I finally upgraded my 16 year old Scott addict in the spring. Is the new bike better in every way? Apart from weight, yes. Is it annoying that a 16 year old bike with hydraulic rim brakes and alloy wheels is 1,5kg lighter than a new +3000€ bike with carbon wheels? Yes, very much.
I have a beautiful Celeste, 2017 Bianchi Specialissima. It’s classed as lightweight before I get on the saddle. (Am working hard to put this right, though). 😊
@@gcnit’s the wall floor or desk materials! Lots of harsh mid range reflection. Put some mass behind the walls (my bet is you’ve got hollow framing behind them?) or absorbent materials in front of them.
@@dylanluhowy So you wouldn't notice going from a 12kg bike to an 8kg bike? Use your brain before @ people on the Internet. Only talk to people if its interesting or useful, no one cares about the 1st thing out of your skull, save it.
@@dylanluhowy I'm being antisocial because you are bringing that never been hit in the face European muppet level of conversation where nothing useful is learned, its feminine, I'm not getting paid so that's what you get.
I am cool with you saying that Lance should not be considered a tour winner, IF everyone who cheated in his era is treated the same way. If the UCI did that, there would be no results in any race or racer the entire era. Pantani, Ulrich, Riis, Indrurain, Contador, Sastre, all would not have tour wins.
To be fair, most others in that era weren’t themselves running massive criminal enterprises in service of their cheating and ruining the careers of journalists and other riders over it.
@@timtaylor9590I’m not here to argue about results, I think other dopers should have theirs stripped as well. Just pointing out that the size and second order effects of Lance’s cheating were far, far bigger than others doing the same, and the methods he employed were more vicious.
The difference between Canadian and British winters: Canadian winters are cold, British winters are depressing. Once the temperature gets cold enough (below -15°C I would say) snow tends to stay bright white on the fields and trees, the air seems to sparkle from small water droplets crystalizing, and it is more likely that you will have clear, sunny days and starry nights that make things beautiful and the cold more tolerable and enjoyable (to me at least). The perpetually grey skies and drab browns and greens of the British winters would just be miserable. Edit: This comment is a generalization for both countries in the style of the annual worse winters debate on this website (areas of northern Scotland tend to get mostly snow, coastal BC gets a lot of rain and cloud cover, Atlantic Canada gets lots of cloud cover and mixed precipitation...). The purpose of this comment was to highlight that it is not necessarily the temperature that makes one winter worse than an other, but the conditions that are associated with those temperatures. If it were possible to get Edmonton type cold with persistent Vancouver level cloud cover and there was no snow on the ground, I would find it unbearable.
Hello everyone. I come from Germany and really enjoy watching your videos. I really like the British humor and the quality of the videos is excellent. Better than GCN in German. Please keep it up.
For my situation, heavy bikes are back...a 10kg gravel bike allows me to put out more power for slower speed which matches my slower reactions as I age...making staying strong a safer endeavour
Stopping at red lights: Having grown up in Canada, lived in London UK for 17.5 years, I’ve always stopped at red lights as the norm. Now having recently moved to Denver Colorado, by law cyclists can yield at a stop sign and use a red light like a stop sign. And it works. No increase in traffic to cyclists accidents, and I stop, look that it’s safe to cross and I pedal on. If done correctly and safely, there seems to be no problem with cyclists doing the above at stop signs and red lights under the law allowing us to do so.
Odd looking at a different background, but love the bike frames on the wall. Didn't even notice any sound issues, but the rest of the comments section did
@@charliedillon1400 I get that.. But that weight robs many kids of the joy of riding If they weigh 10kg themself, having a bike of equal weight to oneself is miserable
I get that there was a lot of cheating going on in the era of Lance Armstrong, but my impression (based on documentaries etc) is that he was also a bully. He clearly knew what he was doing and yet stood up in front of the world and held himself up as someone we should admire. He lied and cheated on many levels.
I think the main reason why the speeds are higher and pro racing is more dangerous is because the athletes themselves are much faster. The racing is flat out from the gun and the collective standard of the peloton is much higher and much closer. The onus should really be on making the routes the safer rather than trying to slow the peloton down...IMHO.
I love the hills. I’m 68 and 60kg. For me light weight makes a big difference. I’m not super fast now on the flats, but lucky to have an Aethos which is a tad over 6kg and is super fun to fly up the hills on. I really do notice the difference than on my heavier bikes.
Safety Factors are used in engineering to account for variance in materials and manufacturing. For example, if a bike frame is designed to hold 250 pounds, the material specifications indicate a certain thickness required. The engineer might then apply a Safety Factor of 2 and order the frame material to be twice as thick to theoretically hod 500 pounds.
wahoo head unit, like all other "aero measuring" (lol) device with a single sensor rely so heavily on algorithmic assumptions that it's better described as a random number generator.
Supersix evo rim brake rider. The lightweight feeling when you pick it up doesn''t ever get old! Always a way to impress the group riders. Disc brakes through the winter though are just far too good to ignore even with the weight penalty.
Make it slower? The risk isn't about top speed. Its about speed into corners, speed on descents, risks taken in poor weather conditions, course design , road furniture... When has pure speed, as opposed to taking on too much risk in return for a hoped-for advantage, been the root cause of a crash? If the UCI were to make bikes 3% slower there would still be circumstances where riders take a bike 1% too fast into a corner or a rider pushes the bike 1% beyond their ability to maintain control. Rider safety will be enhanced by removing race radios (faster boys, faster... forever shouted in the ear), course design (less road furniture and unprotected high speed corners) and rider penalties for introducing risk to self and the peloton.
Just now realizing the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), is the exact same affliction as the LDS (Lance Derangement Syndrome). It truly fascinates me how deep it goes and how long it lasts.
Lance Armstrong is the greatest Tour de France rider in cycling history. Greater than the rest including Merckx who is acknowledged by many as the greatest cyclist of all time. If you don't dope in cycling, you lose. Eddy doped as well. The Cannibal, known for his insatiable appetite for victory, tested positive for the stimulant Reactivan during the 1969 Giro d'Italia after leading the race through 16 stages. He was expelled from the race. He also tested positive for amphetamines at the Flèche Wallonne in 1975. These are only the times he was caught. Pogacar is currently blowing away Lance's records. The reason he is escaping scrutiny is, just like in Lance's era, the entire peloton is on dope but Pogacar has taken doping to the highest level with current technology. There is no way that Pogacar could be smashing Lance's and Pantini's records, both men doped to the gills, with Pogacar riding clean. Physiologically impossible. 7w/kg. Lance on dope could do 500w for 30 minutes. The reason why Pogacar is not being stripped of his titles is because Pogacar is European and not American and perceived by UCI as 'good for the sport'. Translation? He is a money maker as a popular champion. If doping is the litmus test for all things fair or honest about pro cycling, no records in cycling history stand up to any level of scrutiny which includes Jonas Vingegaard crushing the peloton in the year before last TdF TT by 1:30.
Truth, Pogi is a loveable, fun guy and Lance was an arrogant Texan. I only resent Pogi because the racing is getting real boring with the long range solo breaks, just like the Tours were boring when Lance (and Froome) got four minutes on the first mountain stage and it was game over.
@@charliedillon1400 True. Throughout the annals of sport there have been other brash champions. If you want to look to Europe, look no further than Conor McGregor from Ireland. Conor makes Lance look like a choir boy with his public displays of belligerence. Behavior and personality can often be even explained. Lance didn't have a father, something, I can't even imagine. He grew up with a chip on his shoulder and something to prove. And then, this rather small man with extraordinary talent for riding a bicycle fast went to Europe, the cradle of competitive cycling and France, the home of the legendary greatest race and beat the best in Europe, again, again, again, again, again, again and again. In fact, if the technology were available which it will be one day, a robot couldn't be created to have the consistency of Lance Armstrong overcoming weather, injury and mechanics consistently beating the best cyclists in Europe year after year after year where kids grow up racing in the Alps. As a result, Lance had a huge target on this back. Fans would throw piss in his face as he raced. The UCI wanted nothing more than to make an example of the brash American. But for true cycling fans who know the sport, there will never be another Lance Armstrong or more dominant Tour de France rider.
Europeans need to stop bashing Lance before we sic one of our David Goggins insane MFs on your quaint little sport again. We have more like Lance in other sports, don't test it.
Personality-driven or doped-result outcomes aside, sports like cycling quickly get boring when dominating (especially long range attacks) riders show up. Blood vector doping distorted the playing field in ways that would lead to even equivocation-based talking amongst dopers. Like feeling the new unfair thing is unfair to already cheating crowd. I found I agreed with Euro-fans who found the Lance years tours boring. It mostly wasn't tactically brilliant - more brut force. Competiting as a better doped team against lesser-doped teams meant watching the same group effort play out over and over . . . I just shut off the TV and my caring enough to follow it day to day. Watching three teammates (group-solo away) finish together on the podium as the Mapei squad did at Paris Roubaix in 1996 would make the classics boring if repeated enough. Here's what my simplistic outlook tells me. If you find yourself entertained by intersecting results influenced by better doping . . . go ahead and imagine even more of it . . . so just staging the whole drama. Post-tour Europe has fixed result criteriums - Americans have pro wrestling. My viewing habits would likely be watching one small town (fixed) criterium and zero wrestling matches. Euro-pros got to watch Lance put in a fix (likely pay-offs to the highest officials) and practice manipulative bullying both public and private. His downfall was seeded by the Americans who doped pros that were caught and eeeeventualy told the truth. Call some or all of them cheats and also hero's (the comicbook / wrestler type) - if the audience quits watching and walks away a sport looses significance to the point of being a carnival side show. The UCI project of growing the sport beyond Europe was getting diminished by EPO and they figure it out. Acting like a fan of that era? It's like getting stuck in a bad relationship. In this case it's history and seems even Lance has moved on.
As a recent resident to Utah, Canyonlands is incredible and is seriously underrated. I am super stoked to see this trip! I was there last week and told my wife that we are coming back to bike pack this area! We were both grinning ear to ear! GCN you guys are amazing and I love watching your stuff keep up the amazing content!
If you are small rider who has low mass and you don't ride very fast then there will be a point at which weight beats aero; I don't know the exact point where the cross over is but it will be there.
Let's talk about the Elephant in the room. There are chinese frames you can get for $400 that are aero as heck and look like some 10k frame. why should big established companies fight against them? getting back to lightweight is probably just a possibility to differentiate them against chinese carbon frames
On the Dan Bigham request… I wonder, counterintuitively, is it possible that by increasing the weight limit that it will open the market MORE for those that want lightweight bikes? I.e. brands make their top spec bike at or around the weight limit but if the WT becomes all about aerodynamics and heavier weight, perhaps the brands will start to make the 4/5kg bikes the people want!
The stable volume feature in the TH-cam player makes the echo in the audio even worse on this vid. Ride what you like, stop hating on other peoples stuff (either more expensive or cheaper) and be happy.
there is no way to make racing safer as long as there are,,, downhills, road furniture, aggressive riders, riders not paying attention, cars and motos , cobbles, mud, rain, snow, unruly fans
9:23 "There is nothing better than when a random passersby picks up your bike and just says 'WHOAH.' It doesn't really work like that with aero bikes." Oh really?
Weight doesn’t matter. The main reason people want light bikes is to make climbing easier. But for amateur riders, gearing helps more than weight. Get an aero bike with a wide range cassette - you’ll climb easier and fly on the descents!!
The best example of sports having to change the equipment to slow down or decrease the ability of the contestants is Javelin, which has had to be changed twice because people were throwing to far.
To slow the peloton down a bit, instead of raising the weight of the bike, require each rider to have a minimum weight of 85kg. If you're thin like Vingegard or Si, there's always pockets for lead ballast in a Camelback. Imagine how this would equal out the climbs across the peloton. Sprinters within sight of Pogocar at the top of the Alps...
The new studio looks great, the lighting is really good, glad you have your table back, but I have to agree with the other comments about the sound being "off"... Once you've got that dialled in, this set up is going to be amazing!
Congrats on the new studio! Si in particular had a lot of slap-back echo on his audio. Sounds like his mic and the camera mic were both in the audio, or the room just needs some sound absorption.
Do you think lightweight bikes are back? 🪶 Let us know in the comments! And what do you think of our brand new set? 😍
Lightweight was never away. It was all about selling new bicycles.
I finally upgraded my 16 year old Scott addict in the spring. Is the new bike better in every way? Apart from weight, yes. Is it annoying that a 16 year old bike with hydraulic rim brakes and alloy wheels is 1,5kg lighter than a new +3000€ bike with carbon wheels? Yes, very much.
New Schmolke Leggerissima with 5.4 kg...
Jack Burke got the Alpe d'Huez KOM on the new Scott Addict RR! According to his podcast, he had to sit on the result until Scott released the bike.
I have a beautiful Celeste, 2017 Bianchi Specialissima. It’s classed as lightweight before I get on the saddle. (Am working hard to put this right, though). 😊
Some acoustic treatment of the new studio is needed!
#BlameLloydy
@@gcn Sounds like they are in a tin can
I see some Acoustic Tiles in the studio's future.
First thing I tought. :)
Set design, hack. Sound, bodge.
Love you guys, but the audio needs some work. Sounds like you're speaking from the bottom of a bucket.
Don’t worry, we’ll get Conor to fix the microphones, he’s the only one who can reach
@@gcnright there is the problem 😂
@@gcnit’s the wall floor or desk materials! Lots of harsh mid range reflection. Put some mass behind the walls (my bet is you’ve got hollow framing behind them?) or absorbent materials in front of them.
Came here to say this too.
I realise GCN is a sausage fest these days but get some soft furnishings in there!
Back to your old mic setup will probably fix the audio.
Lightweight has never gone out of style nor has it gone away but is simply back in the forefront.
as a 96kg male, i can safely say that a few grams of weight on a bike is by far and away NOT the thing that will make me faster.
I'm 100kg and ride with a 35 km/h average. When I eat properly and drop down to 96kg it's super noticeable on the bike, are you sure about that?
@@凸Bebo凸He means weight of the bike obviously.
@@dylanluhowy So you wouldn't notice going from a 12kg bike to an 8kg bike? Use your brain before @ people on the Internet. Only talk to people if its interesting or useful, no one cares about the 1st thing out of your skull, save it.
@@凸Bebo凸 Easy tiger, no need to be antisocial. 🤣 He said a few grams of weight on the bike, not 4 kilos.
@@dylanluhowy I'm being antisocial because you are bringing that never been hit in the face European muppet level of conversation where nothing useful is learned, its feminine, I'm not getting paid so that's what you get.
Lightweight bikes are great, but not when a new disc bike that weighs the same as a 2017 Supersix Evo HiMod costs 5x more
😂😂😂 mugging the paying customers off 🙈💰💰💰💰💰
#captioncompetition Being cyclocross the bikes do not need to abide by the laws of gravelty
I am cool with you saying that Lance should not be considered a tour winner, IF everyone who cheated in his era is treated the same way. If the UCI did that, there would be no results in any race or racer the entire era. Pantani, Ulrich, Riis, Indrurain, Contador, Sastre, all would not have tour wins.
Correct.
To be fair, most others in that era weren’t themselves running massive criminal enterprises in service of their cheating and ruining the careers of journalists and other riders over it.
@@skylerschwendemanbecause he was the only one winning genius. Is he was losing he would've keep his results despite all else considered
@@timtaylor9590I’m not here to argue about results, I think other dopers should have theirs stripped as well. Just pointing out that the size and second order effects of Lance’s cheating were far, far bigger than others doing the same, and the methods he employed were more vicious.
Totally agree, it's ridiculous that contador is a commentator for eurosport as well.
Litterally sounds like you are in a shipping container 😂
Ahoy there sailor
In a shipping container under some blanket
we had to use the blanket, it was cold
#captioncompetition Canyon’s new bike is Inflite!
The difference between Canadian and British winters: Canadian winters are cold, British winters are depressing. Once the temperature gets cold enough (below -15°C I would say) snow tends to stay bright white on the fields and trees, the air seems to sparkle from small water droplets crystalizing, and it is more likely that you will have clear, sunny days and starry nights that make things beautiful and the cold more tolerable and enjoyable (to me at least). The perpetually grey skies and drab browns and greens of the British winters would just be miserable.
Edit: This comment is a generalization for both countries in the style of the annual worse winters debate on this website (areas of northern Scotland tend to get mostly snow, coastal BC gets a lot of rain and cloud cover, Atlantic Canada gets lots of cloud cover and mixed precipitation...). The purpose of this comment was to highlight that it is not necessarily the temperature that makes one winter worse than an other, but the conditions that are associated with those temperatures. If it were possible to get Edmonton type cold with persistent Vancouver level cloud cover and there was no snow on the ground, I would find it unbearable.
but Canadians are generally just miserable to all others with your nickel and diming and passive aggressive ways.
BUT less likely to be eaten by a bear…
Obviously, you do not live in Vancouver!
@@Crall-xb8hebicycles are faster than bears, especially when the cyclist is being chased by said bear.
@@Thezuule1you don’t have to be faster than the bear just your buddies
Hello everyone. I come from Germany and really enjoy watching your videos. I really like the British humor and the quality of the videos is excellent. Better than GCN in German. Please keep it up.
This is unfortunately true, maybe get them over for some lessons?
So no one won the tour de France from 1991 to 2011? Has anyone won it since then?
Of course lightweight bikes are back. Now just re-engineer the direct mount rim brake to accommodate a wider rim and be done with it! 😉😄
Given what Si said, wouldn't it make sense to nullify all TDF records from that period?
Increasing the weight limit to 8 kg will leave much more margin for hidden motors and batteries.
For my situation, heavy bikes are back...a 10kg gravel bike allows me to put out more power for slower speed which matches my slower reactions as I age...making staying strong a safer endeavour
Stopping at red lights: Having grown up in Canada, lived in London UK for 17.5 years, I’ve always stopped at red lights as the norm. Now having recently moved to Denver Colorado, by law cyclists can yield at a stop sign and use a red light like a stop sign. And it works. No increase in traffic to cyclists accidents, and I stop, look that it’s safe to cross and I pedal on. If done correctly and safely, there seems to be no problem with cyclists doing the above at stop signs and red lights under the law allowing us to do so.
Odd looking at a different background, but love the bike frames on the wall. Didn't even notice any sound issues, but the rest of the comments section did
i wonder how many people will test the new wahoo wind accelerometer after their christmas day sprouts
Top comment!
Red Bull gives you wings, sprouts give you wind
If Lance was Legstrong, he wouldn't have to cheat 😢
Strong Armlance.
#captioncompetition: sometimes you’re jumping canyons other times the Canyons jumping you.
Not that the other combos aren't good!, but Dan and Simon are the PERFECT duo! The dynamic is spot on.
Seems natural! Nothing is forced!
I wish kids bikes were 6kg.. Most of them are 10kg+
Same as Freestyle BMX, they're made to be strong, that's why they're heavy.
@@charliedillon1400 I get that.. But that weight robs many kids of the joy of riding
If they weigh 10kg themself, having a bike of equal weight to oneself is miserable
Whoom, Orbea and Cube among others make lightweight kids bikes.
Picked one up for my daughter, really worth it.
@@fabianbinder3681 have you weighed them?
I get that there was a lot of cheating going on in the era of Lance Armstrong, but my impression (based on documentaries etc) is that he was also a bully. He clearly knew what he was doing and yet stood up in front of the world and held himself up as someone we should admire. He lied and cheated on many levels.
Light weight bikes are back. Sounds like cycling is like the fashion industry, black is the new black.
mom jeans came back, so anything can.
The cycling industry will exploit any opportunity to sell bikes.
I think the main reason why the speeds are higher and pro racing is more dangerous is because the athletes themselves are much faster. The racing is flat out from the gun and the collective standard of the peloton is much higher and much closer. The onus should really be on making the routes the safer rather than trying to slow the peloton down...IMHO.
# caption contest “In racing news, Canyon debuts their new cyclocross drone. The pilot was left floored by the performance.”
I love the hills. I’m 68 and 60kg. For me light weight makes a big difference. I’m not super fast now on the flats, but lucky to have an Aethos which is a tad over 6kg and is super fun to fly up the hills on. I really do notice the difference than on my heavier bikes.
Safety Factors are used in engineering to account for variance in materials and manufacturing. For example, if a bike frame is designed to hold 250 pounds, the material specifications indicate a certain thickness required. The engineer might then apply a Safety Factor of 2 and order the frame material to be twice as thick to theoretically hod 500 pounds.
Si, excellent use of the word "apoplectic". Bravo.
They never left, you guys spending 6000 Euros for 9kg "racing" bikes have always been insane.
To restrict the speed in the pro peloton, simply have a rule that limits how high a gear can go, based on rider weight.
Like the new studio. The Orbea frame would be better in a bright color against the black walls.
Good, now I can pull out my old Emonda at about 15lbs. I built it for hill climbs but then realized we have virtually no real hills in Iowa.
wahoo head unit, like all other "aero measuring" (lol) device with a single sensor rely so heavily on algorithmic assumptions that it's better described as a random number generator.
Supersix evo rim brake rider. The lightweight feeling when you pick it up doesn''t ever get old! Always a way to impress the group riders. Disc brakes through the winter though are just far too good to ignore even with the weight penalty.
#CaptionCompetition 'Anything Si can do I can do "better"'
Make it slower? The risk isn't about top speed. Its about speed into corners, speed on descents, risks taken in poor weather conditions, course design , road furniture... When has pure speed, as opposed to taking on too much risk in return for a hoped-for advantage, been the root cause of a crash? If the UCI were to make bikes 3% slower there would still be circumstances where riders take a bike 1% too fast into a corner or a rider pushes the bike 1% beyond their ability to maintain control. Rider safety will be enhanced by removing race radios (faster boys, faster... forever shouted in the ear), course design (less road furniture and unprotected high speed corners) and rider penalties for introducing risk to self and the peloton.
Just now realizing the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), is the exact same affliction as the LDS (Lance Derangement Syndrome). It truly fascinates me how deep it goes and how long it lasts.
#captioncompetition Is that a shadow stand? Super nice! 🛎️
Looking forward to next week's show: "Light bikes return to the dead, aero is everything again... again"
And in three weeks a new endurance bike drops that is 99.9 % as fast as every other bike but at least 1 % more comfortable.
Lance Armstrong is the greatest Tour de France rider in cycling history. Greater than the rest including Merckx who is acknowledged by many as the greatest cyclist of all time. If you don't dope in cycling, you lose. Eddy doped as well. The Cannibal, known for his insatiable appetite for victory, tested positive for the stimulant Reactivan during the 1969 Giro d'Italia after leading the race through 16 stages. He was expelled from the race. He also tested positive for amphetamines at the Flèche Wallonne in 1975. These are only the times he was caught.
Pogacar is currently blowing away Lance's records. The reason he is escaping scrutiny is, just like in Lance's era, the entire peloton is on dope but Pogacar has taken doping to the highest level with current technology. There is no way that Pogacar could be smashing Lance's and Pantini's records, both men doped to the gills, with Pogacar riding clean. Physiologically impossible. 7w/kg. Lance on dope could do 500w for 30 minutes. The reason why Pogacar is not being stripped of his titles is because Pogacar is European and not American and perceived by UCI as 'good for the sport'. Translation? He is a money maker as a popular champion. If doping is the litmus test for all things fair or honest about pro cycling, no records in cycling history stand up to any level of scrutiny which includes Jonas Vingegaard crushing the peloton in the year before last TdF TT by 1:30.
Yawn. What a cry baby.
Truth, Pogi is a loveable, fun guy and Lance was an arrogant Texan. I only resent Pogi because the racing is getting real boring with the long range solo breaks, just like the Tours were boring when Lance (and Froome) got four minutes on the first mountain stage and it was game over.
@@charliedillon1400 True. Throughout the annals of sport there have been other brash champions. If you want to look to Europe, look no further than Conor McGregor from Ireland. Conor makes Lance look like a choir boy with his public displays of belligerence.
Behavior and personality can often be even explained.
Lance didn't have a father, something, I can't even imagine. He grew up with a chip on his shoulder and something to prove. And then, this rather small man with extraordinary talent for riding a bicycle fast went to Europe, the cradle of competitive cycling and France, the home of the legendary greatest race and beat the best in Europe, again, again, again, again, again, again and again. In fact, if the technology were available which it will be one day, a robot couldn't be created to have the consistency of Lance Armstrong overcoming weather, injury and mechanics consistently beating the best cyclists in Europe year after year after year where kids grow up racing in the Alps. As a result, Lance had a huge target on this back. Fans would throw piss in his face as he raced. The UCI wanted nothing more than to make an example of the brash American. But for true cycling fans who know the sport, there will never be another Lance Armstrong or more dominant Tour de France rider.
Europeans need to stop bashing Lance before we sic one of our David Goggins insane MFs on your quaint little sport again. We have more like Lance in other sports, don't test it.
Personality-driven or doped-result outcomes aside, sports like cycling quickly get boring when dominating (especially long range attacks) riders show up. Blood vector doping distorted the playing field in ways that would lead to even equivocation-based talking amongst dopers. Like feeling the new unfair thing is unfair to already cheating crowd.
I found I agreed with Euro-fans who found the Lance years tours boring. It mostly wasn't tactically brilliant - more brut force. Competiting as a better doped team against lesser-doped teams meant watching the same group effort play out over and over . . . I just shut off the TV and my caring enough to follow it day to day.
Watching three teammates (group-solo away) finish together on the podium as the Mapei squad did at Paris Roubaix in 1996 would make the classics boring if repeated enough.
Here's what my simplistic outlook tells me. If you find yourself entertained by intersecting results influenced by better doping . . . go ahead and imagine even more of it . . . so just staging the whole drama. Post-tour Europe has fixed result criteriums - Americans have pro wrestling.
My viewing habits would likely be watching one small town (fixed) criterium and zero wrestling matches.
Euro-pros got to watch Lance put in a fix (likely pay-offs to the highest officials) and practice manipulative bullying both public and private. His downfall was seeded by the Americans who doped pros that were caught and eeeeventualy told the truth.
Call some or all of them cheats and also hero's (the comicbook / wrestler type)
- if the audience quits watching and walks away a sport looses significance to the point of being a carnival side show.
The UCI project of growing the sport beyond Europe was getting diminished by EPO and they figure it out.
Acting like a fan of that era? It's like getting stuck in a bad relationship. In this case it's history and seems even Lance has moved on.
#captioncompetition Sky's the limit for this Canyon
Can't believe you didn't do a sound check before recording. Come on guys!
As a recent resident to Utah, Canyonlands is incredible and is seriously underrated. I am super stoked to see this trip! I was there last week and told my wife that we are coming back to bike pack this area! We were both grinning ear to ear! GCN you guys are amazing and I love watching your stuff keep up the amazing content!
Lance is my goat
He's certainly a ruminant of some sort.
sorry guys, but the new set acoustics are 'sub-optimal'
Rim Brakes for the win. Always.
Forget trying to get free tyres… but we all want to see a GCN presenter in Edmonton participating in one of those winter challenges. Make it happen!
#captioncompetition An interesting week for new bike leaks-first an aero Colnago, and now the new Canyon Air-road!
Rim brakes are the og and king of lightweight. Disc are for scared wimps concerned about slowing down.
Armstrong vs Contador. Jerk vs nice guy. Both cheated, only one a guest on gcn and praised.
Plus, Alberto had to deal with his constant allergies, lol!
I love the guy, he made the races exciting and didn't ride for the podium.
If you are small rider who has low mass and you don't ride very fast then there will be a point at which weight beats aero; I don't know the exact point where the cross over is but it will be there.
#CaptionCompetition Usually people try to jump over a canyon, this if the first time I see a canyon jumping over someone.
Love the new Scott Addict ❤❤
The only weight difference I notice is if I need one or two hands to carry my bike up or down the back stairs.
Let's talk about the Elephant in the room. There are chinese frames you can get for $400 that are aero as heck and look like some 10k frame. why should big established companies fight against them? getting back to lightweight is probably just a possibility to differentiate them against chinese carbon frames
👉👉Caption Competition --- Good example of a bike --- That is just too light.👈👈
Audio suggestions for new studio; reduce hard surfaces that reflect the sound and get microphones closer ie: use lavalieres.
#caption competition No seriously, I was flying
That Colnago looks like the Bianchi Oltre
#captioncompetition Talk about a wheelie bad day at the office
Maybe Scott should be called Snott(less) with having less resin
Wind thingy is a bit gimmicky. Plus I already know when I’m getting shafted by the wind. I don’t need to be reminded.
On the Dan Bigham request… I wonder, counterintuitively, is it possible that by increasing the weight limit that it will open the market MORE for those that want lightweight bikes? I.e. brands make their top spec bike at or around the weight limit but if the WT becomes all about aerodynamics and heavier weight, perhaps the brands will start to make the 4/5kg bikes the people want!
Think it would mean the cheaper bikes become 10kg 😑
Canyon's bike was probably singing " I want to *brake* free! "
The stable volume feature in the TH-cam player makes the echo in the audio even worse on this vid. Ride what you like, stop hating on other peoples stuff (either more expensive or cheaper) and be happy.
Caption Competition: Light Bikes ARE A Threat, And This Is Why | GCN Show Ep. 623
The new set looks great
thanks!
Caption: Bingo!, Canyon’s new drone is a success!
I think the cycling industry will happily jump on any trend, or simply create one, if it means they can sell more bikes..
When Si was sloshing the prosecco it made less noise than previously. Maybe "maturing" means someone has masochistic inclinations with sipping it :):)
Looking forward to Dan's new video on the history of saddle bags.
there is no way to make racing safer as long as there are,,, downhills, road furniture, aggressive riders, riders not paying attention, cars and motos , cobbles, mud, rain, snow, unruly fans
One for caption competition….. ‘the true meaning of “if you love something, set it free…….”’
I don't see the 'Brick' on the shelf in the new office.
A minor barrier to one can be a canyon to another
9:23
"There is nothing better than when a random passersby picks up your bike and just says 'WHOAH.' It doesn't really work like that with aero bikes."
Oh really?
Best intro ever…so ‘real world’ 😎👍🚵🏻♂️
Congrats on the new studio. Did GCN decide to go old-school on the audio - tin cans connected by a string?
it's Reynolds 531 headtubes and some old brake cables
Canyon relaunch with a rebrand for 2025: cannon
Listening to Si describing a burley 80kg cyclist - I'm skinny fat at 96kg 😭
Once again, Thelma and Louie jump the canyon.
Caption: So light that it flies!
Weight doesn’t matter. The main reason people want light bikes is to make climbing easier. But for amateur riders, gearing helps more than weight. Get an aero bike with a wide range cassette - you’ll climb easier and fly on the descents!!
I’d be up for a 7kg reasonable priced rim brake bike
The best example of sports having to change the equipment to slow down or decrease the ability of the contestants is Javelin, which has had to be changed twice because people were throwing to far.
To slow the peloton down a bit, instead of raising the weight of the bike, require each rider to have a minimum weight of 85kg. If you're thin like Vingegard or Si, there's always pockets for lead ballast in a Camelback. Imagine how this would equal out the climbs across the peloton. Sprinters within sight of Pogocar at the top of the Alps...
"I believe I CANYON Fly!" (Song)
The new studio looks great, the lighting is really good, glad you have your table back, but I have to agree with the other comments about the sound being "off"... Once you've got that dialled in, this set up is going to be amazing!
for now…. We’ll get it sorted
In the wake of Scott’s new lightweight bike release, Canyon ups the ante with their new gravity-defying build called “The Floater”.
Expect the return of rim brakes in a year or two...
Read the profit and loss statements of manufacturers. When profits lag, new (or old), expensive, must-haves will soon appear.
Congrats on the new studio! Si in particular had a lot of slap-back echo on his audio. Sounds like his mic and the camera mic were both in the audio, or the room just needs some sound absorption.
New studio, old audio? 😜
Bit of both! Ollie has just finished decorating 👨🎨
Cheating is in Lance's DNA. He's a Texan.
It may not be outright fastest in a straight line but lightweight bikes (and other types of vehicles) just feel faster and responsive
#captionCompetition: A small step of a human, a large leap of a bike
#Captioncompetition Canyon is taking lightweight bikes to another level with their brand new "Canyon Fly Aero"
Fantastic new set GCN