Chris, David and Gary reconvene to find at least something bike-related in the bleak off-season. Is Tom Pidcock half as good as he thinks he is? How come Demi Vollering only has a 2-year contract at FDJ-SUEZ? And what was policing really like in the 1980s and 1990s? Haste ye back, Het Nieuwsblad!

Recommendations

Why Your Bike is Made in Asia - Bill McGann https://a.co/d/fifNfK1

Bill McGann chats to Ben Delaney on The Ride podcast https://youtu.be/FpjB2k481_E?si=huxQA33k7aOVY6p6

Enfant Terrible - David Le Grys https://www.legrostrainingcamp.com/book/

Still True - Maggie Ginsberg https://maggieginsberg.com/still-true-novel/

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Lost? Aimlessly wandering the streets because it's that fortnight between the World Championships and Il Lombardia? Fear not as the Devil has been making work for idle podcasters.

Gary picks over some of the post-Zurich scuttlebutt, plus:

• Transfers - real and imagined/wished for
• Whither, Demi Vollering?
• If 24 hours is a long time in politics, 72 hours is ages in Eddy Merckx
• Paris-Tours

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Links

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An Evening with Chris Sidwells (and Phil Bayton) Ride 247, Cirencester Tuesday 8 October - https://ride247.cc/products/an-evening-with-chris-sidwell?_pos=1&_sid=6e3047356&_ss=r

Music - 'So Alive' by A Month of Sleep, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com.

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Gary's in Kelso for stage 1 of the 2024 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men. It's noisy!

(Also, the post-race blues were recorded on Wednesday morning!)

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