Unsportlich: sex or potatoes before the race

The makers of Unsportlich know a thing or two about ice hockey and when they laugh, the soundtrack cracks like a board check in the ice rink. Emilie Siegenthaler doesn't let herself get rattled and lures the presenters out of their shells with blunt answers, such as how she had sex just before the start.
Unsporty with Emilie Siegenthaler

Math Flückiger, for his part, impresses with one and a half kilos of boiled potatoes, which he claims to have eaten before a race. The three presenters see their first chat with Flückiger in summer 2019 as at least as important for his success. After winning silver at the 2020 World Championships, he once again answered the rather unconventional questions from Unsportlich.
Unsportlich with Math Flückiger

Single trails and single malt: Tibor Simai - Schwarzenegger on the BMX

The podcast usually features photo reporter Tobi Woggon and Youtuber Jasper Jauch chatting away together. In this edition, Jasper Jauch talks to BMX and mountain bike legend Tibor Simai, who has undergone many transformations and is still going strong at almost 50.
Single trails and single malt with Tibor Simai

Everything is rideable: The psychology of mountain biking

The podcast of the German magazine MOUNTAINBIKE is generally more dedicated to the technical aspects of mountain biking. In this episode, they talk to Italian downhill rider Veronika Widmann about the psychology of mountain biking
. Everything is rideable with Veronika Widmann

Cup or hospital: Project Armageddon

"Bought editors, inexperienced testers and now they're talking too," reads the intro to Pokal oder Spital, the mtb-news podcast. These audio pieces also often revolve around material and bike development. The two episodes with Jürgen Schlenker, head of the German manufacturer Alutech, who built at least the second longest trail bike in the world with the Armageddon Project and brought it to the trail as a prototype, show just how refreshing this can be.
Part 1: How the Armageddon came about
Part 2: Armageddon on the trail

SRF "Focus": Marlen Reusser - politicized by pigs

The Focus program on SRF 3 takes a serious journalistic approach. A few days ago, Marlen Reusser, who put her career as a doctor on hold in her mid-twenties to become a professional cyclist, was a guest there. Before that, the farmer's daughter from Emmental was also a violinist and politician for the Young Greens. Today she is not a mountain biker, but primarily a time trialist, but the interview is interesting nonetheless.
Focus with Marlen Reusser

Podcasts in English

Singletracks podcast: How bad is mountain biking for the environment

In two episodes, Jeff Barber, editor-in-chief of singletracks.com, looks at the impact of mountain biking on the environment. In part one, he talks to a mountain biker and environmental consultant about the impact of trail building on ecosystems. In part 2, he discusses the impact of mountain bikers on wildlife with an expert.
Singletracks: Mountain Biking and the Environment, Part 1 - Trail Building and Ecosystems
Singletracks: Mountain Biking and the Environment, Part 2 - Wildlife

Pinkbike Podcast: The shifting conspiracy and more mountain bike conspiracy theories

The Pinkbike editors have taken on a great topic: Mountain bike conspiracy theories, such as a plot by gear manufacturers to prevent a competitive bike gearbox from finally coming onto the market. The first half of the program is dedicated to the current situation (August 2020) in the downhill and enduro circus. After that, it's all about conspiratorial meetings between SRAM and Shimano and the like.
Pinkbike Podcast: Mountain Bike Conspiracy Theories

Downtime: Josh Bryceland - hard-to-understand bird of paradise in black

Downtime is dedicated to gravity biking, from the Downhill World Cup to freeride heroes and everything else that goes down the mountain on two wheels. In this show, Josh "Ratboy" Bryceland is our guest, who was already a successful World Cup pro and a bird of paradise, albeit a mostly black-clad one. He abandoned his career early on and has been producing freeride videos ever since. His Manchester accent was already difficult to understand in the winner interviews and it hasn't gotten any easier in the meantime.
Downtime: Josh "Ratboy" Bryceland