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Worst Retirement Ever - Cycling in Central Florida and Sugarloaf Mountain KOM

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  • Опубликовано: 8 авг 2024
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Комментарии • 120

  • @timpickering253
    @timpickering253 5 лет назад +26

    This is hands down my favorite channel. I have never obviously met Phil in person but seems to be a super humble person with a great sense of humour. Keep up the great content mate!

    • @worstretirementever
      @worstretirementever  5 лет назад +7

      Thanks Tim! Hope to meet you someday

    • @philiptoo
      @philiptoo 5 лет назад +2

      Come out to Malibu for the Cookie Fondo! Phil’s even better in person!

    • @MsBulldog888
      @MsBulldog888 5 лет назад +1

      Phil Gaimon
      Add me to the list of people.... I love your channel. Not to take anything away from the GCN but your humour and storylines are cooler. Your Vancouver episode got me hooked. If you’re ever in Muskoka region I can get a bunch of rabid cyclists to take you up and down some hills here on the edge of the Niagara escarpment.... or we can all just go out for cookies and beer.... whatever works. How’s the new bike working out? Impressions so far?

  • @zakkwyldesliver
    @zakkwyldesliver 5 лет назад +16

    Sandhill Crane.
    Better known as “Ribeye in the sky”.

  • @corkhead0
    @corkhead0 5 лет назад +42

    You climb 14% grades faster than I can ride flats.

  • @adamgriss2025
    @adamgriss2025 5 лет назад +5

    Great breakdown of Florida and the Florida experience, but you forgot to add running into a potbellied Québecer wearing speedos, a tank top, and flip flops at the shopping mall for the complete “La Florida” experience😂😂😂

  • @mattmcgriff5952
    @mattmcgriff5952 4 года назад +2

    Phil, loved your content and outlook prior to watching this video, but, now learning that you went to UF and spent a lot of time riding the Gville, I dig you even more. I was just back up there and rode out on 241 to Millhopper Road and remembered how much I love riding there. Keep up the content-you are inspiring me to want to climb even though I am down in flat Southwest Florida. I-75 overpass, here I come!

  • @alojzsuc6010
    @alojzsuc6010 5 лет назад +5

    Best music during the climb!

  • @scottrichardson5504
    @scottrichardson5504 5 лет назад +5

    Another great video, love the backing music for the climb and a top effort. Bit grim about cycling safety in Florida though
    16:08 - road surface like all the roads in the UK.....holes, holes and more holes.

  • @billinhouston3291
    @billinhouston3291 5 лет назад

    Thanks for hosting, Gutt. Another fun one, Phil.

  • @404nobrakes
    @404nobrakes 5 лет назад

    Guttenplan's stern admonishment after the sprint shows how real friends talk to each other. Even though Phil was a straight up pro and national champ, he wasn't afraid to call him out. Kudos

  • @bikndave68
    @bikndave68 5 лет назад

    It’s awesome that you were in the area to ride. Florida winter riding is the best!

  • @RUSSDsPhotography
    @RUSSDsPhotography 5 лет назад +2

    Great video. The "birds" are Sand Hill Cranes.

  • @rvingmontanezway103
    @rvingmontanezway103 5 лет назад +1

    Wowo Man I wish I would have known you were here I would have loved to meet you bro👍.I live here in Howey-in-the-Hills where SugarLoaf is I ride that thing all the time but not as fast as you 🤪 you killed it .. I hope to see you next time .. thanks for visiting..

  • @lloydhlavac6807
    @lloydhlavac6807 2 месяца назад

    Ohhhh, Sugarloaf brings back a lot or memories. I live only 15 miles or so from there, and I've climbed it a couple hundred times at least during the 25 years I was in racing. I think back to the state road race championships held there several times in the early 90s. 10 laps and 10 climbs up Sugarloaf for cat 1,2 men. In 91 I attacked on the 2nd lap, with a small group coming with me. By the 8th lap I was by myself off the front, when John Lieswyn and Mark Swart caught me at the base of Sugarloaf with 1 1/2 laps to go (The S/F line was at the south end of Sugarloaf Mt Rd, near CR561A). I was too fried to stay with them on the climb, but had a big enough gap on everyone else that I hung on for 3rd. Disappointing, but then Lieswyn went on later that year to be part of the 4 man team to set a new US national record in the 100K team time trial, breaking the 2 hour mark. The next year I attacked on the first lap, again a small group coming with me, dropping off one by one till only one other rider, Steve Franco, managed to hang on. Then in the exact same spot as the year before, Carl Sundquist and another rider caught us just as we got to Sugarloaf with 1 1/2 laps to go. Steve got dropped, but I still felt good and managed to hang on. I stayed with Carl and the other rider till we got to Sugarlaof again on the final lap. This other guy had puked water just before we got there, so I figured he was pretty much done, and he did get dropped immediately as we started to climb. Then about 1/2 or 2/3 of the way up, as I sat of Carl's wheel, I saw him swift to one harder gear, stand up, and slowly pull away from me. I just didn't have enough left to stay with him. By the top he had a good gap on me, and ended up winning, with me getting 2nd. Another disappointment, but he would have kicked my ass in a sprint finish anyway, as later that year he was in the Barcelona Olympics representing the US in the individual pursuit on the track, and I was one of the worst sprinters in Florida. Ah, memories.

  • @canyoneagle
    @canyoneagle 5 лет назад +1

    ...that dually pickup with the unnecessary last minute swerve pass (17:43)..... Congrats on the KOM :) I was surprised to see something over 10% in Florida, even if short. Liked the vid.

  • @barretdunbar9114
    @barretdunbar9114 5 лет назад +25

    Please tell me someone made fun of those helmet straps!

  • @wrxzboost
    @wrxzboost 5 лет назад +1

    just moved to tampa this month and needed this to find some riding places around here...gracias

  • @eds4169
    @eds4169 4 года назад

    Hey, nice vid. I grew-up in Orlando and rode out to Clermont quite often on a 1970 Centurion back around the turn of the century. A technical note to know about Sugarloaf... Britton Hill, in the Panhandle, is actually higher at 345 feet, but there's almost no discernible prominence. Sugarloaf is the highest point in peninsular Florida at 312 feet, and has the highest prominence at 245 feet. So, for all intents and purposes, this is the "mountain" in Florida.

  • @zzhughesd
    @zzhughesd 5 лет назад +3

    Phil mega vid start funny as fook great commentary on next door shop obsessives. I'm glad you enjoyed the pics of bag strap in their bed

  • @matthewsully4565
    @matthewsully4565 5 лет назад

    Love it Phil. Getting in some air miles!!!... Talking of which... Do you know how hot Adelaide is going to be next month?.... And are you planning to ride in Queensland... Gold Coast?

  • @thesimplecooks
    @thesimplecooks 5 лет назад

    Hahaha I hang out at Caddy's from time to time. I hope you got a chance to ride the pinellas trail Phil!

  • @dmv4554
    @dmv4554 5 лет назад +1

    My fave vid so far

  • @thakoharris
    @thakoharris 5 лет назад +2

    That post car crash story, love that takeaway. Thanks.

  • @79kingfisher
    @79kingfisher 5 лет назад +2

    Great staff. When you coming to Switzerland 🇨🇭 again?

  • @mikeburton8426
    @mikeburton8426 5 лет назад

    I’m Canadian. I just learned about boiled peanuts two weeks ago when chatting with a friend from Georgia. He sent up a few “can’s” of boiled peanuts in brine. Boiled peanuts in the shell in a can, in brine. I don’t even know what to say about that. The old fella you ran into is the colonel of boiled nuts. Bien Fait!

  • @cup_and_cone
    @cup_and_cone 5 лет назад

    My old home. Right in the feels....

  • @terryharrigan6324
    @terryharrigan6324 4 года назад

    Have a GPS file on an good routes there? Heading down this winter.

  • @lucasb.3236
    @lucasb.3236 5 лет назад

    Epic Phil!!! Please please please come to Fort Lauderdale, lots of flat, fast rides down here and it will be a pleasure to have you ride with the dudes here!!!!! Cheers dude

    • @lucasb.3236
      @lucasb.3236 5 лет назад

      Lots of KOM’s for you to try and steal

  • @Skywalkaaa
    @Skywalkaaa 5 лет назад

    We had our team camp in Clermont and we were doing drills all day where we would have a partner who flatted and it was our job to pull them back onto the group. They flatted my partner right at the steepest part of Sugarloaf and I had to pull him back on from a standstill.

  • @denniskowskie6748
    @denniskowskie6748 2 года назад

    Phil, what seat do you use? Love your vids.

  • @RickBeckler
    @RickBeckler 5 лет назад

    I don't remember seeing any of those houses on Sugarloaf!

  • @ZOB4
    @ZOB4 5 лет назад

    I grew up in Florida, and then moved to New York. The first time I came back to Florida, I made a point of stopping for Cajun boiled peanuts. Probably the best thing in Florida.

  • @garyives1218
    @garyives1218 5 лет назад

    in the early nineties a friend and I would do the long drive from Sarasota out to there once or twice a month to ride the "hills" and this was where the State championship road race was held. Even though I was in great shape when I did that race I cramped so bad on that hill I had to stop right there. There were also a couple hills closer to Tampa in , I want to say, San Antonio people called "bunny ears" ? I'm pretty sure I still had a 42x21 at the time! :)

  • @walterramos1054
    @walterramos1054 5 лет назад

    Well i am from Cuba all my family live in Miami but i live in PA and follow all your videos i have beautiful road here in bucks county and a lot of people love ride in this area.

    • @BadWeatherfreak
      @BadWeatherfreak 3 года назад

      I used to live in Quarryville PA and Lancaster.

  • @BruceChastain
    @BruceChastain 5 лет назад +1

    wow I lived near Orlando for years and didn't know about Clermont being anything for cyclists.

  • @benreams9748
    @benreams9748 5 лет назад

    Phil, you hit north fla people dead on the money. Lol pickups and chewing tobacco. Great to see you make a video in my home state.

  • @tracydraper1089
    @tracydraper1089 5 лет назад

    That kit.... amazing. Way to take the Loaf!

  • @bobblues1158
    @bobblues1158 5 лет назад

    What was the background music at 20:12. Great! No disrespect meant, but I´m a musician and a bike rider . Love your vlog!

  • @Hoof8989
    @Hoof8989 4 года назад

    Soo, i really want to see this documentary about the plants

  • @alantaylorfarnes
    @alantaylorfarnes 5 лет назад +4

    Wrong. The further away from the coast the more southern you get. So you can go pretty far south in Florida and as long as you’re like 90 minutes from the coast, you’ll be in the South.

  • @davidecook1
    @davidecook1 5 лет назад

    Oh GAWD! I'm from Florida and the cycling truly sux. (Which is why I now live in Germany... The cycling is much better!) Great effort Phil! YOU ROCK!!

  • @stevenagy7152
    @stevenagy7152 5 лет назад

    Shout out to Roanoke VA and Starlight Apparel!

  • @pambansangpapa3288
    @pambansangpapa3288 5 лет назад +1

    adding w/kg overlay would be awesome. i can show you how

  • @50Acres
    @50Acres 5 лет назад

    That hat! I need it.

  • @gradyzyner7423
    @gradyzyner7423 5 лет назад

    Boiled peanuts by the side of the road? Very cool. Being in Clermont and not visiting the Orange Tower? Not so cool. Nevertheless, you're vlogs are always big fun.

  • @HE911_
    @HE911_ 5 лет назад

    @Phill Gaimon I can't believe you were in FL riding Sugarloaf Mountain, I road that numerous times last year as a Floridian... I'd have loved to meet you T___T

  • @C.Medina
    @C.Medina 5 лет назад

    Sugarloaf need to be repaved in the backside of the road. If you are in the heavy side like me will get pinch flat easily.
    Love that area. Specially when get to road number 2 in howie in the hills.

  • @cerberus1981
    @cerberus1981 5 лет назад

    Love it. Any plans for Iowa/Nebraska/Kansas?

    • @edwood7741
      @edwood7741 5 лет назад

      Ohio?

    • @cerberus1981
      @cerberus1981 5 лет назад

      @@edwood7741 Was thinking the same... but then remembered that there are Actual Mountains southeast of Columbus.

  • @jshepard5840
    @jshepard5840 5 лет назад

    I'm sure this has already been said, but at 9:20, those are Sandhill cranes. Never even heard of "blue cranes". There are Great Blue Herons, but those are um...blue, not brown.

  • @youdontsay1982
    @youdontsay1982 5 лет назад

    Phil - Thanks for sharing a great ride with us on RUclips. Enjoyed it very much.

  • @toaster6068
    @toaster6068 5 лет назад +1

    a climb in Florida? I live in Florida and didn't know it existed

  • @ponderingfox
    @ponderingfox 5 лет назад +8

    You realize you’re going to have to do a tri at some point, right? Go join VC for the Olympic he does every year.

  • @kethvelo
    @kethvelo 5 лет назад

    Damn it, Jim , I'm a domestique not a botanist!??!

  • @Capaross79
    @Capaross79 5 лет назад

    Now go and watch Seth and Alex try and ride this climb, Phil is the superior species.

  • @dom7215
    @dom7215 5 лет назад

    You Must try to Ride in Miami with a lot of Crazy Bike Enthusiast. There is a cool bike Scene and min. 3 Times a week Group rides!

  • @yoja5on
    @yoja5on 5 лет назад +1

    Was waiting for some mention of how dangerous cycling is in Florida. Eff that place.

  • @ciclocoyote5302
    @ciclocoyote5302 5 лет назад

    I call those birds prehistoric people. They are here at the same time every year. They are very loud.

  • @eriktabor6478
    @eriktabor6478 5 лет назад

    Is the Florida cyclist death rate high because of Florida man or because of the number of cyclists/all year riding? Is it 50/50 as to the high rate? It would be interesting to know.

    • @RickBeckler
      @RickBeckler 5 лет назад

      The weather has a lot to do with it. Also a large number of those deaths are probably people riding a bike out of necessity and not understanding the rules of the road.

  • @brando1937
    @brando1937 4 года назад

    Those power numbers were silly

  • @standarsh43
    @standarsh43 5 лет назад

    We got some locals here who are coming up on your kom

  • @davidparrott2090
    @davidparrott2090 5 лет назад +1

    Someone please tell that guy to fix his helmet straps, terrible! :P

  • @leeeeigh796
    @leeeeigh796 5 лет назад +1

    Welcome to Phil's gun show 😆

  • @choose6174
    @choose6174 5 лет назад +5

    That hill made me want to die. I saw your strava and was confused how you even went that fast.

  • @krane15
    @krane15 3 года назад

    "Florida isn't the south?" If Florida isn't the south I don't know what is. I guess he means southern, but it is if you meet any native Floridians. And if anybody's curious the highest point in Florida is 300 ft, so all of the climbing most cyclist in Florida do is up bridges.

  • @trroland1248
    @trroland1248 5 лет назад

    Does that really kick up to 13% in Florida?😅

    • @C.Medina
      @C.Medina 5 лет назад

      I did worked in Clermont for a few months and they are a few neighborhood with hills that kick 17%.
      I did one and damage my rear wheel with my fatty ass.😣😅

  • @t.j.goldwater7139
    @t.j.goldwater7139 5 лет назад

    About three fiddy

  • @lukejeff4697
    @lukejeff4697 5 лет назад

    Phil, do you have a job outside of this show?

    • @worstretirementever
      @worstretirementever  5 лет назад +3

      Man I tried for two years. Lots of interviews but no offers. I started working on this and my events while I was hunting, and then there was a point where those became full time and I didn’t need a job anymore.

    • @lukejeff4697
      @lukejeff4697 5 лет назад

      Phil Gaimon that’s awesome that you still do what you love! Keep up that killer content👍🏼

    • @worstretirementever
      @worstretirementever  5 лет назад

      Thanks!

  • @jshepard5840
    @jshepard5840 3 года назад

    Update: Someone got you by 2 seconds on March 31st this year. Come on back.

  • @thhorwitz1
    @thhorwitz1 5 лет назад

    Spying on Dave's form for USACrits lol.

  • @PrivateNeven
    @PrivateNeven 5 лет назад

    Im in South FL right now visiting my parents, without my bike - my life is in shambles. Send help. #payattentiontome

    • @worstretirementever
      @worstretirementever  5 лет назад +1

      I feel for you dude. I’ll help you kill 20 min here how’s that?

    • @PrivateNeven
      @PrivateNeven 5 лет назад

      @@worstretirementever my eyes got the workout they needed. Thanks for being in the giving spirit this Holiday season.

    • @worstretirementever
      @worstretirementever  5 лет назад

      Xo

  • @billbrandon5936
    @billbrandon5936 5 лет назад

    i love guys that ride side by side in solid yellow roads.....they make it so easy for the rest of us

  • @eremiyashagios8178
    @eremiyashagios8178 5 лет назад

    Sugarloaf 💪🏾🏁

  • @hebrews11vs5
    @hebrews11vs5 5 лет назад +1

    I thought he couldn't sprint? He's climbing that thing at like my 5or 10 second power!

  • @calvinjonesyoutube
    @calvinjonesyoutube 5 лет назад

    Wow 110 cycling deaths per year? How many cyclists are there in FL?

  • @jazminyanez6005
    @jazminyanez6005 5 лет назад

    Yo this dude looks like fucking Jim Carrey no lie

  • @andyzephyr1582
    @andyzephyr1582 5 лет назад

    He's too nice a guy but you just want to clown him for his helmet straps....

  • @kethvelo
    @kethvelo 5 лет назад

    Sleeveless and off-road? You are really bending the boundaries my generation misunderstood, gravel was "road" since DeGrange the assassin included Galibier ;;;;

  • @alantaylorfarnes
    @alantaylorfarnes 5 лет назад

    The birds are egrets

  • @davidide1525
    @davidide1525 5 лет назад

    I would really like to watch the video, but the sound is so bad I had to turn it off :-(

  • @dylanmittauer3753
    @dylanmittauer3753 5 лет назад +5

    First comment. You're a beast Phil!

  • @jasoncapecod
    @jasoncapecod 5 лет назад

    you roadies are nuts...ya all need to come over to MTB side..trees don't move or try to run you off the trail..

  • @daness40
    @daness40 5 лет назад

    I threw up in my mouth watching this effort.

  • @joegreen3719
    @joegreen3719 5 лет назад

    Left Florida 33 years ago, I'm sure I'd have been a statistic if I had stayed.

  • @ToddNZMTB
    @ToddNZMTB 2 года назад

    Plant scientist! Ha ha ha etc

  • @michaelbouwkamp6200
    @michaelbouwkamp6200 5 лет назад

    I should probably preface what I'm about to say with the fact that I love Phil Gaimon's channel and content (especially the earlier stuff) but I do have one issue with the dude.... and this should go without saying....taking a lead out on most KOMs is not ok. If you know the KOM was taken in competition where dedicated domestiques were going all out then fine, get your buddy to do a lead out for you. Otherwise KOMs are time trials and taking a lead out compromises the sportsmanship and integrity of the effort. If shortcuts are your thing here's a few others you can try... EPO, Salbutamol, Motor Pacing, &*^% it just do it in your car. To be fair to Phil he did put that he took a lead out in the title of his ride which is as good as an asterisk. My two cents.

  • @tubesockets120v
    @tubesockets120v 5 лет назад

    A lead out for a Strava segment? Cheater!

  • @eecak1973
    @eecak1973 5 лет назад

    Noisy truck your riding in. Must be all the old, half blind drivers killing the cyclists.

  • @bensonwang5122
    @bensonwang5122 5 лет назад +1

    second

  • @Schabo1234
    @Schabo1234 5 лет назад

    How to wear a helmet tutorial....1. Lose your straps as far as possible 2. Do not care about the rest! 3.Wipe off the brain from the streets by your friends ! Happy cycling !

  • @staff0flag
    @staff0flag 4 года назад

    Crikey - poor audio quality. Had to quit.