I was Euroimpressed with EuroManon, EuroAlex and Eurobike. If there had been Eurodrizzle and those Eurocobbles had been Eurogreasy, it would have been even more Euroexciting, but also Eurorisky. Go Eurobike!
Manon and Alex are seriously bonkers. Amazingly fun to watch. Whoever comes up with these ideas is a sadist 🤣🤣. Well done though. You definitely deserved the coffee ☕️ 👍
Well done Alex and Manon. Great fun as usual. My town out here in Western Pennsylvania has a fair number of brick-paved streets originally laid down between 100 and 125 years ago. It was discovered after they had paved over much of the brick that the macadam was in a constant state of ruin caused by snow plows, freezing and thawing, while the brick resisted everything. Brick is especially good on grades, because the action of braking on very hot days doesn't cause the somewhat plastic tarmac to deform. They should have just left all the streets in brick and saved a lot of money. Riding the bricks is definitely not like enduring Napoleonic cobbles, but an hour spent on the brick streets does take more out of you than gliding on mostly smooth tarmac.
The more videos I see dissing the Eurobike, the more impressed I am with it. You have abused that more than any other bike (except possibly the "Can we kill DI2? bike) and it's still rideable.
It just goes to show what I always say: even a crappy bike is usually pretty good, if it's set up correctly. It's a matter of perspective; compared to modern race bike the Eurobike seems primitive and unrefined, but it is far more capable than the bikes ridden on the *first* Paris-Roubaix in 1896. Modern bikes are the product of decades of experimentation and improvement; as long as you copy the frame geometry of a successful bike and use standard parts, it's actually hard to make a bike that isn't any good. That's why I support charities that refurbish bikes and provide them to people who can't afford new ones. The bikes on those co-op shops may seem dated, but there's a tremendous amount of good use left in them.
I've got the folding mtb version eurobike, rode 25 miles daily last summer and into the fall. Overall it's been a good bike. I swapped Shimano components into it as things wore out.. I'll ride it this year too. The folder is useful If the weather gets bad I can fold it up, stuff into the trunk of a taxi ..
That looked really uncomfortable for the both of yinz. But the funny part I laughed at was when Manon picked up the boat anchor and turned it around. It reminds me of my wife’s old cheap bike before I purchased a proper light weight bike. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there.
You guys might have beaten the pros if it wasn't for the kickstand! Those cobbles have to be seriously slippery when wet/muddy, so props to the pros who can even make it without a spill. I'd try that on the Eurobike, but not on my Gallium. Excellent ffort by bothof you! Good fun, GCN!
Good video. I will definitely be thinking more clearly about the difficulty of riding those cobblestones when watching the race. It is a testimony to riding skill that there aren’t more crashes!
Well done guys, I'm sure it as hard. I would have liked you both to have ridden Manon's bike done there as well, just to have a comparison between a mega cheap bike and a good bike. Loving the content, thanks guys 👍👍
Great video Alex and Manon. I had the song by KC and the Sunshine band "Shake your Booty" running through my head as you rode that route. 😃Also, kudos to the Chin Cam. Quite stable for the bouncing around it had.
Just before I found GCN. I looked at the Eurobike as a replacement for one that had gotten stolen when the covid stuff started. The one on Amazon that I looked at. Had mag wheels bottom of the barrel shifter and derailleurs. The shifter were the brake shifter combo. Although I saw the video where GCN tested it out. What I saw matched the bad reviews that it got. The only two things that made it a potential investment for me. Were the brakes being disk and the max load compacity. I am still looking for a bike. My weight is still above the max for 95 percent of bikes on the current market.
Sign me up. Wonder if the sales of the Eurobike goes up after each of these videos? You guys are certainly showing that the bike will take just about anything you throw at it. Fun Vid.
Got to wonder if the presenters would make more of an effort on the superbike just to avoid having to admit the Eurobike is better than they give it credit for.
Like the Eurobike or not, it's doing everything the expensive bikes are doing at a minuscule fraction of the cost and for the occasional rider it's MORE than adequate or am entry into the sport.
O M G Is Manon committed!!! I was absolutely sure that only Alex would have the "pleasure" to ride here ..... Bravo Manon and Alex, you are two tough cyclists!
I've ridden very heavy Condor Tradition Touring bike over the cobble, also ridden 24 inch wheel Airnimal Chameleon folding bike over them. The best word to describe Arenbourg and Carrefour de l'arbre secateurs is Diabolical
Back in the day, you would use a Vittoria Pave CG 25 in front, and a Pave CG 27 in back, for cobbled courses......HUGE tires, compared to the standard CX and CG.
Nice Video and I hope you will let the Eurobike survive.... and I want to see more of it. Its only a fair thing to maintain the cheep bike as you would do with one your lightweit high end carbonbikes. If the headset is not OK fix it, the spokes and everything else, look for them 😄. Buying a bike not from the dealer next to your home is always suboptimal. I ordered some years ago a really fine machine from wiggle and it was built up really shitty. Everything had to be adjusted and the screws needed to be checked carefully despite it should have been a bike to ride out of the box. I do not want to blame the mechanics in the UK for that who checked it before the sent it to me😉... but what I want to say. 💗give that bike a chance, no matter if its 300€ or 3000€.💓
I've not ridden this section of cobbles but have ridden cobbles in Belgium (Ronde challenge etc) and quite honestly, it's torture on any road bike. Fair play to the Eurobike for surviving Arenberg in one piece, unlike some bikes and wheels on the pro races at the weekend. And if the Eurobike is all someone can afford, then why not? I know bike snobbery exists in some bike clubs - not mine - but I would never criticise anyone's bike if that's all they can afford and it's what got them interested in cycling. Yes, it's at the lower end of the market obviously, but it seems it's proving a little more resilient than the folk at GCN were expecting.
Love the fact that the Eurobike has some rust...that just makes it all the more heroic! Maybe the video should be titled "Can the riders survive the Paris-Roubaix Cobbles?" Ha ha! Well done both of you.
The thing is Flanders is up or down. And really steep most of times. And if you've ridden cobbles long enough, you know going fast of them is the best approach. Not many can do that on 15%.
Here in my hometown there's some ancient cobblestone streets, when I can I always avoid them. I would like to ask you, can you compare the 1, 2 and 3 chain rings pedalboard's bicycles ? The pros and cons.
'Would I be prepared to ride this on the Eurobike?'....probably not these days. I did ride the full Paris-Roubaix course cyclo back in 1985 on a steel framed Raleigh Clubman that was 1" to big for me, and survived!
kinda looks like my city center where for some reason it is all cobbled. granted i ride a 23kg emtb so cobbles and bumps are a non issue for me with 29inch wide tires and suspension
My toughest so far was in West Yorkshire, Shibden Wall and Trooper Lane. Bike survived, and so did I😉 You should maintain this bike, regardless its origins, and price. Nothing worse for the ears than squeaking chain and brakes😂
special tractor bike as manon decribed it . however the wieght alone would build up muscle strenght in training ,would i use it Nah. great video as always manons french is quite good
When I was a kid we used to ride bikes to farm fields with two 12 liter buckets full of water, to give cows something to drink. We had no gears. Road, gravel, cobbles, tractor tracks. Just normal tyres - I'd compare the thread to modern Marathon Plus. And we were absolutely fine. $300 ? Nobody had that much money!
My daily bike is 15 kg and I zip around town even flying by many higher end bikes, people are used to these light bikes and can’t handle riding the heavier ones. Add a shock seat post on the bike and it will be much better with comfort.
@@da14a49 That’s the thing It’s a 15 kg alloy road bike with a 7 speed freewheel ( old school), did have a tripe chain ring but since this is all flatland for 400 km I installed a 47 tooth single ring. Some small little hills here no issues racing up on them even on a 14-28 freewheel. My carbon bike is much lighter but it will never be as fun and challenging as riding this beast 😂
If I'm not mistaken the pros hit the start of the cobbles at just over 60kmh , a proper bone rattling kick to the rear, the sheer momentum probably helps keep the average speed for the crossing that high.
Eurobike again?!Actually I am not worried about the bike, because I happen to have one. I know it is so heavy as a two-wheels tank, but it is also sturdy like a tank.
Counts Alex in and calls him a thoroughfare three times and then tries to put her back out throwing the Eurochonk about. Manon is a zany, zany lady. :D
Only way this aging cyclist would even attempt that...would prefer to avoid it...is on a high end, uber light, XC carbon racing mountain bike with 2" wide tires and full suspension. Would love to see that comparison. $10K mountain bike duelly versus your personal road bikes. Glad you both survived and thanks for the content. A hollowed section of the famed race indeed and competitors' boys and girls are true road warriors. Brutal. P.S. Didn't even know a $300 road bike off Amazon existed. Have to give props to the thing for surviving. Handlebars and shifters looked to be the most un-ergonomic of their ilk on the planet. Heavily padded gloves and double wrapped at the very least. Poor Manon who would have dusted me on that section. A last note is...watching that...a couple of years back that race was won on a very stiff aero bike of all things....a bone jarringly stiff bike in fact, a Scott Foil. Still hard to believe a human could endure that level of torture and prevail. Supermen can do what others can't is the lesson. Only way to fathom it is...pro riders that prevail on the cobbles generate more watts at a lower cadence which effectively unweights the rider to remove stress off the body. Lower watt mere mortals get the tar knocked out of them.
Were you impressed with Manon, Alex and the Eurobike? What would you like to see us do with it next?
Chuck it in a volcano as a sacrifice to some kind of volcano god.
I was Euroimpressed with EuroManon, EuroAlex and Eurobike. If there had been Eurodrizzle and those Eurocobbles had been Eurogreasy, it would have been even more Euroexciting, but also Eurorisky. Go Eurobike!
Upgrade it :))
Would have been good to see Manon and Alex blast along there with a good bike as well to compare. Perhaps a Trek Domane.
Alpe d'Huez.
In terms of return on investment I think buying the Eurobike was the smartest choice GCN has ever made 😂
It's a definite keeper 🙄🤣
As a beater commuter bike that you don't have to worry about it's a pretty decent investment.
Sure it's terrible, but we've got so much content out of it
@@gcn I mean, you aren't baking bread at GCN Mega base....professionally.
Love how each pedal is more expensive than the actual bike 🤣
Tracking data ain't cheap
These Eurobike videos are oddly turning into the best marketing it’s ever had.
Cheap and apparently indestructible.
Eurobike: it's terrible, but it works!
GMBM broke the mtb.
Not sure why someone would buy a Eurobike after watching these haha!! 🤣
@@gcn Because we don't have a sponsor to give us a £12k bike?
The Eurobike has been through the ringer in all these videos. I’ve actually gained a lot of respect for it
I am more addicted to videos on the Eurobike than the super bikes. Keep on going with the Eurobike GCN!
We've certainly got some more cheap bike content in the works!
It’s low key impressive how much usage they’ve gotten out of that bike, not to mention that the bike itself is still going strong. Nice ROI
We're surprised it's survived this long
Nice job! Can we get a video of a mechanic going over and assessing the current state of the mechanicals of the Euro bike. :-)
That's the real next video we need.
We're a little scared by what they might say
Manon and Alex are seriously bonkers. Amazingly fun to watch. Whoever comes up with these ideas is a sadist 🤣🤣.
Well done though. You definitely deserved the coffee ☕️ 👍
I am sure they want cake to go with that, but riding that cobblestone is just abuse for bike and rider....
Thanks - glad you enjoy the content!
Well done Alex and Manon. Great fun as usual. My town out here in Western Pennsylvania has a fair number of brick-paved streets originally laid down between 100 and 125 years ago. It was discovered after they had paved over much of the brick that the macadam was in a constant state of ruin caused by snow plows, freezing and thawing, while the brick resisted everything. Brick is especially good on grades, because the action of braking on very hot days doesn't cause the somewhat plastic tarmac to deform. They should have just left all the streets in brick and saved a lot of money. Riding the bricks is definitely not like enduring Napoleonic cobbles, but an hour spent on the brick streets does take more out of you than gliding on mostly smooth tarmac.
The more videos I see dissing the Eurobike, the more impressed I am with it. You have abused that more than any other bike (except possibly the "Can we kill DI2? bike) and it's still rideable.
It just goes to show what I always say: even a crappy bike is usually pretty good, if it's set up correctly. It's a matter of perspective; compared to modern race bike the Eurobike seems primitive and unrefined, but it is far more capable than the bikes ridden on the *first* Paris-Roubaix in 1896. Modern bikes are the product of decades of experimentation and improvement; as long as you copy the frame geometry of a successful bike and use standard parts, it's actually hard to make a bike that isn't any good. That's why I support charities that refurbish bikes and provide them to people who can't afford new ones. The bikes on those co-op shops may seem dated, but there's a tremendous amount of good use left in them.
Cheap is usually always better at holding up.
It did only _just_ survive the descent of the Alto de Velefique though!! 👉 ua-cam.com/video/pUyWZc-_ilc/v-deo.html
"Let me turn this tractor around"
Yeah I laughed like a moron on this
Me too lol. And the bleeps before lol. She’s my fav
🤣
This Eurobike must be the luckiest cheap bike in the world... hit jackpot being bought by GCN and getting to do all these epic rides!
I've got the folding mtb version eurobike, rode 25 miles daily last summer and into the fall. Overall it's been a good bike. I swapped Shimano components into it as things wore out.. I'll ride it this year too. The folder is useful If the weather gets bad I can fold it up, stuff into the trunk of a taxi ..
That looked really uncomfortable for the both of yinz. But the funny part I laughed at was when Manon picked up the boat anchor and turned it around. It reminds me of my wife’s old cheap bike before I purchased a proper light weight bike. Keep up the good work and stay safe out there.
always great to see Manons honest reactions :-) Great Video btw!
Hope to do some of the Paves this summer
Thanks. They are brutal! What will you be riding Philipp?
@@gcn I plan to stay a couple of days in the area to hit flemish cobbles and some paves
Bold move! That was very brave of you. I’m surprised parts of the bike didn’t shake off during the ride; that’s some quality cast iron there! 😂
love all the Cobble series. the old ones with Dan and Matt on signals and flanders.. watch them each year at least ones.. so more cobbles please!!
I knew the Manon" bleep"was coming, at the end of her ride, love it. Thanks .
You guys might have beaten the pros if it wasn't for the kickstand!
Those cobbles have to be seriously slippery when wet/muddy, so props to the pros who can even make it without a spill.
I'd try that on the Eurobike, but not on my Gallium.
Excellent ffort by bothof you!
Good fun, GCN!
And here I was, thinking that you had to make a clear announcement when having sponsored content. This is clearly an EUROBIKE ad if I ever saw one ;)
Good video. I will definitely be thinking more clearly about the difficulty of riding those cobblestones when watching the race. It is a testimony to riding skill that there aren’t more crashes!
The pros are so talented!
Those speedplay pedals cost more than the rest of the bike 😂
Love Manon’s french ! Thx for all your excellent videos !
Well done guys, I'm sure it as hard. I would have liked you both to have ridden Manon's bike done there as well, just to have a comparison between a mega cheap bike and a good bike. Loving the content, thanks guys 👍👍
Nice video, Team !!!
Watching you bounce around like that, reminds me of some of my rides on Chicago streets.
Keep up the great work !!!
Thank you! glad you enjoyed it
Ya know, the Eurobike is still pretty dang good looking!
great video, Manon
Great video Alex and Manon. I had the song by KC and the Sunshine band "Shake your Booty" running through my head as you rode that route. 😃Also, kudos to the Chin Cam. Quite stable for the bouncing around it had.
A sports bra hasn’t been invented yet that would allow me to safely ride up those cobbles on any bike.
😍😂😂
God bless you K 😊
🤣
These things have to be huge! The cobbles, I mean...
Nice video! I'd like to see the results on a good road bike in a future episode.
Brilliant effort. Would have liked to see you on your regular bikes as a comparison.
That side stand gets me every time. All bikes should have one😂
It may not have STI levers, functioning brakes or a vaguely comfortable saddle, but hey, it's got a kickstand
Great video i love Roubaix by from Italy
Great vdieo really good idea thank you
Every video featuring this piece of junk is pure gold. It holds the line even when it's rusty af. Impressive, most impressive ;)
Fun to watch!
Just before I found GCN. I looked at the Eurobike as a replacement for one that had gotten stolen when the covid stuff started. The one on Amazon that I looked at. Had mag wheels bottom of the barrel shifter and derailleurs. The shifter were the brake shifter combo. Although I saw the video where GCN tested it out. What I saw matched the bad reviews that it got. The only two things that made it a potential investment for me. Were the brakes being disk and the max load compacity. I am still looking for a bike. My weight is still above the max for 95 percent of bikes on the current market.
Great video, would have been good if you'd done the same on your normal bikes too compare times though.
Need to take the euro bike up some of the cobbled climbs in Ronde Van Vlaanderen now
Wow, those cobbles look brutal. When Alex is cwtched down by the back wheel of the Eurobike, you can see how monsterous those cobbles really are.☹😭
They are so brutal!! 😬
Best race in the world
Sign me up. Wonder if the sales of the Eurobike goes up after each of these videos? You guys are certainly showing that the bike will take just about anything you throw at it. Fun Vid.
what i REALLY want to see now is a head to head, SUPER BIKE vs EUROBIKE on the cobbles!
Got to wonder if the presenters would make more of an effort on the superbike just to avoid having to admit the Eurobike is better than they give it credit for.
2:52 "Anything I should know?"
*indiscernible load-free squeak*
I think the bike wants to tell us something!
Haha! 😂
Like the Eurobike or not, it's doing everything the expensive bikes are doing at a minuscule fraction of the cost and for the occasional rider it's MORE than adequate or am entry into the sport.
I almost purchased a Eurobike but I got a Kent road bike instead. I have been very impressed that bike has survived everything you have done to it.
To be honest, so are we
7:47 It looks like she is gunning it for the smooth part :)
It does... doesn't it. Should have edited it out sooner.
Will be great to see how it perform with your Orbea contrasting with Eurobike.
I can feel Alex and Manon while doing this , This was the jello torture race, I don't think I've ever seen Alex jump off the bike so fast lol
O M G Is Manon committed!!! I was absolutely sure that only Alex would have the "pleasure" to ride here ..... Bravo Manon and Alex, you are two tough cyclists!
It would be nice to see the time and comfort difference between a full race bike, the Eurobike, and a full suspension mountain bike
I've ridden very heavy Condor Tradition Touring bike over the cobble, also ridden 24 inch wheel Airnimal Chameleon folding bike over them. The best word to describe Arenbourg and Carrefour de l'arbre secateurs is Diabolical
what a fantastic bike!
Back in the day, you would use a Vittoria Pave CG 25 in front, and a Pave CG 27 in back, for cobbled courses......HUGE tires, compared to the standard CX and CG.
thanks manon.
One of the funniest GCN videos. Chapeau to Manon and Alex for giving it a go. I'll pass though thanks 😊
Glad you enjoyed it Ian!
Very happy to be watching this from the comfort of my turbo trainer 😅
Manon lifting the bike at the very end of the video was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣 UUUUGH
Love the Eurobike videos
Keep them coming
You guys are nuts! I thought that Eurobike's wheels could well get cracked in such a beating…
It was a genuine worry!
Nice Video and I hope you will let the Eurobike survive.... and I want to see more of it. Its only a fair thing to maintain the cheep bike as you would do with one your lightweit high end carbonbikes. If the headset is not OK fix it, the spokes and everything else, look for them 😄. Buying a bike not from the dealer next to your home is always suboptimal. I ordered some years ago a really fine machine from wiggle and it was built up really shitty. Everything had to be adjusted and the screws needed to be checked carefully despite it should have been a bike to ride out of the box. I do not want to blame the mechanics in the UK for that who checked it before the sent it to me😉... but what I want to say. 💗give that bike a chance, no matter if its 300€ or 3000€.💓
I loved the bleeping of Manon after she got done. Summed up the whole experience right there. BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP......
I've not ridden this section of cobbles but have ridden cobbles in Belgium (Ronde challenge etc) and quite honestly, it's torture on any road bike. Fair play to the Eurobike for surviving Arenberg in one piece, unlike some bikes and wheels on the pro races at the weekend.
And if the Eurobike is all someone can afford, then why not? I know bike snobbery exists in some bike clubs - not mine - but I would never criticise anyone's bike if that's all they can afford and it's what got them interested in cycling.
Yes, it's at the lower end of the market obviously, but it seems it's proving a little more resilient than the folk at GCN were expecting.
Love the fact that the Eurobike has some rust...that just makes it all the more heroic! Maybe the video should be titled "Can the riders survive the Paris-Roubaix Cobbles?" Ha ha! Well done both of you.
It's been through some tough days
Those are seriously rough cobbles, much worse than Flanders. Massive kudos to both of you 😀👍👍💪💪
The thing is Flanders is up or down. And really steep most of times. And if you've ridden cobbles long enough, you know going fast of them is the best approach. Not many can do that on 15%.
Thanks Mark! Very different to Flanders cobbles but both very different in their own right!
I actually did the Paris Roubaix sportive on a carbon fibre bike from Argos, and it completed the course
Eurobike should sponsor GCN? It still survived after so many challenges.
Very enjoyable 😉
Here in my hometown there's some ancient cobblestone streets, when I can I always avoid them. I would like to ask you, can you compare the 1, 2 and 3 chain rings pedalboard's bicycles ? The pros and cons.
'Would I be prepared to ride this on the Eurobike?'....probably not these days. I did ride the full Paris-Roubaix course cyclo back in 1985 on a steel framed Raleigh Clubman that was 1" to big for me, and survived!
i feel like the eurobike is the most profitable bike purchase for both GCN and GMBN given how much content both channels have gotten out of theirs
Superb
The Eurobike is becoming a cycling Icon! I almost want one...
almost
more videos with Manon please...kinda love her :D
I love this 300 dollar bike series XD
Loved the french part actually it's Trois ,deux,UN pretty nicely pronounced.
The Eurobike is my favorite GCN team member :)
We're all a little offended, but we understand
kinda looks like my city center where for some reason it is all cobbled. granted i ride a 23kg emtb so cobbles and bumps are a non issue for me with 29inch wide tires and suspension
My toughest so far was in West Yorkshire, Shibden Wall and Trooper Lane. Bike survived, and so did I😉
You should maintain this bike, regardless its origins, and price. Nothing worse for the ears than squeaking chain and brakes😂
special tractor bike as manon decribed it . however the wieght alone would build up muscle strenght in training ,would i use it Nah. great video as always manons french is quite good
Jeeeeez, those are some seriously ornery-looking cobblestones!
I actually want a euro bike now lol those rims look nice too
Buy one at your own peril!!
It’s got to be a mountain challenge like alpe d’huez with Manon obviously 😂
Rust on the disc isn't from lack ot maintenance and general clean, that's just been left out to the weather.
When I was a kid we used to ride bikes to farm fields with two 12 liter buckets full of water, to give cows something to drink. We had no gears. Road, gravel, cobbles, tractor tracks. Just normal tyres - I'd compare the thread to modern Marathon Plus. And we were absolutely fine. $300 ? Nobody had that much money!
a “pair of numpties” that had me laughing out loud
My daily bike is 15 kg and I zip around town even flying by many higher end bikes, people are used to these light bikes and can’t handle riding the heavier ones. Add a shock seat post on the bike and it will be much better with comfort.
It's mainly about the engine but I doubt the big hills are easy :)
@@da14a49 That’s the thing It’s a 15 kg alloy road bike with a 7 speed freewheel ( old school), did have a tripe chain ring but since this is all flatland for 400 km I installed a 47 tooth single ring. Some small little hills here no issues racing up on them even on a 14-28 freewheel. My carbon bike is much lighter but it will never be as fun and challenging as riding this beast 😂
Bike Commuter Here. That green Jaguar was a cheeky bastard.
Good form. Ride to the level of your smile.
That euro bike is great. It does the job and it’s pretty much disposable at its price
Oh i miss the race☺️
That euro bike should have an award for just surviving
GCN should raffle off the euro bike someday, maybe they can ask sign it or something!
If I'm not mistaken the pros hit the start of the cobbles at just over 60kmh , a proper bone rattling kick to the rear, the sheer momentum probably helps keep the average speed for the crossing that high.
The fight for position into the cobbled secteurs means the peloton are always travelling at high speeds at the point of entry
That kickstand sure is handy. 🤣
Yeah it's got that going for it, at least
Eurobike again?!Actually I am not worried about the bike, because I happen to have one. I know it is so heavy as a two-wheels tank, but it is also sturdy like a tank.
I liked to see them do it on the zorgen for comparison
Counts Alex in and calls him a thoroughfare three times and then tries to put her back out throwing the Eurochonk about. Manon is a zany, zany lady. :D
Only way this aging cyclist would even attempt that...would prefer to avoid it...is on a high end, uber light, XC carbon racing mountain bike with 2" wide tires and full suspension.
Would love to see that comparison. $10K mountain bike duelly versus your personal road bikes. Glad you both survived and thanks for the content. A hollowed section of the famed race indeed and competitors' boys and girls are true road warriors. Brutal.
P.S. Didn't even know a $300 road bike off Amazon existed. Have to give props to the thing for surviving. Handlebars and shifters looked to be the most un-ergonomic of their ilk on the planet. Heavily padded gloves and double wrapped at the very least. Poor Manon who would have dusted me on that section. A last note is...watching that...a couple of years back that race was won on a very stiff aero bike of all things....a bone jarringly stiff bike in fact, a Scott Foil. Still hard to believe a human could endure that level of torture and prevail. Supermen can do what others can't is the lesson. Only way to fathom it is...pro riders that prevail on the cobbles generate more watts at a lower cadence which effectively unweights the rider to remove stress off the body. Lower watt mere mortals get the tar knocked out of them.
the steel is real i guess. next an epic long ride with the Eurobike maybe?
Not envious of whatever presenter (Hank) we'd send on that one