Can? It's going to happen. You know he's not going to be thinking of anything else until that 20 minute itch is scratched... In under 20 minutes. Though will it be like the 5 vs 1? Are we going to have 4 videos or just 1?
Correct. They should have recognized that at once because 20:02 is very close to 20:00, which is a third of an hour. So the speed must have been very close to 30mph.
@@paddyotoole2058 Ollie is the knowledgeable scientist (chemistry PhD) they didn't have, a very charismatic presenter, and a front of the pack amateur cyclist. He's really a gem for a channel like this.
They can cover about 10 miles in about 20 minutes but ask them to divide their distance by their time and they're stumped! Still, Si did well to get so close to 4 furlongs per minute. Perhaps try again on a windier day.
Watching you two trying to keep it together every time you talked about "turtle heads" alone made this video worth watching. Great job, Simon! You will crush it next time!
Si never mind this type of video as entertaining as it is, what the world want to see is you properly train for a rematch of the epic 5 v 1 series. I think you could take them next time😉
Absolutely he can do it! I bet the wet roads cost him roughly 1 to 2 seconds per mile. Assuming the wind conditions are fairly benign, he has a much better than average chance of doing it. Can't wait to see part deux!
Well done, Si. Cracking effort! Hearing Ollie go through the numbers was interesting. I managed 19:51 as a junior in 1993. It was a TT bike but I do wonder about the drag coefficient. My skinsuit would have been baggy by today's standards. So it leaves me wondering what my FTP was way back then!? (Sorry to make that about me - I'm old and reflective these days as I'm too fat and slow. Reminiscing is all I got)!
How young where you being smaller and light can drastically put you in a very aero position compared to a full grown adult, even if the adult if fit and able 😅
@@taranhase4396 I was 18, 181cm, 72kgs. We were attempting to emulate Greg Lemond in those days, after he popularised "tri bars" in 1989. I had clip on aero bars, 50mm carbon aero front wheel, disk wheel in the rear. A decent setup for the time.
@@taranhase4396 Oh we weren't as fast as that back then. The "juvenile" (under 16) national record back then was....well actually it was set the same day I did my 19:51...20:13 (Ceri Pritchard*). The first sub 20 min ride by a junior was only the year before me (Richard Montgomery 19:59 in 1992, bettered by Chris Ball (19:48) and then Zak Carr (19:37) in the same year IIRC). I was the 4th junior rider to ever manage the feat AFAIK 😁Just little idea of what power I was putting out, as we didn't have such things. But the effort ought to have been good, as I won 2 national junior TT titles in 1993! *Ceri actually beat his own juvenile record in early 1994 with a 19:59. Weird how I can remember all these things, yet more recent things have gone from my mind completely.
Great stuff Si! Did my first 16km TT last weekend and from the photos my assumed aero position was nothing of the sort. This video is just the inspiration I need to improve!!
Si is a machine, he's well into retirement and he's still able to pull this off. 2 seconds off but the weather got ya. Next time don't listen to Ollie and check the news for weather report. 👍👍 can't wait to see a retry
Great video, so very close to sub 20 minutes! Lovely to see the fabulous Deb Sheriden of Warwickshire Road Club saying 'thank you' to the starter as she set off!
In the beginning...watching Si and Ollie chat....I'm thinking, damn, you guys have gotten in such great shape. Congratulations on that, not to mention your still delivering some great content in your videos...👍👍
Epic effort Si and well done to Dr B for his input too. It might have been interesting to have done the 10 mile as you were and then done it with the input from your in-house aerogeek. This way you just look like an aerogod from the start!
Well done, sirs. Great to see the one with the natural engine get help from the one with the natural brain. I'm happy to concede this as a sub 20 min TT, due to the wet road.
Well done, sir! We'll be waiting to hear about when you DO beat the challenge. You can do it! Shout out to Ollie for the science and data behind it all.
At 17:00 minutes into the video we see the precise moment when the TT bug bites. 29 years of avoidance obliterated in just 20:02 of riding :-) I suspected it was coming when Si said how much fun it looked at Chew Valley Lake a few weeks ago. See you next year, Si ;-) BTW, fantastic effort!
Brilliant effort, I love the fact you want to go back and claim the 30mph. Just one observation, the person doing the editing may be great at his job, but their maths leaves a lot to be desired.... 20m02s is 29.95mph, not 26.96mph.....
This. Who did the maths? It's so obviously wrong! 20 minutes = 30 MPH, but somehow two more seconds is over three MPH slower?! 21 minutes is walking speed?
I had just started cycling when David Akam set his nineteen minutes an 55 seconds competition ride on the G213. Cycling weekly did a report on the race and I remember they mentioned that the weather conditions were dead calm just before a thunder storm arrived. The only other rider doing those sort of rides then was Sean Yates or 20 Minute Yates as he was know to the time trialling scene then. 20 02 is still an impressive ride, well done.
This is great! Have a short club prologue TT for a short tour next weekend and due to my lack of power need all the watt savings I can get. I'm older and have terrible flexibility and long arms(span 4inches longer than height!) and legs so is even harder for me to get lower than most people. I got an event photo of this event a few years back from the side and my position was sooo bad! Head was up and I had a huge parachute of my open torso catching a great deal of air.
Totally 💯 well done 👍 I get the two seconds shortage 😩😩.. I have done that numerous times in QOM 🙌👍😊🤩… abs YES 👍… it’s a bummer having to go again .. I have faith Si that you will concur it 🚴🚴🚴🚴✅🙌
Well done Si! Although, on the video at 15:48 at first I thought the man must have started swearing instead of answering the question. It made me burst into laugh which was unfortunate, because I had mouthful of porridge at the time. Great video
saw this vid months back, it actually inspired me to try TT style riding on my road bike as theres a 5k flat stretch road between traffic light(just nice start-finish) here thats somewhat low traffic on weekend morning. Still new to road bike cycling(have long distance running background) and so far my best time is 7mins on 5k, 42kmh ave, solo effort . Si is doing almost 48kmh for 20 friggin mins 😱
so cool seeing my local favourite 10 on GCN 😁 and trust me, a dual carriageway is safer than a narrow A road for a TT. Now I need to figure out why I can only do 21:18 for 340w on my TT bike 😥😥😥😥
With a bit more luck with the weather you'd have snuck in under 20... Now you have to do it again 😉 Also that's a really good CDa. Mine, in the drops, and with my best road kit, is about .27 and I think of myself as pretty aero.
The extra rolling resistance of the wet roads absolutely cost Si an under 20 minute time. In the end, nature is going to get her way. Si got beaten by physics. There is no shame in that. Well done!
Or maybe some extra rolling resistance from using sponsor tires and not Corsa Speed G+ 2.0. Even using overshoes would help here, not to mention a disc wheel.
The sport's hardware has improved so much. Back in the days when everyone rode aluminum rims with 32 stainless steel spokes, even the "elites" could not ride 30 MPH time trials. The only exception was downwind/downhill courses.
No... Merckx in Mexico in 1970 or 71 won the hour record at 49km + I'm sure a guy like Bernard Hinault could do the same on a steel road bike on a short time trial like this
@@louismorel2001 No. The fact that you cite Merckx's hour record proves my point better than anything I could say. The greatest cyclist of all time made a superhuman effort (that many including Merckx himself say shortened his career) to ride barely 30 MPH. And to do it he had to ride on a perfectly smooth track, with specialized (for the time) equipment, and at high altitude to boot.
So close! Epic effort 😎 I need some pointers on how to keep my head that low. I broke my C7 vertebrae (similar to Si I believe) a couple of years ago and now really struggle to hold my head that low and still see anything at all!
Would you like a push off... ...Yes please, just the first 15k, ta Great effort bud, that would be hard for me on my e-MTB, well done Don't beat yourself up, 20.02 minutes for 10 miles is amazing
Awesome video guys! Ollie is super knowledgeable and Si is super fast. Btw, please tell me that this shot of Si riding up was like 5-10 min after he was finished @15:53 ...if that were me, I'd be on ground recovering for 10 minutes before I could talk!
Really nice video! If you raise your head 1 cm above the body, and the head is around 15 cm across, and a sphere (head) has a Cd = 0.5, and rho = 1.2 kg/m^3, then that's +1 watt @ 30 mph, so the penalty is around 1 watt / cm. I think the helmet vents did you in, though :).
Shaved legs is surprising. According to Specialized in their wind tunnel, shaving legs saved almost 1 and 1/2 minute over 40 km. I wouldn't have guessed it would be that much. Granted, it is at speeds I probably cannot maintain for 40 km. Anyway, you did a great job. You were faster than people on dedicated TT bikes.
Really enjoyed this video. While watching it I wondered if the pit bull dog that went after my front wheel and caused me to crash last week (at 15.6 mph) would have caught me at 30 mph. Not that I will ever approach that speed on level ground LOL.
People are going on about the weather in a negative way a lot but it was spot on, a warm, near windless summers day with a low pressure system and plenty of cloud on a busy smooth sufaced dual carriageway is as good a scenario you'll get for a fast time in the UK.
Can we all take a moment and pay our respects to Dr. Bridgewood for his academic accomplishments ie PhD in Chemistry, and his cycling accomplishment of riding 47.593 km in one hour.
I love how you Brits use miles because although we Americans get slammed for not using the "Metric System'", the fact is that "mile" is one syllable and "Ki - Lo - Me - Ter" is 4 syllables. Try another - Cen - Ti - Me - Ter or Inch. Try more, quart, pint, foot, ounce.... And how often do you convert Centimeters to Meters - the GREAT feature of metric system - NEVER, LOL! I'm glad you Brits hold on to the one syllable past! Great Video!
No offence ment, only a witty long format comment, laughters intended: Thank you Gloucestershire cycling network for ever entertaining formidable content, well done lightning Si, Imperial is what it sounds like, it’s making people ride on the wrong side of the road with wrong side shifters, not adhering to metrics, side conventions as an attempt to close an empire and colonies to open market standards and ease of circulation. We like and appreciate all regional singularity form Gloucestershire and imperial Britania, Banksy, dan’s hair defiying the years, bromptons, keep up with great content and global ambitions regardless of the side of the road you ride on, could you please provide the rest of the non comonwealth parts of the globe imperial to metric subtitles in similar tittles ? Best witty regards
Do you think Si can break the 20-minute barrier? Let us know in the comments 👇
Can? It's going to happen. You know he's not going to be thinking of anything else until that 20 minute itch is scratched... In under 20 minutes. Though will it be like the 5 vs 1? Are we going to have 4 videos or just 1?
The on-screen graphic shows 26.96 MPH which would have been a time of 22mins 10sec 😉 20:02 is pretty much a rounding error. Well done Si.
Yes!
Yeah he just needs narrowbars!
You haven't but, when they say ""20: 0 2" it's so nice to see that absolutely feeling on your face!
19 minutes and 62 seconds... no problem!
Nice one Mark, That one should get you a GCN water bottle
Man...I like how you think!
😂😂
@Bill Aldous why were ya reading the comments then 🤔 first thing I did was go full screen and saved the comments until I watched it 😉😆
Thanks for the spoiler
*10 TT's later
Ollie: "can I have my bike back?"
Si : "nah mate 1 more week I'm so close"
Lucky Ollie already got that f, f13? f14? fwhateveryouknow
@@PHHE1 Sir Velo
20:02 is 29.96mph , not 26.96mph. That is so fast on a road bike though, Ollie only did 7 seconds faster on an all out super TT setup. Si was flying
Correct. They should have recognized that at once because 20:02 is very close to 20:00, which is a third of an hour. So the speed must have been very close to 30mph.
These two are strong as presenters! GCN has struck gold hope they realise how rare that can be! Good to see.
Si yes, Ollie no.
@@paddyotoole2058 😧
@@paddyotoole2058 Ollie is the knowledgeable scientist (chemistry PhD) they didn't have, a very charismatic presenter, and a front of the pack amateur cyclist. He's really a gem for a channel like this.
@@paddyotoole2058 I like Ollie
@@paddyotoole2058 Ollie is actually an amazing presenter and awesome dude. Don't know how anyone could not like him.
Well done Si, I reckon that the changeable weather cost you a couple of seconds. If it was perfectly dry you would have done it I think.
Absolutely. Wet road is roughly 10-15watts lost.
No, it still doesn't count.
@@matthewbaynham6286 who said it does?
I would have waited for a 40 mph tail wind.
@@jsmariani4180 Unfortunately the course was and "out and back" so a 40mph tailwind on start would have been a 40mph headwind on the finish.
26.96? Do you mean 29.96? Well done Si. To ride that blind is even more epic.
10 miles / (20*60 + 2) seconds converted back to hours is 29.95008. Little sloppy editing GCN
Oh the other hand, I would like to gain three miles an hour by taking 2 seconds off of my 10mile TT(if their math would have been correct).
They can cover about 10 miles in about 20 minutes but ask them to divide their distance by their time and they're stumped!
Still, Si did well to get so close to 4 furlongs per minute.
Perhaps try again on a windier day.
Yeah, that was a bit rough, stealing 3 mph from him!
Yah it's 29.96.
Watching you two trying to keep it together every time you talked about "turtle heads" alone made this video worth watching. Great job, Simon! You will crush it next time!
These two are very naturally funny and it makes for great content, love that they are knowledgeable too! Cheers from Canada
Si, Well done! That is very impressive. 2 seconds to the headwind.
Ollie, Spoken like a scientist. "Can't put a number on it without testing it"
Turtle head is probably the best metaphor for my own TT abilities 💩!
Well done Si, terrific effort!
"Just looks like he's going to the shops" - me on every ride ever 😂
Honestly, is there any other way to ride?
Honestly, probably best if people think that's the reason I'm thinking so slow, means I'm hiding the pain efficiently
Ollie's right though...you think you're aero until the ride/event photos come back and you look like a giraffe!
Si never mind this type of video as entertaining as it is, what the world want to see is you properly train for a rematch of the epic 5 v 1 series. I think you could take them next time😉
Absolutely he can do it! I bet the wet roads cost him roughly 1 to 2 seconds per mile. Assuming the wind conditions are fairly benign, he has a much better than average chance of doing it. Can't wait to see part deux!
Well done, Si. Cracking effort!
Hearing Ollie go through the numbers was interesting. I managed 19:51 as a junior in 1993. It was a TT bike but I do wonder about the drag coefficient. My skinsuit would have been baggy by today's standards.
So it leaves me wondering what my FTP was way back then!?
(Sorry to make that about me - I'm old and reflective these days as I'm too fat and slow. Reminiscing is all I got)!
How young where you being smaller and light can drastically put you in a very aero position compared to a full grown adult, even if the adult if fit and able 😅
@@taranhase4396 I was 18, 181cm, 72kgs. We were attempting to emulate Greg Lemond in those days, after he popularised "tri bars" in 1989. I had clip on aero bars, 50mm carbon aero front wheel, disk wheel in the rear. A decent setup for the time.
@@Bikejon that's a very good effort 😁💪 I thought you did this in your young teens
@@taranhase4396 Oh we weren't as fast as that back then. The "juvenile" (under 16) national record back then was....well actually it was set the same day I did my 19:51...20:13 (Ceri Pritchard*). The first sub 20 min ride by a junior was only the year before me (Richard Montgomery 19:59 in 1992, bettered by Chris Ball (19:48) and then Zak Carr (19:37) in the same year IIRC). I was the 4th junior rider to ever manage the feat AFAIK 😁Just little idea of what power I was putting out, as we didn't have such things. But the effort ought to have been good, as I won 2 national junior TT titles in 1993! *Ceri actually beat his own juvenile record in early 1994 with a 19:59.
Weird how I can remember all these things, yet more recent things have gone from my mind completely.
Oh, that was so close. My goodness. Well done attempt Sy. Raw emotion on GCN. You put it all out on the line. GOOD ON YOU!
That is a really impressive effort! A tiny bit of experience and you will crush the 20 minute mark.
Great stuff Si! Did my first 16km TT last weekend and from the photos my assumed aero position was nothing of the sort. This video is just the inspiration I need to improve!!
Si is a machine, he's well into retirement and he's still able to pull this off. 2 seconds off but the weather got ya. Next time don't listen to Ollie and check the news for weather report. 👍👍 can't wait to see a retry
Would have been nice for Monmouthshire Wheelers CC to get a mention in the video, afterall we did run the event.
Great video, so very close to sub 20 minutes! Lovely to see the fabulous Deb Sheriden of Warwickshire Road Club saying 'thank you' to the starter as she set off!
I sometimes think I'm tucked in like a human bullet, then I see my reflection and realise I'm pretty much vertically upright 😂
Nicely done Si, you gave your soul on it and that the most rewarding to me as a viewer! Thank you very much for the inspiration !
Next GCN merch drop needs a "Turtle head" t-shirt with optional caricatures of Ollie or Si as the turtle! 🐢
Needs to be a turtleneck sweater.
".....like a frightened turtle!" G. Costanza
In the beginning...watching Si and Ollie chat....I'm thinking, damn, you guys have gotten in such great shape. Congratulations on that, not to mention your still delivering some great content in your videos...👍👍
How good was Ollies algorithm 7secs off!
Ollie's the Man, there is a little bit of Ollie in all of us.
probably attribute that to the conditions too
Epic effort Si and well done to Dr B for his input too. It might have been interesting to have done the 10 mile as you were and then done it with the input from your in-house aerogeek. This way you just look like an aerogod from the start!
Well done, sirs. Great to see the one with the natural engine get help from the one with the natural brain. I'm happy to concede this as a sub 20 min TT, due to the wet road.
You can see it hit Si like a punch in the gut, props for the effort!
Well done, sir! We'll be waiting to hear about when you DO beat the challenge. You can do it! Shout out to Ollie for the science and data behind it all.
At 17:00 minutes into the video we see the precise moment when the TT bug bites. 29 years of avoidance obliterated in just 20:02 of riding :-)
I suspected it was coming when Si said how much fun it looked at Chew Valley Lake a few weeks ago. See you next year, Si ;-)
BTW, fantastic effort!
Well done Si! That was an impressive effort. In dry conditions you would have smashed it easily👍
"and that's with a good head?" OMFG I just spit out my drink laughing so hard at Ollie's face!
Well done Simon! That was epic! Fantastic pace for any bike, but on a road bike..it was extremely impressive!!!👍🏻👌🏻
Classic statement after EVERY time trial I've ever done - "let's do it again next week, shall we?" - to beat own time. G'on Si! You can do it!
Excellent work Si and Ollie. Loved the show. Inspired me to go out and try the same thing.
Wet road is a big drag! Do it again on dry road with same power it’ll probably be less than 19:50. Congratulations Si! 💪🏼
Well do Si on such a great effort. The damp road conditions probably lost you a few secs, but be proud of what you achieved
Slightly damp road actually makes you faster as long as you don't hit the puddles. Lowers rolling resistance noticeably.
Good form Si. Continue to ride to the level of your smile. 🚴♂️😃
Brilliant effort, I love the fact you want to go back and claim the 30mph.
Just one observation, the person doing the editing may be great at his job, but their maths leaves a lot to be desired.... 20m02s is 29.95mph, not 26.96mph.....
This. Who did the maths? It's so obviously wrong! 20 minutes = 30 MPH, but somehow two more seconds is over three MPH slower?! 21 minutes is walking speed?
Should've just gone with metric. Imperial is aids.
@@pigupigu because you suck at math?
@@jeffmarkle4576 It's mathS ;-)
@@brakesmadly Math* and it's both singular and plural like deer.
Love Ollie getting some back after all the stirring over getting dropped, lucky he's a good sport.
Everyone talking about Si but as a numbers kind of guy I really like Ollie explaining all the math behind Si's attempt.
Well done Si great job on the ride and showing us the preparation needed by every time trial rider.
Beautifully shot and produced/edited video, GCN crew. Could have added five or ten more minutes of this video and I would have loved it.
I wanna see Ollie give it a try on the F12. They are my favorite presenters. Gotta give Manon done love she is my absolute favorite presenter.
Thanks for all your great videos. Really enjoy your productions.
370W for 20 min. would be something I would be absolutely stoked to pull off…
Just for you Si! That's really impressive pacing, riding blind. Well done.
Funny, well presented and one hell of a ride!
I'd say Si, you did it. It's barely over 20 and it isn't 21. It's done in 20 minutes which is a great feat. Good job
Beautiful pinarello rim brake incredible effort well done.
I had just started cycling when David Akam set his nineteen minutes an 55 seconds competition ride on the G213. Cycling weekly did a report on the race and I remember they mentioned that the weather conditions were dead calm just before a thunder storm arrived. The only other rider doing those sort of rides then was Sean Yates or 20 Minute Yates as he was know to the time trialling scene then. 20 02 is still an impressive ride, well done.
This is great! Have a short club prologue TT for a short tour next weekend and due to my lack of power need all the watt savings I can get. I'm older and have terrible flexibility and long arms(span 4inches longer than height!) and legs so is even harder for me to get lower than most people. I got an event photo of this event a few years back from the side and my position was sooo bad! Head was up and I had a huge parachute of my open torso catching a great deal of air.
Cried with laughter. What a double act. Top notch.
Totally 💯 well done 👍 I get the two seconds shortage 😩😩.. I have done that numerous times in QOM 🙌👍😊🤩… abs YES 👍… it’s a bummer having to go again .. I have faith Si that you will concur it 🚴🚴🚴🚴✅🙌
Cheers! Great video!
I wish I could go that speed once (not very likely to ever happen)...
Well done Si! Although, on the video at 15:48 at first I thought the man must have started swearing instead of answering the question. It made me burst into laugh which was unfortunate, because I had mouthful of porridge at the time. Great video
saw this vid months back, it actually inspired me to try TT style riding on my road bike as theres a 5k flat stretch road between traffic light(just nice start-finish) here thats somewhat low traffic on weekend morning.
Still new to road bike cycling(have long distance running background) and so far my best time is 7mins on 5k, 42kmh ave, solo effort .
Si is doing almost 48kmh for 20 friggin mins 😱
Brilliant, really enjoyed this video you will definitely get it next time ❤️🚴💯
10 miles in 20.02 is 29.950 mph average surely!
29.97 mph actually. The rain is what stopped him getting it.
Yeah, I think they messed up the calculations
@@neildaniel8232 29.9501 actually #pedantrymatters
@@pauldolphin7961 👍👍🚴
@@pauldolphin7961 True pedantry would be 18000/601 mph ;P
Well done Speedy Si 👏, thats an amazing effort/time. Legend 🙌
Another great video.. and THANKS VERY MUCH for mentioning Denmark, at last...
so cool seeing my local favourite 10 on GCN 😁 and trust me, a dual carriageway is safer than a narrow A road for a TT. Now I need to figure out why I can only do 21:18 for 340w on my TT bike 😥😥😥😥
Sounds like you have a pretty slow course, I've done similar time to you on a fast course with only 316w
@@cornishalps9870 R10/17 and R10/22a, both flat dual carriageways. I'm 86kg and 184cm so my w/kg is low for my output
5:02 Their bike has little rubber sticks on the tyres cutting these off would be these an easy aero gain.
Still so proud of you Si! Still amazing. I blame the weather and nerves.
With a bit more luck with the weather you'd have snuck in under 20... Now you have to do it again 😉
Also that's a really good CDa. Mine, in the drops, and with my best road kit, is about .27 and I think of myself as pretty aero.
The extra rolling resistance of the wet roads absolutely cost Si an under 20 minute time. In the end, nature is going to get her way. Si got beaten by physics. There is no shame in that. Well done!
Or maybe some extra rolling resistance from using sponsor tires and not Corsa Speed G+ 2.0. Even using overshoes would help here, not to mention a disc wheel.
@@666Dejmien666 aren't disk wheels not allowed on Road Racing?
A big salute to you Si. That's amazing.
The sport's hardware has improved so much. Back in the days when everyone rode aluminum rims with 32 stainless steel spokes, even the "elites" could not ride 30 MPH time trials. The only exception was downwind/downhill courses.
No... Merckx in Mexico in 1970 or 71 won the hour record at 49km +
I'm sure a guy like Bernard Hinault could do the same on a steel road bike on a short time trial like this
@@louismorel2001 No. The fact that you cite Merckx's hour record proves my point better than anything I could say. The greatest cyclist of all time made a superhuman effort (that many including Merckx himself say shortened his career) to ride barely 30 MPH. And to do it he had to ride on a perfectly smooth track, with specialized (for the time) equipment, and at high altitude to boot.
So close! Epic effort 😎
I need some pointers on how to keep my head that low. I broke my C7 vertebrae (similar to Si I believe) a couple of years ago and now really struggle to hold my head that low and still see anything at all!
Would you like a push off...
...Yes please, just the first 15k, ta
Great effort bud, that would be hard for me on my e-MTB, well done
Don't beat yourself up, 20.02 minutes for 10 miles is amazing
07:13 "U wanna feel like a turtle 🐢 head emerging"💥 - Best aero metaphor, Boom!
Awesome video guys! Ollie is super knowledgeable and Si is super fast. Btw, please tell me that this shot of Si riding up was like 5-10 min after he was finished @15:53 ...if that were me, I'd be on ground recovering for 10 minutes before I could talk!
Really nice video! If you raise your head 1 cm above the body, and the head is around 15 cm across, and a sphere (head) has a Cd = 0.5, and rho = 1.2 kg/m^3, then that's +1 watt @ 30 mph, so the penalty is around 1 watt / cm. I think the helmet vents did you in, though :).
Shaved legs is surprising. According to Specialized in their wind tunnel, shaving legs saved almost 1 and 1/2 minute over 40 km. I wouldn't have guessed it would be that much. Granted, it is at speeds I probably cannot maintain for 40 km. Anyway, you did a great job. You were faster than people on dedicated TT bikes.
I did my first time trial last week, on a gravel bike. Averaged 20% watts more than my minute man but 4.5mph less ave speed. Aero matters!
Also w/kg, depending on the weight!
@@benjamindejarnette5714 aero and weight matters. Though on a flat course it's mostly just aero. And pacing. Aero, w/kg and pacing matters.
Three things: aero, weight, pacing. And mental fortitude.
Four things!
@@dannywilliams23 4 things: aero, weight, pacing and mental fortitude. And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Oh, and nice socks.
This feels like the GCN equivalent of Sabine Schmitz’s “I can do that time in a van”
Nice reference!
Sad that she isn't with us anymore. 😪
I guess it was the sticker 😁 We love Ollie 💙
GR8 effort Si with practically no practice. I'm sure you'll do it nxt time👍
Really enjoyed this video. While watching it I wondered if the pit bull dog that went after my front wheel and caused me to crash last week (at 15.6 mph) would have caught me at 30 mph. Not that I will ever approach that speed on level ground LOL.
Nicely done. That 2 seconds is 0.16% off the goal of 20 minutes. Still rounds up to 30.0 with three significant digits.
the calculated speed is wrong @17:09
People are going on about the weather in a negative way a lot but it was spot on, a warm, near windless summers day with a low pressure system and plenty of cloud on a busy smooth sufaced dual carriageway is as good a scenario you'll get for a fast time in the UK.
Good head and turtle head. For a second I wondered if I was on the right channel! Well done lads great vid. Oh that doesn't sound right 😂
Chin up, Si. That was a very impressive effort indeed. Every credit to you.
Thanks to Si talking about "pulling the short straw" now I have suspicion about Hank cutting his own straw.
Great video. You guys are great 👍
Well done, Si. Nice Pinarello 12. I've got the F8
I would really love to see what Si could do if fully kitted out with latest tt bike, kit and a block of tt specific training. :)
I thought SI was a modern form of the Metric unit system. However, I didn't realise SI is also the unit for 2 Seconds. 😂
Can we all take a moment and pay our respects to Dr. Bridgewood for his academic accomplishments ie PhD in Chemistry, and his cycling accomplishment of riding 47.593 km in one hour.
they're so gatdamn funny "I don't wanna think about turtle heads right now Ollie" 7:16
I felt that reveal. You should be jolly proud.... But 2 seconds? OCD clench.
I love how you Brits use miles because although we Americans get slammed for not using the "Metric System'", the fact is that "mile" is one syllable and "Ki - Lo - Me - Ter" is 4 syllables. Try another - Cen - Ti - Me - Ter or Inch. Try more, quart, pint, foot, ounce.... And how often do you convert Centimeters to Meters - the GREAT feature of metric system - NEVER, LOL! I'm glad you Brits hold on to the one syllable past! Great Video!
Refusing to live in the real world, I see........ you'll regret it down the line. Don't be a laughing stock
.02 is both hell and inspirational at the same time… well done Si
Bloody marvellous effort ... but we know that Si can't resist another crack at it.
I can imagine quite a few owners of similarly priced and specced equipment getting the excuses out as to why they can't come close.
Or riding TT rigs and still not getting close.
370W FTP is professional level. I went up to 315-320 one season. Adding 50w to that, i don't think i ever could no matter how much i trained.
That is mighty impressive on a road bike! Amazing!!
Awesome ride. 30mph Well Done.
If I want pure speed, I would go for the motorbike...the reason why I love cycling is that I just want to ride my bike!
No offence ment, only a witty long format comment, laughters intended:
Thank you Gloucestershire cycling network for ever entertaining formidable content, well done lightning Si,
Imperial is what it sounds like, it’s making people ride on the wrong side of the road with wrong side shifters, not adhering to metrics, side conventions as an attempt to close an empire and colonies to open market standards and ease of circulation.
We like and appreciate all regional singularity form Gloucestershire and imperial Britania, Banksy, dan’s hair defiying the years, bromptons, keep up with great content and global ambitions regardless of the side of the road you ride on, could you please provide the rest of the non comonwealth parts of the globe imperial to metric subtitles in similar tittles ?
Best witty regards