Canadian Cycling Magazine Podcast
Episodes
Enduro world champ Elly Hoskin is a meticulous rider with fresh ambitions for the season ahead
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2025, Squamish’s Elly Hoskin racked up a slew of successes: two Enduro World Cup wins, a victory at Crankworx Whistler, the world championship go...
Luke Valenti: Less Fortnite, more race wins
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In February, Luke Valenti won two races in Spain. He took the general classification of the three-stage Memorial Manuel Sanroma Valencia. A week later...
Setting an ultra-cycling world record, from Alaska to Argentina, with Ashleigh Myles
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it a good idea to sleep in a pit toilet in Alaska? In this episode of the Canadian Cycling Magazine Podcast, world-record holder Ashleigh Myles...
You can’t get into pro road cycling anymore like James Piccoli did
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, at the “old” age of 21, Montrealer Jamie Piccoli decided to pursue a career in pro road cycling. In his new book, Tell Me I Can’t, Picc...
Derek Gee-West and Michael Woods double bill: Former teammates look toward new beginnings in 2026
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Canadian Cycling Magazine Podcast is back with two feature interviews. At the start of 2025, both Derek Gee-West and Michael Woods were teammates ...
World champion Magdeleine Vallières Mill goes in-depth on her life-changing win
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this in-depth interview, world champion Magdeleine Vallières Mill not only looks back at the 2025 season and the lead-up to her historic win in Ki...
Maghalie Rochette blasts into the cyclocross season with new book and tour
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
https://www.maghalierochette.com/Maghalie Rochette is coming into the cyclocross season hot. She’s released a new book. Currently, her CX Fever Tour...
A deep dive into Trek’s new, versatile Fuel platform
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trek has just launched a versatile trail platform in its new Fuel. Riders here at CCM have been fans of the previous Fuel EX and the Slash enduro bike...
Rob Britton’s Unbound Gravel XL win and the types of rides he wants to do next
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A run-in with a badger, a gentlemanly pee break, a spectacular sunset and some amazing competition—those were just a few of the features of Rob Brit...
Digging into the debates that shaped Shimano’s wireless XTR groupset
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shimano has released the latest version of its long-running, iconic XTR group, the brand’s flagship mountain bike set. XTR Di2 M9200 finally brings ...
How rising star Mara Roldan went from a nomadic lifestyle to a home on a WorldTeam
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve seen Mara Roldan in the mix at some of the biggest races this year. She was in the breakaway at her first Amstel Gold Race and managed to fin...
Two riders go DIY to race gravel (and more) at the highest level
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Andrew L’Esperance and Alexis Cartier kicked off their North American race season. At the Sea Otter Classic gravel race, L’Esperance fin...
How did so many Canadians end up on a French ProTeam?
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Winspace Orange Seal is a Women’s Pro Team based in France. Yet, it has a rider from Alma, Que., one from Vancouver, one from Guelph, Ont., and a ri...
World championship medallist Emilly Johnston leaps to the next level with her dream team
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two days before Emilly Johnston won the Argentario instalment of the Internazionali d'Italia Series, she chatted about all the new changes that have o...
From MTBer to pro roadie: How Toronto’s Noah Ramsay won Zwift Academy
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sprinting against Jasper Philipsen, navigating a slippery go-kart track, powering up a climb in Spain trying to put out more watts than three other fi...
Track cycling star Mathias Guillemette sets his own route on the road
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a kid, Mathias Guillemette would get stuffed into the back seat of his parents car, wedged between a cooler and luggage, bikes all around, his olde...
Tales of mud, crashes and celebrations at the Canadian cyclocross championships
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, the country’s top cyclocross riders took on a slick, muddy course in Lévis, Que., site of the 2024 national cyclocross championships. Jus...
Trash talk and disses from the cyclocross sidelines
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mother tells her son that he sucks. A pro, on his way to a race win, lobs a retort revealing local knowledge. A masters rider can’t stop thinking ...
Woods, Gee, Leonard and more—Interviews from the biggest road cycling events in Canada
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How long will Michael Woods continue to race? What was it like for Michael Leonard in the breakaway in Montreal? Is Derek Gee giving up birding?Each y...
Becoming legendary: The evolving influence of Micayla Gatto in mountain biking
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This past August, the day after Micayla Gatto’s 36th birthday, the freerider, filmmaker and artist was at a boatyard in Squamish. She was there to f...
AI and training insights from a Toronto cyclist working to make riders stronger
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Years ago, Armando Mastracci got a recumbent bike that could provide him with heart rate, cadence and power data. As Mastracci trained on the bike ind...
The cloak-and-dagger story of how mountain biking became an Olympic sport
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1993, four men met in secret on a beach in Cuba. The topic of discussion was mountain biking. Could they take the still-young cycling discipl...
Podcast: How a Toronto rider became a U.S. national champion
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This past spring, Ashlin Barry won two junior national championship titles: one in the time trial and one in road race. The Toronto rider snagged the ...
Riding in the heat: What you need to know
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Environment and Climate Change Canada delivered its summer seasonal forecast. It looks like things will be hot, or at least most of the coun...
How a pair of mountain biking siblings became front-runners for the Olympics in one weekend
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent cross country World Cup in Nové Město, Isabella Holmgren had her one shot to qualify for the Olympics. Her brother Gunnar also had to ...
New Shimano GRX Di2: A deep drive into the electronic, 12-speed gravel groupset
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bike component maker Shimano has launched its new GRX Di2 groupset, which features 12-speed cassettes and semi-wireless shifting. On this episode of t...
Behind the scenes at the Giro d’Italia
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was just getting polished up as both Michael Woods and Riley Pickrell were involved in crashes in Stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia. Before ...
Stephen Roche discusses Tadej Pogačar's chances of winning the Giro, Tour and worlds
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Roche has accomplished what only one other rider has done: won the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and the road world championships in one yea...
Chaos on the European roads and splinters on the track: Olympic hopeful Sarah Van Dam faces them all
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the final Nations Cup of the season nearing, Sarah Van Dam was in Milton, Ont., with the Canadian squad getting ready for the event. Since the Ol...
Mel Webb’s ultra-endurance cycling adventures
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mel Webb, who has taken on such challenges as the Atlas Mountain Race and the Alberta Rockies 700, can weave the zany and the serious tougher almost e...
Road cycling myth-busting with Kevin Field
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Field is back on the pod. Longtime listeners will remember Field as Mr. Moneyball of Canadian Cycling. For years he’s been analyzing data to h...
Year-end cycling inspiration with Sami Sauri
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dirty Reiver, Migration Gravel Race, bikepacking in the mountains of Turkey and Across Andes—these are some of the big rides that Sami Sauri took on...
Top Canadian cycling stories of 2023
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
World championship wins in two disciplines, a repeat rainbow jersey on the track, World Cup wins in downhill and cross country, a Tour de France stage...
Six stars of Canadian cyclocross
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cyclocross nationals is just a few days away. The competition is returning to Victoria as are many of the athletes who competed at last year’s event...
A team of six started a winter bikepacking trip, only three finished
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2023, Nick Khattar and five others embarked on a 1,340-km bikepacking trip from Terrace, B.C., to Haines, Alaska. The riders pedalled hardtai...
Go behind the scenes at the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Gee reveals a heartwarming story about how he came under the spell of the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal. Isabella and Ava Hol...
A deep dive into Michael Woods’s Tour de France stage win
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
He did it. But man, was it close. Michael Woods won a stage at the Tour de France this past July in a dramatic fashion on the Puy de Dôme. In this ex...
Just how far can gravel champ Devon Clarke go?
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Devon Clarke lined up for the national gravel championship race this past April, most riders and fans didn’t really know how fast she was. Sure...
The uphill battles of gravity rider Kasper Woolley
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enduro rider Kasper Woolley has had a terrible run of luck in the past year. In August 2022, a rider going the wrong way on a pump track smashed into ...
The Ottawa mechanic who’s worked at 21 Tours de France
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Motorola, U.S. Postal and Garmin-Sharp are some of the teams that Geoff Brown has worked on, preparing and fixing bikes for the biggest road races, in...
How to plot a 14,000-km bikepacking route from coast to coast
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2018, Matt Kadey has been designing bikepacking routes. Some of his most popular tracks include the BT 700, the Grand Nith Ramble and No Winter ...
Derek Gee, the Giro d’Italia and the seconds that count
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did Derek Gee do it? How did he get into breakaway after breakaway at the recent Giro d’Italia? And what’s next for the Ottawa rider who impre...
Olivia Baril has Grand Tour victories in her sights
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At stage races this season, Olivia Baril has been in the mix. Recently, the rider from Rouyn-Noranda, Que., sprinted against Demi Vollering, Annemiek ...
Building a cyclist’s mental toolkit with Mark Beaumont
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Beaumont has the world record for circumnavigating the world by bike. He also documents his big rides—down a massive volcano or from Cairo to C...
There’s more going on in a 4:16 team pursuit than you know
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From within the infield at the recent Track Nations Cup in Milton, Ont., athletes snagged medals, joked, made vows out of frustration and looked ahead...
The wisdom of Geoff Kabush
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of Geoff Kabush’s birthday, the mountain biker, gravel racer and underbiker covers a range of topics: the evolution of bike tech, the rig...
Tips and advice for the riding season ahead
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the snow starts to melt at various rates across the country, and with the recent release of the ride guide in the April/May issue of Canadian Cycli...
Top Canadian cycling stories of 2022
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A rainbow jersey on the track, multiple downhill World Cup wins, a Tour de France stage win—there were a lot of big performances by Canadian riders ...
The inside story of Hugo Houle’s Tour de France stage win
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Hugo Houle crossed the line in Foix on July 19, he pointed to the sky. He had accomplished a goal he had had for close to 10 years: win a Tour de F...
How an 18-year-old Canadian signed with Ineos Grenadiers
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In late September, it became official: 18-year-old Michael Leonard signed with Ineos Grenadiers for three years. About a month later, he returned home...
How a judgement on U.S. Postal rocked Canadian cycling
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Oct. 10, 2012, almost 10 years ago, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) released its reasoned decision, a comprehensive investigation into doping b...
What’s next for Olympian and national champ Leah Kirchmann?
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This past August, Leah Kirchmann revealed that she’ll retire from professional road racing following the world championships in Wollongong, Australi...
JaBig, the DJ and far-ranging rider, on his six-month cycling tour of the U.S.
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
JaBig, a.k.a. Jean-Aimé Bigirimana, is known for his huge rides, including a 15-month, 17,000 km trek on a fixie across Canada that took him to the A...
She was supposed to be a reserve rider, but Magdeleine Vallières Mill did the Tour de France Femmes and more
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tour de France Femmes, the Giro d’Italia Donne, Paris-Roubaix—those are just a few of the races Magdeleine Vallières Mill did during her first se...
‘I have to know that it’s not in the disco socks’
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Laurie Arseneault’s second season with Canyon MTB Racing. The squad was a total powerhouse at the national mountain bike championships in Jul...
Road and criterium national champion Maggie Coles-Lyster is on the podium a lot
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This past June, Maggie Coles-Lyster won the national championship road race and the national championship criterium. Of the two results, the crit win ...
Canada’s first Action Jackson, her WorldTeam and the new Tour de France Femmes
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, Linda Jackson was third at the Tour Cycliste Féminin. The 12-day stage race, with two split stages, was the closest thing to a Tour de Franc...
There are three Canucks going to the Tour de France. No! Four. Wait. Five?
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, things move fast these days. Matthew Pioro and Matt Hansen are joined by former pro Michael Barry to preview the Tour de France. How many Canadian...
The Biking Lawyer has tips for staying safe on the road
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2020, Dave Shellnutt, the Biking Lawyer, has been a legal force behind cyclists in southern Ontario. With his partner Joel Zanatta based in Vanc...
Michael van den Ham and Andrew Randell talk gravel racing, gear and tips for big days on rough roads
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of gravel racing’s biggest event, Unbound Gravel, two racers discuss the discipline of riding the bumpy stuff. Former pro-roadie and coach And...
Ryan Roth on winning Tro Bro Léon, but no pig, 10 years ago
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, former pro Ryan Roth recounts his big win in northern France. In 2012, the rider from Kitchener, Ont., won Tro Bro Léon, a race that...
Kelsey Mitchell, beyond big watts
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’re no doubt familiar with Kelsey Mitchell’s story. It’s not only been documented in the pages—both print and web—of Canadian Cycling Mag...
Pier-André Côté on his big win and on managing risk in bike races
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March, Pier-André Côté won the one-day race Grand Prix Criquielion. He rides for Human Powered Health and is now in his fourth year with the U.S...
How Bridge Bike Works plans to make carbon frames in Toronto
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Yakubowicz and Frank Gairdner are behind Bridge Bike Works, a new company that’s aiming to roll out a made-in-Toronto carbon-fibre bike this...
What could freak out Svein Tuft? [rebroadcast]
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’re probably familiar with Svein Tuft’s legendary tales, such as the time he used a broken hockey stick to chase away a wolf that was menacing ...
Kevin Field and Premier Tech u23 have an ambitious plan to put more Canadians in the WorldTour
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the Premier Tech u23 Cycling Project debuted this past November, the team said it wanted to get some of its riders in the WorldTour by 2024. By 2...
Top Canadian cycling stories of 2021
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As 2021 comes to a close, the editors of Canadian Cycling Magazine get together to discuss the biggest stories in Canadian cycling. Olympics, Paris-Ro...
Was this Guillaume Boivin’s best season ever?
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re on top of your Canadian Cycling Magazine Podcast listening, you’ll recall that Guillaume Boivin was on this past summer. He was in the m...
Canada’s newest world champions
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of September, the two young riders won rainbow jerseys at the junior track world championships in Cairo. Carson Mattern won gold in t...
Jenn Jackson on World Cup mountain biking, the Hawaiian shirt, wrenching and cookies
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You know Jenn Jackson. She races cross country at the World Cup level, she digs cyclocross, she’s a bike mechanic, she sometimes bakes cookies and h...
A deep dive into the new Shimano Dura-Ace and Ultegra groupsets
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lately, on this podcast, the focus has been on athletes, on their successes, challenges and just what makes them tick. But this episode is a bit diffe...
Tristen Chernove, the rider with 13 rainbow jerseys and three Paralympic medals, on the Games [rebroadcast]
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tristen Chernove is back at the Paralympics for a second time. He’ll be competing in all the cycling disciplines that he can—the road race, the ti...
Carter Woods, just how will he win his next race?
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Peter, how am I going to win this race tomorrow?”It’s a question that Carter Woods occasionally asks his Norco Factory teammate, Peter Disera. ...
Tristen Chernove, the rider with 13 rainbow jerseys and three Paralympic medals, looks ahead to the Games
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tristen Chernove is heading back to the Paralympics for a second time: he’s off to Tokyo later in August. He’ll be competing in all the cycling di...
It’s the third week of the Tour de France, and Guillaume Boivin just wants a salad
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guillaume Boivin is toughing it out now in the final stages of the Tour de France. He's faced crashes, heat, mountain climbs and a lack of vegetables....
Talking cycling, boxing and wine with Canadian champ Adam de Vos
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adam de Vos can throw a punch. Most cyclists, it seems, can’t. Every few years though, there’s a dust-up in the peloton. It’s always a bit shock...
After the Olympics, will national champion Karol-Ann Canuel retire?
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
National road race champion Karol-Ann Canuel has held the maple-leaf jersey since 2019 – thanks to the pandemic. In this episode, she speaks about...
Remembering Jocelyn Lovell, the first modern hero of Canadian cycling
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Five years ago, on June 3, 2016, Jocelyn Lovell died. During his heyday in the 1970s, he was a supreme bike handler and race tactician. His skills got...
World Cup cross country rider Gunnar Holmgren packs a lot of coffee
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How much coffee does Gunnar Holmgren travel with for a two-month stint of racing cross country in Europe? A lot. In this episode of the Canadian Cycli...
Lucas Cruz mixes mountain living with downhill World Cup racing
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lucas Cruz races for the Norco Factory Downhill team. As a junior, he was national champion in 2018. In 2019, he was third overall in the junior World...
What could freak out Svein Tuft?
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You’re probably familiar with Svein Tuft’s legendary tales, such as the time he used a broken hockey stick to chase away a wolf that was menacing ...
Haley Smith knows real toughness
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Like many Canadian cross country riders, Haley Smith has been doing a lot riding on the trails around Victoria. The Ontario mountain biker and her hus...
It’s about more than setting a world record for Lucy Hempstead
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At 6 p.m. on March 12, Lucy Hempstead climbed onto her bike, which was connected to her trainer, and started pedalling. She kept pedalling for 24 hour...
Seven Summits is your riding challenge for 2021, and it’s really, really tough
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In February, Ryan Atkins took on his Seven Summits challenge. For seven days, he climbed, virtually that is, the highest peaks on each of the world’...
This Canadian coach is looking closely at Chris Froome’s training numbers
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In early February, Chris Froome posted a photo on social media. It reads, “Can’t tell if @paulopowerwatts is happy with my numbers.” @paulopower...
What the stats don't tell you about Benjamin Perry
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Perry from St. Catharines, Ont., is entering his first season on a WorldTour team, Astana - Premier Tech, after years in continental and pro ...
When Emily Batty could stop hiding her new bikes
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Batty is a two-time Olympian. She's won the national cross country championships at the elite level five times and claimed bronze in two world champio...
Why you should scrap training goals in 2021
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Did you have a goal in 2020 that fell apart? Maybe an event you wanted to do well at? Maybe it was a riding-related goal that went out the window when...
Was this past road season Michael Woods’s best ever?
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Was the 2020 road season Michael Woods's best season to date? That's something debated here at Canadian Cycling Magazine so it's an idea editor Matt...
Ryan Anderson’s career is the story of Canadian road cycling during the past 15 years
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Ryan Anderson announced his retirement from pro cycling. He’s been at it since 2008. In that time, he might not have risen to the same hei...
Lockdowns and cyclocross: Maghalie Rochette’s tough choices in Europe
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maghalie Rochette, the Canadian and Pan Am cyclocross champion, has been in Europe for more than a month racing. In the past two weeks, things have go...
Michael Barry’s one way-off prediction for the 2020 road season
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In June, Michael Barry discussed the UCI’s plan for a compressed 2020 road season. Recently, Canadian Cycling Magazine editor Matthew Pioro wanted t...
U.S. cyclocross champion Tim Johnson, a not-so-secret Canadian, rides northern gravel
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This past summer, Tim Johnson went on his first bikepacking trip. As trips go, this one was big: seven days, roughly 700 km on the Trans-Taiga, which ...
Michael Woods and Hugo Houle on the road world championships
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the Tour, Hugo Houle of Astana Pro team checked in with Canadian Cycling Magazine. Listen to his insights from inside the race. He talks ab...
Watching hockey with Peter Sagan and other tales from the Grands Prix Cyclistes
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From jerseys won by young Canadians to Euro pros sipping Caesars to taking in a Montreal Canadiens game with a future world champion, the influence of...
Catharine Pendrel is awesome
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is usually a busy time of year for Catharine Pendrel. She’s usually competing in cross country World Cups or preparing for the world championsh...
Bikepacking tips from Rob Britton
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Rob Britton got into bikepacking, he really went for it. In 2018, the Tour of Utah winner set off from Calgary to Port Renfrew, B.C., on a nine-d...
The last time there were no Olympics [rebroadcast]
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a rebroadcast of our look at the 1980 Olympic boycott. It happened 40 years ago, but contains some lessons for what athletes are facin...
Steve Bauer and the last time a Canadian led the Tour de France
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This year marks three big anniversaries for Steve Bauer. The Canadian Cycling Magazine Podcast has covered his oh-so-close second-place finish in the ...
Talking bubbles and the sourdough revolution with Leah Kirchmann
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leah Kirchmann, Team Sunweb athlete and this country’s time trial champion, is expecting to start racing once again in August. Still, she’s not su...