I loved sports as a kid but I wasn't very good at them. Got my first road bike at age 12 and all of a sudden my scrawny body and long thick thighs became a noticeable advantage! I loved to explore and travel long distances on my red Raleigh and forty seven years later that joy is still there. That cycling buzz never gets old.
I was diagnosed with severe Major Depresson Disorder a 2 years ago. I was a mess and my life wasn't really worth much at the time. My friend introduced me to cycling and it has changed my life forever. I can't remember feeling this good ever in my life. Bikes will save the world, I have no idea how... but I know they will.
Yes, I met my significant other on a group ride 10 years ago, pulling her through a nasty headwind and sharing a beer afterwards. We've been together ever since!
I met my significant other on a group ride too! Of course we broke up on a group ride a few years later. Oh well. Oxtocin comes, oxytocin goes... Still friends, though! 🙂
Hello GCN! This is Marcus from Southern California (8 year viewer) with a contest idea. As much we all love your trips to exotic and beautiful cycling destinations (Italy, France, Mallorca, etc), most of us don't live in such amazing locations. BUT, I'm sure many of us are proud of where we live and the relatively great places to ride! For example, I live in a boring town called Banning, CA (NOT a prime destination for cycling tourism I can assure you), but we are surrounded with beautiful 10,000 to 11,000 foot snow covered peaks, low traffic roads, incredible mountain biking trails that are minutes away, Big Bear Lake is only 1 1/2 hours drive, and challenging climbs within 1-2 miles of my house. So, my idea is that you start a contest where viewers write in and pitch their home towns for 1 or 2 GCN presenters to come and visit! If you do come, I vote Si. Thoughts?
My wife and I met in 2010 at a club ride. I ordinarily would never have been there. I lived some thirty miles or so away. I had no car at the time (bicycle and motorcycle only), and there was plenty of great riding in my own area. But a friend kept trying to get me to go to that particular ride, and one day finally showed up to drive me and my bike out there. There was this really attractive woman in the club who immediately won my attention not only with her beautiful eyes and incredible physique, but also her fabulous sense of humor, and unusual sense of cycling fashion…which I guess sort of fell back into the humor category. A week later, she brought her bikes into the shop I was managing, for new tires….at closing time on a Sunday. We began dating almost immediately afterwards, and married two years later. We’ve taken a lot of great cycling road trips, ridden many charity events, and watched a lot of races both over the internet and in person, together. We still ride bikes together every chance we get, and we still watch The GCN Show together every week.
I found love in my cycling group. We had a lady join our group and her and I would do extra kilometres after the group’s ride. Then we started riding together ourselves and on one ride I told her at coffee that I wanted to kiss her while we were at a lookout on the ride. She said that she had been wondering what that might be like. Three and a half years on… ❤
I’ll do the zone 2 training experiment. 20 years no sport, 7 years of having kids and 4 years of home office. and recently bought an orbea terra to fight the kilos. :)
Contract is already signed probably. But yeah this is ridiculous. Also, camelback doesn’t make big enough bottles so they’re already out for long rides.
Now let's applaud the first man openly living in a house number 11 to 20 and who's favorite dish is Spaghetti with tomato sauce cycling around the world.
My aunt & uncle and my mum & dad met through their local CTC group (now Cycling UK) back in the early 1950s. A total of perhaps 135 years of marriage between them. Beat that!
It’s the generational change that gives me hope for the future. Lance was an American Boomer Capitalist who succeeded at the game with the rules of play at that time. Winning at all costs is an American Boomer Capitalist mantra. Don’t hate the players, hate the game and nurture the change to the world we want to see. It is such a refreshing difference and I think Lance recognizes that.
Give Si a bodge for running butyl inner tubes after he has spent years along with GCN singing the praises of, 1. Tubeless set ups, 2. Latex tubes, and 3. TPU tubes. What about the rolling resistance Si?
Butyl tubes give the best ride quality out of all those options IMO. I like TPU better myself, but I miss how butyl hit potholes. They should come out with a thicker TPU tube that dampens road hits a little better. Up the 45g cyclocross tube to 55g or something, I'd buy it.
I think you might be confusing me with other presenters! I don't think I've ever even talked about TPU tubes! And I'm happy rolling whatever on my road bike, it's off road where I'm tubeless through and through. Cheers, Si
Swimming mice? I now have Christopher Walken talking in my head. 2 mice fell in to a vat of cream. The first mouse drowned but that second mouse - he kept swimming and swimming until he churned that cream in to butter and climbed on out.
My missus took up cycling just 3 years ago and now drops me regularly during the seasons (Oct-March) 100km Sportives down here in Cape Town. She has also bought herself a fancy pants Liv with all that Di2 stuff etc, whereas I've always been a 2nd hand 1st gen tech man! Trust me, in these circumstances, the love hormone needs to come in pints to maintain a happy road cycling marriage!
@@gcn Definitely! But more importantly, because we now both cycle, the bikes go on the back of the car for our frequent South Africa road trips and when there is a formal race, we make a weekend away. I certainly cycle more regularly (and as a result have become a fitter, better cyclist), now that my wife has joined the fraternity.. PS spectacular cycling down here in the Western Cape (with a great sportive season Oct-March). GCN should come down for a taste
I didn’t like the new sound, so I compared with old shows, and clearly the sound of the new mikes is metallic and muffled, and it’s harsh to the ears, through my AirPods. It may be better for the podcast, but doesn’t suit UA-cam. Sorry to be negative, I hope that you can take it as « constructive criticism » :-) the show is still entertaining !
Two things: 1. A good friend met and married a lovely lady who he met on our Monday road ride. 2. I love cycling, of all types, because of the freedom and time to think.
I met my partner on a group ride! We've been together 13 years and still ride together every Sunday. Also, I'm definitely one of those people who feels the "cycling buzz" - moreso with intervals or short, fast rides than long, slow distance. (Long slow distance makes me "slightly grumpy" like Simon.) I do a GCN Training video once a week, and it's always a mood-booster.
I once found a mouse swimming round a bucket of water in my garden. It couldn't get out. I reached in to give it a hand and it very socially ran up my arm and jumped from my shoulder into the grass. (Don't worry, the bucket got emptied.)
The study about oxytocin really struck a chord with me. And it kind of answers a few questions I had about things that I thought I was just weird about ;) Firstly, I'm far from a very social person but I do enjoy the competition and excitement of a group ride with others who ride at my speed or push me to ride faster. The thing that has always surprised me about myself is that after a ride I very thoroughly enjoy standing around and chatting with the other riders - it can be small talk, or it can be biking-related (usually), or it might be related to other sports we are doing, or anything really. As kind of an anti-social introvert, I really enjoy the camaraderie and chatting after a ride. Which really surprises myself. It kind of makes sense now, after listening to this episode about the oxytocin study. The other thing is, well, hopefully it's not "TMI" and without being NSFW - the oxytocin study sure explains it also. My wife and I ride together often on weekends when the weather is nice. And usually after a ride we are both thoroughly soaked in sweat, kinda smelly from the effort, maybe a bit tired and worn out. Despite that - many times after a ride with my wife I find myself inexplicably uhm - amorous. Very much so. My wife thinks I am very weird because of this (okay, maybe she thinks I'm weird in general, but especially with this). But again, the "Love Hormone" boost from cycling sure makes a lot of sense in this context and explains my attitude after a ride. As always, really appreciate the GCN shows and you guys.
now the sound is not better than before you get those 400$ hipster mics. but that is to be expected, when you set them up like this (to far from the speakers mouth). please just go back to your previous shotgun mic audio setup. the sound back then did not need to be improved.
It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook
@@gcn It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook
@@gcn It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook
It made so much sense to me, when you talked about the different feelings you get on a long effort versus short intensity training ! I was watching your video while I had just chosen to not join my BF on a longer ride outside, and did a interval training indoor instead. I was feeling very low before training, and just after, on a "High", I really felt that I had made the right choice ! I was feeling great. I dont always come back as happy from a longer ride 😂.. Thanks for this video, loved every subject (and I'm not just telling you that out of my high 😂)
100% experienced the post ride "high/buzz". Even more so than after running. Even after my long rides, after which I'm completely knackered, I still feel mentally good. Haven't found extra "love" on my rides though... which my wife appreciates 😉 Overall though, if I don't exercise on the regular I get to feeling low. Need the bike and the weights to make sad voices go away.
Oxytocin.....cycling has always been about escapism and getting naturally high through exercise for me as a way of coping with life, so I've definitely noticed that long slow rides don't give me what I'm after in that regard compared with a short and vigorous workout type ride. Something that really becomes apparent when trying to adopt recommendations like the zone 2 riding mentioned on other videos. So, riding for mental well being like I do maybe doesn't fit in with the type of riding that people 'without issues' would be recommended?
I can genuinely relate to this. Since starting to ride and run and therefore becoming fitter, I've become MUCH more of a social person. It does help that I run with a club based in a craft beer and pizza bar though....
I thought we had votes the new mics off the island. Maybe they sound better in studio but no difference watching. And Si might get injured doing a face plant into his. What was the tally on comments?
This video has mic or room noise. Put them in a relatively soundproof box like an ice chest and see if you still get noise. Remove the laptops and see if the noise goes away. Then check the cable routing and maybe use a different mic preamp/adc? For visuals, perhaps move them forward (towards the camera) of your desk and lower them or raise them so they don't show up on camera?
i would be surprised, if you get a decent signal out of an sm7b, that is positioned that far from the source. i guess you have to crank up the preamp to the max for hearing the voices. but that amplifies the backgrund noise too.
@@easy2prononce I think you are right. 😞. There's also some low-level bleed through (or purposefully placed) music in the background - I can hear it during the discussion of oxytocin/vampires/jugular vein. Maybe the noise it coming in from the mix and not the mics or room?
It might be true that "love hormone" and all the other things might sprawl when doing exercise.... for some. Im in the category of people that struggles with "severe" mental health issues, and altho i like going out on my gravel bike, my MTB or just taking a walk in the forest, as is often the "band aid" cure regarding sport and mental health issues, the process of just "getting there" and having to be social etc., is often more of a deterrence than a motivation. Yes, we are all different and not all with mental health problems face the same issues or degrees of the same issue. But i just wish that the "go out and get some fresh air" attitude could be changed, cause that line more often than not, does the opposite than what it might be ment as.
I watched a program on daytime tv where they measured peoples heart rate when they looked a certain colour schemes and changes into their homes. Oxytocin and dopamine are released when you make postive changes to your house and this was measured by the experiment. That got me thinking I wonder if buying a new bike intially, due to the same chemicals being released into the blood stream, would improve someones performance. So is it that Olly's new found form could be corrulated to all the new bikes he gets to ride? Would be a very interesting video to watch on how much a bike that someone asphetically likes, improves how they perform on it even if it does not have any extra tech to support the improvement.
Ditch the vanity mics. Get some off camera shotgun mics or better wireless mics similar. You don't need them. They inhibit interaction,. Look a bit try hard.
In germany, you can get a soothing high from April 1st on 😊 no pedalling needed, but in combination, it could make for a very relaxing and fun time afterwards 😊
The cycling buzz most definitely a thing. I get it after most rides but especially the high intensity ones. Cycling is a key part of my regimen to maintain positive mental health.
after multiple references to ballet I'm looking forward to the inevitable crossover with Si & a host of the Global Ballet Network (actual ballet youtube channels probably exist)
I don't think I ever manage more than zone 2, but I love that cycling (almost) always makes me feel better and elevates my mood. It's also often the cure for a headache/ backache. Just ride till you work through it. And drink enough not to get a rebound dehydration headache :-)
Share with us why you love cycling 😍
I lost almost 40kg and found love. What can I tell: all those long endurance rides paid off ;)
I do sports for my male ego..
Because I would look better in the eyes of women..
Because I could protect my life better..
Please do a compilation of the best out-of-context quotes at the end of the year
I loved sports as a kid but I wasn't very good at them. Got my first road bike at age 12 and all of a sudden my scrawny body and long thick thighs became a noticeable advantage! I loved to explore and travel long distances on my red Raleigh and forty seven years later that joy is still there. That cycling buzz never gets old.
Just cos!
I was diagnosed with severe Major Depresson Disorder a 2 years ago. I was a mess and my life wasn't really worth much at the time. My friend introduced me to cycling and it has changed my life forever. I can't remember feeling this good ever in my life. Bikes will save the world, I have no idea how... but I know they will.
Yes, I met my significant other on a group ride 10 years ago, pulling her through a nasty headwind and sharing a beer afterwards. We've been together ever since!
🤗
I met my significant other on a group ride too! Of course we broke up on a group ride a few years later. Oh well. Oxtocin comes, oxytocin goes... Still friends, though! 🙂
Hello GCN! This is Marcus from Southern California (8 year viewer) with a contest idea. As much we all love your trips to exotic and beautiful cycling destinations (Italy, France, Mallorca, etc), most of us don't live in such amazing locations. BUT, I'm sure many of us are proud of where we live and the relatively great places to ride! For example, I live in a boring town called Banning, CA (NOT a prime destination for cycling tourism I can assure you), but we are surrounded with beautiful 10,000 to 11,000 foot snow covered peaks, low traffic roads, incredible mountain biking trails that are minutes away, Big Bear Lake is only 1 1/2 hours drive, and challenging climbs within 1-2 miles of my house. So, my idea is that you start a contest where viewers write in and pitch their home towns for 1 or 2 GCN presenters to come and visit! If you do come, I vote Si. Thoughts?
I love this idea because they could give a shout out to your local bike shop, too!
Caption competition; "Hey Lotte, did you hear Simon Richardson has a sock sponsor?" "It must be Giant".
🤣
My wife and I met in 2010 at a club ride.
I ordinarily would never have been there. I lived some thirty miles or so away. I had no car at the time (bicycle and motorcycle only), and there was plenty of great riding in my own area.
But a friend kept trying to get me to go to that particular ride, and one day finally showed up to drive me and my bike out there.
There was this really attractive woman in the club who immediately won my attention not only with her beautiful eyes and incredible physique, but also her fabulous sense of humor, and unusual sense of cycling fashion…which I guess sort of fell back into the humor category.
A week later, she brought her bikes into the shop I was managing, for new tires….at closing time on a Sunday.
We began dating almost immediately afterwards, and married two years later.
We’ve taken a lot of great cycling road trips, ridden many charity events, and watched a lot of races both over the internet and in person, together.
We still ride bikes together every chance we get, and we still watch The GCN Show together every week.
This is brilliant ❤
This is amazing! Sounds like fate 👌Thanks for supporting what we do 🙌
Thanks for mentioning the passing of Christopher Barker. A true legend of Australian cycling.
I found love in my cycling group. We had a lady join our group and her and I would do extra kilometres after the group’s ride. Then we started riding together ourselves and on one ride I told her at coffee that I wanted to kiss her while we were at a lookout on the ride. She said that she had been wondering what that might be like. Three and a half years on… ❤
Love it!
Love to hear it 🙌 May there be miles of open road ahead of you!
I’ll do the zone 2 training experiment. 20 years no sport, 7 years of having kids and 4 years of home office. and recently bought an orbea terra to fight the kilos. :)
What happened to the kids after those 7 years? You gave them back?
This is great to hear! Best of luck with it
We miss the App. 😢😢😢
So do we 😢
The saga of the water bottles hads reached a point where you should just ask another supplier.
They'll be worth the wait 👌
Contract is already signed probably. But yeah this is ridiculous. Also, camelback doesn’t make big enough bottles so they’re already out for long rides.
I get a buzz/high after every ride. Really does help with mood.
Sounds great! Does it matter what style of ride you've been on?
Now let's applaud the first man openly living in a house number 11 to 20 and who's favorite dish is Spaghetti with tomato sauce cycling around the world.
That brief segment of the show was utterly pointless.
Caption competition: ‘hey have you heard Dan Lloyd is restarting the Cervelo test team’……
‘PHAHAHAHAHAAH’
My aunt & uncle and my mum & dad met through their local CTC group (now Cycling UK) back in the early 1950s. A total of perhaps 135 years of marriage between them. Beat that!
Caption comp: "phew, big route today!"; " Nah, it was just a liddle trek!!"
Ayy! Nice one 🤣
Caption “Hey did you hear Lance hates seeing people happy”
It’s the generational change that gives me hope for the future.
Lance was an American Boomer Capitalist who succeeded at the game with the rules of play at that time.
Winning at all costs is an American Boomer Capitalist mantra.
Don’t hate the players, hate the game and nurture the change to the world we want to see.
It is such a refreshing difference and I think Lance recognizes that.
Guys. Please ditch the mics !
Give Si a bodge for running butyl inner tubes after he has spent years along with GCN singing the praises of, 1. Tubeless set ups, 2. Latex tubes, and 3. TPU tubes.
What about the rolling resistance Si?
Butyl tubes give the best ride quality out of all those options IMO. I like TPU better myself, but I miss how butyl hit potholes. They should come out with a thicker TPU tube that dampens road hits a little better. Up the 45g cyclocross tube to 55g or something, I'd buy it.
I think you might be confusing me with other presenters! I don't think I've ever even talked about TPU tubes! And I'm happy rolling whatever on my road bike, it's off road where I'm tubeless through and through. Cheers, Si
Swimming mice? I now have Christopher Walken talking in my head.
2 mice fell in to a vat of cream. The first mouse drowned but that second mouse - he kept swimming and swimming until he churned that cream in to butter and climbed on out.
Hahaha! That’s a good one! I could just hear him telling that story!
Think we all read that in his voice 🤣
The quick cut to Ollie, “boring antisocial mice” 😂
Guys, the microphones aren't performance enhancing. They do NOT sound better.
I don't think they're worth the silly look, but they clearly have a more detailed sound with a wider frequency range.
The sound is also out of sync now
@@traderz13And theres an annoying static noise too now.
Static, heavy breathing, distorted frequency... it's not great
They do
My missus took up cycling just 3 years ago and now drops me regularly during the seasons (Oct-March) 100km Sportives down here in Cape Town. She has also bought herself a fancy pants Liv with all that Di2 stuff etc, whereas I've always been a 2nd hand 1st gen tech man! Trust me, in these circumstances, the love hormone needs to come in pints to maintain a happy road cycling marriage!
The love hormone does come in pints doesn’t it? #beergoggles 😉
Great to hear the two of you bonded over cycling 🙌 Do you think it makes the both of you better cyclists? Bit of friendly competition
@@gcn Definitely! But more importantly, because we now both cycle, the bikes go on the back of the car for our frequent South Africa road trips and when there is a formal race, we make a weekend away. I certainly cycle more regularly (and as a result have become a fitter, better cyclist), now that my wife has joined the fraternity.. PS spectacular cycling down here in the Western Cape (with a great sportive season Oct-March). GCN should come down for a taste
I didn’t like the new sound, so I compared with old shows, and clearly the sound of the new mikes is metallic and muffled, and it’s harsh to the ears, through my AirPods. It may be better for the podcast, but doesn’t suit UA-cam. Sorry to be negative, I hope that you can take it as « constructive criticism » :-) the show is still entertaining !
Thanks for the feedback 🙌 We're always keen to hear from the community on how we can improve 🙌
The Mic's are still hideous 😂
But the sound is ♥️
@@gcnno it doesn't. All the audio has static and consonant pops. Sounds a bit like someone's talking loudly straight into your ear.
@@gcnJust get some pop filters for those mics. They are worth it.
@@gcn Get rid of the unnecessary mics! Trying to solve a problem that never existed.
@@gcn Wrong. It still sounds the same... especially as most people listen to it on crappy computer speakers... lose the mics.
Two things:
1. A good friend met and married a lovely lady who he met on our Monday road ride.
2. I love cycling, of all types, because of the freedom and time to think.
I know it's been said before, but VDP in that white world champ's kit and the white Aeroad just looks so good. Born to do it!
He's looking pretty sharp right!
#CaptionCompetition:
After racing, Lotte Kopecky didn't even have a Lidl of that Oxytocin...
I met my partner on a group ride! We've been together 13 years and still ride together every Sunday.
Also, I'm definitely one of those people who feels the "cycling buzz" - moreso with intervals or short, fast rides than long, slow distance. (Long slow distance makes me "slightly grumpy" like Simon.) I do a GCN Training video once a week, and it's always a mood-booster.
#CaptionCompetition:
Lotte: "Come on Chiara! Don't tell me Elisa's joke makes you laugh a Lidl !..."
Sound is off, you need to back the mics away so you dont just hear them breathing into it.
I tried 100g of carbs per hour for a 90 minute turbo session. Unfortunately it was haribo and I'd finished it all within the hour.
😂😂
Haribo training from the childhood on is what I think makes me consume 120g/h without any problems.
I found love on a bike ride! I fell in love with my bike!
Like so many of us 👍👍
I once found a mouse swimming round a bucket of water in my garden. It couldn't get out. I reached in to give it a hand and it very socially ran up my arm and jumped from my shoulder into the grass. (Don't worry, the bucket got emptied.)
Is the mic broken, what is that hissing sound?
Something is definitely off. Sounds like someone's cooking a fry the whole way through the episode.
Caption competition "look it's Dan Lloyd in white bib shorts"
😂
Nobody wants to see that... again 👀
mice are actually pretty good swimmers - just like rats. They can swim and tread water for up to 3 days and can even swim under water for a few mins.
What does your orientation have to do with an endurance event?
It's all about representation. Cycling has historic issues with this. People like Andrew are going a great deal to change the sport for the better 🙌
The study about oxytocin really struck a chord with me.
And it kind of answers a few questions I had about things that I thought I was just weird about ;)
Firstly, I'm far from a very social person but I do enjoy the competition and excitement of a group ride with others who ride at my speed or push me to ride faster.
The thing that has always surprised me about myself is that after a ride I very thoroughly enjoy standing around and chatting with the other riders - it can be small talk, or it can be biking-related (usually), or it might be related to other sports we are doing, or anything really.
As kind of an anti-social introvert, I really enjoy the camaraderie and chatting after a ride. Which really surprises myself.
It kind of makes sense now, after listening to this episode about the oxytocin study.
The other thing is, well, hopefully it's not "TMI" and without being NSFW - the oxytocin study sure explains it also.
My wife and I ride together often on weekends when the weather is nice.
And usually after a ride we are both thoroughly soaked in sweat, kinda smelly from the effort, maybe a bit tired and worn out.
Despite that - many times after a ride with my wife I find myself inexplicably uhm - amorous. Very much so. My wife thinks I am very weird because of this (okay, maybe she thinks I'm weird in general, but especially with this).
But again, the "Love Hormone" boost from cycling sure makes a lot of sense in this context and explains my attitude after a ride.
As always, really appreciate the GCN shows and you guys.
now the sound is not better than before you get those 400$ hipster mics. but that is to be expected, when you set them up like this (to far from the speakers mouth). please just go back to your previous shotgun mic audio setup. the sound back then did not need to be improved.
Also need to dial the lighting down a bit too, looks like a flood light 😂😂
Don't take up ballet, Si, the best you can hope for is to graduate with a 2-2. 🙂
I didn’t find love by cycling, but love is what got me cycling
❤
Oooo do tell us more! 👀
It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook
@@gcn It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook
@@gcn It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook
If i forgot about the mics, i remembered them when Si could not show his shirt. I still dont know what his shirt looks like.😂
Sweaty! That's what they look like 😂
l'enfer du Nord (Paris Roubaix)
It made so much sense to me, when you talked about the different feelings you get on a long effort versus short intensity training ! I was watching your video while I had just chosen to not join my BF on a longer ride outside, and did a interval training indoor instead. I was feeling very low before training, and just after, on a "High", I really felt that I had made the right choice ! I was feeling great. I dont always come back as happy from a longer ride 😂..
Thanks for this video, loved every subject (and I'm not just telling you that out of my high 😂)
Interval training definitely gives me a huge high. Just have to get past the point of "can't do this anymore"
That's part of the fun though isn't it! Pushing through and enjoying this part of the journey 🙌
That opening montage was amazing.
Glad you enjoyed it 🫡
Came here to say this, love the new format. Matches my excitement level for the GCN show every week
23:57 That’s basically how Carlton Kirby pronounces it anyway 😂
I am more social after a high intensity workout... But to be fair that could be because Im bragging about the high intensity workout 😂😂
100% experienced the post ride "high/buzz". Even more so than after running. Even after my long rides, after which I'm completely knackered, I still feel mentally good. Haven't found extra "love" on my rides though... which my wife appreciates 😉 Overall though, if I don't exercise on the regular I get to feeling low. Need the bike and the weights to make sad voices go away.
#CaptionCompetition - "Hey, Chiara, why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other Si!"
Oxytocin.....cycling has always been about escapism and getting naturally high through exercise for me as a way of coping with life, so I've definitely noticed that long slow rides don't give me what I'm after in that regard compared with a short and vigorous workout type ride. Something that really becomes apparent when trying to adopt recommendations like the zone 2 riding mentioned on other videos. So, riding for mental well being like I do maybe doesn't fit in with the type of riding that people 'without issues' would be recommended?
That keyboard looks incredible. I really want one.
Great hack right! Taking that Zwift messaging up a notch 👌
Glad you liked my tailwind tip. It does feel great when you finish a ride and you're smashing your overall average speed. 😂
Caption competition: "Did you hear Simon Richardson is taking up ballet?"
He had to give up the modern and tap. Something to do with ankles. . . .
Caption, did you see that Bambi bloke riding the wrong sections of the Paris-Roubaix 😂
Those microphones have to go. Can’t see your lovely T shirts
Don't worry. Head to gcn.eu/shop to see the t-shirts up close 😁
@@gcn or get rid of the unnecessary mics!? Trying to solve a problem that never existed.
I can genuinely relate to this. Since starting to ride and run and therefore becoming fitter, I've become MUCH more of a social person.
It does help that I run with a club based in a craft beer and pizza bar though....
I do now incorporate plenty of zone 2 into my training. But the lack of buzz after doing it is a major detractor
captioncompetition: Hey Chiara, have you heard Si's Scottish accent?
Seriously Si, that was worse than James Doohan in Star Trek. 🤣
2,763 days of living off a bicycle: nothing has contiributed more to my mental health. Ride more
❤ this!
I thought we had votes the new mics off the island. Maybe they sound better in studio but no difference watching. And Si might get injured doing a face plant into his. What was the tally on comments?
This video has mic or room noise. Put them in a relatively soundproof box like an ice chest and see if you still get noise. Remove the laptops and see if the noise goes away. Then check the cable routing and maybe use a different mic preamp/adc? For visuals, perhaps move them forward (towards the camera) of your desk and lower them or raise them so they don't show up on camera?
i would be surprised, if you get a decent signal out of an sm7b, that is positioned that far from the source. i guess you have to crank up the preamp to the max for hearing the voices. but that amplifies the backgrund noise too.
@@easy2prononce I think you are right. 😞. There's also some low-level bleed through (or purposefully placed) music in the background - I can hear it during the discussion of oxytocin/vampires/jugular vein. Maybe the noise it coming in from the mix and not the mics or room?
Si's Scottish accent isn't the worst I've heard. I hear much much worse when my Canadian in-laws come over to visit.
Don't start Si with the Canadians 🤣
Yes it's annoying. The more I cycle, the more I fall in love with GCN presenters.
We love you too 🙌
My Oxitocin is through the roof . My new Orbea arrived. First ride 👌😊 thank you GCN
Caption: it takes a Lotte of effort not to laugh at Lance’s comment about riders hugging it out
It might be true that "love hormone" and all the other things might sprawl when doing exercise.... for some.
Im in the category of people that struggles with "severe" mental health issues, and altho i like going out on my gravel bike, my MTB or just taking a walk in the forest, as is often the "band aid" cure regarding sport and mental health issues, the process of just "getting there" and having to be social etc., is often more of a deterrence than a motivation.
Yes, we are all different and not all with mental health problems face the same issues or degrees of the same issue.
But i just wish that the "go out and get some fresh air" attitude could be changed, cause that line more often than not, does the opposite than what it might be ment as.
Caption: Look, GCN Show is back with the silly mics! 😂
A good example of the cuddle chemical kicking in is si singing to James blunt and crying under his massive shades whilst riding the ultra gravel race.
I watched a program on daytime tv where they measured peoples heart rate when they looked a certain colour schemes and changes into their homes. Oxytocin and dopamine are released when you make postive changes to your house and this was measured by the experiment. That got me thinking I wonder if buying a new bike intially, due to the same chemicals being released into the blood stream, would improve someones performance. So is it that Olly's new found form could be corrulated to all the new bikes he gets to ride? Would be a very interesting video to watch on how much a bike that someone asphetically likes, improves how they perform on it even if it does not have any extra tech to support the improvement.
When I used to bike commute to work, I was always in a better mood versus when I had to drive. My wife even noticed the difference.
I'm catching up on this while warming up for a high intensity training session on a exercise bike in the gym 💀
I would love to see you come up and ride that bike path in Dumfries , there is some great riding around there
Connor looking like Bambi on Ice, bawahaha 😂
Can't believe Si doesnt ride tubeless; particularly with a channel sponsor who makes a decent sealant
Thanks for the video
No problem! It's our pleasure
“Love on a local group ride. Livin’ it up as my tyres go down” The unrecorded B side of Aerosmith’s classic
Ditch the vanity mics. Get some off camera shotgun mics or better wireless mics similar. You don't need them. They inhibit interaction,. Look a bit try hard.
The Merkx hour record has to be ridden on the same bike as Merkx rode. Chris Boardman had to have a frame made by Terry Dolan.
Explains why I feel so shit when I miss groups rides.
Yes, exercise is good for you it definitely lowers stress.
18:28 a little keyboard that attaches to you wahoo. 😂
#captioncompetition the ladies reel with laughter as they hear yet another hilariously witty dad joke 😊
The caption contest tangent - pretty sure EPO blocks oxytocin, explains his grumpy persona.
That and the fact that he’s always been that way (jerky). Even when he was a junior.
The oxytocin triggered by this episode did not offset my hatred for those damn microphones
Love hate relationship? 😵💫
If this video gets 5,000 likes, Si will record his beginning ballet classes.
😂
Swimming mice? We know what’s next: Triathlon mice!
The mics?.The sound wasnt that bad before
I wish Strava would also add like blue PR badges for personal best of the year..
In germany, you can get a soothing high from April 1st on 😊 no pedalling needed, but in combination, it could make for a very relaxing and fun time afterwards 😊
Is it just me or was Dan's volume a lot quieter than Si's in this episode?
#captioncompetition: Prize parity with the men's teams?? hahaha
Keep it hip with the times and call Rider's Rizz.
The cycling buzz most definitely a thing. I get it after most rides but especially the high intensity ones. Cycling is a key part of my regimen to maintain positive mental health.
Caption: "Did you hear that Dan brought his old Raleigh moped to a bike race?" 😀
I met my wife at a triathlon club. We used to train together and our first date was a bike ride.
after multiple references to ballet I'm looking forward to the inevitable crossover with Si & a host of the Global Ballet Network (actual ballet youtube channels probably exist)
I don't think I ever manage more than zone 2, but I love that cycling (almost) always makes me feel better and elevates my mood. It's also often the cure for a headache/ backache. Just ride till you work through it.
And drink enough not to get a rebound dehydration headache :-)
Isn’t there some speech to text solution for swift? seems way easier… :)
Caption competition:- Have you seen this picture of Dan wearing white shorts