Went out for a ride had a front puncture only thing was I had a tube and a pump but didn't have multitool to remove bolt through axle as I forgot it , taxi ordered
I once climbed 1 323 m mountain peak, carrying my road bike on my back. I missed my turn and then, when lost, I asked some hikers for directions. Well, lesson learned. IF you need to ask for directions while you're on a bike, always ask only people on bikes, otherwise you'll be sent to a hiking trail that might lead to your destination, but you'll carry your bike on your back all the way up the mountain. Exhausted, parched, the ascent taking way too long, loosing daylight... well, at least the descent on the other side of the mountain was on nice smooth tarmac.
Went out last Friday for a planned 42km MTB ride on my Handbike, it ended up being a 9 hour 53km ride with me having to get off 4 times to pull the Trike up various rocks & gullies (it was a single track with no room to turn back except a 50m fall on to rocks) it rained a lot! my trousers got caught in the front cog, twice, and are now rendered useless, I loss my Wahoo Elemnt and my glasses, what an epic day! On Sunday I went back with my wife to look for the missing items, after 2 hours we gave up and went back to where the car was parked and my wife went to take a look at the hikers hut, lo & behold there were my glasses & Elemnt!, thanks a million to the honest people who placed them there and to everybody else for not nicking them 😄 Did I mention I am missing my left lower leg?
I got hypothermia on Stage 4 of the Oregon Gravel Grinder this year. It was the one day I didnt pack my jacket (by mistake) and I got into a freak hail/rainstorm right after the huge climb at about 2200 meters, then couldnt warm up during the descent. I couldnt remember what the word for hypothermia was - I got rescued by an amazing bystander who warmed me up in her van with boiling water and blankets, people are amazing.
@@gcn 2014 Etape du Tour , it started raining at the base of the Tourmalet , by the time we got to the summit it was only 2C and in cloud everybody soaked through. Organisers were perfect cos they stopped and checked everyone half way down the descent. A big French guy could see I was effected more than I knew , he caught me by the shoulders where I could not move my arms or even unclip !! The organisers did a top job cos they had hired a hall in a hotel , as well as a marque both with industrial jet blast heaters , so I was told . After 10 mins of jumping around I was back on my bike and headed to the Hautacam . I got away lightly , lots were having uncontrolled shivering Great event , excellent organisations
@@budbud2509 I was out riding and got abducted by aliens. They performed several experiments on my body, before beaming me back down to the trail. it completely wrecked my strava time.
I swear that Si looks in focus while Hank is slightly further away from the focal plane. Hank's hands are in focus but his face isn't. Am I hallucinating?
I was riding about 15 years ago, on a sunny day in May. We were on a narrow country road in farmlands and since it was early May you had a lot of farmers on the roads on their tractors. We were going maybe 25 kph when a tractor came toward us in the opposite lane. He had 2 long tilling arms with foot long tines (like giant rakes) on each side. The arms were maybe 25 ft long but they were raised up for travel. As he was passing us, the tractor moved as much as possible to the side of the road to give us room, but there was a light post there and so he hit the post with his right tilling arm (we're in Canada so he was driving on the right). The impact made the left tilling arm fall suddenly and the tractor rotate clockwise, so the arm came right over us. One of the tines left a 2 feet gash in my aluminum frame, completely ripping it open. Had my left leg not been on the upstroke, that would have been my leg. The impact had me somersault over the handlebars. Thankfully besides a few scratches I came out ok, but unlike Si's puncture debacle, I did end up bleeding and going to the hospital in an ambulance...
I had parked my car on top of a hill on a hot day. I did a loop that had quite a bit of climbing which with the heat, and perhaps not drinking enough, took everything out of my legs. I still had to get up a 12% climb to get back to my car, my vision was going blurry, my legs had nothing left, my back was sore, my quads were filled with lactic acid, calves on the verge of cramping, it was 87ºF with no breeze in the canyon, and I just wanted to quit. I had to get off, rest, and hobble my bike a portion of the way. That was a day that made me want to quit cycling altogether. Tip: Always park the car at the bottom of a hill.
Loved the show guys. Fresh back from my first bike packing trip. Was great ! Im sore tired and watching gcn to recover. 85 miles first day. Camped, my friend and myself. With only what we brought with us. High heat, one thunderstorm and over night rain.. still fun! Recommend every one give it a go.
There are no bad bicycle rides as long as you can get back home. I'll skip the details but had a bad crash, ambulance, 2 months ICU in a coma, multiple surgeries, 5 months physiotherapy. Had the luck to be able to return to this wonderful sport and there is nothing that could bring me down on a ride. Like a good friend of mine said: perspective is a powerful thing.
I crashed my bike about 100m from home a couple years. Walked home with a broken helmet, broken collarbone and broken hip! By your definition I guess that was still not a bad ride! Although compared to your experience it was still a good ride.
I was on my annual club picnic ride when I had a flat from a shingle nail. I told my mates to continue on and I would catch up. I slightly inflated my spare tube and set it down for a second while I grabbed my rim. A little yappy dog came flying toward me, stopped and grabbed my spare tube like it was a chew toy. I now had about 8 holes from dog teeth in my spare. Luckily I had an ancient, crusty patch in my kit and fixed the single hole in my original tube while the dog mocked me from afar. It wasn't my day and I limped the bike back to the start of the ride. I wasn't going to trust that patch for the bulk of the ride. Oof.
Hank did so many miles on the Eurobike, that it definitely deserves an honorary place in the GCN bike vault. It certainly should be in Hank's CV by now.
#captioncompetition After stage 1 of the Vuelta extra precautions are brought it: A life vest can be found under your saddle, there is a light and whistle to attract attention.
Re: Tarling vs. Remco. Okay, I'm sucked in now. Do we know what time of day each of their respective races ended? Also, if Josh was born at 2am, that gives Remco a much higher chance of being younger since Josh will have been 22 hours old by the end of his first day. I've counted the same number of leap days, and both riders won in the same time zone in which they were born.
Now you’ve dragged me down the rabbit hole with you - some amazing questions that need answers! We need to know when the last rider of each race finished as that’s when they would have been declared officially the winner. 🕵️
Had a ride ruined by ice. Club ride one freezing December morning, 6km into the route, 12 riders in a line going down a hill into a flat left hander. Every one of us went down. We went home.
My worst ride involved 4 flats within 35 km. I was riding solo. I had 2 spare tubes and a patch kit, however the glue in the patch kit had dried up and the patches didn't hold. After an 8 km walk which ruined my cleats, I discovered that I had left my seat bag unzipped and lost some tools. The problem was pinch flats resulting from rim tape shifting and slighly exposing a couple of spoke holes.
I think we'll need to give Si a bit of a lesson on how time works. If Tarling was born at 2am, it gives Remco 22 hours in which to be born after Tarling, to be the youngest. Not 2 hours which Si seemed to think it is. If Remco was born between midnight and 2am, that would make him *older* than Tarling was when they both won their respective races... It's just maths and counting Si. (This is assuming the races ended at roughly the same time of day).
Someone brought a Eurobike mountain bike into our shop for service. It’s a team lift to get it into the service stand for repairs, and to safely get it back down onto the floor again. 😂
Yesterday went out intending to do a 30 mile loop , couldn't find the route on wahoo so started doing a 60 mile one in the same area ,ended up getting chronic cramp & had to walk 14 miles limping back to the Isle of Wight ferry ,missing that & waiting all night for the next one then Couldn't drive because cramp was so bad lol .
This happened last week: I took the day off from work so that I can go ride with my buddy. A mile into the ride I go through a patch of goatheads (well the actual plant, which sprouted up in the middle of a bike path). Both tires instantly were covered with thorns. I was running TPU tubes so they weren't cheap. Luckily we were close enough to my buddy's place, where he had sealant and tubes a-plenty. I already had tubeless tape installed so I initially decided to give that a go. Unfortunately, I then realized that I did not have tubeless valves with me, and the ones he had were not long enough for my deep rims. Ended up throwing my bike into my friend's van, and driving home to switch bikes. Lost about an hour and a half of precious riding time that evening.
I've never understood why people willy-nilly swap out an entire tube on the first puncture. What is a patch for? When I ran tubes their #1 attraction for me was the ability to patch them quickly without removing a wheel. There is absolutely NO downside to a patch or two on a tube. They work fine - for months or more. Usually the tire will wear out or I'll get several more punctures in other places before I have trouble with an "old" patch.
Normally a puncture or thorn, etc deflating a tire at any rate is quite evident from the outside. In the less frequent case it's not - and it's still impacting a ride, try putting some air in (if it's already fully deflated) then get your cheek, ear lobe or eye as close to the tire as possible while slowly rotating it. Might sound silly but this makes any puncture easy to find. Then get the tire lever, pull out that section of tube and the hole in the tube will be readily evident. Don't forget to carefully feel around and be sure to remove whatever caused the puncture before re-inflating.@@rob-c.
At school, the challenge was downing a whole can of cold Cresta, ( it's frothy man! ) and then performing a gambol, before spraying foam from the mouth.
Stopped a freezing cold ride one time after about 10 miles of what was meant to be 50, back in the 80's with bad clothing, took sooo long to unfreeze. As for flats, i don't ride tubeless i have inner tubes in all bikes, and road (1500 miles 4 flats) gravel (1700 miles 0 flats)and MTB (1000 miles 0 flats, oops just jinxed me) bikes all have seat pack on them permanently with 1 inner tube, multi tool and A PUNCTURE REPAIR KIT, 2 zip ties, and a short strip of cardboard (for if i rip a tire) and partridge in a pear tree. been caught out before with 2 flats and only 1 tube and no kit, never again. The amount of weight saved buy not carrying the right gear to get myself (i ride alone) out of most situations is far out shadowed by how unfit i am, how heavy my bikes are and how much weight i could lose. There are no Taxi's in my area so if i was stranded would rely on which one of my friends would pick up the phone and not be at work! too risky. Drew.
This past Saturday we were finishing up a fast group ride (just over 100km) and were headed back into town on a highway access road. I glanced over at a car dealership and somehow went off the side of the road and, rather than riding it out, tried to save it. Thankfully it was fresh pavement, but the left side of my body has a lot less skin than it used to and my bike has a big ol' scratch on the top tube. No broken bones, but my ego has taken quite the hit.
I got a good question of the week for you. is there a difference in alloy wheel rim break performance in budget wheels versus premium wheels no one ever talks about the break tracks from cheap to premium. Could better wheels also increase your breaking performance on rim brakes?
Great question! This is one for our tech team! Head over to GCN TECH and drop this comment using #askgcntech, the team can then see your question for the clinic 🙌
Totally agree with Hank, if you ride regularly you're more into routine of keeping on top of "all" your cycling gear! Bike, clothing, accessories etc! When I used to ride twice a week i was always faffing around pre-ride. Now I ride 4 or 5 times sometimes more a week I have a routine that I don't even think I'm doing, it just happens. This also covers bike and kit servicing, ordering new parts etc. 👍
Prostate cancer is something that a lot of people die with, rather than die of. So when the researchers say that it is due to a higher rate of checking, they are saying that we don't know what the true rate of prostate cancer is, in the general population (as many people die with it). Therefore, when pros get tested so often, it is picked up more often when compared to the general population, even though it may not always kill them.
Took my road bike for a nice long training ride one Saturday evening in an area I'm not so familiar with. Maps app took me on gravel roads that my bike was NOT set up to handle. Lasted more than an hour without flatting, but finally the inevitable happened just before dusk. No problem. That's why we carry a spare! Got it changed and back on the gravel. I made it about 10 minutes down the road and flatted again. Stranded in the dark on a dusty old country road hours away from home waiting to be reviewed by my spouse in the car. I now run tubeless, carry 2 spare tubes, and a patch kit!
6:00 so due to piss more maintenance and planning, Si manages to ruin his ride, and the rides of everyone with him. Looking forward to the latest series from GCN: 'Si's Solo riding tips'
#1 - had a rear wheel bladed spoke break in the mid-section - threw the rim out of round with a large wave that rubbed the brakes and the frame - had to crawl back 15km - #2 - had the drive cam cog in the rear wheel hub cassette shear-off while hill climbing - feels like the chain broke - you pedal and go nowhere - a long 25KM walk back thankfully hailed down a bus that allowed me to board it back to town out in the middle of nowhere - #3 - chain twisted along its length while hill climbing - it did not snap but you could not pedal it #4 - had the carbon frame seat tube crack - when leaning into the corner it felt like the rear wheel was slipping out - did not know what happened until the mechanic found the hairline fracture #5 - ye ol' "unbrakable" titanium seat post rail cracking trick - cycling 10KM with NO seat - far harder than it looks - #6 - have also had multiple tire flat rashes - blown through my stash of tubes and c-o-n-t-i-n-u-e-d to flat - it was so bad I had to replace the tire as I could not resolve the source - sometimes a sliver of glass - steel wire or tack gets imbedded in the rubber and is undetectable until riding load reveals itself and punctures said tube - panic sets in as you realise you are 35KM from home - count the ways .... this is a small but painfully memorable sample size
My top worst ones (non injury ones) 1. Tubeless tire burst (side wall cut) while going downhill at 25mph (muddy road) stopped on the side. Realized I had given my tube to a buddy the week before. Used my arm warmer and spare socks (winter) to clean tire and bike from sealant and borrowed tube from a random rider (thanks!) an hour. 2. Heard the rear tire go flat. Yelled at buddies to stop. Replaced tube. Realized front was flat too. Hour.
Well, we can tell that Si hasn't watched Ollie's vid on how to set up tubeless - If you need to put a tube in, not checking for thorns is a schoolboy error :)
Si’s Worst Ride: my middle nickname “PapWiel” was given me by my ride buddies for the number of flats I used to get. It’s literal translation is Flat Wheel. Not so much anymore. My worst experience was on 3 day C2C ride in the UK, with 7 flats in total and 4 on the second day.
Mind if I put in a request for an upcoming GCN Show? A special segment to honor the retiring cycling legend, Annemiek van Vleuten? 🌈 As a passionate female cyclist myself, Annemiek was always the cyclist I pretended to be growing up. Her whole mentality towards the sport is just amazing and can't do anything else than inspire! The way she is able to deal with circumstances that lay out of her control by focusing on the things she IS in control of is a mentality I try to adapt in my cycling. I will certainly miss her in the peloton! 🌈🇳🇱
I went through about 3 inner tubes (standard road tyre) in a week of commuting. Never found the culprit, just replaced the tyre eventually. That was a pain in the ass.
Just watched the Mitch Docker video on the 'Great Outback Beer Run'- fantastic. Fair brought tears to my eyes for two reasons. I did my PhD in the goldfields of Western Australia where the pubs play a similar pivotal role in the tiny communities. At the time (in the 80s) some notionally didn't serve women in the public bar. But I spent a bit of time with the late great diamond geologist Maureen Muggeridge and she could stare down any barman who decided he wasn't going to serve a woman. Salutary lesson in standing your ground. The other reason is the bike touring I did: first Perth to Melbourne via Port Lincoln then, when I was based in Queensland, Port Douglas to Cape York (the top of the eastern pointy bit of Oz) then back to Brisbane via Weipa - the aluminium mining town. The road up through the coastal rainforest was spectacular but crossing creeks (wading) was a bit unnerving in an area known for the saltwater crocs, and the sand tracks further north really hard going, then the roads to Weipa were mainly gravel and the corrugations shattering. Every place I stopped, someone would stand me beers just for having survived the corrugations on a bike.. Last big trip was Darwin to Adelaide with a fair bit of gravel but nothing like Queensland. Bloody good fun!
You'd think a racing trike would work on this, but I've been on my back in the ditch clipped in on one. THAT was a bummer of a ride. Black ice is why they make smart trainers.
Nosecco - what a pity! Next time you also should get a small barrell of beer - aehm mineral water i mean - when Dan is around... Edit: regarding Si's morning ride - at least the mates were waiting and not the wate mati... yeah, you get it ^^
I got 3 flats on a ride once. I even had 2 spare tubes on me. My tires were full of goathead stickers and I just failed to find them all. I ended up calling a cab for a ride home.
Last Ride: went pretty good. Nice average speed 33 kmh. Then 8 km first puncture. Put my spare in and 6 km later the next puncture. A nail pierced my whole rim (new 10 days old Hunt Wheels rim 😢). No more spares left. So I decided to carry my bike home. 35 minutes later a storm formed and I was in the middle of nowhere. The last 15 mins were pure survival. Running through the dark whilst lightning went down 100 m away and trees were cracking all over the place. The wind literally blew me away from the streets. THAT was a shit ride. 😂
I remember riding my BMX bike back when I was a kid and had the upper and lower tubes to my fork break off to send me over the handle bars. I felt lucky that I didn't get impaled and wasn't hurt. My current trainer bike, which is a 1991 Pondorosa mountain bike has stress cracks in the same places and will no longer be going outside. Do you sense a theme here with my bikes?
Worst ride... For my 52nd birthday, I set out on a metric century ride with my cousin who also happened to have just turned 51 the day before. I severely underestimated the route and threw caution to the wind regarding the 80% humidity that day. 51 miles in, I started to develop signs of rhabdomyolosis and had to bail on the ride. Fortunately, my cousin had finished the route and was able to back track and rescue me. Four days of muscle cramps, severe weakness, vomiting and tea colored urine later I was good to go and back on the road.
When the local road maintenance "lick and stick" your favourite downhill segment, leaving one to gamble as to whether the stuff you are riding on is suck or loose gravel thrown up by other traffic.
What ruined my ride? Belgian tourist going through a stop sign. 3 shoulder operations later .......... Thankfully she was driving a Fiat 500 and not a Chelsea tractor. French ambulance crew not impressed with my rendition of 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' after the morphine shot! Mike
My two worst rides happened basicly one after another within a week. First one, hill repeats. On a second or third repeat my frame cracked and i had the slowest/most carefull ride home ever. Then after a week i`m riding (other bike) with a friend an easy zone 2 ride and a car pushed me off the road. I got to fly an ambulance helicopter to a hospital. My sezon is over but i`ll be able to start a Zwift seazon on a brand new superbike when it gets here and i recover from all my injuries :)
I've had a similar experience re punctures - I once had a week away booked with a friend, we took a caravan down to cornwall for a week of cycling, eating, cycling, drinking, cycling... you know the sort.... and one of the days we planned to ride around 100km, stopping for lunch on the coast, a wine tasting later in the afternoon, and finally fish and chips in the town where we were staying before the last climb back up to the campsite. Between us we had no less than 8 punctures over the course of the day, but worse still 6 were mine and all happened within a 5km stretch. I'm sure it made the wine taste better though!
Loved Sepp’s effort neckiing the Champagne bottle. (A) totally making the most of a moment he has spent his whole life dreaming off & (B) a big middle finger to management that think it’s going to effect performance next day. Great to see an elite sportsman being human 👏👏👏
Si you naughty boy. Fancy scaring Hank like that. Pirelli have the Cinturato All Road semi slick tyre their website. Yes it does come in 700x45c. It also comes in 700x50c. If it is a new tyre Hank mentioned. Don't worry at least he didn't do a Steve Jones from EMBN. Doing a video about a new e-mtb before it was launched.
My most dreaded mech failure in the winter is ice blocking the freehub body free, so you can't pedal. Never had anything I couldn't work around in the summertime.
If they are gonna try TT and things like that with the 50mm tires then they should do cobblestones, bad tarmac and things like that to so we really get the full picture.
Commuting to work up Kensington High Street, I was "car doored". My left arm made contact at bicep level with the door taking all the hit. I went down, of course but with the adrenaline and wearing a waterproof jacket I didn't realise I had a 4'/100mm guillotine cut in my arm. After getting the driver's details I carried on a further 3-4 miles to work and only then realised when I painfully removed the jacket how bad I was. Off to hospital in a cab. I had a professor of trauma surgery, a professor of battlefield surgery and a professor of plastic surgery (I kid you not) checking me out thinking it was a de-gloving injury (look it up, it's not nice). After surgery it turned out it wasn't that type of injury (phew) but I had another 3 days in hospital with drains in my arm and months off riding. I also think that the surgeon who worked on me was probably someone they dragged in off the street because he left me with a horrendous scar. I guess it could've been worse - say if a car had been passing on my outside - but that was my worst ride.
A slow ride last month: 34C, might not have eaten enough; thought it was just my worst ever bonk? Eleven hours in ER and now a visit to the stroke clinic later, seems I had a TIA. Not my best day. (Still, no one said to quit biking…)
This past weekend, my derailleur hanger broke, and the chain drug the derailleur through my wheel and seat stays. It was not rideable, and im going to put the hack (ahm) job i did to make it possible to coast the bike home up for the hack or bodge part of the show.
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Went out for a ride had a front puncture only thing was I had a tube and a pump but didn't have multitool to remove bolt through axle as I forgot it , taxi ordered
Did a 80km ride and snapped the chain at 40km (almost exactly) to find I'd forgotten to put my saddle bag on after washing the bike! Never again!
I once climbed 1 323 m mountain peak, carrying my road bike on my back. I missed my turn and then, when lost, I asked some hikers for directions. Well, lesson learned. IF you need to ask for directions while you're on a bike, always ask only people on bikes, otherwise you'll be sent to a hiking trail that might lead to your destination, but you'll carry your bike on your back all the way up the mountain. Exhausted, parched, the ascent taking way too long, loosing daylight... well, at least the descent on the other side of the mountain was on nice smooth tarmac.
Went out last Friday for a planned 42km MTB ride on my Handbike, it ended up being a 9 hour 53km ride with me having to get off 4 times to pull the Trike up various rocks & gullies (it was a single track with no room to turn back except a 50m fall on to rocks) it rained a lot! my trousers got caught in the front cog, twice, and are now rendered useless, I loss my Wahoo Elemnt and my glasses, what an epic day! On Sunday I went back with my wife to look for the missing items, after 2 hours we gave up and went back to where the car was parked and my wife went to take a look at the hikers hut, lo & behold there were my glasses & Elemnt!, thanks a million to the honest people who placed them there and to everybody else for not nicking them 😄 Did I mention I am missing my left lower leg?
Headset sheared off my hard tail mtb while "cruising" down a trail, it hurt... lots
Hank drinks the non-alcohol and Si says, "All my weights are mating" instead of "All my mates are waiting." Priceless.
Spoonerism
I got hypothermia on Stage 4 of the Oregon Gravel Grinder this year. It was the one day I didnt pack my jacket (by mistake) and I got into a freak hail/rainstorm right after the huge climb at about 2200 meters, then couldnt warm up during the descent. I couldnt remember what the word for hypothermia was - I got rescued by an amazing bystander who warmed me up in her van with boiling water and blankets, people are amazing.
Wow that sounds like a big day out! Reminds us of Conor's gravel race 👉ruclips.net/video/DrnH3gbOG9U/видео.html
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2014 Etape du Tour , it started raining at the base of the Tourmalet , by the time we got to the summit it was only 2C and in cloud everybody soaked through. Organisers were perfect cos they stopped and checked everyone half way down the descent. A big French guy could see I was effected more than I knew , he caught me by the shoulders where I could not move my arms or even unclip !! The organisers did a top job cos they had hired a hall in a hotel , as well as a marque both with industrial jet blast heaters , so I was told . After 10 mins of jumping around I was back on my bike and headed to the Hautacam . I got away lightly , lots were having uncontrolled shivering
Great event , excellent organisations
@@budbud2509 I was out riding and got abducted by aliens.
They performed several experiments on my body, before beaming me back down to the trail.
it completely wrecked my strava time.
I swear that Si looks in focus while Hank is slightly further away from the focal plane. Hank's hands are in focus but his face isn't. Am I hallucinating?
you are right !
I wish I hadn’t read this comment so early in the video. Now I’m going to be watching hanks hands the rest of the episode. Thanks, mate.
Nah. That's just the way he is. It's a well known fact, he's slightly out of focus in real life.
Isn’t it that harsher light is on Hank’s paler skin?
I’ve just spent the first 18 minutes thinking my right contact lens can’t have been in properly!
I was riding about 15 years ago, on a sunny day in May. We were on a narrow country road in farmlands and since it was early May you had a lot of farmers on the roads on their tractors. We were going maybe 25 kph when a tractor came toward us in the opposite lane. He had 2 long tilling arms with foot long tines (like giant rakes) on each side. The arms were maybe 25 ft long but they were raised up for travel. As he was passing us, the tractor moved as much as possible to the side of the road to give us room, but there was a light post there and so he hit the post with his right tilling arm (we're in Canada so he was driving on the right). The impact made the left tilling arm fall suddenly and the tractor rotate clockwise, so the arm came right over us. One of the tines left a 2 feet gash in my aluminum frame, completely ripping it open. Had my left leg not been on the upstroke, that would have been my leg. The impact had me somersault over the handlebars. Thankfully besides a few scratches I came out ok, but unlike Si's puncture debacle, I did end up bleeding and going to the hospital in an ambulance...
Damn that was almost some final destination type stuff you must have a guardian angel working overtime.
@@zedddddful Yeah maybe I do. Got a new bike from the insurance too!
Wow….that’s wild
I had parked my car on top of a hill on a hot day. I did a loop that had quite a bit of climbing which with the heat, and perhaps not drinking enough, took everything out of my legs. I still had to get up a 12% climb to get back to my car, my vision was going blurry, my legs had nothing left, my back was sore, my quads were filled with lactic acid, calves on the verge of cramping, it was 87ºF with no breeze in the canyon, and I just wanted to quit. I had to get off, rest, and hobble my bike a portion of the way. That was a day that made me want to quit cycling altogether. Tip: Always park the car at the bottom of a hill.
I dont think that u can't quit cycling just like that. I thought I could, but i was cycling again after 2 days😂
Oooof that sounds nasty 🥵 Lesson learnt though... Great to hear that you're still riding 🙌
@@CyclingGas Oh yeah, I was back out the next weekend. It was enough for me to question my life choices.
Loved the show guys. Fresh back from my first bike packing trip. Was great ! Im sore tired and watching gcn to recover. 85 miles first day. Camped, my friend and myself. With only what we brought with us. High heat, one thunderstorm and over night rain.. still fun! Recommend every one give it a go.
Hahaha sounds like an epic trip! Those wild bikepacking trips will stay with you for a while 🙌
There are no bad bicycle rides as long as you can get back home. I'll skip the details but had a bad crash, ambulance, 2 months ICU in a coma, multiple surgeries, 5 months physiotherapy. Had the luck to be able to return to this wonderful sport and there is nothing that could bring me down on a ride. Like a good friend of mine said: perspective is a powerful thing.
I crashed my bike about 100m from home a couple years. Walked home with a broken helmet, broken collarbone and broken hip! By your definition I guess that was still not a bad ride!
Although compared to your experience it was still a good ride.
I was on my annual club picnic ride when I had a flat from a shingle nail. I told my mates to continue on and I would catch up. I slightly inflated my spare tube and set it down for a second while I grabbed my rim. A little yappy dog came flying toward me, stopped and grabbed my spare tube like it was a chew toy. I now had about 8 holes from dog teeth in my spare. Luckily I had an ancient, crusty patch in my kit and fixed the single hole in my original tube while the dog mocked me from afar. It wasn't my day and I limped the bike back to the start of the ride. I wasn't going to trust that patch for the bulk of the ride. Oof.
Not oof. Woof.
Ha! Should have thought of that one. @@rangersmith4652
Wow….crazy story 😂
Hahahaha! Pesky pooch 🐶
Hank did so many miles on the Eurobike, that it definitely deserves an honorary place in the GCN bike vault. It certainly should be in Hank's CV by now.
Listing the percentage for increasing cancer risk is a bit misleading.
@@108kitsune U wot m8?😮
#captioncompetition After stage 1 of the Vuelta extra precautions are brought it: A life vest can be found under your saddle, there is a light and whistle to attract attention.
17:15 Arse about face guys! If Josh was born at the start of the day it leaves a lot of day for Remco to be born later and so be younger - not older!
Re: Tarling vs. Remco.
Okay, I'm sucked in now.
Do we know what time of day each of their respective races ended?
Also, if Josh was born at 2am, that gives Remco a much higher chance of being younger since Josh will have been 22 hours old by the end of his first day.
I've counted the same number of leap days, and both riders won in the same time zone in which they were born.
Now you’ve dragged me down the rabbit hole with you - some amazing questions that need answers! We need to know when the last rider of each race finished as that’s when they would have been declared officially the winner. 🕵️
#CaptionCompetition Remco is about to blow the whistle on a competitor who thought his illegal actions were hidden by the fog.
If Tarling was born at 2am, isn't it very likely that he was older than Remco on the day of his win?
My thought too, Remco has a 22 hour window to be the youngest so highly likely!
Glad I’m not the only one that thought this. It’s definitely true that Josh is likely older than Remco.
Worth remembering we need to account for relative time zone of birth and race finish if we're delving into hours.
Exactly what I thought!
I was just about to post this! Back to school for Si and Hank !
LOL Hank! Talk about a "hold my beer" moment. 😂
Why does Hank always end up doing these challenges? Hat off and all respect. Just don’t hurt him!
Opening this show with a thirst trap. Well done. 👏🏻😂
What alternative universe have I entered when Simon is recommending using a zip tie on a water bottle cage?
#CaptionCompetition After a few mist opportunities, Remco wears a whistle to remind himself not to blow it.
Had a ride ruined by ice. Club ride one freezing December morning, 6km into the route, 12 riders in a line going down a hill into a flat left hander. Every one of us went down. We went home.
My worst ride involved 4 flats within 35 km. I was riding solo.
I had 2 spare tubes and a patch kit, however the glue in the patch kit had dried up and the patches didn't hold.
After an 8 km walk which ruined my cleats, I discovered that I had left my seat bag unzipped and lost some tools.
The problem was pinch flats resulting from rim tape shifting and slighly exposing a couple of spoke holes.
#captioncompetition To address riders’ criticism of Vuelta safety, officials issued likely stage winners with whistles to avoid finish line crashes.
Cracking show this one, very very funny. Good effort chaps 🤘🏻
Never a dull moment between these two! 😂
I think we'll need to give Si a bit of a lesson on how time works. If Tarling was born at 2am, it gives Remco 22 hours in which to be born after Tarling, to be the youngest. Not 2 hours which Si seemed to think it is. If Remco was born between midnight and 2am, that would make him *older* than Tarling was when they both won their respective races...
It's just maths and counting Si.
(This is assuming the races ended at roughly the same time of day).
Someone brought a Eurobike mountain bike into our shop for service. It’s a team lift to get it into the service stand for repairs, and to safely get it back down onto the floor again. 😂
Unfamiliar with Sepp Kuss’s talent, Remco is wearing his stranger danger whistle.
Yesterday went out intending to do a 30 mile loop , couldn't find the route on wahoo so started doing a 60 mile one in the same area ,ended up getting chronic cramp & had to walk 14 miles limping back to the Isle of Wight ferry ,missing that & waiting all night for the next one then Couldn't drive because cramp was so bad lol .
This happened last week: I took the day off from work so that I can go ride with my buddy. A mile into the ride I go through a patch of goatheads (well the actual plant, which sprouted up in the middle of a bike path). Both tires instantly were covered with thorns. I was running TPU tubes so they weren't cheap. Luckily we were close enough to my buddy's place, where he had sealant and tubes a-plenty. I already had tubeless tape installed so I initially decided to give that a go. Unfortunately, I then realized that I did not have tubeless valves with me, and the ones he had were not long enough for my deep rims. Ended up throwing my bike into my friend's van, and driving home to switch bikes. Lost about an hour and a half of precious riding time that evening.
Uh oh! Sounds like you've got a great friend there though 🙌
I've never understood why people willy-nilly swap out an entire tube on the first puncture. What is a patch for? When I ran tubes their #1 attraction for me was the ability to patch them quickly without removing a wheel. There is absolutely NO downside to a patch or two on a tube. They work fine - for months or more. Usually the tire will wear out or I'll get several more punctures in other places before I have trouble with an "old" patch.
If you had a tiny thorn or flint through the tyre, how do you find where it’s punctured without removing the wheel?
Normally a puncture or thorn, etc deflating a tire at any rate is quite evident from the outside. In the less frequent case it's not - and it's still impacting a ride, try putting some air in (if it's already fully deflated) then get your cheek, ear lobe or eye as close to the tire as possible while slowly rotating it. Might sound silly but this makes any puncture easy to find. Then get the tire lever, pull out that section of tube and the hole in the tube will be readily evident. Don't forget to carefully feel around and be sure to remove whatever caused the puncture before re-inflating.@@rob-c.
Moral of the story. Tubeless isn't all what it's cracked up to be! If it wasn't for the humble knotted inner tube you'd have to walk home 🤷🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣
#captioncompetition remco will now blow the whistle to announce arrival at the finish 🧑🤝🧑💥🚲
How about Hank's new training series. Showing how he's getting fighting fit to do the Tour Divide. Then a video on GCN+ showing the event itself.
This!
31:21 Mitch Docker to Hank: “That’s not a remote pub. This is a remote pub”.
At school, the challenge was downing a whole can of cold Cresta, ( it's frothy man! ) and then performing a gambol, before spraying foam from the mouth.
Stopped a freezing cold ride one time after about 10 miles of what was meant to be 50, back in the 80's with bad clothing, took sooo long to unfreeze. As for flats, i don't ride tubeless i have inner tubes in all bikes, and road (1500 miles 4 flats) gravel (1700 miles 0 flats)and MTB (1000 miles 0 flats, oops just jinxed me) bikes all have seat pack on them permanently with 1 inner tube, multi tool and A PUNCTURE REPAIR KIT, 2 zip ties, and a short strip of cardboard (for if i rip a tire) and partridge in a pear tree. been caught out before with 2 flats and only 1 tube and no kit, never again. The amount of weight saved buy not carrying the right gear to get myself (i ride alone) out of most situations is far out shadowed by how unfit i am, how heavy my bikes are and how much weight i could lose. There are no Taxi's in my area so if i was stranded would rely on which one of my friends would pick up the phone and not be at work! too risky. Drew.
This past Saturday we were finishing up a fast group ride (just over 100km) and were headed back into town on a highway access road. I glanced over at a car dealership and somehow went off the side of the road and, rather than riding it out, tried to save it. Thankfully it was fresh pavement, but the left side of my body has a lot less skin than it used to and my bike has a big ol' scratch on the top tube. No broken bones, but my ego has taken quite the hit.
Ouch
Ooooof! Sounds nasty! Rest up and recover 👀
15:42 when hank dares to comment on someone else's mind and searches for words that never come.
I got a good question of the week for you.
is there a difference in alloy wheel rim break performance in budget wheels versus premium wheels no one ever talks about the break tracks from cheap to premium.
Could better wheels also increase your breaking performance on rim brakes?
Great question! This is one for our tech team! Head over to GCN TECH and drop this comment using #askgcntech, the team can then see your question for the clinic 🙌
Totally agree with Hank, if you ride regularly you're more into routine of keeping on top of "all" your cycling gear! Bike, clothing, accessories etc! When I used to ride twice a week i was always faffing around pre-ride. Now I ride 4 or 5 times sometimes more a week I have a routine that I don't even think I'm doing, it just happens. This also covers bike and kit servicing, ordering new parts etc. 👍
I bloody loved Mitchs latest documentary mate. I smiled all the way through it
Kuss giving Dan a run for his money.
Prostate cancer is something that a lot of people die with, rather than die of. So when the researchers say that it is due to a higher rate of checking, they are saying that we don't know what the true rate of prostate cancer is, in the general population (as many people die with it). Therefore, when pros get tested so often, it is picked up more often when compared to the general population, even though it may not always kill them.
Si's new glasses, all good dude until you sneeze! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Took my road bike for a nice long training ride one Saturday evening in an area I'm not so familiar with. Maps app took me on gravel roads that my bike was NOT set up to handle. Lasted more than an hour without flatting, but finally the inevitable happened just before dusk. No problem. That's why we carry a spare! Got it changed and back on the gravel. I made it about 10 minutes down the road and flatted again. Stranded in the dark on a dusty old country road hours away from home waiting to be reviewed by my spouse in the car. I now run tubeless, carry 2 spare tubes, and a patch kit!
6:00 so due to piss more maintenance and planning, Si manages to ruin his ride, and the rides of everyone with him. Looking forward to the latest series from GCN: 'Si's Solo riding tips'
#1 - had a rear wheel bladed spoke break in the mid-section - threw the rim out of round with a large wave that rubbed the brakes and the frame - had to crawl back 15km - #2 - had the drive cam cog in the rear wheel hub cassette shear-off while hill climbing - feels like the chain broke - you pedal and go nowhere - a long 25KM walk back thankfully hailed down a bus that allowed me to board it back to town out in the middle of nowhere - #3 - chain twisted along its length while hill climbing - it did not snap but you could not pedal it #4 - had the carbon frame seat tube crack - when leaning into the corner it felt like the rear wheel was slipping out - did not know what happened until the mechanic found the hairline fracture #5 - ye ol' "unbrakable" titanium seat post rail cracking trick - cycling 10KM with NO seat - far harder than it looks - #6 - have also had multiple tire flat rashes - blown through my stash of tubes and c-o-n-t-i-n-u-e-d to flat - it was so bad I had to replace the tire as I could not resolve the source - sometimes a sliver of glass - steel wire or tack gets imbedded in the rubber and is undetectable until riding load reveals itself and punctures said tube - panic sets in as you realise you are 35KM from home - count the ways .... this is a small but painfully memorable sample size
#captioncompetition Pogacar gets sponsorships worth millions, I get this plastic whistle.
#captioncompetition when its so foggy that you need a whistle for the team to find you
My top worst ones (non injury ones)
1. Tubeless tire burst (side wall cut) while going downhill at 25mph (muddy road) stopped on the side. Realized I had given my tube to a buddy the week before. Used my arm warmer and spare socks (winter) to clean tire and bike from sealant and borrowed tube from a random rider (thanks!) an hour.
2. Heard the rear tire go flat. Yelled at buddies to stop. Replaced tube. Realized front was flat too. Hour.
Well, we can tell that Si hasn't watched Ollie's vid on how to set up tubeless - If you need to put a tube in, not checking for thorns is a schoolboy error :)
Those glasses would actually make Si look better. 😂
Si’s Worst Ride: my middle nickname “PapWiel” was given me by my ride buddies for the number of flats I used to get. It’s literal translation is Flat Wheel. Not so much anymore. My worst experience was on 3 day C2C ride in the UK, with 7 flats in total and 4 on the second day.
Mind if I put in a request for an upcoming GCN Show? A special segment to honor the retiring cycling legend, Annemiek van Vleuten? 🌈
As a passionate female cyclist myself, Annemiek was always the cyclist I pretended to be growing up. Her whole mentality towards the sport is just amazing and can't do anything else than inspire! The way she is able to deal with circumstances that lay out of her control by focusing on the things she IS in control of is a mentality I try to adapt in my cycling. I will certainly miss her in the peloton! 🌈🇳🇱
I went through about 3 inner tubes (standard road tyre) in a week of commuting. Never found the culprit, just replaced the tyre eventually.
That was a pain in the ass.
15:49 So much wisdom...!
Hank needs to do the tour divide. I am one of the lucky few who completed it this year and that route is just so special.
It looks like an awesome route! Hank would love it... should he do it solo or in a pair?
Just watched the Mitch Docker video on the 'Great Outback Beer Run'- fantastic. Fair brought tears to my eyes for two reasons. I did my PhD in the goldfields of Western Australia where the pubs play a similar pivotal role in the tiny communities. At the time (in the 80s) some notionally didn't serve women in the public bar. But I spent a bit of time with the late great diamond geologist Maureen Muggeridge and she could stare down any barman who decided he wasn't going to serve a woman. Salutary lesson in standing your ground. The other reason is the bike touring I did: first Perth to Melbourne via Port Lincoln then, when I was based in Queensland, Port Douglas to Cape York (the top of the eastern pointy bit of Oz) then back to Brisbane via Weipa - the aluminium mining town. The road up through the coastal rainforest was spectacular but crossing creeks (wading) was a bit unnerving in an area known for the saltwater crocs, and the sand tracks further north really hard going, then the roads to Weipa were mainly gravel and the corrugations shattering. Every place I stopped, someone would stand me beers just for having survived the corrugations on a bike.. Last big trip was Darwin to Adelaide with a fair bit of gravel but nothing like Queensland. Bloody good fun!
#CaptionCompetition: With all of the drama during the Vuelta's opening week, everyone is watching for Remco's latest tweets.
pro tip for GCN presenters on how to deal with black ice: Put a studded tire on your front wheel. Take care of yourself!
- A Canadian
You'd think a racing trike would work on this, but I've been on my back in the ditch clipped in on one. THAT was a bummer of a ride. Black ice is why they make smart trainers.
Hank seems very bubbly on this week’s episode!
Ba dum Shhhh 🍾
Hank seemed to have trouble staying focussed this week! 😛
THIS week! Nothing new to see here 😂
Nosecco - what a pity!
Next time you also should get a small barrell of beer - aehm mineral water i mean - when Dan is around...
Edit: regarding Si's morning ride - at least the mates were waiting and not the wate mati... yeah, you get it ^^
I got 3 flats on a ride once. I even had 2 spare tubes on me. My tires were full of goathead stickers and I just failed to find them all. I ended up calling a cab for a ride home.
We've all been here... these things happen 😢
The drinking and burpe deserved a like on their own :P
Classic, and only 3 minutes in. Hank & Si, brilliant 😂
These two are always HIGH energy!
What a stupid try to beat Sepp but I am laughing out loud at Hank😀. Great!!
in regards to the youngest rider, i think your going to have to factor in time differences as i cant imagine Remco was born in the UK
1) Trying to change a tyre on a tubeless ready rim and snapping a tyre lever
2) Bonking with 30 miles of headwind between me and home
I love the new channel lets haze Hank.
Last Ride: went pretty good. Nice average speed 33 kmh. Then 8 km first puncture. Put my spare in and 6 km later the next puncture. A nail pierced my whole rim (new 10 days old Hunt Wheels rim 😢). No more spares left.
So I decided to carry my bike home. 35 minutes later a storm formed and I was in the middle of nowhere. The last 15 mins were pure survival. Running through the dark whilst lightning went down 100 m away and trees were cracking all over the place. The wind literally blew me away from the streets. THAT was a shit ride. 😂
24:00
#captioncompetition
‘The Wolfpack’s Remco Evenepoel gets yet another wolf-whistle from the fans’
For the hell of it, test that mono sunglass thing in the tunnel😂 cheers guys
Hahahaha sounds like Si is down 👀
2:50 with frames and wheels becoming more and more stiffer (+ ever more carbon), we have to get “suspension” elsewhere. hence even wider tyres
I remember riding my BMX bike back when I was a kid and had the upper and lower tubes to my fork break off to send me over the handle bars. I felt lucky that I didn't get impaled and wasn't hurt. My current trainer bike, which is a 1991 Pondorosa mountain bike has stress cracks in the same places and will no longer be going outside. Do you sense a theme here with my bikes?
Worst ride...
For my 52nd birthday, I set out on a metric century ride with my cousin who also happened to have just turned 51 the day before. I severely underestimated the route and threw caution to the wind regarding the 80% humidity that day. 51 miles in, I started to develop signs of rhabdomyolosis and had to bail on the ride. Fortunately, my cousin had finished the route and was able to back track and rescue me. Four days of muscle cramps, severe weakness, vomiting and tea colored urine later I was good to go and back on the road.
When the local road maintenance "lick and stick" your favourite downhill segment, leaving one to gamble as to whether the stuff you are riding on is suck or loose gravel thrown up by other traffic.
What ruined my ride? Belgian tourist going through a stop sign. 3 shoulder operations later .......... Thankfully she was driving a Fiat 500 and not a Chelsea tractor. French ambulance crew not impressed with my rendition of 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' after the morphine shot! Mike
My two worst rides happened basicly one after another within a week. First one, hill repeats. On a second or third repeat my frame cracked and i had the slowest/most carefull ride home ever. Then after a week i`m riding (other bike) with a friend an easy zone 2 ride and a car pushed me off the road. I got to fly an ambulance helicopter to a hospital. My sezon is over but i`ll be able to start a Zwift seazon on a brand new superbike when it gets here and i recover from all my injuries :)
Wow…..talk about a bad week….that’s crazy….hope you heal up quick
#CaptionCompetition - When you have a grand tour finishing at 5 & a 90’s rave at 6
I've had a similar experience re punctures - I once had a week away booked with a friend, we took a caravan down to cornwall for a week of cycling, eating, cycling, drinking, cycling... you know the sort.... and one of the days we planned to ride around 100km, stopping for lunch on the coast, a wine tasting later in the afternoon, and finally fish and chips in the town where we were staying before the last climb back up to the campsite. Between us we had no less than 8 punctures over the course of the day, but worse still 6 were mine and all happened within a 5km stretch. I'm sure it made the wine taste better though!
when cable deraileurs fail it is usually just one, not both at the same time
Ollie loves aero so much he only drinks coffee made from an aero press.
Schoolboy error Si you should always check the inside of the tyre before you put a new tube in!!!!!! I think you should watch some GCN tech shows 😂🤣😂🤣
Loved Sepp’s effort neckiing the Champagne bottle. (A) totally making the most of a moment he has spent his whole life dreaming off & (B) a big middle finger to management that think it’s going to effect performance next day. Great to see an elite sportsman being human 👏👏👏
That full face shield would be as steamy as finding a couple in a van parked by the river.
Yes - and how would you blow a snot rocket? Doesn't bear thinking about.
Si you naughty boy. Fancy scaring Hank like that. Pirelli have the Cinturato All Road semi slick tyre their website. Yes it does come in 700x45c. It also comes in 700x50c. If it is a new tyre Hank mentioned. Don't worry at least he didn't do a Steve Jones from EMBN. Doing a video about a new e-mtb before it was launched.
Editing on this is absolutely hilarious god dammit!! And of course Sy and Hank duo is always a golden comedy! Hahaha got me rolling.
Si would look like Cobra Commander with that visor 😂
Love riding on a sunny winter day with studded tires on ice. A surreal Canadian experience.
My most dreaded mech failure in the winter is ice blocking the freehub body free, so you can't pedal. Never had anything I couldn't work around in the summertime.
Basically, Hank, you were trying to best Spaniard in wine drinking? Courageous:)
If they are gonna try TT and things like that with the 50mm tires then they should do cobblestones, bad tarmac and things like that to so we really get the full picture.
Can we see Hank try to down a yard of ale? 🙂
Sort out the focus guys! Si’s face in focus, Hank’s not! It’s excruciating!!
All my weights are mating
Commuting to work up Kensington High Street, I was "car doored". My left arm made contact at bicep level with the door taking all the hit. I went down, of course but with the adrenaline and wearing a waterproof jacket I didn't realise I had a 4'/100mm guillotine cut in my arm. After getting the driver's details I carried on a further 3-4 miles to work and only then realised when I painfully removed the jacket how bad I was. Off to hospital in a cab. I had a professor of trauma surgery, a professor of battlefield surgery and a professor of plastic surgery (I kid you not) checking me out thinking it was a de-gloving injury (look it up, it's not nice). After surgery it turned out it wasn't that type of injury (phew) but I had another 3 days in hospital with drains in my arm and months off riding. I also think that the surgeon who worked on me was probably someone they dragged in off the street because he left me with a horrendous scar. I guess it could've been worse - say if a car had been passing on my outside - but that was my worst ride.
Si's excitement at that full face sunglasses 😄😄😄😄😄
#captioncontest: who's gonna win la Vuelta? Haven't the foggiest!
A slow ride last month: 34C, might not have eaten enough; thought it was just my worst ever bonk? Eleven hours in ER and now a visit to the stroke clinic later, seems I had a TIA. Not my best day. (Still, no one said to quit biking…)
This past weekend, my derailleur hanger broke, and the chain drug the derailleur through my wheel and seat stays. It was not rideable, and im going to put the hack (ahm) job i did to make it possible to coast the bike home up for the hack or bodge part of the show.