Top 10 Worst Cycling Tips
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- We like to try to give good advice here at GCN, but here are 10 tips you definitely should NOT try!
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Grinding massive gears uphill? Sweating out a cold? Not eating or drinking on a ride? These are tips from the 'old school' of training that we really wouldn't recommend you take on board.
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Ride without a saddle,to strengthen the legs.
Thats a really good tip
+Melquisedec Alvarado (MelAlvarado) .....
Hasoon nine minecraft sucks
***** that was a quick reply
+Austynn Eleven
What purpose would that serve?
Worst piece of advice: Telling your wife (husband) how much your bike costs...
George Charron best advice. never get married
I once went out with a bloke who told me the price of his new cannondale mtb, quite expensive, and told me to keep it to me. His wife joined us on the ride, we then came across a group of pensioners, 60-70 years old. We stopped to wait for his wife, who was 2,3 min behind us, the pensioners struck up a conversation, just as she joined us, they started to talk price. My friend mumbled something.. yeah, bikes cost some money. One of the old guys said "Oh, you dont need to me, cannondale, that kind of groupset, full suspension (this was early 2000s), you wont get something like under 110, 120.000 Belgium Francs (ca 2600 GBP). And he was exactly right! The rest of the ride was governed by a somewhat icy mood.
My wife is giving me full support..she paid half of the bike price, 8.5k.thats around GBP 1.6k..she prefers me to cycle rather than sneak out and do nothing. Anyway, is your money..hard earn..so spend it wisely.
@@ToThePointCT or find a cyclist female then marry her 😂
Ya not helpful when she knows exactly how much a beautiful new canyon costs because shes the one getting it and I'm the one paying for it😩
Purposely crash into cars to build resistance to injury.
lol
Lmao
Lmao 😂😂😂
😂😂
Isn't it be considered insurrance scam?
Practise getting into crashes, so that if a real one happens, you will know what to do
+Charlie Clarke I usually just wing it and close my eyes...still alive!
+Charlie Clarke ah haha
Best (worst) one this far.
Love the HTFU mentality.
Charlie Clarke Do you have a crush?
Charlie Clarke common in mtb
I've never thought of backpedaling on a descent; I'm going to go and try it right now...on my fixed gear bike.
How to take your skids to level 5000.
LOL
😂
This is hilarious! :D
Don't forget to replace your summer air with winter air in your tires.
Kevin Sherf LOL . . but it is reccomended to use winter air with studded tyres for the winter cycling . . . Quite common to swap to studded tyres for winter over here in Norway. :P
stuinNorway You are preaching to the choir my good man. What are your thoughts on imported vs. domestic air?
Kevin Sherf domestic air ofcourse! imported air tend to be a bit more poluted, therfore it weighs more... *DUH*
***** exactly. I noticed the same effect when i'd inflate my tires in my unheated garage in the first warm days of spring. Its only ever been noticable to me when i was riding fatter tires at lower pressure. I just googled it and its called Gay-Lussac's law.
Keep the summer air in. Keeps tyres warm in winter
Take the front wheel off and cycle on the back wheel only. This will improve your balance when you are new to riding.
lol
Heh.
there is a video caller GTA in real life. Thumbnail is a cop on a motorcycle holding a gun. This is shown but even better because he doesn't even have a fork.
No wonder. My kids are learning to ride. I will try this with them.
Tire rotation front to rear to save tread wear
Worst advise I ever got was "don't use the front brake or you'll die!" Pretty traumatizing to 10 year old me.
You're meant to use both gradually increasing the pressure on the brakes
I had a really bad crash at the age of 7 for this same advice. Started riding again at the age of 24....Thank god one day in my teens i randomly discovered world tour cycling competitions on eurosport. Otherwise i would never had revived my cycling passion eventhough cycling was one of my favourite things to do in my childhood.
I still struggle with this, use your front brake and you’ll fly over the handle bars.
@@Frankie-gf2xt Happened to me today.
A car suddenly appeared behind a parked delivery truck and turned onto my path... I instinctively clamped my front brakes in a split second and didn't have the time to move my ass behind the saddle, to balance out the momentum. Now I've got a even bigger forehead than I used to😂Could've been worse.
take the seat off your bike because we came to exercise not have a fking tea party
dont forget the lube
That's really stupid! Even in the seat, bicycling is fantastic exercise.
@@Jemalacane0 it's a joke
Just had a mountain bike race today and I heart a parent behind me outside the staging area tell their child "Make sure you stand up on every climb to conserve energy." I don't think that parent had ever been on a bike before haha!
Fill your tires with helium, it will make your bike lighter and it will guarantee you a smooth ride.
+Jan Luesink Have you tried it? Im courious about that! :D
+Jan Luesink Yeah, I can't actually think of why this would make the bike worse?
+MooperRanger Well, at those high pressures I don't think you'd have that much of a weight save - and i guess that Helium or hydrogen would diffund through the walls of your tire quicker than air so you had to repump more often. Still might be considerable for people that try to save every fraction of a gram ;)
+MooperRanger Because grip on turns depends on weight, maybe?
javier amian Well carry a fucking backpack full of bricks then
Advice from a pedestrian to a group of us standing around while one of our number fixed a puncture: "Ah lads, would ye not club together and buy yourselves a bus?"
Brilliant ! Scottish humour
Gixer750pilot Irish humour!
Ronan Fox True Irish humour.
Wear two earpieces when you're listening to music and make sure the volume button is all the way up so you can't hear anything going around you that way you can stay focus on your training! lol
Train your 6th senses. Blind fold while going down hill.
John Doe LOL
Hahahhahaha
Lol
My friend lent me a bike to ride home on one night and half way down a hill going full speed I found out it had broken brakes and I had a sharp turn coming and I was stoned as hell, I burned the rubber off on my runners that night I'll tell ya hahah , didnt wipe out but I cut that corner like a hot knife through butter.
Crazy 😂
Actually, I use a plastic bag on my saddle to make my bike look less enticing to thieves,
+ObamaoZedong I have a tigerstripe saddle cover for my leather saddle just for this exact reason. And also because I use the same bike for commuting so I can wax the saddle only before a lot of rec riding (otherwise my nice trousers would get waxed as well).
Bwahaha, I kept using a severely scorched, tape-mended saddle for the same reason.
I hate your thumbnail with every fibre of my being 😃
Joachim Macdonald ponies are good. Remember to bring every fibre of your being back under your rock when you head out. 🔥🤘🤭😂👌👏
Several pieces of ratty duct tape and a band-aid or two works well also. Like one holding the handlebars and seat post intact. :-)
Do all of your off season training on a unicycle to increase bike handling skills.
james grainger that actually sounds like a good idea
😂
Haha you would look like such a weirdo on a trainer or rollers😂😂
Lubing your chain with WD40 by Simon Richardson
Hahahahaha
why is that a bad thing?
@@alspezial2747 It's not an actual lube. It does smooth out the chain a bit and keep it dry but for the silent low-friction performance you want from a chain you'll want an actual chain lube.
WD40 = Water Dispersant, batch 40
@@alspezial2747 it s just not expensive enough to consider yourself a serious Cyclist
Been riding for awhile now and never heard or seen any of these. A very real problem, though, is cyclists in a group developing "herd mentality". The rider forgets everything about traffic laws and common sense. "The top half of the pack made it through the turn...now a car's coming....need to turn to keep up with pack." You'd think it's just new riders, but I see experienced guys do it too.
Naddagamer That's a good point, we have noted that ourselves too.
+Naddagamer Don't know in your country, but in Spain when you are riding as a group you are considered one vehicle, so when the first enters a round-about, the rest of the pack have priority over cars. I think that makes a lot of sense and is safer (at least as long as the car drivers know the rules).
+nicofiro That's something to research here.
same never heard one of this before
nicofiro is right. Even entering roundabouts, if the leader of the pack is already in, the rest have priority even over cars inside the roundabout.
the worst thing I have been told is to "run your headset slightly loose, just enough to knock and that will make the ride smoother as this allows the head tube angle to adjust to the terrain " MIND WAS BLOWN!!
best advice ever
no brakes=faster
Liam Turner so fixies in a nutshell?
*I mean it's not like it's false*
And lighter
“Oh hi kids. Say ahhhhh”
-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Then why do formula one cars have brakes?
Simon clearly the world's best one legged cyclist. Such poise and power !
"How to get yourself into the red and never recover"... Matt appears out of nowhere and attacks like a freakin' cheetah😂😂😂 best shit i've seen!!
Before my first Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge in 2008 I asked how often do you eat in a race and was told "every twenty minutes" with no further elaboration. So I have my back pockets stuffed with a random assortment of gels energy bars assorted food. I ate anything every twenty minutes and within an hour and twenty minutes has severe cramp which I had for the next four hours. Later I bought some stuff from Hammer nutrition online and they sent out with it a book "How to succeed in endurance sports". The take home was that often people over eat hard to digest food which creates a backlog in your digestive system which the body tries to clear directing fluids to that end causing cramp. Since then I limit my calories two or three hundred calories per hour usually in liquid or gel form and haven't had the same problem with cramp since.
Yes, excellent advice in the end!
Didn't I see the "fill your tyre with grass" technique in a gcn roadside mechanical video?
I think if someone is like a boss, can fill the tyre with anything ;)
Ive done it with moss in a get me home pinch once but yeah grass I cant imagine would be as good
Przemek Komorowski Exactly Przemek, exactly.
You saw it in the Jan 6 2014 GCN video entitled "No More Inner Tubes."
Cam Rowberry Only if you work for a drug cartel , and only at the border ... Good luck !!!
Always breathe through your nose. Well I'm suffocating but at least the air is filtered.
I mean... it's possible but you probably won't be able to go past 20 km/h on a flat road.
breathing.com/pages/nose-breathing there are a lot of benefits to it actually, but of course not always practical..
haha, I got this advise early in my cycling career from a hippy (and tbf pretty good) road cyclist. I was out of breath in seconds.
Will also keep ur tongue from drying out
Just dribble snot everywhere.
Match your Cadence with your Heart rate.
couple Miles uphill after.. a 911 call was done :(
i read that wrong, i had you calling for a Porsche to get you the rest of the way up
You guys are hilarious, whenever i watch GCN, it always reminds me of 'Top Gear'. Good old days!
Cheers.
Drinking beer on a a long ride, or any alcohol. Went on a ride this summer and two guys decide to have a couple of beers with their lunch. We lost them after 3 miles to find they were exhausted and almost dehydrated .. which brings me to another one.. if you are out with others on a ride, keep checking they are still with you
lol 😂
Alcohol stimulates the release of a hormone that causes the body to dehydrate your blood and tissues to create a disproportionately large amount of urine. That's why they felt dehydrated even while drinking liters of fluid and having to piss. Alcohol and heavy excercise don't mix.
I drink a large number of beers on all my long rides. Most of them are brewery crawls (60-80 miles).
@@CjqNslXUcM Weeds great though. Helps you push through the pain and stay positive. You're probably slower but you'll have a lot of fun. Wouldn't do it for a race but multi hour long rides are awesome with plenty of energy drinks some snacks and a few grams.
I lost most of the function in my left leg from nerve damage. 18 months after my surgery I rode 138 miles in one day using mostly my other leg. Does that count for one legged pedaling? Seattle to Portland, two days, 205 miles.
I was once told to grease my tyres to reduce rolling resistance in time trials, but only in the centre otherwise cornering grip could be affected !!!!!!!! What a knob Wayne Pilling, never asked his advice again.
That's incredible advice!
Hahaha sorry so funny
Up there with applying TriFlo to pads and rims to get brakes to stop squeaking.
chris cahill Don't forget to grease your brake pads to reduce wear....
chris cahill Did Wayne Pilling beat you in this time trail by any chance? ;)
Worst Piece of cycling advise, got convinced to go on a ride at 6am.....in the pooring rain.....and high winds, "it'll be fun" they said. Grrrr
It'll build character, that's for sure!
Let me guess, did the phrase HTFU come up in the preride discussion?
try 4 AM haha,great fun
rule n0. 5 you little crybaby
netfischer ????
Having come of age training in the 90's, I can't believe how many of these I was taught to do - 53x11 hill climbing, one legged pedaling, sweating out colds, and eating as little as possible on long rides (the thought being to force increased fat metabolism).
First time I see the MoonWalk performed on a bike! LMAO
"use wd40 to clean disc brake rotors" I was staring on that person as if he was insane.
foxman105 that's a good one.
+foxman105
When waxing your bike make sure you wax your brake rotors or rim braking area.
+Allen Sinclair a friend of mine came home to find his wife had cleaned his motorbike and was all keen to go out for a ride. All was fine and shiny until he put on the brakes. If he'd been less experienced they would have been obituaries. She'd done exactly what you mention here.
+foxman105 Actually, it is a great cleaner. You just need to make sure you wipe it down real good before riding. I use alcohol to wipe down braking surfaces after cleaning with WD-40.
I got the idea from work where we us WD-40 to clean our tools even when degreaser doesn't work.
+Matt Dickie What if that wasn't an accident?
Use the front brake only. Professionals never use the rear brake, so neither should you!
Killerspiderpig Fly off your bike at 30 MPH
I entered in a 40 km TT and long time ago, and I was trainng with this old manky Irishman, I think he was Irish Junior Champion many years previous. I'd been training with what I thought was a intelligent program and looked to post a decent time.. The day before the event the guy showed up with a aero TT bike, sloping tube, 24" front wheel, silk tubs, all that, and told me to use it... despite my better judgement, I fit it up as best as I could and went to the races. He was there, on a motorbike and screamed at me the whole TT, yelling at me to "reach out for the pain and embrace it" and various other crap... The whoe excercise stressed me out so much I blew coming home and lost minutes... And there he stood at the finish, berating me for making him and his bike look so bad after all he'd done for me.... If I wasn't heaving my guts out I would have smacked him....
Steve Sturges sounds horrible!
wait a minute.. you guys suggested one legged pedaling in your video on how to ride with clipless pedals LOL
This one's uphill
+Toxically Masculine Pedaling one legged on clipless helps learn pedaling without pulling (downstroke only, no upstroke). That is a correct tip, whereas the one in this video is supposed to be a "power building" tip.
ride with no chain
it works on downhills xD
😂
It is more aero
We're not camels, we're humans! The best line on this one. Great image of you cycling backwards.. Cheers
If you ever struggle with something in cycling, do not include that in your training as you'll find it too difficult
Really unfortunate matt isn't in gcn videos anymore he really made it very funny
I'm working with a British Cycling Level 3 coach with a history of working with national champions, and he has me doing a trainer session of one-legged intervals about once a week. He says it helps train a smooth, even pedalling style and build leg strength. Judging by the effort it takes, it must be doing something, surely?! Saying that, they're low-intensity intervals, not hill-climbing...
One leg pedalinng is good for the pedal stroke, Doing if from a dead stop on a hill is a bit much.
Again, just approach with extreme caution.. The strain on the knee is really quite something else. If you are going to try it just build up very steadily.. I know of a guy who tried this method and went too hard. He has since had several operations to repair the damage and has not raced since.
Single legged training can improve the oxidative potential and metabolic profile of trained skeletal muscle.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21330612
Raspoetin a but don't put too much pressure on that calf muscle - they become very delicate after being repeatedly strained...
Doing this is excellent for the health of your knees. It balances them out by using muscles rarely used in normal cycling. Climbing hills with one leg is ridiculous.
Always use the hardest gear on your bike.
90 KMH **EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES**
and then die of exhaustion 10 minutes later
In the days when we all rode Brooks saddles, you'd always put a plastic bag on if leaving the bike outside for a long time. The leather distorts if you ride it wet, and I still wouldn't want to advertise my Brooks Professional (with copper rivets) to the thieving scumbags we get round here.
I loved my Brooks. Rode it in a 150 mile ride on a Astra bike. No fancy spandex shorts then. I gave that saddle away with the bike. It was an antique when I got it. Sob, sob.
These days are still going on
Don't wear a helmet it's more areo with out it
Laughed throughout. Global comedy network
Definitely the famous "never use a compact crank, always use standard, harden up!"
Aswell as ''noone needs a triple''
I know, right! I ride up the Zoncolon every other day. I must have a compact!
Because of that, I'm riding hills with a 39-25. I would love to have a 34 or purchased a 12-27 cassette. It only has 9 gears, though. I suppose I can replace the 39 with a 34 chainring, right?
Konstantin Kesper
If Noone does a lot of loaded touring in mountainous regions, he may well need a triple.
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Lol the grass puncture repair was recommended in one of the GCN puncture repair videos haha LMAO!
"A bike costing $300+ is for a serious racer or bike rider."
"You need a really fat, wide, soft seat."
"A schwinn is a really valuable bike"
"You can (have fun) doing a Triathlon on a cheap-inexpensive bike."
Schwinn still have very good bike like the schwinn Paramount
I would never thought people would actually think pedaling backwards is good for increasing your fitness level. I never pedal backwards just the simple fact my chain may come off :)
I back pedal every once in awhile when I'm cycling on a stationary bike at the gym. It helps reduce muscle fatigue. I don't back pedal when I'm cycling outdoors though. There's no resistance.
Awesome video as always GCN! Thanks!
Download Strava.
SempreCycling That shit is cancerous
My once-relaxing commute is now a pain-ridden time trial.
It's funny cause it's true. I can't chill on my bike anymore.
Wait what ?
I installed it yesterday and use it to keep track of my rides and my friends rides.
What's wrong with it lol
Bouré nothings wrong with Strava as a utility to map distance power times etc. It’s just the people above know that with every recorded ride you get the performance publicised. The tool is now mainly a “flex” for cyclists. I have only one recorded ride as I’ve just bought a bike to replace my running (knee is starting to hate me from years of road running) and even though I’m new to it my friends list gets to see it and have already commented that I should be quicker on this leg, push more on the sprint leg etc. Annoying and as a red blooded male next time I use it I will go balls out weather I want to or not just for the kudos 😂
Joking apart it takes some of the fun out of what I’m enjoying quite casually.
Go at a relaxing pace at a bike race
Set the saddle as low as possible. It's more difficult to pedal that way, which means you train more intensely (in professional terms, your #Kappa coefficient is much higher).
God, that's seriously the dumbest advice I ever heard. I hope the men with white coats came for whoever told you that!
BoardsDarkglasses Of course it was meant to be an addition to the video as one of the worst advice. The #Kappa tag might have tipped you off, although admittedly it comes from the gaming community and might be not known widely :)
That said, I see alarmingly many people riding with their saddles too low. Even GCN was covering it in one of their basics video, I think.
Oskar Elek Kappa is famous #Kappa
When I was doing my gym instructor course years ago the person doing the training said if someone comes into the gym looking for more of a work out on the the exercise bike you should "have the saddle lower to get a deep burn in the quadriceps !" That's pretty dangerous advice to give Joe Blogs looking to tone his leg up through cycling on a exercise bike ! All your doing there is training the muscle to work through a short range of motion and potentially damaging the ligaments in the knee cap through extended pedaling ! Definitely one of the most stupid things I've heard
No, you need to set it as high as possible, the amount of time you'll spend craning your neck upwards to see properly will mean that you will become immune to all neck pain!
I've heard that you need your leg fully extended when the pedal is at the down most position, nobody do this!! It will bang the hell out of your muscles and knees, keep the leg slightly bent when pedal is in the down most position, if it's not, adjust the saddle
Just love the fact you guys don't take your selfs too seriously, love the videos...cheers G dog out😀
Tape your feet to the pedals
or have regular shoes and forget your laces uptop [i did that once an crashd]
Engineer it so that your front break controls the kickstand so when you stop, use the kickstand. Boom. Never have to get off the bike
Don't bring your rain gear! Savor the raindrops falling all around you!
*ended up getting sick for two days*
You guys have the BEST job. Ever. I just found GCN, and spent hours today catching up. Cheers for all the tips, giggles, and good sense. :D
Er, and not to be plonkradictory, but I DO put a plastic bag on my lovely Brooks saddle when I have to leave the Amsterdam outdoors in the rain. And I have seen a few guys pedalling one legged around town this year, though not necessarily uphill. Are they starkers, then, or izzit ok to do it on a flat stretch?
Hilarious video! Had me in stitches for some reason. I used to know a guy who cycled up Sally Gap (Wicklow) regularly in 53*11!
I don't mean to be picky and I agree with all of the points in the video but is there not a gcn video about how to fix a puncture with no tubes or repair kit that suggests filling the tyre with grass??
That reverse clip at the end cracks me up.. ROTFL
Ride a 65" fixed gear all winter from mid October till end February. It increases your cadence and slogging up steep hills increases your strength. And pedalling down steep hills at about 180 rpm makes you supple (or injured!) It's partly true but this was the genuinely perceived wisdom of 1966. I actually did a whole winter on 54" and couldn't do the first 25 mile TT of the year in more than about 74"!
Always remember to do max efort in your warmup and use race to recover
Use the front brake only. I learned the hard way
Worst bit of advice... probably vote matt! but in all seriousness it was "that brake cable is fine! it then proceeded to snap on my next ride as I was about to turn onto a hill, lucky really!
Great job!! Loved it!
Worst advice I picked up? Using electrical tape as rim tape. It's made of rubber, and so is the inner tube. They stick together, shift the tape off of the spoke holes, and then BAM, punch puncture. Buy rim strips, or prepare to invest in a lot of inner tubes or puncture kits.
watching this in a library and trying not to laugh
Drop your seat then stay on it the whole climb......
love that editing at the end, that voice over was great LOL
One of THE BEST you videos! Thanks!
Matt Stephens is the best!
Worst cycling advice would be using a racing road bike to commute in a town filled with potholes. Several stitches and a few new teeth later, I'm sticking with hybrids and mountain bikes (my gloves were so shredded, if I hadn't been wearing them I think I might have lost a finger).
Rodney Burton I've lost my front teeth, broken bones, and so on, "It'll be fun" THEY SAID.
Dan Brod Those racing bikes belong in races and only in races. Well paved tracks with no cars. They're less comfortable, more dangerous, and designed to give you as little workout as possible.
True, done it on mountain bikes too. Sucks spending christmas day in hospital...
I do pedal backwards in descents for a short time (but not as fast as on the video).
It makes different muscles work and helps to unwind the legs while still pedaling and keeping legs warm.
It is much better than stopping pedalling, because legs will be cold at the end of the slope and it will take some time to warm them up again.
So funny! I loved the 1 legged race and the backwards bit the end was genius. Brilliant job mates and Cheers for the new year!
Train with a heavy bike.
i can agree , when i got my first road bike it was a almost 30lb ten speed (raleigh Capri) im the time of person that dosn't like to go slow so eventually i started averaging 17,18 mph when i was just cruising and now i can ride a steel fixed single speed 48/16 and climb most of the hills in cleveland
hills last longer :-)
I had limited time to train for RAGBRAI and did most of it on my fat tire bike, figuring hauling the extra weight would be good training. When i got on my road bike i absolutely flew like it was nothing. Seems like it worked.
Story of my life!
That’s a pretty good tip i’d say if you have the two bikes
That last segment needs the benny hill theme over it. It's unnatural to observe.
Your videos rock. I love the advice and humor incorporated.
Agree with all, excepted the 53x12 uphill. All depend circonstances, and this is an art to know when you've to push big and not, you can even alternate on long hills. So you alternate high pulse/high muscular effort. Voeckler uses this much in mountain.
Worst advices :
- "Always train (very) low intensity, races are here for high intensity"
- "Use plastics to put on your shoes in winter" (so much perspiration, and cooling down after about 1 hour)
A tip, to go along with your 2nd bad tip.. Somebody told me, when I didn't have toe covers/shoe covers, that I could get a pair of tube socks & cut out the bottom so the cleats & back of the shoes go through... I thought, "that's amazing!" have yet to try it, but it is a great solution I feel. Plus i would think you can get customized winter tube socks in higher numbers and for cheaper than you could with shoe covers.
pedal as hard as you can downhill on a 1X1 gear. top pro training method
Let the air out of your tires to increase resistance and thus get more out of your training.
Is that not right?
@@jayteegamble I guess it's technically right, but it'll wear your tires out faster on what should be the sides. Go find a hill, or just ride more. Headwinds are good, too.
I did manage to fix a puncture on a DofE expedition using grass, that said it did take 2 hours, although most of what the grass did was shield my inner tube from further punctures as my tire had been shredded by rocks.
I only use a bag when I'm not on the bike when it's raining but I take it off when I go on it again
I've had customers grease their brakes to stop them making noise. I suppose it's technically not wrong by simple logic, but your brakes won't stop you either.
Deliberate mistake - you don't treat a cold with antibiotics as it is a viral infection - love the show hope this makes it in!
You're right that antibiotics won't treat a viral cold, but if you get an infection because you've not taken care of yourself (especially if you can't clear mucous from your lungs, making a great breeding ground for bacteria) you'll end up with a bacterial infection, such as pneumonia.
@@garideb Beat me to it!
Occasionally during our coaching sessions, one exercise the kids ask for is some one-legged racing (on a traffic-free 300m circuit) even funnier when the race is 2 laps and they have to stop and change legs for the second lap!
A lot of people use bags over saddles in NYC when bikes are locked in the rain because the saddles foam will get soggy if it's stitched, a leather Brooks, or it's torn, when you sit on it it's like sitting on a wet sponge
worst advice is: ride without wheels and handlebars it can boost your skill...
The worst piece of advice that I've received is why do you cycle? You should stop. Ha stop my A$$ I'll ride to my grave.
"Fixed gear is the best way to ride" I hear that a lot from friends then when when go uphills on rides I have to wait for them at the top
Same here, whether it's for road bikes or simple commuting. Fixed gear is simple, but it's far from optimal in my area with a ton of hills. Most of the people riding fixed gear bikes are simply doing it because it's supposedly the new trend, and I see a ton of reckless college kids riding them brakeless in traffic.
nigahiga6400 " Most of the people riding fixed gear bikes are simply doing it because it's supposedly the new trend,"
Wow! I've never met a time traveler from 2005 before.
KB Quinnell Fixies are seen as hip, and the trend has been off and on for many years.
Definitely to ride as hard as you can. I have seen most of my partners (riding bycicle) doing that, it has been very very funny to see them totally out of breath in the middle of the normal journey.
This one's pretty common I think; "You don't have to wear a helmet"
Actually, the only INDEPENDENT data has shown that wearing a helmet gives motorist more confidence that they can drive closer to you, as you are "fully protected in case of a collision.",
This research was done in England. Cant remember the researchers name.
And helmets provide no protection from cervical spine injuries. As an anesthetist, I've seen enough paralyzed patients. I'd prefer to be dead than in a wheelchair-or worse-the rest of my life.
And today's helmets wont save your brain from blunt force trauma(Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson's wife was wearing a helmet on the beginner hill when she fell. She died from a cerebral hemmorage)-which is the most likely outcome in a bike-motor vehicle crash. I slammed my head into the pavement at 32mph and my Specialized helmet didnt even get a scratch. All that force was transferred to my brain and neck. I believe if I hadn't spent many years weightlifting(I'm a BIG rider) I'd probably be paralyzed from the neck down.
There is an inflatable helmet that not only protects ones head from blunt force trauma but also stabilizes the neck when it insta-flates.
It's $400 and sits around the neck. And people have told me "It's very warm".
In general, helmets have been made NOT to protect the participants brain(The NFL's helmets are a disaster) but to LOOK good and colorful and advertise some logo.
The bike helmets of old: the foam bands wrapped in leather offer far more protection than today's bio-engineering disasters.
I DO wear. a helmet as the police in my city have nothing to do and I'm sure they'd love to give a cyclist a ticket....for anything.
you wont be prosecuted going through traffic lights when they are on red if your on a push bike, WTF lol
"Why not go out today and not change gear. Or brake." "Ludicrous" 3:20 Throwing shade at all the fixies out there
I've done the one legged up hill. Last spring I was in a climb on the biggest hill I ride regularly and I was shifting and chain suck struck. I was able to get out of my pedal and prevent the sack roll but then I was confronted with starting up hill and I could not quite get enough speed going where I could get my other foot in so I just carried on with just my left providing the power.
Since then I've got a new bike and I can get in the pedals much more quickly on that bike. Funny enough I rode the old bike last weekend and it was not so natural getting into the pedals as it is on the new bike.
As far as advice I'm not passing on, I guess the 53x12 theme is the one I've heard and tried a bit and do not work with anymore and advise otherwise on that one. A nephew of mine was talking about mashing and I advised otherwise. If I am going to eff up my knees I want to do it skiing.
Worst advice? Assume you, as a cyclist, have the right of way. I've known experienced cyclists who still make this mistake. Hmmm, who risks the most should the two meet, a cyclist or a motorist?
This depends on where you live and the local bicycle laws. Here in Fl, bikes are considered vehicles and have every right that a car has. :D
Anthony Scott That's true in California as well, but like a car, bicycles don't always have right of way, and they must obey all traffic laws, like stop signs, traffic lights, etc.
The motorist loses their life if they take yours out, believe it.
just wat?
Dear GCN Could you please explain why some of these are bad? For instance we get advised from our trainer to indeed ride 53x11 uphill to build muscles. Is this indeed stupid and if so why?
There's no evidence to say that it builds power, or strength, and it can actually be quite risky on your knees. Low cadence work is good, but don't go below 60rpm, and increase your intensity as well.
Nijerk13 dont do that, like GCN reply it is bad for your knees.
I was on my cheap old second hand bike, riding up the hill with a not proper gear set up, riding under 30 RPM and I push myself up the top of ditchling beacon, after that my knee is totally damaged. Now although i do proper training with bike set up now, I still feel the pain on my knees sometimes and that was like 3 years ago.
So dont do it man,
Bryan Tsui i must say, when we are supposed to do it, we have to be out of the saddle... dont know if that makes a difference?
More a precautionary tale.. I've known many riders who have had serious knee injuries following this sort of training.. Bear in mind, this is a fun video.. I'm aware that strength/load training certainly has a place if done properly..
Less than 60 rpm is not good for knee health so I was told. Unless vary low intensity. Building leg muscles is for squats not cycling. Btw.
Wow! I remember the grass in the wheel tip for punctures without inner tubes, this was even in a high selling mtb magazine my brother used to get!
One of the best, love it!!