Next year task for GCN : Make a bike building series for the hill climb season (ignore all the UCI rules) and get someone from the GCN HQ to ride the course trying to beat the KOM.
Get power curve for all presenters, find estimated power at typical time of the ride. Now ballast bikes to a fixed W/kg (lowest in group), then have at it.
Highly inspirational piece Jon! Great effort by Haley who went "Old School" and won. It seemed that her training bred instincts to overcome adversity. Bravo!
secret to hill climb is firstly have proper gear ratios for the climb you trying to do. If you can't hold 90rpm you need easier gears. Secondly just do the climb at 50% perceived effort. Then 55%, then 60% etc. Now you have learned how to ride a climb easy you can add in more intensity over the weeks/months and this way you learn how climb slower or faster.
Inspirational for preparing for one of the hill climbing challenging events in Worcester, Mass. George Street Bike Challenge - Major Taylor Association
Awesome video Jon. I love your enthusoism. Here in Andorra this is our bread and butter. Our open championships is a mass start inline 16km UP! The finishing line at the Arcalís ski station (yep you'll recognise that name) is at 2200m. And we regularly organise hill climbs and don't call them hill climbs, just time trials. How about the 13km Fontaneda side of the Gallina as an example? It is a climb even the pros who live here only do if they really have to! So a 6.2% average, 5km climb... well Jon, it is a merely a gentle warm up!
How about tackling the Mount Evan' Hill Climb Race in Colorado - 28mile, 7000ft of climbing to 14,100ft with a 5.5 -6.0% average grade with a max of 10% over the distance - Jon Cannings!!! You are the man for this task!!!
@@david131092 Yes, It averages 6%. There are a few section that are higher than 6%. It's probably more about the thinner air ridding at altitude is more of the issue.
jlhinsk yes, that is my thought to. A competition with in the competition. A full staff competition. And do so by starting with “road to the national climb....”. That will show each presenters training before and how they choose a bike or even if someone choose to modify it like Si did for his KOM-challenge.
Definitely Simon for the climb. I am inspired by this charming bit of bicycle greatness and if there are two things we have here in Boulder Colorado it's cyclists of all stripes up for a challenge and hills to climb. I love the idea of it appealing to individual effort and the opportunity that it affords to many who's team days are behind them or maybe not so glory filled perhaps. I think this might work well as a fundraising event for charity. SanFrancisco and Seattle would be great cities for this kind of competition as well. Once again GCN and the British cycling tradition an inspiration to cycing across the pond. I'll kEep you posted on my progress. Once again great production quality on your packages for TH-cam. Great stuff!💁🏻♂️😉
I'd love to see on the hill climbs Mr. Brick a. k. a. Lasty. Otherwise it could be interesting presenter challenge: everyone will be given some amount of money to upgrade their bikes to be as light as possible and then points will be given for final weight of the bike, money left and position or time in the race.
I wish we had this in Germany. We had a hill climb competition at our town's local "mountain" a few years ago, but the event wasn't held the last 2 seasons.
Idk why but climbing hills on a bicycle gives me a high that’s unmatched by any other narcotic or activity. Specifically hill sprinting. The feeling of your lungs burning from the swathes of air rushing in and out, the ever increasing cramps in your quads as you push up relentlessly on a 15% incline and work your way up to above 22%.... there’s something about it that gives me an adrenalin rush. Cycling on flats seems very boring to me now.
The story I heard was that back in the day before anyone really fully understood 'peaking' and 'form' that Dan Lloyd came off a regular pro season feeling super strong and had his eye on the hill climb championship. He was convinced he had to go out and train and smash himself up hills in preparation. However, at the time he was being coached by a guy who was starting to understand 'peak'ing - Hunter Allen. His coach told him that with the hill climb championships just a week or so away and with a hard domestique pro season behind him, he should be doing nothing other than sitting on his couch and watching TV. This was contrary to what everyone else around him was doing which was smashing themselves up hills. Anyway, LLoydy took the advice and with an 'opener' up the climb a few days before he was prep'd and ready to go and went on to take the title. It's a pretty cool story, and I'd love to know if this story is true.
Jon, Oscar and Emma.... Jon would have a fabulous series on bike tech and threw himself fully under the bus, and Oscar and Emma are phenomenal climbers, and we miss seeing them!
Get Dan Loyd to do it. With a goal and a reason to suffer his competitive nature would come out again and be rekindled, and they'd be no stopping him..
Yeah I agree next year this should be a presenter challenge. You should have to build the bike you ride for the season. But no matter what I want to see Hank and Chris tackle the hills.
Well guys, it's so strange to hear that hillclimb races are considered so wierd in the Uk! In Italy we have a lot of CTT events, and are like the "basic step" for italian cyclists... Usually we have two kind of CTT races: the classic ones, like the one you described in the video, and the "Mediofondo" or "Cicloturistiche" "con salita cronometrata": like a classic road bike race, from 70 to 100 km, but with only one competitive segment, that is a climb TT. Funny, cheep and good for every kind of cyclist!
@@StopTheRot Hahaha, yeah your probably right. Still would be fun to watch. I am starting to believe it should be a presenter challenge. The whole crew.
I've been doing these in Japan for 10 years. They're super popular. I like them because it's hard to crash! However, I've actually grown less interested in them because of what someone said on this video - "They're incredibly hard". And I can't beat my best time in the circuit of 2 years ago so that's another reason why I'm kind of frustrated. Plus, I'm not a 58kg guy. The lightweight peeps have the advantage of these races. I'm very lean but I'm muscular with a sprinters body. Anyways, for me, a very painful race with heaps of satisfaction at the end.
Why would someone living in Switzerland come to dreary autumn England on their weekends? Besides, isn't Emma a slow-twitcher, and hillclimbs largely anaerobic efforts?
Remember back when i was a teenager about 20 years ago. I used to race back then, now i just ride for fun. But we had one hillclimb every season. It was 3,5 km long and had a average about 11%. But that was quite fun, and i did quite well in that race. And here in Norway we don't have that many hillclimb races.
Great stuff JC! Brilliantly brutal.. Please can GCN make a real effort to cover more Hillclimb events in future? We should champion this amazing British phenomena.. Hank would win if he entered I reckon! ACE 🚴🚴👍👍
Peter Scuba Sorts out the fittest climbing specialists. There are some really fit people who will destroy any of the climbing specialists at a flat and technical crit on any day of the week.
Jon introduces "the hill climb specialist..." and the pictures show 3 Welsh cyclists. Almost as if us Welsh have plenty of experience up hilly terrain 😉💪
I would pay DEARLY to see Mr Jon Cannings in lycra bustin his ass on something like this lol, BUT i dont think that would happen so its got to be Ollie, he's soo great in an effort - like a regular guy having a dam good go !
Let's enter ALL of the GCN presenters (including John Cannings)! It could be a GCN presenters challenge within the British National Championships. You could even tie the entire event into a series of videos about training for hill climbs and bicycle preparation. Best of all , any GCN presenter that fails to qualify will be kidded and derided for an entire year. Sounds like great fun - especially since I will not be competing. I don't know who will win but my money is on Lasty to win the best pain-face expression.
Stay tuned to nederlandskampioenschaptegenwindfietsen.pr.co/ for the announcement. It needs to be a minimum windforce of 7 at the coast. So stay tuned to the Dutch weather report.
Would love to hill race. Reverse course though as im 5ft 8inches and thats pushing the truth somewhat and 80kg!!! I can beat most if the climb is under 1 minute, but behond that I progressively get slower and slower. Have minimal bodyfat so doesn't matter how hard I train I cant seem to loose any more weight. If anything my legs get bigger and I get heavier. Im just not designed for the hills. But I keep donning the spandex and find a decent hill to embarrass myself on
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When you finally make it onto GCN, only for them to show your pain face while being overtaken 🙈
Next year task for GCN : Make a bike building series for the hill climb season (ignore all the UCI rules) and get someone from the GCN HQ to ride the course trying to beat the KOM.
Bikeradar has been doing that for years
There is no presenter that would succeed.
Checkout Ollie’s videos from before he joined GCN
Like the Bikeradar guys then.
Oscar maybe?
No need to name a specific presenter. It should be a presenters challenge
Yes! That would be awesome. Do a whole build up to it with training, bike tech, sandbagging & banter!!
Get power curve for all presenters, find estimated power at typical time of the ride. Now ballast bikes to a fixed W/kg (lowest in group), then have at it.
add some of the other groups too - the MTB and triathlon presenters. And a special appearance by Matt and Emma !
criggie now I’m thinking relay
They already did one before
Surely it can only be Lasty who gets to enter next year's event!
We need the Brick for this one, no doubt.
Highly inspirational piece Jon! Great effort by Haley who went "Old School" and won. It seemed that her training bred instincts to overcome adversity. Bravo!
Director: there's a lack of footage!
Editor: **applyigng "Time stretch"** say no more
Im only gonna mention one name for next years Hill Climb Champs: Lasty
BRICK BRICK BRCIK!!!
secret to hill climb is firstly have proper gear ratios for the climb you trying to do. If you can't hold 90rpm you need easier gears.
Secondly just do the climb at 50% perceived effort. Then 55%, then 60% etc. Now you have learned how to ride a climb easy you can add in more intensity over the weeks/months and this way you learn how climb slower or faster.
Some of the landscape shots were like fine works of art. Beautiful location. Your enthusiasm was contagious Jon. Well done.
Inspirational for preparing for one of the hill climbing challenging events in Worcester, Mass. George Street Bike Challenge - Major Taylor Association
From the first seconds, you can already tell the great effort put in this video. Nice work, as always!!!!
It would be genuinely interesting to get all of GCN and GMBN to go head to head.
Has to be Lasty who does next year's. He's the only one with the proper pain face.
That is a job for gcns very own epic-climb-specialist Tom Last!
Great video. Please, make more of these with even more details of the british cycling scene. Chears!
Let's see Óscar from GCN en Espagnol have a go at it!
Awesome video Jon. I love your enthusoism. Here in Andorra this is our bread and butter. Our open championships is a mass start inline 16km UP! The finishing line at the Arcalís ski station (yep you'll recognise that name) is at 2200m. And we regularly organise hill climbs and don't call them hill climbs, just time trials. How about the 13km Fontaneda side of the Gallina as an example? It is a climb even the pros who live here only do if they really have to! So a 6.2% average, 5km climb... well Jon, it is a merely a gentle warm up!
Ollie can do it and Jon can ring the bell as he rides past!
Jon should do it!
He didn't deserve that Mr. Whippy.
For next year i will like to see Ollie and Tom. They really know how to suffer.
I remember reading about these in British cycling mags 30 years ago. It was great to see some coverage.
How about tackling the Mount Evan' Hill Climb Race in Colorado - 28mile, 7000ft of climbing to 14,100ft with a 5.5 -6.0% average grade with a max of 10% over the distance - Jon Cannings!!! You are the man for this task!!!
Chris Baum it’s just not 6% though is it?
@@david131092 Yes, It averages 6%. There are a few section that are higher than 6%. It's probably more about the thinner air ridding at altitude is more of the issue.
Definitely Dan Lloyd!
Well impressed with the Airedale Terrier in the background of John’s summing up. Can we get an interview with the Terrier too?
Great video BTW
Make it a presenter challenge. Spread the pain around:)
jlhinsk yes, that is my thought to. A competition with in the competition. A full staff competition. And do so by starting with “road to the national climb....”. That will show each presenters training before and how they choose a bike or even if someone choose to modify it like Si did for his KOM-challenge.
I mainly want to see the "old men" do it! To bad Matt is not around any more.
Of all the presenters, nothing beats Jon's excitement.
Definitely Simon for the climb. I am inspired by this charming bit of bicycle greatness and if there are two things we have here in Boulder Colorado it's cyclists of all stripes up for a challenge and hills to climb. I love the idea of it appealing to individual effort and the opportunity that it affords to many who's team days are behind them or maybe not so glory filled perhaps. I think this might work well as a fundraising event for charity. SanFrancisco and Seattle would be great cities for this kind of competition as well. Once again GCN and the British cycling tradition an inspiration to cycing across the pond. I'll kEep you posted on my progress. Once again great production quality on your packages for TH-cam. Great stuff!💁🏻♂️😉
Participate both in British HC event and in some community weekend event in Italy. The latter also have a long history and usually have uphill course.
I'd love to see on the hill climbs Mr. Brick a. k. a. Lasty. Otherwise it could be interesting presenter challenge: everyone will be given some amount of money to upgrade their bikes to be as light as possible and then points will be given for final weight of the bike, money left and position or time in the race.
It would actually be awesome to see a Mediterranean GCN member tackle the hills and the British weather!
I don't know if Emily is still around doing work for GCN. But she should compete in the hill climbing championships!
The Cervelo test team star rider surely is the only presenter worthy of this challenge, go Lloydy!
I wish we had this in Germany. We had a hill climb competition at our town's local "mountain" a few years ago, but the event wasn't held the last 2 seasons.
Idk why but climbing hills on a bicycle gives me a high that’s unmatched by any other narcotic or activity. Specifically hill sprinting. The feeling of your lungs burning from the swathes of air rushing in and out, the ever increasing cramps in your quads as you push up relentlessly on a 15% incline and work your way up to above 22%.... there’s something about it that gives me an adrenalin rush. Cycling on flats seems very boring to me now.
GCN presenter to try hill climbs: Mr. Tom "painface" Last!!!!
Hmm finally catching up to BikeRadar in this regard
Didn't Dan Lloyd win this once back in the day?
The story I heard was that back in the day before anyone really fully understood 'peaking' and 'form' that Dan Lloyd came off a regular pro season feeling super strong and had his eye on the hill climb championship. He was convinced he had to go out and train and smash himself up hills in preparation. However, at the time he was being coached by a guy who was starting to understand 'peak'ing - Hunter Allen. His coach told him that with the hill climb championships just a week or so away and with a hard domestique pro season behind him, he should be doing nothing other than sitting on his couch and watching TV. This was contrary to what everyone else around him was doing which was smashing themselves up hills. Anyway, LLoydy took the advice and with an 'opener' up the climb a few days before he was prep'd and ready to go and went on to take the title. It's a pretty cool story, and I'd love to know if this story is true.
I'm afraid Mr Cannings will have to be the choice for the hill climb.
I liked the vid, but would have liked it way more if jon had raced
Like a cactus in the desert, I wait for each and every frame of Jon on a bike.
Jon, Oscar and Emma.... Jon would have a fabulous series on bike tech and threw himself fully under the bus, and Oscar and Emma are phenomenal climbers, and we miss seeing them!
Hayley Simmonds. Potential GCN presenter?
Get Dan Loyd to do it. With a goal and a reason to suffer his competitive nature would come out again and be rekindled, and they'd be no stopping him..
He does need to ride a LOT of KM in December
4:40... love those cows. Woah!
Belted Galloway's.
Well, well then. All is clear. Loving these cows is in my blood. My great, great grand mother Margaret was a Galloway!! ;-) -true!
Time for the return of the brick!
Yeah I agree next year this should be a presenter challenge. You should have to build the bike you ride for the season.
But no matter what I want to see Hank and Chris tackle the hills.
Dan should saddle up for the hill climb.... Only because that beer afterwards would be so well deserved.
Shoutout to Hayley for winning without riding to a power #! I wish more races were run just on feel by the riders
Well guys, it's so strange to hear that hillclimb races are considered so wierd in the Uk! In Italy we have a lot of CTT events, and are like the "basic step" for italian cyclists... Usually we have two kind of CTT races: the classic ones, like the one you described in the video, and the "Mediofondo" or "Cicloturistiche" "con salita cronometrata": like a classic road bike race, from 70 to 100 km, but with only one competitive segment, that is a climb TT. Funny, cheep and good for every kind of cyclist!
Oh this is a Chris Opie Challenge for sure.
@@StopTheRot Hahaha, yeah your probably right. Still would be fun to watch. I am starting to believe it should be a presenter challenge. The whole crew.
Love to see chris take on the challenge
I've been doing these in Japan for 10 years. They're super popular. I like them because it's hard to crash! However, I've actually grown less interested in them because of what someone said on this video - "They're incredibly hard". And I can't beat my best time in the circuit of 2 years ago so that's another reason why I'm kind of frustrated. Plus, I'm not a 58kg guy. The lightweight peeps have the advantage of these races. I'm very lean but I'm muscular with a sprinters body. Anyways, for me, a very painful race with heaps of satisfaction at the end.
8:56 lol he doesn't even have to change his accent to get into character.
The first hill climb was in 1869 near Fountains Abbey (N Yorks) on boneshakers
Oh, please build a superlight hill climb bike and get EMMA to ride!
Yes, EMMA!
Definitely bring back Emma as a guest for this.
Why would someone living in Switzerland come to dreary autumn England on their weekends? Besides, isn't Emma a slow-twitcher, and hillclimbs largely anaerobic efforts?
@@ltu42 5 km at 6.2%, aerobic enough for her, I'd say.
@@ltu42 You are right, I thought about this fact, too. But there are longer hill climbs available. Also GCN could make a trip to Switzerland!
In vancouver we have a race called the triple crown which is up to the parking lot of 3 ski hills.. cypress Seymour and grouse
Thanks John, great show, loved it.
Remember back when i was a teenager about 20 years ago.
I used to race back then, now i just ride for fun.
But we had one hillclimb every season.
It was 3,5 km long and had a average about 11%.
But that was quite fun, and i did quite well in that race.
And here in Norway we don't have that many hillclimb races.
Do it,Jon!!!!
exotic, no hill-climbing competition in the Netherlands, just tegenwindfietsen.
I'd like to see all the GCN presenters have a go
I think it'd be great to both Si and Ollie have a go at a few events!
EatRideGrow I did!
Will be back next year too
@@OllieBridgewood Oh I know! Really enjoyed the series... baying for mOAR!
Plus inter-presenter rivalry is always fun!
All of the GCM presenters should challenge each other
Bike Radar, Cycling weekly, and GCN should enter 3 individuals each and all times combined for TH-cam National Championship!!
Great stuff JC! Brilliantly brutal.. Please can GCN make a real effort to cover more Hillclimb events in future? We should champion this amazing British phenomena.. Hank would win if he entered I reckon! ACE 🚴🚴👍👍
I love hill climbs, sorts out the real fit people
Peter Scuba Sorts out the fittest climbing specialists. There are some really fit people who will destroy any of the climbing specialists at a flat and technical crit on any day of the week.
4:33 Oreo cows
Hahaha.
you should do a combined hill climb video with jack and joe from bike radar, john or chris for next year race season
07:33 was no pain face from the guy in the helmet ;) the guy next to him had a 'pain face' 👍😎
what a positive atmosphere coming through!
Well done Ed, Cymru am byth mate.
Presenter Challenge: Si, Jeremy & Mark. Let each choose bike specs, and have Jon build the bikes
Please make Lasty enter the race, it's gonna be incredibly relaxing watching him suffer.
It's a shame that Lasty is no longer serving as a presenter. I think he would have been an amazing candidate!
Lasty is still around don't worry
@@gcn Then, would love to see him doing something like this! ;)
James please! He's up for it! Can we have series? Like all hill climbs next year done by James? 😂😁😇
wow, nice weather you're having
Presenters challenge of course, or maybe Si !
I won state title for hill climb as a junior. I remember my heart rate a average was 202 bpm 2007 Mt. Hood. I think it is time to go back up.
Jon introduces "the hill climb specialist..." and the pictures show 3 Welsh cyclists. Almost as if us Welsh have plenty of experience up hilly terrain 😉💪
All the gcn guys should do it.
Everyone should do one & the winner continues for the rest of the season. Once on the start line, you’ll all want to win
I think safety bicycles were pretty common by the 1880s when the first hill climb you mentioned was happening
Love videos about the British hill climb season. Love if there’d be a similar scene here in Germany.
I'd love to watch Ollie's pain face on that hill climb next year XD
How about a challenges like Ollie Bridgewood vs Alan from GCN Italia or Chris Oppie vs Si?
Well a bit of info on the bikes, weight and gearing would help!
I would pay DEARLY to see Mr Jon Cannings in lycra bustin his ass on something like this lol, BUT i dont think that would happen so its got to be Ollie, he's soo great in an effort - like a regular guy having a dam good go !
This was very interesting! I love climbing hills!
Let's enter ALL of the GCN presenters (including John Cannings)! It could be a GCN presenters challenge within the British National Championships. You could even tie the entire event into a series of videos about training for hill climbs and bicycle preparation.
Best of all , any GCN presenter that fails to qualify will be kidded and derided for an entire year. Sounds like great fun - especially since I will not be competing.
I don't know who will win but my money is on Lasty to win the best pain-face expression.
Dan has to do it. No arguments.
GCN: Hill Climbing!
Bike Radar: o_O
People that love bikes and having a bit of tea and biscuits (cookies) after a nut-busting ride. what's not to like about this?
John Cannings for the hill climbs
Jeees GCN. I didn’t think I needed any other bikes 😧
Make Dan compete next year
You need to get Ollie & Mannon to do the 2022 season 😁
Hank should obviously do this!
0:49 The horse is so cute hahah
Something very pure about HC!
Fun to see. Maybe next time a report on the Dutch National Headwind Championships?
Only when we can get a mic with a muffler strong enough to hide the ind noise ;) No but seriously its a great competition and one we'r interested in
Stay tuned to nederlandskampioenschaptegenwindfietsen.pr.co/ for the announcement. It needs to be a minimum windforce of 7 at the coast. So stay tuned to the Dutch weather report.
Would love to hill race. Reverse course though as im 5ft 8inches and thats pushing the truth somewhat and 80kg!!!
I can beat most if the climb is under 1 minute, but behond that I progressively get slower and slower.
Have minimal bodyfat so doesn't matter how hard I train I cant seem to loose any more weight. If anything my legs get bigger and I get heavier. Im just not designed for the hills.
But I keep donning the spandex and find a decent hill to embarrass myself on
Lasty should try, of course!