South Africa's road cycling calendar is shrinking — and it's not because nobody wants to race. National commissaire

Stephan Aucamp breaks down exactly what it costs to put on a bike race in this country, where the money actually goes,

and why most events run at a loss every single year.

Stephan is a national road commissaire and works at Cycle Lab, giving him a rare view from both sides of South African

road cycling — as an official and as someone selling the sport every day. We get into the real cost of running a

Winter League race, why South African road teams can't pay their riders, what's been lost since cycling clubs started

dying out, and what it would actually take to fix it. Then we shift gears completely for a long, opinionated Tour de

France 2026 preview — Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, Tom Pidcock, and a teenage French rider named

Paul Seixas who might just blow the whole thing open.

# === CHAPTERS ===================================

0:00 — Cold Open: The Great Bike Weigh-In

3:17 — Meet Stephan Aucamp: National Commissaire & Cycle Lab

15:36 — Denis Human: SA Cycling's Unsung Hero

21:34 — What It Actually Costs to Run a Road Race

26:15 — Why SA's Top Teams Can't Pay Their Riders

31:54 — What Road Cycling Lost When the Clubs Faded

36:01 — The Fix: Filling the Winter League

50:38 — Building a Town Hall for SA Cycling

57:58 — Tour de France 2026 Predictions Begin

1:00:27 — Is Paul Seixas the Real Deal?

1:07:27 — The Marco Pantani Story

1:11:48 — Why Cycling Needs Its Rugby Moment

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