team for his first elite world championships. He's 22.
Roglič wanted him sitting behind rather than leading, which turned out to be the better classroom - Luke could watch where a nine-time Grand Tour podium finisher puts himself in a bunch, and when he spends energy and when he doesn't. By the final week the two of them had stopped needing to speak. He also gets into what Roglič passed on off the bike, the bus conversations, and why a rider that decorated was still thanking his teammates on stage 21.
Then Montreal. Luke wasn't expecting selection, what Matt Hayman told him about bringing young riders through early, and a very honest answer on why the green and gold never moved the needle at junior and U23 level — and why it does now. Plus why he thinks a chaotic race suits an Australian team without a superstar.
And the road that got him there: the Simon Clark message in 2021, an Italian team where nobody spoke English, learning how to train in Girona, and the night at the Baby Giro when Red Bull said his results didn't match his power numbers.
Australia's Incomplete Worlds Team | Movistar Win Big + Vuelta Tiers | Social Club
Australia's team for the world championships in Montreal has been announced, and there are a few names on it worth talking about — and a few that aren't on it at all. Alex and Max go through the selection rider …
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Australia's team for the world championships in Montreal has been announced, and there are a few names on it worth talking about — and a few that aren't on it at all. Alex and Max go through the selection rider by rider, look at how the squad might race in Canada, and get into a side of the selection process that doesn't get much airtime.
Then the Vuelta a España wrap. Movistar win a home Grand Tour with Enric Mas, Roglič takes second off a time trial he hadn't trained for, and Sepp Kuss sneaks into fifth. Mikel Landa and Eddie Dunbar both save their seasons in the final week, Uno-X put six riders into a 69-man breakaway on stage 20, and Max rates every team at the race from Tier 1 down to Tier 6 — with three big names in the bottom bracket.
Plus Max reports back from Amy's Gran Fondo: 122km, no training, a broken cassette 25km in, and a Top Five of everything he'd forgotten he hates about riding a bike. And a first look at Worlds off the back of Quebec and Montreal.
Mas Holds Firm, Van Aert Runs Riot at the Vuelta | Social Club
Max is back from the footy trip (alive) and Plappy's building form for Tour of Bright as the boys dive into a huge week of La Vuelta a España. They break down every stage from 9 to 16 - Van Aert's green jersey …
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Max is back from the footy trip (alive) and Plappy's building form for Tour of Bright as the boys dive into a huge week of La Vuelta a España. They break down every stage from 9 to 16 - Van Aert's green jersey dominance, Movistar's masterclass in setting up Enric Mas, and Brenner's big win for the team. Plus: Max's off-the-red-eye top 5 (and honourable mentions) for the best under-25 riders in the world right now, Tour of Britain wrap, early Worlds selection chat for Belgium, Slovenia and the Aussies, and a fresh batch of transfer news.
Michael Matthews | Kobe Bryant, GreenEdge Then & Now, and Pogi
Bling / Michael Matthews joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation spanning his entire career — from a motocross-obsessed kid in Canberra who stumbled into cycling, to Australian champion within six …
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Bling / Michael Matthews joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation spanning his entire career — from a motocross-obsessed kid in Canberra who stumbled into cycling, to Australian champion within six months, to a decade-plus at the top of the World Tour.
Bling opens up on the origin of his nickname, meeting Kobe Bryant in a hotel elevator during his first year as a pro, and the eerie parallel of watching LeBron James walk through a crowd in Paris untouched. He walks through the highs — winning the Green Jersey with Sunweb, the emotional 2017 Tour de France stage win in Rodez two years after breaking ribs on the same climb, the legendary Green Edge "Aussie rock star" era — and the lows, including a horror pre-Tour crash in 2014 and a brutal, injury-riddled run through the 2015 Tour just weeks before his wedding.
He also reflects candidly on team culture then versus now, what he sees of his younger self in Tadej Pogačar, the role his wife and daughter play in keeping him motivated at 35, and why the World Championships remains the one jersey that's slipped through his fingers — with Canada, a course that's been kind to him before, right around the corner.
David Spindler: Team Culture, Concussion Science & The Neurochemistry of Winning
Dr. David Spindler is a neuroscientist, cognitive performance strategist, and elite athlete wellbeing expert who's spent his career helping athletes and teams understand that brain chemicals matter. He's worked …
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Dr. David Spindler is a neuroscientist, cognitive performance strategist, and elite athlete wellbeing expert who's spent his career helping athletes and teams understand that brain chemicals matter. He's worked with some of the biggest names in professional sport, most famously alongside Mark Cavendish through the darkest years of his career, chronicled in Netflix's "Never Enough."
Three big segments in this one.
Team culture. David breaks down the actual neurochemistry behind why old-school GreenEDGE had that "I'd do anything for my mate next to me" quality — it comes down to oxytocin, the same bonding chemical released when a parent holds their newborn, and why some teams manufacture it constantly while others can't buy it no matter how much they spend. He and Alex build an entire hypothetical Australian WorldTour team from a blank sheet of paper — values, non-negotiables, culture — and get into why "old school Green Edge" gets thrown around constantly but almost nobody can actually define what it means.
Concussion. A proper breakdown of concussion protocols in the peloton and why cycling is dangerously behind rugby and the NFL on brain safety — including the messy legal reason nobody wants to call an impact sensor a "concussion sensor," and who actually carries liability when a rider gets hurt.
Training the brain. David explains the real neuroscience of reactionary decision-making, why riders like Tadej Pogačar seem to have supernatural crash radar, and the actual mechanics of how he trains neural efficiency in elite endurance athletes to extend time to exhaustion — plus how his own PhD on decision-making under physiological load in professional cyclists led him down this path in the first place.
The Pogi-to-Australia Masterplan (Sky Decks, Highland Cows & One Very Specific Tennis Player)
The boys have a plan to get Tadej Pogačar down under.Meanwhile the Vuelta has completely flipped on its head, someone's playing it ice cold in the red jersey, and the mountain bike world championships produced …
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The boys have a plan to get Tadej Pogačar down under.
Meanwhile the Vuelta has completely flipped on its head, someone's playing it ice cold in the red jersey, and the mountain bike world championships produced one of the most ridiculous rides of the year from a guy who basically chose to start from the back. Max's new top five ranks the teams he'd actually send a rider to and there's a brand new segment debuting this week that involves some very confident guesswork about riders' salaries.
We're (Alex is) sorry | Max's 9th Jacket + Ed hard-launches the next cycling project
We're (Alex is) sorry — Monday's show fell apart in a car park in Stage 3, so here's the make-up episode. Max's 9th All Australian jacket, plus Ed hard-launches the next cycling project: an Everesting attempt …
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We're (Alex is) sorry — Monday's show fell apart in a car park in Stage 3, so here's the make-up episode. Max's 9th All Australian jacket, plus Ed hard-launches the next cycling project: an Everesting attempt in October with zero training.:Max's Top 5 on fixing cycling coverage and a full Vuelta recap.
Matthew Richardson | AUS To GB, The Lifetime Ban & Getting Taken Out In Japan
Alex sits down with Matthew Richardson at his home in Manchester for his most open interview yet. The world's fastest man over 200m takes us inside the Japanese Keirin World Series — the deliberate hit that …
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Alex sits down with Matthew Richardson at his home in Manchester for his most open interview yet. The world's fastest man over 200m takes us inside the Japanese Keirin World Series — the deliberate hit that broke his scapula and put him in a Tokyo hospital, body armour, betting culture, and three days locked away with no phone and a stack of second-hand DVDs.
Then, the full story of the switch: deciding on Christmas Day to leave Australia for Great Britain, telling AusCycling after winning silver in Paris, the equipment saga, the two-year ban threat that became a lifetime ban, and why he'd do it all again. Plus 240kg squats, why he never trains his upper body, creatine, LA 2028, and a golf handicap that shouldn't be ten.
Keeno's Home | Tour Wash-Up, Vuelta Preview & Max's Top 5 Commentators
Keeno's back from 44 days in France. Matthew Keenan, Max and Alex wrap the Tour and TDFF. We preview the Vuelta a España — UAE's three-headed monster, Gall, Onley, Landa's last World Tour Grand Tour, Tuckwell's …
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Keeno's back from 44 days in France. Matthew Keenan, Max and Alex wrap the Tour and TDFF. We preview the Vuelta a España — UAE's three-headed monster, Gall, Onley, Landa's last World Tour Grand Tour, Tuckwell's GT debut — and run through Hamburg, Czech Tour, Norway (Uno-X, obviously), Del Toro's deal to 2031 and the transfer whirl. Max's Top 5 commentators, with Keeno sitting right there. We also pay tribute to Finlay Tarling.
Wednesday: Team GB sprinter Matthew Richardson.
James Moran | Building Uno-X's Nutrition Program
James Moran is Head of Nutrition at Uno-X Mobility, joining the team in December 2019 as a consultant when they were still a Conti squad, before building the entire nutrition program from the ground up as they …
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James Moran is Head of Nutrition at Uno-X Mobility, joining the team in December 2019 as a consultant when they were still a Conti squad, before building the entire nutrition program from the ground up as they turned WorldTour. What began with just a list of riders and no instructions beyond "teach them about nutrition," has grown into three full-time chefs and nutritionists across the men's and women's programs. He works closely with nutrition partner Mauten on carbohydrate absorption research and oral microbiome testing, and was central to Jonas Abrahamsen's transformation from 68kg to 78kg - one of the team's biggest nutrition success stories. Before cycling, James worked in track cycling with British Cycling, and has also consulted across boxing, tennis, and rugby.
Top 5 Riders Teams Should Sign, Max's Grand Final-or-Everesting Gamble, and Monaco's Car Rankings | Social Club
Plappy's back from San Sebastián.Max's off-season plans hinge on one thing: Melbourne's finals run. Either he's playing in a grand final, or he's Everesting a climb in South Australia with Ed Langdon — …
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Plappy's back from San Sebastián.
Max's off-season plans hinge on one thing: Melbourne's finals run. Either he's playing in a grand final, or he's Everesting a climb in South Australia with Ed Langdon — completely untrained, in the hunt to be the heaviest person to ever do it. Also floated: getting Plappy to hand down one of his old sports cars as the podcast's official team car.
On the bike: Wout van Aert's Denmark treble, Jensen's cruel near-miss ("biggest blue balls of my life" per his own Instagram), Marco Brenner's Poland win, Remco's record San Sebastián, and Felix Gall's Burgos victory — with Oscar Onley's return to form the one Plappy was happiest to see. Gianni Moscon adds another line to the rap sheet with a fresh DQ.
Max builds out his All-Australian squad (37 riders deep and counting, no room for Uno-X yet despite their stacked year) and floats basing a second Aussie team in Asia. Plus Max's Pillar Performance Top 5 out-of-contract riders — Danny van Poppel, Habats, Christophe Laporte, Toms Skujiņš and Laurens De Plus — a Comm Games track wrap, and the reveal of the TDF Femmes Zwift prize winner, a 26-year-old triathlete lawyer from Adelaide who couldn't have written a better use for it himself.
Plus your voicenotes.
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Team Demi vs Team Kasha — the Receipts Get Read | TDFF Final Recap
The final episode of an incredible nine days — Max makes his case for "Team FDJ," a 2024 grudge resurfaces, and one mid-race turn from an unlikely rider blows the whole GC group apart before the decisive …
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The final episode of an incredible nine days — Max makes his case for "Team FDJ," a 2024 grudge resurfaces, and one mid-race turn from an unlikely rider blows the whole GC group apart before the decisive finale.
In this episode:
- Demi's callback to 2024 and the full context behind it — was Kasha really in the wrong?
- Max declares himself "Team Demi" while defending FDJ's road captain instincts
- Zoe Baxter's monster turn splits the group and takes down a podium contender
- The "Longini" nickname is born, and UAE's surprising third-fifth-seventh haul
- Breaking down the polka dot jersey points system — and why it clearly wasn't designed for the GC leader to win it
- Full prize wrap-up: Oakley Metas, TDU hamper, and the Zwift setup winner still to come
- A genuine debate on race length — should TDFF ever go beyond nine days?
- What's next on the calendar for the whole peloton before Worlds
- Amy signs off — for now — with a standing invite back for Social Club
🚴♀️ Tour de France Femmes 2026 coverage with Max Gawn & Amy Jones — thanks for following along all nine days
🎧 Zwift smart trainer winner announced on tomorrow's Social Club episode
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Fourth Yellow Jersey in Eight Days, and It's Not Slowing Down | TDFF Stage 8 Recap
Will Max's solo laptop-battery monologue finally sees the light of day? Alex rides Ventoux himself, and a genuinely controversial corner sparks the most heated debate of the whole Tour — was it a block, or just …
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Will Max's solo laptop-battery monologue finally sees the light of day? Alex rides Ventoux himself, and a genuinely controversial corner sparks the most heated debate of the whole Tour — was it a block, or just racing?
In this episode:
- Alex's own Ventoux ascent, and a Strava time nobody's allowed to see yet
- Ventoux recap: Niewiadoma's decisive attack, and how badly the favourites underestimated her
- Longo Borghini's quiet, selfless ride that may have saved someone's GC entirely
- The corner that's split the podcast down the middle — Amy makes her case, with "extensive video evidence"
- Vollering takes yellow for the fourth time in eight stages — genuinely one of the tightest GCs in years
- What Canyon-SRAM should do with the white jersey heading into the final day
- Prize money reality check — why the white jersey might be worth less than a sausage roll and a Coke
- Final stage preview: four ascents of the Col d'Èze, GC still wide open, huge prizes on the line
- Tips locked in — including one accusation of bias that doesn't go unnoticed
🚴♀️ Daily Tour de France Femmes coverage with Max Gawn & Amy Jones🎧 New episode every stage — follow so you don't miss one🎙️ Send us your voice notes — link in bio, speakpipe.com/stanleystsocial🕶️ Final stage prizes: Oakley Metas, a TDU hamper, and the GC comp winner revealed
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Team Games, a Neutral Car Nightmare & the Ventoux showdown | Stage 6
A stacked breakaway, a young French rider given the hometown blessing to attack, a runaway neutral service motorbike causing chaos, and a proper GC scare for one of the favourites heading straight into the …
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A stacked breakaway, a young French rider given the hometown blessing to attack, a runaway neutral service motorbike causing chaos, and a proper GC scare for one of the favourites heading straight into the Queen Stage.
In this episode:
- FDJ's hometown gift to their young French talent, and EF's near-miss with their own descending specialist
- Puck living her absolute best life — press conferences, breakaway points, GC top-15, all at once
- A genuinely bizarre day for Visma — best 10-minute power ever, still gets dropped from the group
- The neutral service motorbike incident that nearly took out the breakaway multiple times
- Canyon-SRAM's tactical dilemma — using the white jersey to chase when GC is what matters most
- Longo Borghini's one-woman chase effort, and what it says about her priorities
- A tight, well-earned bunch sprint finish and what it means for the GC top five
- Mont Ventoux preview: the Queen Stage, three GC contenders, and a genuine head-to-head shaping up
- Another broadcast coverage miss — right before the biggest stage of the race
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"I Was At My Best. They Were Just Better." | TDFF Stage 5 Recap
Amy makes her BBC radio debut talking bra-gate, and back on the bike a genuinely brutal stage separates the real GC contenders from the pretenders — including one honest, disarming post-race quote that stuck …
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Amy makes her BBC radio debut talking bra-gate, and back on the bike a genuinely brutal stage separates the real GC contenders from the pretenders — including one honest, disarming post-race quote that stuck with everyone.
In this episode:
- Amy's whirlwind BBC appearance, and whether any press is good press
- The UAE leadership saga gets an unexpectedly clear answer straight from the rider herself
- Puck's KOM mission continues largely unopposed — why isn't anyone else fighting for polka dots?
- The GC group splinters on the hardest climbing of the race so far — who survived, who didn't
- A genuinely gracious post-race quote that says more about where the gap really is
- Breaking down prize money across the men's and women's races — and why it matters more than you'd think
- A Polaroid project update and the ongoing Zwift leaderboard chaos
- Stage 6 preview: does the breakaway finally get its shot, or is everyone saving it for what comes next?
🚴♀️ Daily Tour de France Femmes coverage with Max Gawn & Amy Jones
🎧 New episode every stage — follow so you don't miss one
🎙️ Send us your voice notes — link in bio, speakpipe.com/stanleystsocial
👟 Comment your Stage 7 tip for a shot at Giant shoes (Australia only)
💻 Tip the most stage winners across the Tour for a chance to win a Zwift smart trainer setup#TourDeFranceFemmes #TDFF2026 #StanleyStSocial #CyclingPodcast
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