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Any recommended Irish cycling podcasts (location, not language)?

  • 13-01-2025 03:14PM
    #1
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Road.cc do a decent general cycling podcast. Covers a bit of everything which is what I like. Not too deep into professional cycling, like many podcasts are. Obviously their topics about cycle lanes, council issues etc. are related to locations in the UK.

    So, my question is are there any similar Irish podcasts that anyone would recommend?

    Thanks,
    Pa.



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  • #2
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,416 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Roadman Podcast come to mind.

    https://www.roadmancycling.com/



  • #3
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,521 ✭✭✭Gerry


    Roadman can be interesting sometimes but is aimed more at racing. Not aware of any podcast cast covering day to day issues. would be cool alright.



  • #4
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    I'm just gonna say it, and some will say the same about me, but after listening to some of his youtube videos, seeing the humiliation of himself trying to generate views by trying to make others look like a bollicks (fake puncture video, claiming a cycling club was picking on a youth racer (they weren't but he didn't even check before slandering people), and having raced against him and finding him to be a bit of a muppet in real life, no money on earth could make me listen to his podcast.

    He is a terrible coach who luckily for others who paid his company, hired a few decent ones along the way, best of luck to him but I personally find him an annoyance in the extreme.

    The verge sports one is decent and local but it is race orientated, but all local races and a strong love of local racing.



  • #5
    vintcerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭vintcerf


    listened to a few roadman podcasts and it came across way too sensationalistic for me.



  • #6
    LeoD
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    Only listened to about 5 seconds of one of his podcasts by letting it auto-play. His YouTube thumbnails are enough to put me off ever listening to anything he has to say as they look nothing more than sensationalist click-bait.



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  • #7
    Peeling1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭Peeling1979


    Despise stand the Roadman content, podcast or other social media clickbait, cringe.



  • #8
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    For balance I have listened to every single one of his podcasts. While I take some of it with a pinch of salt I find it interesting. Its been interesting watching the change of opinion on things over the years, as he says himself he holds strong opinions losely and its interesting sitting on the outside watching the growth of a person through conversation.



  • #9
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123058169#Comment_123058169

    I will whole heartedly say that I am biased and it looks like he has had some good guests on but I am obviously old and engrained. The pretending to puncture and then faking that no one would help him was Youtube 101, it was cringe but no worse than any other youtuber.

    The reasons I won't listen to him are a) having met him, b) sitting in a race (that he was not meant to be in) to coach his riders, getting in the way, then having the nerve to tell others what to do would have gotten a slap back in the day, and c) having a go at people who sacrificed their time and effort to set up races, in quite an offensive (and incorrect way), without even having the decency to ring up or ask what the actual issue is. It is just me not letting go of a long since past incident but I don't like him.

    This said, if I wasn't biased, as my mother would say, he is harmless, not my cuppa tea though. To be fair, any Irish podcasts should be promoted for trying , I just can't warm to him, but that is a me problem.



  • #10
    gn3dr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭gn3dr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123058169#Comment_123058169

    I haven't been listening to him for years - only started last year so I don't know much about his growth but I think it is an OK Podcast to be fair. I wouldn't be too bothered about his YouTube thumbnails looking like clickbait - they all do that and if he is trying to earn a living from his Podcasts then you can;t blame him for trying to get clicks. (I actually listen only on Audio anyway on an iPod or phone so teh YouTube thing doesn't effect me.

    As said above it's great to get an Irish Podcast - there is too much Amercian shite on YouTube and the web.

    Also somehting I like aboiut his Podcats is the duration of some of them being in the 30 minute range.



  • #11
    casion3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭casion3


    My first impression of him is the same as the general theme above. Listened to but pieces, fan boyish to big guests and maye too opinionated.

    I probably loose that argument when I say I listen to the move! I find Johan B to be fairly knowledgeabe.

    My relationship with lance is like a see a bad car crash, you know you shouldn't look but I can't help it



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  • #12
    Macy0161
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    Was aware of some of the stuff in the past, but I tried the podcasts anyway and they just didn't do it for me. Especially with more limited time now not commuting 5 days a week (I don't get through all the ones I would like to these days).

    Ronan McLoughlin is on the Escape Collective podcasts regularly, on top of his own EC The Performance Process. Not really comparable to the Road.cc one mentioned though.



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