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Tim Declercq in a Belgian professional cyclist on Lidl Trek and regarded as one of the best domestiques in pro cycling from the last 10 years.
Giacomo Notari is an Italian coach for UAE Team Emirates.
Grace Brown is an Australian former pro cyclist and one of the best female cyclists of the modern era. Olympic Champion, World Champion and many more.
This podcast is a preview of the next book which comes out in December 2025 (or whenever I decide it’s good enough) as well as a bunch of quick tips for weight loss.
These are a few tips which work well for me and if you ride your bike 10 hours a week or more and are struggling with your weight, you’ll love this.
Ollie Eisenbach is a German bike fitter and Insoles maker. He’s one of the best bike fitters in the world and has helped many of the best cyclists in the world for over a decade. His company SoleStars makes the best custom cycling insoles I know of and are used by many of the best cyclists in the world. If you want to learn about bike fitting or cycling insoles, this is the guy.
This episode is with Gabriel Gallo (Knowledge is Watt on Instagram) where we answered as many of your questions as possible. If you like training science, this is the most dense episode I've put out yet.
David Bailey is a physiologist and coach. He's been a performance director at Israel Premier Tech, British Cycling, BMC Racing & Bahrain McLaren.
Attila Valter is a 26 year old Hungarian rider for Visma Lease a Bike and was 4th at the 2024 Olympics road race. He’s raced in the world tour for 6 years on CCC, FDJ and now Visma Lease a Bike.
Carlos Verona is a 32 year old Spanish rider for Lidl Trek. He’s raced in the world tour for 14 years on Quickstep, Mitchelton Scott, Movistar & Lidl Trek and won a stage of the Dauphine.
Kevin Vermaerke is a 24 year old American rider on Picnic PostNL and was one of the best young riders to come out of the US in the last 10 years. He’s raced the Tour de France twice, won the U23 Liège Bastongne Liège and been 4th at San Sebastian.
Luke Lamperti is a 21 year old American pro cyclist for Soudal Quick-Step
Luis Joe Lührs is a 21 year old German rider who was one of the best Junior cyclists in the world. He then went straight from the Junior’s to the world tour, skipping the U23 category to instead race for RedBull Bora Hansgrohe for the last 3 years.
This episode is just me, Jack. Here's a new fuel source I came across which has been awesome for my training because I can get all my fuel just in my bottles.
There's also a bunch of other tips around winter riding and nutrition, I'm sure you'll get something good out of this one.
Enjoy!
Steve Neal has been a Canadian Cycling coach for over 30 years and is my personal coach. You can find him anywhere @stevenealperformance
Steven de Jongh is a Dutch former pro cyclist and current sports director at Lidl Trek.
Louis Meintjes is a South African rider for Intermarche Wanty. He's finished top 10 GC in the Tour de France 3 times and is one of the best and most consistent GC riders in the world
Frank van den Broek is a 23 year old Dutch pro cyclist for DSM-firmenich PostNL. In his first year in the world tour he raced the Tour de France, where on stage 1 him and his teammate Romain Bardet went 1-2, meaning Frank was 2nd on his first stage in the Tour de France in his first year in the world tour.
Xert is a Canadian training software and the best training tool I have found in my career since I started keeping training records. This is a game changer.
This is a podcast I did with Emulation. Emulation is 2 French journalists, William & Robin who cover the stories behind famous athletes. Follow their Instagram account @emulation_ for more stories on athletes you've probably seen on TV.
Stefan de Bod is a 28 year old South African rider on EF Education Easy Post who has raced in the world tour for 6 years.
Toms Skujiņš is a Latvian world tour rider for Lidl Trek and one of the best cyclists in the world. In 2024 he was 2nd at Strade Bianche, 5th in the Olympic road race & 4th at the world championships.
Thomas Gloag is a 23 year old British Rider on Visma Lease a Bike.
Harry Sweeny is an Australian pro cyclist for EF Education - Easy Post.
Jasha Sütterlin is a German professional cyclist for Jayco Alula.
Asbjørn Hellemose is a 25 year old Danish pro cyclist for Jayco Alula
Mona Mitterwallner is an Austrian professional mountain biker, Olympian and 5 time world champion.
She’s also 22 years old.
Lorenzo Finn is an Italian rider on the Red Bull Bora Junior team and the 2024 Junior Mens Road Race World Champion.
Dajo Sanders is a coach and sports scientists on Ineos Grenadiers where he coaches some of the best riders in the world and collaborates with many of the best minds in human physiology regarding cycling performance.
This episode is 2 chapters (chapter 130 & 131) from the 2nd updated and extended edition of the book "How To Become A Pro Cyclist" which comes out in fall of 2024.
The Ötztaler Rad Marathon is the basis of these chapters so if you love that race, here’s the details and story behind me winning it and breaking the course record.
Peter leo is an Austrian endurance training scientist and data analyst.
He currently works for the Australian track cycling endurance program and was apart of the mens team pursuit team who won gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics where they also broke the world record.
Mattia Gaffuri is an Italian Cyclist & Coach. He was a finalist in the Zwift Academy in 2023 and a brilliant mind to speak about training and sports science.
Niamh Fisher-Black is a 23 year old rider from New Zealand on team SD Worx - Protime and one of the best female GC riders in the world. This podcast was recorded just before she left for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Carina Schrempf is an Austrian rider for the Fenix-Deceuninck womens world tour team.
She was a middle distance runner who switched to cycling after an injury, only started racing at the age of 28 and by the end of her first year racing on the road, she had made it to the world tour.
Maud Oudeman Is a 20 year old rider on the Visma Lease A Bike womens world tour team who signed her first pro contract with Canyon Sram after winning the Zwift Academy in 2021.
Ahmed Madan is a rider on the Bahrain - Victorious mens World Tour Team and the first person from Bahrain to make it to the world tour after graduating from the Bahrain Cycling Academy team.
Becky Storrie is a former triathlete from the Isle of Man turned world tour cyclist with DSM-Firmenich PostNL riding in her second year in the World Tour.
Finn Fisher-Black is Pro Cyclist from New Zealand on UAE Team Emirates.
He Broke The Junior World record in the 3km pursuit on the track which landed him a spot on the Jumbo Visma Development team. He then turned pro with UAE in 2021.
Felix Großschartner is an Austrian Pro cyclist on UAE team Emirates, one of the best climbers in the world and one of the last riders in the mountains for Tadej Pogačar.
Felix has raced all 3 grand tours many times, ridden for the best teams in the world and this episode was recorded days before he got on the plane to the 2024 Paris Olympics where he’s racing the Time Trial and Road Race.
Gabriele Gallo is the man behind the Knowledge Is Watt Instagram account and Substack which does an incredible job at translating scientific papers into more easily digestible content to be read, understood and applied fast and easy for anyone.
If you like sports science & training related to cycling, his accounts are a must follow on Instagram, X and Substack.
Sarah Gigante is an Australian Pro Cyclist & Olympian.
This Episode is With Jack Burke & Svein Tuft about what it takes to make it as a pro cyclist.
Alexander Kristoff is a Norwegian pro cyclist who has ridden in the world tour for 15 years and has been one of the best sprinters and classics riders for the last decade.
He’s won 4 stages of the Tour de France, Milano Sanremo, Tour of Flanders, Gent Wevelgem and many more.
5 previous guests on the podcast have all said Alexander Kristoff is the hardest worker and most focussed rider they’ve ever seen.
John Wakefield is a coach for Bora Hansgrohe/Bora RedBull and was previously a coach at UAE team emirates. He has coached many of the very best cyclists in the world over the last decade and also runs the Science to Sport lab in Girona and South Africa.
Tim Podlogar is an Exercise Physiologist and Performance Nutritionist for Bora Hansgrohe/Bora RedBull. Tim Is regarded as one of the smartest and most credible nutritionists in professional cycling in 2024.
Joe Dombrowski is an American former world tour rider who raced in the world tour for 11 years on some of the very best teams in the world. He rode 14 grand tours and announced his retirement at the end of January 2024.
Megan Jastrab is an American Pro Cyclist on DSM, an Olympic Medalist and Multiple time world champion who’s also ridden the Tour de France all by the age of 22.
Ian Boswell is an American former pro who raced 7 seasons in the world tour with team Sky and Katusha Alpecin. He retired after several head injuries, then won Unbound, the unofficial gravel world championships while working a normal job at Wahoo.
Ian Also has a podcast called Breakfast with Boz you can find here https://open.spotify.com/show/6Zcrdvkgj9cJt37765UAhN?si=25ddb93bcc4247b9
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Peter Leo is an Austrian sports scientist and head scientist for the Australian Cycling team. Peter also works with the Jayco Alula mens and womens world tour team.
His responsibilities are sports science for the Australian institute of sport leading into the 2024 Paris Olympic games and he’s responsible for road, track and mountain biking.
Steve Neal is a Canadian coach with more than 30 years of experiance working with mountain bike, road cyclists and XC skiers.
Where he stands out the most from other coaches is his attention to Respiratory Training and Testing.
Jani Brajkovič is a former Slovenian world tour cyclist and was one of the best GC riders in the world between 2010 and 2012.
He was the U23 TT world champion and won the Dauphine in 2010. He’s now dedicated his life to being an AEQ Method teacher which applies to sports psychology and the mind body connection.
Mattia Gaffuri is a cycling coach, podcaster and Zwift academy finalist
Asbjørn Hellemose is a Danish former world tour rider on Trek Segafredo
Dr. Kevin Sprouse is the head of performance for the world tour team EF Education - Easy Post and is the host of the Podium podcast which provides sports science related information and how it’s used in the highest level of pro cycling.
Ben Day is an Australian ex-pro cyclist, a former coach at the men’s world tour team Jayco Alula and the current coach for American Magic, the America’s cup yacht racing team where he trains Cyclors (big guys riding bikes on the boat to power the boat) to push 500W + for 20-30min races.
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Riejanne Markus is a Dutch world tour rider on Visma Lease A Bike. She’s a multiple-time national champion, won many pro races, multiple top 10s at the world championships and already raced the Tour De France twice.
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Joss Lowden is a British rider on UNO X and current women’s hour record holder.
Axel Merckx won an Olympic medal and stage at the Giro but he is also the owner and boss of the best development U23 cycling team in the world - Axeon.
This episode is for anyone who wants to become a pro cyclist or see inside the best development team in the world.
Alex Baudin is a French world tour rider on Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale.
Vasilis Anastopoulos is a Greek former rider and current head of performance at Astana where he is currently Mark Cavendish's coach.
He was the head coach at Quickstep where he also coached Remco Evenepoel.
Vasilis has had a long career of coaching the best riders in the world, those are just the two names that come up in this podcast.
Gabriele Gallo is an Italian PHD graduate student and the one behind the Knowledge Is Watt Instagram account which takes the latest sports science and makes it simple to understand. Translating PubMed research papers into Instagram content at a 3rd-grade level of understanding.
Quinn Simmons is an American rider on Lidl Trek. A former Junior world champion and current US national champion.
Eduardo Sepúlveda is a pro from Argentina on Lotto Dstny. He’s been a pro for more than 10 years and has an incredible story that shows how hard it is just to get to Europe to get the chance to race the biggest races
Jonas Iversby Hvideberg is a 25 year old Norwegian pro on UNO X and previously rode for DSM.
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Dries De Pooter is a 21 year old Belgian rider in his second year in the world tour with Intermarche Wanty
Frank van den Broek is a Dutch world tour rider on the DSM-firmenich PostNL world tour team.
He’s 23 years old and starting his first year in the world tour but he’s very open about the best tricks he’s tried to improve his performance so this episode is full of great new ideas.
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Chris Harper is an Aussie world tour cyclist on Jayco Alula. He turned pro older than most but with Jumbo Visma after almost quitting the sport the year before. He finished his first Tour De France in 2023.
Marco Pinotti is a retired italian pro cyclist and was one of the best Time trialists in the world during his career. He’s now the head coach on the mens world tour team Jayco Alula.
Marco has published many documents over the years on training science and this episode may be the most dense source of information specifically on Time Trial training.
Sven Erik Bystrøm is a Norwegian world tour rider. He was the U23 mens road race world champion in 2014 and has been a world tour rider for 10 years on Katusha, UAE, Intermarche-Wanty and now Groupama FDJ.
Simone Petilli is an italian world tour rider on Intermarche-Wanty who previously road for UAE and Lamprey.
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Mathew Hayman is an Aussie who was pro for 20 years in Europe between 2000 and 2019. He is now a Sports director on Jayco Alula (the mens Greenedge Aussie World Tour Team)
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Ide Schelling is a Dutch pro on Astana who spent his first 4 years pro on Bora Hansgrohe and wore the polka dot jersey at the Tour De France for the first week in the 2021 edition.
Todd Wells is one of the most famous names regarding American mountain bikers. He raced the world cup for many years, has more than 10 national titles, 3 wins at the Leadville 100 and is a 3 time Olympian. He splits his time between Tucson, Arizona and Durango, Colorado, 2 of the best places for cycling in the US.
If you’re curious about the book we chat about, it’s called “How To Become A Pro Cyclist” and you can only get it at howtobecomeaprocyclist.com
Tobias Lund Andresen is a 21 year old (born 2002) Danish sprinter on the DSM-Firmenich PostNL world tour team. He’s about to start his second season in the world tour.
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Cesare Benedetti is an Italian/Polish world tour professional cyclist on Bora Hansgrohe. He’s been a rider on the team for 15 years, won a stage of the Giro and was part of the team which won the Giro in 2022. He’s one of the best and most experienced support riders in the world tour.
Matt White was the head sports director of the Greenedge men’s world tour team. He’s now the Director of High Performance and Racing, overseeing all 4 teams including the men’s and women’s world tour as well as the development teams.
if you love sports science, training science, wanna learn a bit about motorpracing or just want some stats I think you'll enjoy this.
For me, this was overdoing it but it still kinda worked.
Hope it gives you some ideas to do it better and go further than I did
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Nickolas Zukowsky is a Canadian professional cyclist for the pro continental team Q36.5
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I tried Nils Van Der Poels threshold season training method but altered it a bit to make it more into a game. It worked. I did it at an altitude camp and after, I broke almost all my power records but I still don't think it's a good idea for road cycling.
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if you love stories, I think this will make you smile.
Share it but don't fill in the details I left out and get me in trouble. If you know, you know.
Hope it makes you laugh... or just get through some miserable training out in some awful weather.
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here's a short clip from the podcast with Sepp Kuss that's inserted between chapters in the audio book and video series version of the book
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I hope you love it!
A clip from one of the podcasts with Dan Bigham. These podcasts are inserted between chapters of the audiobook and video series versions of the book
How To Become A Pro Cyclist
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A clip from one of the many podcasts inserted between chapters of the audiobook and video series versions of my first book, how to become a pro cyclist which you can only get at
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if you love details and specifics, this book is full of them and especially in the podcast with Jan we talked a lot about the crazy numbers and stats from racing currently (2023)
I hope you enjoy, I hope it helps you kill some time out training and if you need more, there's plenty more hours of this stuff to get you through some long rides in the full book.
Enjoy!
A short clip from one of the podcasts with Svein Tuft. There are many podcasts like this inserted between chapters of the Audio book and video series versions of my first book How To Become A Pro Cyclist.
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if you like this content you ge the full podcasts and so much more in the book. I hope you enjoy and this helps you kill some time out training.
a chapter from the audiobook How To Become A Pro Cyclist.
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I hope you enjoy! Send this to that one nutter cyclist you know if you think it'll make them smile.
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a short clip from one of the many podcasts inserted between chapters in the audio book How To Become A Pro Cyclist
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Hopefully this gives you an idea if this book is for you. Enjoy!
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Everyone knows AJ from her incredible dance videos but did you know she lived in a tent for 4 years while trying to make it as a cyclist? AJ's one of Canada's best female cyclists and we finally got to share all kinds of wild stories from her time at the Olympics, her first years in Europe on some wild teams and what its like to spend the winters training in North America while living in a tent. We ran out of time before we ran out of stories so hopefully this is just part 1. Thanks AJ!
Harry Sweeney is in his second year in the world tour with Lotto Soudal. We recorded this episode in Livigno where we both are for altitude training camps. Great conversation and plenty of laughs from what it took for him to make it from Aus to the big leagues in Europe, the how to's of altitude training, racing in the world tour and setting yourself up in Europe.
so many incredible stories that left me stunned. Jani had a long career at the very top of the sport, winning the Dauphine, top 10 in the Tour de France and being teammates with some of the all time greats in cycling. I hope you enjoy and thank you Jani for being so open about the highs, lows and the real cost of achieving all you did.
Toms is a world tour pro in his 5th year with Trek Segafredo. Toms raced for various French Continental teams for 3 years before coming to North America where he raced for the Hincapie team for 2 seasons then turned pro with Cannondale Drapac after some amazing seasons in the North American scene. Toms then moved to Trek from Cannondale where he's been since and is now in his 7th season in the world tour.
Jan and I were teammates in 2019 on Leopard. He raced for Leopard through till the end of the 2021 season and for 2022 is on Bike Exchange - Jayco, making it to the world tour at 26 years old.
This is the second part of telling my story about testing positive and being wrongly accused of doping.
Quinn is a Durango Colorado native and one of the brightest young talents on the bike coming out of the U.S. He's also one of the youngest riders in the world tour after skipping the U23 catagory and going straight from junior to the world tour. Before jumping on the road bike Quinn was a mountain biker and Skimo racer. He may be the only junior athlete to be on the podium at the world championships for both road cycling and skimo.
Mike Creed is widely recognized as one of the best directors in the sport and while he's been offered jobs in the world tour, he's chosen to work with the best U23 riders in the U.S on the Aevolo U23 team. Mike started racing super young and rose to the very top of the sport where he was teammates with Lance Armstrong and George Hincapie at U.S Postal. Feeling the pressure to perform Mike shares stories you wouldn't believe about how he pushed it too far and what he was willing to do to make his cycling dreams happen.
At one time one of the greatest cyclists in the world. Before that he lived like a hobo, dropped out of highschool to climb mountains and explore. From Alaska down to Mexico on a thrift shop bike and self welded up trailer to tow his gear and dog named "Bear". Sveino can only be reffered to as a legend even though he's often described as the Chuck Norris of cycling. Google his name and you'll read stories of him fighting off a wolf that attacked his dog in the middle of the night with a hockey stick up in the Yukon. You can't make this stuff up. Sveino could fill endless podcast episodes with stories and I've been fortunate enough to call him one of my close friends and mentors for some time so I wanted to get out more of the stories not yet publicized. Svein's been and continues to be a mentor to the current best cyclists in the world and has given more to developing and helping young Canadian cyclists than any other club or organization yet never has asked for any recognition. Please enjoy stories beyond imagination from a man unlike any other.
In 2013 I tested positive for a banned substance after winning the biggest race of my life. To this day I remain the only athlete in the history of anti doping to be found completely innocent and not recieve a ban or even a repremand or first strike. I was found to "bare no fault" and while there was a perfect storm of events that caused this positive test result, I also caught some lucky breaks which allowed me to be the only athlete able to prove a negative and prove I had done nothing wrong. My life still went into a tailspin and I was treated no different than Lance and every other doper who claimed they didn't do it. I'm actually grateful for this experiance now and how it's shaped me but it's been 7 years and this is the first time I've openly told the full story. My appologies for the rambling and jumping around. I wanted to make this as clear as possible but there is so much to tell and I've pushed it out of my mind and tried to forget about it for almost a decade so dredging it all up to a microphone was difficult. If this is news to you, I'm sorry for the shock factor and if you've heard parts of this story before, I hope this fills in any blanks.
Will and I are the same age and first met by sharing podiums as junior cyclists when he was racing for team USA and I was on team Canada. Will's an absolute pleasure to interview as he's so well spoken and humble. We cover such a broad range of topics from fun stories to specific tech. Please enjoy the former Axeon Hagens Bermans rider, current world tour Pro and all-round gentleman Will Barta.
Sepp's been a bud since he made the jump to the road from mountain biking and XC skiing. I've raced against Sepp many times and he's now worked his way to the very top of the sport. Sepp's now one of the best climbers in the world and races on one of the best road cycling teams in the world but has not changed in the slightest from the laid back proper bud that just enjoys riding his bike regardless of if its slicks or knobby's.
Ian is one of the greatest cyclists the USA has produced. He's raced for the New York Yankees of pro cycling and spent years at the very top. Ian suffered a head injury in 2019 that ended his season. Ian decided to walk away from pro racing due to this injury and now has taken up gravel cycling and is an employee at Wahoo. Ian also has his own podcast, "Breakfast with Bos" which I highly recommend. Ian's got some great insight, is a fantastic mentor at such a young age and is such a pleasure to interview as he's so well spoken and articulate. Ian's got plenty of wisom to share in this episode and it was a pleasure for me to interview a bud I looked up to at the start of my career.
Jamie's a Canadian from Calgary who worked his butt off to chase the pro cycling dream. He made it to Europe and raced professionally there but with the option to do another year he decided the life wasn't for him and walked away from pro cycling to return to Squamish, BC where we both call home. Now, when it's pouring rain, 2 degrees out and we're both looking out the window, I'm dreading a 6 hour day training on the bike, soaked and freezing in the valley while Jamie is licking his chops, getting the tire chains on the Tacoma to head higher up the mountain where we both know it's nuking fresh powder. We both live for the epic days. The days that start before sunrise and finish with a headlamp. When you're totally buckled and just dying to get back to the trail head, fall into your car and B-Line to the local watering hole for Beers and Burritos. In any proper mountain town (not the rich touristy ski towns), as long as you're dressed to show you just had an epic one out in the mountains, locals excuse the smell and as you drink and feed from the fountain of youth, the stories start flowing. Here's some of those stories. To follow myself and more content go to jackburkecycling.com or follow me on Instagram jackflash66
Sean is a local hitter in a town overflowing with Olympians, world champions and some of the best outdoor recreation and action sports athletes on the planet. If RedBull would film you doing it, you can probably do it in Squamish. Sean grew up in Squamish and shares some fun stories on his road to racing on the Norco Factory team as well as from the times he's been able to compete with the Maple leaf on his chest. I hope you enjoy Sean.
An epic Bike trip through the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. We started this trip by breaking down our bikes and stuffing them in the back of a 60's 3 seater Cessna plane. We took off from Squamish at Sunrise and flew over the Coast mountains to Cache Creek where we would start the 285km ride back home. Starting in Cache Creek, we then road through Lilloet, Pemberton, Whistler then arrived in Squamish. An epic day where nothing went right and still remains one of my favourite days on the bike or in the mountains. Carl is the furthest thing from a road cyclist, comes from a background of ski mountaineering and general Alpinism. He just got the bike and this would more than double his previous longest ride but with the attitude of a Golden Retriever headed out for a walk, this was set to be a memorable day.
the second interview Justin recorded of the two of us reviwing my first year living and racing in Europe. Don't worry, plenty more fun stories outside the bike racer life. Make sure you listen to part one before this episode.
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