Chat with Santhana Selvan - a visionary leader who is helping transform Hyderabad. He is the founder of "Happy Hyderabad" group. He started the "Hyderabad Cycling Revolution" and is working towards enabling "Active Mobility". He is also the Cycling Mayor of Hyderabad.

Review of the final week and entire Tour de France 2022 with Sandeep Krishna.

Analysis of Week 2 of Tour de France 2022 and preview of Week 3 with Sandeep Krishna

Analysis of Week 1 of Tour de France 2022 and preview of Week 2 with Sandeep Krishna

Preview of Tour de France 2022 with Sandeep Krishna Some corrections & confirmations Cavendish won 4 stages in Tour de France 21 Wout van Aert underwent appendicitis surgery (not Hernia) before last years tour Tadej Pogacar is 23 yrs old Do send in your questions by email to gokul@thebikeaffair.com to cover in the next episode covering stage 1…

Suresh has practiced IF for past three years with great success. He ensures he understands the mechanics and is upto date with the latest research around Metabolism, Nutrition and even got certified by Stanford. In addition to personal practice he also heads one of the countries leading Poultry Company and is the Chairman of International Egg Commi…

Mental Health in Endurance Sports with Spruha Vetcha. Session recorded during the weekly talk show "Its all about the bike" on Leher.

Listen to a conversation with Gaurav Duggal about Strava & how he uses it to analyse and get better. This conversation was live on Leher on the 28th Sep 2021 and we also answered questions of customers. Do tune into Leher on Tuesdays @ 8pm.

Recording of Ep 1 Talk Show - It's All About The Cycle - History Of Randonneuring & Tips for New Riders Guest Speakers - Krishna Mandava & Hemanth Sai Chandan Join the TalkShow live and ask questions every Tuesday @ 8pm - https://leher.app/club/GOKUO7V7

Teams details available https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/tokyo-2020-olympic-road-race-mens-start-list TV Channels - Sony TEN 1 HD/SD (English commentary), Sony TEN 2 HD/SD (English commentary), Sony TEN 3 HD/SD (Hindi commentary), Sony TEN 4 (Tamil/ Telugu), Sony Six, Saturday 7:30am onwards Time - Saturday 7:30 am…

Analysis of just concluded Tour de France 2021. Podcast T Shirt winners are - Sambit Mishra, Shitiz Bhure Correction from the audio Andrej Hauptman is the coach of Pogacar, Roglic, Head Coach of Slovenia and DS of UAE. Allan Peiper was the DS of UAE last year.

Analysis of Week 2 of Tour de France 2021. The winners of the Podcast T Shirt are Shitiz Bhure & Murali Ramakrishnan. Video of old interview of Peter Sagan - https://youtu.be/IYXLxZThpQc Website used to back calculate power numbers for the ITT http://bikecalculator.com/ The power numbers are to be used to understand the percentage difference rather…

Sandeep & Gokul discuss week 1 of Tour de France. Refer https://anchor.fm/theindiancyclingpodcast/episodes/National-Road-Cycling-Championships-2021-esgrrt episode covering Road Nationals where Parashuram Chenji talks how his Soccer training helped his cycling. Follow daily stage updates on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/The-Indian-Cycling-Podc…

Sandeep and Gokul present a preview of the tour covering the route, the favourites, predictions and ways to follow the Tour live. https://anchor.fm/theindiancyclingpodcast/episodes/What-is-a-Grand-Tour-emd1ii/a-a3qu93d - Podcast on “What is a Grand Tour” https://www.facebook.com/The-Indian-Cycling-Podcast-108947250473150/ - follow our Facebook page…

Parashuram Chenji tells us all about the Nationals that took place last week.

We talk to Dr.Preeti and Dr.Harshal Tak from Jaipur about their recent trip to Goa. Find out what its like to tour on your cycle in Goa. All this while Krish is downgraded to acquaintance status by Harsha.

Sandeep & Gokul discuss the 2020 road race season covering the three Grand Tours and a couple of single day race. Links of a few local racing leagues - Bangalore BBcH - http://bbch.in https://www.facebook.com/BangaloreAmateurRacing/ Hyderabad https://www.facebook.com/hyderabadracingcircuit

In the next episode we analyse the just concluded Road Cycling 2020 season. This is a short teaser episode explaining what a grand tour is. Guest analyst is Sandeep Krishna

Controversies in Nutrition Science - we discuss some of the fads and fictions of nutrition science with Kamal Kasturi. Please email us at podcast@thebikeaffair.com to get the transcript. You can also send us your questions to the same id.

A trailer to Nutrition Science podcast. Full episode to be released on 30th October at 9am.

Chitti Babu & Gokul Krishna successfully completed Everesting on the 2nd of October. In this final episode of the two part series we discuss about how the things turned out on the day of the event and how we tackled the challenges. There are multiple ways of achieving something, Chitti & Gokul had very contrasting approaches we hear their individua…

Enjoy this trailer of the part 2 of Everesting Podcast. We will release this on Friday Oct 16th. In Part 1 we talked about preparation, our motivation and our confidence before the attempt. Life however always holds surprises, in part 2 we talked about the surprises and how we had to draw upon our mental strengths in our own ways to complete this. …

Chitti Babu & Gokul Krishna successfully completed Everesting on the 2nd of October. In this first of the two part series we discuss about how the ideas started and what was the preparation. There are multiple ways of achieving something, Chitti & Gokul had very contrasting preparations we hear their individual ways and also a completely different …

Contribute to Maxwell Trevor Cycling Academy by any of the following methods and fill up the google form https://forms.gle/odCfyxN1eQhwicLT8 1. Transfer with the upi id trevor.maxwell@oksbi 2. Google Pay to 93993 95066 (Dr. Maxwell Trevor). 3. By NEFT to the S B Account number 52020549518 of Dr. Maxwell Trevor with State Bank of India, Lallaguda Br…

Race Across the West (RAW) was started in 2008 to offer a race longer than 805 KM and to help bridge the mileage gap to RAAM. It has since evolved into an epic race in its own right. Like all other events, RAW is now a virtual event. Anand Verma completed this race of 1528 km in 10 days 14 hours and 34 minutes.…

Should I got out for a ride at all? Should I invite 20 other people to ride with me? Should I wear a mask while riding? Should I wear a PPE kit while riding (assuming I could actually find one). So many questions...... Dr.Pavan is the Chief of Critical Care and in-charge of the Covid-ward at a corporate hospital in Hyderabad. He answers our questio…

We talk about some training tips for the lockdown. And some suggestions for movies you can watch.

Anupa Sekar is no stranger to fitness and breaking norms. In this episode she shares the story of how Agasthi discovered cycling & chose BMX. She talks about her attitude to overcoming challenges & how she built the wonderful team behind Agasthi. The following are the insta handles: Agasthi (the BMX kiddo) - mr.gasty Hamza (Indian coach, Founder Wa…

The National Road Championships took place in Bikaner, Rajasthan from 13-16 November. Sam Solomon was part of the Telangana team and we do a deep-dive into the event.

The National Road Championships are taking place in Bikaner, Rajasthan from 13-16 November. We will be covering the event with Sam Solomon, our reporter on the ground. Sam is part of the Telangana team and is taking part in the TTT, Mass Start and the Criterium. Today’s event for the Elite category was the Individual Time Trial. Naveen John took th…

Angana Barua stood third at the Goa Ironman 70.3 in her age category. We talk about her tri-life, her tri-journey and what she did to get here. She tells us about the women who inspired her along the way and what can be done to get more women into triathlons and cycling. Goa Ironman 70.3 : https://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/asiapac/ironman-70…

While we're a cycling podcast, this felt like an event we need to cover because it's an landmark of human achievement and a lot of our listeners are also interested in distance and endurance running It's also the kind of event that has a lot of lessons for professional and amateur sportspeople. Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in less than two hours a…

Tour of Eastern Ghats : https://www.facebook.com/events/595550940929390/ Blog from Satish : https://asatishc.blogspot.com/2019/09/tour-of-eastern-ghats-day-1.html Photo Exhibition: https://www.facebook.com/events/2741737912527787/

Cycling Federation of India’s marquee track cycling event took place in Delhi from September 11 to 13. We talk to track cycling legend Maxwell Trevor who was an official at the event. More news about the event: https://www.firstpost.com/sports/track-asia-cup-2019-indian-cyclists-put-up-dominant-display-on-opening-day-with-12-medal-haul-7313341.html…

Bikey Venky and the Spectrum Racing team did the Giro delle Dolomiti at the end of July. We talk about the event, BAR (Bangalore Amateur Racing), BV Coaching and his cycling journey. Giro delle Dolomiti : https://www.girodolomiti.com/ BAR: https://bvcoaching.in/category/bangalore-amateur-racing/ BV Coaching: https://bvcoaching.in/ Spectrum Racing: …

Kaustubh Mulay is a 5-time Ironman 70.3 finisher and a medical doctor with fascination for Ophthalmic Pathology. Fitness, especially the Tri Sport, is his passion. As someone with a demanding career and a busy life, he knows what it takes to fit the demands of Triathlon training and racing into the time limits we all have. He talks about his tri-jo…

Siddharth Bachloo finished Paris-Brest-Paris with less than 8 minutes to go. To put that in context, he rode 1200 km in 89 hours 52 minutes, the cut-off was 90 hours. He talks about his experience and what he did to achieve this. In other news, Indian riders lead by Esow Alben won a gold in the Team Sprint at the UCI Junior World Track event in Ger…

Mike Pryde is a former MTB rider and architect who is now the owner of Chapter 2 bikes. Mike is based out of Auckland, New Zealand and we talk about his cycling journey and purpose of creating Chapter 2 the company. He also tells us about a new addition that is coming to the Chapter2 family. And that is the "Chapter2 AO". The AO is a gravel frame w…

Raman Garimella, a sports scientist and Gokul Krishna, my co-host have come up with a book “Escape Velocity: The Definitive Desi Guide to Cycling”. They talk about who this book is for and how it helps. The foreword for the book was written by Victor Campenaert, the current world record holder for the “Hour Ride”. Check out the book on Amazon: http…

We talk to Kiran Kumar Raju (KKR) who recently took part in the Asian MTB in Kfardebian, Lebanon. He talks about the event, the results and the current standing of Indian MTB athletes at the international level. KKR also speaks about his preparation for the event and what it takes to compete for the Asian.…

Paris-Brest-Paris : A PreviewParis-Brest-Paris takes place from August 18 – 22, in you guessed it, France. Krishna Kunnam and Rajesh Krishnamaneni will be riding. They talk about why PBP is considered the holy grail of amateur cycling, kind of like the Boston Marathon is for Runners and what to do while riding. PBP official: https://www.paris-brest…

Gokul participated in the Niseko Classic race in Hokkaido, Japan. He talks about his experience at a UCI Grand Fondo race and what to keep in mind while doing such races. We also do a brief talk about Tour de France and Team Ineos’s dominance. https://nisekoclassic.com/

Khiyar Pasha explains the various events in Track cycling. We talk about Keirin, Sprint, Individual Pursuit and the endurance events. You can help Pasha out by contributing to: https://gocrowdera.com/wintrackasiacyclingchanmpionship2019/ Topics: Sprint events: 5:00 Endurance events: 15:00 Pasha’s preparation for Asian: 43:00…

Training during monsoon is not easy. We talk about the various options and tricks you can try to keep riding. We talk about training apps, smart-trainers, mud-guards and everything else you can do. Sufferfest : https://support.thesufferfest.com/hc/en-us/articles/207599513-What-does-IWBMATTKYT-mean- Myetraining : https://www.elite-it.com/en/products…

Touring on a cycle is a great experience. I got a taste of it last year when I did The Bike Affair's Horsley Hills High, which is a 4 day ride from Kadthal outside Hyderabad to Horsley Hills covering around 590 KM. The person who organized that tour was none other than Krish Basu from The Bike Affair. Krish has come up with a new and varied list of…

We analyse the Hyderabad Racing Circuit’s Mass Start Road Race that took place on 2nd June at Movie Towers in Hyderabad. Some of the biggest names in Indian cycling like Naveen John, Jetharam, Mugesh Bhaskar, Parashuram Chenji and many more took part. We talk to regular guest and HRC core member Akash Panda to do a deep-dive of the race. HRC Mass S…