The HARDEST CLIMB I've EVER DONE?!! (Passo di GAVIA 2652m) | Haute Route Dolomites 2021- ep.4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Have you ever seen the epic footage of riders climbing up Gavia in the snow during the Giro? After my experience up Passo di Gavia I can only imagine that would be like hell on earth! This pass is a serious beast of a climb and this race could seriously be the hardest climbs on the bike I did so far! Especially after racing up the short and steep ramps in the first 50km of this race at 400w!, AND riding up Passo Tonales before even starting on Gavia... This video is part of my full Documentary of Haute Route 2021. Check out the details of the ride, info of Haute Route and supporting brands in the links below!
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0:00 Intro
0:14 Stage 3
0:54 expectations of today
1:45 the ''front box'' start of the race
3:00 the attacks started early!
5:00 start of the first climb up Tonales
6:30 descending back down to the Gavia
7:30 start of the Gavia climb
10:00 the hardest climb ive done?!
11:26 checking in with Stelvio Man and the other riders.
13:00 results & GC
ARE YOU READY FOR A CLIMB LIKE GAVIA?? 👇 Let me know what you expect of the STELVIO in next stage!!
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Nice vid!!!!!
It’s so cool to see my race from your perspective! And listen, it’s not the climb that is hard or not, it’s the speed that makes it hard or harder.
“Can it be harder than today’s stage?” Double Stelvio is a killer!! Always!
Brutal indead, atleast stelvio is more even gradient then gavia
Very true, but following you at that pace was obviously the hardest Jasper has ever had to go! :) Awesome job by both of you guys. As an 80kg cyclist myself it's inspiring to see you both climbing so well, pure power! After the riding in the Dolomites I must visit the Stelvio myself, it looks amazing!
@@Voss27 Stelvio is amazing! If you come over let me know.
@@stelvioman5001 thanks I will keep you in mind 👍 hopefully some time in spring/summer next year
When and if I grow up. I wanna be a Bad Ass like Stelvio Man.
Stelvioman is the man
“Can it be harder than today?” I think it’s foreshadowing 😂
😅😅😅
Jasper, I did the Gran Fondo Stelvio a few years ago while I was stationed in Italy with the US Army. It started in Bormio, went south down the valley, back up the valley, up the side of the Passo Mortirolo, then up the Stelvio. THAT, was the hardest thing I've ever done on a bike. It was June and there was still feet of snow at the top of the Stelvio. They had a SAG stop about 4 K's to the top, where there's a little memorial or Catholic monument or something on the side of the road. The support people were filling our water bottles from a snow-melt runoff stream. No kidding. It was rather refreshing actually. The scariest part of the Stelvio (from Bormio) is the approach to the switchbacks through all of the tunnels. First, we were getting soaked from the snow-melt dripping in the tunnels, which was super cold. But the worst part was that for about half an hour you get to look at what appears to be a vertical wall ahead of you with the switchbacks going up. It was daunting. The switchback section didn't end up being any steeper than anything else, I think I remember around 10-12%. It was just the anticipation of that section leading up to it. It looked like we were going to go up a vertical wall.
I also climbed the Gavia from Bormio a few months later. I did that alone so I paced myself and didn't race like you did. BTW, most of the roads in Italy are trashed like you said. Funny memory at the top of the Passo Gavia. I have it on GoPro if I can find it. I reached the top where the lake and the buildings are and had to swerve around all of the cars and motorcyclists that were trying to stop or park. I came around a bend and there was a cow in the road with it's head inside the open top of a red Farrari convertible. It appeared to be knawing on the headrest cover or something. I would have stopped to take more video if I hadn't been so cold and ready to get off the mountain.
Haha that’s a very mooooving memory to have 🐄
Hahaha. Nice, Ferrari for lunch
Gavia is the coldest part of Europe it's why you can ski on strlvio in summer.if you ever get a chance do the gavia from the other side, it's best to warm up on morirolo,go down other side to do the gavia
The ponte di legno side will blow your mind.
@@superluvver3 I actually decended that side. My wife met me at the bottom with the car. It was stunning and scary. The road was so narrow.
We need a whole series of Stelvio Man videos. What a machine!
th-cam.com/video/ZZjvUfRH4mQ/w-d-xo.html&feature=share
Haha. More next week!!!🤙
Your cognitive ability after such an effort is amazing. I wouldn't even recognize my own name if the announcer called it out at the finish, much less remember to turn on my GoPro. Hats off Jasper. Massive hats off. You make it look so smooth, so cool. Great content. Great edit.
Hahahah cheers mate!👌👌
Jasper will become an machine too , after this ride , ride safe and have a better results on tomorrow ride too , take care have enough rest and input more power food for your body .All the best to you ! See your vlog on next Monday what a long wait , by the way will watch you vlog and share to others . Cycling Fanatics 🤙🤙🤙
Thanks mate!🙏
Stelvio Man
Absolute legend
Thx buddy. I’m an absolute cycling lover.
@@stelvioman5001 you are legend
Man, I am getting more and more hyped by this event!
Next ep will take you through the roof!🤙
@@jasperverkuijl can't wait!
Massive respect Jasper! I've just started a couple of years ago with riding. But next year I want to get more serious, drive greater distances, trying out climbs. Love the content on your channel, your tips help so much! Keep up the outstanding work!
And what a beast Stelvio-man!!
Thanks!!!!
Yeah been waiting for this!
Wow ,just awesome!This whole series is 🔥
Absolutely loving your vlogs Jasper which capture the atmosphere of the event brilliantly. It was fantastic to ride and battle with you and Stelvioman and hope we'll get to do it again. Can't wait to see your Stage 4 footage as that was a good day! John
Hey John! Thanks for the comment. Next stage will be fun!😉😅
Bravo Jasper amazing content, joy to watch.
Great riding. That was a killer climb. I never get tired of the views.
Enjoying these videos so much, awesome race and awesome place!
That is INSANE!!! Thank you for sharing this incredible experience. WOW!!
Your killing it in the moutains and with these videos dude. Awesome!
Jasper, the beast on the bike. Keep it up!!
Brilliant job Jasper, smashing that table 👊🏻👊🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Best cycling series out there! Amazing stuff Jasper
Well done Jasper,top effort 👍
nice video. Cant wait for the next one. Love from Malaysia 😍
Congratulations on moving up the GC ranking.
You are amazing and big respect 🙏 on your form.
Wish you all the best and ride safe.
Jasper you are a great climber...you have been up all of the best mountains 🦅💪
Dude you are super impressive!!
Amazing climb, commentary, and achievement. Looking forward to watching the Stelvio footage next! Congrats
That will be epic!!
Thanks
Fantastic Jasper. Taking the time and effort in your deepest pain to bring us along. Thank you.
🙏🙏 you're welcome
Great series Jasper watching you work your way through the event and up the GC along with up all those savage climbs 👏
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I am absolutely loving these videos Jasper. Apart from the content, they are so well edited and put together. Looking forward to the next episode.
Thanks! Next episode this Monday!!💪
Wow doing very good!!!! Looking forward to the next one!!
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Look forward to these every Monday. Another great vid. It looks like such a great experience. Well done on gc! Roll on next Monday n stage 4. 👍
Tha ks mate!!
What a nice story! Amazing report of Gavia. Proud to live not far from those climbs and climb them anytime I like. You rock!
Thanks!!🤙
really amazing content!
Living the dream! Looks an amazing event. Although I've never been close to that elevation on the bike so have no idea how painful and hard it is! Great to see you climbing up the leaderboard too.
Yeah the elevation is a really big factor!
Top of Gavia - first time I've ever seen you lost for words LOL! Seriously beasted it!
Full gas 100%!
Great video as always. Makes me want to train more and do my first couple of cols next year. I finally managed to get a decent bike in this crazy 'everything is sold out' time that we now live in.
Sounds like a plan mate, get ready!!👍
Great footage, great climbing. After doing HR Alps this year I recognise the names of some of these riders who went way too fast for me - so respect for your results AND being even able to film/speak during this climbing!
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Wow - Gavia is often a warm-up for the Stelvio in the Giro…
Gavia is harder!
Looks amazing and fantastic work! I'm going to sign up in 2024!
Awesome 👍
Absolute SAVAGE!! You did so well!!
Thanks!👍
Real good series🤙🤙
Thanks!!
Now I want to do a Haute Route 👌 😀 Great video again 🤙
Awesome !
Fantastic!
Krijg weer zon zin om mezelf uit te wringen en te racen. Stelvio wel gedaan maar Gavia komt nog een keer aan de beurt hoop ik.. Mooie Vid Jasper!
Gass!!!!💪
Amazing video, thanks .... a lot.
Fantastic Jasper!!!
My big friend & I (102kg & 95kg) did the Gavia with no such a Fitness and of course speed like you in June (snow almost everywhere).
The street was closed for cars...
It was once of our best experience.
I wish next year to be much more fitter...
Great video
Awesome!!💪
Fantastic riding jasper stelvio man is becoming an awesome domestique 💪🏻
He’d better choose a lighter one..ahahahah…
@@stelvioman5001 your riding very well my friend as jasper said a machine 💪🏻
A lighter one would have pulled away from me🤪 we were synchronized 💪
I'm really digging the series! Haute Route should be paying you for promoting the events to the the right audience! Do you think Dolomites would still be enjoyable for a person under 3W/kg? Would they be able to finish the stages during daytime etc?
Yes for sure!! Just pace it your way!
Awesome congratulations watching you from California
Wassup Cali!!!🤙
Excellent narration and awesome views! I think you have to have neutralized sections on the descent because the road is not closed to cars. It looks like a very well managed event.
Vet filmpje Jasper
I just finished watching and now I'm taking a recovery week.
Hahahaha. Take it easy and be ready for next Monday!😉
always DTS bro💪👏
You’re a beast Jasper, forget about 14th, top 10!
Oh yeah!!!🔥🔥🔥
"Surface was terrible, really bad"
Welcome to Italy mate!
Italy is amazing for many other things I guess. 😉
Hmm ... somehow you match together really nice ... Flatlandman & Stelvioman. Like brothers in arms.
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Mate, you are a Dutch cycling machine, it's just that simple 🤙🏻🇳🇱🤙🏻🇳🇱🤙🏻
Awesome 💪💪🐎 I'm betting on you!!
Nice story, not bad for 81 kilos climber 🔥🔥
Sprinter 😉🤪
Wow what a view
Epic climb!
This puts in perspective what the pro riders are going through in a GT
GT is big!!!😱
Another stunning video. I doubt i will ever get fit enough to climb it so I will just have to settle for watching you and others suffering climbing it instead!
It's all about how fast you to up! Get the right bike and gear and take your time, you'll get up there!💪👍
@@jasperverkuijl i will need mountian bike gearing! I was trying to build my endurance / FTP up as I was supposed to ride Stelvio this April but Covid-19 put a stop to that and total lost motivation to ride for the last 18 months. Just started riding again. Need to get out and ride more. In the meantime I will watch your inspirational videos.
Out of breath just watching it
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What a great challenge.
Total machine. RESPECT. I am sure they would have the oxygen on me
😱😵😵😵
Jasper you should ride the Monte Zoncolan vom Ovaro, thats a Monster! if this is to easy ride it from sutrio up again✌🏻
Any mountain is hard when you ride up hard enough 😉
I remember my time on the gavia, did a loop from Bormio over Mortirolo and Gavia,
same issues, height and the asfalt at the top preventing any rhythm
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Awesome ride man !! Benen zullen nu wel stijf zijn idd 😂😂
Behoorlijk!!😱
Popcorn grabbed, it’s another banger.
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When the offensive goal of the day is to attack and conquer Passo di Gavia, it’s vital to choose the right armaments. Case in point, Stelvioman’s weapon of choice is: Pinarello F12, a battle tested assault gear. Sorry Jasper, but you looked like a wounded marine being carried in the shoulder of a superior officer while engaged in a heavy firefight to secure a difficult hill. You deserve a Purple Heart but Stelvioman gets the Medal of Honor. By the way, grats on placing 10th on GC!
Wait for next ep when i unleash the big guns🔥💪😉
Aargghh! I can’t wait for that. I’m drooling in anticipation. Keep up the great work Jasper!
Beast!
Stelvioman is using his biceps to propel uphill
Sometimes they help! LOL
you are killing it! How long are the massages?
Normally like 15-20 minutes but i had an amazing masseuse that expanded because I was doing so well in GC!🤙🤙 You can also book extra 60 or 90 min massages on top of the already included ones.
I've been there- AMAZING
Do you train off bike like some body weight exercises like push ups pull ups etc.? You have good athletic physique.
No, have not done that for years. But watch my strength training video of a few years back to see what i used to do before comitting fully to road cycling.
@@jasperverkuijl Well even PRO riders train a lot without bike.. It's important to keep the body balanced. Riding bike can create a lot of problems if you don't compensate for that with stretching and workout muscles that are not used on the bike etc..
May I ask what is the gearing you have front and rear? Great videos mate, keep it up!
36-52/11/30
Stelvioman needs his own channel!
I think he has. 🤙
I realy like this kind of videos but there is one thing missing : "What´s up guys whats up cycling fanatics"
🤪 it's at the beginning of the full docu! Back than I didn't know I was doing 6 episodes!!🤪
Stelvioman... 💪.....
Gatver man. Geweldig
Volgend jaar doe ik ook een trans alpes.
Ben echt benieuwd naar je “after insights” ivm hoe hard je mag en kan gaan.
Hoe omgaan met pijn in de benen.
Had je anders moeten trainen.
Echt top. Als ik dit had moeten filmen had ik 8!keer op mijn bek gegaan.
Acrobaat.
👍👍 volgende keer train ik precies zo, ik was top fit!!!
@@jasperverkuijl heb je daar ook filmpjes van ? Heb er eentje gezien met wind op kop
@@optimeyes3818 ik heb heel wat video's over training ja, even door m'n video's heen scrollen
@@jasperverkuijl sorry man, heb idd gescrold en een mooie gevonden waarbij je je FTP met 25 doet stijgen! Tja die youtube is wat chaotisch alles door mekaar....en dan komen de Bumba video's van de kids er nog door gatverdamme...
@@optimeyes3818 hahaha. Kinderen aan de TH-cam kids app zetten!👍😅
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Love your footage, what camera are you using for the on bike shots?? Cheers Gavin
GoPro.
Wait till you see my haute Route story of the Pyrenees!! It drops this Sunday!
@@jasperverkuijl awesome look forward to hit. Good luck. Keep the watts under 400 lol
I think you should get a new "Canyon Aeroroad" with "disc brakes", mate,...
I think it might give you more "confidence",.......🤙😎🤙😎🤙😎🤙 (the Cannondale is still a very good bike, though,..😁😉😁😉)
You think i lack of confidence?😅😉
The gavia pushes you gives you muscle memory and also makes you more efficient in low oxygen.just ask stelvioman that is why he's a machine. I wanted to challenge myself so I did mortirolo many times and as crazy as it sounds it gets easier,also when you do mortirolo there are no more hills! I have done the monster at ovaro but mortirolo is harder as it is relentless even on the bends! It is excellent training, it's only 12.4km but it's like doing a double stelvio.
💪🏻💪🏻
Awesome effort Jasper! what Cannondale are you on ?
and what gearing are you using?
SUPERSIX. 36-52/11-30
@@jasperverkuijl thanks Man ,loving the vlogs so far ,looking forward to the next one !
I rode the Stelvio and Gavia a couple of months ago. I climbed the other side of the Gavia. It also had these nasty ramps of 13-15% and at the top the air gets really thin.
The descent on the Gavia was horrible, because as you mentioned the surface is horrible 😅
Great video!
Yeah descending that way must be crap! And scary in the tunnel!!🤪
Yes, the tunnel on the Gavia is pretty scary.
There is a similar tunnel on the Stelvio where I had to wait because of a traffic light. There I noticed that my saddlebag somehow opened on the way down and half of my clothes were spread over a 2km distance on the Stelvio. I lost one of my socks. Did you happen to see it while climbing? 😂
wow, respect ... just wondering what were your gears?
11-32 and 34-52
Does anyone know which cycling computer Jasper always seems to use?
Jasper what was the burgundy jersey you were wearing during the race?
It's siroko, link with discount in description or pinned comment. I also have a review video of my siroko gear. Check it out now because they have big black Friday deals!!💪
That sweat 💦 bro!
I believe you have ridden both rim and disc bike on climbed and descending. Do you feel that disc allows you to descend faster or what is the pro and con of both this system?
Thanks.
No i don't think so, in dry conditions the rim brake will powerful enough so you can brake at the same time
@@jasperverkuijl Thanks for the info.
I am enjoying your TH-cam videos very much. 🤙 cycling fanatic all the way.
Sweat and saliva everywhere when finished. Then you know it was a good day.
😅🤙🤙
9:00 Tunnel bypass Old Road
Are you using a CGM? How do you like that kind of data, do you think it makes a diff?
CGM?
@@jasperverkuijl Continuous glucose monitor
@@reflectionsdetail aah ok. Yeah only for 4 weeks leading into this event and during haute route. It gives lots of insights and a shitload of data that can be overwhelming and totally useless or very helpful, depending on how much time you out into it.
Did you try Zoncolan from Ovaro?
Nope
I want a stelvioman t-shirt! What bike is he riding?
Pinarello
I havent got at the Video how you lost time on this stage as I thought you was the first one at top of the second climb?
Not the first. The leaders are ahead of us