The Packfiller: Cycling Culture & Comedy · Patrick Bulger | Cycling Host & Creator

The 320W Lie, Pogačar’s Triple & UCI Hypocrisy

April 8, 2026·1 hr 9 min·6 clips

A cyclists AI coach hallucinated a 320-watt FTP from a power spike, and the host had been training with garbage numbers for months.

The mic opens with a bike-fit sermon, but the funny kind. Cyclists get roasted for buying carbon wheels, ceramic bearings, shaved legs, and tiny watt savings while pretending their backs, hands, and knees are fine ten miles later. Then poem time barges in. Recording solo from Hellsgate Campground in breezy North Idaho, the host reads a goofy poem, hopes Wout brings home a cobblestone, complains about another cycling book tax, grabs his Oprah Price espresso, and keeps rolling. The main target is enforcement. A sticky-bottle incident turns into a cranky, messy riff on UCI parenting, selective discipline, and riders hanging onto team cars like nobody can see them. That is what makes it ridiculous now. Racing has e-bike recalls, electronic shifting, and 4K drone footage everywhere, yet the oldest trick in the book is still alive. He blanks on a name, then makes the stumble useful: the point is not one rider, it is the sight of someone moving up while latched onto a car at 35, 40, or even 50 miles an hour. His fix is simple. Take the bottle, take the cup, talk to the director if needed, but do not dress up a tow as a feed. The UCI gets no soft landing here. He wants the rule changed instead of bent around candy-bar logic for important riders. Red Bull arrives late with Remco Evenepoel's Flanders debut and Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe announcing Dan LeRong's exit from the head-of-performance role. The ending turns back to the audience: listener questions, Patreon support, personal writing, and upcoming book chapters, with listeners invited to be early editors.

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A blunt, shaggy cycling rant about vanity, bike fit, and the sport's favorite rule games.

The Packfiller settles into cycling vanity and all the rituals that go with it, from carbon wheels and ceramic bearings to the habit of blaming anything but bike fit.

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You want a bike-fit rant, sticky-bottle jokes, and some cycling gossip that actually goes somewhere.

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