The Best Vintage Super Bikes We’ve Ridden [2+ Hour Compilation]

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  • Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
  • Love vintage and retro bikes? In this compilation, we've put together our top retro and vintage bike videos from our catalogue just for you old-school bike enthusiasts! Watch us race legendary vintage bikes against modern superbikes, showcase our best retro rides, and take a journey through cycling history!
    00:00 Illegal Super Bike | So Fast It Was Banned!
    17:17 This Bike Changed Cycling Forever, But How Fast Is It Now?
    38:53 Can We Beat A Bike So Fast It Was Banned? | Lotus 110 Vs Modern Superbike
    54:22 The Bike That Beat Lance Armstrong - But How Fast Is It?!
    01:14:27 The Fastest Climbing Bike Ever - But How Good Is It Now?
    01:31:29 How Hard Did Cycling Use To Be? | Modern Cyclist, Retro Bike, Classic Climb
    01:43:18 Can A Vintage Superbike Survive A Killer Climb?
    1:52:28 50 Years Of Dura-Ace: From Outsider To Cycling Domination 🤝 In association with ‪@RideShimano‬ 👉 gcn.eu/Shimano
    02:13:05 Radical, Cheap, BANNED! | Did The UCI Ruin Road Bikes Forever?
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  • @gcn
    @gcn  Місяць тому +29

    Do you also love old-fashioned vintage bikes? 🚲🕰

    • @tonyBobb5209
      @tonyBobb5209 Місяць тому

      Yes! The perfect pub bike 😉🍻

    • @RSGSulldorfAltona-West
      @RSGSulldorfAltona-West Місяць тому

      Oh yeah, real bike-porn. 💖
      Next time 2+ hours "L'Eroica" pls.

    • @dieselscartalk4146
      @dieselscartalk4146 Місяць тому +3

      I'm a history buff for a lot of things so heck yeah

    • @peterwillson1355
      @peterwillson1355 Місяць тому +2

      That is an absurdly broad question. A Raleigh Chopper? A Colnago Master?

    • @rovillelooks221
      @rovillelooks221 Місяць тому +3

      I own 4

  • @reinholdachleitner2069
    @reinholdachleitner2069 Місяць тому +8

    The Hotta looks great,it's aged well but vintage bikes are awesome,they have so much character.💯👌🏻🚴‍♂️✌🏻

  • @craighoover1495
    @craighoover1495 Місяць тому +4

    I have been enthralled with "English Racers" since i was a child. Got my first one when I was about 13. Now at 68 I thought this quite the history lesson.

  • @SkyhawkSteve
    @SkyhawkSteve Місяць тому +6

    Still riding a few lovely steel bikes with Campagnolo Nuovo and Super Record parts. Fast enough for riding with my friends, and no worries about batteries running out of charge. I do have a 42 x 24 low gear to get me up the hills in style, though! (mostly 6% or less)

  • @charlesdufour9276
    @charlesdufour9276 Місяць тому +5

    Job requirements for GCN presenters:
    1. Must be a cycling enthusiast (riding and/or watching)
    2. Must be willing to travel
    3. Being able to hold a discussion while riding in Zone 5+ is considered an asset.
    Kudos to Si and Ollie for being able to talk while doing those climbs.

    • @87togabito
      @87togabito Місяць тому

      If you’re able to hold a conversation at z5, you aren’t in z5.

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому +1

      We're true professionals 👌

  • @07storck
    @07storck Місяць тому +6

    I still have my Hotta but I fitted mine w/Specialized Tri-spokes frt & rr.

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому

      Nice one! 👌 How does it hold up against modern bikes?

  • @Loremipsum555
    @Loremipsum555 Місяць тому +4

    The pantani bit nearly put a tear to my eye. Yes, drug enhanced, but also, a man fastest up a mountain on his own power. On a bike pre-electric and carbon. Never to be repeated, never to be matched. Legend.

    • @whatwelearned
      @whatwelearned Місяць тому +2

      What do you mean on his own power? You just said you know he was full of PEDs. Romanticising these people is so daft

  • @238949
    @238949 Місяць тому +2

    And again! Love these compilations , thanks GCN

  • @robertm1552
    @robertm1552 17 днів тому

    Great production, thanks for compiling it together!

  • @2857steve
    @2857steve День тому

    ahhh reminds me of the good ol days when you had to listen to make sure your chain wasn't rubbing on the front derailleur. also reminds me of those goofy Biopace Shimanos haha.

  • @ryanburican8216
    @ryanburican8216 3 дні тому

    Simon is winging about the 42/21 going uphill. I converted my Bianchi B.u.S.s single speed MTB to a 53/18 single speed road bike. I haven’t encountered a hill that I haven’t been able to climb yet and have covered over 20,000 kilometers.

  • @WendsH
    @WendsH Місяць тому

    Thank you so much for including my favorite in this compilation: Ollie on the Canning-special, exclaiming that after flipping the wheel his gearing feels 'positively MAGICAL!!' It's almost as lovely listening to his griping as it was watching Lasty's pain face.

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому +1

      Hahaha all classic GCN moments 🙌

  • @andrewl.3460
    @andrewl.3460 Місяць тому +1

    I love vintage bikes!

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому

      We do too 🙌

  • @andymerrison883
    @andymerrison883 Місяць тому +1

    Still love my Cervelo SLC-SL. A bit like triggers broom, all that remains is the frame and seat post. Everything else upgraded over the years. Shimano Ultegra Di2 now with Zipp 404 and Hambini racing BB.

  • @timetrialist
    @timetrialist Місяць тому +1

    Nothing is Hotta than this! ❤❤

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому +1

      Ayyyye! Nice one

  • @fredmcgough748
    @fredmcgough748 16 днів тому

    Sick bike!

  • @juliuscaesar4802
    @juliuscaesar4802 Місяць тому +1

    Midnight sleepers will looooove this

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому

      Turbo lovers too 😉

  • @robertchristian6910
    @robertchristian6910 Місяць тому

    👍and FIVE GOLD STARS!

  • @muhamadirfaan3329
    @muhamadirfaan3329 20 днів тому

    The cervelo I remember back in 2009 where I'm from there was a magazine that listed technological marvel. I remember the s3 was on it. I was only 9 at the time

  • @suhdud4646
    @suhdud4646 Місяць тому

    If I could ride or own any bike from this list it would be the updated Hotta and Jan Ullrichs Not Giant. Both are works of art.

  • @kevspss
    @kevspss Місяць тому

    My last bike was a Scott Tinley Tri-Lite, talking about antique. lol

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому

      Classic not antique 😉

  • @youraveragecat4802
    @youraveragecat4802 Місяць тому +1

    Dam, in early

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому +1

      Nicely done!

  • @timetrialist
    @timetrialist Місяць тому

    LOTUS = Lots of Trouble Usually Serious

  • @thefucrew9865
    @thefucrew9865 Місяць тому

    Didn't they say that it was a "Lotus 108" at the beginning, the call it a 110 later in the episode ???

  • @truthseeker8483
    @truthseeker8483 Місяць тому

    Why isn't someone making these today???????????????????? Looks like an easy frame to mold in Carbon..could be made in two halves perhaps?

  • @michaelmccrea5031
    @michaelmccrea5031 Місяць тому

    No cervelo bikes?

  • @wobbler101
    @wobbler101 Місяць тому

    I know I know nothing but I wish Si would wear gloves. First thing you do in an everyday off is stick your hands out. Sorry, mate but that's my view.
    Perhaps I've missed an earlier vid that suggests - like when being tackled in junior rugby - you keep your hands in and roll with it....

  • @cycleistic1365
    @cycleistic1365 Місяць тому +2

    Every bike from the last year or older than that are already retro which is a recommendation to upgrade post-haste. (Source: bicycle industry)

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому +1

      For you, at what point does a bike become "retro"? 🤔

    • @thefucrew9865
      @thefucrew9865 Місяць тому +1

      My 1970's ('73, I think) black Schwinn Continental (now with some 80's Aero bars wrapped in pink bar tape, with pink tires) is a "retro" bike.....
      While my 2019 (I think) Fuji Sportif LE 2.0 is a modern bike for me.
      (Because I couldn't afford a more costly or better bike at the time)
      Living in Chicago, you have to worry about getting "bike-jacked" (like being carjacked, but on a bike), or having it stolen from in the garage or back porch, so you have to be weary.
      The streets (constant potholes, cracks, damage, and debris) also are not conducive to steady riding.
      Traffic, is the same everwhere...except for Denmark.

    • @cycleistic1365
      @cycleistic1365 Місяць тому

      @@gcn When you can't get reasonably priced spares to keep the bike running, concerns mass produced bikes anyway, where extended life span is expected, to some level at least. Was potentially minimum couple plus decades earlier, but the derailleur hanger mess and proprietary components or designs have broken that a lot. Can be also when the shape and proportions of a bike starts to look more than couple of design generations back, but this is easily affected by perceived obsolescence aka bikes are changed intentionally to look different, so that the older bikes start to look old, goes with about any consumer products these days, from phones to cars to whatever. Old handmade or unique race bikes etc. are products of their time and the design biases easily render them 'retro' in an expert eye, when others may just see a bike that they may have never seen before and perceive it even the most modern.

  • @rdd6366
    @rdd6366 Місяць тому

    Si is soooo hot. Black color cannot hide it :) just saying

  • @zagabog
    @zagabog Місяць тому +1

    I'm sure this is a re-release, I've watched it before?

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому

      Bingo! We've lumped loads of our videos together so you can have the perfect background to your day 🙌

  • @brandonhoffman4712
    @brandonhoffman4712 18 днів тому

    The hotta isnt an antique, its vintage. 30yrs=vintage 50yrs=antique
    Though to the race inclined 30yrs doues feel antique.

  • @johnthompson5492
    @johnthompson5492 13 днів тому

    🤔Why is it that people make mean an unnecessary comments? Someone who may not be as "electronically experienced" is simply sharing what he believes may be interesting or useful to someone. Constructive comments are welcome, but pompous, arrogant and useless comments should be kept to one's self. They only serve to make others shy away from posting for fear of ridicule!!

  • @andrewsandoz8005
    @andrewsandoz8005 16 днів тому

    Barcelona=Barceloner

  • @pankratzrichard
    @pankratzrichard 27 днів тому

    You guys really need to find another word other than “However”

  • @lenwilkinson8541
    @lenwilkinson8541 Місяць тому +3

    I'm sure this is a re-release. GCN is on the demise.

    • @WarHammerWH
      @WarHammerWH Місяць тому +5

      Don’t you see it’s a compilation of pre-released videos? It even says so in the title.

    • @Cycle9568
      @Cycle9568 Місяць тому

      Summertime! Folks are on vacation.

    • @gcn
      @gcn  Місяць тому +2

      This is just extra content 🙌 We'll still be making the same amount of new content a week but we like to pepper in some spice for you all 🔥

    • @WarHammerWH
      @WarHammerWH Місяць тому +1

      @@gcn yes and keep doing this. Recently you posted a compilation of adventure/challenge videos that I rewatched in its entirety even though I had seen the original videos.

    • @robertm1552
      @robertm1552 17 днів тому +1

      👎 on comment; 👍 on compilation