Episodes
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David and Mikkel talk to Rob Gitelis, the owner of Factor Bikes and Black Inc. Wheels and Components. He is the don of performance carbon fibre in the world of cycling and we learn all about his journey and learn about what it takes to make the best bikes and components in the world.
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David and Mikkel are joined by Damian Soong and Dr Adam Collins to talk about performance nutrition. Damian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Form Nutrition, Dr Adam Collins is a world renowned nutritionist, his ongoing interests lie in obesity, exercise nutrition, body composition and energy metabolism all as can be applied to weight loss/maintenance and metabolic health, he is also the principal advisor to Form Nutrition.
Find Form Nutrition here.
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David has started a 12 week challenge to get back in shape. He is on the search of his old time trial spirit and travels back in time to find it and bring it back to 2022z
On May the 14th 2022 he will pursue a 20 minute time trial to demonstrate what can be done if you train and prepare probably. On the journey he gets advice from experts from pro cycling, tech, health care, nutrition, psychology, bike design, aero dynamics to get an update on what has change since his last time trial in 2014.
Mikkel and David meets every week to talk about the progress and invite an expert to give us insights on what the latest knowledge and tech is to beat your best.
I this episode Mikkel and David speak to Christian Vande Velde about training and The Breakaway App...
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David has started a 12-week challenge to get back in shape. He is on the search of his time trial spirit and travels back in time to find it and bring it back to 2022. On May the 14th 2022, he will pursue a 20 minute time trial to demonstrate what can be done if you train and prepare probably. On the journey, he gets advice from experts from pro cycling, tech, health care, nutrition, psychology, bike design, aerodynamics to get an update on what has changed since his last time trial in 2014.
Mikkel and David meet every week to talk about the progress and invite an expert to give us insights on what the latest knowledge and tech is to beat your best.
We are in the first week of the time traveller challenge. David and Mikkel discuss the why and what of the CHPT3 Time Traveller project. It began as a personal challenge David had given himself to get fit, it's escalated into something a bit bigger. We've decided to share the journey and encourage all of you to join. This is the first in a special series of OFF BIKE podcasts that will serve as an extra content stream to give you updates, news and interviews with industry leaders.
Then we go and meet Davids’s coach Marti Castello who puts David’s fitness to the test. We talk about how to set your baseline for your time travel challenge. It turns out that it is all about power and that David is actually not that unfit….
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David Millar talks to Chris Boardman about cycling through his life and why he might just change the world we live in for the better.
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Mikkel and David are joined by Tim Marlow, CEO of the Design Museum and former Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, to talk about everything that surrounds the race on it's journey through France.
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Mikkel and David are joined by Tim Marlow, CEO of the Design Museum and former Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, to talk about everything that surrounds the race on it's journey through France.
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Mikkel and David are joined by Tim Marlow, CEO of the Design Museum and former Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, to discuss the culture surrounding the route of the Tour de France. From artists to cathedrals to wine...
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David and Mikkel spent a morning with the Australian-British celebrated chef, John Torode. A keen cyclist who David met six years ago while out riding. They talk about the connection between food and cycling, and John's life in London in the 1990's till now. The morning started with laps of Regent Park on Brompton's before heading to Saville Row for a video call with Mikkel in Copenhagen.
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Mikkel and David are joined by Tim Marlow, the CEO of the Design Museum, and former Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This is an introduction and explanation to the four upcoming episodes that will offer a different point of view to the Tour de France. Every Monday morning, starting on June 28th, you will be taken on a journey into France and the geography, history, art, food, wine, music and people that surround and form the culture of the regions the race passes through.
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Mikkel and David are joined by Tim Marlow, the CEO of the Design Museum, and former Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This is an introduction and explanation to the four upcoming episodes that will offer a different point of view to the Tour de France. Every Monday morning, starting on June 28th, you will be taken on a journey into France and the geography, history, art, food, wine, music and people that surround and form the culture of the regions the race passes through.
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Gloria is the Founder and CEO of Thousand Helmets. Gloria launched the concept on Kickstarter in 2015, a recreational cyclist herself she could see there was a need to create a helmet that wasn't just safe but also had style. After losing a friend in a bicycle accident Gloria decided to create a helmet people would want to wear, with a mission to save a thousand lives. Mikkel and David talk to Gloria about her journey on and off the bike to where she is today and how the collaboration between CHPT3 and Thousand came about and what it means.
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What we wear and how we dress is important. We live in a fast fashion world, where it's considered normal for the lifecycle of the clothes we buy to deteriorate from the moment they leave the shop. What about if that's when the journey began? Maybe it's time we remembered that clothes are important, how we look after them defines how we take care of ourselves. Lucinda (aka Lulu) O'Connor founded Clothes Doctor, a company created to look after our clothes: repairing or washing, most importantly, it's about caring.
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In this episode we go to the old town of Girona to meet Kasia Niewiadoma; one of the world's best cyclists. Kasia is 26 years old from Poland and has been racing since she was 14 years old. She rides for the Canyon-SRAM team and has won some of the most prestigious races that exist for women.
Kasia is known in the cycling scene for being one of the most exciting competitors - her handling of a bike is next level, her attitude is inspiring. For Kasia cycling has always been about play: the freedom of escape and speed, the opportunity for adventure, and discovering new people. We talk about how she came into cycling, what it’s like to race at her level and what cycling gives her apart from crossing a finish line first. We also talk about how cycling can be more welcoming to women. Kasia knows cycling from the inside out and gives us her insight on what needs to change to make cycling more equal between men and women.
Find Kasia here on IG.
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Lachlan Morton is one of the most interesting characters in professional cycling. He is better known for his championing of an alternative style of biking, one that involves breaking free from the shackles of what's expected. Only 28yrs old yet already an icon within the world of cycling. I was his team mate when he first entered the World Tour back in 2012, we became friends immediately even though I was 35 and he was 20, I saw so much of my 20yr old self in him and have always followed him from afar since our paths separated. Mikkel, on the other hand, only knew Lachlan from his film "Thereabouts" - a film Lachlan and his brother Gus made in 2014 as an antidote to the professional racing life - that film reignited a passion for cycling that Mikkel had lost. It's become a movement since, and without knowing it Lachlan and Gus created what is now a zeitgeist.
Find Lachlan here on IG.
His film Thereabouts here.
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We thought we knew Taylor Phinney.
It turns out we didn't know Taylor Phinney.
Taylor used to race bikes, he was one of the best the USA has ever produced, yet he abruptly pulled the pin on his professional career in 2019 as a 29yr old. He hasn't stopped riding bikes, in fact he's discovered a style of cycling that is about as far removed from racing as is possible, and in the process he's found himself.
Mikkel B. Rasmussen and David Millar interview Taylor separately: Mikkel from Copenhagen and David atop a hill, next to a chapel, near Girona while on a mountain bike ride.
Find Taylor on Instagram here: @taylorphinney
Find Taylor on Twitter here: @taylorphinney
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We interview the modern voice of cycling, Mr Ned Boulting, in many ways this was an opportunity for us to learn more about him. In the words of David, 'Ned got me into the TV business, and funnily enough I was one of his first interviews when he entered the fray of professional cycling, he asked me about the "the yellow jumper" - over the years our relationship has transformed from being separated by a barrier to sitting side-by-side; at times sharing a microphone trying to tell the same story. I think it's important to learn about him because he's easily as interesting, if not more, than the people he's so passionate talking to and about.'
Ned founded, edits and publishes the first ever cycling bible, it's called The Road Book - FIND IT HERE
Find Ned's numerous excellent books on the above website - but first listen to this extract from How I Won The Yellow Jumper HERE ON YOUTUBE
Ned on Twitter: @nedboulting
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This episode is about Mikkel and I, how cycling introduced the two of us and the off-bike friendship it's created. I interview Mikkel about his life and work: it's a conversation we would never have in normal circumstances. Mikkel talks about cycling, economics, design, and anthropology, and ultimately; what being human means.
We did this in Copenhagen at the HQ of the company Mikkel co-founded, ReD Associates - thank you to Thomas Hughes, Ian Dull and Martin Gronemann for putting up with my interrupting their day to interview them. ReD is a company like no other, and that was the other reason I wanted us to do this episode, because personally I wanted to understand more about what they do. It filled me with hope, and in this crazy time we're living in that's important, because without hope there is no optimism.
I recommend everybody reads Mikkel's book: The Moment of Clarity.
I mentioned I'd list some Scottish inventions - here are the ones relevant to this podcast: pedal bicycle, tarmac roads, pneumatic tyres. Find more here.
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We speak to Stuart O'Grady, Rolf Sørensen, and Steve Smith. A winner, a contender, and a sponsor; all of them fans (through love and hate) of Paris Roubaix.
Mikkel and I were supposed to be riding it as amateurs in 2020, it seems mad to think we should even care about that right now, yet we do and so we thought we'd investigate why. -
This is a special edition of OFF BIKE, in the words of David:
What is Wheels For Heroes? I’ll try and explain from my perspective…Bicycles have always represented fun to me. When I was a kid they gave me the freedom I needed. As I got older that freedom led to adventure, and as I got stronger the bicycle introduced me to speed, eventually it led me to racing. I’ve spent the majority of my life racing. I stopped in 2014.
In 2015 I went to a big lunch in London and I met Will Butler-Adams, the CEO of Brompton, he asked me, “You’re the Tour de France racer, right?” He told me he worked at Brompton, and I said, “You’re the folding bike guys, right?”
He had an idea: there were all these MAMILS out there whom looked down upon Brompton, because it was… well, it’s wasn’t a road bike, and it folded.
I was one of those people - it wasn’t until Will convinced me to borrow a Brompton for a few days that I got it. It was the first bicycle that was more than fun, it served a purpose, it’s designed to be utilitarian, to improve your life, to make things simpler, to make things better.
So back to Wheels For Heroes. Brompton wants to help our key workers, the people whom have such an important purpose right now, they’re going to supply bikes to help them get to their jobs, and they’re going to make a loss doing it, this isn’t a marketing exercise because I know Brompton so well, they’re an engineering company first, and if they do something it’s to solve a problem.
Please donate, or at least consider how you can help our key workers."
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