Pro cycling, with the good digressions left in.
The Rouleur Podcast treats professional cycling as a sport with memory, gossip, machinery, weather, nerves, and folklore. Recent episodes move from Tour de France reaction and gravel-racing interviews to Velo Vino’s wonderfully niche pairing of cycling-related bottles with road-racing legends.
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The Rouleur Podcast is pro cycling coverage with dirt under its fingernails and a decent memory for old stories. It is not just results, transfers, and press-zone reaction. The show is interested in the whole culture around the sport: riders, roads, equipment, race mythology, team dynamics, and the objects that somehow preserve a season better than a stat sheet. Recent episodes show that range clearly. A Tour de France episode centers on Pauline Ferrand-Prévot after a yellow-jersey win, asking what comes after a rider has already won so much. The conversation stays close to the race, but it also catches the quieter details: calm under pressure, teammates trying to help, and the atmosphere inside her team. Another live episode wanders through Rouleur Live, where major brands sit near independent bike builders and the conversation moves easily from Mark Cavendish paintings to Flanders cobbles. It feels like cycling as a room full of people, not just a calendar of events. Gravel appears through a live Girona conversation with Rosa Klöser and Josie Millard before The Traka, with talk of endurance, mechanicals, skateboarding, tactics, gender equality, and the appeal of being new enough to keep learning every race. The Velo Vino run is the show at its most idiosyncratic. Graeme Wilgos and Felix Lowe take a set of cycling-themed wines and use them to open up stories about René Vietto, Éric Caritoux, Francesco Moser, and Bernard Hinault. The bottles matter. So do the labels, or the absence of them. A screen-printed bottle can lead to La Vie Claire jersey details, a co-sponsor, a disputed date, and the image of Hinault ready to fight on the French Riviera. Moser’s bottle leads toward the Giro, the Stelvio controversy, Fignon, time trials, a helicopter story, and the uneasy grey zones of cycling history. The tone is quick, amused, and deeply specific. It assumes listeners enjoy the odd route to the point. That is the pleasure: Rouleur treats cycling as sport, craft, memory, spectacle, and argument, all still worth picking over carefully.
Made for: For cycling fans who already care about the sport’s lore, characters, equipment, and race-day texture. It especially suits listeners who enjoy informed conversation that can move from Tour analysis to gravel culture to a cycling-related wine bottle without losing the thread.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its lived-in cycling world: live race access, rider conversations, bike culture, and historical oddities all sit together naturally. Few cycling podcasts would let a vintage bottle label become a route into Grand Tour politics and still make it feel useful.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Race reporting, athlete conversations and cycling history combine in a close, curious account of the sport and the culture surrounding it.
The Rouleur Podcast moves easily between race reporting, athlete conversations and cycling history. Rachel Jarry and Chris Marshall-Bell bring immediacy to coverage of Pauline Ferrand-Prevot's Tour de France victory, using team voices to explain the composure and collective work…
A jersey on a Bernard Hinault wine bottle becomes your clue to a cycling mystery.
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A Bernard Hinault wine bottle becomes a tactile cycling-history puzzle built around a sponsor mark and two competing dates.
A tribute bottle for Bernard Hinault turns into a compact bit of cycling sleuthing, as the episode lets the object give up its history through surface, image, and production choices.
A wine-paired Moser retrospective that turns the 1984 Giro into a study of contested advantage.
Velo Vino's third episode follows Francesco Moser through the point where cycling glory starts to rub against disputed advantage. Graeme Wargos and Felix Lowe linger on the 1984 Giro, from the Stelvio Pass drama to speculation over an easier reroute that kept the…
A lively Rouleur Live tour where Cavendish paintings, independent builders and Flanders cobbles share the floor.
Rouleur Live plays as a guided walk through a cycling show where spectacle sits close to the people building and presenting bikes. Rachel Jarry and Chris Marshall-Bell move from Gregor Long's big cow to six paintings of Mark Cavendish winning his fifth Tour de France stage in…
A live Rouleur finale on Ferrand-Prevot's yellow jersey and the ambitions already forming beyond it.
The Rouleur Podcast closes its live finale with Pauline Ferrand-Prevot standing at the end of a seven-year road hiatus and already beyond the yellow jersey.
A grounded Girona conversation about gravel's demands, ambition, and two riders finding their fit.
Recorded live in Girona a few days before the 2025 edition of The Tracker, this episode sits with Rosa Closer and Josie Millard as they look toward the 200k race and make a strong case for why gravel suits them.
Cycling obsession, roasted at group-ride pace.
Editor Edward Pickering introduces a special series of Rouleur Conversations featuring a stage talk with Geraint Thomas, discussing his career, new book, and podcasts.
Rouleur reporter Tris reviews the 2026 Tour de France, covering the neutralised final-stage GC times, the Montmartre circuit and Pogačar's domestique work for Del Toro on the Queen Stage.
Graeme Wilgoss and Felix Lowe discuss Bernard Hinault's farewell and cycling-themed wine from the 80s on their podcast Velo Vino.
The Rouleur Podcast's Velo Vino episode on Francesco Moser ties a 1986 Teroldego and Chardonnay bottle to Moser's 1984 Giro d'Italia and his family winery in the Cembra Valley.
A preview of an interview with cyclist Antonia Niedermaier about her career and interests, preceded by ads for Paylocity and The Guardian's soccer coverage.
In this episode of Velo Vino, hosts Graham Wilgos and Felix Lowe introduce a four-part series tasting six cycling-themed wines from the 1980s, starting with Éric Caritoux's Côtes de Ventoux 1983.
Graeme Wilgos and Felix Lowe introduce their new cycling and wine podcast, Vélo Vino, discussing its concept and their backgrounds.
Dries explains the Flandering Challenge: 59 cobbled climbs and 72 hours to finish.
The Rouleur Podcast episode centres on Pauline Ferrand-Prévot’s Tour de France Femmes win, her stage 8 attack on the Col de la Madeleine, and her stage 9 yellow-jersey finish in Châtel.
Rosa Klöser and Josie Millard discuss their gravel racing journeys, gender equality in cycling, and empowering more women to participate in events like the Traka.
A live-recorded interview at the World Championships in Zurich about cycling in Flanders, featuring insights from Fabian Cancellara and Tomas van den Spiegel on the upcoming 2030 World Championships in Belgium.
Edward Pickering and James Start review the second week of the 2024 Tour de France.
Editors of Rouleur magazine review the first week of the 2024 Tour de France, discussing stage winners, jersey holders, and team performances.