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Great vid.

Great video! I'm trying to figure out your gear ratio from the data on screen. What cassette and crankset are you using?

Been saving this until I was in a state to actually enjoy it and it did not disappoint 😍 what a cracking video, a proper tribute to a wonderful part of the world, well beyond just the headline climbs and Instagram style snapshots. Thanks for sharing this, I'm in a bit of a funny mindset thinking about cycling at the moment but this was a cracking reminder of everything I love about it.

Can you elaborate in the amount and type of training that you do to be in this kind of shape?

Absolutely amazing video! Thanks for creating it and writing the Guide - and wow, you make climbing look like so easy! 🙂 I started climbing in the eastern alps and work my way up to the west and this is so helpful! 🚵‍♂😍 One question: How do you create the overlays (cadence, heartrate, power etc)? Is this done with Garmin Virb? (thx!)

Very cool rides and video! You hammer past people left & right - chapeau! The tunnels were bonkers! It's cool you did the HR Alpes '22; I did the HR Alpes '23 version & got destroyed. It was amazing to see the familiar climbs along with the lesser known ones too. What's your day job? I need a gig that lets me go to Europe and cycle more 😁

Excellent, well done, LMAO at the guy on your wheel swinging like a barn door in a Gale when your wheel is rock steady 😂, we were there at the same time fir the Marmotte, I think we even stayed at the same site, I’m surprised you didn’t hear us, my friend is by far the loudest thing there, first thing one hears in the morning and last thing you hear in the evening 🙈 Great effort, well done

So strong you are on climbs 🎉❤

Coming 4th was very impressive a natural born climber as was I many moons ago. Love the videos 👍

that cheese outro made me laugh out load not gonna lie. great vid

You make an epic series of rides look easy 😊

Nice surprise

NUL-

Was looking at strava stats and stumbled along into the channel. Legend!🎉

great video and very informative.. very helpful as I'm planning to visit Nice this month.. any suggestion on where to stay so as to enjoy most of the climbs u have ridden & filmed

Why are you cycling backwards?

Great video. In Zwift I think you can put difficulty up to 100% and as far as I know it will make it feel as close as possible to the real climb.

Love your videos but even better when you run commentary either it

shameless attack from #11064 after he let u do all the work in the headwind on that terrible straight line! but his yoyo-ing behind u was pretty entertaining to watch tbh, so i guess he s forgiven :)

Fantastic climbing 🚴🏽‍♀️👍🎉🎉

ohhh so nice, i d like to be there with you :-))

Talking of climby domestiqueing, Gaia's lead out for Elisa's decisive break in the Italian Nationals was one of my favourite bits of pro cycling so far this year. A wonder to behold!

OMG---you crushed just about everybody!!! Power Girrrrrrrrl!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know shes just a girl but she deserves more subscriptions than this.

Will watch this after work. I foolishly rode a mixture of malaucene, sault and bedoin 9 times in the week before Xmas last year (with the 3 climb cingles challenge on the final day) - all because I thought I was being smart and invincible. It was on Rouvy though and there were plenty of times when my cadence dropped to the 30s. Maybe I will try for real in future.

You got some interesting looks from the construction worker!

Great job! I suppose that hard 2 min before the truck-induced turnaround was just a warmup? The rear-only camera gives the opportunity to see the pain faces of the other cyclists... :-)

just out for a lovely sight-see and, oh, maybe a few qom's. (of course)

NASA Would be proud of that rocket

You must have overtaken 20 other cyclists!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Amazing effort, it takes some resolve to do the first two minutes hard then still turn around and go again because of an idiot in a lorry

The problem with cheddar is that it gets less interesting as it goes up. You don't get good views at the top and the gradients stop being a challenge. I view it as a challenging descent, even though you usually have a headwind coming down, and would take Rodney Stoke or Draycott steep as the climb. Blagdon and Highfield on the other side are the toughest ones. Deerleap has the best views. Never ever ride cheddar on a weekend or bank holiday. Traumatic.

up the voice volume Illi, hard to hear

Looks like a cyclocross would have been more suited to that surface 😂😂

There's two climbs out of the Wye Valley I'd put in the same bracket. Out of Llandogo from the A466 head up the hill and then right to the priory. This is absolutely evil, around 150m of climbing in less than 1km, pitches of 25-30% and almost unrideable surface. The other is heading in the same direction but from Tintern, follow the forge road but take a left at every junction. Long section of 20% gives way to a shallower gradient before going up again to 18-19 through the woods after the farm. Did this with bags on advice from a man with ridiculous calfs.

Have you had the 'pleasure' of Afon Ddu here in NW yet Illi? Its basically the only climb that has ever defeated me....and i like a steep climb :)

Not sure if prefer going up or down a hill like this one!

Click bait title 10/10 😂 these videos are proper quality, good production, funny and interesting lesser known cycling. Looking forward to hearing more on the pursuit of the hardest climbs in South Wales!

Incredible effort. The first bit out of Ambleside is rubbish, dodging the cars and I went too hard there and lost pacing. The flat section makes the final flick seem worse!

I have a question how come you haven't been signed as a pro?? I'm baffled by this

Holy moly I can't imagine 17% grade how hard it is, i usually struggle at 12% !! Excellent video as always.

Well I must sympathise with the attempt at a long mountain simulation. For one it's much cheaper than flying to the Alpe d'Huez and it's certainly greener - both the landscape and the carbon footprint.

such an underated youtuber

"Sometimes you just have to get on with things" - yup! It has been a grim winter but I don't have an indoor trainer so constant bike cleaning has been the order of the year.

What record are you going for next trip to France? A few people better take a screenshot of their qom before it disappears. Happy hunting, Illi.

i just finished suffering on the pozza san glisente climb about 2 hours ago (only virtually - rouvy) and was thinking about how much faster you would be than I was (1458m over 8km).

Super interesting concept! Super engaging content!! Love it!!!

That editing is 🔥🔥

Almost makes me want to get off the turbo trainer