Five times Tom Pidcock shocked the cycling world (before he was famous)
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2025
- Tom Pidcock is one of the most famous pro cyclists in the world, but what was he like before he was famous?
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If you weren't following Tom Pidcock in his early years, you might not have seen his meteoric rise coming.
So that you can join in the next time your friends are debating over who's the best cyclo-cross turned road rider of the generation, we're going to show you five times Tom Pidcock shocked the cycling world before he was famous.
Sit back and feel inspired by the rise of pro cycling's next big thing.
Whether you're a fan of Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert, or Tom Pidcock, there's plenty of cycling motivation for you and your friends here!
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Special thanks to:
Footage | The Tour Series
Footage | British Cycling
Photos | SWPix
That bike change though... Impressive!
Normal CX bike change but on road cleats
Smooth like butter
His support man even caught his bike!
What about the Ilkley crit when he was about 14. He won the schoolboys race, then won the junior race & finished in the leading group of the elite race all in the same evening.
We still have photos from that Ilkley crit! It was an incredible night of racing.
Tom is a true talent. I'd love to see him succeed more as the years go by.
Definitely! I'm sure we will - he's got a huge amount of talent.
Agree, but Tom Pidcott and his team must be diligent of the Belgian cycling world because since the world of cycling has evolved to be a true multi nation spot,i.e. ,SOUTH AMERICA ,USA,AUSTRALIA, GERMANY,GREAT BRITAIN,ETC.BELGIUM HAS LOST IT'S WAY IN CREATING A TRUE GREAT IN THE SPOT,AND NEED SUCCESS DESPERATELY, THEREFORE, TOM PIDCOTT BE ALERT FOR ANY BELGIAN SKULLDUGGERY!!!!
Bike handling skills are something you don't automatically learn on the road.
Watching this young British talent at having big successes in cycling shows me that this country has so many hopeful representers of the sport and their own origin. I think the world cycling is ready for a new chapter and we are lucky to accompany the change.
I was a fresher at uni in Durham when Pidcock won that round of the Tour Series. Remember going along to the race and being thoroughly entertained - didn’t realise just how meteoric and fast his rise would be at the time but it’s not surprising. That bike change was a thing of beauty
That must have been incredible! Yep - it seems like he could do anything at this point. Maybe a Grand Tour winner one day?
I've gone down a rabbit hole. I was watching a WW1 documentary and it mentioned the last Tour de France before WW1. I checked it out and 4 hours later I'm here haha
yep, been there done that
gone down that rabbit hole many a time, from super cars to super grans
Great compilation👌Watching this lad leaves me breathless every time😱What a talent, what a joy he is to watch🤩Just love him to bits🥰
Thanks so much and I couldn't agree more! 🙌 He's already one of the greatest British riders and he's only just getting started! 🤯
Pidcock flying down the descent at the 12th stage of this years Tour de France left me speechless. He was leaving his competitors in the dust left, right and centre, making up so much time! I wish I had even a quarter of his bike handling skills!
@@martinalubbing9655 A tenth would do me...along with only twice his bodyweight.
I love how he works his way up to first place, then burys the field!! Amazing confidence and ability!!
...and now Double Olympic Champion. Legend.
Yea.... He is not too shabby is he! Wish I had 5% of his skill. Can't wait to see him with all the rainbow bands
There is a non-zero chance he wins all the world championship titles in one year... That is mind-blowing! 🤯
i tend to watch road racing and I have recently started to watch cyclocross. What comes to mind is this...these cyclo cross guys, is it any wonder they can go from that discipline and dominate the roadies. I mean the immense skillset that the cx guys possess one of them being ridiculous amounts of core strength and another being mad bike handling skills to name a few it does not surprise me that they are knocking the socks off of the roadies. Plus I was absolutely hooked watching the CX guys go about their business.
Looking at him, you'd never imagine he could not only hang with but beat the likes of WvA and MvP. A tiny man with the legs of a superhero and the balls of a legend. I like watching him descend best of all. Fearless.
Great video. The presentation is brilliant. Great work
Thanks very much! I'm glad you like it. We're back in business after a Christmas break so more are on the way 👍 ^Owen
Apparently Tom's targets for the next 12 months are the RAAM, the Red Bull Rampage and BMX freestyle at the XGames...
…and UCI Downhill and Enduro
Great job mate. Really enjoyed this look back.
Cheers! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😁
Superb video!
Thanks so much!
watching him in the european championship mtb solidified it for me he is about to be a great!
Yeah that was awesome! And he started so far back in the field... 🤯 World Championships here we come 🙌
Tom knows how to peak his fitness.
An incredible mind for bike racing.
His racing knowledge is just top class - it really is another level 💪
Great video! I recently moved to Ilkley and it's great to see nearby otley hosting such a wicked race
Awesome! Aside from being a lovely place to live, the cycling community there is incredible.
Most unreal ending to a season...that and Greg and Gee's Windham finale..and Stevie Smith taking it in Leogang
I loved this
Awesome video mate, tom pidcock is a legend
Can't believe you left the skid out at the end of Durahm Tour series.
Yeah that skid was the icing on the cake and I would have loved to get it in there! Unfortunately our archive didn't have it 🙃 (I promise I looked for it!)
Arguably Tom Pidcock is one of the greatest and most complete cyclists in history.
Of all of that, the most impressive thing there was his bike change, that was insane
Great to watch, loved this piece. Who's the speaker (and author)?
Thanks very much! I (Owen Lake) wrote and voiced this one 👍
I fell out of love with pro cycling years ago. It just became, well, boring. Team radios, huge, dominant teams all seemed to suck the fun out of racing.
Pidcock is a breath of fresh air. He dares to make moves and has the skills to pull them off. Just really good fun to watch.
The cc said "tom bitcock". Well, that's an easy way to get a giggle out of me. 😂
Hahaha I'll have to go through that again 😅
2:50 ¡WOW!
What a weapon! Being so young the world is his oyster! TDF win one day who knows. Keep riding Tom :)
I loved the closing comments. Awesome vid
At 0:36, Is that Alex Paton from GCN in the white jersey and green/red helmet?
Yep! He was riding with Madison Genesis at the time - the British UCI Conti team 👍
If he doesn't win a GT , it won't be for want of talent, skill, fitness or desire. May he get that chance with a team supporting him
100% 👏 It looks like INEOS have a long-term plan to build him up for GTs
I am not sure, he hasn't really shown me anything that tells me he can beat the best GC riders currently here, nor the ones coming up, maybe in a low competition GT if he really goes for it. And he'll really have to improve his ITT, it just sucks now.
To me he currently looks more like a classics rider and stage hunter than a real GC threat, essentially like WVA when he isn't a domestique. He can prove me wrong in the future though.
I sincerely hope he wins the TDF but modern day history shows us that riders as lightweight as Tom rarely finish on the top step. 65-67kg is the norm
@@urbanjungle9600 Actually, isn't Vingegaard around the same weight?
@@dpcater You mean the short technical ITT that should suite riders that are stronger technically (like CX riders)? And in that case Pidcock also started in much better weather conditions.
So that TdF ITT wasn't entirely representative of his TT capabilities. And even then he finished 15th. So his best result ever is a 15th place with a lot of advantages in that one for him.
Great Video! Now I feel even more lucky to have a selfie with him! He is al legend
Nice! That is definitely one to keep a hold of 🙌
surprisingly, he won against PRO riders without backup team on him. he rode and fight on his own...amazing talent
He's such an incredible rider! Can't wait to see him given even more opportunities by his team.
What a prodigious talent - Pidcock has said he is going for the overall in this year's TDF. Wishing him all the best!
What an ABSOLUTE MONSTER!👍🏿
That bike exchange though!😳. Are you kidding me? WOW!
It's incredible, right!
give him a couple of year to grow into the sport and mature and he will crush world tours too.
That corner in Otley...ridiculous
Caught a glimpse of Alex Paton there
That bike change💀💀💀
He just went full beast mode 💪
Here's hoping Pidcock is in top form by Stage 14 of the Tour, and that he can stay with the leaders up the final HC climb of Joux Plane. If he can keep touch with the leaders, or even somewhere close, it sets up perfectly for him to bomb the descent for a stage win. Depending on GC standings and stage dynamics, that descent could see some crazy action. I could see Pogacar taking really aggressive risk to try and break the nerves of Vingegard if it's obvious he can't beat him on the climbs. I could see Pidcock bombing and Pogie trying to follow. Guaranteed excitement regardless of how it unfolds.
Please let there be a movie about his career at some point.
Last song name?
Great guy!
Hes win in Europe MTB XC just the past day is just unbelievable on how he dropped the 2nd and 3rd rider with qnd he won on a Hardtail
That was incredible! And he started so far back - he's on another level 💪
Not sure forcing Downing to crash should be included in his highlights
Looks to me like Pidcock came through very cleanly on the outside without touching Downing. Downing was inside and just freaked out, IMO, after Pidcock was already fully past him.
Резвый парень 👍💪🔥
Love him!
And how about the tdf when he slowed down for froome then the climb with the crowd , awesome 👌 already a tdf legend
No doubt the first of many Tour stage wins!
Yang dia pakai dari ujung rambut sampai ujung kaki itu meledak semua penjualannya 🤭👍
Including the fastest ever mountain descent in the Tour de France.
I think you can add the day start on 100 position on UCi MTB and finish on 5th . He finish with the flat tire
Unstoppable! 💪
Brilliant does not cut it for Tom....
Incredible! And he's only 23 years old 🤯
ABSOLUTE ROCKET THAT YOUNG LAD
who's here after Bianche
Just re-watching this every time Pidcock wins 😅
Ridley make sick bikes
A ryder fearless congrats... from Italy 👍
Yes! Thanks for watching 🙌
kinda off topic but all this Brit speech got me thinking, who thinks Harry's gonna try to kill William to try and be king?
pidcock is good but van aert and vanderpoel are on another level concerning cyclists coming from cyclo cross
Those two are incredible! We're looking forward to the next CX season 🤞
Power to weight ratio
well today he made shock number 6
The CX was a tough watch! Apparently he's not riding the World Championships this year...
Well his Alps de huez podium win last year is insane.
His win in XCC in Nove Mesto was nothing short of amazing!
*The XCO one was good either.
He will be a Grand Tour winner.
You know you are a very good bike handler when you turn faster than Ben Turner 😁
Haha so true! Ben's no slouch 😅
What about the dude who caught the bike
👌🤞
That Alex from gcn
He's a roadie with mountain bike skills, he's gonna be lethal.
Pidcock vs Sagan would be an amazing rivalry.
WVA and MVDP are currently the CX/road combo riders of the generation. They achieved so much more than him on the same age in CX, while usually mostly battling eachother. They were very dominant in CX by Pidcock's age and Pidcock hasn't really shown this dominance (even in their absence) except for some flashes here and there. The road is difficult ofcourse since VA and VDP really only went to it on a later age (+-23-24yo), while Pidcock has been in one of the best road teams since he was 21.
I personally also find it difficult to see how the crit circuit competition stacks up against WT road racing, to me it seems pretty weak tbh.
Something that I also found is that Pidcock seems to have matured earlier than others at young age. Which can explain why he was winning those races you mention on that age. You can also see this in his TT performances. In juniors he was really good at it, but then later with the u23 and elite he was getting surpassed in it by riders before being generally quite worse than him with the juniors. Now his ITT results really suck, which is surprising for a rider at Ineos.
Ofcourse he is still a big talent, just not the biggest imo. His best discipline might be MTB, followed by CX and then road. But he'll really need to concentrat one to achieve more, that or be happy with just being competitive on the road in the spring classics (like MVDP usually does).
Yeah the crit scene in the UK is definitely not as strong as WT road racing, even though it's pretty strong!
It feels that with another year and some more focus, he could be an incredible rider. Like you say, it's just about finding which discipline/races are the best for him to focus on.
What the fk, that bike change to win it
It was crazy, right?! He was so calm under that pressure.
what next? He has just won olympic gols in Paris!
LOOK OUT TOM. THE BELGIAN CYCLING WORLD HAS GOT IT "IN" FOR YOU !! ANY CYCLIST THAT'S A THREAT TO OVERDUE BELGIAN SUCCESS IN THE SERIOUS SECTION OF THE SPORT WILL USE ANY MEANS TOO SECURE A BELGIAN "TOUR" WINNER!!!
STOP SHOUTING!
That bike change forever won my respect for pidcock
MVdeP then Wout van Aert Then Tom.
패드빕숏 5부 입으셨네요 뒤패드 빵뎅이 거길 스팀 다리미로 뜨거운스팀 치이익 다려드릴까요
입은상태로 스팀치이익 다리면 따뜻할걸요
Superman move on the bike (abdomen on the saddle) caused me an inguinal hernia. Needed laparoscopic surgery and a mesh fixated on the inside. Just a point to remember.
2:09 rim brakes
The good old days! 😅
2:09 rim brakes on crap carbon rims
@@danieletognozzi7641 rim brakes, then.
@@russellspeight5175 on crap carbon rims, yes.
Aye, he's a good 'un, but he's no Beryl Burton.
Can you imagine how incredible she would be in the modern era?!
You wanna follow him when he drives his car!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
Haha no thank you! 😅
There are engines and then there are ENGINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🚀🚀🚀
'The Superman ' 6.46 now that's a screen shot
Yep! The perfect winning moment.
Small rider. Low center of gravity is a plus when cornering!!!
True! It definitely helps when drafting 😆
best cornering in the business
He's so small, no one can get a draft!! lol
He’s an animal.
As average as Tim Henman.
Poor old Tim Henman! 😅
Won an olympic gold today though
@@christopherspick5111 ah OK, that's my point.
cringey
I HATE the music
Sorry to hear that! Is it the style or would you prefer no music on these videos? ^Owen
@@monument_hq Hi. I prefer no sound under talk. Mainly because it makes no sense. Either you listen to music, or, you listen to someone talking. Both at the same time makes no sense, whatsoever.
@@oleromer9525Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! 👍 Still trying to get things like that perfect, so it's good to know.
Zu
Is Tom natty?
Most arrogant rider out there. Behave like he has VdP palmares since the age of 18...
That's a shame. Hopefully he can change your mind one day 👍
@@monument_hq only if he is tested positive like every sky trained british riders deserves since 2010
@@domdonald i fine but the world would be better without that kind of assholes
@@domdonald not juste Pidcock but the whole British doping program since Wiggins, Froome and Brownlees. Only his interviews are enough to see his ego going way toi big. The whole EU hates english People, enven Scotts and Irish do, at some point juste acknowledge you are morrons missing the XIXth empire
@@simonrano8072 everyone?
You're talking rubbish.
And now he is a meh gc rider
the otley turn is disgusting
your county is stuffed, but at least you've got an awesome cyclist.