Visma are obliged to change their kit for the Tour de France, as are EF for the Giro, because of the clash with the leader's jersey. For the last few years, they've had a kit with more black, but never a total transformation like this year. I believe all teams are allowed a change-out kit once a season - I notice Alpecin Deceuninck have gone grey for this year's race to promote a shampoo that, ironically, gets rid of grey
I thought this was the case, too. Also, the yellow in their jersey was from the Jumbo branding which they are not using anymore. It's kinda weird that they still kept it for most of the season so far, but I guess announcing stuff around the TdF generates more buzz.
Yes Emily is correct, they have to change the kit for the Tour because the Yellow is too contrasting. That's why last year they had the more "black/grungy" looking kit. Jimmy talking nonsense :D
Re: that shimano patent: bosch already has ABS for bikes (derived from their motorcycle systems), eletronic braking isn't about ultimate power (a cargo bike with 200+ rotors can already lock both wheels p easily), it's about (maintaining) control during emergency braking. If shimano's system isn't ABS/stability control oriented there's literally no point. The UK have fewer commuting/cargo ebikes because your drivers and infrastructure are insane, not because the rules are different. Pedelecs are 250w everywhere.
The reason Cube bikes are insanely common in Germany is because they have absolutely nailed building a vast dealer network in Germany to a tee. Go into virtually any unbranded bike shop here and 2/3 of the bikes there will be Cubes. In a lot of shops, a Cube bike is basically the only option if your budget is above hardware store bike and below boutique brand bike. Canyon, Rose, Stevens, Focus or dozens of more artisanal brands are also popular among enthusiasts, but the average German consumer never even comes in contact with them in the first place.
As someone recently diagnosed with Parkinson's (yay tremors and muscle stiffness) I adore boa fasteners. Much faster for me than lacing, more secure fit than velco. I'm with Francis on this!
Love the pod guys, World Tour teams can swap their kit 3 (!) times in a season from start of 2024 which is madness as it costs a fortune each time you do it as you generally have to swap helmets, bikes etc so I don't think many teams will be doing that. Big boss man Jim loves our kit so much this season that we decided to not swap for the Tour. (INEOS Grenadiers designer - Dave Eck)
If you've noticed in the first two days of the current TdF, some of the spare bikes for Visma are still yellow and black. Some changes take more time, I guess.
@@popgunandy I hadn't spotted that. I'd say overall Visma have done a good job of branding up most of the assets in TDF colours but yeah, stuff like 1st, 2nd and 3rd bikes for each rider can just be a step too far.
I just want to say that I love how you all don't take yourselves too seriously. It's a refreshing thing to see and hear in the world of cycling media. Thanks for doing what you do!
@Emily: You are a top-shelf Producer. Jimmy mentioned in the last video he does "Jimmy Adjustments" to bikes. This would be a perfect segment to show what else around the shop, the house, the car and such where he applies "Jimmy Adjustments" and hilarity ensues, Cheers from central Texas.
Thanks for the comprehensive answer to my question 👍👍I now have to change my chain set because you've said so ☺️. Thanks Jimmy for saying that the hills are brutal round here, they are and now I feel validated. Just to say also that I've since discovered that the bike was advertised with the chain set I bought, I just didn't know what it meant back then. The spec on 99 spokes is different. Also if you guys and Emily are ever in Snowdonia again, check out Marchlyn Mawr reservoir, brilliant tarmac traffic free hill climb above Llanberis! Hoping I'll be doing it faster soon with my new chain set!🎉🚴♀️🚴♀️ Oh and to answer your question, I wasn't keeping up with my friends before, I have got stronger and faster, but so have they and my 17 year old daughter...I do not have a chance😅
Hi Guys, First of all - love the podcast, keep up the great quality. Regarding the Cervélo & Focus bikes in the UK - I am a semi-professional bike builder from the Netherlands with the focus on building custom S5's and I actually get all my parts from the UK PON Bike distributor "Jungle Products" in North Yorkshire. It does look now however that they pulled the "Focus" brand from the UK.
1. Colnago 2. Look 3. The rest 4. Enve (because it looks like a sit up and beg bike with the length of that head tube. You’d have to make a -30 stem for anyone vaguely athletic to fit on it).
Kudos to Jimmy for his commentary around EF. I feel like the the Red Bull bike is going to do a similar job, but EF has been the only team injecting thought, design, marketing prowess - overall life - into the sport, that can connect outside of cycling.
Local to you guys, up until a couple of years ago (shop purchased by Specialized) Infinity Cycles in Durham had a separate Cube store and they were very popular. They also stocked Focus and Orbea over the years 👍
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I love summer! First there's the daily Tour Divide update from Josh Ibbet and then you're doing daily podcasts for the Tour de France.
I've spent about $500 in the pursuit of a saddle I can ride for more than 2-3 hours. I finally found a NOS "touring " saddle from the 1990s and bought 5 of them. Also have a box of lightly used rejects If this actually works, it's a bargain.
@domestique3954 The mew ones are Avocet gel TouringW saddles. The most recent rejects SMP womens touring. I have very wide sit bones for a man. And I also have a nerve on the medial side of my left sit bone. I have to aim the nose 15 degrees to the right.
Love the banter in these sessions. If possible I watch them before work. Just gets me into a good mood. Well done. Custom frame bags - brilliant. I got one made for an end to end ride in the UK plus another week of riding around some remote areas of Scotland. I was able to design a slim full size map pocket for my bag that the guy who runs Shaka Packs here in Canada (shout out for Shaka) loved - and incorporated for me. Can't do that with off the shelf stuff. I love the local cottage industry custom bag makers who have an independent streak and true passion.
The paint job gestapo are getting out of hand. That Orbea is beautiful. Always advocate for less branding bollocks on frames, simple graphics that flow with the shape of the frame and compliment the rider's kit.
My daughter’s first pedal bike (at about 3.5) was a Cube. It was pretty good - a properly made little bike with proper components. Got it from Rutland Cycling who are a large chain in the east and the midlands and used to sell quite a bit of Cube stuff but dont think they do anymore. Its huge in Germany though.
Good stuff. Also agree with your thoughts re. EF team-I really like what they are doing. On a music note..I was on holiday with my parents on the Isle of Wight the week before Jimi Hendrix played there. Had to go home to start college,so missed his last gig. On reflection,would have got a great deal more from attending that festival than going to college that year!!!
Emily is right about the loyalty factor on the Bianchis, I myself own a 2021 specialissima. However this bike right here is the reason a lot of us owners are looking at different brands now.
The automatic pressure adjust for car tires already exists afaik. Can be found on specific offroad vehicles. There you can just adjust tire pressure without leaving the driver's seat to fit the surface you're driving on.
One thing that gets me about getting more people on bikes, not enough is promoted about cycle to work schemes. I think most companies should offer this to their employees. The company I work for has this and its been great. Im pretty certain the limit has now been lifted too. I picked up my Orbea Orca. I saved 20% over the year on the overall price. I also use it to get consumables, chains, cassettes, etc. I even got my Garmin Varia! Great scheme basically.
you need to look at the UAE Colnagoedition this year again... blue and gold looks nice, also the flowers are a nice touch.. serialized... impossible to buy probably but sure looks nice
About BOA laces: while I certainly do love them, I find elastic laces that turn your shoe into a slip-on works just as well if you're not the type to pull on the upstroke when pedaling.
The paint style yall are trying to describe on the Cube is called "Bowling Ball" . We use it in the custom car culture in the states. It's very easy to do.
As for the TdF kit color change -- back in the day, Once (which had predominantly yellow kit) would change up the TdF kit to a pink scheme and got a lot of publicity for it. Pretty soon, the other teams and clothing manufacturers jumped on for the pre tour hype.
Regarding lace-up shoes Laces are more aero if you are into that sort of thing I find them more comfortable than pad due to having various points of contact that secure your foot, as opposed to 1 or 2 with boas. Now regarding the need to tighten or loosen. I race laces ups for MTB, gravel, road, CX and TT, I have never felt the need to tighten or loosen my laces. Get them right and then forget they are there. Laces expand and contract with your foot, something boas do not do. Boas tend to loosen when you pull on them, this happens more with off road cycling than road, so of course you have to tighten them. And unlike laces, they don’t expand with your foot as they swell. As we have seen with MVP at road worlds, various MTB, and CX races, boas break, laces don’t. Went laced and never looked back.
Up in Edinburgh you see a lot of CUBE bikes as there are some cool smaller dealers for them,but you see nothing as much as Genesis bikes, especially the Croix de Fer. It’d be cool to see some videos on these!
Hi Team, Six axis IMU will be the norm very soon. Trickle down from motorcycles. Sensors for everything😂 As for brake by wire concept,i can tell you that in the infancy of ride by wire throttles on motorcycles. They did suffer from lack of feel and loss of connection. As a cable throttle ,you feel what the engine was doing underneath you,More responsive. As for the Dare bike,the weird head stem is where the motor lives 🤣 Im looking forward to seeing the daily updates. As ever keep up the stella work 🙏
It would be cool to see your reviews of different brands, like Cube. I bought a Cube mountain bike from CRC in 2009 or 2010 and loved it. My recent road bike purchase probably would have been a Cube, but they're hard to come by in the states too (hence purchasing from CRC and paying crazy shipping to get one); and I couldn't pass up the deal I found on a NOS Orbea which was able to meet all my requirements.
Road vehicles with 'portal' axles can use what the military Humvees call 'CTIS' which is 'Central Tyre Inflation System'. I've thought about using tiny battery powered pumps on my mountain bike tyre valves, it was the pressure sensor I was struggling to solve... along with the remote switching.
I use the non-custom molded version of Fiziks 3D printed saddle. It's fantastic, 2nd one I've owned. I also have the same saddle in the non-adaptive version. It's really good too. So maybe Fizik saddles are just really good.
In your car if you're rolling without the ignition on and you try and steer or stop you will feel how useful systems like electronically assisted braking are when they're available. ABS is already a thing for bikes. Bosch do it. Also, come to Australia if you want a Cube, Focus or Orbea. Readily available.
I see lots of Cube and a few Orbeas here in Glos 'cos Leisure Lakes sell 'em. I think they used to do Focus too. I don't like the look of most of those pro bikes but I did agree with your bottom two! And the top one too, if you ignore the presumably astronomical price ...
There are plenty of Cubes in the UK, I ride one and see many others out and about. It’s just like when you buy a new car, suddenly you notice them on the road all the time.
First through when i saw that saddle a few days ago was that's going to 1, squeak within the first year and 2, going to start rocking on worn pivots by year 2
As an Enve owner… I completely agree that it’s a 10. 😅 Also… if you look a little closer at the team bike, there’s some beautiful colour details (it’s not all black)
58:24 yes, change your chainset. Getting stronger isn’t as easy nor is it as straight forward as it seems. There are times life and/or work gets in your way. There are times you fall sick. Coming back after a week or two from life/work/illness/injury is not easy. Therefore, get the easier gears. Cheers.
The results on those bike ratings PROVE how different people see things! To me those plain black bikes look truly awful, the Cube is really nice and WAY better than the Cervelo. The Bianchi looks more Ali Express than that Dare, what were they thinking?? 🤯
But also. What a great show. Not this episode, every one. Really relatable, personable, humorous, sarcy. I definitely don’t agree with a lot of what you say; that Enve bike was proper meh, but I feel like I could do an hour of Wild Ones most nights. Thanks.
I'm not entirely sure about this saddle for one big reason -- the revelation I've had in the past 36 hours about Q-factor and stance. I swapped out my beloved Dura-Ace 7810 pedals, with their 52mm crank-face-to-center measurement, for Ultegra PD-R8000E1 pedals, with a 57mm crank-face-to-center, after deciding the Favero Duo-Shi was simply likely to be too much. **Amazing -- my butt does not get numb on the saddle with these pedals**. My legs feel massively far apart like a hurricane could blow up my ass at any minute, but I'm going faster despite allegedly lower VO2 max following a bad reaction to a medication.
Laces in Cyclingshoes work prettey well for me. Although i hate the ends/loops of the laces flying around, thats why i knot the laces maybe once in a month in skateboarding style under the tongue and it works perfectly. I am using my specialized 2FO shoes for over a year almost daily as a bike messenger and never hat any issues with laces and can slip in my shoes by just using my thumb to slide in For Hailey, always choose easier gears! You can go over 69,7km/h with 50/11 with 120rpm or faster downhill if you pedal hard and fast enough. having a 52tooth chainring just makes you 2,8km/h faster at the same cadence. But having a 1:1 ratio in low gears which means 34t in the back and front instead of 34t in the back and 36 is a much more significant change in terms of how hard you have to pedal. If you keep on regularly spinning out at over 70kmh than stay on 52/36 chainset
half of these paintjobs were from last year's tour. the new silver TCR from jayco alula or the white/red/blue wilier verticale from DSM are beautiful bikes
re: Electronic brakes on cars ... nah they're still mostly hydraulic. Sure, ABS and Stability Control are computer driven systems to modulate the brakes and keep the car under control, but the pedal is still typically a lever that is directly operating the hydraulics of the brake via the brake booster (a hydraulic amplifier). F1 has 'brake by wire' however (without ABS or stability control systems which are banned), and probably some really high end cars too. But most cars aren't. Some 4WDs have in-cabin tyre pressure adjustment for when you move off the road onto soft dirt and back.
Cube are massive in Germany. And you get a lot of bike for your money. Got a Cube Stereo. Oh and an Orbea Orca before they were freely available in the Uk and Ireland territories. Paid €3000 for M20i with full Dura-ace back in 2015. An Ultegra M20 was over €4500 back home and UK quoted nearly five grand sterling for mostly Ultegra with a crummy wheel set and it wasn’t even the top carbon frame layup
59:50 Bolt diameter is the same on all 4-arms Shimano cranks (11s and 12s). Also, even tho Shimano says no, on most bikes (but not all), 52/34 chainrings are compatible.
32:13 the picture of the rs4r used is from an article teasing the 2024 pro bike for UAE speaking of the pro bike for the 2024 season, it does indeed have the 3 enve stickers on both wheels, so I guess the rating is slightly unfair.
the blue of the cervelo reminded me on the wilier team astana blue. i think both bikes look great. so the cube looks great too of cause. good that all of them are to expensive to realy thinking about getting them.
About prototype equipment. It must be approved by UCI to be used in races, after that it's allowed to be used if will be commercially available within a time frame since the first use (I do not remember if it's a year or 6 months)
Emily is absolutely correct @25:30 when discussing why Visma do a special kit for the Tour de France and the other presenters are wrong. Visma needs new kits for the Tour and have done so in the past because the yellow is too similar to the yellow jersey. Also why EF do it at the Giro, because pink jersey.
Bike rating - Producer Emily is bang on about the ENVE scheme being boring. Though I agree with the logos (reflectors in my case) being split in thirds.
This show is better than GCN… Now I can listen to TdF analysis without needing to listen to Lance Armstrong every day, great! Emily is such a nice woman and when she brings out the Pudel she reaches top marks! My wife and I have a Pudel as well…love dogs!
Those bikes… ugh. Reminds me of the Michelle Pfeiffer line in Scarface: “I wouldn’t be caught dead in that thing” (canary yellow ‘63 Caddy with tiger stripe seats). Maybe an art bike instead of nouveau Miami Vice geometric patterns?
Jimmy : electronic brakes don't necessarily mean wireless brakes. Problem with wireless brakes is will connection be reliable. Maybe it will be wired system, like current one with hoses. Keeping battery near brakes maybe is not smart. But for electric bikes, to get power for brakes from main battery is not that hard. Or, for road bikes and mtb's without electric motor, battery for brakes might be housed in levers or any other place. Wireless brakes would be bit iffy, imho, if you keep everything at the brake place. Wireless receiver, some sort of motor for brakes, servo...
Re Cube: Love my Cube Ciclocross bike and my 12 year old Orbea Alma! And on the subject of Cervelo. Do pro riders pay attention to bikes colours in the heat of battle? In which case there needs to be a rule (like football or rugby) where kits are deliberately different to save confusion.
Wednesday: Nero Show
Thursday: Wild Ones
Love these days.
Every day: Suchomimus
Friday: Bonk Bros
Visma are obliged to change their kit for the Tour de France, as are EF for the Giro, because of the clash with the leader's jersey. For the last few years, they've had a kit with more black, but never a total transformation like this year. I believe all teams are allowed a change-out kit once a season - I notice Alpecin Deceuninck have gone grey for this year's race to promote a shampoo that, ironically, gets rid of grey
I thought this was the case, too. Also, the yellow in their jersey was from the Jumbo branding which they are not using anymore. It's kinda weird that they still kept it for most of the season so far, but I guess announcing stuff around the TdF generates more buzz.
@@jonaspietsch161 Maybe it's because (speaking of buzz) they're the 'Killer Bees'!
Yes Emily is correct, they have to change the kit for the Tour because the Yellow is too contrasting. That's why last year they had the more "black/grungy" looking kit. Jimmy talking nonsense :D
@@PaintMixa Their lack on knowledge of pro cycling is going to make the next 3 weeks a bit of a struggle if I’m honest 🫣
Yeah and EF changed from pink for the Giro
39:06 The voice of reason. The boys were fanboying hard.
ALL HAIL EMILY!!!
Not letting the boys off with the ENVE bike
Well done Emily, enve bike is worst looking on the list, looks like an Ali express bike
They need to kick Emily off the show women shouldn’t have an opinions
@@fukotrack what? If you're joking its not very funny
@@fukotrack what a gross thing to say
Love you gave the Cervelos a bad grade for the audacity but holy smokes that Enve ain‘t a ten in whatever parallel universe there is
Re: that shimano patent: bosch already has ABS for bikes (derived from their motorcycle systems), eletronic braking isn't about ultimate power (a cargo bike with 200+ rotors can already lock both wheels p easily), it's about (maintaining) control during emergency braking. If shimano's system isn't ABS/stability control oriented there's literally no point.
The UK have fewer commuting/cargo ebikes because your drivers and infrastructure are insane, not because the rules are different. Pedelecs are 250w everywhere.
Also to add to this Bosch ABS developed with Magura brakes for E cargo bikes, newer system more compact for ebike mtb's
@@norgtube German drivers are insane too but most people riding bikes in big cities are as well.
The reason Cube bikes are insanely common in Germany is because they have absolutely nailed building a vast dealer network in Germany to a tee. Go into virtually any unbranded bike shop here and 2/3 of the bikes there will be Cubes. In a lot of shops, a Cube bike is basically the only option if your budget is above hardware store bike and below boutique brand bike. Canyon, Rose, Stevens, Focus or dozens of more artisanal brands are also popular among enthusiasts, but the average German consumer never even comes in contact with them in the first place.
Meanwhile in the US, try and find an unbranded bike shop. I don't think there's more than one or two within 50 miles of me.
As someone recently diagnosed with Parkinson's (yay tremors and muscle stiffness) I adore boa fasteners. Much faster for me than lacing, more secure fit than velco. I'm with Francis on this!
For each TDF race day show, we need Fluff Up of the day from the race.
I’m very excited about the daily pro show, thanks y’all!
Love the pod guys, World Tour teams can swap their kit 3 (!) times in a season from start of 2024 which is madness as it costs a fortune each time you do it as you generally have to swap helmets, bikes etc so I don't think many teams will be doing that. Big boss man Jim loves our kit so much this season that we decided to not swap for the Tour. (INEOS Grenadiers designer - Dave Eck)
If you've noticed in the first two days of the current TdF, some of the spare bikes for Visma are still yellow and black. Some changes take more time, I guess.
@@popgunandy I hadn't spotted that. I'd say overall Visma have done a good job of branding up most of the assets in TDF colours but yeah, stuff like 1st, 2nd and 3rd bikes for each rider can just be a step too far.
In Germany I feel like 50% of the gravel bikes you see around are cubes
I think it highly depends on the area. In Hamburg people are much more into brands.
Isn't cube a brand 😅@@nicolas2838
It is a German brand after all based in the south of Germany.
@@nicolas2838 Cube is a big brand
@@Jules-ne9em cube is a big brand in Germany and internationally now.
This absolutely got me: Emily - "What is it you don't like about it?" Francis - "Bike"
I just want to say that I love how you all don't take yourselves too seriously. It's a refreshing thing to see and hear in the world of cycling media. Thanks for doing what you do!
like why the fuck would that astana paintjob look boring from a distance???
Acuity. Physics. HTH
@Emily: You are a top-shelf Producer. Jimmy mentioned in the last video he does "Jimmy Adjustments" to bikes. This would be a perfect segment to show what else around the shop, the house, the car and such where he applies "Jimmy Adjustments" and hilarity ensues, Cheers from central Texas.
Thanks for the comprehensive answer to my question 👍👍I now have to change my chain set because you've said so ☺️. Thanks Jimmy for saying that the hills are brutal round here, they are and now I feel validated. Just to say also that I've since discovered that the bike was advertised with the chain set I bought, I just didn't know what it meant back then. The spec on 99 spokes is different. Also if you guys and Emily are ever in Snowdonia again, check out Marchlyn Mawr reservoir, brilliant tarmac traffic free hill climb above Llanberis! Hoping I'll be doing it faster soon with my new chain set!🎉🚴♀️🚴♀️
Oh and to answer your question, I wasn't keeping up with my friends before, I have got stronger and faster, but so have they and my 17 year old daughter...I do not have a chance😅
I’ll 100% be watching your Tour show daily, can’t wait!
before fizik decided to do custom 3d printed saddles - Czech brand posedla had been doing this for a couple of years now but also pricy af
Hi Guys,
First of all - love the podcast, keep up the great quality. Regarding the Cervélo & Focus bikes in the UK - I am a semi-professional bike builder from the Netherlands with the focus on building custom S5's and I actually get all my parts from the UK PON Bike distributor "Jungle Products" in North Yorkshire. It does look now however that they pulled the "Focus" brand from the UK.
CUBE is a very popular brand in Germany, they produce almost every type of bike aswell as for every price point, Greetings from Berlin.
Rose (brand) bikes also seem very nice. A couple I looked at last year were decently priced, but they weren't easily attainable here in the USA.
@@malcontent_1Rose is basically Canyon without all those unnecessary proprietary stuff. I’d get one if they actually ship to where I live. 😊
@@ariffau thanks for clarifying
1. Colnago
2. Look
3. The rest
4. Enve (because it looks like a sit up and beg bike with the length of that head tube. You’d have to make a -30 stem for anyone vaguely athletic to fit on it).
Kudos to Jimmy for his commentary around EF. I feel like the the Red Bull bike is going to do a similar job, but EF has been the only team injecting thought, design, marketing prowess - overall life - into the sport, that can connect outside of cycling.
Local to you guys, up until a couple of years ago (shop purchased by Specialized) Infinity Cycles in Durham had a separate Cube store and they were very popular. They also stocked Focus and Orbea over the years 👍
I love summer! First there's the daily Tour Divide update from Josh Ibbet and then you're doing daily podcasts for the Tour de France.
I've spent about $500 in the pursuit of a saddle I can ride for more than 2-3 hours. I finally found a NOS "touring " saddle from the 1990s and bought 5 of them.
Also have a box of lightly used rejects
If this actually works, it's a bargain.
Out of curiosity: Which saddle are you talking about?
The Flite?
The Turbo?
Or the San Marco i just mounted on my titanium bike?
@domestique3954 The mew ones are Avocet gel TouringW saddles. The most recent rejects SMP womens touring. I have very wide sit bones for a man. And I also have a nerve on the medial side of my left sit bone. I have to aim the nose 15 degrees to the right.
Love the banter in these sessions. If possible I watch them before work. Just gets me into a good mood. Well done. Custom frame bags - brilliant. I got one made for an end to end ride in the UK plus another week of riding around some remote areas of Scotland. I was able to design a slim full size map pocket for my bag that the guy who runs Shaka Packs here in Canada (shout out for Shaka) loved - and incorporated for me. Can't do that with off the shelf stuff. I love the local cottage industry custom bag makers who have an independent streak and true passion.
The paint job gestapo are getting out of hand. That Orbea is beautiful. Always advocate for less branding bollocks on frames, simple graphics that flow with the shape of the frame and compliment the rider's kit.
The offroad world of cars have that, a tire pressure regulator to in/deflate the tires according to the terrain.
My daughter’s first pedal bike (at about 3.5) was a Cube. It was pretty good - a properly made little bike with proper components. Got it from Rutland Cycling who are a large chain in the east and the midlands and used to sell quite a bit of Cube stuff but dont think they do anymore. Its huge in Germany though.
I love the idea of the pro show!! Hearing your take on The TDF is going to be spectacular!!
Great news on the daily podcast during the TDF, thanks guys, keep up the great work
I've got a Cube a gravel bike and a Focus road bike.....both brilliant
i love my Cube bike, bought it on a ride to work scheme because it was rated to take my hefty weight.
My Zeius full carbon 3D printed saddle costs 80€ from AE. Great comfort and super light.
Good stuff. Also agree with your thoughts re. EF team-I really like what they are doing. On a music note..I was on holiday with my parents on the Isle of Wight the week before Jimi Hendrix played there. Had to go home to start college,so missed his last gig. On reflection,would have got a great deal more from attending that festival than going to college that year!!!
Emily is right about the loyalty factor on the Bianchis, I myself own a 2021 specialissima. However this bike right here is the reason a lot of us owners are looking at different brands now.
The automatic pressure adjust for car tires already exists afaik. Can be found on specific offroad vehicles. There you can just adjust tire pressure without leaving the driver's seat to fit the surface you're driving on.
The constant grin on Francis' face in this episode is that of a man about to go on vacation.
One thing that gets me about getting more people on bikes, not enough is promoted about cycle to work schemes. I think most companies should offer this to their employees. The company I work for has this and its been great. Im pretty certain the limit has now been lifted too. I picked up my Orbea Orca. I saved 20% over the year on the overall price. I also use it to get consumables, chains, cassettes, etc. I even got my Garmin Varia! Great scheme basically.
you need to look at the UAE Colnagoedition this year again... blue and gold looks nice, also the flowers are a nice touch.. serialized... impossible to buy probably but sure looks nice
Mate has a Cube. Not seen anyone else in UK on one. Nice bike though. We went to Mallorca: everyone rides a Cube
About BOA laces: while I certainly do love them, I find elastic laces that turn your shoe into a slip-on works just as well if you're not the type to pull on the upstroke when pedaling.
The paint style yall are trying to describe on the Cube is called "Bowling Ball" . We use it in the custom car culture in the states. It's very easy to do.
As for the TdF kit color change -- back in the day, Once (which had predominantly yellow kit) would change up the TdF kit to a pink scheme and got a lot of publicity for it. Pretty soon, the other teams and clothing manufacturers jumped on for the pre tour hype.
23:41 Visma-Lease a colour way 😂
Regarding lace-up shoes
Laces are more aero if you are into that sort of thing
I find them more comfortable than pad due to having various points of contact that secure your foot, as opposed to 1 or 2 with boas.
Now regarding the need to tighten or loosen.
I race laces ups for MTB, gravel, road, CX and TT, I have never felt the need to tighten or loosen my laces. Get them right and then forget they are there.
Laces expand and contract with your foot, something boas do not do.
Boas tend to loosen when you pull on them, this happens more with off road cycling than road, so of course you have to tighten them. And unlike laces, they don’t expand with your foot as they swell.
As we have seen with MVP at road worlds, various MTB, and CX races, boas break, laces don’t.
Went laced and never looked back.
Suuuuuuper excited for the Tour Coverage!!
Up in Edinburgh you see a lot of CUBE bikes as there are some cool smaller dealers for them,but you see nothing as much as Genesis bikes, especially the Croix de Fer. It’d be cool to see some videos on these!
Hi Team,
Six axis IMU will be the norm very soon.
Trickle down from motorcycles.
Sensors for everything😂
As for brake by wire concept,i can tell you that in the infancy of ride by wire throttles on motorcycles.
They did suffer from lack of feel and loss of connection.
As a cable throttle ,you feel what the engine was doing underneath you,More responsive.
As for the Dare bike,the weird head stem is where the motor lives 🤣
Im looking forward to seeing the daily updates.
As ever keep up the stella work 🙏
It would be cool to see your reviews of different brands, like Cube. I bought a Cube mountain bike from CRC in 2009 or 2010 and loved it. My recent road bike purchase probably would have been a Cube, but they're hard to come by in the states too (hence purchasing from CRC and paying crazy shipping to get one); and I couldn't pass up the deal I found on a NOS Orbea which was able to meet all my requirements.
Road vehicles with 'portal' axles can use what the military Humvees call 'CTIS' which is 'Central Tyre Inflation System'. I've thought about using tiny battery powered pumps on my mountain bike tyre valves, it was the pressure sensor I was struggling to solve... along with the remote switching.
11/10 production/editing - always the case but this one stands out IMO!
GMBN made their own wireless brakes
I use the non-custom molded version of Fiziks 3D printed saddle. It's fantastic, 2nd one I've owned. I also have the same saddle in the non-adaptive version. It's really good too. So maybe Fizik saddles are just really good.
In your car if you're rolling without the ignition on and you try and steer or stop you will feel how useful systems like electronically assisted braking are when they're available. ABS is already a thing for bikes. Bosch do it. Also, come to Australia if you want a Cube, Focus or Orbea. Readily available.
Really looking forward to the daily show!
Super interested in this new saddle concept and would definitely love to see a review of yours
Boa's; massively underrated. I got some on temu for less than $2 for my running shoes. It's been magical.
I see lots of Cube and a few Orbeas here in Glos 'cos Leisure Lakes sell 'em. I think they used to do Focus too. I don't like the look of most of those pro bikes but I did agree with your bottom two! And the top one too, if you ignore the presumably astronomical price ...
Excited for the TDF podcasts 🔥
There are plenty of Cubes in the UK, I ride one and see many others out and about. It’s just like when you buy a new car, suddenly you notice them on the road all the time.
First through when i saw that saddle a few days ago was that's going to 1, squeak within the first year and 2, going to start rocking on worn pivots by year 2
As an Enve owner… I completely agree that it’s a 10.
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Also… if you look a little closer at the team bike, there’s some beautiful colour details (it’s not all black)
58:24 yes, change your chainset. Getting stronger isn’t as easy nor is it as straight forward as it seems.
There are times life and/or work gets in your way. There are times you fall sick. Coming back after a week or two from life/work/illness/injury is not easy.
Therefore, get the easier gears. Cheers.
The results on those bike ratings PROVE how different people see things! To me those plain black bikes look truly awful, the Cube is really nice and WAY better than the Cervelo. The Bianchi looks more Ali Express than that Dare, what were they thinking?? 🤯
But also.
What a great show. Not this episode, every one. Really relatable, personable, humorous, sarcy.
I definitely don’t agree with a lot of what you say; that Enve bike was proper meh, but I feel like I could do an hour of Wild Ones most nights. Thanks.
I'm not entirely sure about this saddle for one big reason -- the revelation I've had in the past 36 hours about Q-factor and stance. I swapped out my beloved Dura-Ace 7810 pedals, with their 52mm crank-face-to-center measurement, for Ultegra PD-R8000E1 pedals, with a 57mm crank-face-to-center, after deciding the Favero Duo-Shi was simply likely to be too much. **Amazing -- my butt does not get numb on the saddle with these pedals**. My legs feel massively far apart like a hurricane could blow up my ass at any minute, but I'm going faster despite allegedly lower VO2 max following a bad reaction to a medication.
I love my Cube, it got me into cycling and was well priced compared to the competition and looked so much better than the rest
I'm hyped for the Wild Ones Pro-Show!
Laces in Cyclingshoes work prettey well for me. Although i hate the ends/loops of the laces flying around, thats why i knot the laces maybe once in a month in skateboarding style under the tongue and it works perfectly. I am using my specialized 2FO shoes for over a year almost daily as a bike messenger and never hat any issues with laces and can slip in my shoes by just using my thumb to slide in
For Hailey, always choose easier gears! You can go over 69,7km/h with 50/11 with 120rpm or faster downhill if you pedal hard and fast enough. having a 52tooth chainring just makes you 2,8km/h faster at the same cadence. But having a 1:1 ratio in low gears which means 34t in the back and front instead of 34t in the back and 36 is a much more significant change in terms of how hard you have to pedal. If you keep on regularly spinning out at over 70kmh than stay on 52/36 chainset
Needed to wait a little bit longer. Seeing all new paint for the pro teams on insta today!
half of these paintjobs were from last year's tour. the new silver TCR from jayco alula or the white/red/blue wilier verticale from DSM are beautiful bikes
re: Electronic brakes on cars ... nah they're still mostly hydraulic. Sure, ABS and Stability Control are computer driven systems to modulate the brakes and keep the car under control, but the pedal is still typically a lever that is directly operating the hydraulics of the brake via the brake booster (a hydraulic amplifier). F1 has 'brake by wire' however (without ABS or stability control systems which are banned), and probably some really high end cars too. But most cars aren't.
Some 4WDs have in-cabin tyre pressure adjustment for when you move off the road onto soft dirt and back.
Banana boat +aloe vera for all your sun/burns it really hits the spot for much needed relief.
I've seen this picture of the cube bike more than all other images & references of cube!
Cube are massive in Germany. And you get a lot of bike for your money. Got a Cube Stereo. Oh and an Orbea Orca before they were freely available in the Uk and Ireland territories. Paid €3000 for M20i with full Dura-ace back in 2015. An Ultegra M20 was over €4500 back home and UK quoted nearly five grand sterling for mostly Ultegra with a crummy wheel set and it wasn’t even the top carbon frame layup
Blue and yellow bikes give me flashbacks of University profs' powerpoint presentations in late '90s/early 2000s...
You need to update this to show off the changes to the bikes (UAE) and personalised bikes like the one Cav will use.
59:50 Bolt diameter is the same on all 4-arms Shimano cranks (11s and 12s). Also, even tho Shimano says no, on most bikes (but not all), 52/34 chainrings are compatible.
32:13 the picture of the rs4r used is from an article teasing the 2024 pro bike for UAE
speaking of the pro bike for the 2024 season, it does indeed have the 3 enve stickers on both wheels, so I guess the rating is slightly unfair.
Best you come to Dereham in Norfolk we have Cube and Orbea independent retailers just a few hundred metres apart.
And yes I own 2 Cube's.
the blue of the cervelo reminded me on the wilier team astana blue. i think both bikes look great. so the cube looks great too of cause. good that all of them are to expensive to realy thinking about getting them.
About prototype equipment.
It must be approved by UCI to be used in races, after that it's allowed to be used if will be commercially available within a time frame since the first use (I do not remember if it's a year or 6 months)
Emily is absolutely correct @25:30 when discussing why Visma do a special kit for the Tour de France and the other presenters are wrong. Visma needs new kits for the Tour and have done so in the past because the yellow is too similar to the yellow jersey. Also why EF do it at the Giro, because pink jersey.
Cube are here in the uk! My local bike shop is a supplier - they have some nice stuff
That factor bike booked great yall are craaayzyy
Could you talk about other weird saddles, like the Infinity seat, Airo, and Manta?
Honda have had onboard adjustable tyre pressures for over 25 years on their Goldwing motorcycle!
Bike rating - Producer Emily is bang on about the ENVE scheme being boring. Though I agree with the logos (reflectors in my case) being split in thirds.
12:25 best argument
This show is better than GCN…
Now I can listen to TdF analysis without needing to listen to Lance Armstrong every day, great!
Emily is such a nice woman and when she brings out the Pudel she reaches top marks! My wife and I have a Pudel as well…love dogs!
Those bikes… ugh. Reminds me of the Michelle Pfeiffer line in Scarface: “I wouldn’t be caught dead in that thing” (canary yellow ‘63 Caddy with tiger stripe seats).
Maybe an art bike instead of nouveau Miami Vice geometric patterns?
just missed out on the new astana paint job, even better!!
Cube and Orbea have a massive presence in Ireland funnily enough - must be since Irish bike shops use EU distributors now instead of UK
Wild Ones Pro Show - Vuelta Edition PLEASE!
A lot of offroad vehicles (not everyday cars) have tyre pressure control devixes that can inflate and deflate tyres on the move.
Jimmy : electronic brakes don't necessarily mean wireless brakes. Problem with wireless brakes is will connection be reliable. Maybe it will be wired system, like current one with hoses. Keeping battery near brakes maybe is not smart. But for electric bikes, to get power for brakes from main battery is not that hard. Or, for road bikes and mtb's without electric motor, battery for brakes might be housed in levers or any other place. Wireless brakes would be bit iffy, imho, if you keep everything at the brake place. Wireless receiver, some sort of motor for brakes, servo...
Re Cube: Love my Cube Ciclocross bike and my 12 year old Orbea Alma! And on the subject of Cervelo. Do pro riders pay attention to bikes colours in the heat of battle? In which case there needs to be a rule (like football or rugby) where kits are deliberately different to save confusion.
IIRC, the Hummer H1 can inflate/deflate its tires.