David and Mikkel talk to Rob Gitelis, the owner of Factor Bikes and Black Inc. Wheels and Components. He is the don of performance carbon fibre in the world of cycling and we learn all about his journey and learn about what it takes to make the best bikes and components in the world. FACTOR BIKES BLACK INC COMPONENTS CHPT3 ARCHIVE  ..read more

David and Mikkel are joined by Damian Soong and Dr Adam Collins to talk about performance nutrition. Damian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Form Nutrition, Dr Adam Collins is a world renowned nutritionist, his ongoing interests lie in obesity, exercise nutrition, body composition and energy metabolism all as can be applied to weight loss/maintenance and metabolic health, he is also the principal advisor to Form Nutrition. Find Form Nutrition here. Sign up to the Time Traveller project here ..read more

David has started a 12 week challenge to get back in shape. He is on the search of his old time trial spirit and travels back in time to find it and bring it back to 2022z On May the 14th 2022 he will pursue a 20 minute time trial to demonstrate what can be done if you train and prepare probably. On the journey he gets advice from experts from pro cycling, tech, health care, nutrition, psychology, bike design, aero dynamics to get an update on what has change since his last time trial in 2014. Mikkel and David meets every week to talk about the progress and invite an expert to give us insigh ..read more

David and Mikkel discuss the why and what of the CHPT3 Time Traveller project. It began as a personal challenge David had given himself to get fit, it's escalated into something a bit bigger. We've decided to share the journey and encourage all of you to join. This is the first in a special series of OFF BIKE podcasts that will serve as an extra content stream to give you updates, news and interviews with industry leaders. We'll be learning about training, equipment, nutrition, apparel, psychology and much more.  David will be rediscovering the art and science behind time trialling and sh ..read more

Tim Marlow has studied art for most of his life, a scholar, writer, broadcaster, lecturer, and historian, currently he is the Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he has held that position (a position that didn't exist previously) since 2014.  2020 will see him beginning a new chapter, that of CEO of the Design Museum. Mikkel B. Rasmussen and David Millar visited the Royal Academy of Arts where they also had the great privilege of an impromptu walk through the Anthony Gormley exhibition, check out the trailer here. Randomly they bumped into Kenton Cool and discussed ..read more

David Millar talks to Chris Boardman about cycling through his life and why he might just change the world we live in for the better. FIND CHPT3 HERE FIND CHRIS BOARDMAN HERE ..read more

Lachlan Morton is one of the most interesting characters in professional cycling. He is better known for his championing of an alternative style of biking, one that involves breaking free from the shackles of what's expected. Only 28yrs old yet already an icon within the world of cycling. I was his team mate when he first entered the World Tour back in 2012, we became friends immediately even though I was 35 and he was 20, I saw so much of my 20yr old self in him and have always followed him from afar since our paths separated. Mikkel, on the other hand, only knew Lachlan from his film "Therea ..read more

This is a special edition of OFF BIKE, in the words of David: What is Wheels For Heroes? I’ll try and explain from my perspective…   Bicycles have always represented fun to me. When I was a kid they gave me the freedom I needed. As I got older that freedom led to adventure, and as I got stronger the bicycle introduced me to speed, eventually it led me to racing. I’ve spent the majority of my life racing. I stopped in 2014.   In 2015 I went to a big lunch in London and I met Will Butler-Adams, the CEO of Brompton, he asked me, “You’re the Tour de France racer, right?”  He told m ..read more

In 2012, Phil was asked to rejuvenate the legendary IBM design program, spearheading a broader transformation of how the company’s teams understand and solve complex problems. The program has established a modern standard for the role of the arts in business — adding formally-trained designers into IBM at an unprecedented scale, and reskilling its global workforce in design thinking and agile practices. This transformation has been documented in the New York Times, Fortune and in the documentary film "The Loop", produced by InVision as a part of its Design Disruptors series. For this work, in ..read more

We speak to Stuart O'Grady, Rolf Sørensen, and Steve Smith. A winner, a contender, and a sponsor;  all of them fans (through love and hate) of Paris Roubaix. Mikkel and I were supposed to be riding it as amateurs in 2020, it seems mad to think we should even care about that right now, yet we do and so we thought we'd investigate why ..read more