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- From Israel Cycling Academy Training Camp
in the not so sunny Girona,
Welcome to the GCN show.
- From Bieles, Luxembourg, Welcome to the GCN show.
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- Welcome to the GCN show.
This week we look at the next wonder material for bikes,
and we also revel in a dramatic weekend
at the Cyclocross World Championships.
- We've got the best cycling news stories
from around the world,
and we hear from the king of bling himself.
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- Not Lloydy.
And if that's not enough Tom,
we also tell you how and when you can get your hands
on the new GCN Cycling Kit.
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This last week Tom Boonen made history
by becoming the first rider
to win a pro road race on disc brakes.
Not that he actually used them to win,
although they didn't seem to slow him down either,
if you see what I mean.
Cause he actually won
a sprint stage of the Vuelta San Juan,
pipping ace rider Italian Elia Viviani to the line.
Now he seems to be, Boonen this is,
one of a number of specialised riders
that are contemplating racing that Venge Vias disc.
We've seen Sagan messing around on his,
and then if you check out this video here.
Look, that's Lloyd effortlessly leading Marcel Kittel
out of the Tour Dubai.
Although the video does cut a little bit short,
I quite want to see what happens next,
probably when Kittel drops a water bazooka
and blows Lloyd into the desert.
- Like how Andre Greipel backed off a little bit from that.
- Yeah
- Maybe Marcel can back off in a similar matter,
but quicker with discs.
- Test his disc brakes out, well maybe.
- Now discs on road bikes have been a thing for awhile,
and they are all well and good.
And you guys, actually,
seem to be getting on board with them now.
85% of you voted, Tom Boonen racing on discs this year, hot,
last week.
- [Simon] I agree, definitely agree with that.
Definitely.
- Now, we don't want to stop there
on technical developments at GCN,
because you might remember a week or so ago,
Si did an amazing video about graphene.
And graphene could well be the future of bike design,
or at least Si said,
it could help to push carbon fibre and how it's used on.
But just a day or so later,
researches at MIT somewhat stole Si's thunder
with what could be a fantastic advance in material science.
- Yeah they did kind of rain on my parade ever so slightly,
but the fact is what they have discovered
could have really a pretty positive effects
on the whole of humanity,
not to mention what amazing things it could do with bikes.
Because what they've done,
is they've successfully fused flakes of graphene
to make 3-D structures.
You'll remember from the video perhaps,
that graphene is a two-dimensional material,
and so the only way it can help bikes
is if you can add it to stuff like carbon fibre,
but here the substance that they've created
can be made three-dimensional.
And what it makes is a substance
that is 10 times stronger than steel,
but 95% lighter,
which is pretty mind blowing.
Apparently it's all down
to the unique geometrical structure of this new material.
- Now all this talk of super, super, super light bikes
does, for me, raise quite an interesting question, mate.
Which is, if you can build a 3 kilo bike
using graphene or this stuff,
I can see that on a smooth climb
that would make any rider a lot faster.
- Yeah.
Dan might keep up with me.
I might keep up with you.
That sort of thing.
But, if you are on a really flat rough road
or a rough technical descent,
would a 3 kilo bike really have any benefits
over a 7 kilo bike?
- Or would it in fact hold you back,
because there would be less inertia in the wheels maybe?
It is an interesting question,
and I definitely think
that, maybe, there is a sweet spot for bike weight,
but we probably just actually need to check it out.
Do you think we need to do some science?
- I think we need to do some science.
I actually have got my science classes ready.
Ready for science.
- Ready for science!
Let us know what you think in the meantime,
whilst we wait for Tom to do some science,
because actually this is really important,
can you be too light?
I think maybe you can.
- I tend to agree.
Let us know.
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- It's now time for Cycling Shorts.
- We'll start Cycling Shorts
with the hot news of the weekend,
and potentially the biggest non story of the week too.
That's because very well-respected investigated journalists
at 60 minutes, which airs on CBS,
released their long awaiting documentary
into mechanical doping in the pro cycling peloton.
The conclusion: inconclusive.
- For me, Tom, I think it all hinges
around the star witness,
who is this Hungarian inventor called Istvan Varjas,
who supposedly created the hidden motor for bikes
right back in 1998,
and then sold the exclusive rights to an individual
for 10 years,
and then when 10 years elapsed
started creating these hidden motors again.
My problem with him,
is that no one has seemed to check out his backstory
or his claims yet,
so he's not really a credible witness.
No one has seen any of his supposedly hidden motors.
So, for me, at the minute, it does just feel like
we're missing some crucial evidence.
Right, Tom.
This is a story that I think is particularly cool.
Following up from last week's piece
about our weekend warriors, the healthiest cyclists.
Doctors in a borough of London in the UK
are now going to have a new treatment
that they are going to be able to prescribe patients,
and it will be a course of,
wait for it,
cycling.
How cool is that?
They will be able to prescribe this cycling course
to obese patients in order to help them cycle safely,
and therefore be able to ride and get fit,
and ultimately end up losing weight.
I just think it's a brilliant initiative.
- That's an amazing initiative.
Now, cycling shorts is usually about the news in cycling,
but perhaps not surprisingly,
at least for the name of the segment,
we are going to touch on fashion this week.
(Simon exhales)
And that's because, in the comments of your first ride
of Dura-Ace video, Simon Knowles was really
quite derogatory about your use of arm warmers and shorts.
- [Simon] He was.
Now, I'm not going to lie, Tom,
but that completely shocked me.
I was ready for the storm of controversy
surrounding the choice of black shoes with white socks.
That was fine, but this.
Arm warmers?
I wasn't wearing them too look cool, I must stress.
I was wearing them, actually, to keep warm,
but I didn't think it was even a fashion issues,
so I asked him as such,
and he said that apparently in Australia,
it's a big faux pas,
so we wondered whether you lot could help us
settle this matter once and for all.
Arm warmers and shorts, cool or not cool?
And if it's not cool,
what on earth are you supposed to wear instead?
Serious question.
- I'd say arm warmers and shorts
when it is cool outside, and not really cold.
I've always thought it a practical thing.
We've got more fashion,
because the king of bling, Adam Blythe,
has been showing off his new shoes at the Dubai tour.
Look at these.
- He has, look at that, seriously.
Snake skin with 24-karat gold Nike swoosh.
They would look pretty good
with Sagan's new wheels, actually.
Now Daniel Lloyd, ever the intrepid reporter,
has actually risked the wrath
of Adam Blythe's mum on Twitter, once again,
and actually caught up with Blythey out in Dubai.
Let's hear what he says about his shoes.
- Here we are here with Adam Blythe,
who is now the official head of fashion for the GCN show.
He's going to be deeming new products hot or not
after the disaster which is us saying these weren't hot,
which we got a lot of flack for,
so we've promoted them to that point,
but he's going to go through his shoes.
He hasn't got the new ones that you saw in Instagram,
but he has got these.
Talk us through them,
because you can't actually buy
Nike cycling shoes these days,
so where did these come from?
- Yes. It's just a guy in Italy basically,
DMT soles with branded up Nike obviously,
and then it's just a guy that makes the football shoes
for all the football players.
It's just basically any design that I want,
within reason through Nike and then they make them for me.
- You design it yourself at home and send it off,
it comes back?
- It's not like the little details,
I'll find like a print that I like
or a pattern or some colour, that's it.
Send it off and he'll generally do it.
- Well I do have to say, they look pretty smart.
We are looking forward to seeing new ones very soon,
unfortunately not here in Dubai though.
- Thanks Dan.
Away from sartorial matters now and back to the nitty gritty
where bike share schemes are big news,
and nowhere more so than in China.
Where the latest is that Foxconn,
where they also make the iPhone, good facts,
will be producing 5.6 million bikes
for one of the big bike share scheme players, Mobike.
That's just fantastic news.
- Great to hear.
More people on bikes always good.
Now unfortunately, we do have to end Cycling Shorts
on a sad note again,
as the young and super talented British rider Charlie Craig,
unfortunately, passed away within the last couple of weeks.
He was just 15 years of age,
and only very recently clinched
the National Cyclocross Series for his age group.
So, he will be sadly missed,
and our sincerest condolences go out
to his family and his friends.
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- Caption of the week,
and we actually had some absolutely amazing efforts
for our last caption of the week competition.
And the winner is Maciej Stefanczyk,
who came in with, Some people really need smart helmets.
That's pretty good.
- It is pretty good,
but you'll have to cast your minds back, obviously,
to remember that that we were talking about smart helmets,
but anyway.
This week's caption photo is this one,
which is an absolute pearler.
We are obviously taking full advantage
of the treacherous conditions at the cross worlds.
Tom, do you mind if I have a go at this one?
- Just go straight for it.
- Alright.
Disc brakes are so 2016, *** brakes are the new thing.
- That is, I mean, if you think you can beat that,
and I know that very few of you will believe
that you beat the caption as excellent as Simon's
- *** brakes. (laughing)
- Leave your caption efforts in the comments below,
and don't be deterred by how good Si's effort was,
because the winner is going to be one of you guys.
You will win a GCN Camelback bottle.
- Get it out, mate. Show them the bottle.
Once you are doing that,
can we just take a moment to look at
how amazing that photo is,
and how amazing the opportunities you have
for creating far better captions.
He's still holding on to his bars, look.
It's as if he's about to ride it out.
- That is an amazing photo series.
- Even though Lars Boom's handle bar
is wedged right between his legs.
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- Tech of the week,
and Si, you saw some very interesting stuff
when you were over at Shimano last week?
- I did.
Obviously, all the new Shimano Dura-Ace stuff,
but Pro were out there as well,
and they've launched a couple of new components.
Have a look.
Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 press camp hasn't actually
just been about the new Dura-Ace,
Pro have also launched a few components here.
So in my hand, I've got the new Vibe aerodynamic handlebars,
so you can clearly see
that they have an air foil top section,
and that is a naca air foil I'm told,
which is the most aerodynamic, optimal cross section
that you can get,
but the reason it it being launched here in the Di2 camp,
is actually it's ability to integrate with the new Dura-Ace.
There is,
you'll be able to see an exit for the Dura-Ace cable,
and that's because the new Dura-Ace junction box
can live as a bar end plug,
and so you'll see on my bike here.
It means the junction box is within finger distance
when you are riding.
One final feature that I particularly like
is the fact that woven in amongst the carbon fibre
is an innegra fibre layer,
what that means is that should the handlebar
suffer an impact,
it wouldn't give way catastrophically
like some carbon fibre bars are prone to doing.
What it would do, is actually hold it's shape,
so that you would know in advance
that there was something wrong, and you could replace it.
So that would be after a catastrophic crash
or maybe you've flown with your bike
and the airline squashes it.
This Vibe handlebar is complemented
by the Vibe stem as well,
which has also been designed
to be aerodynamically optimised.
Part of that is the fact that they put the bolts rear-facing
as opposed to forward-facing,
which I thought was kind of cool.
And then lastly, we've got the new Stealth saddle.
Pro say this was designed to be for the modern cyclists,
and the aggressive fast-riding cyclist.
So effectively it's designed to be ridden in a position
where you are leaning quite a long way forward,
so you are more aerodynamic.
And the way it accommodates that is by having
that large channel there, so you can lean far forward.
But also you notice, it's quite a short saddle,
and so the idea,
is that you can actually move it further forwards,
while still not falling foul of the UCI's regulations.
- Aside from that, how was your week last week?
- It was pretty awesome actually, it has to be said.
I got to ride the new Dura power metre.
Video about that coming soon.
Got to ride the new C14 and the C60 wheels.
Video about that coming soon.
And then to cap it all off,
we happened to be staying in the same hotel
as Quickstep and also Giant Sunweb.
One thing I did notice about the Quickstep guys,
those Venge Vias discs we were talking about earlier,
there were a few of those knocking around.
Nicki Termpstra for one was checking one out.
So potentially, will we see the classic squad go full discs?
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- The moment has arrived,
the new GCN cycling kit is now available for pre order.
And not just one,
but there's actually three different versions.
- Firstly, our GCN pro team by ASSOS of Switzerland,
and as modelled by yours truly,
which is available now for pre order.
- Not just modelled, Tom, but rocked.
- As rocked by yours truly,
will be available to pre order now,
and it's going to start shipping from late march.
It's all there: jersey, bib shorts, vest,
knee warmers and arm warmers, caps and socks.
As worn by all of us on camera since January 1st.
- And then, as I said, there's not just one,
there's three different versions.
We've got a training kit as well,
check this out,
different kind of look
and also a slightly lower price point as well.
And there will be a women's version coming soon as well.
- And to say thank you for your support,
if you buy a set of GCN ASSOS kit,
so a jersey and bib shorts,
we will send a GCN bottle with that too.
- Nice, and last but not least,
as promised we have also created our own brand of fan kit,
so that will be coming soon,
and you can head over to the GCN shop,
either by clicking on the link in the description
below this video or through the power of magic,
there will also be a link at the end of this video too.
It's probably not magic is it.
It's just you doing some clever stuff.
- It's not that clever.
- Just Tom doing some stuff.
- Just stuff.
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- It's time now for Hack forward slash Bodge of the Week.
Definitely one of our highlights of the whole show.
First of all we got this from Tonne Trakulon on Facebook,
This has got to be one of the greatest hacks of all time.
Now, when you haven't got the right clamp
for your front mech,
why not use an old stem
saw it in half, and then you can use any mech you want.
I can't even work out what bike that is, mate.
- [Tom] I can't, I just had my mind blown
because I realised the stem clamp diameter of 31.8
is actually the same as most things anyway.
Cause they are also 31.8.
- [Simon] Unless it's a retro one from 25 whatever it was.
- [Tom] 25.4.
- [Simon] Anyway, genius, genius hack there.
That is a cracker.
- [Tom] Next up Jason McCullum,
kind of moving on from our cycling-themed furniture,
found this bar stool for sale on Ebay.
(Simon laughs)
- [Simon] Nice, look at that.
What does the chain do?
- [Tom] I don't know.
It would be quite cool if you could pedal along,
so you could burn off your beer calories whilst drinking.
- [Simon] Yeah, or you pedal and it triggers something
and it orders you another beer.
I like that.
- [Tom] This one is Jason Daw.
I'm hesitant to say hack on this.
It's ingenious,
but he just used a bottle cage in a old car
that doesn't have cup holders.
- [Simon] I think that's a hack.
- [Tom] Okay, it's a hack.
- [Simon] Yeah, for sure a man,
a bodge would be just sticking your water bottle
on your dashboard
and having it roll around all over the place,
and potentially get stuck under your brake pedal,
but that, there is going to be no such issues with that.
Nice hack.
Alright next up we've got this one,
the ultimate commuting setup,
which I don't know about ultimate community set up.
It's another of these ones with utterly
bizarre handlebar stem setups.
That is pretty epic that,
I don't even know how that works.
- [Tom] So you've got a stem,
which is connected to a bit of pipe,
which is connected to another stem,
and out of the next stem there's a chunk of,
it's probably not steel tube,
but it's effectively steel tube that goes up to another stem
that points back over the other two stems
where you have your riser handlebars.
But the thing that really confuses me about this bodge
is I can't imagine anyone who is tall enough
to sit on saddle that low and reach those handlebars.
They'd be like, how would you do it?
- Imagine if you had a bump
that things just going to snap in half.
Right, that is a definite bodge,
absolutely, bodge of the week.
Although possibly this one gives it a run for it's money,
because I believe that's a broom handle for a handlebar.
- [Tom] I love, on this broom handle for a handlebar,
cause that broom handle is too wide to attach anything to,
he just drilled into it and screwed the break levers on.
- [Simon] Well, that's quite a good hack,
but the whole thing is just a monumental bodge.
This one actually looks a little bit neater, doesn't it?
This one was sent in by @DO_KEG,
who has built himself his own laptop or iPad stand
for when he's wifting.
- [Tom] Fair play.
- That looks like some pretty good joinery there.
Hack.
Okay I really like this one.
(Simon laughs)
For me this one it's probably a hack.
It's from Jaime who said,
"when looking for some bar mitts online,
I came across this awesome alternative."
I don't own Ugg or Ugg style boots,
but if I ever do,
I'll now know what I'll do with them when they wear out..
- [Simon] They look pretty good don't they,
stick 'em on your handlebars.
- [Tom] With a bit of gaffer tape.
- [Simon] Not only do you have warm hands,
but you also have stylish hands,
cause there's no arguing with sheep skin.
- [Tom] It's also a Cannondale Headshot bike
with a pair of BMX handlebars, which is a bodge.
Finally Si, I know you want to talk about this one.
- Well yeah, this I love.
This was sent in by Callum Crew.
Now unfortunately it's not actually a tandem,
as we first thought when we looked at it.
Although it almost could be.
What it is, is a man needed to transport
another bike with him,
and so he has fashioned this nifty bike carrying device
out of a panny rack and load of old bungees.
Good bodge.
- [Tom] Good bodge.
- [Simon] Fantastic bodge there.
Make sure that you keep sending your hacks and bodges in.
We will decide whether it's a hack or a bodge,
but whatever it is we're going to love doing it,
so make sure you keep sending it in
using the hashtag #GCNHACK.
We should really have a GCN Bodge one shouldn't we?
Actually, that's double the work, don't do that.
- Just #GCNHack.
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- Competition time now,
and the winner of the Rotor twin-power power metre
and Rotor key rings unboxing competition is,
you ready?
- Yeah.
(drum roll)
- David Ferenczi from Hungary.
(cheers)
- Congratulations David!
- Apologies for the pronunciation David,
get in touch and we will make sure amazing prize.
- He's probably not that surprised the pronunciation,
I'm imagining he's a regular GCN viewer.
I'm also imaging there quite a few of you
going to be slightly disappointed now.
In fact, all but one of you are going to be disappointed,
but don't let it hold you back.
There is another competition running live now on GCN.
We are giving away, an amazing Elite Drivo smart trainer,
so in the description beneath this video there is a link.
Click on that and you get through to the competition.
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- It has been an incredibly busy week in racing.
Firstly, we're going to tell you
about the World Cyclocross Champions,
because what a weekend it was over in Luxembourg.
Frozen on the Saturday,
and then semi frozen on the Sunday,
which was as you remember, I'm sure,
is one of the top three slipperiest kinds of mud there is.
- It's well up there.
The weather pattern meant
that the women's race was run out in the ice,
and it looked for most of the race
that Marianne Vos was going to take
her eighth career women's World Cyclecross result,
which is unbelievable, but anyway.
She had quite a close battle with Sanne Cant,
and partway though the last lap Vos stumbled.
Slipped her chain.
Cant got back to her,
which left a high-speed, highly technical drag race
right away to the finish.
It was a real nail biter,
but Cant just held her off in the finish straight
to take her first ever world title
after many years of trying.
Vos was second and Katerina Nash came in third.
- Yeah, it was an absolute nailbiter.
My heart was in my mouth,
but the one thing it does definitively do Tom,
I think it ends right here, right now,
our long running joke about Sanne Cant,
because now she's got the rainbow bands on her back.
We will always know that Sanne can.
(crickets)
Alright sorry, moving swiftly on now
to the men's elite race,
which was another absolute belter.
It did look, it has to be said,
as though mechanicals were the order of the day.
Mathieu van der Poel saw his 20-second lead at half
evaporate with four punctures over the course of the day.
But for my money, while Wout Van Aert put in
an incredibly mature and controlled ride,
he started slowly, he caught Mathieu van der Poel,
and then he had enough in the tank
to really put the advantage home,
when van der Poel was struggling with yet another flat tyre.
Ultimately Van Aert was a well deserved winner.
Mathieu van der Poel an unfortunate second place.
And Kevin Pauwels was a very distant third on this occasion.
- Everyone was miles behind those two,
and some people did put
the prevalence of punctures on that course,
down to the fact that it was frozen under the layers of mud
and to account for that all the guys were
running really low tyre pressure,
but apparently some of the riders,
Lars Van Haar included,
had up to seven punctures,
which must mean that something else was going on.
It's not just equipment choice.
The course was supposedly on an old steel factory,
which meant there's a lot of old building rumble
and maybe even some sharp steel shards under the mud,
that they found after two days of racing.
- That would be a real shame,
I did think that Van Aert looked a little more in control,
a little bit smoother,
but you can't argue seven punctures
that goes beyond bad luck.
There's something funky going on there, isn't there?
- Almost one puncture a lap.
Now it's a really tech nerdy point, Si,
but feeding into your thing about Van Aert,
perhaps looking like a smoother,
more mature rider on the day.
He chose to use green Michelin mud treads
on his Dugast Tubalar,
which are really hard to get a hold of.
They are very old.
- I've got a stash if you want.
- Si, here. Get in touch professional cross riders.
They are in my opinion,
having rid both those and the Dugast Rhino,
which is it most common mud tyre,
I think that the green Michelin muds
are slightly slow rolling, but do offer slightly more grip,
so Van Aert used a grippier tyre
at a slightly higher pressure,
which could have helped him have slightly fewer punctures.
- To road now,
slightly fewer punctures and an awful lot less mud.
We will start with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race,
which is the first one-day world road race of the year.
Annemiek Van Vleuten won the women's event,
and it was Nikias Arndt who won the men's event,
just pipping Simon Gerrans to the line.
- In Argentina, Quickstep force won
an incredible five out of seven stages
at the Vuelta San Juan.
However, it was a much improved at time trialling,
Bauke Mollema who took the overall victory for Trek.
- And then up in the northern hemisphere
at the Trophy at Mallorca,
Andre Greipel took sprint stage, and in doing so,
I think has definitively proven
that if Matt was still racing,
he would have won that stage,
which is an interesting thought, isn't it?
(Tom laughs)
And then we've also got to give a shout out to Dan Mclay.
He won a stage as well,
but then had to miss the podium celebration,
because he had crashed into the bank of photographers
after the line.
Smashed himself up pretty badly,
but he did Instagram this from his hospital bed later on.
"Super happy to win today in mallorca.
The team was excellent!
Regarding the crash after the line, I'm fine!
Still a beautiful as ever and the moustache remains intact!"
- It's time now for Wattage Bazooka.
- Man that was the flatest Wattage Bazooka I've even seen.
- I'm not Matt.
- Here's Wattage Bazooka (sighs).
(beep)
- It's time now for Wattage Bazooka!
(Simon laughs)
(military drum music)
(explosions)
And with such a busy week of racing,
it has taken a long time to sort through
and pick the pro Wattage Bazooka.
But Si, I think you've got someone.
- Yeah, after much debate,
this week's pro Wattage Bazooka goes to a man,
who hopefully will find some solace in this award,
as opposed to his silver medal.
And maybe he'll even have stopped crying by now.
It is, of course, Mathieu Van der Poel.
His Wattage Bazooka goes for the fastest start
ever seen in cyclocross.
He dropped everyone by the end of the start loop,
and didn't see a single rider until
Wout Van Aert caught up with him mid race
as he was two or three punctures in to his puncture fest.
- Two or three.
- A very well deserved Wattage Bazooka,
and hopefully some consolation
that you haven't got the rainbow bands this year.
But you'll get 'em next year, it's fine.
- The viewer Wattage Bazooka goes to Rachel McKinnon,
who has made a breakthrough,
she is now able to make the break,
drive the pace in the break and keep her pace really high.
Great stuff Rachel.
(birds chirping)
- Tweet of the Week now
and for the first time in a couple of weeks,
these are actually tweets, not Instagram posts.
Going to kick of with Mathieu Van der Poel,
who's Sunday clearly went from bad to worse
when he posted this picture of his cars' computer system,
notifying him that he had four flat tyres.
(chuckles)
- That is genius, isn't it?
That is unfortunate Mathieu,
but an absolutely genius tweet.
He could have Instagrammed that one as well.
- I think that was an Instagram as well.
- Probably yeah.
- We took it from Twitter.
- And then this on from Wout Van Aert,
arch nemesis and ultimately the rider that came out on top.
"Good way to make money on a Sunday evening.
No joking right now,
I feel sorry for everyone who had bad luck today!"
And he has retweeted Igor Tavella,
who is looking to put some of his stash
of green Michelin wide grip tyres on eBay.
- Igor would probably get a pretty nice holiday
out of that at the moment.
- Probably would.
Check it out, good stash.
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It's time now for Comment of the Week,
and as ever we have been thoroughly enjoying
reading everything that you have to say
underneath our videos,
and also Facebook, Instagram, Twitter as well.
This is one of the best from Pietro Casteletti,
had a laugh in a way.
"Daniel and Matt still battling for the sexiest voice-over!"
To which when asked who wins? He said,
"Daniel sounds more professional-sexy,
Matt more romantic-sexy."
(beep)
We think it might be a silhouette of the Abu Dahbi skyline
across the midriff as well,
and it certainly growing on us.
- His voice is just gone.
- Yeah, I'm feeling a bit of pressure now.
It did sound a little like David Attleboro.
(clears throat) (mumbles)
- Alright, are we on?
- Yeah we're on.
(beep)
- And all I would have to say Pietro
is you've forgotten about Jon "Chocolate Voice" Beven,
the man with the sexiest voice, not just at GCN,
but arguably the world over.
Jon care to add anything?
- [Jon] Not at the present moment no.
- C'mon Jon.
- So, so chocolatey though.
- Well from chocolate voice to Sugarman,
who commented, "I want to Si do the FTP test,
he looks fit AF...even with those horrendous white socks."
Which I think is harsh,
and that had 18 thumbs up.
- Yeah, well thank you very much for the compliment.
Maybe I will do an FTP test this year actually,
I'm quite interested, but the sock thing, c'mon.
Pete Sagan wears black shoes and white socks now,
and admittedly he is far more talented
and much cooler than I am,
but still, just trying to follow in his footsteps.
Any way the last one, is this one from APOND58,
who said, "Lasty needs to do some upper body and core work
to stabilise that upper body that flails
like a wet noodle when sprinting." (laughing)
Lasty you pulled that comment out,
you don't flail like a wet noodle, do you?
- I just thought it was a vague compliment,
because when he said,
"flails like a wet noodle when sprinting,"
by default that means that I can sprint
or he considers that I might be able to sprint.
No one has really ever been that kind to me before.
- Fair enough though,
that you are looking at Lasty's upper body,
most people I think probably look straight at the gurney.
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- On the channel this week,
on Wednesday we have got how to do an ultra endurance ride.
- Ooh.
- Similar to other goals though is the gradual build up,
increase the length of your longest ride each week,
and do so gradually,
because going in too long, too early,
could do you more harm than good.
Once you know what your end goal is,
work out a plan about how you can get there
between now and then.
- On Thursday, we've got the bikes
that you need to know about in the Pro Peloton this year,
and on Friday it is, of course, Ask GCN.
- Saturday, Tom here has had a close look
at John Degenkolb's brand new trek,
which I personally am very intrigued to see.
On Sunday, we've got a doubleheader.
We've got a brand new unboxing for you, so make sure
you check that out and get your entry in early,
and then Matt has also challenged John Degenkolb
to a head-to-head,
to find out who the greatest cyclist
is between the two of them.
Then Monday, in Maintenance Monday,
we have a look at steel bikes,
and find out all there is to know about that material.
Tuesday? Tuesday?
- Welcome to the GCN Show.
(energetic metal music)
- Ready mate?
- Just about.
- Good, cause it's now time for extreme corner
and this week, I almost want to say,
it's as extreme as it gets,
because this is BMX Rider Bas Keep.
Over to you Bas.
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- Woah.
No matter how many times I've seen that,
that still absolutely blows me away,
fair play Bas.
But unfortunately Bas' extremeness
marks the end of the GCN Show for another week.
I hope you've enjoyed it.
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there's a link on screen to do that right now too.
We spoke a lot about graphene at the start of the video,
and Si's expose on graphene in cycling is right there.
- Expose I like that.
And then also the video about
the new Dura-Ace Di2 with hydraulic discs,
that's definitely worth checking out,
and that is just down there.