The books with all the cycling history! Bikes and jerseys are cool, but to be able to see what people were reading in the papers and on advertisements from posters. Just cool. You guys should do a video on a place called Bicycle Heaven in Pittsburgh, USA. An amazing place showcasing almost everybody's childhood bicycle and even my Dad's first race bike. ua-cam.com/video/7r_L0wUI-Cg/v-deo.html durangoherald.com/articles/25939
GCN Tech Honestly I think my favorite part was just seeing how blown away you were by everything you saw. It really is cool to see how much you truly love this sport.
Best bit of this video? Has to be Jon’s wonderful, genuine delight at every turn of every corner. When I say child-like excitement, I mean it with the greatest of respect and appreciation. Love you big Jon!
A kid in a candy shop springs to mind, good to see Jon getting so excited about times gone by. Thanks as always for another great insight. All the best Andy
Absolute goosebumps! I have to visit that place. The whole tour is a favorite!! I started riding roadbikes in 1980 and got multiple flashbacks...thank you sooo much. Nowadays I'm a bicycle mechanik for over 25 years and can't imagine doing something else. Again thank you...
This and the Keirin video are the two best cycling videos I’ve ever seen. They are both unexpected, surprising, unique, fun and extremely well done. Can’t find enough words to adequately describe them. Thanks!
Thank you, Jon, for that tour and a big thank you, too, to the people who gather and display all that memorabilia. And my favorite bit would be the posters--posters and jerseys. And how cool would it be to have you present regular features and history lessons about those? And you could read from Richard's Bicycle Book and from some of your favorites and it would all be such a blast from the past. And they'd probably give you a corner office, too, something up in the attic--no wait, that might be too distracting.
Well... JC is really out doing himself these days, outstanding video and the finest advert for the museum anyone could ask for. Palinesque quality. Favourite part was watching JC's little happy face as he fondled the old pants and naked lady figurine. And Pantani - but keep your elbow grease to yourself.
Jon, thank you for taking us on a video trip to that awesome cycling museum in Belgium. If I visited it I'd easily be able to stay there for weeks trying to examine everything in detail. I too would feel like a kid on Christmas morning and did so while watching you walk around there. Cycling isn't just my favorite sport but a passion and lifestyle for me. I wouldn't get much done if I worked at that museum.
Amazing. Next time I am in that part of the world I will go!!!! Jon is an incredible presenter. Hard to ever see someone so hapoy as he was making this.
I would be just as dropped jawed as you Jon. I couldn't imagine being by so much bicycle racing history, it would be just overwhelming trying to absorb all of it.
Wow, just wow! What an amazing place. I think that I would be like Jon and just end up spending hours looking around the museum. Definitely somewhere that you could come back and probably spend days just looking at everything. I think that the jerseys and the bikes would definitely be of huge interest to me but I got to say that trophy room is really something special as well. You don't tend to see the different trophies up close and personal all that often and so its a bit of a treat to get to compare from the different races. Think that Dan Lloyd would have loved to have won the Amstel Gold race along with the Vuelta... beer ahoy! Did think that Jon was going to go into a total coma of joy when he was taken into the storage room! I don't think that anyone else from the GCN team would have really shown the childlike glee at it all which is very infectious! Thanks Jon and thank you GCN! Great video!
Jon, the rider depicted on the wall is Fiorenzo Magni, he broke his shoulder/clavicule in the 1956 Giro d'Italia, but carried on! He used a piece of tube to support himself. He still finished 2nd!
I live near the museum, and I must say: It has really improved since 3 years ago. Back than, it was a museum about cycling in general. You could see the evolution of the bike in real life, but than they moved it to a church (temporary) about 100m further so they could build this. It's really wonderful!
My favorite part is watching John in his proverbial "candy store". I thought he was going to have an "accident" roaming through the museum. Was there any info on our American brother, Major Taylor? Also, I once heard it said that Atala bikes were made by Italian prisoners in Italian penitentiarys. Any truth in that? All of this is another good reason to go to the Spring Classics.
I’ve been to Koers and it’s really an unforgettable experience. Besides the worlds greatest cycling museum it’s a hub for cyclists. Great food and people!
Chris Froome looking at his stem. BTW, as if Jon wasn't hyper enough, I had the playback speed set to 1.25 from the last video and he seemed like an giddy hyper squirrel during the intro.
The next time anyone needs an explanation of the term "geek out" I'll simply point them to this video :) I think I'll have to watch this about 10 times myself.
The Sealink jersey was most likely from the Sealink International race (www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=9470) which did start on the Isle of Wight in 1983 but also went to North Sea coastal areas in Belgium and France as well as up to Yorkshire, Manchester and Holyhead.
Note: the little bike wasn’t Jean-Pierres monsere’s bike, but it belonged to his Son, Giovanni, who died in the same way Jempi did, at only 5 years old. The bike was given to Giovanni by Freddy maertens.
@@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed Whatever you both are, besides wrong, you need to study your cycling history. www.bikeraceinfo.com/oralhistory/magni.html
Wrong thats Telly Savalas PFFFFFF Mr history over here. it was from the movie the dirty dozen he was trying to take out a tank with a bike trying to strap a bomb to it... You don't know Shit!!!
Oh my god! What a holy place to visit! Because it is in the old fire station I hope it is protected against fire. Me I am in flames to be there some day! 🔥
Noticed Jon showing off. Even Si didn't rode no handed when he was on a Penny Farthing. Maybe Jon could teach Si how. Si could even find out if you can ride a Penny Farthing on a pump track.
The four seater bike reminded me of this davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2010/11/8/a-noble-ride-on-a-strange-machine.html - an 8 seater bike built for the Rosenkowitz sextuplets in Cape Town. I remember seeing it in a local bike shop when I was growing up.
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What's your favourite part of the tour?
The books with all the cycling history! Bikes and jerseys are cool, but to be able to see what people were reading in the papers and on advertisements from posters. Just cool. You guys should do a video on a place called Bicycle Heaven in Pittsburgh, USA. An amazing place showcasing almost everybody's childhood bicycle and even my Dad's first race bike. ua-cam.com/video/7r_L0wUI-Cg/v-deo.html
durangoherald.com/articles/25939
GCN Tech Honestly I think my favorite part was just seeing how blown away you were by everything you saw. It really is cool to see how much you truly love this sport.
Gotta be the tech! and more importantly how far the clothing has come
@@michaelmurray8793 thanks. I loved it. Every bit
Has to be that back room of jerseys... no words can describe
Best bit of this video? Has to be Jon’s wonderful, genuine delight at every turn of every corner. When I say child-like excitement, I mean it with the greatest of respect and appreciation. Love you big Jon!
Thanks. It was amazing.
Favourite part: seeing Jon, a true cycling history fan, reacting to all this stuff .. like a kid at christmas
Yep. I can't get enough of history
A kid in a candy shop springs to mind, good to see Jon getting so excited about times gone by. Thanks as always for another great insight. All the best Andy
This vid is worthy of the main channel, amazing museum, will definitely visit this, amazing😍
Good to see some one with a real passion for the history of cycling, and the history its self awesome
Thanks. I love it.
Absolute goosebumps! I have to visit that place. The whole tour is a favorite!!
I started riding roadbikes in 1980 and got multiple flashbacks...thank you sooo much. Nowadays I'm a bicycle mechanik for over 25 years and can't imagine doing something else. Again thank you...
This and the Keirin video are the two best cycling videos I’ve ever seen. They are both unexpected, surprising, unique, fun and extremely well done. Can’t find enough words to adequately describe them. Thanks!
Wow. I'm so glad you like them, it was my pleasure to present the vids. Passion projects!
My favorite bit of this video was Jon's childlike excitement. Thank you for sharing your love of cycling with us.
Stunning collection!!! This whole building is a piece of history!
pantani
loving this Jon. I hope I can see this museum one day.
Highly recommended!
What a brilliant video. To see John's passion expressed in such a raw and unscripted manner was fantastic..
Glad you enjoyed the video. It's an amazing place.
What a coool museum. Guess I'll have to head down to Belgium.
Thank you, Jon, for that tour and a big thank you, too, to the people who gather and display all that memorabilia. And my favorite bit would be the posters--posters and jerseys. And how cool would it be to have you present regular features and history lessons about those? And you could read from Richard's Bicycle Book and from some of your favorites and it would all be such a blast from the past. And they'd probably give you a corner office, too, something up in the attic--no wait, that might be too distracting.
attic sounds good! Jon
Well...
JC is really out doing himself these days, outstanding video and the finest advert for the museum anyone could ask for. Palinesque quality.
Favourite part was watching JC's little happy face as he fondled the old pants and naked lady figurine.
And Pantani - but keep your elbow grease to yourself.
Mind blowing and what a tribute to past riders! the storage room I though was going to be a cupboard!!
Holy moly. That place is a dream. Brutal. Best video in a while, man.
When is Jon going to do a Museum tour of his 15 attic bikes?
When I get rid of the cobwebs.
Fiorenzo Magni - broken collarbone - stage 16 of the Giro - 1956
Exactly, he used the strap to pull his handlebars, because of his fracture
I think we can agree that it was not Neymar!
Chapeau. I first thought it was Pantani, and thought the strap was just artistic effect in the picture but in fact it is a strap.
Jon, thank you for taking us on a video trip to that awesome cycling museum in Belgium. If I visited it I'd easily be able to stay there for weeks trying to examine everything in detail. I too would feel like a kid on Christmas morning and did so while watching you walk around there. Cycling isn't just my favorite sport but a passion and lifestyle for me. I wouldn't get much done if I worked at that museum.
Amazing. Next time I am in that part of the world I will go!!!! Jon is an incredible presenter. Hard to ever see someone so hapoy as he was making this.
The joy of watching Jon like a kid in a candy store😉
I would be just as dropped jawed as you Jon. I couldn't imagine being by so much bicycle racing history, it would be just overwhelming trying to absorb all of it.
Jon is a natural! Thanks for the video! Something to add on my bucket list
Jon, I would be as excited as you. Must visit, amazing
I visited this week during a bikepacking trip around North Europe, really enjoyed it. Thanks to GCN for making me aware of it.
Awesome, how was it?
Wow, just wow! What an amazing place. I think that I would be like Jon and just end up spending hours looking around the museum. Definitely somewhere that you could come back and probably spend days just looking at everything. I think that the jerseys and the bikes would definitely be of huge interest to me but I got to say that trophy room is really something special as well. You don't tend to see the different trophies up close and personal all that often and so its a bit of a treat to get to compare from the different races. Think that Dan Lloyd would have loved to have won the Amstel Gold race along with the Vuelta... beer ahoy!
Did think that Jon was going to go into a total coma of joy when he was taken into the storage room! I don't think that anyone else from the GCN team would have really shown the childlike glee at it all which is very infectious!
Thanks Jon and thank you GCN! Great video!
Thanks for the comment. That storage room was incredible. I wanted to check out so much more. Sadly ran out of time.
Is that Tom Last drooling dumpling soup at the GCN Sa Calobra Presenter Challenge?..
Great video. Really enjoyed it. My best bits are history of champions and cycling advancement over the century. Excellent presentation from Jon.
Thanks mate.
Amazing. Christmas came early for Jon this year. Just look at how exciting he is :D Love it.
Amazing!! Thanks for the wonderful tour!
My favourite part of the tour was how hyped Jon was the whole time!!
And I thought I was a bike nerd. Pretty cool museum !
Jon, the rider depicted on the wall is Fiorenzo Magni, he broke his shoulder/clavicule in the 1956 Giro d'Italia, but carried on! He used a piece of tube to support himself. He still finished 2nd!
Really really enjoyed that. Thanks John and team 👍🏻
Brilliant work Jon, the look on your face is priceless.Do they have a bell to signal throwing out time like we had in pubs?
Haha. They had to kick me out
I live near the museum, and I must say: It has really improved since 3 years ago. Back than, it was a museum about cycling in general. You could see the evolution of the bike in real life, but than they moved it to a church (temporary) about 100m further so they could build this. It's really wonderful!
Ohhhh!!! Super nice!!!
I’d love to see a tour of your personal cycling library. That would be really great to see.
Line drawing with the teeth holding the inner tube - Fiorenzo Magni
My favorite part is watching John in his proverbial "candy store". I thought he was going to have an "accident" roaming through the museum. Was there any info on our American brother, Major Taylor? Also, I once heard it said that Atala bikes were made by Italian prisoners in Italian penitentiarys. Any truth in that? All of this is another good reason to go to the Spring Classics.
Major Taylor is not visible in the permanent presentation, but we have pictures/postcards and books about the legendary biker of the US.
Another great vid guys, congrats!!!
All of it was my favorite
I’ve been to Koers and it’s really an unforgettable experience. Besides the worlds greatest cycling museum it’s a hub for cyclists. Great food and people!
Brilliant video, Jon.
Yes I can imagine there was a difference. I still remember David Dufields high pinch voice "He lost it!" about Fignon
I bet John would love to make it his home. I surely would!
amazing place,i reckon jons flabber has never been so gasted,like a kid in a toyshop.
The most entertaining kid in the BEST candy store.
Jon, you need to donate a GCN shirt with all your autographs on!
Oh by the way, is there a shelf in the archive for Mr. Stephens?🤔
Great video! What music is in the background? You guys always pick good tunes!
Boardman road, Kettering. There's a whole estate near the leisure village with names of Olympic champions.
Ah yes good shout!
Great video Jon. To answer your question about UK roads named after cyclists, there’s Hugh Porter Way in Wolverhampton.
That's exactly one I was thinking of
Chris Froome looking at his stem. BTW, as if Jon wasn't hyper enough, I had the playback speed set to 1.25 from the last video and he seemed like an giddy hyper squirrel during the intro.
and elbows out
I thought Froomie also
Exactly what I thought.
The next time anyone needs an explanation of the term "geek out" I'll simply point them to this video :) I think I'll have to watch this about 10 times myself.
The Sealink jersey was most likely from the Sealink International race (www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=9470) which did start on the Isle of Wight in 1983 but also went to North Sea coastal areas in Belgium and France as well as up to Yorkshire, Manchester and Holyhead.
Want to see more about those vintage steel bikes..
The engraved rider is Marco Pantani for sure, his riding style and climbing up the hills was this
They’ve always got a flight to catch, just chillax and book it with enough time to spare!
Another place to visit
We have Major Taylor Boulevard here in Worcester, Massachusetts - Taylor's hometown.
Brilliant!
That is an epic place! The bike riders Mekka!
Sealink also used to operate between Dover and Calais in the 1970s to 1990s
Is that Simon Richardson pulling a gummy worm out of the triathlon bike's storage with his mouth?
😂😂😂👍🏻
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Comment of the week!
Fiorenzo Magni 'biting down on' an inner tube attached to his bars to finish the giro with a broken collarbone. Overall he still finished 2nd.
Lovely !
The guy on the door is Simon from that one video with the Chinese hyperbike where he eats the rainbow candy out of the inigrated toptube pouch
Fiorenzo Magni! But, I bet someone's beaten me to it!!
Unmistakable....Pantani. kewl museum.
The mystery outline drawing is Sean Kelly.
Harrogate has the beryl Burton way, great way to get through to Knaresborough :)
2:48 definitely Matt Stephens ;) we miss you Matt on GCN
Oh My Froomey!
That is so cool and awesome! I like it!
All of it👍
Hell yeah, i live 5 mins away! Def worth a visit!
Btw its not JP monseir, its monseree ;)
JP Monsere, what a talent! Might have been Merckx competitor
Note: the little bike wasn’t Jean-Pierres monsere’s bike, but it belonged to his Son, Giovanni, who died in the same way Jempi did, at only 5 years old.
The bike was given to Giovanni by Freddy maertens.
Stijn, the little bike in the Allez Jempi is a childbike of Jean-Pierre himself, in loan given by his sister. It's not the tragedy bike of Giovanni
Alan Ramsbottom Way, Great Harwood, Lancashire, UK. Teamate of Tommy Simpson
Sean Kelly...workingmans bike racer....longed for pictures of him in Winning Magazine pretty yellow cover...thanks
It's Chris Froome looking at his stem!
obviously he is The Pirate, Marco Pantani.
This asshole beat me to it
edgardo reyes where is that asshole?
@@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed Whatever you both are, besides wrong, you need to study your cycling history. www.bikeraceinfo.com/oralhistory/magni.html
Wrong thats Telly Savalas PFFFFFF Mr history over here. it was from the movie the dirty dozen he was trying to take out a tank with a bike trying to strap a bomb to it... You don't know Shit!!!
wonderful!
I think the drawing is oh Marco Pantani
Awesome vid again, my money is Pantani
The sketch on the Wall is chris froome
that protoVroom: advertising INHALING!
The cyclist in the Drawing is Marco Pantani.
Oh my god! What a holy place to visit! Because it is in the old fire station I hope it is protected against fire. Me I am in flames to be there some day! 🔥
Anna Meares Avenue, Kenrick Tucker Velodrome.
I'm probably not the first. The drawing might be Fiorenzo Magni.
Love this?!!!
Fiorenzo Magni
Was that drawing of Pantani climbing???
Fiorencio magni......my grandfather named my mother after him.....Florencia
It's Chris froome looking at his power date while holding on to the handslebard with his shoulders wide?
Noticed Jon showing off. Even Si didn't rode no handed when he was on a Penny Farthing. Maybe Jon could teach Si how. Si could even find out if you can ride a Penny Farthing on a pump track.
Now that's something we'd like to see!
Easy.
The four seater bike reminded me of this davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2010/11/8/a-noble-ride-on-a-strange-machine.html - an 8 seater bike built for the Rosenkowitz sextuplets in Cape Town. I remember seeing it in a local bike shop when I was growing up.
The cyclist in the image is Marco Pantani
The guy in the photo is eddy mercks