I'm always amazed how Safa pedals up the hill no hands and no strava just to film these guys struggle to keep up with him- while letting them have the strava glory. Such a gentleman.
@@jani724 😂😂😂 To be honest, the heavy breathing really gives a great insight into the intensity of the effort. It gives context to the stats on the LHS of the screen.
Do I hear Quinn's chain rasping/squeaking? Tf a pro doing riding a with a dry chain? If so, he just lost a good 5 watts or more of efficiency. Amazing effort nonetheless.
I was Sean's coach from age 14-19. He still holds the record for highest VO2 max. (age 17) @ the lab I used in the OC. Awesome to see him doing so well!
Phil is the most anti-doping cyclist out there. He has a bar of soap tattooed on his arm cuz he feels so passionately about it. But I guess people have lied before lol, I just seriously doubt it
I live in the Basque Country and most KOMs are unbeatable. All the best times are recorded from the Vuelta, Tour de France or Itzulia. It's cool in LA you have popular climb KOMs that aren't recorded from races.
Phils time wouldn't be broken in a race. Then there is 150km+ before the climb and tactics. Not that often in a race the pro peleton are going FULL gas bottom to top.
@@chrisrussell7419 It would easily be broken by good enough climbers if it’s the final climb or maybe penultimate and there are attacks. The best can literally do way over 7 w/kg for 10 minutes.
You must be new around here; Phil spent years in the world tour pro peloton and was well known as a strong climbing domestique. He claims he climbs as well now if not better then he did when he was a pro, and his power numbers (7.1 W/Kg for 10 minutes) confirm this. Let’s look at some climbs all the pros do in Europe; he’s 6th on the KOM list for the Rococorba in Girona (30 sec behind Simon Yates), 11th on the Madone in Nice (a few seconds behind Froomes best), 7th on the Masca climb (one behind Wout) in Tenerife, and these were on his honeymoon when he may not have had the best legs (I’ll let myself out now)
He has much smoother everything with far less upper body movement. Now imagine the guy was on a rim brake, non-aero bike at least 2 pounds lighter, he wouldn't have to be wriggling so much.
@@ProWeAreSo no it isn't. Lol. You either have power in your legs or you don't. It's genetics. In first 2 years most results appear. The others train all they want and still can barely sustain 450W for 5 minutes, whereas teens aged 18 who have been riding since 14 and have genetics, hold 450 for 20 minutes no problem. So Your comment has been debunked sir!
Those differences can be pretty wild. I was cookin on a ride yesterday and was ahead of my PR on a segment, but then when I got to the really hard part, I just dropped like a rock. Still got my second fastest time, but my PR was over 30 seconds faster. Insane.
@@BryenGraverI have some PRs from a massive tailwind that had me riding at group speed while solo. I’m not likely to touch those for a while. The ride back was awful lol
"The level in LA is so nuts that you need to be a world tour caliber rider and be in good form to take a big name segment here" - come try out my home on island of Mallorca!! All KOM's and top 10's are who's who of cycling world!! infact, top 100!!! It's really really crazy!!
on December 19th 2019, I was cycling up Es Grau climb from north side, not a soul there... then all of a sudden at the top I could see a peloton coming at me (Ineos) and I could see a yellow flashing light on a car behind... The front 2 were Gerrant Thomas and Chris Froome (and they did say hi) and then a struggler at the rear with another car was egan bernal... So, I just passed and said hi to (at that time) the current TDF champ and the previous 2 champs, 1 being a LEGEND of this sport. It's amazing who you see here in winter.. and you never know who's gonna fly past you on a climb!
Meanwhile in Germany on a much shorter climb on my mtb. Highest gear 4kph trice the time 😂. Seriously i find it insane how Well trained and fit you roadies are. I would say im really fit too but thats just a different Dimension
Fuck, that disc brake aero bike must suck so much to get up there. Wonder if Sean would have the same bike choice if sponsorship money wasn't a factor.
you can see a pro rider climbing with a systemsix cannondale . when this kind of bike is for a gradient of 6% max thats totaly normal for them.. not for me my heart is already in the box...
Shoulda used the SuperSix instead of the System Six. Woulda had it then 😉 In reality though, amazing effort. It's crazy to see the amount of power these guys can throw down while weighing so much less than m.
its nuts indeed thats why they are pros now i would like to know what Pogacar or Evenepoel could do holy crap,Van Aert, Van Der Poel all top togs must be going even higher and they can do it for so long
I'm always amazed how Safa pedals up the hill no hands and no strava just to film these guys struggle to keep up with him- while letting them have the strava glory. Such a gentleman.
I didn't even show my unicycle, didn't want to take the limelight off of the pros
@@SAFABrian class act 💯
Seems to have a lot of gas though. Needs to find another source of carbs besides beans before a tough ride.
@@temporalsoliton I think he was surfing the drone.
seems he is using an ebike or similiar
Don't listen to this in your living room without your earbuds kids!
dead
Why is kids even on this version !
There’s a whole other app that’s made for just kids !
Gf walks in the apartment daily hearing heavy breathing coming from the the bedroom. Only to find me watching some chap try and not die up a climb
I agree, the shifting under load is obscene
@@jani724 😂😂😂
To be honest, the heavy breathing really gives a great insight into the intensity of the effort. It gives context to the stats on the LHS of the screen.
Insane power, I almost passed out just looking at it lol😂. Great video 👌🏻🙌🏻
Living the dream! When you drop Phil Gaimon on a KOM attempt you know you've got some legs and some lungs on you.
Phil's bike looks insane
Aero
What a view from that canyon!
¡Capos!
How insane is that climbing.
Interesting how Sean is on deep section wheels. Wonder if he’d be any faster if he was on shorter
Whats nice about ebikes is you get to feel how fast pros ride.
Sean's a beast 🔥🔥 so powerful
that is just insane
196 BPM!!
Nice zone 5 training
Disc brakes are just a killer on climbs. #savetherimbrake
why?what is the prblm?
He gets that on the Supersix
G Wagon, G Wagon, G Wagon, G Wagon, G Wagon, G Wagon, G Wagon, G Wagon, Range Rover, G Wagon, G Wagon, G Wagon, Range Rover
Do people know what wheels does Phil use? Thanks. Looking for wheels for my rim brake bike.
Phil’s “retirement” gets worse every year 😂
Hauck Curve
no wonder, all those climbs have literally no traffic. id be doing laps on those too sheesh.
Reminds me of GTA 5
if he would rode 6.7kg bike on the limit he would already shed couple seconds if not even more maybe he would even get really close to Gaimons time
Do I hear Quinn's chain rasping/squeaking? Tf a pro doing riding a with a dry chain? If so, he just lost a good 5 watts or more of efficiency. Amazing effort nonetheless.
wow his MAP is like 450
I was Sean's coach from age 14-19. He still holds the record for highest VO2 max. (age 17) @ the lab I used in the OC. Awesome to see him doing so well!
What was it if I may ask?
If Sean was fresh I bet he would have had it that day. Super hard effort AFTER a full-on group ride
His bike looked pretty heavy too.
@@brownshit1 Yeah, Aero Disc not a climbing bike. Notice Phil still rocking the rim brakes!
@@darylbrice must be the disk rub
I can relate to hitting 192bpm and only being halfway up the climb...
me too but i have to stop and take a breather for a while
😂
How can they stay at Max HR for so long? At least I beleive thats their Max HR 😁
@@razz5841exactly why they are pros they can do crazy shit
@@razz5841 at the end he actually hits 199.
The power these guys have is just insane!
Juiced to the gills
Yeah just SIS and LMNT 💪🏼
I used to have this type of power until I took an arrow to the knee.
it's fairly regular
Phil is the most anti-doping cyclist out there. He has a bar of soap tattooed on his arm cuz he feels so passionately about it. But I guess people have lied before lol, I just seriously doubt it
can you film another nichol's group ride please? they are such a good watch
I live in the Basque Country and most KOMs are unbeatable. All the best times are recorded from the Vuelta, Tour de France or Itzulia. It's cool in LA you have popular climb KOMs that aren't recorded from races.
Phils time wouldn't be broken in a race. Then there is 150km+ before the climb and tactics. Not that often in a race the pro peleton are going FULL gas bottom to top.
@@chrisrussell7419 It would easily be broken by good enough climbers if it’s the final climb or maybe penultimate and there are attacks. The best can literally do way over 7 w/kg for 10 minutes.
Same by me, the Tour of Britain passed through here in 2015, most of the KOM's still stand 8 years later.
@@davidbernhardt551 I don’t know how heavy Phil is but say it’s 65kg - 460W from his KOM is 7.1 W/kg, which is world class.
You must be new around here; Phil spent years in the world tour pro peloton and was well known as a strong climbing domestique. He claims he climbs as well now if not better then he did when he was a pro, and his power numbers (7.1 W/Kg for 10 minutes) confirm this. Let’s look at some climbs all the pros do in Europe; he’s 6th on the KOM list for the Rococorba in Girona (30 sec behind Simon Yates), 11th on the Madone in Nice (a few seconds behind Froomes best), 7th on the Masca climb (one behind Wout) in Tenerife, and these were on his honeymoon when he may not have had the best legs (I’ll let myself out now)
please, more climbing stuff like this :)
ascent apostles
@@baza210 😂
Staying that long over 195 heartrate !! I salute you dude
Love how Sean can kick up to 700watts near the top after averaging 400plus for 9mins - awesome.
The Vo2 max required for that power output!
Insane
With the same doctor/juice even you can produce such power
@@twillyspanksyourcakes Haha! Not likely
Now THIS is good. More climbing, general riding. Descents are epic, but the struggle is also important :)
Phil has a much smoother pedalling stroke than the pro guy.
He has much smoother everything with far less upper body movement. Now imagine the guy was on a rim brake, non-aero bike at least 2 pounds lighter, he wouldn't have to be wriggling so much.
so what. it's about the power output not the pedaling stroke smoothness
@@methylmercury Thanks for enlightening us, captain obvious 🙄.
@@methylmercury it's about efficiency
@@ProWeAreSo no it isn't. Lol. You either have power in your legs or you don't. It's genetics. In first 2 years most results appear. The others train all they want and still can barely sustain 450W for 5 minutes, whereas teens aged 18 who have been riding since 14 and have genetics, hold 450 for 20 minutes no problem. So Your comment has been debunked sir!
Awesome content. Phil's time is even more insane after seeing this!
I would imagine that in January he's close to the most unfit he will ever during the season be so this is a great effort!
I've been waiting to see Phil on one of your videos😀 This was excellent, thanks for sharing!!
It's insane to think Phil was half a minute faster when he got the KOM!
It's the cookies I'm telling ya
Those differences can be pretty wild. I was cookin on a ride yesterday and was ahead of my PR on a segment, but then when I got to the really hard part, I just dropped like a rock. Still got my second fastest time, but my PR was over 30 seconds faster. Insane.
Phil did it with a 12 pound cannondale and fresh legs . Sean doing it with a disc brake bike after destroying the Nicholas ride 😂
must've had the "bloods" spot on that day..... eh
@@BryenGraverI have some PRs from a massive tailwind that had me riding at group speed while solo. I’m not likely to touch those for a while. The ride back was awful lol
"The level in LA is so nuts that you need to be a world tour caliber rider and be in good form to take a big name segment here" - come try out my home on island of Mallorca!! All KOM's and top 10's are who's who of cycling world!! infact, top 100!!! It's really really crazy!!
on December 19th 2019, I was cycling up Es Grau climb from north side, not a soul there... then all of a sudden at the top I could see a peloton coming at me (Ineos) and I could see a yellow flashing light on a car behind... The front 2 were Gerrant Thomas and Chris Froome (and they did say hi) and then a struggler at the rear with another car was egan bernal... So, I just passed and said hi to (at that time) the current TDF champ and the previous 2 champs, 1 being a LEGEND of this sport. It's amazing who you see here in winter.. and you never know who's gonna fly past you on a climb!
Everybody is a gangster till you try to keep up with these 2
And this is just "average" pro rider.. Would love to see Pogacar for example on this climb.. 🙂
You wouldnt see much of him
I could have kept up...for the first five seconds. 😃
That was fun to watch. Insane level. I'd be dropped within the first 100 m. Just shows what it takes to win a pro bike race.
1st to mention Phils Rim Brakes! Good man, Phil!
Phil rolling up after sabotaging the KOM like "nothin, just hangin around"
Meanwhile in Germany on a much shorter climb on my mtb. Highest gear 4kph trice the time 😂.
Seriously i find it insane how Well trained and fit you roadies are. I would say im really fit too but thats just a different Dimension
Get the Pog to have a go
At that grade and speed he definitely would've benefited from a lighter rig instead of a disc aero bike.
@8:25 you can see they still didn't finish that tennis coach' house that Michael destroyed!
Insane climb with that Cannondale System Six...
Unreal effort. I dont know how its humanly possible to do that many watts for so long...or to keep your HR that pegged like that!
Fuck, that disc brake aero bike must suck so much to get up there. Wonder if Sean would have the same bike choice if sponsorship money wasn't a factor.
i think franklin lives there.
Guy just became 2024 US National Road champ. Congrats Sean Quinn!
Rim brakes are not dead yet. Still destroys disc brakes for a KOM attempt. 🎉😮😂
😱 What a machine!!! I was out of breath just by watching his performance.
1000% Phil overcooked the leadout on purpose. Bc he said he always starts out slow then speeds up on climbs
It was a great effort. Too bad that he had that old guy blocking his path for the first one third of the climb !!!
Rowan Barrett’s turn to take the kom 😂
Dam I love watching elite athletes push emselves. Heart rate above 185 for that long. Their bodies are so efficient it’s incredible
Somebody get phil a dumbbell… dude looks like hes gonna blow away at the top of that hill
crazy stamina
190+ heart rate for that long makes me physically sweat just thinking about it😮
450w for te.......🤮
Phil could not be cooler about the whole thing .
" not even close" still a minute faster than roided/epoed out Thorfinn lol!
Heaven on Earth🗻🗻🗻⛰️⛰️🌲🌲🌲🌎🌍🫡🫡🫡
Great massage parlour!
Now imagine what Tadej or Wout Van Aert would do up this climb...
Ah phil Gaimon, the cookie monster. =D. He's just on pure cookies and orange juice!
you can see a pro rider climbing with a systemsix cannondale . when this kind of bike is for a gradient of 6% max thats totaly normal for them.. not for me my heart is already in the box...
Dam, my average speed is 16 on flat and he’s going uphill. Insane!
Great video! you should get an electric motorbike to avoid the background engine noise.
Loved hearing the breathing , and nothing really says ouch like 199 bpm nice try
Awesome ride Sean, definitely some Pro level b.p.m with that attempt@!. Was Gaimon's pace at the start the culprit?
Sean was riding an Aero bike and not a climbing bike. Much harder.
Imagine leading someone out, so they have a chance of taking your KOM.
Some classic Phil Gaimon reverse negative splitting haha. Somehow it works for him though lol
HAHAHA Phil destroying young pro rider
Shitty view…. I hope he wasn’t serious about the nicest view thing lol!
Phil Gaimon sets KOMS using Kenda tyres and alloy rims.
This is one of the most insane displays of aerobic fitness I have ever seen!
Curious what time Vingo could pull off on this climb.
6425 Carmela Junctions
would drop these both
this mf
Curious why he was using a SystemSix and not a SuperSix.
At least 6 stop signs were run. Typical road ride I guess.
I need a cpr just by watching this.
I like how chilled they are able to speak after that LOL
is he alexander from EF Education?
Rips it on a systemsix too, that’s flashy!
Shoulda used the SuperSix instead of the System Six. Woulda had it then 😉 In reality though, amazing effort. It's crazy to see the amount of power these guys can throw down while weighing so much less than m.
This is CARDIO training. Unreal.
"best view in the world" lol bless your heart son, you need to go see places
I was just feeling stress just watching that heart rate creep towards 200...😂
I can push out 400w For 10min, But i'm 95kg and built like a tank! Holy hell the power to weight of these guys is insane.
its nuts indeed thats why they are pros now i would like to know what Pogacar or Evenepoel could do holy crap,Van Aert, Van Der Poel all top togs must be going even higher and they can do it for so long
@@turtleneck369 it'd be interesting for sure. Phils time is no joke
Damn those numbers! Nice go at it,Sean!
195 hr and gets out the saddle jesus christ lmao
Cannondale SystemSix way to Sexy to be legal
Maybe Sean can try is again with a "cookie" once he retires
I was tired by the end just watching - awesome !