Adam Hansen on GPS trackers, WADA and fixing cycling’s safety problem

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CPA president Adam Hansen joins us fresh from the first UCI cycling reform meeting to talk rider safety, salaries and anti-doping from the inside. Heads up: the audio isn’t our usual standard, but what he shares is well worth pushing through for. Adam takes us through what was discussed at the reform table, and how rolling road closures actually work after a week of vehicles on course in the Italian races. He lays out his top five safety priorities, from GPS trackers and hookless tyres to helmets only rated to around 22 km/h, and why he expects trackers in every race by mid-next year. We also get into the ITA night tests on Tadej and Jonas at the Tour, the flaws in the ADAMS whereabouts…