Can A Super Climber Set A New Record On This Epic Tour De France Climb?
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2023
- Illi Gardner has more Strava KOM/QOMs on climbs than any person on planet earth… yes, that’s right, even more than Andrew Feather!!! With over 8,000 QOMs to her name, she’s still hungry for more! So, we’ve taken her to the legendary Col du Tourmalet, the most visited climb in Tour de France history, to see if she can set a new record up this epic climb!
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What other epic climbs should Illi take on next? 🏔 Let us know in the comments below! 👇
Jabel Hafeet
Come to Japan😊
Basically, she can go through whatever is listed as epic and iconic in any of the professional circuits.
A Lagunillas en el Cajón del Maipo. Creo que es un poco mas difícil que el Tourmalet.
Colle Fauniera from Demonte, NW Italy. Climb 15miles (24.7kms, 5560ft (1700m) up into beautiful wild mountain country, topping out at 2481m, max gradient 12.4%, 7% average and a Marco Pantani statue at the top. Absolutley epic. Took me 3hrs 05, (age 66!)
Ollie would be crying watching Illi riding with a parachute flapping in the wind! Amazing effort Illi!
Not to mention the loose jersey... 😂
I expect ollies maths on time lost
@@simonsepic Same. I come for the cycling content, but I stay for Olli's maths.
@@inz_uzi Dunno how small a jersey she would need for it to not be loose. She must weigh 40kg.
He'd still get dropped though 😉
External cables, rim brakes, shallow rims, regular bars, gilet flapping yet still an absolute rocketship! Amazing!
an amzing person - loved her unassuming nature - what a talent! Great videos as ever
i mean all these things dont rly make a diffrence on the climb
It’s a climb as trumps weight and stopping power doesn’t matter too much
Take that same bike on the descent vs a modern super bike to see the compromises
Not that it matters much
@@Alpenmagier As fast as she was going for a lot of it, a bit more aero would have saved her more time.
@@DaveCMcorny
Illi is so quiet and unassuming and completely awesome, would love to see more of her.
Yeah a female Andrew Feather !!
Great ride !!
Like an assassin, effortlessly stealing the QOM's!
@@gcn You don't steal what you deserve.
@@budbud2509 or is Feather a male Illi Gardner...
@@janetfischer9779
Excellent point !!
Feather has done a lot stuff with GCN and it would be a pleasure
to see Illi Gardner do more on this channel , Im sure there is a interest
in it .
In 2008 I climbed it twice. It took 3 hours each time (start in Bagneres de Bigorre), stopping 5 times on the way up to avoid passing out. I trained for a full year before doing it, using the Pendle hills, and I was still blowing outta my hole 😆chapeau Illi 🏅
😅😅😅. You are a legend 😂
I really appreciate GCN making an effort to show more females and female achievements recently. nicely done.
I would love to see Illi Gardner and Andrew Feather ride together. Either competing, or a social ride up a mountain. They would/could each better the KOM and QOM times of their own. Please, make this happen.
That sounds like an awesome idea! Sounds like one our presenters might take a pass on though 😅 In the meantime, why not check our Feather and some more of the world's best climbers in our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/KOM
Truly awesome effort Illi. Taking 4 minutes off the QOM is incredible! 💪
Yeah amazing effort , That east side is the hardest climb Ive ever done
( Etape du Tour ) there is always the west side and the Hautacam just down
the road , Hors category as well . The descent down the west side all the way
to the Hautacam is amazing
So impressive! If you want to know more about the Tourmalet climb, we made a film about it on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/Tourmalet
Thank you for the video!
Nice bike.. rim brakes.. no internal cables 👍
She's a climbing phenomena! I really admire how she decided she didn't want to be a pro racer, and now just goes and does these QOMs, obliterating the times of the fastest climbers in the world!
A true humble cyclist! Shall we get her back on the channel for more challenges!
She is a pro racer though
@@k1mfor she does hill climb races, but she's no longer on a team and she doesn't do any other racing. She wrote about it in her most recent Everesting blog post.
@@gcn definitely!
@gcn that's not even a question!
Insane w/kg! Imagine what she could do without a parachute!
Exactly the same would be my guess.
Would she have an unfair advantage without it? 😅
@@russellspeight5175that vest took away a lot of time
Flying without a parachute can be dangerous 🙃
@@veganpotterthevegan after 8000+ qom's I think she's realised it makes no difference.
Big shout out to Emma Pooley! I remember her Psychological Warfare video. Classic!
8060 qom’s and still humble in the way she wasn’t sure the record time would stand 😮😂
must be a boring life... I wish I had one like that...
It's quite the resume!
Great to see Illi. 8 years ago I met a 15 year old on an SJBC team ride. When I saw her ready to attack at the top of highway 9 climb I knew this was special. Great job, Illi.
Looking at the blokes face as she blasts past @ 0700! Priceless! What an awesome lady! Great video
Looked like he was standing still, great power
Left in her wake!
I imagined he was me because that'd be my reaction. Like... wtf yo, are you even human?
Massively impressive, she's incredible.
Illi is a machine and a very humble person!!
Rim brakes, 2x drive train…..I bet those are tubulars
old school, and yet so effective
Never been to Europe or ridden my bike up a mountain but I can imagine what it would be like to finally travel to Europe, ride my Scott Foil up a mountain and see this young lady just fly by me so effortlessly as I’m desperately looking for more gears 😂 what an amazing athlete she is, very inspirational. I hope I can climb like her one day 😊
So proud that Ilii represents Wahoo Le Col Race Team. Illi is a wonderful young lady, and her accomplishments are utterly amazing.
Great effort. It was good to hear Emma Pooley’s name again.
Incredible climb from Illi...she is one of the best climbers ever to the sport. And she smashed a very good time on this climb. Manon was great as the host!
Illi is a wonderfully humble person. I wish her all the best in life and may she do well in the sport she loves.
You have to admire the incredible mental strength of people like Illi & Andrew Feather. I myself find Cycling on the flat with minimal hills mentally challenging at times. But to want to take on these climbs let alone try & beat them is truly amazing 👍
i mean she is built for mountain climbs, she is painfully thin to be honest.
That was a stunning performance Illi!! And trimming 5 mins off the previous QOM...wow.
I would love to see Illi and Emma P ride the Tourmalet as a pair, taking turns to lead and draft. Now that would be something to see. 🎉
A QOM relay race... now that sounds amazing 🙌
@@gcn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Incredible QOM amazing effort, so humble would love to see more from Illi with Manon ❤
This was an awesome effort. Try to get Illi on more GCN videos.
On a separate note, the video editor(s) for GCN are incredibly good. The combination of great uplifting soundtracks, camera angles, etc; there should be a movie based on this climb. After watching every GCN video, I feel like cancelling all my appointments for the day and just go cycling.
That was amazing, she is one of kind. Very impressive, keep going girl, you inspired me a lot. You are fast and humble! 😊
Congratulations, Illi! Phenomenal job!
If Simon had been attempting this challenge, at 9:07 he would have turned around and grabbed a KoM for the descent!
Agree with the last post. Truly superhuman with her cape flying in the wind and nearly too big of a jersey. Faster yet with a skin suit. Fantastic work.
She's a climbing superhero that's for sure! Flying up the climb 🚀
Absolutely crushed it! She was so humble about it as well.
This is the video of the year. Thanks to Illi 🤘
Love this - what a legend! Such humility!
Awesome video and awesome effort!! Would love to see Illi and Manon take on some challenges together, or some epic rides!!
I love this. Thanks for sharing. Great talking about Emma as well
Amazing, what a incredible ride of Illi!
Also really funny to be the person who did reach the top of the Tourmalet at the exact same time in this video: 9:35 - 9:38 @GCN thanks for this shot!😍
Wow that was amazing. Incredible riding Illi. 🤩🤩
Good job Si wasn’t doing that attempt, the cow in the road would have stopped him in his tracks. 😂😂
Even if the cow was chasing him I doubt Si would've been able to keep up! 🐄
Not only is Ille an amazing athlete, she also managed to evade the wild animal attack at 9:09:-)
She made that look so easy. Wow! Fantastic effort.
This was great. We need to see a bit more of Illi and maybe with better production. Something similar to the production on Andrew Feather’s attempt at Alpe D’Huez. Chapeau Illi you absolutely nailed it.
What a beast of a ride. Illi is fantastic, and obviously an alien. 🙂Watching her zoom past the other riders had me laughing out loud.
Her climbing skills are certainly out of this world 👽 Where should we send her next?
@@gcnthe mighty zoncolon...
Great effort, Illi! Watching her dancing up that mountain with ease, leaving all riders effortless behind, wearing a parachute on an average bike, ant taking the QOM by more than 4 minutes is evidence for the unbeatable truth:
"The machine is sitting on the bike!" 💪👍
She is so humble! ❤
Illi you are a legend! That was amazing🎉
Wow! absolute machine. Hats off to you all, what a tough climb.
It certainly is a tough climb! Why not learn more about it in our 'Tourmalet' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/Tourmalet
Amazing effort!!💪💪
Omg illi this is awesome! So proud of you!
Awesome vid! Thanks.
Unbeatable effort awesome Illi brilliant ride.
Wow. What an absolute athlete. Looks to only weigh about 5kg but she can certainly climb like and absolute beast.
Any idea who come second in the Strava stakes and with how many?
I'm sure Andrew Feather is up there! Have you seen the film we made on GCN+ about his Everesting attempt? 👉 gcn.eu/8848m
Good to meet you in the bike shop in Argelès. We managed to do Tourmalet on the Friday, epic. @gcn
Love this and Illi is just amazing 🤩
British hill climb champ and lots of qom’s but there’s a part of me thinking strava segments or being a hill climb champ doesn’t pay the bills, she needs to get into the pro peloton and excel on those grand tour mountain top finishes!
Illi Gardner + Andrew Feather collaboration video with GCN would be absolutely awesome
Not sure the camera would be able to keep up! 👀
Absolutely astounding! She was amazing! What an athlete!💪🏆🚴♀️
OMG, thank you for introducing me such an incredible person!
That’s impressive, in 2019 that would have been a top 10 all time climb from the stats I saw on line (7th), with 1st being a 51min at the time held by a tour rider. Far out she’s fast!
Great effort We should see more like this. Well done
Have you seen our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+? Where Feather and some other of the world's best climbers attempt to take the KOM up Alp d'Huez 👉 gcn.eu/KOM
👍👍👍 The Tourmalet is absolutely fantastic
Watching this video makes me more excited to go out and climb some mountains!!
She would pass me like I was standing still. Definitely a watt/kg monster. Great job! 💪 4mins! Crazy
She's an absolute rocket! 🚀
Well done to the filming crew, the video was cinematic.
Awesome, imagine how much faster it would be with out the flapping vest. Exelent work.
Rim brakes FTW !
Hearing emma's name brings nostalgia moments. Special when she drops all gcn boys🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nice wahoo add
Well done that was awesome
Would love to know what bike she was riding and groupset etc
Incredible effort and with an open gilet!!
Incredible! At those speeds I guess further aero benefits could bring it to even higher stellar levels.
I reckon taking over 4 minutes off the QOM is good enough 😂
Did her open gilet help her in some way on the climb?
@@NUFCrichardsure, the Wahoo logo on the jersey was visible 😂
Absolute world class climber! Imagine if she got an aero setup as well.
Way to go illi! That was super impressive.
She's incredible!
Epic QOM, absolutely crushed it 🔥 🔥 🚲 🚲 ❤
is there a video about new tour de france tech coming? you guys taking a look at the newest bikes and the newest feautures? i remember seeing videos like this for the TDF... Great content as usual
It's wild to watch. Illi has no quads proving that even a climb isn't as much about power as youd think. It's still about cardio and how fast you can clear the lactate from your system. Her cadence is just so freaking constant, it's inhuman.
4min? Lord. She'll have that one for a long time.
She's so impressive!
Incredible! 💕👸🏻🏔️
She has the right tactics. If you want to be fast you must put in power above average when your speed is below average to minimize the time you are relatively slow.
At the speed she climbs it might even be advanteous to drop the parachute jacket.
Insanely impressove. Would be cool to see her do it again after an Ollie workover…. I think getting solid conclusive info on what works and what doesn’t is difficult. Eg. I constantly set my best climbing times on a ti bike with tubulars. Testing back to back. I think bicyclerollingresistance does not take into account the tyre deflection of standup cycling…? So many similar factors vary greatly.
What a queen! Chapeau, Illi!
Fantastic.... Loved seeing a climber of such ability. I am like the old man she passed I had to laugh at the pained looks one guys face empathize with him.
Wow, that was an amazing ride and how is it that we never have heard of her , 8060 QOM is beyond amazing
Why not check out some more of the world's best climbers in our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/KOM
Great video with two very pleasant protagonists.
You don't need a rocketship bike, you just need to BE THE ROCKET.
Awesome climbing!
More Illi please!
What a talent, love to see what Illi's VO2 max would be .
Wow, what an impressive performance and she looked so fresh afterwards, so unassuming but clearly a gifted climber...
Wow! Well done Illi 💪🏻🔥🙌🏻
9:10, Si's worst nightmare, apart from the climb.
La vache du tour
Two sponsors in the video. 1. Wahoo Bolt. 2. Parachuting dhb vest. I do remember only dhb vest :)))
Thanks GCN😊 , beautiful
Amazing ride! I know she said it was hard work but she looked so smooth
Effortless and cool. the sign of a great rider 😎
Thanks. She is awesome, amazing.
Outstanding effort
More Illi vids, please 😎💯👍
Awesome bike, surprised GCN didn't even glance at it.
Loved seeing a talented women rider!! I wonder how much time she would have cut wearing more aero kit. Future opportunity
Oh Manon long time no see, glad your still around
Congratulations 👏🏻 😊
Climbers have my most respect.
Illi you machine! Loved that 🫡
She was rapid!!! 🙌
Excellent ride. What is the fastest time going down that sucker?
2:37 dang, just looked up strava, segment ID is 1804776, Emma Pooley's record was set way back in 2014, took almost 10 years for it to be broken.
Sister in law is moving to Pau, so great timed video cheers!