Lizzie winning the Roubaix with bloody, perfectly manicured hands, perfectly put together after drilling it alone for 50K and gracefully bossing the peloton.
The most aesthetic thing about cycling for me is seeing people from all walks of life and age groups riding on The Loop here in Tucson. Road, recumbent, elliptical, gravel, cruisers (with the occasional pet in a basket), etc. These are my people, and I love each and every one of them.
Last week the city of Toronto shut down a major freeway for half a day for a cycling event. It was absolutely beautiful. No cars, no fumes, no noise, no rage ... just freedom!
Aside from seeing breathtaking views and gorgeous scenes that nature has to offer, but also meeting new people with the same positive mindset in riding.
One of our older friends, who is slowly going blind, once described the peloton as "beautiful flying colors, like a flock of birds". He still watches racing, sitting right in front of the biggest widescreen tv you've ever seen. 😊
Amazing to hear that they are still finding joy in watching racing. How about riding? There are many great community groups that run tandem rides for those that are visually impaired.
As a kid I fell in love with cycling watching the Tour de France on TV during the Hinault era and seeing the aerial shots of all the color snaking through the beautiful countryside. That's what hooked me first. And as for myself, I love a beautiful winding climb, well not the climbing part, but usually a climb will bring good scenery and I'm usually going slow enough to enjoy it. 😂 White bar tape.
Love this! Racing can be a great way to get into cycling but it's more than just riders battling it out, there are joys in those slow climbs and epic views 🙌
Light, beautifully designed road bikes and sportsmanship by pro cyclists like Jonas waiting for Pog in last year's tour and G helping out Cav in the Giro. And of course, all the beautiful scenery and amazing places we get to see during the grand tours.
Nothing more beautiful and moving than watching Geriant Thomas lead out Mark Cavendish on the final stage of the Giro 23' after bitterly missing out himself on the overall win... Super G steps up and lays down a lead out for an ole mate! BEAUTIFUL
A note for Dr. Bridgewood re. shaggy shrubbery & longer grass - low maintenance landscape management for increased biodiversity benefit is all the rage 🌱
Culottes; historically, they did not refer to full length trousers, but the breeches. This is why revolutionaries during the French Revolution were referred to as Sans Culottes...they wore trousers instead of the more fashionable and higher class breeches.
I was listening to this on my earphones, and suddenly at 10:05 I wondered why they started talking about 'balls'. And then go on discussing 500 mil (millimetres?) balls. It took me a couple more sentences of the weirdest stuff to understand that they're actually talking about water bottles 😂😂😂
The most iconic imagery in sport is one of yourself, achieving your own goal. It can be simple, or it can be really chuffing hard. But if you get a picture of that moment, printed and framed in A3, then mounted on the back of the toilet door, you'll live that dream every day for the rest of your beautiful life.
About why old components/groupsets look better: they didn't have giant branding pasted all over them in your face with wack graphic design details that are entirely disconnected from the rest of the bike's aesthetic. The materials and industrial process spoke much more clearly and softly in the object than the ones currently made.
OMG GUYS, GCN IS WORSHIPPING A PINARELLO! Must be a day ending in Y. Also, don't know where you got the 874 part from. It's just plain End Censorship...
I love rob saying "we will show a picture if posdible", can already imagine the editors going "now shall we display it during the segment were it makes sense or after his comment"
"coo-lots" As we pronounce it in the US, have always been blousy ladies shorts that look like a skirt at first. I do not approve of someone using them as a term for bibs!! 😆
I've ran SiS 1000ml bidons since the height of the first lockdown when I was regularly out doing 3-4hrs on the bike every other day and I've never went back to smaller bidons. When Im out doing 120+ mile rides over the Yorkshire Moors, I can cycle a good 25-30 mile without passing by a single store. 1000ml bidons are brilliant!
The moment you understand climbing, master the technique and rhythm and crave the suffering that is endured while ascending. And the bright brushed Litespeed Classic built to near perfection with a white saddle and bartape.
I think it won't be a popular choice, but I think the best looking bike is a clean tt bike, with all the wires internally routed, a disc wheel and super deep front wheel.
Riding a streamliner looking at a monitor isn't scary. The scary part is when a gust of wind hits. You don't see or hear the wind. Your vehicle suddenly moves sideways by a meter or two and the nose dips into the wind. The whole time, all you hear is increasingly loud road noise as your speed increases, reverberating inside a big drum.
That bottle is so cool! I've been playing with making my own gels, and while I'm using 150ml soft flasks, they sometimes leak in your pocket. I bet it would be a pain to clean, though.
i honestly like the idea of integrating the gells in the waterbottle. hate to take care of the waste of a normal gell during a ride. if this can eliminate that, i'm all ears. its just that i absolutely hate the traditional cycling bottles, Camelback freeflow system all the way for me. if they can integrate that gell system into a camelbak kinda drinking system, i would buy 5 of them immediately
Culotte = koo·laat. Split it into two distinct words. Coo like the sound a baby makes and then Lahhhht, long A. Modern version is women's short baggy pants that look like a skirt unless you spread them apart. My wife has a fun pair.
Ask GCN Tech - why doesn't the hot wax dissolve residual grease when you wax a chain? Its lower melting point and its a hydrocarbon. I put some gear oil in wax as an experiment and it was definitely miscible in wax. Please explain.
Hey check out the pronunciation of Zara, it's a Spanish company from Spain and should be pronounced with the "Z" as a "Th" sound...give it a shot gentlemen!
White bar tape. Totally impractical, but just looks so clean and classy when new. Looks crap after 5 rides mind you!!! So you're just gonna have to keep replacing with more white tape.
Robert Barthko on his FES carbon track bike wearing the Rudy Project Sweeto helmet in mirrored silver OR Bjarne Riis at the 96 tdf prologue Danish champ aero-suit, matching Limar aero helmet with slash camtail end tip and sharp visor ⚡️🇩🇰 OR Andrea Collinelli in the Italy kit aboard Pinarello Parigina on track at the Atlanta 96 Olympics again Rudy Project Sweeto helmet 👽🍝
I find the recent incorrect use of the word 'aesthetic' really fucking irritating. However, Ollie got it right at 8:39 and 9:40 so he gets a pass, even though Alex gets it right at the end at 10:48 he's butchered it so much by that point he still gets an F.
would it be better to use 1L bottles or wear a camelbak (more convenient and possibly more aero?) or are camelbaks just not really a thing in road cycling? Makes your back too sweaty?
How much does water bottle size/volume affect race time over a long event such as a gran fondo sounds like an interesting video topic. At least to a cycling nerd such as myself.
all that discussion of chain sets and no love for the 90's era Campy C-Record? Five bolt pattern with one in the crank arm? Come on, it's gorgeous! I miss the polished aluminum...
I like the very young girls who wear extra tight translucent lycra, getting all hot and sweaty and making dainty grunting effort noises. I also like their post ride saddles: pure bliss. (Was I meant to say the aero wheels, the scenery, the memories of long rides with my fat, hairy, smelly middle aged male 'friends', going through a mid-life crisis...?)
Question on the new BMC bike: Since AG2R is the only world tour team on Campagnolo, are they running the new Super Record? If so, are they doing a the pigmy rings and cogs?
love the show and the channel and all that.. but guys this first segment needed at least one photo per mentioned 'beautiful cycling thing". i mean common, it's even in the title
What do you think is the most beautiful part of cycling? 😍
Definitely the friends I made💪🏻
It's one of a few sports that can take you across the world under your own steam.
23mm tubular tyres, tan wall. Steel frame, downtube shifters. White saddle, white bar tape. The sound of 120psi tubular tyres rolling along
@@JonCannings I do love the sound and feel of tubulars.
The view from the mountain you just recently climbed. 🌄
Lizzie winning the Roubaix with bloody, perfectly manicured hands, perfectly put together after drilling it alone for 50K and gracefully bossing the peloton.
YES!
An epic moment! She smashed it that year... It was so wet too ☔
All of this!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The most aesthetic thing about cycling for me is seeing people from all walks of life and age groups riding on The Loop here in Tucson. Road, recumbent, elliptical, gravel, cruisers (with the occasional pet in a basket), etc. These are my people, and I love each and every one of them.
Yes yes yes!! Cycling is for everyone, the more bums on seats the better 🙌
Last week the city of Toronto shut down a major freeway for half a day for a cycling event. It was absolutely beautiful. No cars, no fumes, no noise, no rage ... just freedom!
Wow! That sounds amazing... Where do we sign up?
I hear😒there's some anti-cycling ferment in TO - one candidate in the mayoral race is proposing to 'review' bike lanes.
@@richardharris8538 Yeah. There's something like 105 candidates lol. Including a dog, who's probably got my vote.
@@gcntech Open to all.
It is a 75k charity ride for brain health. Fantastic experience!
Aside from seeing breathtaking views and gorgeous scenes that nature has to offer, but also meeting new people with the same positive mindset in riding.
Say it louder for those at the back!!! 🙌
One of our older friends, who is slowly going blind, once described the peloton as "beautiful flying colors, like a flock of birds". He still watches racing, sitting right in front of the biggest widescreen tv you've ever seen. 😊
Amazing to hear that they are still finding joy in watching racing. How about riding? There are many great community groups that run tandem rides for those that are visually impaired.
@@gcntech We try to get him on a tandem all the time! He's kind of stubborn. I believe our next plan involves kidnapping and duct tape. 👍
As a kid I fell in love with cycling watching the Tour de France on TV during the Hinault era and seeing the aerial shots of all the color snaking through the beautiful countryside. That's what hooked me first. And as for myself, I love a beautiful winding climb, well not the climbing part, but usually a climb will bring good scenery and I'm usually going slow enough to enjoy it. 😂 White bar tape.
Love this! Racing can be a great way to get into cycling but it's more than just riders battling it out, there are joys in those slow climbs and epic views 🙌
All the beautiful sunsets and the smell of the fresh clean air when riding through forests.
pure bliss! Gravel or Mtb through the forests? 🌳
Pidcock descending Galibier👌👌👌
Don't you mean the Galibier?
jeez, I should have joined you for this HOT TOPIC! Literally my specialist subject!
We miss you
You are welcome back any time Jon 😉
Light, beautifully designed road bikes and sportsmanship by pro cyclists like Jonas waiting for Pog in last year's tour and G helping out Cav in the Giro. And of course, all the beautiful scenery and amazing places we get to see during the grand tours.
Nothing more beautiful and moving than watching Geriant Thomas lead out Mark Cavendish on the final stage of the Giro 23' after bitterly missing out himself on the overall win... Super G steps up and lays down a lead out for an ole mate! BEAUTIFUL
The sound a perfectly tuned aero bike with deep section wheels, makes when flowing along at 45 k/h+
A note for Dr. Bridgewood re. shaggy shrubbery & longer grass - low maintenance landscape management for increased biodiversity benefit is all the rage 🌱
Culottes; historically, they did not refer to full length trousers, but the breeches. This is why revolutionaries during the French Revolution were referred to as Sans Culottes...they wore trousers instead of the more fashionable and higher class breeches.
My favorite thing on deep section wheels is large labels. Nothing looks faster than labels blurring into streaks of color as you fly down the road.
I was listening to this on my earphones, and suddenly at 10:05 I wondered why they started talking about 'balls'. And then go on discussing 500 mil (millimetres?) balls. It took me a couple more sentences of the weirdest stuff to understand that they're actually talking about water bottles 😂😂😂
Loved seeing Pidcock's descent on the alpe last year.
It was a real highlight on the racing calendar 👀... Conor can descend too though ... 👉th-cam.com/video/Wfryhuyjz2Q/w-d-xo.html
Climbers out of the saddle battling uphill with a sweeping vista behind them. Gets me every time. I never look that good going up a hill
THAT'S MY RIBBLE!!! ❤❤ 🚲🚲 It was held up with a rubber mallet which I photoshopped out 😆
Fucking stunning!!
The most iconic imagery in sport is one of yourself, achieving your own goal. It can be simple, or it can be really chuffing hard. But if you get a picture of that moment, printed and framed in A3, then mounted on the back of the toilet door, you'll live that dream every day for the rest of your beautiful life.
9:01 Sad news about Planet X -- they were great for inexpensive kit that worked just fine
Looks like they have been saved… bought out by another local company
on Ollie's rant about the culotte: it's simply what bib shorts are called in Spanish, some at Zara messed up their translation...
Our friends over on @gcnenespanol won't be happy with Ollie! 😡
Zara being a Spanish company, the word CULOTTES in Spanish means BIB SHORTS.... 😅😅
Yes, every Spanish cycling retailer has bib shorts them named like that.
So, is it "Thara" or "Zzara"?
What makes cycling a beautiful sport are the vistas and the views that cycling provides. Consider the top of that epic climb you just finished.
That's why we climb!... Aldo for the downhill of course 💨
@@gcntech I have a need for Speed!
What's his face and Ollie, about as comfortable together as Holly and Phil. Team Ollie 👍
Velo Orange Drillium crrank and chainset defines gorgeous.
Classy looking crank 👀
Coolest wheels ever - Old School Shamal wheels, loved the look and the Sound of shifting right before a sprint
1000mm deep wheel? 800mm deep? Ollie, are we talking Penny Farthings 😉
We just spotted Hanks ears prick up at GCN HQ... th-cam.com/video/uyqDOra2T3I/w-d-xo.html ... Ouch 🤕
About why old components/groupsets look better: they didn't have giant branding pasted all over them in your face with wack graphic design details that are entirely disconnected from the rest of the bike's aesthetic. The materials and industrial process spoke much more clearly and softly in the object than the ones currently made.
Sean Kelly at the height of his powers on his Vitus bike. Fantastic❤
Ollie. Hill. Crying towels and hand wringing. Beautiful.
@7:04 AH HA! That's the start of it!🤪Recognising that newer kit isn't always better/nicer.
Great to see Nikko and Ollie back together!
That’s easy Dave, best bit of cycling is the coffee and cake stop admiring my bike 😁
To me, the most beautiful aspect of cycling is the team time trial when done by a really well-trained team. Just poetry.
Thanks for including my chrome steel forks! (Gareth on GCN).
OMG GUYS, GCN IS WORSHIPPING A PINARELLO!
Must be a day ending in Y.
Also, don't know where you got the 874 part from. It's just plain End Censorship...
Hey @GCN can we have Cillian Kelly back with some challenges? (only if he wants to) ;)
I love rob saying "we will show a picture if posdible", can already imagine the editors going "now shall we display it during the segment were it makes sense or after his comment"
The beauty IMHO is in the epic mountain climbs.
"coo-lots" As we pronounce it in the US, have always been blousy ladies shorts that look like a skirt at first. I do not approve of someone using them as a term for bibs!! 😆
I've ran SiS 1000ml bidons since the height of the first lockdown when I was regularly out doing 3-4hrs on the bike every other day and I've never went back to smaller bidons. When Im out doing 120+ mile rides over the Yorkshire Moors, I can cycle a good 25-30 mile without passing by a single store. 1000ml bidons are brilliant!
Bingo Alex, that was my choice too, amazing bit of camerawork where they captured Alaphilippe on that attack.
The new and expensive tech and parts that I cannot afford to buy 🤑
Where can i find the bottles?
The moment you understand climbing, master the technique and rhythm and crave the suffering that is endured while ascending.
And the bright brushed Litespeed Classic built to near perfection with a white saddle and bartape.
I believe you meant a replacement for the Timemachine Road 18:32
The one in the vid looked like a Team Machine to me.
Shimano 7700 shifters. All aluminum. I used to drool over these.
I think it won't be a popular choice, but I think the best looking bike is a clean tt bike, with all the wires internally routed, a disc wheel and super deep front wheel.
Riding a streamliner looking at a monitor isn't scary. The scary part is when a gust of wind hits. You don't see or hear the wind. Your vehicle suddenly moves sideways by a meter or two and the nose dips into the wind. The whole time, all you hear is increasingly loud road noise as your speed increases, reverberating inside a big drum.
Such a wonderful bromance, Pekka and Ollie back together again.
Pekka! That is a new one 😂
@@gcntech He's a Finn right?
Hi Guys can you put up a link to the website of the Water bottle featured.
yes please
I would like to know as well
Squeeasy then the usual ending. TH-cam doesn’t allow web address post
Campy Delta or Record C brakes from the mid-80s I thought were just super cool back in the day…
‘Sexy friar tuck’ Omg 😂
Pictures of the beautiful things talked about would have been helpful.
That bottle is so cool! I've been playing with making my own gels, and while I'm using 150ml soft flasks, they sometimes leak in your pocket.
I bet it would be a pain to clean, though.
i honestly like the idea of integrating the gells in the waterbottle. hate to take care of the waste of a normal gell during a ride. if this can eliminate that, i'm all ears. its just that i absolutely hate the traditional cycling bottles, Camelback freeflow system all the way for me. if they can integrate that gell system into a camelbak kinda drinking system, i would buy 5 of them immediately
Shiny machined and polished metal parts on bikes. No CF on groupsets.
Most beautiful = A well matched Madison pairing.
Dr. Ollie should start voicing documentaries 😂
Culotte = koo·laat. Split it into two distinct words. Coo like the sound a baby makes and then Lahhhht, long A. Modern version is women's short baggy pants that look like a skirt unless you spread them apart. My wife has a fun pair.
Best ever photo in cycling.
Sean Yates, Motorola Eddy Merckx 1991, descending no helmet, no mittens.
Aero socks for sure. Also winning a bike designed by yourself 😅
Ask GCN Tech - why doesn't the hot wax dissolve residual grease when you wax a chain? Its lower melting point and its a hydrocarbon. I put some gear oil in wax as an experiment and it was definitely miscible in wax. Please explain.
but how is the gel squeezed out of the central compartment?
“80mph, overtaking lorries” - Tell me you speed on the motorway, without telling me you speed on the motorway 🙃
The ballet moves of you guys deciding nice or super nice!!!
Chrome sculpted lugs on a classic Colnago steel frame with a paint job with multiple bright colors.
Hey check out the pronunciation of Zara, it's a Spanish company from Spain and should be pronounced with the "Z" as a "Th" sound...give it a shot gentlemen!
Recommendation on 1L bottles? I have Zéfal, which is fine
best looking cranks or chain sets: Mavic Starfish or Campy C-record.
Shimano 7700 also in the top three
Ollie had a good vacation, super nicing everything
I really like different deapth wheelsets. I generally sport 55/80 on my Emonda project one. Makes the bike look proper brutal 😍
White bar tape. Totally impractical, but just looks so clean and classy when new. Looks crap after 5 rides mind you!!! So you're just gonna have to keep replacing with more white tape.
Contador dancing up every climb!!!
oh yes ... no bar bag and open jersey, preferably a Team Telekom jersey on a Team Telekom Pinarello. That's iconic!
You can’t beat a Dura Ace 7800 chainset, form and function.
Robert Barthko on his FES carbon track bike wearing the Rudy Project Sweeto helmet in mirrored silver OR Bjarne Riis at the 96 tdf prologue Danish champ aero-suit, matching Limar aero helmet with slash camtail end tip and sharp visor ⚡️🇩🇰 OR Andrea Collinelli in the Italy kit aboard Pinarello Parigina on track at the Atlanta 96 Olympics again Rudy Project Sweeto helmet 👽🍝
In Spain bib shorts are called cuolottes
whelp, having just ordered a bmc roadmachine...
will still be happy enough :D
Profile had a bottle for liquid / gell twenty years ago.
I find the recent incorrect use of the word 'aesthetic' really fucking irritating. However, Ollie got it right at 8:39 and 9:40 so he gets a pass, even though Alex gets it right at the end at 10:48 he's butchered it so much by that point he still gets an F.
I can confirm that Canyon will be releasing a new third gravel bike .. the Canyon Grandma
would it be better to use 1L bottles or wear a camelbak (more convenient and possibly more aero?) or are camelbaks just not really a thing in road cycling? Makes your back too sweaty?
Great question! One for #askgcntech maybe? 🤔
@@gcntech thanks!!
Peloton riding through the sunflowers.
How much does water bottle size/volume affect race time over a long event such as a gran fondo sounds like an interesting video topic. At least to a cycling nerd such as myself.
Record Delta Brakes 😍
👀👀👀
Cha-Ching!
all that discussion of chain sets and no love for the 90's era Campy C-Record? Five bolt pattern with one in the crank arm? Come on, it's gorgeous! I miss the polished aluminum...
nicest looking chainset was made by Scania
Just cuz it’s beautiful doesn’t make it practical! Alex’s philosophy on women, too!
I like the very young girls who wear extra tight translucent lycra, getting all hot and sweaty and making dainty grunting effort noises. I also like their post ride saddles: pure bliss. (Was I meant to say the aero wheels, the scenery, the memories of long rides with my fat, hairy, smelly middle aged male 'friends', going through a mid-life crisis...?)
Obviously the adventures with friends.
Hole in one 🏌
nice the donut media sticker
every time you guys mention canyon aero all i can think of is the car homer got in the simpsons.
Question on the new BMC bike: Since AG2R is the only world tour team on Campagnolo, are they running the new Super Record? If so, are they doing a the pigmy rings and cogs?
I believe the answer is yes to new Super Record, but I'm not sure if they're running the 10-tooth cassettes.
love the show and the channel and all that.. but guys this first segment needed at least one photo per mentioned 'beautiful cycling thing". i mean common, it's even in the title
RE: Recumbents; see several videos Hank did a while back.
Campy rotors and cranksets are bellissimo. Sram components aren't attractive. That said, I've been riding Dura Ace for 35 years..