How Hard is US National Championships??

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  • @grahamgilley1618
    @grahamgilley1618 3 роки тому +170

    Brennan squeezing into that gap just like he squeezed those flip flops into his socks

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Graham, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat? I am doing volunteer work to ensure teen cyclists are safe and to make cycling a lifetime thrill AND pleasure. Most cyclists have zero ethics or a conscience and make it unsustainable, by being total and complete losers.

    • @joshuasmith4315
      @joshuasmith4315 3 роки тому +6

      Protip: Don't try to squeeze a gap like that in cat 4/5.
      -A guy recovering from a broken collar bone.

    • @christophersinz3528
      @christophersinz3528 3 роки тому +3

      @@martinkent333 Martin, help me understand your strategy. You’re looking for volunteer input from cyclists while saying that “Most cyclists have zero ethics or conscience…” What outcome are you expecting here?

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому +1

      @@christophersinz3528 Karen, there's no needed for pampering - is there? One fellow told me that in Australia, the drivers throw shit at cyclists. In New Zealand the cycling community was so shitty that an Olympic Cyclist committed suicide last month. Yup. So I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition. In Vancouver Canada, weasels have taken over the city and province, so the insurance rates for new car drivers is around 5000 dollars a year. The Provincial Clerk stole truckloads of booze and bragged about it. I don't expect much from people. With one million dead in traffic accidents a year, it's a freakshow with losers vs weasels. OK. If you need pampering Karen, go to a spa! I'm sure you are a nice person, but deweaseling the cycling community takes someone. Anybody else want to play, "Spot the Weasel?" Kids deserve safe streets and communities, not death. In all communities, fresh cut flowers sometimes sprout on the side of the road, for the young dead cyclist. OK? I care!! Do you?

    • @dannymcgrath8197
      @dannymcgrath8197 2 роки тому

      @@martinkent333 shut up martin

  • @westsidewheelmen
    @westsidewheelmen 3 роки тому +129

    It’s almost confusing watching a good old fashioned free-for-all every-man-for-himself field sprint in the era of leadout trains and dominant teams controlling the last 5 miles of every race. Looked like the finish of a scratch race on the track. Refreshing!

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      West side, do you obey traffic laws, in town? Do you have time to chat?

    • @westsidewheelmen
      @westsidewheelmen 3 роки тому +3

      @@martinkent333 I’m sorry, what?

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      @@westsidewheelmen Ditto, I was wondering about your town and region. The pandemic sut down travel, so I'm asking cyclists online. Turns out Australia has a lot of drivers terrorizing cyclists. Oh My!!! How is your area? I am a volunteer for Conscientious-Autonomous Traffic Safety.

    • @westsidewheelmen
      @westsidewheelmen 3 роки тому

      @@martinkent333 Where in Australia?

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      @@westsidewheelmen I heard south Australia isn't too bad, but the rest is where some fellow was complaining - of folks throwing bottles from cars at cyclists, yelling at him from cars and "Playing chicken with cyclists."

  • @cameroncox5253
    @cameroncox5253 3 роки тому +144

    109 miles in 3 hours and 45 minutes is just madness!!

    • @chanito_nyc
      @chanito_nyc 3 роки тому +32

      Nope, it’s flatness

    • @geraldtone5914
      @geraldtone5914 3 роки тому +29

      @@chanito_nyc Nice, but to hold 27 for 4 hours isnt normal either.

    • @sknkwrksowner
      @sknkwrksowner 3 роки тому +6

      @@geraldtone5914 outside of pro level, most def some superhuman effort.

    • @Hugo-um8nh
      @Hugo-um8nh 3 роки тому +15

      Come to Europe we race that every week end

    • @sknkwrksowner
      @sknkwrksowner 3 роки тому +35

      @@Hugo-um8nh Wow. I actually forgot that "european" non-pro riders are capable of racing over 100 miles faster than 30 mph into a crosswind straight uphill for a warmup. It must be so great to be that guy. It must be really hard to have such limitless skill and not win their nationals. 🙄

  • @georgehugh3455
    @georgehugh3455 3 роки тому +86

    Awfully generous words from you, Jeff, for a teammate who just boofed you at the line (lol); but then again...Brennan was a monster all that time and "deserved it" (as announcers are so fond of saying).

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      George, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat? I'm doing volunteer work on Conscientious-Autonomous Traffic Safety and need feedback. Traffic laws only work on law-abiding, ethical and conscientious folks. So large cities are extermination camps, thanks to the city slicker syndrome of social negligence and the complete absence of civic duty. In federal capitals, traffic lawlessness is referred to as domestic terrorism. We shine!

    • @georgehugh3455
      @georgehugh3455 3 роки тому +11

      @@martinkent333 Not interested. You obviously have an Agenda, so any "feedback"/study would be twisted in its results to meet your ends. Plus, contacting participants through unrelated UA-cam video forums strikes me as a SCAM, much like the Identity Theft phishers and fake Investing "Advisors." Good luck herding your CATS.

    • @Fixin-To
      @Fixin-To 3 роки тому +3

      @@martinkent333 I can milk CATS if that helps?
      In fact anything with nipples.

  • @tylerlkenyon
    @tylerlkenyon 3 роки тому +15

    The guy "leading Brennan out" at the end was Brendan Housler (EVOQ) who your teammate Chris should know well from the Masters RR.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      T. Kenyon, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @michaelhusted3131
    @michaelhusted3131 3 роки тому +13

    Few have the stones to post power data along with a front AND back cam so serious props to you for that. That tells me you have an excellent chance of getting there.
    You aren’t going to like this but at 4:44 in video, when you cut to where you are, you’re waaay buggered if you’re looking to win. At 5K to go it’s everyone’s responsibility to have already found their teammates ahead of them and gotten organized, not theirs to wonder where you all are. If the order of you and Sam is wrong, that should have also been straightened out earlier.
    What in the hell is your teammate doing sprinting with 400m to go?
    A side note: Brennan was correct to go up the road with the break. You guys had plenty of riders left inside 1K. Was Cooper working for Brennan in the break? Can’t tell but it looks like he was and NOT attacking. Excellent job Cooper, if so!
    Anyway, Brennan’s been in that break and tried some stuff so he’s gassed but he’s followed a wheel for a while and so, when he looked over and saw you and Sam, he should have gunned it THEN to lead you for as long as possible, NOT for himself for 5th later. That was pure cat 6. And you should have immediately gotten on his wheel when you saw him. Hopefully you saw him.
    Anyway, like it or not, preferable or not, at that point you’re leadout for Sam and should not be threading needles or surging. The LUX guy is a junior, on junior gears, on the flat. Know your competition.
    Bike racers are SUPER sensitive. They don’t like being told they’re wrong. It’s a niche of a niche hobby and there’s a whole lot of personal bs packaged up but the best can recognize when they’ve made mistakes and can learn from them. This was pretty bad but you guys were right there and if you’d all have ridden it correctly, you’d have won. Easily. That guy leading Best Buddies was absolutely thrashing.

    • @jakedharrington
      @jakedharrington 3 роки тому +6

      "Frustrating, but we didn't work together as well as we should have"
      "You're not going to like this, but you guys didn't work together as well as you should have!"
      Good analysis though

    • @kieranbiggar9683
      @kieranbiggar9683 3 роки тому +1

      Sorry but were you in the race? Fucking armchair expert lol

    • @michaelhusted3131
      @michaelhusted3131 3 роки тому +1

      @@kieranbiggar9683 Look, I’m not trying to be ugly. It’s just disappointing to see a group with that kind of talent end up like that when they could have had the win and two, maybe even three guys on the podium. You think that has any chance against L39ion? Apparently, you do.

  • @haywoodstheman
    @haywoodstheman 3 роки тому +41

    I went to my first in person crit this past labor day, the GMSR crit in Burlington VT. To my excitement I saw a purple mike's bikes jersey, some guy blasting off the front and I was wondering if it was jeff, but it was Cooper! Guy was beasting it the whole race solo, so fun to watch.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Ryan, do you obey traffic laws in town? I am doing volunteer work and with the pandemic, find it hard to get info outside my region. Do you have time to chat about traffic law compliance rates in your town and region?

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Ryan, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @gabeh7655
    @gabeh7655 2 роки тому

    Those Enve wheels look so sick with the camera recording/video fps

  • @TolleyAlways
    @TolleyAlways 3 роки тому +15

    Seeing my mechanical in the final 300m on camera hurts

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому +1

      Chris, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

    • @TolleyAlways
      @TolleyAlways 3 роки тому +33

      @@martinkent333 Literally running a red rn

    • @fdjrd464
      @fdjrd464 3 роки тому

      do some anti doping controls , peace of drug dealers :D doping ppl

  • @billyduncan8269
    @billyduncan8269 Рік тому +1

    It my first time going to to be @one with my new team from my mom home town from Parkersburg west Virginia

  • @sleepcycle8032
    @sleepcycle8032 3 роки тому +1

    Thought there were no Pro's out there? Brennan looking on another level! Great video Jeff, looking forward to the next ones!

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Sleepcycle, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @chrisk3754
    @chrisk3754 3 роки тому +1

    Great footage and insight to what elite really means. Very cool.

  • @fugbisch6983
    @fugbisch6983 3 роки тому +66

    Thoughts at the finish:
    If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Fug do you obey traffic laws? Do you have time to chat? I am doing volunteer work, but find it hard to get info outside my region, due to the pandemic. How are things in your town and region, please?

    • @fredshino
      @fredshino 3 роки тому +2

      King Senna.

    • @hubbanonumbers
      @hubbanonumbers 3 роки тому

      Okay senna

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Fug, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

    • @Mike0
      @Mike0 3 роки тому

      ​@@fredshino​Senna said this to excuse deliberately crashing into another driver to stop them winning the race

  • @gfrizzleshizzlemanizzle
    @gfrizzleshizzlemanizzle 3 роки тому

    Nice!!! Shouts out from New Zealand!!

  • @darsweave
    @darsweave 3 роки тому

    Bummer that things didn't work as well as they could have. Hope it goes better next year! Great jams as always.

  • @davidreitan3609
    @davidreitan3609 3 роки тому +2

    Love that Chris Tolley pops up in the frame. It's like a YT cycling channel reunion.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      David, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @TheLogancoats
    @TheLogancoats 3 роки тому +1

    that EVOQ rider (green) is in my local crit series, he is beast

  • @DurianriderCyclingTips
    @DurianriderCyclingTips 3 роки тому

    Good footage bro!
    Was there some fingerprints on your lense?

  • @DrewKime
    @DrewKime 3 роки тому +2

    In a perfect world, how and when would you have made the decision to work for Brennan? And how would you make sure the whole team knows?

  • @road5ter86
    @road5ter86 3 роки тому +1

    So epic. Can’t wait for more!

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Road5ter, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @kidsafe
    @kidsafe 3 роки тому +6

    Matt M from Terun giving no quarter to the Bike Doctor dude at 5:12 - Hot.

  • @dubaicycling4900
    @dubaicycling4900 3 роки тому +5

    Man i'am from Middle East، and every day i'am waching you, ceep going👍.

  • @nathancusack6994
    @nathancusack6994 3 роки тому +4

    I raced in the 15-16 field the day before (got caught up in a crash and snapped my fork) . I was wondering how your Gopro lasts the entire race?

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Nathan, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @sytsedijkstra
    @sytsedijkstra 3 роки тому +1

    Awesome vid once again. Inspiring! I just did my first 4 races/crits. Problem is. I live in the Netherlands :D

    • @rolandfrerichs5625
      @rolandfrerichs5625 3 роки тому

      Why is that a problem? We have more races in NL than they have in the US!

  • @CB-ft9es
    @CB-ft9es 3 роки тому

    What bike bag do you use for travelling? You must have a good setup to get around the states for comps?

  • @bleskiven
    @bleskiven 3 роки тому +1

    What kind of podium are you working with?
    All the podiums I've ever seen were for the top three

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Emil, do you obey traffic laws in town!!! Do you have time to chat?

    • @bleskiven
      @bleskiven 3 роки тому

      @@martinkent333 I do obey traffic laws in town, and outside of towns and cities, yes.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      @@bleskiven Say how is your town and area. I'm doing volunteer work and because the pandemic shut down travel, I'm asking cyclists online. One fellow said that Australia, is a bit of a hotbed of drivers scaring cyclists.

    • @bleskiven
      @bleskiven 3 роки тому

      @@martinkent333 I live in a town outside Oslo, Norway.
      The infrastructure is mostly okay, and most drivers pass at safe distances. You do get unsafe passes, and angry drivers, but not to the point where I have been shouted at or threatened.

  • @shaunb93291
    @shaunb93291 2 роки тому

    That giant Russian dude on the Colnago on the Changing Diabetes team is 50+ years old....Igor....we raced with him in the Georgia Stage race....crazy to see him banging bars with the best in the last KMs

  • @angela-onesroman8873
    @angela-onesroman8873 3 роки тому

    Can't win (#1) them all ! Great effort, fun to watch ✌🏽

  • @mr._wattzon
    @mr._wattzon 3 роки тому +3

    After spending three laps in a breakaway, it hurt being caught at 5k to go.

  • @xaviersiow663
    @xaviersiow663 3 роки тому

    hi jeff can u post some unedited footage so we can watch it during indoor trainings as there is a lockdown in my country

  • @marcomon
    @marcomon 3 роки тому

    Have been cycling for 3 months now and these videos make me want to compete in bike races as well.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому +1

      Marco, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @jjjj041
    @jjjj041 3 роки тому +1

    Great race Jeff! Any update on the couch to crit season 2??

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Krombopulous, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @iqzibal
    @iqzibal 3 роки тому +1

    Hello Jeff, Iqbal here from Singapore. Great video as always. I have a question on your final sprint, could you have sprinted a bit more and pass by the white jersey and stay on the wheels of the front 2 riders instead? Would you think that would give you a better chance of sprinting for the national championship?

    • @chriswitek9455
      @chriswitek9455 3 роки тому +5

      if jeff could he would have. also the guys taking 1-2 are stupid strong, that far back with that much work to do at 1100m to go is a huge ask for anyone

  • @chrizzoriot
    @chrizzoriot 3 роки тому +2

    is this dante young in your back?

  • @stevenwoodruff2647
    @stevenwoodruff2647 Рік тому

    I see some CS Velo jerseys! love those guys!

  • @ezquiel700c
    @ezquiel700c 3 роки тому

    had to watch on 144p because of shit internet still looked awesome!! nice racing

  • @endeavour5316
    @endeavour5316 3 роки тому

    Wow great footage nonetheless
    I still learned a ton from it

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Endeavour, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @ecobritefl2884
    @ecobritefl2884 2 роки тому

    What’s size tires are you all running

  • @deeo4888
    @deeo4888 3 роки тому

    nice vid but whats the music i love it

  • @musicIVI
    @musicIVI 3 роки тому

    What did that guy do at :40 seconds in?

  • @HeavensentGojo
    @HeavensentGojo 3 роки тому +2

    Wow crazy race

  • @tommywarren7416
    @tommywarren7416 3 роки тому

    Man, I wish I had known that was happening so close to home! I only live about an hour and 45 minutes away from there. Sure would like to have seen that race in person.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      Tommy, do you obey traffic laws in town? Do you have time to chat?

  • @TurneyUK
    @TurneyUK 3 роки тому

    Took the sprinters line (there was no line but he made it fit anyway)

  • @Alan_Hans__
    @Alan_Hans__ 3 роки тому +1

    That wasn't a gap in my opinion. There was a bigger gap between my eyebrows and my eyes when that gap was slotted.

  • @alexbeamonte23
    @alexbeamonte23 3 роки тому

    What telemetry app is that?

  • @damiangruszecki7733
    @damiangruszecki7733 3 роки тому +3

    Jeff, if you don't look back, you're not a leadout man! ;-)

  • @Jalaljr-cs3jq
    @Jalaljr-cs3jq 3 роки тому +5

    Never been this early, just commenting for the algorithm.

  • @gersonFls7
    @gersonFls7 3 роки тому

    What is that song?

  • @ryan6465
    @ryan6465 3 роки тому +2

    Sprinters need lead outs, cmon Mike’s bikes!

  • @WebbSkee
    @WebbSkee 3 роки тому

    song during attacks?

  • @yousifalhajery
    @yousifalhajery 3 роки тому +1

    Does brennan have a channel?

    • @chickenleg123
      @chickenleg123 3 роки тому

      I dont know, but if you want more info on him, his name is Brennan Wertz

  • @joshuasmith4315
    @joshuasmith4315 3 роки тому

    Is it next season yet?

  • @MACfearsNONE
    @MACfearsNONE 3 роки тому

    Epic race!

  • @TheCyclesport
    @TheCyclesport 3 роки тому

    All in right there!!!

  • @dancelman
    @dancelman 3 роки тому +1

    ayy Dante Young @ 4:50

  • @tonyd6821
    @tonyd6821 3 роки тому

    I started to follow cycling since 1960 ....and NEVER in all these years I have seen a race
    where the cameraman show the back of the riders rather the front ....How like we are that
    such a things doesn't happen in Europe .

  • @facediaper09
    @facediaper09 3 роки тому +1

    I would have rode for Brennan.

  • @chimdegu
    @chimdegu 3 роки тому +1

    norcal cycling i love u
    algorithm

  • @tewaewae
    @tewaewae 3 роки тому

    thanks

  • @georgehugh3455
    @georgehugh3455 3 роки тому +3

    So Brennan's Secret is 32cm handlebars?

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      George, do you obey traffic laws? Do you have time to chat?

    • @georgehugh3455
      @georgehugh3455 3 роки тому

      @@martinkent333 See my prior answer, Marty.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      @@georgehugh3455 Public safety is of no interest to many. They shine with social negligence and when they get old, find the shit hit the fan and they marginalized themselves and the cycling community! No problem Mister Paranoid. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition! Mister Trump - GET THE COMFY CUSHION!!!!!!!

    • @georgehugh3455
      @georgehugh3455 3 роки тому +1

      @@martinkent333 You HARASS most of the UA-cam viewers of this channel with your inane and suspicious request (some of them twice in 4 Replies, lol), but get all flustered when someone actually responds to you with truthful and reasonable "feedback"? I'm sure your efforts will go far.... ROFL

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 3 роки тому

      @@georgehugh3455 Friend, your paranoia is only exceeded by your ethics. U R A Winner!!!!

  • @johnshaft5613
    @johnshaft5613 2 роки тому +1

    I absolutely cannot understand having a high-level championship road race that is dead flat. All you're really measuring is who has the best leadout/sprint. It doesn't really even bring into play the bike handling skills needed in crits.

    • @NorCalCycling
      @NorCalCycling  2 роки тому

      Breakaways were going all day, the last one wasn’t caught until the final few hundred meters. This race was very dynamic and not controlled by leadout teams

    • @johnshaft5613
      @johnshaft5613 2 роки тому +1

      @@NorCalCycling I hear what you're saying, but bike racing in the USA is already so crit-dominated and weighted in favor of good sprinters for a podium finish. When I hear "road race", to me it is pretty much mandatory that at least some moderately difficult climbs are included, to offer a different challenge that favors different types of riders. Admittedly though, that would certainly preclude the event from being held in Florida.

  • @gefloigle
    @gefloigle 3 роки тому +2

    3:20 - the dude on the fancy e-bike on screen left needs to get off the course. That’s cheating!

  • @laniernelson1019
    @laniernelson1019 3 роки тому

    Do any of you think anyone is doping in any of these?

  • @w4yland3r27
    @w4yland3r27 3 роки тому

    20% off stages?! sweet lordy!

  • @ianbent0n
    @ianbent0n 3 роки тому +1

    More like how hard am I while watching those power numbers :^)

  • @westsidewheelmen
    @westsidewheelmen 3 роки тому

    Oooooh it was hot that day.

  • @Wollythemammouth
    @Wollythemammouth 3 роки тому

    What a squeeze play.

  • @codebeginner1465
    @codebeginner1465 2 роки тому

    a buddy of mine would eat yogurt the morning of a race so he had bad gas. no-one would draft him. epic

  • @brandenalexander6038
    @brandenalexander6038 3 роки тому +2

    I dont care what number I am. Doing it for the algorithm 😎

  • @johnr8820
    @johnr8820 3 роки тому

    Who else loves bike watching on these videos?

  • @sanj-m
    @sanj-m 3 роки тому +1

    Not even the moto could stay ahead of attack #2

  • @matthewmeehan7817
    @matthewmeehan7817 3 роки тому +1

    Ahhhhh that gap is so small lol

  • @call_me_mado5987
    @call_me_mado5987 3 роки тому

    Safety Second guys because racing is first

  • @hmfic802
    @hmfic802 3 роки тому

    no yellow line rule, I guess...

  • @joshuasnajdar9474
    @joshuasnajdar9474 3 роки тому

    7

  • @_dv.99
    @_dv.99 3 роки тому

    🚴🏻

  • @ka_chxngzzz
    @ka_chxngzzz 3 роки тому

    jesus

  • @seeza
    @seeza 3 роки тому

    #brennannotnormal

  • @flipboifine
    @flipboifine 3 роки тому

    first one!

  • @felixegaran
    @felixegaran 3 роки тому

    5th

  • @thomaslee6206
    @thomaslee6206 3 роки тому

    Im early. Wow