*Actual conversation with a fellow shopper at a bike shop in Winnipeg, Canada.* (Fellow shopper and I are looking at a fancy gravel bike on display) Me: That's a nice bike Fellow Shopper: I have one just like it, I gave a guy 5 bits for it. Me: Bit? What's a bit? Fellow Shopper: Oh, a bit is some crystal meth, I'm a drug dealer.
26:05 Barcelona was a great album, not by Queen, but by Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury and Spanish soprano,Montserrat Caballé. When I was introduced to the album in 1989 as a high school junior (then dating a Spanish exchange student from Tarragona [just south of Barcelona]), I fell in love with not just the title track, but the whole album. The combination of both Mercury and Caballé won me over then and still does today.
Careful with those dryer sheets! Don't use on any synthetics including bike kit. They work on the same principle as fabric softener and coat the fibers with a lipid-based (read: fatty) substance that reduces the static buildup but also destroys any performance characters of technical fibers.
I think the problem with bike prices is the gap between junk dept store bikes, and a decent, but basic road bike. A road bike with Sora parts, and cable disc brakes starts around 1500cad. When I bought my first road bike about 18 years ago, it was a specialized Allez triple, mostly sora 8 speed, Tiagra RD, and it was under 600CAD. Even accounting for inflation It shouldn’t be 2.5x the price. Cable disc brakes add a little, but they’re not that expensive.
The crazy thing is you go to the independent brands and I can absolutely put together an indie titanium bike for less in index-linked terms than a comparable bike from 15 years ago. I think this is also true higher up in the more mass-market carbon frame space so long as you avoid a couple of the big brands (Specialized, Trek, I'm looking at you). But in that 1,000 to 2,000 range? It's really, really bad.
@@gcn I don't know, really. You can still get a decent flat-bar bike in that range, and I think most people will just end up sticking with flat bars for a lot longer before they _maybe_ eventually decide they want a proper road bike. I'd like to see a real budget road groupset that simplifies even more. 1x (around 40t), 8-10 speeds with a focus on the low end. (less speeds is fine as long as there's low enough gears. A beginner doesn't need an 11t, could cut it off at 13-15t. I'll be a bit spinny pedaling down hills, but that's fine. Cable disc brakes are fine, though ideally they would set them up with more cable pull at the lever and make them compatible with hybrid bike brakes, since that'll make them feel less mushy. (I would like this to happen even on higher end groupsets, but everyone seems to be fixated on hydraulics) The shifter could be whatever's cheapest and works. The old Sora thumb lever STIs I had on my old 8 speed were fine, if that'll save a few bucks.
The way things are going, my next bike will likely be custom steel. No proprietary parts and cable routing that will allow ease of home servicing. I took disc brakes on the chin, but there's no way I'm shelling out thousands for a bike with fully integrated front-end cabling. Even metal fabricators are at it now. Seems like a trend that's being forced on consumers. Some love it, but it will be interesting to see how the average consumer copes with it in the long term.
I just went on a 30 mile ride with my squad last Sunday and we stopped for 2 separate individuals that needed help. One was a chain fix and the other didn't bring a pump. This was the 4rh time my unassuming tiny 8" carbon fiber lipstick pump helped someone other than myself. They had a 3 mile walk back to their car but my lipstick pump (ew, sounds weird) pumped enough air to ride slowly. I'm still glad I have it after 12 years owning it! WooHoo!
Make videos about how to navigate buying bikes and parts online. How to spot fakes and lemons 🍋 etc. Videos on how to do maintenance/ swaps on the entry level bikes. The tests you guys you guys do should include entry to mid-tier bikes 🚲 and show how that’s really what most people need. Wants vs Needs haha
I'm on Van Aert's side for Christmas, definitely. My usual 'celebration' is a week's training camp on Gran Canaria, avoiding as much of Christmas as humanly possible and drowning my frustration in my own sweat climbing the steepest hills I can find!
As someone who commutes from Chipping Sodbury to Bath by bike twice a week, I wish it was only 5 miles away. Its between 16 and 20 depending on route choice. Thanks for the Sodbury Cycle Sport promo, I think!! 🤣
"No-one can rip you off if you refuse to buy their products" - words the bike industry needs to take to heart! Personally I'll be building my next bike out of slightly out of date compondnts (available really cheap and still lots of spares sitting in warehouses) a second hand frame (maybe) and cheap (yet nowadays really good) chinese wheels. The midrange of performance bikes is still either not addressed by the industry or too expensive
If it's Tucson on Saturday and live, I presume that it is the yearly Tour de Tucson comprising 5 mile (fun ride), half century (50 km/32 mile), full century (100 km/62 mile), and 104 mile bike races. Events include a bike expo Thursday through Saturday. In addition, I believe that Bob Roll and Christian Vande Velde are hosting a ride with the pros and Critium class this week. I am 65 (just turned) and will be riding for the first time ever and taking on the 104 mile full event. I am as always a big fan, and I hope to run into them sometime during the festivities! Looking forward to the content. Keep up the excellent work. BTW, tell them to take a ride on the Tucson Loop bike trail while they are here. Best paved bike trail in the world covering over a hundred miles in and around and circumnavigating Tucson, providing scenic desert landscapes, wildlife (coyotes, road runners, snakes, deer, etc), and paralleling four washes and rivers, which originally provided the water for humans to inhabit here. I was thinking for years that I should suggest you come out for the Loop if nothing else. I'll keep an eye out for them!
While the song "Barcelona" indeed was featured in Queen's Greatest Hits III compilation, it's actually not a Queen song, but a collaboration between Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, originally released by them as a single and in an album with the same title. Besides Mercury, no other Queen members were involved.
Cycling improves you as a person, so you become your better self. It doesn't change your essential self, it only improves what is already there & doesn't make us better than Others. It makes a good person better but can't change a horrible person.
I've always thought that a squad of randonneurs would be extremely effective at drug trafficking. They can travel long distances with ease in all conditions, they can carry lots of stuff, and nobody would be suspicious of a bunch of older dudes in spandex and hi-vis vests.
A mid 90's Landshark w/ alllllll the bling: Dura Ace STI, 32hole gl330 rims built by a certified Wheelsmith wheelsmith, silk sewups, SS bottle cages, a fancy Avocet bike computer and the best Taco Truck I could find as my sag wagon serving Pete's coffee
I missed the show on being ‘ripped off’ but having caught up: when I returned to cycling aged 58 (2 years ago) I balked at spending £50 on a pair of cycling shoes (as an example) but now, I’ve learnt that good quality kit - costs. Just bought a pair of GTX winter shoes and what a difference! Toastie tootsies!! But, I do find that I am more willing to spend more than I ever thought I would because even my limited experience has taught me that quality costs. Search those sales, watch prices, buy when right and love your LBS.
If I were a drug lord, I wouldn't ride the expensive bike. In order to launder the funds, I'd place a bike shop and start the speculation game and sell already expensive bikes at a crazy markup and drive the price crisis even higher by incentivizing that brands sell already expensive things even more expensive. Kinda explains why the sport is as it is currently.
Drug Cartel bike- I think I'd go with the Pinarello Dogma X in Xolar Black. You never know when you need to get fast and for how long if you are being chased.
#captioncompetition plastic wrap around your greens makes them more aerodynamic and saves about 12% of intestinal friction resistance when you eat them. UCI might ban this pretty soon though.
Definitely the Damien Hirst Trek Madone - [$500,000] ridden by Lance Armstrong in 2009 - although it would be slightly conspicuous at your local Club rides 😆
It would be worth taking about regulating cat4 bike races to make it more accessible I.e - no aero socks or carbon wheels for example. Turning up to a race when someone is on geraint thomas' ex team bike and all manner of aero kit may put some people off.
Just watched the Annapurna video. Looked like a fantastic ride. Watching all these videos you really should do a video about all the filmographers who go with you. They make some beautiful films! And must be pretty brave!
This might be a good annual holiday segment, the making of videos from the past year along with the out-takes, mistakes, and extras not originally seen.
If I were a "Cycling Drug Lord" I would use a recumbent trike, that way I could use the boom as storage as well as designing an insert for those 26x4 inch fat tires.
If I was drug lord I would ride an SWORKS Aethos, but have a custom paint job with portraits of Pablo Escobar, Frank Lucas, El Chapo and other notable drug lords. The background would be hundred dollar bills, lines of coke, cannabis and other drugs and paraphernalia. The helmet and shoes would match the bike with images of fictional drug lords like Tony Montana, and Walter White.
Just as Manon says "hold your pelvis in a fixed position" and add played and the first image was the words "72 balls". I was eating my lunch,🤣 now i am picking it out of my keyboard!
Hey Si and Manon just so you’re aware if not already. I’ve been blessed to win that amazing Orbea Gain. Still waiting for it. Had a set of bib tights and Jersey as courtesy for waiting from Orbea Think it would be fitting to have the bike with some GCN Gear Maybe Contents on GCN still amazing by the way. Thanks
If you have a D shaped seat post, cut a wine cork in half (or a smaller section as required) and tape it to the back of the post where you want to mount the light. Hey Presto - a round post.
Or ebay. I've bought two bikes on ebay and built two with parts (new / unused) I bought on ebay. The most expensive one was the TT bike with dura-ace that cost me £800 to build (excluding wheels because I've already got plenty)
Walmart's got some interesting "Mongoose" brand bikes with Aluminum frames (pronounced "a-lume-i-numb here in the states) for about $150. If you end up liking cycling, you can just replace the parts as they wear out and end up with a pretty reasonable bike.
@@chuckmccracken4136 interesting fact. Aluminium was discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy. A Cornishman who is from my home town of Penzance. He named it aluminum. So actually Americans are closer to the original pronunciation and spelling than us. Give yourselves a pat on your back.
Ex-prosecutor here (spent the 1990s in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office): Bikes were routinely used by drug dealers here and probably still are. In fact, ‘90s Brooklyn had the phenomenon of the bike by shooting (I prosecuted a couple of those cases).
A small piece of chain is used to thread a line down through the mast of a sailing boat. The weight makes it drop the nylon line down from top to bottom. Some of us are much older than Barcelona by Queen!!
The BEST mood I'm in ANYTIME ANYWHERE is when I GET where/when I get, by bike! It's the dopamine, we're in constant dopamine "reward" FROM the work put in! It's NATURAL dopamine from effort so yeah, being happier than MOST has to have an effect on a social level! Also, we stress less DUE to the positive overall effects on the body, brain, NATURE connection. It's just, a BETTER "lifestyle!"👍🚴❤♾🚴♾😉
Simon: "Don't pay a local bike shop for maintenance and repairs. I'll just bodge it together with some zip ties, and you can use the money you save to buy giant sunglasses or some hideous Crocs. £13,000 bicycles aren't too expensive though."
We’re not built to be sedentary, and much of society’s anxiety is excess energy. Strenuous exercise both expels that excess energy and make you physically and mentally more healthy. So in essence, all exercise will make you able to be a better person.
Bikes have got more expensive, but so has everything else. I don’t have superstar bike money, or needs. But I also don’t want to buy cheap, repeatedly. So I just got a £6k Ribble Endurance Ti, Ultegra Di2, Zipp 303 Firecrest for £3k ish. 25% discount from Ribble as they are about to refresh the range, and Cycle to Work Scheme. It’s way more than I’d pay otherwise, but good lord it’s lovely!
A 49yr old drug lord cyclist getting a 120 year prison sentence is clear evidence of how healthy cyclists can be even healthier with pharmaceutical assistance.
I agree with you comment/logic that we buy the latest bikes because they are an upgrade from or different than our current bike. I have a Colnago C64 with rim brakes and mechanical group set. IF I were to buy a new bike, it would have disc brakes and electronic group set. That's because my C64 is so amazing that why bother if I'm not going to disc and Di2.
I've circulated among professional/olympic athletes a fair amount when I lived in Colorado Springs, including snowboarders, kayakers, runners, and cyclists. The ones you would recognize as arrogant were the cyclists. I have only ever been fat-shamed by a cyclist. Any personal accomplishment of which I was proud (like the time on my best century ride) are beyond a cyclist's ability to share happiness. Only the cyclists said "You can't come with us" whereas the snowboarders and kayakers were delighted to spend time with amateurs and hobbyists. If you want to know why no one cares when cyclists get hit by cars, you can look at your professionals and how they treat ordinary people.
Now, that’s a great idea. Do a comparison of the lower end/entry level bikes from the major manufacturers. I ride a Specialized Sirrus X, not their top of the line, but it’s not a Eurobike. How would it compare to similar offerings from other manufacturers? The bikes they offer that us blue collar types can afford.
I don't want to 'upgrade' to disc brake bikes but the bike industry is not giving me a choice. The amount of new frames that are disc only is growing all the time and funnily enough they are more expensive
Really does not surprise me that a drug lord would ride the most expensive blingiest bike possible. It is the equivalent to them driving around in high end mercs and range rovers with blacked out windows and tinted plates. I’d stick to my nerdy looking Rdgeback hybrid with triple chainrings, full mudguards and pannier rack. Completely anonymous 😅
"No one can rip you off if you refuse to buy their products." Such a statement assumes everyone just has the means to afford the bike they might want or need when, in actuality, they might not. Also, suggesting that people not buy bikes isn't the best way to promote the idea that people should get into cycling or support local bikes shops.
Yeah, it's kind of saying that poor people should just stay away from cycling. It's a long way from the affordable cycling for all message that we need. Maybe if I'd been getting free top end bikes for years, then I'd lose touch with reality for ordinary people as well.
Content idea… for winter cross training, why not try indoor bouldering? Good chance to try out those pull-ups in the real world. And it’s an amazing core workout. Connor would just reach up….
#ifiwasadruglord I'd ride the Aston Martin colab bike. That custom fit, the handlebar leather, the box for smuggling your bike/drugs Defo bling factor too
It is interesting that you talk about drug lords and have a "Chopp5r" number plate on the shelf. "Chopper" Read was a well known villain in Melbourne who, on one of his terms in Pentridge Prison, sliced off his ears to look more fearsome! I suspect that it also helped with being more aero on the bike, but I am really not sure Chopper would ride a modern bike more likely a Raleigh Chopper.
Caption: After winning his latest challenge against GCN-Presenter Oliver Bridgewood, Pogacar offers to share his secret: "Do you want to know, how I broke Ollie?!"
My drug lord bike would be an blinged out Caynon mountain e-bike. Cops would be chasing you and you could just take a left, straight into the woods and you could get away. The key is to be just be good, technically speaking. Get through basically anything with those things.
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What bike would you ride if you wanted to be a stealthy criminal? 🥷
probably something along the lines of an E-dutch bike.
Well I feel like Manon has thought a little too hard about this. Might have to call Interpol
Black Canyon Aeroad w/ ENVE 8.9
Wym _if?_
Murdered out unrestricted ebike.
Can't help but admire the professionalism of these two, knowing what was about to drop. Such is the quality of GCN presenters. Thank you.
*Actual conversation with a fellow shopper at a bike shop in Winnipeg, Canada.*
(Fellow shopper and I are looking at a fancy gravel bike on display)
Me: That's a nice bike
Fellow Shopper: I have one just like it, I gave a guy 5 bits for it.
Me: Bit? What's a bit?
Fellow Shopper: Oh, a bit is some crystal meth, I'm a drug dealer.
Nah, you made that up
Excellent - I finally won a GCN competition. Thanks GCN and Mous
I just imagine a spur saddle rider crashing and quoting Davish Krail: "it came from ... behind" 😁
Well... Si's jingle ending is probably what it sounds like if this saddle spur thing does not end up behind you... xD
26:05 Barcelona was a great album, not by Queen, but by Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury and Spanish soprano,Montserrat Caballé. When I was introduced to the album in 1989 as a high school junior (then dating a Spanish exchange student from Tarragona [just south of Barcelona]), I fell in love with not just the title track, but the whole album. The combination of both Mercury and Caballé won me over then and still does today.
Careful with those dryer sheets! Don't use on any synthetics including bike kit. They work on the same principle as fabric softener and coat the fibers with a lipid-based (read: fatty) substance that reduces the static buildup but also destroys any performance characters of technical fibers.
I think the problem with bike prices is the gap between junk dept store bikes, and a decent, but basic road bike.
A road bike with Sora parts, and cable disc brakes starts around 1500cad. When I bought my first road bike about 18 years ago, it was a specialized Allez triple, mostly sora 8 speed, Tiagra RD, and it was under 600CAD. Even accounting for inflation It shouldn’t be 2.5x the price. Cable disc brakes add a little, but they’re not that expensive.
That's very true, there is a middle ground that seems to have been lost. What do you think the fix to this is?
The crazy thing is you go to the independent brands and I can absolutely put together an indie titanium bike for less in index-linked terms than a comparable bike from 15 years ago. I think this is also true higher up in the more mass-market carbon frame space so long as you avoid a couple of the big brands (Specialized, Trek, I'm looking at you). But in that 1,000 to 2,000 range? It's really, really bad.
@@gcn I don't know, really. You can still get a decent flat-bar bike in that range, and I think most people will just end up sticking with flat bars for a lot longer before they _maybe_ eventually decide they want a proper road bike.
I'd like to see a real budget road groupset that simplifies even more. 1x (around 40t), 8-10 speeds with a focus on the low end. (less speeds is fine as long as there's low enough gears. A beginner doesn't need an 11t, could cut it off at 13-15t. I'll be a bit spinny pedaling down hills, but that's fine. Cable disc brakes are fine, though ideally they would set them up with more cable pull at the lever and make them compatible with hybrid bike brakes, since that'll make them feel less mushy. (I would like this to happen even on higher end groupsets, but everyone seems to be fixated on hydraulics) The shifter could be whatever's cheapest and works. The old Sora thumb lever STIs I had on my old 8 speed were fine, if that'll save a few bucks.
Can't see Manon on a moped BUT I can on a chic vintage Vespa scooter. Cool shades, sleeveless top and capri pants living la Dolce Vita!
The way things are going, my next bike will likely be custom steel. No proprietary parts and cable routing that will allow ease of home servicing. I took disc brakes on the chin, but there's no way I'm shelling out thousands for a bike with fully integrated front-end cabling. Even metal fabricators are at it now. Seems like a trend that's being forced on consumers. Some love it, but it will be interesting to see how the average consumer copes with it in the long term.
Welcome to the club brother. Nothing beats made to your body steel. Try to get a t47i bottom bracket on your custom
You don't need custom you just need Fairlight.
@@kevvjj2629 lol I took a look at those bikes they all have a 105kg rider weight limit aka they are junk. Custom steel is fine for 400 pound rider.
Made the same decision recently with US-built titanium. Doesn’t need to be custom if you get measurements right and a bike fit.
@@kevvjj2629 I've got a Strael v3.0 so yes totally agree. Hopefully they don't follow the trend.......fingers crossed!
I just went on a 30 mile ride with my squad last Sunday and we stopped for 2 separate individuals that needed help. One was a chain fix and the other didn't bring a pump. This was the 4rh time my unassuming tiny 8" carbon fiber lipstick pump helped someone other than myself. They had a 3 mile walk back to their car but my lipstick pump (ew, sounds weird) pumped enough air to ride slowly. I'm still glad I have it after 12 years owning it! WooHoo!
Make videos about how to navigate buying bikes and parts online. How to spot fakes and lemons 🍋 etc. Videos on how to do maintenance/ swaps on the entry level bikes. The tests you guys you guys do should include entry to mid-tier bikes 🚲 and show how that’s really what most people need. Wants vs Needs haha
I'm on Van Aert's side for Christmas, definitely. My usual 'celebration' is a week's training camp on Gran Canaria, avoiding as much of Christmas as humanly possible and drowning my frustration in my own sweat climbing the steepest hills I can find!
Sounds like a great time spent on the bike! Tell us you at least have a Christmas meal?
@@gcn I can assure you I eat every day, on and off the bike! 😉
As someone who commutes from Chipping Sodbury to Bath by bike twice a week, I wish it was only 5 miles away. Its between 16 and 20 depending on route choice. Thanks for the Sodbury Cycle Sport promo, I think!! 🤣
Not a flat commute either?👀
It's a relatively flat 20 miles on the bike path or 16 going via lansdown.
I should have copyrighted my photo 🤣
"No-one can rip you off if you refuse to buy their products" - words the bike industry needs to take to heart! Personally I'll be building my next bike out of slightly out of date compondnts (available really cheap and still lots of spares sitting in warehouses) a second hand frame (maybe) and cheap (yet nowadays really good) chinese wheels. The midrange of performance bikes is still either not addressed by the industry or too expensive
In all seriousness though, which auction site are the drug lord’s bikes going to end up on and how can I find the link? 😂😂😂
If it's Tucson on Saturday and live, I presume that it is the yearly Tour de Tucson comprising 5 mile (fun ride), half century (50 km/32 mile), full century (100 km/62 mile), and 104 mile bike races. Events include a bike expo Thursday through Saturday. In addition, I believe that Bob Roll and Christian Vande Velde are hosting a ride with the pros and Critium class this week. I am 65 (just turned) and will be riding for the first time ever and taking on the 104 mile full event. I am as always a big fan, and I hope to run into them sometime during the festivities! Looking forward to the content. Keep up the excellent work. BTW, tell them to take a ride on the Tucson Loop bike trail while they are here. Best paved bike trail in the world covering over a hundred miles in and around and circumnavigating Tucson, providing scenic desert landscapes, wildlife (coyotes, road runners, snakes, deer, etc), and paralleling four washes and rivers, which originally provided the water for humans to inhabit here. I was thinking for years that I should suggest you come out for the Loop if nothing else. I'll keep an eye out for them!
Looks like Olie was here and took 3rd place in his age group. 🎉 Way to go Olie! On a darker note, the results listed him as being from the US. 😮
My drug lord bike would be the Moots Routt CRD. Titanium Gravel option for the off-road getaway seems like a good option.
Hahaha we didn't think of that! A speedy getaway across all surfaces is a must 😂
While the song "Barcelona" indeed was featured in Queen's Greatest Hits III compilation, it's actually not a Queen song, but a collaboration between Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, originally released by them as a single and in an album with the same title. Besides Mercury, no other Queen members were involved.
Tut tut tut... Si really needs to listen to more queen 👀
I imagine he just skips to bicycle race ... I want to ride my bicycle ...
Asked to divulge his secret new superfood, Tadej responded that it would be kept under wraps.
Cycling improves you as a person, so you become your better self. It doesn't change your essential self, it only improves what is already there & doesn't make us better than Others. It makes a good person better but can't change a horrible person.
There is no essential self.
I've always thought that a squad of randonneurs would be extremely effective at drug trafficking. They can travel long distances with ease in all conditions, they can carry lots of stuff, and nobody would be suspicious of a bunch of older dudes in spandex and hi-vis vests.
Hahahaha! All those rando bags too, they've got the cargo space 😂
Wouldn't want to be using that Saddlespur seat if I was cyclocross racing, especially on the remounts.😳
😳
Ouch...
The bounce(fabric softener) segment was hilarious. I never realized people had no idea what they were. You could throw it in your bag for a nice smell
I've heard that they also work well for getting bugs off your head tube and teeth.
A mid 90's Landshark w/ alllllll the bling: Dura Ace STI, 32hole gl330 rims built by a certified Wheelsmith wheelsmith, silk sewups, SS bottle cages, a fancy Avocet bike computer and the best Taco Truck I could find as my sag wagon serving Pete's coffee
this is what happens when you get a proctologist to design a bike saddle
I just had a100km ride and said hello to around 20 people and also fixed a broken bike ,so yes cycling makes you more friendly.
I missed the show on being ‘ripped off’ but having caught up: when I returned to cycling aged 58 (2 years ago) I balked at spending £50 on a pair of cycling shoes (as an example) but now, I’ve learnt that good quality kit - costs. Just bought a pair of GTX winter shoes and what a difference! Toastie tootsies!! But, I do find that I am more willing to spend more than I ever thought I would because even my limited experience has taught me that quality costs. Search those sales, watch prices, buy when right and love your LBS.
If I were a drug lord, I wouldn't ride the expensive bike. In order to launder the funds, I'd place a bike shop and start the speculation game and sell already expensive bikes at a crazy markup and drive the price crisis even higher by incentivizing that brands sell already expensive things even more expensive. Kinda explains why the sport is as it is currently.
That was a wheely bright idea for that light fitting!
BA DUM SHHHHHH 🥁
Drug Cartel bike- I think I'd go with the Pinarello Dogma X in Xolar Black. You never know when you need to get fast and for how long if you are being chased.
#captioncompetition plastic wrap around your greens makes them more aerodynamic and saves about 12% of intestinal friction resistance when you eat them. UCI might ban this pretty soon though.
Simon. Barcelona wasn't a Queen track. It was Freddie Mercury and Montserrat
Caballé track.
We're eagerly awaiting the unveiling of Simon's nephew's bicycle. Our curiosity levels are off the charts!
Definitely the Damien Hirst Trek Madone - [$500,000] ridden by Lance Armstrong in 2009 - although it would be slightly conspicuous at your local Club rides 😆
My drug dealer bike would be something like a Moots 45 titanium gravel bike with Zipp race wheels - this bike is outrageously expensive for me 😂❤🎉
Si. Say something incorrect about star trek or dr who. It will make the Simpsons flaming feel like a gentle massage.
It would be worth taking about regulating cat4 bike races to make it more accessible I.e - no aero socks or carbon wheels for example. Turning up to a race when someone is on geraint thomas' ex team bike and all manner of aero kit may put some people off.
Around here most dealers seem to ride Carrera MTB's or the municipal hire bikes.
Simon. It’s peak down. 🎊 🎉
Just watched the Annapurna video. Looked like a fantastic ride. Watching all these videos you really should do a video about all the filmographers who go with you. They make some beautiful films! And must be pretty brave!
This might be a good annual holiday segment, the making of videos from the past year along with the out-takes, mistakes, and extras not originally seen.
A shame it's all coming to an end.
There are light mounts readily available online which mount on saddle rails, no need to 3d print.
Exactly I got one off Amazon for about a tenner for my Garmin Veria
Great seeing Manon here! Ya know, women in the office don't have to be like the coffee machine; you can have more than one. Great show.
Best benefit of electronic groupsets is definitely actually been able to shift onto the big ring when your hands are freezing!
Manon is now Matt Damon escaping on her moped from the CIA.
If I were a "Cycling Drug Lord" I would use a recumbent trike, that way I could use the boom as storage as well as designing an insert for those 26x4 inch fat tires.
Bontrager saddles also have the saddle screw holes to integrate with their Flare lights, looks slick 👌
If I was drug lord I would ride an SWORKS Aethos, but have a custom paint job with portraits of Pablo Escobar, Frank Lucas, El Chapo and other notable drug lords. The background would be hundred dollar bills, lines of coke, cannabis and other drugs and paraphernalia. The helmet and shoes would match the bike with images of fictional drug lords like Tony Montana, and Walter White.
Just as Manon says "hold your pelvis in a fixed position" and add played and the first image was the words "72 balls". I was eating my lunch,🤣 now i am picking it out of my keyboard!
Hey Si and Manon just so you’re aware if not already. I’ve been blessed to win that amazing Orbea Gain. Still waiting for it. Had a set of bib tights and Jersey as courtesy for waiting from Orbea Think it would be fitting to have the bike with some GCN Gear Maybe Contents on GCN still amazing by the way. Thanks
If you have a D shaped seat post, cut a wine cork in half (or a smaller section as required) and tape it to the back of the post where you want to mount the light. Hey Presto - a round post.
Now that’s a ‘why didn’t I think of that!’ HACK in the spirit of hack/bodge of old
3 weeks in a row about bikes being too expensive. How about some videos on the best sub £1000 bikes? And videos on cheaper parts and equipment
Or ebay. I've bought two bikes on ebay and built two with parts (new / unused) I bought on ebay. The most expensive one was the TT bike with dura-ace that cost me £800 to build (excluding wheels because I've already got plenty)
Walmart's got some interesting "Mongoose" brand bikes with Aluminum frames (pronounced "a-lume-i-numb here in the states) for about $150. If you end up liking cycling, you can just replace the parts as they wear out and end up with a pretty reasonable bike.
@@chuckmccracken4136 interesting fact. Aluminium was discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy. A Cornishman who is from my home town of Penzance. He named it aluminum. So actually Americans are closer to the original pronunciation and spelling than us. Give yourselves a pat on your back.
Sorry Si, Barcelona was a Freddie solo hit not a band song.
Ex-prosecutor here (spent the 1990s in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office): Bikes were routinely used by drug dealers here and probably still are. In fact, ‘90s Brooklyn had the phenomenon of the bike by shooting (I prosecuted a couple of those cases).
Fascinating, did you ever see which bikes were being used?
@@gcn Typically mountain bikes or BMX bikes, and those were generally stolen from the real owners at that.
A small piece of chain is used to thread a line down through the mast of a sailing boat. The weight makes it drop the nylon line down from top to bottom. Some of us are much older than Barcelona by Queen!!
Pedantic I know but Si is wrong again. 🤣 Barcelona was Freddie Mercury solo with Monserrat Caballe, and not a Queen song/album.
The BEST mood I'm in ANYTIME ANYWHERE is when I GET where/when I get, by bike! It's the dopamine, we're in constant dopamine "reward" FROM the work put in! It's NATURAL dopamine from effort so yeah, being happier than MOST has to have an effect on a social level! Also, we stress less DUE to the positive overall effects on the body, brain, NATURE connection. It's just, a BETTER "lifestyle!"👍🚴❤♾🚴♾😉
Bounce is a household staple in the USA similar to salt and Pepper 😂😊
Simon: "Don't pay a local bike shop for maintenance and repairs. I'll just bodge it together with some zip ties, and you can use the money you save to buy giant sunglasses or some hideous Crocs. £13,000 bicycles aren't too expensive though."
#captioncompetition "Pogacar not hampered by last minute champagne replacement"
We’re not built to be sedentary, and much of society’s anxiety is excess energy. Strenuous exercise both expels that excess energy and make you physically and mentally more healthy. So in essence, all exercise will make you able to be a better person.
I ride to work on an aero bike too. And there is definitely a place for that mount in the world 👍
We need a video about the SaddleSpur! Give them a chance to explain themselves lol
Barcelona - Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe, not a Queen song. Despite this slight discretion, still an enjoyable show!!! Thanks!
Bikes have got more expensive, but so has everything else.
I don’t have superstar bike money, or needs. But I also don’t want to buy cheap, repeatedly.
So I just got a £6k Ribble Endurance Ti, Ultegra Di2, Zipp 303 Firecrest for £3k ish.
25% discount from Ribble as they are about to refresh the range, and Cycle to Work Scheme.
It’s way more than I’d pay otherwise, but good lord it’s lovely!
#CaptionCompetition: Pogi's got his nutritional needs all wrapped up, and hopes they'll stay that way.
The saddle spur reminds me of Mac’s exercise bike in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Caption competition: "Pogi - already has White, already has Yellow, now going for the green!"
A 49yr old drug lord cyclist getting a 120 year prison sentence is clear evidence of how healthy cyclists can be even healthier with pharmaceutical assistance.
Yes Si (we) (Bristol) police watch GCN.
If I were a drug lord and not a poor public servant I’d defo ride that Aston Martin seen on GCN last week!
That saddle 😂 imagine using that and sprinting going for attack. That long thing will rub to your back 😵😂
As a successful stealthy criminal I can confirm the bike of choice is a Cannondale SuperSix Evo.
I agree with you comment/logic that we buy the latest bikes because they are an upgrade from or different than our current bike. I have a Colnago C64 with rim brakes and mechanical group set. IF I were to buy a new bike, it would have disc brakes and electronic group set. That's because my C64 is so amazing that why bother if I'm not going to disc and Di2.
Pendant corner - "Barcelona" wasn't a Queen track but Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé.
The answer is above Si's head...... A Raleigh Chopper...... I've seen a custom one, stretched with bigger wheels and is proper adult size.
man when i'm ''really'' training. i'm just grumpy all the time.
I've circulated among professional/olympic athletes a fair amount when I lived in Colorado Springs, including snowboarders, kayakers, runners, and cyclists. The ones you would recognize as arrogant were the cyclists. I have only ever been fat-shamed by a cyclist. Any personal accomplishment of which I was proud (like the time on my best century ride) are beyond a cyclist's ability to share happiness. Only the cyclists said "You can't come with us" whereas the snowboarders and kayakers were delighted to spend time with amateurs and hobbyists. If you want to know why no one cares when cyclists get hit by cars, you can look at your professionals and how they treat ordinary people.
Now, that’s a great idea. Do a comparison of the lower end/entry level bikes from the major manufacturers. I ride a Specialized Sirrus X, not their top of the line, but it’s not a Eurobike. How would it compare to similar offerings from other manufacturers? The bikes they offer that us blue collar types can afford.
The saddle spur might be aerodynamically good for attaching things like bikepacking saddle bag, extra bottles, rain jacket pouch.
Interesting! Does Ollie need to test it out? 👀
@@gcnYES!
Your hypothetical druglord cycling banter has me in stitches! The two of you are a hoot and a half. Si is half.
The finest people in the world are management consultants who moonlight as taxi drivers in their BMW powered white van with Audi transmission.
I guess I forget dryer sheets aren't a thing in other places
I don't want to 'upgrade' to disc brake bikes but the bike industry is not giving me a choice. The amount of new frames that are disc only is growing all the time and funnily enough they are more expensive
Really does not surprise me that a drug lord would ride the most expensive blingiest bike possible. It is the equivalent to them driving around in high end mercs and range rovers with blacked out windows and tinted plates. I’d stick to my nerdy looking Rdgeback hybrid with triple chainrings, full mudguards and pannier rack. Completely anonymous 😅
"No one can rip you off if you refuse to buy their products." Such a statement assumes everyone just has the means to afford the bike they might want or need when, in actuality, they might not. Also, suggesting that people not buy bikes isn't the best way to promote the idea that people should get into cycling or support local bikes shops.
Yeah, it's kind of saying that poor people should just stay away from cycling. It's a long way from the affordable cycling for all message that we need. Maybe if I'd been getting free top end bikes for years, then I'd lose touch with reality for ordinary people as well.
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the "halo" might increase drag, the "horn" might help reduce drag
but that aside.... most cyclist are better people
The Annapurna film is definitely worth a watch
If I was a drug lord, I'd get that Ducati mountain bike I've been eyeing for years but absolutely cannot afford
I would get the new Lotus bicycle because it is so fire with the black and gold scheme.
Content idea… for winter cross training, why not try indoor bouldering? Good chance to try out those pull-ups in the real world. And it’s an amazing core workout. Connor would just reach up….
Manon's waaaayyy too excited about that Saddle Spur. Guess that's Xmas sorted for her, then...
#captioncompetition Tadej Pogacar doing his part to save the oceans from plastic ✊
Slowindo; 100% bodge. Dude didn't look hard enough...I literally have a Burley hitch rear axle for my fatbike on order right now.
#ifiwasadruglord I'd ride the Aston Martin colab bike. That custom fit, the handlebar leather, the box for smuggling your bike/drugs Defo bling factor too
Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe. Barcelona. The entire opera is brilliant. That will be the soundtrack for todays ride.
It is interesting that you talk about drug lords and have a "Chopp5r" number plate on the shelf. "Chopper" Read was a well known villain in Melbourne who, on one of his terms in Pentridge Prison, sliced off his ears to look more fearsome! I suspect that it also helped with being more aero on the bike, but I am really not sure Chopper would ride a modern bike more likely a Raleigh Chopper.
Caption: After winning his latest challenge against GCN-Presenter Oliver Bridgewood, Pogacar offers to share his secret: "Do you want to know, how I broke Ollie?!"
Nice story about Juan Castillo! Us Castillos are awesome!
My drug lord bike would be an blinged out Caynon mountain e-bike. Cops would be chasing you and you could just take a left, straight into the woods and you could get away. The key is to be just be good, technically speaking. Get through basically anything with those things.