Funny hearing Dan on the GCN Racing finally get Kasia's name correct (surname still needs a bit of work but progress!) and Si still persisting with saying her name like it was Casio. He'll get it right by the time she retires!
@@simonrichardson5259 It's supposed to be pronounced like Kasha Nev-ya-doma. I've been schooled on this myself by my better half who is Polish so I've made some mistakes along the way. MAJOR mistakes
Simon mentioned that there had only been one novel written about cycling, but I can name two straight away - "The Ride" by Tim Krabbe and the excellent "Ventoux" by Sam Wagendorp and Hemingway also mentions a cycling race in one of his short stories.
Ralph Hearne’s The Yellow Jersey. Joe Mungo Reed’s We Begin Our Ascent (I really like this one!). Jorge Zepeda Patterson’s The Black Jersey. Then there are a lot of nonfiction books about the history or philosophy of cycling, but that’s another thing. In grad school I tried to convince a prof to let me write about cycling in novels, but he didn’t like my plan. Maybe it’s time to revisit that!
On Gravel Worlds: The UCI is doing a little better. There was still too much pavement, I would suggest the GW course should need to be at least 2/3 on dirt surfaces. The distance needs to be longer, and the women should race the same distance as the men. And of course it goes without saying that there needs to be equal TV coverage for the men and women. Also, the UCI needs to figure out how to stage riders at the start more appropriately, using UCI points from road racing is unfair to gravel specialists.
@Raumance if the interest and coverage were proportional and the women got zero coverage, the men should get triple the coverage. What does 3x0 work out to?
@@veganpotterthevegan It works out to that people have interest in the highest competition and that matters. If you don't have interest it means providing coverage is losing money not gaining it. Your mathematical argument is pretty stupid. Bad try.
Is success making it more like American gravel? If so: * wide start area that de-emphasizes the problems making a grid * 5+ hour race time * a more complicated course - varied terrain, long technical or harsh sections * more emphasis on a 'race village' with a non-World Tour feel
As a Canadian, who (like the Americans) is accustomed to absolutely epic gravel rides that can go for hundreds of kilometres in a single stretch, I share the feeling that European gravel routes look… well, pretty tame.
BRAWO KASIA!!!! I was heavily disappointed about the broadcast coverage of the event as such! Yeah, men's event was technically transmitted, but the accessibility of this transmission was highly limited. I know this is a new discipline in terms of UCI champs, but it definitely deserves proper TV coverage.
About folding bikes: You think you need a fancy road bike to travel around Holland? By the time you clip your feet in you will have travelled from Amsterdam to Rotterdam… best cycling trip for me? Manhattan on Brampton bikes, you can lock them folded as you stop for dinner in little Italy, good acceleration, top speed is limited though, from midtown to Harlem through Central Park… Greeeaaaaatttt weekend and I am looking for my next bike trip with only suitcases…
I wonder how the folks at Burley would feel knowing their beloved Travoy was deemed a bodge @25:24 by GCN. Kinda felt the same when I saw it too...More fitting behind a commuter bike.
Very disappointed in the gravel world champs as we were running it in the early 80’s on our bodged bikes up and down the old cinder rail tracks, I’m off down there now
Interestingly enough, these kinda “gravel” route could've been won on a rigid flatbar mtb. People don't realize that gravel setting is way too narrow. Road bike for road, rigid mtb for off-road, suspension for downhill
The whole weekends racing was simply awesome! I agree 100% to what Si & Dan have said about the Gravel World's. Shit the women's wasn't shown, in fact it was embarrassing! Get a grip UCI! Other than that it was a great race on a great course. This was only the 2nd edition and already a lot better than the 1st. I think in years to come when gravel gets more established there will be more cross over riders! It's basically Olympic length Cyclo-cross for summer! 😂
#caption: - always nice to see the riders getting behind their mechanics - don’t worry, I’ve got your back - something is strange about this tandem - mechanic to rider: oh nice, I feel you found my minipump - rider to mechanic: I like it when you are sitting on my top tube
Gravel race; It should be 80-90% gravel at least...no significant stretches of pavement. OR make any pavement connections (between gravel roads) a neutral zone, where that time doesn't count. Lengthwise, shouldn't it be similar to that of any other grande tour stage?
Hi Guys. Your Hack/bodge trailer reminded me of a commercially available bike trailer (I don't remember the brand) in the last century (1980s or 90s). It looked rather like a dustbin on wheels with a boom tow bar attached to the bike where the seat stays meet the seat tube. The BBC presenter Adam Hart Davies used one, in those days, to haul his apparatus for his science demonstrations around Bristol. He had a Brompton or Moulton (I can't remember which) and it was painted (for the show) bright pink! I suppose he didn't think it a bodge.
@@geertweynjes2119 they got him more support. The fact that he was even top 5 in any stage with the trash leadouts he had shows he's still more than capable
The parcel tape hack to seat a tubeless tyre explained the use of the tape but doesn't mention the functions of the dog bowl or lengths of timber. I might have a sleepless night . . .
I would give them 3 out of 10. They need to travel to various gravel races in the USA and see how gravel is done. They should even locate a race in the USA, we have been doing gravel for decades. The precursor to Unbound was a race that was called the 'Death Race' because it was so difficult. If you can ride slicks on a road bike and take 5th place, then you are not riding a gravel race.
There is, sort of. UCI gravel world series are qualifiers for the UCI championship. Qualifiers for next year have started and Gravelista at the end of this month in AUS is the next on the calendar.
@@cjohnson3836 there you go you see, i wasn’t aware of this. Hopefully it can become an established series like road, cross and mtb, but I can imagine to give it good tv coverage is very difficult because of that nature of the course unless its done on a circuit like mtb with fixed cameras but that kind of defeats the point really
@@d.w.evans1182 This is one of the arguments people have said why the UCI ignored the experienced American and British route makers last year. UCI demanded the courses start from cities with airports and good hotel infrastructure, and that the route would be able to be televised.
@@cjohnson3836 if you listen to 'the cycling podcast' they explain on that, that the route was organised by a local bank manager who is a keen cyclist and member of the local club, so he had a great knowledge of the area and came up with a much better route than the previous organiser would have done, I think that was the same as last year's which wasn't very gravelly. But I expect that organising TV coverage of the event was beyond the capability of the new organiser, if not the UCI then I don't know who is in charge of that.
You guys mentioned that there are no cycling novels. Years ago I read a series of five novels all cycling murder mysteries. The author was Greg Moody. The first one is called “Two Wheels”. This series was really good. So there you go, there are good Cycling novels. Also, I don’t know the author and have no involvement with the books.
I have found Conor's video to be true - I ride a gravel bike at my local club but on 25mm tyres. The only reason I get dropped is because I can't climb as well. I hold my own on the flat with the carbon roadies
I went back to the 2022 gravel followup to make sure. It looks like Si had some silver in his hair and beard last year which isnt there this year. Is Si coloring his hair too?
The course is getting better but still not gravelly enough or long enough. Its a world championship race so look at how epic the road race was and the gravel race needs to bring that same level of type 2 fun.
Gravel world getting better?!? You guys definitely need to get over here and ride with the gravelers who ride in the woods of next years course in Belgium - from Halle to Leuven!
@@gcn My club, Brussels Big Brackets, rides every week on the gravel paths in the woods the course will run through. It means roads we use on club runs already used in World Tour races, the 2019 TDF Grand départ, and the Road Worlds in 2021. Kind of "got the set" when the gravel world's turn up too! Really looking forward to it!
The combo EU/Belgium gravel championship was the most bizarre race ever. They had men and women on course at the same time, although they began at different times. But it was inevitable that you would have men pacing the women. WTF is that?? The worlds was better to separate those races. The people at UCI running the gravel things must be high. They still haven't pulled off a decent race. For sure this worlds had actual gravel, but riding thru peoples back yards? Down bike paths? They could run the race on the Strada Bianca course and it would be better race than this.
U.C.I have already ruined mountain bike racing with starting races in a tarmac carpark with fences and witches hats zigzaging around before they go on to race on an unexciting dirt track... like theres no thought put into it...boring !!!
I'm sorry but my eyes keep getting drawn to the chopper number plate, I might be wrong but I think 5=S and 3= E so it looks like it says choppsr (CHOPP3R) 🙂
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Assault weapons aren’t "banned" in the country you’re being taxed either: the government thugs have free access to them. Therefore, those weapons aren’t really banned but only "banned" for serfs like you.
C'mon guys, cut that crap about Matej Mohorič being/look like a road racer. He has some great handling skills and he was a mtbiker before switching to road cycling.
How many gravel races are Mohoric and Niewiadoma likely to do in the next twelve months? My guess is close to zero. I don't dispute that they are worthy winners but if the UCI world champs parcourse is not technically hard (or long?) enough to give 'genuine' gravel riders an edge then we are not likely ever to see the world champs jersey worn in a gravel race, which is a shame (unless there is an obligation for the winners to actually race a number of races during the calendar). I don't have a problem with cross-overs and WVA would no doubt have the technical skills on any course, but the same applies to Pidcock's XCO jersey. It should be racing throughout the season I feel, not part-time.
Great point! It would be a real shame to never see the world champs jersey in a real gravel race. Keegan Swenson wasn't far off the mark... next year could be the year! I would be great to see Mohic or Niewiadoma at some of the big gravel races next year 👀
When will our friends in the USA realise they don't "own" gravel, nor did they invent it. The earliest road races were on unsealed roads, including the TdeF. Oh, and check out the Rough Stuff Fellowship in the UK 😂
My claim to fame is to not use an iron on my clothes. Please don't take away that one thing I am actually good at and go back to using an iron please, Si
@@gcn a bit too late for this one, been away for a while. I'm not sure anyone who watches a show to the point of remembering to the word the intros to the sections would need to be pointed at by giving that behaviour a group name... All I can think of contains the words obsessive and compulsive. GOCDN, maybe? Otherwise, I would think that all GCN viewers are weekly regulars? Aren't they?
Hey SI, Easy on the knocking of us who still use 'cable' gears. They can break I admit, but only if you neglect your duties to cleanliness and maintenance. That's when they break, keep fettling and you see the trouble before that can happen. Nice work as always though.
Very. true, well maintained cable brakes make for a great option! Especialy for those going into the unknown. The ability to perform a road side fix is under-rated!
Sorry, definitely not knocking cables as I have them on all the bikes I actually own as opposed to the bikes I’m lucky enough to ride for GCN. What I was trying, badly, to say was that people often talk about mechanical as totally bombproof and reliable when actually it’s got it’s weaknesses just like everything else.
hack or bodge: that is an actual product you can buy, the Burley brand Travois (or a clone of it). they also make more traditional bike trailers, single wheel B.O.B. clones, as well as the two wheel variety for traveling with your kids, another that's flat-bed style, and one that's got sides.
That course looked pretty sick! Add another 50 miles and broadcast both of the races in full (or at least more than just the final hour) and it'll be a hit for years to come. Hopefully the UCI holds it in the US next year... Maybe convert the Rad Dirt Fest to the Gravel Worlds?
@@lazlo2511 oh I didn't realize they had already announced where it would be! I agree the UCI should be kept out of the big existing US events, but I see no problem in both types of races living side by side in the US.
Its moving in the right direction, longer races and equal coverage for sure! 🙌 One of the great things about the US racing he independent spirit, it would be a shame to loose that... many see unbound as the "real" world champs, would you agree?
#CaptionCompetition “2-Man Powered Health” Jokes aside, the man in the front is Oscar. The team’s social media and press personal. I met Oscar at this year’s ‘Tour of Lunsar’ in Sierra Leone (West Africa) as he was volunteering to cover the race and help bringing recognition to the newly found cycling excitement in the country, through his photography and storytelling in his podcast “The Cycling Podcast”. It’s pretty cool to have so many people doing so much great stuff to the sport we all love and ofter remain anonymous. And that includes GCN and all the talented people behind the scene! So thank you so much guys! Keep up the amazing work!
You guys are bike snobs:) Re: bike cart , it looks like a ?Burley Design Travoy Compact Folding Cargo Bike Trailer. And it has solid reviews. I guess Burley isn't big in Europe.
On coverage; the Tour Divide is a fun race to follow because you are stitching together what happened with GPS trackers social media updates, and random second hand articles over 2 full weeks of racing where the clock never stops.
Its interesting the point about parity in distance for the gravel champs, I, like Simon, was all for equal distance, but after speaking to a few of the pros that took part, most of them felt that the distance was perfect as the field is smaller, and the speed a little slower they felt that the distance was just right, so maybe, just maybe in this aspect the UCI actually did something right!
Giving the UCI too much credit here...should have been a stipulation in any agreement with the organisers that there was live coverage of both races. The excuse that they found out last minute just doesn't wash...
What do you think of the failure to televise the women's gravel race? 🚴🏻♂🪨
more lack of oversight and real organization ...I know it's tough...but its their World Champs. have to get into all the details.
It was a complete failure to not have live coverage of the women's race, and inexcusable for a UCI World's event.
A disgrace!
Why don’t have it in the USA, since it’s undoubtedly the home of gravel
@@quincywalker4441 Now that I agree on!
#Captioncompetition: GAGE HECHT: "I feel that I am perfectly sane to be doing this"
MECHANIC "I disagree, I feel your nuts"
Having watched the gravel worlds, the course looked fun as heck. I loved it
Funny hearing Dan on the GCN Racing finally get Kasia's name correct (surname still needs a bit of work but progress!) and Si still persisting with saying her name like it was Casio. He'll get it right by the time she retires!
Sorry! What’s it supposed to be?
@@simonrichardson5259 It's supposed to be pronounced like Kasha Nev-ya-doma.
I've been schooled on this myself by my better half who is Polish so I've made some mistakes along the way. MAJOR mistakes
Monthly allowances for company e-bike (40Euro) are becoming common in Germany as well! I love this trend!
That was an epic edition of the GCN show. I'll collect my medal, thanks 😊. Almost didn't stick it out but made it through the whole thing!
The shopping trolly is a Burley Tavoy cycle trailer, actually a thing you can buy.
Which makes it an auto-bodge, for passing off a commercial product as theirs.
Assuming it wasn't a homemade version...I didn't get a good look.
@@brannmacfinnchad9056no that was submitted as something they spotted and took a photo of, not something they were claiming they made themselves
You two are getting better and better with every show!
Simon mentioned that there had only been one novel written about cycling, but I can name two straight away - "The Ride" by Tim Krabbe and the excellent "Ventoux" by Sam Wagendorp and Hemingway also mentions a cycling race in one of his short stories.
Ventoux is a new one on me! I’ll check it out, thanks!
Ralph Hearne’s The Yellow Jersey. Joe Mungo Reed’s We Begin Our Ascent (I really like this one!). Jorge Zepeda Patterson’s The Black Jersey. Then there are a lot of nonfiction books about the history or philosophy of cycling, but that’s another thing. In grad school I tried to convince a prof to let me write about cycling in novels, but he didn’t like my plan. Maybe it’s time to revisit that!
On Gravel Worlds: The UCI is doing a little better. There was still too much pavement, I would suggest the GW course should need to be at least 2/3 on dirt surfaces. The distance needs to be longer, and the women should race the same distance as the men. And of course it goes without saying that there needs to be equal TV coverage for the men and women. Also, the UCI needs to figure out how to stage riders at the start more appropriately, using UCI points from road racing is unfair to gravel specialists.
The ratio would be fine if the race were 50km longer for women and 80km for the men
Why should there be equal TV coverage when there isn't equal interest?
@Raumance if the interest and coverage were proportional and the women got zero coverage, the men should get triple the coverage. What does 3x0 work out to?
@@veganpotterthevegan It works out to that people have interest in the highest competition and that matters. If you don't have interest it means providing coverage is losing money not gaining it.
Your mathematical argument is pretty stupid. Bad try.
@@RaumanceHow do you know there isn’t equal interest?
That may one day be Hank's epitaph: "He made it look super tough."
Long live Hank!!
you should check out Montague folding bikes with 700C wheels. I carry one on my sailboat. Rides like a real bike!
Is success making it more like American gravel? If so:
* wide start area that de-emphasizes the problems making a grid
* 5+ hour race time
* a more complicated course - varied terrain, long technical or harsh sections
* more emphasis on a 'race village' with a non-World Tour feel
As a Canadian, who (like the Americans) is accustomed to absolutely epic gravel rides that can go for hundreds of kilometres in a single stretch, I share the feeling that European gravel routes look… well, pretty tame.
Who wants to watch that on the TV though? 😴
@@rob-c. didn't get much of the uci race on tv anyway so wouldn't make much difference
Europe has some epic gravel too... We're just not showing it off enough 👀
@@rob-c.I do.
@@gcn some of the gravel mountain pass roads could make an epic climber's race
BRAWO KASIA!!!! I was heavily disappointed about the broadcast coverage of the event as such! Yeah, men's event was technically transmitted, but the accessibility of this transmission was highly limited. I know this is a new discipline in terms of UCI champs, but it definitely deserves proper TV coverage.
About folding bikes: You think you need a fancy road bike to travel around Holland? By the time you clip your feet in you will have travelled from Amsterdam to Rotterdam… best cycling trip for me? Manhattan on Brampton bikes, you can lock them folded as you stop for dinner in little Italy, good acceleration, top speed is limited though, from midtown to Harlem through Central Park… Greeeaaaaatttt weekend and I am looking for my next bike trip with only suitcases…
I wonder how the folks at Burley would feel knowing their beloved Travoy was deemed a bodge @25:24 by GCN. Kinda felt the same when I saw it too...More fitting behind a commuter bike.
Very disappointed in the gravel world champs as we were running it in the early 80’s on our bodged bikes up and down the old cinder rail tracks, I’m off down there now
You know what we need back: " EXTREME Corner ! " X "
#CaptionCompetition Gage Hecht's mechanic said he needed a tune-up; Gage thought he said a rub-up!
Interestingly enough, these kinda “gravel” route could've been won on a rigid flatbar mtb. People don't realize that gravel setting is way too narrow. Road bike for road, rigid mtb for off-road, suspension for downhill
As fast as the pros ride, the aero advantage of a gravel bike over an mtb is a massive advantage, and the rolling resistance on pavement…
#CaptionCompetition The spirit of gravel
The course was plenty hard and had plenty of gravel and was plenty long. Trust me!
With some severe climbs too from what I understand.
The whole weekends racing was simply awesome! I agree 100% to what Si & Dan have said about the Gravel World's. Shit the women's wasn't shown, in fact it was embarrassing! Get a grip UCI! Other than that it was a great race on a great course. This was only the 2nd edition and already a lot better than the 1st. I think in years to come when gravel gets more established there will be more cross over riders! It's basically Olympic length Cyclo-cross for summer! 😂
#caption:
- always nice to see the riders getting behind their mechanics
- don’t worry, I’ve got your back
- something is strange about this tandem
- mechanic to rider: oh nice, I feel you found my minipump
- rider to mechanic: I like it when you are sitting on my top tube
Gravel race; It should be 80-90% gravel at least...no significant stretches of pavement. OR make any pavement connections (between gravel roads) a neutral zone, where that time doesn't count.
Lengthwise, shouldn't it be similar to that of any other grande tour stage?
Neutral zone won't work.
Hi Guys. Your Hack/bodge trailer reminded me of a commercially available bike trailer (I don't remember the brand) in the last century (1980s or 90s). It looked rather like a dustbin on wheels with a boom tow bar attached to the bike where the seat stays meet the seat tube. The BBC presenter Adam Hart Davies used one, in those days, to haul his apparatus for his science demonstrations around Bristol. He had a Brompton or Moulton (I can't remember which) and it was painted (for the show) bright pink! I suppose he didn't think it a bodge.
If Cav gets that record then another Last Dance series needs to be aired. Interesting to see what Pidcock could do at the Gravel worlds.
Do you think he'll get that record? We would love to see it 👀
@gcn he should have gotten that record last year. Team did him dirty
Ain't gonna happen
@@gcn he’ll get it. I think if he hadn’t crashed then he would have won the final stage.
@@geertweynjes2119 they got him more support. The fact that he was even top 5 in any stage with the trash leadouts he had shows he's still more than capable
Course was much more gravelesque, and length was okay for me too. Could be a bit longer, but over 100 miles is a legit gravel distance.
The year before it was 210 km = to 136osh miles. I don’t get why people are saying they are “too short” the pros just get it done fast.
Caption competition:- UCI powerless to stop new form of mechanical doping
The original and only Gravel Worlds that matters is held in Lincoln, NE every August.
#captioncompetition: In ode to their team sponsor Gage Hechts new E-Bike will now be human powered
Steve Trew wrote a triathlon-based novel 30 years ago. Quite a enjoyable read too 🙂
Human powered healths Felt is beautiful. Would like that paint on mine
The parcel tape hack to seat a tubeless tyre explained the use of the tape but doesn't mention the functions of the dog bowl or lengths of timber. I might have a sleepless night . . .
I would give them 3 out of 10. They need to travel to various gravel races in the USA and see how gravel is done. They should even locate a race in the USA, we have been doing gravel for decades. The precursor to Unbound was a race that was called the 'Death Race' because it was so difficult. If you can ride slicks on a road bike and take 5th place, then you are not riding a gravel race.
There needs to be a gravel series culminating with a gravel world championship, to have just a championships late in the season seems a bit silly
There is, sort of. UCI gravel world series are qualifiers for the UCI championship. Qualifiers for next year have started and Gravelista at the end of this month in AUS is the next on the calendar.
@@cjohnson3836 there you go you see, i wasn’t aware of this. Hopefully it can become an established series like road, cross and mtb, but I can imagine to give it good tv coverage is very difficult because of that nature of the course unless its done on a circuit like mtb with fixed cameras but that kind of defeats the point really
@@d.w.evans1182 This is one of the arguments people have said why the UCI ignored the experienced American and British route makers last year. UCI demanded the courses start from cities with airports and good hotel infrastructure, and that the route would be able to be televised.
@@cjohnson3836 if you listen to 'the cycling podcast' they explain on that, that the route was organised by a local bank manager who is a keen cyclist and member of the local club, so he had a great knowledge of the area and came up with a much better route than the previous organiser would have done, I think that was the same as last year's which wasn't very gravelly. But I expect that organising TV coverage of the event was beyond the capability of the new organiser, if not the UCI then I don't know who is in charge of that.
Good call on the golf cart Bodge. When you are hauling that much
Isn't Strade Bianche the actual gravel world championship?
What’s the one cycling novel that Simon alluded to? I’d love to read it 👍🏼
You guys mentioned that there are no cycling novels. Years ago I read a series of five novels all cycling murder mysteries. The author was Greg Moody. The first one is called “Two Wheels”. This series was really good. So there you go, there are good Cycling novels. Also, I don’t know the author and have no involvement with the books.
That's Si's reading covered for the next week 👀
You can buy specific shopping trolleys for bikes
wondering what the one cycling novel Si mentioned is? 'The Wheels of Chance' by H. G. Wells (pub 1896) by chance?
Funnily enough, no! But I will now look it up!
@@simonrichardson5259 see I am now curious as to which one you were thinking of and whether there might be others out there to read
None of the 3 bicycle streaming services I pay for have UIC Championships on them, so meh.
GCN+ does 😉 ( with some territory restrictions)
@user-tu5zl3zh4r I watched the entire men's race without paying. There are ways if that's all that you have available.
I have found Conor's video to be true - I ride a gravel bike at my local club but on 25mm tyres. The only reason I get dropped is because I can't climb as well. I hold my own on the flat with the carbon roadies
I went back to the 2022 gravel followup to make sure. It looks like Si had some silver in his hair and beard last year which isnt there this year. Is Si coloring his hair too?
Interesting... leave i with us and we'll see what we can do 👴
We’ve got a better lighting person now. The great streak is still there, like a badger.
The course is getting better but still not gravelly enough or long enough. Its a world championship race so look at how epic the road race was and the gravel race needs to bring that same level of type 2 fun.
Great point! More gravel and more racing... we're not complaining 👀
Since when does Dan have a Gravle Bike???
Gravel world getting better?!? You guys definitely need to get over here and ride with the gravelers who ride in the woods of next years course in Belgium - from Halle to Leuven!
We would love to come and try the course out 👀 Are you looking forward to the next race?
@@gcn My club, Brussels Big Brackets, rides every week on the gravel paths in the woods the course will run through. It means roads we use on club runs already used in World Tour races, the 2019 TDF Grand départ, and the Road Worlds in 2021. Kind of "got the set" when the gravel world's turn up too! Really looking forward to it!
I volunteered for the tdf grand départ and the Worlds in Leuven - so I'd look to volunteer for the Gravel World's too next year if possible...
#captioncontest The lengths some people will go to to have their backpack match their bike colours.
The combo EU/Belgium gravel championship was the most bizarre race ever. They had men and women on course at the same time, although they began at different times. But it was inevitable that you would have men pacing the women. WTF is that?? The worlds was better to separate those races.
The people at UCI running the gravel things must be high. They still haven't pulled off a decent race. For sure this worlds had actual gravel, but riding thru peoples back yards? Down bike paths? They could run the race on the Strada Bianca course and it would be better race than this.
You missed the Wookiee noises for for your caption, Dan. Shame. 😂
U.C.I have already ruined mountain bike racing with starting races in a tarmac carpark with fences and witches hats zigzaging around before they go on to race on an unexciting dirt track... like theres no thought put into it...boring !!!
Can we crowdfund to buy an Iron for Si? The creases on that jumper 🫣
"Oh Heck, he's stealling my bike!!
there are also company bikes in germany
Maybe there is little commercial sense in broadcasting everything. It's not like men's cycling brings in a ton of money, as many would believe.
#CaptionCompetition Not the first time my lower back FELT stiff.
They should have named it the BMC Teammachine My Precious
Q: How many total rainbow jerseys were handed out this year?
Do it in usa midwest for best gravel world champ
”New evidence of mechanic(al) doping has been found"
#captioncompetition
That black(?) reflective thing to Si's right is distracting.
I'm sorry but my eyes keep getting drawn to the chopper number plate, I might be wrong but I think 5=S and 3= E so it looks like it says choppsr (CHOPP3R) 🙂
#captioncompetition: Saddle up squire! to distant Lands!
Wohoo (Wahoo should I say), gained my first cycling medal by watching this video.
Things banned in the US: mortadella, Kinder Surprise eggs. Thing NOT banned in the US: assault weapons
Assault weapons aren’t "banned" in the country you’re being taxed either: the government thugs have free access to them. Therefore, those weapons aren’t really banned but only "banned" for serfs like you.
Gravel races should include the least amount of tarmac and more technical single track.
UCI get your act together and bring the UCI Gravel World Championships to USA!! The "OG" Gravel Worlds in Nebraska would be a great place to start!!
That would be cool! Would the Gravel specialists have the edge then?
It would be interesting and gravel purest would be excited with 90-95% of the race on real gravel roads! @@gcn
GCN turns into a Yellow tabloid
#CaptionCompetion - “do you think any one noticed the extra motor?”
C'mon guys, cut that crap about Matej Mohorič being/look like a road racer. He has some great handling skills and he was a mtbiker before switching to road cycling.
How many gravel races are Mohoric and Niewiadoma likely to do in the next twelve months? My guess is close to zero. I don't dispute that they are worthy winners but if the UCI world champs parcourse is not technically hard (or long?) enough to give 'genuine' gravel riders an edge then we are not likely ever to see the world champs jersey worn in a gravel race, which is a shame (unless there is an obligation for the winners to actually race a number of races during the calendar). I don't have a problem with cross-overs and WVA would no doubt have the technical skills on any course, but the same applies to Pidcock's XCO jersey. It should be racing throughout the season I feel, not part-time.
Great point! It would be a real shame to never see the world champs jersey in a real gravel race. Keegan Swenson wasn't far off the mark... next year could be the year! I would be great to see Mohic or Niewiadoma at some of the big gravel races next year 👀
No excuse for not mentioning ancient valverde finishing 4th!!!.
We did!
c m punk has let himself go!
When will our friends in the USA realise they don't "own" gravel, nor did they invent it. The earliest road races were on unsealed roads, including the TdeF. Oh, and check out the Rough Stuff Fellowship in the UK 😂
Bring back Retro-TdF stages! Crap roads, super long stages, and self-supported.
SO angry. I'd be waiting for a Neiwiadoma win for so long and when it finally arrives it's not shown. Weak.
5 star cold open 😂
My claim to fame is to not use an iron on my clothes. Please don't take away that one thing I am actually good at and go back to using an iron please, Si
Caption: "Upon seeing a bike used in this manner, the UCI decided to mandate fun in 2024 by requiring banana seats." 😀
Gratulacje Kasia NIEWIADOMA 🇵🇱 POLAND 🇵🇱 Champion World . Chicago 🇵🇱🚴🚵
#CaptionCompetition Every cyclist has a wingman, but Gage Hecht's got a saddle sidekick with a need for speed!
#CaptionCompetition Gage Hecht has taken chest fairings one step too far by strapping his mechanic to his belly ahead of race.
You guys are truly legit and it's no surprise you are a coveted weekly watch. Legends. Absolute full marks.
Do you think we need a name for those that watch weekly? A group name... 🤔
@@gcn global cycling weekly network?
@@gcnLes Gits 😂
@@gcn a bit too late for this one, been away for a while. I'm not sure anyone who watches a show to the point of remembering to the word the intros to the sections would need to be pointed at by giving that behaviour a group name... All I can think of contains the words obsessive and compulsive. GOCDN, maybe? Otherwise, I would think that all GCN viewers are weekly regulars? Aren't they?
#CaptionCompetition: This is a rather egregious example of mechanic-al doping.
Hey SI, Easy on the knocking of us who still use 'cable' gears. They can break I admit, but only if you neglect your duties to cleanliness and maintenance. That's when they break, keep fettling and you see the trouble before that can happen.
Nice work as always though.
Agreed. Considering there are about 100,000 cable equipped bikes for every electric-shifting bike, it's no wonder some folks have cable issues.
Very. true, well maintained cable brakes make for a great option! Especialy for those going into the unknown. The ability to perform a road side fix is under-rated!
yep. some GCN viewers ride ancient steel 🦾
Sorry, definitely not knocking cables as I have them on all the bikes I actually own as opposed to the bikes I’m lucky enough to ride for GCN. What I was trying, badly, to say was that people often talk about mechanical as totally bombproof and reliable when actually it’s got it’s weaknesses just like everything else.
@@simonrichardson5259 but easily fixed with a cable on the roadside. Can’t do the same with di2 🙂
26:50 that looks like a Burley Travoy, usually meant to carry groceries on your bike. I don't have one, but I've heard good things about them.
hack or bodge: that is an actual product you can buy, the Burley brand Travois (or a clone of it). they also make more traditional bike trailers, single wheel B.O.B. clones, as well as the two wheel variety for traveling with your kids, another that's flat-bed style, and one that's got sides.
That course looked pretty sick! Add another 50 miles and broadcast both of the races in full (or at least more than just the final hour) and it'll be a hit for years to come. Hopefully the UCI holds it in the US next year... Maybe convert the Rad Dirt Fest to the Gravel Worlds?
It’s in Belguim we’re the European champs just was… would love to see it in the US, but USA should try keep UCI far away from its events.
@@lazlo2511 oh I didn't realize they had already announced where it would be! I agree the UCI should be kept out of the big existing US events, but I see no problem in both types of races living side by side in the US.
And same prize money for both categories. 🎉
Its moving in the right direction, longer races and equal coverage for sure! 🙌 One of the great things about the US racing he independent spirit, it would be a shame to loose that... many see unbound as the "real" world champs, would you agree?
Another great show, keep up the good work guys. About time we saw Dan back on a bike!?
We're trying out best to get him on the bike 👀 It didn't end well last time though!
A race only 169k, not long enough to be a monument, isn’t long enough to be called a world championship. Gravel conditions aside.
#CaptionCompetition “2-Man Powered Health”
Jokes aside, the man in the front is Oscar. The team’s social media and press personal. I met Oscar at this year’s ‘Tour of Lunsar’ in Sierra Leone (West Africa) as he was volunteering to cover the race and help bringing recognition to the newly found cycling excitement in the country, through his photography and storytelling in his podcast “The Cycling Podcast”.
It’s pretty cool to have so many people doing so much great stuff to the sport we all love and ofter remain anonymous. And that includes GCN and all the talented people behind the scene! So thank you so much guys! Keep up the amazing work!
You guys are bike snobs:) Re: bike cart , it looks like a ?Burley Design Travoy Compact Folding Cargo Bike Trailer. And it has solid reviews. I guess Burley isn't big in Europe.
#captioncompetion Seth Rogen and James Franco caught on promotional tour for Pineapple Express 2
#CaptionCompetition
Photographer: "If I close my eyes perhaps I can 'unsee' that!"
caption: This is what happens when your coach's autocorrect fails and they tell you to do a centaur ride (instead of a century).
#captioncompetition "are we breaking any Uci rules?", "it's hard to gage"
On coverage; the Tour Divide is a fun race to follow because you are stitching together what happened with GPS trackers social media updates, and random second hand articles over 2 full weeks of racing where the clock never stops.
Dot watching is super fun! Creating the story in your head, watching the weather forecast! TCR is another great ultra to watch 👀
Its interesting the point about parity in distance for the gravel champs, I, like Simon, was all for equal distance, but after speaking to a few of the pros that took part, most of them felt that the distance was perfect as the field is smaller, and the speed a little slower they felt that the distance was just right, so maybe, just maybe in this aspect the UCI actually did something right!
Giving the UCI too much credit here...should have been a stipulation in any agreement with the organisers that there was live coverage of both races. The excuse that they found out last minute just doesn't wash...