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Thanks for sharing and coming up!! Great look at the beginning of the TUFFER route!

Nice video !! I was there too! That was some thick gravel !! The last 5 miles felt like an eternity

Nice ride. Did you do the Dirty bear 50 in big bear? It would be a good precursor to the mammoth ride. a good amount of sand in that one too.

The bikes are indeed locked. It is actually illegal to leave a bike unlocked in the streets. Copenhill also have the world's tallest climbing wall.

Reminds me of Rawson

Good job! What bike set-up did you ride with? I want to do the XC race later this month. I need to decide if I’m racing on a hardtail or FS.

Nice video. Im glad this popped up on my feed, ive always been curious about that canyon. Ive drove passed it a few times wondering if its ridable. Im in Yucaipa so ill have to go check it out.

How did you get the gps data on the video?

Yeah that's a big one, good you didn't get hit

I just came across this video by accident today. I used to live in socal and I remember doing this race back in 2008. Glad to see its still going on. And this time with snow capped mountains in the background.

God that's so relaxed compared to Europe/UK

I’d be farting the whole time

Good video

how do you deal with knee pain? my ligament/tendon on my right knee hurts alot after long rides. great content btw!

I did that race about 40 years ago! It looks like it hasn't gotten any easier. Excellent effort and good strategy to find someone to work with. I think I time trialed the whole thing after going out the back pretty early. Great memories, thank you for that!

That section was all messed up and you cleaned it with a high grade on a gravel. Great video to showcase your climbing skill

Oh, wow, nice! Great job on finishing a century! I might sign up for this next year: will be mine first time doing it! LOL!

A bit of advice on positioning and pacing from a racer of 30 years. You had no need to hit the front on the 1st lap, none. If you attack sharply and are opening a gap, fine. But you rolled through in a paceline so of course the entire field will be on your wheel. Never pull off the front on a hill, particularly when you are near threshold. Pull until just before the base or start pull just over crest. When other rides pass, lock onto their wheel, not in open wind. Don't let gaps open, ever. Pay attention to wind direction. Hint, it's quieter when you are in the best spot and it's not always directly behind. Learn to make power when you are low and in the drops or forearms flat and on the hoods. You'll need to your highest sustained power when you need to be the most aero. Do fast club rides with stronger riders to learn how to save energy and "surf" the wheels more efficiently. You had the fitness to stay in the bunch, just need to work on that positioning and energy conservation. Keep at it!

Nice video! Congratulations on finishing the event! I did the 2023 event and got lucky with the weather. It reached the low 70s, and my buddy and I completed the ride before the high winds picked up. The slower riders got caught out there with some tough winds to deal with. @8:18 that's classic! You family filming you as you film them coming across the finish!😎

I was there for a century and I was heavily regretting it after a few miles of passing the 1st station, winds were crazy for the event. Not even getting in drafts of some groups helped. But overall people there had a good vibe and was just fun to see a lot of bikes. This was my first cycling event and hoping to do more

Oooh nice commentary

Beautiful place to bike! Blowing snow up here, a few months till the good bike comes off the trainer and I get back outside.

Thanks for the video! What is your FTP?

Well I'm sure competitive bicycling is fun and all for those who participate and I guess they must think the competitive prizes are worth it but all I end up seeing is a bunch of guys wearing really ridiculous clothing on wonky bikes

Way to finish it up. I started 2 seasons ago and have been dropped from every road race/crit LOL. My goal is to finish with the group at least ONE race this season. Keep after it.

You left out the part where you dropped a water bottle, went back for it, then made up all that distance and beat me to the 50 mile mark. Also, I agree you made filming on your phone while riding at a fast pace look easy.

Goofball brigade.

That guy's elbow flick looks like more like a chicken flap.😅

I was in this race and placed 2nd. Having raced in California and Arizona I can tell you that cali generally has the most aggressive and fast paced racing around. There’s also tons of guys who have cat 1 fitness but refuse to upgrade because they want to farm wins. It makes these lower level races a lot more difficult than you would expect. Keep on that grind and you got good days ahead 👍

Great commentary. Its easy to talk about winning, its hard to talk about losing and to put it out for everyone to see

Great job on the channel. I like the commentary after the race, showing how much mud got everywhere and your thoughts. Really enjoying the content, keep it going

I can verify, that slip does not reflect your trail skills. As for flagging rides, I have flagged hundreds of rides. Most people don't know there are different categories and flagging rides informs them. Then a lot of other people leave strava on accidentally after a ride, don't know how to crop their ride and don't bother to look up how to fix it. So if you flag a ride its extremely likely they are not meaning to cheat. Flagging rides is always good, unless someone is intentionally doing it, that's when it gets negative. Well, also if you make a mistake flagging. I have been flagged and even though I am well above average, I am below amateur and none of my metrics indicated a cheated ride. So I just challenged it and strava took care of it. It did take some time though. Look for max speeds over 60mph, KOMs with huge leads over second, different starting and ending locations (usually indicates a care ride home) and long elapsed times.

A professional race come through this segment, so the leader board is entirely professionals. If anyone can land on the leader board then you need to re consider your occupation

Atilla Valter is a pro cyclist on the best team in the world. 277w was probably pretty easy for him lol

Cool

Yeah I need a lot more practice on that DH. When you were in sight I could see you taking turns way better than me. Was neat to see your experience get you so much distance. Well done mate

I fully appreciate you riding on the far side. And Saying that in order to pass this person. You didn't want to get out in the road too far. Especially when that Dully pick up truck past you. I wish every bicycle rider That rides on mountain roads would follow Your example. As a retired firefighter, I have scraped up a lot of bicycle riders that get side swiped because they feel they need to ride 4 and 5 feet into the lane of traffic. they may be right that they can be out there. But they are the ones getting hurt.

Nice 👍

Nice❤

freaking donkeys... think they are better than us

Thanks! I agree with you on the night recording. I just uploaded a day video. It does not look nearly as shaky. I’m still playing with the overlays. Once I have the formatting dialed in, I’m going to focus a lot on my commentary. Overall I’m having fun with it.

Your audio recording sounds good. I think you have a good voice for narration. As far as the video recording goes, the blur and shaking are not ideal and maybe that has a lot to do with it being a night recording. Interested to see a day recording and compare. The overlays look good. I feel this is a good starting point

Great first video