Tape du Tour: Recent Episodes
Tape du Tour
An audio celebration of cycling's roadside spectators.
Listen into a mixture of audio scenery, spectator interviews and the occasional cycling star interview all captured by the Tape du Tour microphone at the race roadside.
All episodes are posted online and have previously been broadcast on various radio stations including Resonance 104.4FM, WFMU New York, Soundry, Basic FM, Soundart Radio in addition to being featured on BBC radio 5Live.
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With just a few days left to the start of the Aviva Women's Tour, we spoke to Lucy Martin on the phone about how she started racing, her move to Matrix Pro Cycling and what the riders think of the Women's Tour compared to other races.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
LucyMartin #MatrixProCycling #WomensCycling #AvivaWomensTour #WomensTour #Cycling #Interview #Phone #Podcast #BritishCycling
With under a week to the Aviva Women's Tour we gave Melissa Lowther a call to find how she'll be preparing for her second tour. We also hear about her training, what she'll be eating on a race day and how the Dave Rayner Fund helps her within the sport. Plus we hear what it's like to progress from racing as a Junior up to Senior level.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
Melissa Lowther #MatixProCycling #DaveRaynerFund #WomensTour #AvivaWomensTour #Podcast #Sports #Interview #WomensCycling #WomensSport #PhoneInterview #Training #SportsTraining
Before a stage of the Matrix Women's GP Series we spoke to Head of Business Development at Yellow Jersey Cycle Insurance Simon Lythgoe to find how Yellow Jersey started sponsoring Matrix Pro Cycling.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
Women'sTour #AvivaWomensTour #WomensCycling #Cycling #Insurance #CycleInsurance #Bike #YellowJersey #YellowJerseyCycleInsurance #MatrixProCycling
We spoke to race controller Guy Elliot about the Aviva Women's Tour & the Matrix Women's GP Series whilst he walked the course a course checking for hazards.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
GuyElliott #Women'sCycling #WomensTour #TourSeries #MatrixProCycling #Cycling #Sport #Interview
Shortly before a stage of the Matrix Fitness Woman's GP, Lucy Shaw spoke to us about the importance of these kind of races. We then heard from team mechanic Richard Meadows on his race duties.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
LucyShaw #MatrixProCycling #Women'sCycling #AvivaWomen'sTour #CyclingAudio #RichardMeadows #Podcast #Interview #Sport #Cycling #CyclingRadio #Mechanic
Chris Garrison makes the decisions at Trek UK as to which teams they choose to sponsor. Here she explains how the relationship started between Trek and Matrix Pro cycling. Plus we get a rundown of the bikes that the team are riding this season.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
TrekBikes #Trek #MatrixProCycling #Women'sCycling #Cycling #AvivaWomen'sTour #AvivaWomen'sTour2015 #ChrisGarrison
Team owner & Directeur Sportif Stefan Wyman talks to us about the importance of the Matrix GP Series in the cycling season. Plus we get a brief race report from the Croydon stage.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
DirecteurSportif #MatrixProCycling #Women'sCycling #AvivaWomen'sTour #Croydon
Team owner Stefan Wyman gives us a tour of Matrix Pro Cycling's team car & tells us whats going on in the car on race days.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
TeamCar #Skoda #MatrixProCycling #StefanWyman #Women'sTour #AvivaWomen'sTour #Women'sCycling #RaceRadio #AvivaWomen'sTour2015
Sports psychologist Jack Blake gave us a call about the work he does with Matrix Pro Cycling & also gave us a few cycling psychology tips.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
SportsPsychology #SportsPychologist #JackBlake #Women'sTour #MatrixProCycling #AvivaWomen'sTour #Woadtothewomen'stour #AvivaWomen'sTour2015 #MatrixFitnessProCycling
On the rollers warming up for the 3rd round of the Matrix Fitness GP Series in Croydon, Helen Wyman gives us some insights as to how circuit races compare to racing in a tour such as the Women's Tour.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
HelenWyman #MatrixProCyling #Women'sCycling #Women'sTour #Croydon #TourSeries #MatrixFitnessGPSeries #RoadtotheTour #Women'sTour #AvivaWomen'sTour #2015AvivaWomen'sTour
Whilst sheltering from the rain in the team car at the first stage of the Matrix Fitness GP Series, Stuart Maclean told us about his role within the team and what he'll be doing on a daily basis during the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
CycleMedia #MatrixProCycling #Women'sCycling #Aviva #AvivaWomen'sTour #Women'sTour #Interview #Audio #Podcast #Cycling #TeamCar #TourSeries #MatrixFitnessGP
Team soigneur Martin Eadon gives us a call about his role within the team, how he came to work with Matrix Pro Cycling & what he'll be up to during the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
Women'sCycling #Cycling #RoadCycling #Women'sTour #AvivaWomen'sTour #AvivaTours #Soigneur #PhoneInterview #Interview #Phone #MartinEadon
Director and designer at Milltag cycle clothing Ed Cowburn talks us through working with Matrix Pro Cycling to design the team's kit and branding.
Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.
Women's Cycling #Women'sCycling #Women's Tour #Women'sTour #AvivaWomen'sTour #Aviva Women's Tour #MatrixProCycling #Matrix Pro Cycling #Milltag #CycleClothing #Cycle Design #Design #Branding #Jersey #Interview #Cycling
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The Tape du Tour mic got up on the old bridge over the ridiculous Arenberg cobbled section to meet some spectators, before getting down on the pavé to hear the 2015 edition of the famous race clatter past.
Paris-Roubaix #Arenberg #Pavé #HelloftheNorth #Cycling #SpringClassic #Radio #Sport #Bridge #Cobbles
As a child and now as a father Philip has lived beside a stretch of pavé that often shows up on the Paris-Roubaix race route.
Back in the summer a few hours before the Tour de France shook past his door we spoke with Philip about what Paris-Roubaix means to him and his neighbours.
Paris-Roubaix #Pavé #Cobbles #Hellofthenorth #TourdeFrance #Bikerace #Cyclingradio #France #NorthernFrance
Pro cycling photographer and man behind Sportive Photo, Phil O'Connor joined Tape du Tour on the phone.
Hear Phil's stories of photographing Paris-Roubaix and his tips on getting the best photographs at bike races.
HellOfTheNorth #Cycling #SpringClassic #ParisRoubaix #Photography #PhilO'Connor #1995 #Pave #Cycle Sport Magazine #Cobbles #Paris #Roubaix #PhotoTips #SportivePhotoLtd #AndreiTchmil
The final edition of Tape du Tour at the '14 Tour de France. Hear the goings on at the race roadside through the Pyrenees along towards Paris.
tourdefrance #lemond #pyrenees #spectators #mountains
Spectator adventures from stages 8 to 13 of the 2014 Tour de France!
tourdefrance #didi #thedevil #campervan #lorries #horns #cycling #grenoble #hammock
The Tape du Tour mic makes it over to France and follows stages 4 to 7 down through the rains and over the cobbles!
tourdefrance #parisroubaix #cobbles #pave #cycling #froome #bikeart #warlaing #epernay #arras #belguim #tdf
The first of Tape du Tour's four part adventure at the 2014 Tour de France!
Race sounds & spectator interviews from the first 3 stages of the race.
Recordings at... Stage 1 - Buttertubs Pass Yorkshire Stage 2 - Addingham, Yorkshire Stage 3 - The Embankment, London
tourdefrance #stage1 #tdf #yellowjersey #addingham #mall #buttertubs #yorkshire
Sounds from around the race at the feed zone, the Bridge St QOM summit and Bury St Edmunds on the final stage of the Women's Tour 2014. 12-05-14
Tape du Tour hears the race at Freston Hill & then nips over to Clacton on Sea for stage three of the Women's Tour. 10-05-14
Tape du Tour listens to stage two at the 2nd QOM summit just outside Brixworth. 09-05-14
Tape du Tour hears from race organisers, listens to spectators and captures race sounds at the start and finish of stage one of Britain's first ever Women's Tour... 08-05-14