CYCLING 296KM AS FAST AS I CAN!
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- EPISODE #45
In this episode I’m off to Wales again… to take on a pretty special challenge. I’ll be taking part in the legendary Dragon Ride, it’s known as the toughest sportive in the uk, not only that but I’ll be taking on the 296km route aptly named “the devil” and for good reason. This monstrous route takes in a lot of know climbs in the area and is know for being absolutely relentless, taking many victims and unfortunately causing many to throw in the towel.
So even though I knew all this before hand, I thought it was great idea to try and complete said “monstrous route” in the fastest time I could. Making this an absolute suffer-fest. This was right up there with some of the hardest cycling I’ve ever done… but what a fantastic day! See how I get on and see if it tempts you to take part next year..!
Special thanks to Prime Components for supplying me with the wheels:
primebikecomponents.com/
If you want to have a go yourself: www.dragonride.co.uk/
Here’s links to the two previous episodes I mention:
WELSH EPIC - • CYCLING THE LENGTH OF ...
7 EVERESTS - • CYCLING 7 EVERESTS IN ...
Here's the link to the Strava data from the day:
/ strava
00:00 - INTRO
00:41 - LET'S START THE SHOW!
02:34 - HERE WE GO!
06:18 - BLACK MOUNTAIN!
09:11 - THE DREAM TEAM!
11:58 - A MUCH NEEDED FEED STOP!
13:59 - A WHOLE WORLD OF PAIN!
16:26 - THE END IS NEAR!
18:56 - IT’S OVER/ DE-BRIEF!
22:31 - OUTRO
I'd like to hear what you think, if you have any suggestions or if there's something particular you'd like to see... maybe you could even set me a challenge to complete? Hit me up in the comments...
Anyways... Thanks for watching & please subscribe!
Thomas “The Cycling Tattooist.”
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[CYCLING]
Channel - / thecyclingtattooist
Instagram - / thecyclingtattooist
Strava - / strava
Zwift - www.zwift.com/uk/athlete/5aba...
[TATTOOS]
Instagram - / martineztattooer
Email - tattoosbymartinez@gmail.com
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Film & Editing: Thomas Martinez.
Intro Music: Press 1, Lukas Got Lucky.
Intro Film & Editing: Joe Simkins, Karl Kolecava.
Featured Music:
Rotations - Friends With Animals
Clams Casino - BLUE STEEL 
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I watch just about every cycling RUclipsr, but Thomas, you’re by far the most promising new talents on the scene. Your content is so fun and entertaining and I always finish your videos spoiling for a hard ride myself. Chapeau on a great result on this challenge and keep the footage coming!
Just found your channel, and what a guy, very humble and very talented 👍🏼
Ahh thank you! 🙏
Such a lovely chilled out channel. Thanks
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Great stuff - flying - nice to relive the event through your video (I spotted myself as you whizzed past very early on) - did the Gran Fondo route a few years back pre-COVID and came back to do the Devil this year. You're right about the weather though - it had been VERY warm on the days leading up to the event and it did look like the weather was really gonna take a turn for the worse on the day of the event, but it never materialised - there was some rain overnight, but except for a few damp roads, it had mostly cleared up by the start. Managed to get around in one piece, no mechanicals, no punctures and no injuries - box ticked! 💥💥💥
Love your content! I recently found cycling and really enjoy watching your videos!
You are just amazing - the intro, transition, footages and edit.
Started watching some of your videos. All the way from the Philippines! Ride safe!
Another top video! Inspiring stuff!
Congrats on the Prime deal. Great video as always mate!!
Incredible ride, incredible effort. Making friends on the road for the day is one of the great things to these events and really gets you through these sorts of days. 🏴🏴🏴
Chapeau Thomas, you are a true inspiration dude. Congrats with the wheel deal, hopefully the first of many. 👍🏻👏🏻
Excellent video and ride Thomas, Chapeau 💪💪💪👏👏👏😎🚴♂️👍
Well done! Congratulations 👍👍
Consistently brilliant videos, you’re one of the best Thomas and anyone who hasn’t watched the Wales epic should do so it’s awesome 👌🚴🏼♂️🙌
Another cracking video. Great effort! The Welsh Epic is definitely worth a look to those that haven’t seen it. Congrats on the Prime deal. Amazing to see the progression of the channel. “I love cycling”. Well done!
Yes mate keep killing it!
thanks Thomas, great ride, great video, thanks for being honest about what going on, that makes watching you more enjoyable
Cracking video as always and a brute of a ride, hopefully I'll be doing one of the shorter routes next year. Done my first 100 miler at the start of the month and included the Rhigos and the Bwlch, epic climbs with stunning views at the top and legendry descents. So lucky to have these and so much more on my doorstep, although I probably ride them a little slower than you can 😂 Congratulations on the growth of the channel and the Prime opportunity, deserved recognition for the work you put in and the great content you produce, keep up the good work mate 👍
Smashed it mate! I was also on the devil but finished with a way slower time of 14hrs 15min and had to have a word with myself a few times!
It was very nice to revisit it all through this video
Effort !!! Inspirational!! Thomas You are truly a brilliant bike 🚴 rider and thanks for entertaining… loved the ice-cream stop .. goes to show you are truly real 👏👏👏🙌💯🚴
Another quality video. Wales really is cycling heaven 🏴
Great achievement Thomas well done. 👍
Great vid , good to see the dragon on the tube! Done this ride aswel so it's nice to see great footage of it ,thanks. Big shout out to prime! Get it together Haribo!
Great video great effort what a machine 👏🏼
Awesome effort..never quite !!
Another ace vid ❤️💪🏁
Wow, mega! Well played man 👌🏻
Loving the content Thomas. Nothing short of inspirational. Best wishes from Down Under.
Well done you Southern cycling Legend 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 this scouser salutes you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻
Great video mate, definetly gonna enter for next year.
Such a good watch well done mate
Fair play dude, awesome ride
Thanks for posting this. I’m hoping to do this next year if I can get in.
Incredible content man! Will be doing the Dragon Devil 23, this is the best content I've seen on it by far
Congrats on jumping in with prime brother
Great video of the best cycling country (biased lol) but mega tough route that, enjoyed this one
Conpulsive vids mate, keep it up Thomas.
I was there with you at the start didn’t know who your were then so proper weird.. I had only been riding 2 years when I took on that beast the devil is no joke and fell apart I’m tears as I crossed the line. I had lost my motivation recently and now after watching this .. I’m gagging to get back to this fitness again .. cheer bro 🙌❤️
Mannn that ride is no joke! Definitely one of the hardest things I’ve done! Well done mate…
Just bumped into your channel and LOOOOVVVVEEEE that intro!!!! Well, the pain's real, no pain no gain on a whole new level dished out by the one and only, bicycle...
You’re right there… no pain no gain! 🤘
Superb ride 👌
Great video 🤘🏼
I’ve done the 230km route a couple of times and that’s hard enough. The thought of the Staircase on top of that scares the sh1t out of me. Top effort mate and thanks for the brilliant entertainment
New to the channel - love it - ashamed to say they are all my
Local roads but never rode the dragon 🤨 freezing my butt off right now but thinking that’s my 2024 goal - nice one !!
Great video. Did the dragon ride myself, a couple of hours slower than your ride, was epic 😁😁
I ve been into bike for 2 years now. For sure the adventure the bike gives is the most value for me but i am also i little bit of a stats geek and avg 30km/h on 296 km trip. OMG what a beast! Unbelievable for me. Great intro btw.
I did the Grand Fondo, didn't have the courage or fitness for the devil after only cycling for a year, maybe in a couple of years time. This video brings back some good memories.
Inspired, thank you.
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Keep being real Thomas. Amazing content. From Florida USA
This was a bitter sweet video for me to watch, I rode the Gran Fondo and unfortunately had a crash on the descent of the Rhygos. Required me to have emergency knee surgery which I had in Swansea. Been in a leg brace on the sofa since!!! Great vlog though, good to look back on the scenery despite the bad ending!
Thomas posts agin !!!Sunday sorted 💪🏼
Legend!!!
Nicely done sir! I also rode the devil last month too - about 90 mins slower than you though 😅 Really enjoyed watching this as it captures a lot of the essence; the countryside is utterly magical on this route and I’d echo what you say … if anyones thinking of doing it: do it!
Great Video Thomas tattooing cyclist!
Reminds me of my organized Grouprides in Germany called RTF, keeping uo with the Top-Group and sometimes have to let go:)
Cheers
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I have done the gran fondo, but I will do the devil one day. Love a long day in the saddle no matter how hard it is (afterwards) 😂. The last one I did it was in hailstorms and rain so was a brute. If sunshine you are lucky.
Great video bruv
Great video as always! Love the views! Hey Thomas, can you make a video reviewing or sharing your least favorite to favorite cycling jerseys and bibs?
It would be a very short video… MAAP, always! They’re the best! 😁🙌
As the norm a great filmed and edited piece of work your next production surely will include Hollywood. Thanks Thomas remember us when the call comes !!!
Way to go
First Time i comment something on RUclips ! I have been binging your Channel due to Covid … F@#& Covid… Your videos are awesome and brilliant keep going on ! See you on the Road maybe here in the North of France or anywhere 😎
I always track in miles. I’m all for metric in construction etc, but distances for travel are far easier in imperial. I swear metric is just to sound like they’ve gone further 😂👍🏻
183 miles 🤢💀
I’ve done a few Etape’s, Lochness being my best achievement, only 70 miles. That average 18mph is brutal over that distance. Hats off
Great vid again. Martinez....sponsors are coming...
Devil booked for 2023!
When I did the Dragon ride some years back the mountains didn't bother me, it was the last climb out of Neath that I didn't know about that seemed to go on forever and ever!
I was with Chris cycling to switzland when you did this - well done lad - Let me know if your ever up north
Ahh yeah I saw, bet that was fun… thanks man, I’ll do that! 🤪🤘
Didn’t make it past the ice cream van either! 😂
Life is too short to not stop at the ice cream van… 🤣👍
Loving the content. You don't tend to do bad videos do ya! looked like a hard ride that one but you smashed it out the park as per normal - when are you coming up to Scotland to do some rides?? also congrats on the partnership with Prime - it's all coming together nicely now isnt it.
I will be honest when I first stumbled across your channel I didn’t want to like your videos. Not anything against you but for the fact I don’t have time in my life for watching more RUclips and not ride my bike😂 But truth be told you definitely are producing the best content right now! You’re such a down to earth fella, I wish you all the success for this channel…..now upload another video as I’ve watched them all! 💪🏻😎
Ahh man, thanks for the lovely words… comments like this keep me doing this! Thank you! 🙏
love the intro music.
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Maaate! Those comments! 👌
Yet another great video! What editing software do you use? Thanks
GREAT videos buddy, you're truly inspiring many of us! Hey, what camera are you using when you're looking and speaking to us while you're riding? Thanks💪
so nice intro
Great content! Do you do any structured training or just smash it with your mates?
“I challenge anyone to do that hill and go past the ice cream truck” 😂😂
Good effort I did this ride and it was horrible!
I’m intolerant to dairy but don’t care 😂😂 great video once again
How many go pro batteries were required for this ride?
i once managed to do a 10 hour 300 km ride. true story, however it was entirely due to luck with the wind that day all i did was spin for 10 hours at a leisurely effort
Haha nice! We all dream of that… 🤪🙌
Sehr 👍
Heyy what's up men. Always watching your vids. from Philippines🇵🇭 ride safe always brother
did he make the intro song??
Wanna break 300 but less hill and more heat. Come to Seattle we have a 320 km ride.
I’m the same I can’t get my head around km I try but I just find Miles easier
Hi, i like your vlog. 183mi=300km. A long distance. I see your breakfast is rich in calories, but I want to ask you, in addition to ice cream, what is the supply along the way? You are really awesome. I'm sure I can't ride down. In Chinese, you are “牛逼”（It's mean awesome）👍. Like your vlog, like your bike, like your benz E, like your English accent.................................
Hey mate, out of curiosity, why do you wear maap gear?
Out of everything I’ve tried… it’s the best quality, style and fit… I won’t wear anything else anymore! 🙌
@@TheCyclingTattooist Thanks mate, reason I ask as it's an Aussie brand and didn't realise it'd be well known overseas. Cheers!
Hey what’s the best way to train for a sportive? If it’s your first one ever ?
Depends on the length… if it’s a long one like this, then work you way up towards doing longer distances and probably the most important would be getting your nutrition dialled in…
@@TheCyclingTattooist thank you 🙏 much appreciated all your comments and reply much love and respect ✊ keep you the posts enjoy everyone
Sponsors! Good sh1t!
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Anyone know what glasses our guy is wearing during the ride?
Oakley something?
Oakley Sutro 👍
Number 1 question ... how can u not eat the flake 1st 😂
“…I’m intolerant to dairy… but i don’t care…” 😂 another great vid! 👌🏻
He wore a skinsuit on a 300km ride?
He wanted to win… 🤣