- From Belach na Ba in the Scottish Highlands
after 3,000 kilometres in 20 days.
Welcome to the GCN show.
- Welcome to the GCN show.
This week we are going to give you
three reasons why you will one day
be riding an e-bike.
- And two reasons why you won't.
- We've got some great tech
from the world's biggest bike show Eurobike.
And terrible tech in hack forward slash bodge.
And all of our other usual segments too.
- Yeah we've also
got to do a big welcome back to John Chocolate Voice Beaven
fresh from completing the Haute Route.
John.
- That is one chocolate snore right there.
- John.
John!
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- This week in the world of cycling
we we're reminded that watching bikes
is just great isn't it?
- It's just great.
We'll kick off with this
with Nicholi Rogatkin going absolutely nuts
at the Red Bull District Ride with a 1440.
- [Announcer] All the speed he can muster
out of that roll in the 1440.
And he lands it!
Whoa.
- [Announcer 2] What?
- [Announcer] Oh that was even smoother than last night.
- [Nicholi] Yes!
Yes!
Let's go!
Let's go!
- Whoa. - Whoa.
1440's four.
- I lost count mate.
Then there was also this.
Which was the latest round of the Red Hook Crit series.
He lived up to his hardcore reputation.
You'll remember that these bikes have no breaks.
And the inability to free wheel.
And there was indeed a huge pileup
on the closing stage of the men's race
involving many of the favourites.
Including the rider that actually filmed this,
Colin Strickland of Intelligentsia Racing.
He was the series leader going in to Barcelona.
We'll have more from that later in the show.
- We also learned through my wonderings at Eurobike
that it is inevitable that one day, fairly soon,
we will all be riding e-bikes.
Or will we?
- Well reason number one why we will
is the fact that the latest e-bikes,
well they look like this.
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- I also particularly like the look
of the new Focus Project Y.
More information will be out on that in an upcoming video.
But that like the Orbea is particularly light.
Just 12 and a half kilogrammes,
which is probably what the top end road bikes we're
30 years or so ago.
- Yeah I agree
It does look good doesn't it.
There is a problem though I think.
And that is using e-bikes for sporting reasons okay.
There had to be a hiccup.
The reason I say this is because
I had a message on Facebook over the weekend
from a chap called Paul Taylor.
And he just lost a KOM to a person
who admitted, openly admitted,
to using an e-bike to do so.
Yeah now I appreciate you know as problems go
it's probably relevant only to a minority of people.
But leaving aside KOMs,
what about on a group ride?
You can imagine e-bikes making a cycling club
a little bit tense.
And in fact chain gangs, pace lines,
whatever you want to call them, unworkable.
- Yeah well maybe we should have some
unwritten rules about this.
No. - No.
- Let's not do that.
- There has to be another way.
Let's at least right em down this time.
- Reason number two then: transport.
And this is the big one for me at least.
Instead of thinking of an e-bike
as a replacement to your beautifully simple road bike,
think of it as a replacement to your car.
Or a quiet, easy, and convenient motorbike.
- Yeah agreed.
A hundred percent in fact.
I actually tried a Trek Super Commuter Eight
when I was at a DT Swiss the other day.
It was technically it was a personal bike
of their vice president.
Whoa.
- [Man] Hey wait, wait, wait, wait.
- He uses it to commuter 30 kilometres to work each day
and then 30 kilometres home.
Some days he wears jeans and a hoodie
and it takes him about 45 minutes.
Other days he presses a little bit harder on the pedals,
arrives a couple minutes earlier,
and has a great workout.
And you think wow.
That just makes so much sense.
- [Daniel] Best of both worlds.
- [Simon] Yeah.
- Does he know that you stole his bike?
- He does now.
Go, go, go.
- [Man] I'm alright Si, I'm alright.
- Well there are also some great e-bikes out there
for carrying things around as well.
For example another one that I spotted
at Eurobike from Tern.
For some people e-bikes are about
going further and faster.
But for most people,
are they really about convenience.
And that is what Tern have turned their attention to
with this new model called the GSD,
which apparently stands for get stuff done.
At least that's what I've been told to say.
And they are deeming this cargo capacity
on a city footprint.
And that's why I've got this city bike behind.
Plenty of storage room on this thing for your weekly shop
or your weekly drinks there at the front.
- Are your sure that would last you a week?
- Oh yeah there's more storage
at the back of that bike as well.
It was great.
Now one of the downsides I found though
is that e-bikes can set you back a pretty penny.
This one for example from Bugatti will be
at a minimum €65,000.
- [Simon] What?
- [Daniel] And if you want the very top of the range one,
double it, €130,000.
- And what exactly do you get for
your extra €65,000?
- Well I did quiz the gentleman
and all he could say was that it would be lighter.
For example some lighter cranks.
- Lighter cranks is €65,000.
- Sounds reasonable to me.
This one though from Cowboy that
was on TechCrunch very recently sounds promising.
Because one of their key development criteria
is that it should have a very low price point.
- Yeah well that is important.
That is important.
Right then finally then,
reason number three why it's almost inevitable
that you will end up riding e-bike.
And that is that they can just be great fun.
In fact we learned in the GCN show just the other week
that the majority of you use cycling
as a means of escape.
That is why you ride.
And so you can then imagine
having little bit extra power at your disposal
through having an e-bike
just means it's easier to escape.
You can escape more.
You can just get more of what you want.
- Well I was about to say,
you and Matt got a tweet didn't you from Stan--
- We did, we did indeed.
- At the weekend on exactly the subject.
He wrote,
"Rode Gospel Pass circuit from Hay On Wye
"on a Giant e+1.
"Thanks again to you both."
Incidentally exactly the same bike that Matt used
when he was racing you at the dollar mart recently.
- Wasn't much of a race was it at the end of the day?
No.
That Gospel Pass actually,
great ride here in the UK.
It's also got another name.
It's also called Lord Hereford's Knob.
- It's now time for cycling shorts.
- It can be a complicated and expensive task
to close roads for races these days.
Now it's particularly relevant at the moment here in the UK.
So perhaps then the answer is
racing on multi-story car parks.
We have seen it before in both London and Adelaide.
But on the 26th of November,
it will be coming to Christ Church in New Zealand.
Courtesy of the Carpark Cannonball.
Now I think this could take things up a level or two.
Maybe even eight.
- It might be expensive though.
If it's anything like paying for car parking around here,
blocking out an entire eight story carpark
no telling what the entry fees would be.
Anyway riders will be competing in two up races
from the bottom to the top.
And the event organisers say that the atmosphere
will be heightened by live music
and commentary throughout proceedings.
How do you say we'd get on mate?
- I think we'd get smashed.
- No I mean the race.
- Yeah that's what I meant.
I've had at least eight mineral wat--
mineral wat--
mineral water--
mineral waters myself.
- Right news from the Vuelta.
Really annoying and quite frankly awful news
actually from the Vuelta.
Team Aqua Blue Sport reported last week
that they're team bus had been vandalised.
Set on fire basically which is pretty cruel
particularly given that they're riding
their first grand tour.
So something to be celebrated.
But the flip side is that a number of other teams
offered to step in and help them out,
which is great.
Not at least Jacques Janse van Rensburg,
got it, who tweeted this.
He said basically they're welcome
to come use their team bus showers after the stage
if they would like.
- Remember what the team bus showers are like
on the Dimension Data's bus?
- We should have a look mate.
- Nice and spacious.
Want a peek inside?
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- Not bad. - No.
- I'd take them up on that offer.
- Definitely. - Yeah.
- Although they didn't need to
because in the end they were helped out
by a Portuguese continental team
LA Aluminious Matalusa
who donated their bus for the remainder
of the Vuelta which is a very cool gesture indeed.
- That is actually great isn't it.
That is great.
Right now it's not just the Vuelta at the moment,
not by a long shot actually,
but the Tour of Britain is going on.
It's got some great racing
and a really stacked field.
But actually it seems like British cuisine
is dividing the riders.
- It is, yes.
So for starters,
let's all look at this tweet from Taylor Phinney,
who as you can see effectively decided to blame
British cuisine for his first day performance.
- Controversial Taylor.
And Alex Dowsett meanwhile tweeted this
saying that he'd introduced his team,
which is Movistar,
to sticky toffee pudding one evening.
Yeah British cuisine for the win he says
with a strong arm thing.
Do you think Taylor's problem
was just that he was too full?
- Yeah quite possibly.
He probably had porridge and a full English breakfast
before his day one.
- Up next:
what does Chris Froome think about while he's on the toilet?
- Maybe he thinks about sticky toffee pudding
whilst he's on the toilet.
Who knows.
Over to the Ultra Endurance world now.
And the race around Ireland took place last week.
And the winner
was Nicole Reist.
In doing so she became the first female winner of the event.
And she was a full 12 hours ahead of the closest challenger.
And male category winner Valerio Zamboni.
- Remarkable performance isn't it?
She rode 2,212 kilometres in 112 hours.
- Just all you need to do is that math
to know how much that must of hurt.
- 19 kilometres an hour.
- Yeah sticking with the Ultra Endurance world,
we should check back in with our good friend Mark Beaumont.
He has another very tough week
facing a lot of very harsh head winds.
So if you do get a chance to send him
your message on social media,
I'm sure he'd appreciate that as he closes into the finish.
Or indeed if you want to support him on the roadside
if your lucky enough to be near by.
- Yeah don't just get a chance.
Make the effort.
Send him some love.
- The first couple of days coming through Alaska
we're a mere warmup to what was to come
because in my mind I had it the other way around.
Alaska was hilly and then it all got pretty straightforward.
But in actual fact,
when you're covering 240 odd miles a day,
it's all pretty big.
It's all pretty hilly.
Physically obviously 16 hours a day on the bike
is big in itself,
but when you're putting in over 3,000 metres climbing
back to back to back,
it's funny because some days
I was totally in the zone and dealt with it.
And then the next day I would drop off
and really struggle.
And after the first week in stage three
I've lost about 60 miles.
It's sometimes harder to deal with that.
My support team are very,
very good at reassuring me.
Just keeping thinking about the long game.
Thinking about the averages.
But then for five days in a row
to be not making target,
it's hard to not start questioning myself on the bike.
You know I know the conditions are tough,
but you know is it also me sort of fading a bit.
The emotional roller coaster can kind of happen regardless.
Yeah trust me when you're 55/56 days in,
having ridden 13 odd thousand miles.
You end up in some pretty weird mindsets.
You just need to commit to not stopping.
- The Vuelta is into it's last week now.
And Chris Froome and Team Sky
it seems have everything pretty much under control.
At the final rest day,
he had over a minutes advantage over his nearest rider
who happened to be Vincenzo Nibali.
And with the 40 kilometre time trial,
which will actually have been completed
by the time this video goes live.
He will likely, I say likely,
have increased that margin quite significantly.
- [Daniel] Kiss of Death.
Kiss of Death Si. - I know.
We had to try to predict something.
- Miguel Angel 'Superman' Lopez though
has started to live up to his nickname hasn't he?
A second place on the stage in two stage wins.
He's propelled himself up to sixth place
in the general classification on that rest day.
But it's a bit of a shame that he lost some of that time
in the early opening flat stages.
- Well you say that mate,
but he is not gonna be concerned at all
because his attack when he left Contador and Bardet
on The Climbs of Sierra Nevada
earns him this weeks Wattage Bazooka.
- Well done Miguel.
Meanwhile this weeks viewer Wattage Bazooka
goes to Aryan Murali on the Palamoli Climb
in Southern India with this section
it goes to 23%.
- [Simon] Tell you what.
I don't know who was actually riding up that climb,
but they deserve Wattage Bazooka.
They we're flying.
- If you know someone that deserves it for next week,
don't forget to get in touch on social media
with the hashtag Wattage Bazooka.
Now the Dutch dominated proceedings
at the Boels Rental Ladies Tour.
They filled all three spots on the final podium.
But dominantly standing at the very top
was Annemiek van Vleuten.
- That's right she lead from
the opening stage to the finish.
Having won the prologue time trial.
She was pushed pretty hard, wasn't she,
on that final very long 155 kilometre stage.
But ultimately she did finish with
a relatively comfortable margin of victory.
She had 43 seconds over Anna van der Breggen.
- The Dutch are going to be quite hard to beat
in the women's race at the World Championships soon.
- Seemingly so.
- Right the Tour of Britain also kicked off on Sunday.
And Daniele Bennati, Italian from Movistar,
seemed to have his hardest stage
before the race even kicked off.
Have a look at this for a travel day.
- [Simon] Wow.
- [Daniel] Amazing use of emoticons.
Probably the best I've ever seen.
- [Simon] I'll tell you then.
I am concerned though
that he took to Twitter sometime presumably
having got to his hotel at 11:30 in the evening.
And that would have taken him a long time
to craft that tweet.
- And that would have been 12:30 his normal time in Europe.
- Exactly.
And unsurprisingly perhaps he didn't feature
in that first stage really.
Although what a stage it was.
One of the closest spring finishes
I think we've ever seen.
They did eventually manage to pick
Caleb Ewan out as the winner.
As those first three guys hit the line.
- [Daniel] Yeah they we're very close.
- [Simon] Almost the same time, yeah.
- And we've literally just finished stage two
whilst filming the GCN show here.
Edvald Boasson Hagen crossed the line first.
But as we said he did veer
ever so slightly in that final sprint.
And we are speculating he may be relegated.
- Ever so slightly Dan.
It's be like be like me starting to talk to you here
and then finishing off my piece of camera
somewhere over here by the coffee machine basically.
- Yeah you are disqualified sir.
Don't come back.
- What do you mean?
It's just relegated to last position.
- Right we also mentioned earlier
that the latest round of the Red Hook Crit
has taken place over the last week.
Round three in Barcelona.
Ash Duban won the women's race
with a daring overtaking manoeuvre
in the final corner.
And we say daring because to reiterate:
these bikes have no brakes and no free wheel.
Although to be fair that is probably better than no brakes
and a free wheel.
- Thats true that I say daring
just taking to the start line.
- Definitely.
- The men's race was won by David van Eerd
of the Berlin based 8 Bar team.
- [Daniel] Oh are they Matt's mates?
Fixie mates?
- No those are not Matt's Fixie mates.
Matt's got other fixie mates from the Schindelhauer team.
- Well he out sprinted Davide Vigano.
He used to ride for Team Sky.
That just goes to show you the
kind of level these races are.
- Okay you'd be forgiven for thinking
that you've had your fill of tech this week.
But no.
We've got some more for you.
Tech of the week this week is sure to stir up
the indoor training market.
Wattbike have just launched a new product called
the Atom.
Okay so Wattbike has been around for a while now
with their famous static bike.
But they've updated this latest model
to take advantage of smart technology.
That's so that you can use it with the likes
of Swift or TrainerRoad for example.
As well as linking up to your Strava.
That's pretty cool.
You can stay indoors,
but people think maybe you've ridden outdoors.
Okay so all of the best bits of the previous generation
are still on this unit.
So that's the power meter,
which is accurate to plus or minus 2%.
Plus the power settings itself.
From not to 2000 watts.
I think that's suitable for me.
Plus it looks great.
What more can we say about that?
So last week Dan and I were actually at Eurobike
checking out loads of cool tech.
For me the best bit of tech I saw,
it's a tough one.
But it's probably the UFO chain drop from CeramicSpeed.
Why?
It keeps your chain nice and clean.
It gives you a little bit of extra free speed.
I'm liking that.
- Competition time now.
We've got three great prizes for you from ControlTech.
A company with a long history in this sport.
I remember running on of their stems
on my mountain bike in the mid 90's.
And they made somewhat of a resurgence
with some fantastic looking products.
- They have.
So up for grabs, literally,
we've got three handle bars.
So Dan is modelling, very well in fact,
the TiMania which you'll notice
has a titanium central section,
uni-directional carbon drops.
The idea being that it blends the properties
of both those materials together in one handlebar.
Which is cool.
And then there's this one which is my favourite.
The Cougar Carbon Air handlebar.
I do like the sound of that Dan.
Now it's compatible with the new DI2 junction box,
which fits in your bar end plug there.
But it's also compatible with Control's
pure cockpit systems.
So you'll notice there's a bunch of holes on the back here.
So you can route your cables internally
and even out through into ControlTech's own compatible stem.
And then out into their fork as well.
And from the fork straight into the frame.
So now more external cables.
- Yeah.
So at Eurobike looked very good indeed.
- Yeah.
- And finally we have this.
Which is the EXL Gravel Bike specific carbon bar
with flair drops.
And as you can see,
quite a pronounced rise as well.
Great for people like me who are older
and want the slam stems deal whilst remaining comfortable.
As ever if you would like to enter this competition,
you can do so by following the link
that is in the description below this video.
All that leaves us to say is good luck.
- Well not only that,
but make sure you enter the other competitions
that we got on the channel as well.
We've got the Lightweight unboxing.
We've also got the fi'zi:k unboxing as well.
So the links to those competitions
are also in the description.
That's a lot of chances to win.
- Hack forward slash Bodge of the week.
Did I get it right? - I think so.
- We'll kick off with one from Sean Ganann.
Now I've seen some carbon repair in my time Si.
I've never seen one like this. - Really?
- [Daniel] Not like this.
Sellotape has been used to gaffer this all together.
I would suggest that the owner doesn't ride that anymore.
- That is a bodge.
Definitely don't fix your bike with sellotape.
Anywhere at all.
Tell you what mate.
If you want a rhino bike made out of a suit of armour,
that's a hack right there.
Look at that.
Sent by Daniel Burges.
Spotted in central London.
That is definitely a hack.
- [Daniel] Can I say something?
- [Simon] You can.
- I don't want a rhino bike made out of a suit of armour.
So there we go.
This is a hack.
I love this one.
From Peter Dixon,
he's used his dog lead as a bike lock
on his roof rack so that he go into the local petrol station.
- [Simon] And then he shut it in the door.
Genius.
- [Daniel] Yeah he's wrapped it around,
shut it in the door.
I mean you know.
- [Simon] Grade A hack.
All you need is a pair of scissors to cut it loose.
- [Daniel] Yeah but it might discourage someone.
Mightn't it. - It would.
- [Daniel] For a few seconds.
- [Simon] Yeah fair play.
Besides that's a great one.
This was sent in by Connor Koehler.
He said it's a home built bike rack for his college dorm.
Looks pretty nice. - Very nice.
Hack yep.
Like that.
- [Simon] Great so you can invite
plenty of people back to your dorm Connor,
I'm sure with that work of art.
- Then we have got this from Tomi Nummela.
- Whoa.
- That's kind of like a spodged recumbent isn't it
sat on the middle of the two wheels.
Pedals at the far.
I imagine you'd do it in though pretty easily on that.
- Yeah no one's getting back to his college dorm.
Look at that, that's terrible.
Right finally then we've got this
from Leef on the Wind,
I don't even know.
I mean that's obviously a saddle,
but I don't quite know how it's a saddle.
Or why it's a saddle Dan.
Should we say that's a-- - Bodge.
Let's finish on a bodge then.
- [Simon] Maybe it's,
maybe they've reinvented the seat
and actually it's incredibly comfortable.
- Oh I would like to try that.
See if it is comfortable.
I must admit.
If you've got a saddle like this,
and you'd like to see Si or I testing it out
please send it into the Global Cycling Network office.
And if you've got anymore hacks or bodges,
all you've got to do is use the hashtag GCNhack
on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
- Keep them coming.
It's time now for the weekly caption competition.
You're chance to get your hands on a GCN water bottle.
That's right.
We'll give you a photo.
You caption it.
We choose the best ones.
It's as simple as that.
If you've not seen it before,
this is how it works.
This is last weeks photo.
And the winner,
the winner of a GCN water bottle is
Patrick Sheard Fincenzo Nibali.
- Yeah I'll give it to you Patrick.
If you write your address down
and send it to us on Facebook,
we will send it out.
But that's got to be the end of these fish ones.
I'm absolutely fed up with hear you
coming up with fish puns
and seeing them in the comments
and seeing messages on Facebook as well.
That's enough please.
- I thought you we're gonna do one last fish pun.
- No, no.
Meanwhile this week's caption photo
is this one of Team JLT's Russ Downing
at the recent Tour of Britain.
I shall start you off.
That's definitely a swipe left.
Some youngster at the office said it.
I don't even know what it means.
Anyway if you've got a better caption
please leave it in the comment section down below.
And we shall choose a winner this time next week.
- Puns normally fare quite well.
Before we get to what's coming up on the channel this week,
let's take a quick second to just go through
some of the belting comments
that you've been leaving under our videos as always.
This one I particularly liked
under your indoor training video from Eurobike.
JayJohnny who's avatar looks like
a very bronzed person standing on a beach said,
"so how do you get a tan at the same time
"as training indoors."
- [Daniel] Top of the his list of concerns obviously there.
- Isn't there a new like a pill you can take now
to make you tan?
- Well you could put your indoor trainer outdoors.
- Tell you what mate.
That's genius.
I can't come back from that.
So I'm just gonna change the subject.
Poraktobask says,
under another one of your Eurobike videos in fact--
- Been kicked out.
Not because I've done anything wrong you understand,
but because day one of the show
is actually now finished disappointingly.
- [Simon] At the same time
five people enter to visit Eurobike.
- [Daniel] Yeah think they we're VIPs.
- [Simon] Ah were they.
Special after hours.
- From the same point in that video,
Pumpkinseed put,
"9:57 my expression of why does the video end already?"
Well I've got some very good news for you Pumpkinseed.
There is more Eurobike stuff
coming up on the channel this week.
Starting straight away in fact on Wednesday
where we will have weird and wonderful tech from Eurobike.
We will also have another video that day
is Zwift for beginners.
More Eurobike tech on Thursday.
That day is going to be an e-bike special.
So quite appropriate for today's GCN show.
- Yeah a bit more detail.
- Yep.
And on the very same day,
we've also got our latest cycle rivalries video.
Oh and on Friday it's ask GCN anything.
- Yeah Saturday it's quite a monumental pro bike actually.
It'll be the last ever Alberto Contador pro bike.
Cause obviously this is his retirement race, the Vuelta.
And this is his retirement bike,
a very beautiful bike from Trek no less.
And then on Sunday we've got another unboxing.
A great one this time.
Do you think I can say what it is?
- I don't know.
- It's the new Wattbike.
- Aw you said it. - I did say it.
That's pretty cool isn't it?
And then Monday, maintenance Monday,
I'll show you how to build a wheel.
I built my first wheel.
- That's a long video that one isn't it?
- It is.
(rock music)
- Whoo. - Gnarly dude.
Is what you say I think isn't it?
- I believe it is actually.
Not quite up there with Nicholi Rogatkin.
But still two extremes in one GCN show.
That's pretty good isn't it?
- It is.
Well I'm afraid though that the GCN show
is over for another week.
If you've enjoyed it,
please give it the thumbs up just down below.
And if you haven't yet subscribed
You can do so right now by clicking on the globe.
- Yeah and if you're after more content now,
do not worry.
There's plenty for your out there.
Including a power2max factory tour.
Basically how not to make a power meter
cause they asked me to do it
and I failed miserably.
That one's just down there.
- Or in the top corner you can find my report
from the latest indoor training tech from Eurobike.
Including a wahoo product that simulates climbs.
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