The Cycling Brief

by SEMIPRO CYCLING

The cycling world moves fast. The Cycling Brief makes sense of it. Every day, in under 10 minutes, we break down the stories that matter — product launches, race results, tech shifts, industry trends — and connect the dots most people miss. Powered by data, delivered daily. A SEMIPRO Cycling product...

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Audience Interest

Estimated Reach: 500 to 3K

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Categories: sports · news

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Frequency: Daily

20 episodes since 2026

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giro d'italia

cycling performance

cycling

race analysis

cycling training

tour de france

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500 to 3K

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FI · Sports
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500 to 3K

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150 to 900
🎙 Daily cadence·20 episodes·Last published today
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500 to 3K
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Active Followers
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200 to 1.2K

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On the show

From 35 eps

Hosts

SEMIPRO CYCLING

18 eps

Alex

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Sam

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Recent episodes

[BRIEF] Gravel's 55mm Problem: When a Tyre Kills a Category

Jun 24, 2026

8m 15s

[TECH] The Wahoo Biometric Sensors Nobody Can Afford Yet

Jun 24, 2026

8m 31s

[BRIEF] Doping's Real Problem Isn't the Cheats It Catches

Jun 23, 2026

6m 26s

[BRIEF] Cycling's Talent Pipeline Has a Blind Spot

Jun 22, 2026

7m 28s

[TECH] The Eovolt Weld That Splits Your Frame in Half

Jun 22, 2026

9m 35s

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Episodes

daily release

Avg length

7m 59s

6m 13s – 12m 31s

Range

Aug 2020 – Apr 2026

Topics

cycling, cycling performance +35

Guests

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Date	Episode	Topics	Guests	Brands	Places	Keywords	Sponsor	Length
6/24/26	[BRIEF] Gravel's 55mm Problem: When a Tyre Kills a Category	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- Vittoria's new 50 and 55mm gravel tyres aren't just wider rubber — they're a signal that gravel is eating into mountain bike territory. We break down why this product expansion reveals a looming category crisis for the entire cycling industry.Daily cycling inte...						8m 15s
6/24/26	[TECH] The Wahoo Biometric Sensors Nobody Can Afford Yet	The Cycling Tech Brief: the cycling tech that actually matters this week — and whether to update, wait, or ignore. Wahoo ELEMNT V3 firmware WG77-302533 (June 16) adds live CORE, FLOWBIO, hDrop, and Tymewear biometric data fields — Monitor: the firmware itself is stable and worth updating, but hold off on buying the sensors until independent accuracy testing accumulates on actual Wahoo hardware in field conditions.Strava v467.0.0 drops hiking-first overhaul: offline nav, Apple Watch route-foll...						8m 31s
6/23/26	[BRIEF] Doping's Real Problem Isn't the Cheats It Catches	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- Colombian rider Germán Darío Gómez is provisionally suspended after a positive test at ProTeam level. We dig into why cycling's anti-doping system keeps catching small fish — and what the structural economics of second-tier teams have to do with it.Daily cyclin...						6m 26s
6/22/26	[BRIEF] Cycling's Talent Pipeline Has a Blind Spot	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- New longitudinal research on youth aerobic development reveals why cycling's talent identification systems are structurally biased toward early developers. We explore what the sport is missing — and which WorldTour teams might fix it first.Daily cycling intelli...						7m 28s
6/22/26	[TECH] The Eovolt Weld That Splits Your Frame in Half	The Cycling Tech Brief: the cycling tech that actually matters this week — and whether to update, wait, or ignore. Eovolt Afternoon Twenty V0 recalled in UK and Europe over frame-shattering weld defect — If you own an Afternoon Twenty V0, check your serial number under the bottom bracket now, stop riding, and contact UTO immediately — don't buy or ride affected units.Amazon-sold Bigniu BG10 e-bike battery explodes during charging, burning Florida rider — lawsuit filed — Do not buy high-powere...						9m 35s
6/21/26	[BRIEF] The Whereabouts Trap: Who Anti-Doping Really Catches	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- US rider Evan Boyle gets 16 months for three whereabouts failures — not a positive test. We break down why the anti-doping compliance system disproportionately punishes lower-tier riders and what structural reform might actually look like.Daily cycling intellig...						7m 03s
6/20/26	[SUNDAY] You are probably riding your easy rides too hard	Most serious cyclists ride their easy days a little too hard. A new study suggests that costs you fatigue and recovery without buying any extra fitness. 20 trained amateur runners, matched for volume, trained for six weeks either at the top of the moderate domain or 10 to 15 percent below it. Both groups improved by the same amount, but the higher group paid more in perceived effort and recovery. In cyclist terms: don't ride your endurance work at the top of zone 2 thinking it earns you more....						7m 21s
6/19/26	[DEBRIEF] Narváez's Comeback, Vos's Gift, and UAE's Tour Rehearsal	We build durable cyclists. New performance videos every week on YouTube: 👉 https://go.semiprocycling.com/go/b3685h --- The Saturday debrief breaks down UAE's dual-agent strategy at the Tour de Suisse, where Narváez won from a breakaway just three weeks after crashing out of the Giro. Plus: Marianne Vos's extraordinary return at the Volta Catalunya Femenina, and a disqualification that handed a 22-year-old his first pro win at Route d'Occitanie.Daily cycling intelligence from SEMIPRO CYCLING...						12m 31s
6/19/26	[TECH] The Strava-Claude Deal Your Coach Can't Match	The Cycling Tech Brief: the cycling tech that actually matters this week — and whether to update, wait, or ignore. Strava launches official MCP connector giving paid subscribers direct conversational access to their full training history via Anthropic's Claude — Monitor — if you're a paid Strava subscriber and want AI-assisted training analysis, the connector is live now and worth experimenting with; just know it's read-only and Claude-only for the moment.CPSC warns riders to immediately stop...						7m 45s
6/18/26	[BRIEF] Your Brain Beats Your Watch at Fatigue Tracking	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- NASA built the best fatigue monitoring tool in 1986 — and it's a paper questionnaire. Why cycling's obsession with wearable recovery scores is an expensive distraction from the skill that actually matters: learning to listen to yourself.Daily cycling intelligen...						7m 54s
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6/18/26	[TECH] The Wahoo Firmware Update Breaking Your Zwift Rides	The Cycling Tech Brief: the cycling tech that actually matters this week — and whether to update, wait, or ignore. Wahoo KICKR v6 firmware 5.6.13 introduced random power/connection drops in Zwift — no official fix yet — Hold on updating to 5.6.13 if you can; if already updated, file a Wahoo support ticket and monitor both the Wahoo and Zwift forums for a hotfix before your next important ride or race.CPSC issues stop-use warning for CARBO folding e-bikes Model X and Model S — manufacturer has...						9m 14s
6/18/26	[BRIEF] The VO2 Max Lie Your Watch Keeps Telling You	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- The sports science world is pushing back against VO2 max obsession, and cyclists should listen. Why the number on your wrist is the least useful metric for predicting actual performance, and what you should track instead.Daily cycling intelligence from SEMIPRO ...						6m 44s
6/16/26	[BRIEF] The Development Crisis Cycling Can't Ignore	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- VolkerWessels Cycling Team is shutting down after 2026, and Petrolike faces licence threats over unpaid salaries. Two Continental teams, two continents, one systemic problem — the economic model that sustains cycling's development layer is breaking down.Daily c...						7m 01s
6/15/26	[BRIEF] Movistar's Sponsor Crisis Is a Warning Shot	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- Telefónica wants out of its Movistar cycling sponsorship three years early. This isn't just one team's problem — it's a stress test for the entire WorldTour business model. We break down why it's the most predictable crisis in the peloton and what it means for ...						6m 38s
6/14/26	[BRIEF] The Cannondale Factory Isn't a Cannondale Story	Get 20% off your first custom blend at: https://truenutrition.com/CYCLING Use code: CYCLING This episode is supported by True Nutrition. Build your own custom protein blend with the ingredients, flavour, and sweetener you want. --- Pon.Bike closes Cannondale's Almelo factory, cutting 120 jobs. But the real story is what platform consolidation means for brand identity across cycling's largest portfolio — and why Cannondale and Cervélo may share frame platforms sooner than anyone expects.Da...						6m 43s
6/13/26	[SUNDAY] What the pros do with carbs, and why you might not need to	The pros are reportedly fuelling with 120 grams of carbohydrate an hour. A new Sports Medicine paper, "Fuelled or Fooled?", asks whether the evidence supports it. For most riders, the short answer is no. We break down what the research actually shows, why anything past 90 grams an hour mostly just sits in your gut, and what to do with your own fuelling. Study: Plews DJ, Booth PD, Krieger T, Maunder E. Fuelled or Fooled? Examining the Evidence and Mechanisms Behind Ultra-High Carbohydrate Inta...						8m 13s
6/12/26	[DEBRIEF] Del Toro's Statement, Van Aert's Alarm, and Blikra's Broken Bones✨	cycling performancerace analysis+4	—	Visma	Tour Auvergne-Rhône-AlpesCopenhagen	Del ToroVan Aert+5	—	12m 05s
6/11/26	[BRIEF] The Topstone Question the Bike Industry Hates✨	bike industryexpensive bikes+3	—	Cannondale Topstone	—	TopstoneCannondale+3	True NutritionCYCLING	6m 58s
6/9/26	[BRIEF] The Hookless Rim Pressure Problem Nobody Explains✨	cycling safetyhookless rims+3	—	Reddit	Eurobike	hookless rimtyre pressure+3	True NutritionCYCLING	7m 37s
6/8/26	[BRIEF] Wilcox's World Record Bid and Van Aert's Valley✨	world recordcycling+3	—	—	—	world recordcycling+5	True NutritionCYCLING	6m 47s
6/7/26	[BRIEF] The Hybrid Pedal Lie Shimano Won't Fix✨	cyclingproduct design+3	—	SPD hybrid pedalsSEMIPRO CYCLING	—	hybrid pedalsShimano+3	True NutritionCYCLING	6m 57s
6/6/26	[SUNDAY] The plan is not the training✨	training loadperformance analysis+3	—	Capturing the complex relationship between internal and external training load: a data-driven approach	—	training load scoreperformance response+3	—	7m 20s
6/5/26	[DEBRIEF] Van der Breggen's Giro and the Not-Dauphiné Preview✨	cycling performanceGiro d'Italia Women+3	—	SEMIPRO CYCLING	—	van der BreggenGiro d'Italia Women+5	—	11m 44s
6/4/26	[BRIEF] The Chris King Hub Problem Nobody Will Say Out Loud✨	cyclinghubs+3	—	Chris King hubsEnve+1	—	Chris King hubsEnve+3	True NutritionCYCLING	6m 42s
6/3/26	[BRIEF] Your First Metric Century Is a Logistics Problem✨	cyclinglogistics+3	—	custom protein blend	—	metric century100km ride+3	True NutritionCYCLING	6m 13s