Well done handling the gear slip! What heart rate/power zone did you reach? Would you compare this to a leg-day at the gym compressed into 10 minutes? 😁
Also, do you include training in "heavy gearing" in your PRO training plans? I guess you need to balance type 2 muscle strength with your body weight, your thighs aren't in the same league as the bikers in the velodrome 🦵💪
GCN on every single video: Remember to bring your essentials, tools and spares are fundamental. Also GCN, we dont have any tools, pliers, toothpick? anything!
@@Thezuule1 I changed my saddle recently and forgot to put the saddlebag back on. Wanna guess what came loose during my ride when I didn't have my multitool? At least I didn't flat. And I did eventually get to one of those bike path repair stands so I could readjust the saddle.
@@gcn Good question. KOMs are gonna be hard to beat because of Andrew F.'s times. How about bringing back those big bikes, especially the one with green wheels?
Fair play for just getting up the climb with those gears. Amazing effort. Just shows how legendary the cyclists were back in the day doing the climbs of the tour with those gears.
Never ride it but I still have a Raleigh Criterium from that era. 2x6 with similar gearing, and the downtube friction shifters that still scare me. 11-34 cassette on my current bike and I still pootle up hills!
I still use the same gear set up. When 53/39 came in I hated it, you had to go up a two or three gears before you dropped down on the front, or you'd be spinning too much as soon as you hit the climb. I still love the drop down from a 52 to a 42, now have to buy the specialist TA chainrings and fit them to a Shimano crank. And 12 or 13-23, even on a 10 speed where you can pretty much run the whole cassette through one tooth apart is an awesome setup. I wouldn't have it any other way. As much as I don't want to quote Henri Desgrange: "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over 45. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear! ".
Man, you guys gotta leave my boy Connor alone! Haha! Anyway, athletes truly are a separate breed. I'm glad you had the mic on there because most people that struggled the way he did would've stopped halfway even before the gear slipped. Also him adding to the point that he was staying in gear was insane to continue at all. That's why pros are pros.
Great time! Max must have really strong legs and core! Worst thing about those bikes are the gears. They're just so under-geared for steep climbs, and then if you want to change gears if struggling are actually quite hard to take your hand off the bars and drop down the gears to get in the right one etc. I couldn't get up half our 10%+climbs on a 44x23 let alone a 25%+ one!
Totally …. I am just figuring out the 34/42 mod for my bike having ridden a sportive recently with a brutal 12 km climb with ramos if 15-20%. My 36/34 didn’t cut it at age 63!!!
I had a Peugeot Triathlon when I was 16 in 86 from my mum’s Grattan Catalog with my YTS apprentice money just like this bike but with chrome forks loved it 🥰
“Chief mascot!” Haha that was pretty funny!! That goes to show that if you are an average cyclist, your $5k bike will not do much for you. Maybe make you a little more comfortable on the ride; but it sure will not give you 5 w/kg extra.
this is so similar to my current bike except my 44/28 is a little easier than the 42/23 on this peguot. So awesome seeing a pro make 20%look so easy with that ratio. Would love to see max on the channel again
Love this kind of video,s! I once rode up a steep climb (12,4% average, 20% slopes, +540) with a €200 euro 17 kg mountainbike. One of the hardest things I have ever done but I made it in 38 minutes. I think also this video shows that a good bike is not that important as some people might think.
i converted my neighbours one of these from 2x6 to 3x10 running 30/40/50 front on a sora triple mech and 11-32 10 speed rear on an mtb mech, still using those original friction downtube shifters. saved him breaking yet another vintage frame grinding up a climb.
A great illustration that any decent (well maintained) bike can get you riding! Build your fitness and skills on the bike you've got. Then move on the n+1 when finances allow 😊
100 quid bikes are a mixed bag, I have had loads of these things, 100 will get you a brilliant vintage racing bike these days, might not be a Bianchi but a lesser known bike but great none the less. Something like a Viscount Aerospace can be picked up really cheap but they are quick. Here's a challenge, get a grandad bike and tt it. I sometimes ride my 3 speed 50s thing in local races for the amusement value. Gearing is everything though, that Peugeot would be fine geared correctly.
Two points from this video: 1. I'm gonna borrow Max's words and coin them - "Big Panik" 2. Connor's taking the mascot role like a champ, he's smiling from ear to ear!
I own a purple Peugeot Ventoux - probably form the late 80s - and I'm in love with it! Obviously when I have the chance to ride a modern bike, it seems I'm flying compared to when I ride the Peugeot =) Great video!
@@reinholdachleitner2069 My bikes are both three speeds, inspired by the 1930s Raleighs; with Sturmey-Archer hubs, of course. I know Mark Beaumont did a feature retracing some of Tommy Godwin’s accomplishments using a four speed hub. I would love to see Ollie or Si do a 25 or 50 mile time trial on a re-creation of a vintage three speed Raleigh Record Ace like the one Bert James rode.
I'm currently riding a Peugeot Monaco circa 88 as a daily commuter and it's a lot of fun even though the tires are 23c and the crankset is a 52-42,it corners beautifully and and picks up speed quickly at 10.4kg.💯👌🏻✌🏻🚴
@@gcn 23mm tires definitely feel less stable particularly over bumps and debris and they sometimes feel hard or over inflated because they are really narrow but I'm looking forward to fitting 25mm Michelin Lithion 2 I've ordered.💯👌🏻✌🏻🚴
Once Max steps out of the pro racing scene, I sincerely hope he joins the GCN team. He's been really good at presenting and he rides really really well.
I am having mixed feeling about this new £100 bike, on one hand it's really great to see GCN ride a bike like mine, on the other seeing how well it is doing in the challenges it is getting increasingly harder to justify my planned upgrade. :)
Well here in Italy in the "Giro di Lombardia" race they used to go up the "muro di Sormano" climb, that's 14.1% average but up to 27% peak. And they did it in the '60s, with much, much heavier bikes than this.
I had an original Peugeot team bike from that time. Got it from a friend who actually won a Tour the France etappe with it. The original bikes had a 24 21 19...or a 28 23 19... cassette on it. The gear slipping was a general problem on climbs.
I'm no spring chicken either, about to turn 56, back in the day only owned one road bike I bought in 1995, a Peugeot and cannot for the life of me remember what the gearing was back then but think it was pre- compact era... 12 or 14 speed I'd imagine a 39/25 or 28?? Not too bad for the rolling hills of Fife! ( I was on triple MTB mainly!)
Years ago I had a Peugeot winter hack made of Reynolds 501. I'm quite a big guy (78kg race weight) and when I put power down it felt like riding a rice pudding. But then when you climbed on your best bike in Spring, it felt soooo good.
Bring back Max! That was fun but painful too. I bought a 1985 Peugeot PXN-10 for 200 Euros in 2010 and rode it twice at l'Eroica in Tuscany. Surprisingly good bike albeit with more reasonable gearing than the one in the video but only average workmanship compared to my Italian steel bikes.
I have an ‘80 PX-10, same gearing, 9.8 lbs, congrats Max!! My question is why wasn’t the bike set up properly for Max, not even a multi tool on set? Seat, bars, and Down tube shifters needed adjustment. Hope you get the # of likes, but bring that nice Park toolbox to Turkey, haha😅😂😊
I live reasonably close to Draycott and my son is always wanting to have a crack at it. Having seen that I'm glad I'm rocking a 34/34. Got up Ebbor Gorge though just along a bit from Draycott with 50 miles in my legs, and on that day for some reason I couldn't get my big ring so had to use 34/30.
Within the last month I bought a 1984 Raleigh Corsa just as a quick, get around town bike. Something to jump on for family rides etc. Curiosity got the better of me, I swapped out the clipless pedals from my Cannondale Super Six Evo and went on one of my shorter loops: 25k, 450 meters of elevation. I was happy with how comfortable it was over the course of the ride. The lack of extra gears was def noticeable on the 3 climbs, but not impossible. And I was surprised to discover that I was just less than 2 min slower overall. Crazy. Next I'm going to only train with the Raleigh for 1 month and then go back to my Cannondale just to see how it feels and if training on the harder bike = gains on the newer bike.
Great effort max, these old bikes make for great winter training and you won't half notice how much stronger & better you will have become because of it when you as hank out it ride your super bike, oh yeah for sure max has to take it to ride a race on it, just for the giggles at least.
I'm 1,60 and 48 kilos, and that's the closest I'll ever come to Max. But, how about giving this bike to Andrew "The Twig" Feather and see what he can do with it?
I could watch twenty to fifty “pro on Beryl Burton’s 1962 bike vs Si, Manon, and someone from gmbn all on modern super bikes built for X, Y, or Z terrain course” episodes.
If possible, take a cheap bike and swap everything out with expensive parts, and vice versa. So basically use a cheap frame with everything else being high-end bike parts and an expensive frame fitted with cheap parts :D
If the £100 Peugeot replica bike had the same gearing as the bike he did his PB on, then his time would have been much much closer to his PB. I would say in the region of 7:15. Would be interesting to do it again with similar gearing.
Usually you want to slap anyone who never shuts up. But Max Stedman is entertaining precisely because he never shuts up! I think the secret is just the right balance between lip and self-deprecation. And also because he's small enough that I could pick him up without injuring myself or him.
As an American when I first heard him say £100 bike I heard it as "100 lb bike" until I read the title again. That would certainly be quite the feat dragging a 100 lb bike up that climb 😂
What was your last PB on a climb? 🚵♂ Let us know 👇
I made it up and a few seconds
Today in goulceby lincolnshire
Local speed bump. Im in NL. Short of a second.
@@escargoto8171 saw lots of riders on the Bluestone Heath road, what was on?
@@johnstrac quite a few club rides were on I was solo, I don’t think there was a sportive/ event on
Cheers for having me on! People welcome to drop any ideas for more videos with the £100 bike in the comments! 😂
8:54 racing driver excuses 😉 well done Max, amazing effort!
£100 bike vs Hardknott Pass 😜🤣
Well done handling the gear slip! What heart rate/power zone did you reach? Would you compare this to a leg-day at the gym compressed into 10 minutes? 😁
Yeah! £100 bike vs Hardknott!
Also, do you include training in "heavy gearing" in your PRO training plans? I guess you need to balance type 2 muscle strength with your body weight, your thighs aren't in the same league as the bikers in the velodrome 🦵💪
Max is a star. We really want to see him again.
We love having Max on the channel! Did you see what happened when we took him to the gym? 👉th-cam.com/video/VDvwMOrYeio/w-d-xo.html
All that effort with gears slipping and Max can still give us the play by play… what a boss, Go Max!
A true pro! 😎
he is a boss
@@JamesL-W hey so are you Hank!
@@WarHammerWH I am
Dude's talking to the camera at 7w/kg.
NBD
Shows how strong feather is. Destroyed him on that climb
Was*
Strong strong rider 💪
unreal isnt it
GCN on every single video: Remember to bring your essentials, tools and spares are fundamental.
Also GCN, we dont have any tools, pliers, toothpick? anything!
Ha, how many vids have they made about what to bring, cheers.
GCN needs to watch GCN
I never leave the house without my multitool, spare tubes and patches, hand pump, etc. Not sure why you'd show up to ride a bike without those things.
@@Thezuule1 I changed my saddle recently and forgot to put the saddlebag back on. Wanna guess what came loose during my ride when I didn't have my multitool?
At least I didn't flat. And I did eventually get to one of those bike path repair stands so I could readjust the saddle.
and no shadowstand....
Loved it when the pro reminded Hank that Connor had ridden in two grand tours.
If Max didn't say it... Conor would 😉
hahaha, this comment made the GCN show
Max is a good lad. More please!
Yes please ... Max and Hank are the perfect combo. Bring both of them again.
What's the challenge? 👀
Thank you, always love working with Max
@@gcn Good question. KOMs are gonna be hard to beat because of Andrew F.'s times. How about bringing back those big bikes, especially the one with green wheels?
1st - love that Peugeot
2nd- love the ride commentary
3rd- love that Max
Fair play for just getting up the climb with those gears. Amazing effort.
Just shows how legendary the cyclists were back in the day doing the climbs of the tour with those gears.
unreal isnt it
52 42 was my generation. With an 11-23. And 19 tyres. Mostly 20s. Just what it was. Crazy now looking back. And totally normal. Then.
Never ride it but I still have a Raleigh Criterium from that era. 2x6 with similar gearing, and the downtube friction shifters that still scare me. 11-34 cassette on my current bike and I still pootle up hills!
Still got mine. From 1989 IIRC. 700x20C was my normal, but I did go fat sometimes with 21C
Still rocking 52-42 / 11-23! But with 23 tires - Bought a 50/39, that's on its way now.
I still use the same gear set up. When 53/39 came in I hated it, you had to go up a two or three gears before you dropped down on the front, or you'd be spinning too much as soon as you hit the climb. I still love the drop down from a 52 to a 42, now have to buy the specialist TA chainrings and fit them to a Shimano crank. And 12 or 13-23, even on a 10 speed where you can pretty much run the whole cassette through one tooth apart is an awesome setup. I wouldn't have it any other way. As much as I don't want to quote Henri Desgrange: "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over 45. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear! ".
I rode 40 km/h average criteriums in the local towns on those bikes. Indexed downtube shifting ftw!
Please guys, for the love of Max!!!! Bring tools but more important, have the bikes serviced… please. Poor Max! What an effort.
Hahahaha we can tell Hank to bring tools as much as we like...
Max now on the list for future GCN presenter, I reckon. Definitely have him back on.
Our presenters better watch out! He was ace wasn't he?!
hahaha he would be great
thats a cool bike tbf
Only Conor and Hank could turn up with a bike the rider has never ridden or seen before without any tools to adjust it for him!
Man, you guys gotta leave my boy Connor alone! Haha! Anyway, athletes truly are a separate breed. I'm glad you had the mic on there because most people that struggled the way he did would've stopped halfway even before the gear slipped. Also him adding to the point that he was staying in gear was insane to continue at all. That's why pros are pros.
Some climbing this was! 👌 How long do you think you would last on this bike?
Great time! Max must have really strong legs and core! Worst thing about those bikes are the gears. They're just so under-geared for steep climbs, and then if you want to change gears if struggling are actually quite hard to take your hand off the bars and drop down the gears to get in the right one etc. I couldn't get up half our 10%+climbs on a 44x23 let alone a 25%+ one!
Totally …. I am just figuring out the 34/42 mod for my bike having ridden a sportive recently with a brutal 12 km climb with ramos if 15-20%. My 36/34 didn’t cut it at age 63!!!
Stedman is good fun. More of him please!
Here you go! 👉 th-cam.com/video/VDvwMOrYeio/w-d-xo.html
I had a Peugeot Triathlon when I was 16 in 86 from my mum’s Grattan Catalog with my YTS apprentice money just like this bike but with chrome forks loved it 🥰
Oooo sounds like a great bike 👌 It's always so cool to hear about the stories people get from their bikes 🙌
Max, you're a stud AND a natural on camera. Thanks for a fun video!
All I'm thinking about watching this is "MY KNEES! MY KNEES...."
“Chief mascot!” Haha that was pretty funny!! That goes to show that if you are an average cyclist, your $5k bike will not do much for you. Maybe make you a little more comfortable on the ride; but it sure will not give you 5 w/kg extra.
Practice and miles are the only way to get better, Having a bike you are comfortable with that makes you want to ride is super important!
Love my old Peugeot. It's nice to see the old stuff getting love like this even if they don't compare to modern bikes.
We love a retro bike too 🙌
A big like from Turkey 👍
this is so similar to my current bike except my 44/28 is a little easier than the 42/23 on this peguot. So awesome seeing a pro make 20%look so easy with that ratio. Would love to see max on the channel again
Welcome back,Max! It's been awhile. Definitely enter it in some race!
What style of racing? It would be interesting to see how this bike would get on at a crit race 🤔
@@gcn That or a hill climb? lol
Love this kind of video,s! I once rode up a steep climb (12,4% average, 20% slopes, +540) with a €200 euro 17 kg mountainbike. One of the hardest things I have ever done but I made it in 38 minutes. I think also this video shows that a good bike is not that important as some people might think.
A good bike can help but a good engine... now you're talking 💨
The breathing always tells how hard it is, cheers.
i converted my neighbours one of these from 2x6 to 3x10 running 30/40/50 front on a sora triple mech and 11-32 10 speed rear on an mtb mech, still using those original friction downtube shifters.
saved him breaking yet another vintage frame grinding up a climb.
for a paper boys bike that's bl**dy good going, be nice to see an attempt with a decent 80s bike.
Max is fun! Definitely a good candidate for a GCN presenter when he retires from pro racing.
More of Max + Hank and Conor please! This was truly impressive of Max, bossed that climb like he wasn't putting down mad watts on slipping gears 🤯
A great illustration that any decent (well maintained) bike can get you riding! Build your fitness and skills on the bike you've got.
Then move on the n+1 when finances allow 😊
Serious effort put in there, loved it! More of these types of challenges on the £100 bike please!!
100 quid bikes are a mixed bag, I have had loads of these things, 100 will get you a brilliant vintage racing bike these days, might not be a Bianchi but a lesser known bike but great none the less.
Something like a Viscount Aerospace can be picked up really cheap but they are quick.
Here's a challenge, get a grandad bike and tt it. I sometimes ride my 3 speed 50s thing in local races for the amusement value.
Gearing is everything though, that Peugeot would be fine geared correctly.
Two points from this video:
1. I'm gonna borrow Max's words and coin them - "Big Panik"
2. Connor's taking the mascot role like a champ, he's smiling from ear to ear!
I own a purple Peugeot Ventoux - probably form the late 80s - and I'm in love with it! Obviously when I have the chance to ride a modern bike, it seems I'm flying compared to when I ride the Peugeot =)
Great video!
It's not all about performance! Sometimes having a love for the bike is what makes the ride more fun 🙌
Climb Babadag in Turkey is a real deal, not possible with this type of bike High gears and heavy weight like my walk bike 😅
Nice. And guys were going up Mont Ventoux on even stiffer gears. And then there were the riders of the 1930s doing the End to End on only three gears…
Cyclist nowdays are super spoilt and spoilt for choice.💯👌🏻✌🏻
@@reinholdachleitner2069 My bikes are both three speeds, inspired by the 1930s Raleighs; with Sturmey-Archer hubs, of course. I know Mark Beaumont did a feature retracing some of Tommy Godwin’s accomplishments using a four speed hub. I would love to see Ollie or Si do a 25 or 50 mile time trial on a re-creation of a vintage three speed Raleigh Record Ace like the one Bert James rode.
What a phenomenally nice bloke Max is! Fab vid guys!
Always a pleasure to film with! Want more of Max? Here you go 👉 th-cam.com/video/VDvwMOrYeio/w-d-xo.html
finally 4K videos keep it up, love the high resolution!
I'm currently riding a Peugeot Monaco circa 88 as a daily commuter and it's a lot of fun even though the tires are 23c and the crankset is a 52-42,it corners beautifully and and picks up speed quickly at 10.4kg.💯👌🏻✌🏻🚴
Sounds like a beautiful bike! What do you make of the 23mm tyres?
@@gcn 23mm tires definitely feel less stable particularly over bumps and debris and they sometimes feel hard or over inflated because they are really narrow but I'm looking forward to fitting 25mm Michelin Lithion 2 I've ordered.💯👌🏻✌🏻🚴
Once Max steps out of the pro racing scene, I sincerely hope he joins the GCN team. He's been really good at presenting and he rides really really well.
Babadag climb would be awesome! Cannot wait!
Really? 12kg? I have a Koga Miyata Pro Racer from 1978 and it has 9,8kg. Wow! Now I see my old racer really impressed!
Dude, going up steep hills is like the best thing in the world! Love your channel. Cheers from Ukraine.
Glad you enjoy it!
I am having mixed feeling about this new £100 bike, on one hand it's really great to see GCN ride a bike like mine, on the other seeing how well it is doing in the challenges it is getting increasingly harder to justify my planned upgrade. :)
I love how talkative max is. I always wished that the guest pros had more to say in videos.
hes a natural
Well here in Italy in the "Giro di Lombardia" race they used to go up the "muro di Sormano" climb, that's 14.1% average but up to 27% peak. And they did it in the '60s, with much, much heavier bikes than this.
I had an original Peugeot team bike from that time. Got it from a friend who actually won a Tour the France etappe with it. The original bikes had a 24 21 19...or a 28 23 19... cassette on it. The gear slipping was a general problem on climbs.
What awesome bike to own! Do you still have it in your your collection?
@@gcn It was a awesome bike, but did not last for eternity.
I was never expecting to see a Beykoz rider in GCN. Great video. Well done Max great effort . Love from Turkey
Makes you realise how many old people must have creaking, knackered knees...42/23 is horrendous and fine for Florida, Norfolk or the Netherlands..
I'm no spring chicken either, about to turn 56, back in the day only owned one road bike I bought in 1995, a Peugeot and cannot for the life of me remember what the gearing was back then but think it was pre- compact era... 12 or 14 speed I'd imagine a 39/25 or 28?? Not too bad for the rolling hills of Fife! ( I was on triple MTB mainly!)
Well done Max (should be a regular on GCN). The pug needs a campy Seatpost.
Those tools! I am sure Park Tool does not make a pruning cutter.
This is why Hank doesn't make our maintenance videos 😂 ✂️
Years ago I had a Peugeot winter hack made of Reynolds 501. I'm quite a big guy (78kg race weight) and when I put power down it felt like riding a rice pudding.
But then when you climbed on your best bike in Spring, it felt soooo good.
As a yank, I heard you say, "100lb bike" before I saw the video title and thought Max was going to attempt the climb with a super heavy bike
Bring back Max! That was fun but painful too. I bought a 1985 Peugeot PXN-10 for 200 Euros in 2010 and rode it twice at l'Eroica in Tuscany. Surprisingly good bike albeit with more reasonable gearing than the one in the video but only average workmanship compared to my Italian steel bikes.
I have an ‘80 PX-10, same gearing, 9.8 lbs, congrats Max!! My question is why wasn’t the bike set up properly for Max, not even a multi tool on set? Seat, bars, and Down tube shifters needed adjustment. Hope you get the # of likes, but bring that nice Park toolbox to Turkey, haha😅😂😊
I have an almost identical Peugeot Premiere, the gearing was my excuse for walking up Ditchling beacon 🤣
What a nice chap Max is! Sign him up.
10:24 let's appreciate Conor's effort to fit in the frame.
I live reasonably close to Draycott and my son is always wanting to have a crack at it. Having seen that I'm glad I'm rocking a 34/34. Got up Ebbor Gorge though just along a bit from Draycott with 50 miles in my legs, and on that day for some reason I couldn't get my big ring so had to use 34/30.
Go give it a crack and get back to us 🙌 It's one steep climb!
Great video - really enjoyed this. More Max on the channel, please.
We would love to have max back 🙌 Any challenges that we should set him?
He weighs what??? 54 Kg ! Holy moley. You’d have to add 100 Kg to get to my weight. I guess that’s why I don’t go up hills very well.
It is really strange to see a Turkish flag and a Beykoz Belediyesi sign on a random af cycling video but i am here for it.
I feel so much better struggling up a hill in my cheap bike, knowing that he struggled, too. I love these kinds of challenges!
The slipping shifter was a nice surprise for Max!
A hundred-pound bike? That's pretty heavy.
😂
hahahaha
Thats brought back some memories! I had the Peugeot tour version back in ‘79. Crazy bad climbing gears in the chilterns.
PS it was £300 new!!
Within the last month I bought a 1984 Raleigh Corsa just as a quick, get around town bike. Something to jump on for family rides etc. Curiosity got the better of me, I swapped out the clipless pedals from my Cannondale Super Six Evo and went on one of my shorter loops: 25k, 450 meters of elevation. I was happy with how comfortable it was over the course of the ride. The lack of extra gears was def noticeable on the 3 climbs, but not impossible. And I was surprised to discover that I was just less than 2 min slower overall. Crazy. Next I'm going to only train with the Raleigh for 1 month and then go back to my Cannondale just to see how it feels and if training on the harder bike = gains on the newer bike.
hi, thanks for the comment! let us know how you get on with the training on the Raleigh and how the Cannondale feels!
Max is great! Give him some more challenges.
This just shows that a well planned cassette and chainring ratio and a bottom bracket upgrade can make any bike great for every day joe riding.
Change the gear ratios to those used on modern bike and try again, a more fair comparison
Absolute respect for Max.
Super amazing effort!! Kudos!!!
Wow, super climbing skills. I like to think I am a climber but this was epic.
100 quid. Absolute bargain 🙂. You would get way more than a 100 quids worth of fun out of that bike ! I'd ride it happily
Second on Strava segment.
Only one other time recorded and they beat me by heaps, but second sounds pretty good, I’ll take it.
Awesome Max.. we need more Max on GCN superstar 😊😊 👍🚴🏻 Pete 😃👍🚴🏻
Great vid! Rim brakes FTW!
I had one of those Vetta SL saddles back in 96.
Absolutely horrendous lol.
Nothing wrong with Vintage steel bikes. I love my Blue Gios Torino from 1980
“I am coming back from a broken collarbone” … so Hank proceeds to slap him on his shoulder 😂
good old Hank!
HOLLY UP GRADE Batman CGN has a 4K 2160P video.
About time Lads. Congrats!!!
Enjoy 🫡
Great effort max, these old bikes make for great winter training and you won't half notice how much stronger & better you will have become because of it when you as hank out it ride your super bike, oh yeah for sure max has to take it to ride a race on it, just for the giggles at least.
Max is a damn riot, get him on the show more!
I'm 1,60 and 48 kilos, and that's the closest I'll ever come to Max. But, how about giving this bike to Andrew "The Twig" Feather and see what he can do with it?
Probably close to 7 minutes.
Not the first ride they made with Andrew and bikes like this
I could watch twenty to fifty “pro on Beryl Burton’s 1962 bike vs Si, Manon, and someone from gmbn all on modern super bikes built for X, Y, or Z terrain course” episodes.
I think its fair to say that someone who rides a heavy bike everyday is stronger than someone who rides a light bike everyday.
I wanna see the powerbuilder do it now! :D
I need to get him back on
Comment for Max !!! get it done mate you got this !!!
That was my bike as a kid - ANC Halfords Peugeot - Best Xmas Present ever
Awesome video! We need a hank torture challenge soon.
If possible, take a cheap bike and swap everything out with expensive parts, and vice versa.
So basically use a cheap frame with everything else being high-end bike parts and an expensive frame fitted with cheap parts :D
Or an old frame with modern parts and a new frame with old parts. ( If you can make it fit hehe).
If the £100 Peugeot replica bike had the same gearing as the bike he did his PB on, then his time would have been much much closer to his PB. I would say in the region of 7:15. Would be interesting to do it again with similar gearing.
Usually you want to slap anyone who never shuts up. But Max Stedman is entertaining precisely because he never shuts up! I think the secret is just the right balance between lip and self-deprecation. And also because he's small enough that I could pick him up without injuring myself or him.
And that’s why Simplex Retrofriction Shifters were invented, no more slipping downtube gears!
We need to compare Max’s time with Hank’s time up that climb
As an American when I first heard him say £100 bike I heard it as "100 lb bike" until I read the title again. That would certainly be quite the feat dragging a 100 lb bike up that climb 😂
It took me a minute to sort that out too
One like closer to looking like a Turkey! Carbolite HLE.. 😄 This is what many of us started off on back in the 80's.
A Steel Pueguot 🎉
Hoorah 🎉
So glad you guys read the comments 👏🏼