- From the top of -- Portugal,
- [Both] Welcome to the GCN show.
- I'm Blanch Wheelies from the top of --
- [All] Welcome to the GCN show.
- Hi, I'm George Hincapie
and I'm Cadel Evans,
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- Yay, yay, yay, yay.
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- Welcome to the GCN show.
- This week we are taking a look
at your steepest climbs.
- Ah!
The show is teaming with Taipei Tech,
and we also review a whole
host of cobble classics.
- Add to that, a blend of caption,
comment, hack, bodge, and a pair
of wattage bazookas,
and you have another bumper GCN show.
- Blend (sigh)
- Yeah.
- The question on our minds this week
is Sagan too good for his own good?
- Hmm.
- Because once again,
again with him on Sunday,
he fell short of the win
despite an obvious abundance
of power and strength.
The reason,
stubbornness, basically, yeah.
Standoff between he and Niki Terpstra,
which allowed Greg --
to sail up the road never to be seen again.
- Yeah, let's tackle
this question, shall we?
Peter Sagan,
he is 27 years old,
he has two world championship wins,
and one monument in his palmares now,
from the Tour of Flanders last year.
He's got seven stage wins
at the Tour de France
and five Green Points jerseys,
which is pretty nuts,
and coming close now to
100 pro wins overall.
There is no doubt,
that he is a once in a generation talent,
but could be more tactically astute
and therefore win more,
or actually is it a fact
that he is too good,
his rivals are so scared of him,
that they actually race against him?
- Well let's put Pete Sagan
into a little bit of context, shall we?
- Right.
- He's good,
but although he's got two wins
at the same age and world championship
compared to Tom Boonen is one,
let's have a drill down
into the cobble classics.
Two victories for Tom
Boonen at Paris-Roubaix,
as opposed to Peter Sagan on zero.
- Yeah.
- The two wins at the Tour of Flanders
for Tom Boonen as opposed
to Peter Sagan's one,
although, let's admit,
this could change at the weekend.
- Are you, anyway,
saying that Peter Sagan
is not too good, then?
It's something else?
- No, not necessarily.
I just wonder why Tom Boonen's results
in the cobbled classics are far superior
than Sagan's.
- Could be a number of reasons, I guess.
Maybe it's down to local knowledge.
After all, Tom Boonen grew up racing
over the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix
and the Tour of Flanders as well.
That always helps.
- That is true, yeah.
- And there's another reason as well.
I think Tom Boonen had
another very similar
adversary in the form of Fabian Cancellara
and the spotlight
wasn't always on Boonen himself.
- Yeah, that's right,
it shows you something doesn't it?
There's the fact that Boonen
was quite specialized compared to Sagan,
so in the latter part of his career
he basically lived for April, didn't he?
And probably a bit of March.
- Yeah, and he was in the QuickStep team
and various incarnations
for the last 15 years.
The most experienced team
with the best hit rate
in the cobbled classics by far.
- I think all of those are a factor,
but I do just think that Sagan
has a reputation
that far exceeds his actual results,
and that people do
clearly race against him,
and he has that responsibility
on his shoulders
because he pretty much
is the complete package.
He's got a great sprint,
even though he does regularly
get out of sprinted,
and he is arguably the
strongest guy in the race.
And that then comes with responsibility.
And you need the tactical
nous to offset that.
- I don't want to view him as
too strong for his own good,
not just at the moment,
but at an early age
he was that talented,
that then perhaps
you don't have to learn quite the same
race craft as people
that aren't as strong.
- Yeah.
- I think another thing
to consider as well
is that Peter Sagan
primarily in the classics,
is on his own.
Okay he's got support up to halfway
or two thirds into a race,
but the back end of a race
when the pressure's on,
he's essentially on his own,
and there's only so many options he has.
- He feels lonely.
- I think he might feel lonely.
- Yeah.
- To that, jokes aside,
there may be a reason
that he's a victor of
his own success there,
and actually what team can afford
to hire Peter Sagan
and then a full classics
roster to back him up?
You know, because he does
get paid quite a lot, you think?
- It's very easy to get frustrated
in a round and you've got no back up,
and that's where other teams play a fit.
But it's fascinating.
It is fascinating to watch,
without a shadow of a doubt.
- It is a really interesting subject.
As we would love to hear your thoughts
on this very subject,
which you can leave down below.
Should Peter Sagan be winning
more than he is?
Do you not care
because he's the most entertaining rider
in the Pro -- at the moment?
Let us know in the comment
section down below.
- I just think it's right.
- You know he's going to win Flanders,
Roubaix, and probably
Amstel Gold this year.
- Probably.
- Yeah. Good luck Peter.
- The three of us could
slowly piece together the victory win.
- What people often say though ...
- We're analyzing it.
- We were too strong for our own good.
- That's why we're here, yeah.
Should've put us down for that.
- I don't know about that,
probably not really.
(laugh)
- Caption of the week now.
And last week we gave you this
pretty famous photo now, I'd say,
of Peter Sagan dodging
a woman and her dog.
And the winner of the GCN
CamelBak water bottle is -
- Okay, I'll grab one.
Live on the air, we do that.
- Is, is, is Blake Robinson.
Congratulations to you.
We love this caption.
"Get off the road you hairy beast."
"I can't I'm in a race!"
(laugh)
- 142 likes, basically
voted for it right there.
That's possibly the most well-deserved
receiver of a GCN CamelBak bottle
that we have ever had.
That was brilliant.
Get in touch with us on Facebook
with your address, Blake,
and we shall send that out
as soon as possible.
This week's caption is this one
of Zak Dempster,
at the -- race recently.
I'll just get us started.
"I wanted a jacket with cheese and beans."
(laugh)
If you can do any better than that,
leave your captions
in the comment section down below.
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- It's now time for "Cycling Shorts."
- Let's start this week's "Cycling Shorts"
with a roundup/update of
last week's #GCNsteep.
Where basically we ask you
to send in pictures and videos
of the steepest climbs near you.
And we've had absolutely loads.
And we've also got a new bit
of tech to introduce
to measure the severity of these climbs
called the GCN gurnometer,
or gurn-o-meter.
- It's an official one as well.
- It is.
- Official set, right.
First we got this,
sent in by Kevin Taylor.
It's the Chemin des Aciens in Obernai, France.
(sigh)
- In France.
- Yeah, in France.
It picks up towards 40%
if his head unit is to be believed
and it's a bit short,
so I think that's maybe like
a six on the gurn-o-meter.
- What do you think?
- Yeah I agree.
- No?
- Yeah.
It's that steep.
- Do you overrule us?
Second vote?
Where does this leave us
- Well I think my (grimace)
- Maybe we should ask Lasty's face.
- We'll have a look at
the algorithms anyway.
Now technically sidewalks don't count.
It should be roads, and we ...
I'm not saying you
can't ride on sidewalks,
but doesn't have to be roads,
but just listen to the
sound effects on this one.
- [Biker] Please don't slip.
Oh my God, my cadence is so low.
Ah!
(heavy breathing)
No! No!
No!
- [All] Ah, Joseph!
- Didn't make it to the top,
what are you playing at?
- Is that ineligible?
- He's going to lose a couple of points.
Sidewalk, didn't get to the top. (sigh)
- Eight and a half on the gurn-o-meter?
- Is that sign of steepness or weakness?
- Well yeah.
- Yeah.
- Whoa.
(laugh)
Nice, all right.
We had a load of nominations
for The Corkscrew,
in Cheshire, in the U.K.
Have a look at this.
Cobbles and apparently 45%.
- That's nearly one in two.
- It looks like a footpath, doesn't it?
If I'm being completely honest.
- It does.
- Is that a road, is that eligible?
- We're making roads up
as we go along,
let's --
- Yeah.
- Gallup and progress, won't it?
- The Timsbury Cycle Group
turned in this footage of the climb.
It's actually very, very local
to the GCN offices.
Prospect place.
It's quite short again,
and it looks like 25% from the side there,
so four, yeah.
- Funny, we've never ridden it though,
even though it's just next door.
- Not really, but
very easy to send Lasty over there to do it
so you might see it fairly soon.
- Quite.
- Okay, we're getting some
pretty punchy climbs now, though.
Ex Capitan sent in this.
- Pronunciations are top hole.
- That's actually right,
I'm on fire today.
38.8%.
That is pretty punchy,
look at that photo -
- Costa Rica.
taken from Costa Rica, yeah.
- I think we need to see
somebody riding up that,
if anyone could send some footage in.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Nine you say?
Nine on the gurn-o-meter?
- Definitely.
- This, though, has to be
our winning one.
We had loads of suggestions for this climb
over in Pittsburgh.
It's called Canton Avenue.
Apparently every year
it's used in a race
called "The Dirty Dozen,"
where, as the name suggests,
they go up 12 very steep climbs.
This, though, is "peace de resistance".
Is that how you say that? Maybe you should say that.
- (with French accent) Piece de resistance
- Piece de resistance.
(laughter)
- But look at it.
Here's a couple of photos for you.
That does look absolutely brutal.
- I keep looking at
that one on the cobbles
and thinking that must be a trick photo.
And all the trees look
really rather vertical,
don't they?
- They do.
- I just think that is actually ...
- Fast.
- Tor Lotes and Christopher Boyle
for sending in those
two respective photos.
- I think it's taken out to 11
on the gurn-o-meter, you think?
- Ooh.
- Yeah.
- I think that's like,
I think that's maxed out.
You couldn't gurn much more, could you?
- Safe to say,
we really enjoyed looking
at all these climbs over the last week.
- We would love to see more footage
and pictures from
the steepest climbs near you.
Because we think this is deserved
of a top ten video in its own right.
- I can feel one in the making.
- And also a round the world ticket for Tom Last.
- Of course.
(sighing)
(breathing heavy)
Next up we have some mountain bike news.
- Oh yeah.
- And please, don't switch off.
There's something of interest here,
I think for roadies.
Now the Cape Epic mountain bike event
took place the other week,
and there were some
familiar faces doing it.
Cadel Evans teamed up
with ex-teammate from BMC.
George Hincapie and they smashed
the Master's Dimension Data category.
And also to cyclocross,
Sven Legends, Vanthourenhout, and Nys,
well they came 40th overall.
And another legend, mountain bike legend,
- Jose Hermida,
- Teamed up with Joaquim Rodriguez,
18th overall.
- Yeah, so they were the best
out of all of them.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And the Legends teams.
- All the Legends.
- Did you know that Joaquim Rodriguez
could ride a mountain bike as well?
- No.
- I saw some pictures online.
He did look pretty handy,
and very lean actually,
but he loves it, yeah.
- Interesting stuff.
Now from one epic race to another,
the Indian Pacific Wheel Race,
which is the previously mentioned
horrifically long bike
race along Australia,
is nearing the finale.
The leaders have got to Melbourne,
which means they have
clocked up 4,000 kilometers.
- Whoa.
- Only 1,500 kilometers to go.
Pretty punchy.
The ultra endurance legend, Christophe --
is in the lead.
And I heard an interesting story about him
the other day actually.
Apparently, he cycles on a Sunday morning
from his home in Gent to Paris,
where he buys croissants,
and then he cycles home again
and gives them to his
wife for a late breakfast.
- In one day, just in the morning?
- On a Sunday morning, yeah.
Anyway, so unsurprisingly perhaps,
he's in the lead.
Second place is Mike Hall.
He's just 90 kilometers behind.
Which sounds like a lot,
but you know that's like a line, isn't it?
- Yeah, yeah.
- And then Sarah Hammond
is 100 kilometers behind Mike Hall.
- Impressive.
- Nice stuff.
- Is really on there,
I can't imagine doing that 90 kilometers -
- That is impressive, really.
- Oh right, we are a bit late
to this next one,
but in the spirit of old trend durance,
we should name check Jessica Belisle,
because she recently rode 3,109 kilometers
in the space of 128 hours.
Although she didn't
actually travel anywhere,
she did the whole thing
on a Wahoo Kickr paired up to Zwift.
But she beat the previous record
by 234 virtual kilometers.
I think it's fair to say
that she probably didn't go up and down
Zwift mountain many times.
- That would --
- Did she manage to have any sleep?
- Yes, 11 hours
over the course of the 128 hours.
- Wow that doesn't sound
like much, does it?
Right well while we're
on the subject of Zwift,
did you know they had
their first ever E-Fundo?
1,400 people took part,
and rode the 72.2 kilometer course.
And everyone who finished got
a Maratona dles Dolomites
limited edition kit.
To riding on a Zwift.
- Time for "Competition Time" now.
And the four lucky winners
of last week's Speedo competition
are as follows.
Take it away, Daniel.
- Yeah, apologies in advance
for the mispronunciation of
most of these names.
The lucky winners are
Henrik Eketjall,
Maciej Waczyk,
- Hopefully there's going
to be a caption under.
- Chris Vick,
- That is 100% spot on.
- And finally, Matous Kozak.
Well done to you,
we'll be in touch,
and you should receive
your prize very shortly.
- Yep, more competitions
coming up very soon from GCN Boxing.
In the meantime, you for lucky winners,
when you receive your prize,
do make sure you send us
a photo of you wearing them.
We definitely want that.
- Yeah 'cause I had to
put mine online, didn't I?
- Yeah. Post it on social media.
- Si, is that jet lag
or exposure to carbon fibers
making you look just a
little bit ropey today?
- To be fair, it's probably
a bit of both actually.
If you haven't seen the videos yet,
I've just got back
from the Taipei Cycle Show.
And yes, there was an amazing
amount of new tech there.
In fact, I actually fondled
so much carbon fiber,
I picked up a carbon
splinter in my finger.
True story, that.
But we did have one particularly
interesting meeting that was
away from the show halls.
And it was with a GCN viewer.
We've got a graduation today
from Hack or Bodge to Tech of the Week.
You will, no doubt, remember
this amazing looking shoe
that was sent in by Jack Lee.
And it is quite an incredible work of art.
It is a carbon fiber molded,
custom molded shoe,
that is so unbelievably light,
that actually when you
attach a cleat to it,
the cleat is the heaviest part
of the whole ensemble.
Well, we're out in Taipei,
for the Taipei Cycle Show,
and Jack got in touch to show us version two,
which are these bad boys.
Look at that.
Now, the developments
have been as follows.
Instead of just carbon fiber,
he's actually integrated
a Kevlar liner into this.
The inspiration being formula one,
where the cars are lined with Kevlar
to protect the driver
in the event of a crash,
because Jack worked out that obviously,
if you were involved in
an incident bad enough
to crack your carbon fiber shoe,
then actually you probably need something
to protect your foot as well.
So this has a Kevlar liner now.
And also the upper of the shoe
is made from Kevlar as well,
so instead of being solid carbon fiber,
that is now a slightly
more flexible Kevlar.
The design is still impeccable.
But then he's not stopping there.
He also decided to
bring his new prototype.
This.
Which shows you just how much
craftsmanship goes into it.
The development you'll see
is the closure system
which now goes underneath
the shoe as well,
incorporating the Kevlar
top and bottom as well.
Now Jack tells us that these shoes
are actually for sale,
but it's quite a complex procedure.
You will need to meet him
and get your foot completely molded,
or get a mold taken of your foot.
And then he can produce you
this carbon fiber sock
slash shoe with cleats on.
- We definitely get some
pretty cool new tech
launched around the cobble classics
each and every year.
This year Trek,
are launching a special disc break version
of the Domane RSL.
In the team Geometry Fame set
which was used so successfully in the past
by Fabian Cancellara.
- But this year it's obviously not
for Fabian Cancellara,
'cause there's a new cobble classic star,
of course in the Trek Segafredo camp
in the form of John Degenkolb
So it's him who gets the turn
to have a nice, pimp-custom frame.
And this one harks to Degenkolb's love
of his cafe racer motor bike.
- I flippin' love the look of that bike.
That's amazing, isn't it?
Yeah, lucky man, John Degenkolb.
Right, finally, in tech this week,
we are going to tackle a question
that a lot of you have
been asking us actually
in view of the indoor training sessions
that we've been posting.
Can you use a carbon fiber frame
on an indoor trainer?
Well we put that question
to one of our bike partners, Canyon,
and they said that they design their bikes
with outdoor riding in mind,
but in their experience,
that their frames are perfectly fine
on indoor trainers.
- The reason though that there
is currently this gray area,
is because currently at least,
no manufacturer of carbon fiber bikes
does long-term testing of
their carbon fiber frames
on an indoor trainer.
So Canyon say that whilst it would
by no means definitely break your bike
using it on an indoor trainer,
the long term use of a carbon fiber frame
on an indoor trainer
could lead to surface cracks
on the resin covers, the carbon fiber,
which is generally an aesthetic problem.
- Yeah, I can understand
people's concerns on this.
But what I used to do,
often for ease of use,
I didn't keep swapping bikes around,
I had a dedicated steel
and then later aluminum bike
that I kept solely for
use on the turbo trainer.
Didn't have any brakes on it,
was really kind of light and componentry,
just to basically an indoor trainer
dedicated bike,
and that worked a treat and
cost about a hundred quid.
- I think a steel bike
would probably dissolve under me
if I was using an indoor trainer with all that sweat.
- Yeah that's a good point actually.
- It's funny isn't it?
I think people's problems are the fact
that manufacturers
often don't cover a bike
under warranty when it's
on an indoor trainer.
But the fact is,
I've never heard a case
where a bike has broken
on an indoor trainer.
- I haven't either.
- Canyon do point out
that are different forces
going through a frame
when it's sat on an indoor trainer,
versus when it's out on the open road.
And to be honest, I don't think
it's going to be too long
before the big manufacturers
do start doing long-term testing
with the increase of
popularity of indoor trainers.
- Yeah.
- Things like Zwift.
- And then they can guarantee
that the frame will stand up to it.
- Watch this space.
- What a week of bike racing we have had.
We've had the Grand Tour contenders
flexing their quite small muscles at the
Volta a Catalunya down in Spain,
whilst up in Belgium the cobbled classics
are almost in top gear now,
with the inclusion of the E3 Prijs
and Gent Wevelgem
- It is all kicking off.
Well let's start off with Spain,
with model stars Alejandro Valverde,
dominated the Volta a Catalunya.
It was on stage five that Valverde
really seized control of the race,
taking the race from the
failing Tejay van Garderen.
But more importantly
outpacing Chris Froome
and Alberto Contador in that --
- Yeah.
For me, the big story there
aside from Valverde's scintillating form,
was the fact that Chris Froome
and his entire Sky squad,
got distanced on a technical descent.
It must have been a long descent,
because they lost 26 minutes.
So if any chance of a podium,
Froome lost second over all.
Obviously completely went out the window.
And although worse than that,
was the other forty guys
were a minute behind Froome
got eliminated from the entire race.
- 46 guys in fact.
It's nuts.
- Yeah.
That is, you know, anyway, there we go.
Must have been a really difficult descent.
- Meanwhile Alberto Contador
got his third second place overall
in the stage race already in 2017.
- You know what I'm wondering?
Is Alberto Contador too good for his own good?
- I think he's not good
enough for his own good.
- I think in his head he's
too good of his own good,
but he can't quite carry it off these days.
But thoroughly entertaining.
Yeah let me cut that out.
- That's good.
- Comments.
- Didn't know he was Matt's
best friend, did you?
- Meanwhile, up in Belgium,
- Sorry, Bertie
at the Dwars door Vlanderen it was Yves Lampaerts of Quick Step
and Lotta Lepisto of Cervelo Bigla
who won that race respectively
in the men's and women's.
A welcome return to form for Lampaert
his classic scene last
year was a write-off
after his girlfriend drove
a shopping trolley into his ankle
before the classics.
- Do you think he steered clear of Aldi
for the last few weeks?
- He's a Lidl man.
- Oh sorry.
- I thought he was about five foot eight?
- Oh he is little.
(drum roll)
- Hey!
This really is --
(laughter)
- Now it was an all Belgium podium
in E3 Harold bake,
when -- of Quick Step floors
are the Oliver Naessen of AG2R
and Olympic champion Greg van Avermaet
broke clear with around 35kms
on the Oude Kwaremont
But it was the BMC man
who once again prevailed
taking the sprint from
Gilbert and Naessen.
- Meanwhile at Gent Wevelgem Lepisto proved that
she is clearly a rider
on some scintillating form.
She narrowly edged out Jolien D'Hoore
of Wiggle High Five
to take the win there.
With Coryn Rivera of Team Sunweb in third place
on the day.
It is, however Elisa Long Borghini who continues
to lead the standings overall
in the women's WorldTour.
- Yeah and then in the men's race what can you say
about Greg Van Avermaet
He netted a rare Belgian Tripel on Sunday
A bit like you, actually Dan,
although you were necking rare Belgian Tripels
(laugh)
as opposed to netting them.
Anyway, van Avermaet dispatched Jens Keukeleire
in the sprint
with Peter Sagan finishing third,
leading home the chasers.
But in doing so,
Greg van Avermaet is only the second
rider since Jan Raas
to win Het Nieuwsblad
what was the middle one?
E3, that's the bad boy,
and also Gent Wevelgem
Although Keukeleire is clearly a man
on form this year as well.
That was a standout performance for him
but also for ORICA  Scott.
So I thought I should do some digging
to find out how he's
got that form this year.
- Hmm.
- Like access. Like journalism.
- Yeah.
Firstly he's been working on his core.
- Oh yeah.
- That's pretty good training there.
- But secondly he's been
doing cross training.
- Oh yeah.
Yeah fair enough.
- Two birds with one stone.
- And then thirdly,
and this might not have contributed
to his second place at Gent Wevelgem
he's also a master of standing
and posing with his bike.
(laugh)
- Fan of the channel.
- Right it is time for Hack/Bodge
of the week.
- It's slashing, not dancing.
- Sorry.
- We'll kick off with this one
which came in from Liam Jepson,
which is called Neat Cleat,
and it is a brand new way
of storing your cycling shoes.
And so confident is Liam
that this is a hack and not a bodge,
that he has created a
kickstarter campaign.
- Crikey.
- Maybe that's why my kit
bag is always so messy.
- A bag's not good enough.
Right then, how about this one?
This is a really cool
little GCN hack
from Ion Gottlich, the famous track rider.
He's invented a set of rollers.
He's got a whole set up
to replicate training
for Tour of Flanders.
- Quite right.
- Although, it hasn't
been -- for some time,
so that's definitely not Flanders.
A heater as opposed to a shower.
- Statistically, Tour of Flanders
is more dry than wet.
Tour of Flanders Museum, yeah.
- We did.
- Interesting.
- Maybe not.
Yeah moving on fairly quickly,
we have got this hack/bodge,
which came in from Matt Baumberger
who got himself a set
of clip on tee-tee bars,
to get used to the
position during the winter,
but the tee-tee bars there
couldn't fit into the
spare of his tack anywhere,
so he hacked or bodged himself an adapter.
- That looks pretty neat.
- That looks quite Scandic, doesn't it?
Nice edition to his --
- Good skills, that.
Right this one, was sent in by ewelsh56.
Best pre-race front wheel chalk.
When he's trying to raise his front wheel,
Obviously didn't have a Yellow Pages so he's used a pair of shoes.
- What he needed was a pair
of Neat Cleats, clearly.
- That one's sort of not right, bodge.
I really don't know what is going on
in this photo,
but it comes from
someone called Peter.Cla,
cheaps there.
I think I just cropped
the end of it off Clarke.
(laughter)
Peter Clarke, sorry.
I cropped the edge of the photo off,
but I might have to fix it.
- I don't know what's happening
in that picture.
- Well it's a much more budget version
of the product that you were
talking about earlier on.
- It looks a little bit ropey to me.
Is that string?
- Yeah, bodge.
I don't know what this is.
- Oh, yeah,
look at this one.
Now we're talking.
- This is from Dmackey144 on Instagram.
He has made his SRAM Red
rear derailleur
more aero with this 3D printed cover.
- Which he says he's going to
make this available to public
to download if they want to
print it out themselves?
- I don't know.
I mean makes sense
to making one out of it.
- Yeah.
- Look at that.
- It's a hack,
one of the few hacks we've had this week.
- Yeah, okay.
If you can do better,
then please send them into us
over the course of the next seven days.
#GCNHACK is the hashtag,
and we look on Twitter, Facebook,
and Instagram.
- Tell you what, coming off
of a quite a Taipei Cycle Show
quite a bump this week.
(laugh)
- I wonder what the time is.
- Oh no.
- Time for you to crack on me.
- All right.
Cheers lads thanks for your enthusiasm
It's time for GCN's Wattage Bazooka.
(marching drum beat)
This week's pro Wattage Bazooka
goes to Lotta Lepisto of Cervelo Bigla
for her and her team's
maiden victory in the World Tour race.
Of course in the aforementioned Gent Wevelgem
Although, it was a big bazooka,
it was a narrow winning margin.
- Yeah.
- Well deserved, eh?
- Cracking sprint, that was.
- Before we tell you our viewer
Wattage Bazooka of the week,
we'd remind you if you'd
like to nominate yourself
or a friend,
use the hashtag #wattagebazooka
on various forms of social media
and you have a good chance
of being on the show next week.
However this week's wattage bazooka
goes to Knottingley Velo's Dave.
Sorry Dave, don't know your surname.
- Just Dave.
- Dave gets pretty --
but he is 76 years old,
and he rode up Sa Calobra in Mallorca,
and we know how hard that climb is,
don't we?
- We do.
- Wonder if he paced it well.
- I hope so.
- Couldn't have paced
it any worse than Si.
- Come on, give it some.
- Give it some what?
- You all right, Thomas?
- Comment of the week now,
and the first one that stood out to us
was underneath Si's tech special
from the Taipei Cycle Show
which he won't stop banging on about.
Just passing through just roads,
- Keith!
- Which is of course,
the talk about that Keith bike,
which you saw over there.
- What a cracking name for a bike.
- To be fair, it drew me in,
I probably would have
walked straight past,
but the fact that it was called Keith
made me go and have a look.
And it turns out actually
it's quite a cool brand.
So permit me if I may just
have a little digress.
Basically all the bikes in Taiwan are made
on one side of the island,
except for Keith bikes,
which are made on the
other side of the island,
where most of the day he spends surfing
and then paints a few
frames and builds them -
- So his name is actually Keith?
- Yeah, apparently he said,
"I don't know what to call my bike brand,
I'll just call it after my first name."
so there you go.
So if you are called Keith,
and you fancy a bike,
look them up.
- Don't have to be called Keith, though.
- Pretty much don't you think?
- I'm not called Canyon or Orbea either
- If you bought a bike called Keith,
you'd have Keith on your top tube as well.
- That'd be really cool.
- Anyway.
- Alan is another one you could buy
if you were called Alan.
- There's Stevens as well isn't there?
- Yeah.
- That's a second name though isn't it?
- Yeah, Kellys.
Thought I saw Kellys, yeah.
- There's a lot though isn't there?
- Anyone find Simon just let me know.
- Lets do the final one.
Underneath descending made easy,
is something called Bas.
I live in Holland, step one
should be finding a descent.
- And then the last one,
which is under last week's
Ask GCN anything,
which was a brilliant video actually.
I enjoyed that very much.
And someone, or at least
a lot of you did as well.
175 of you agreed with Saudi Mike.
Great session bring the Doc back for more.
Professor to you, but all right.
- Yeah we've said to bring him in again,
because that was very insightful.
- I learned loads.
- On the channel this week on Wednesday,
we have two videos for you.
Firstly cornering made easy,
and also another one of our
rather difficult indoor training videos.
And on Thursday we have
a top ten riders to watch
at the Tour of Flanders.
- I can tell you it's
actually a top eleven.
Keep your eyes peeled
for a full Tour of Flanders preview
coming this week as well.
Right on Friday, we've got
ask GCN anything as usual.
Unfortunately it is just us this week.
- Could probably text Louis.
- We could text him, couldn't we.
- If we've got any training questions we'll text Louis.
- Hopefully you'll still
find it entertaining.
Saturday pro-bike is slightly different.
It's a retro one,
and it is Johan Museeuw's Colnago C40
from back in the day.
- Gorgeous, absolute gorgeous.
- Then Sunday it's the Tour of Flanders,
and also the GCN Flanders challenge,
where Matt and I courtesy of Dan's route,
to try to ride as many bergs
and sections of cobbles
as we possibly could,
in a two hour ride.
That was really quite difficult.
- Yeah.
- Nearly two hours wasn't it?
- It was, yeah.
And then Monday we've got
a maintenances double header.
Firstly we've got how to prepare
your bike for the cobbles – thinking Paris-Roubaix
- Oh yeah.
- And then we've also got part two
in how to build a frame.
Tuesday?
- Is it show 221?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Hey it's Greg van Avermaet from the BMC racing team.
Welcome to the GCN show.
- Unfortunately we are nearing
the end of the GCN show now,
but before we do go,
we've got to give you a quick update
on shop.globalcyclingnetwork.com
because we have our pro team kit in store,
it is in stock available to buy now.
We also have our pro training kit,
which is a slightly lower price point,
and that is now available for pre-order.
And then we've got another one
which is the GCN fan kit,
and that is going to be just 49 pounds
for a jersey,
and 49 pounds for bib shorts.
And if you have a look at it,
that looks flipping amazing.
That's cool isn't it?
- Plus you can get all of
these in there as well.
- Of course all the user stuff
is in there as well.
- Have a wander around virtually.
- The fan kit, by the way,
is not available for pre-order now.
But stay tuned because
it's coming very soon.
- More news on that very shortly.
Right, thanks very much for watching.
Make sure if you subscribe to the channel
if you haven't done so already
by clicking on the globe,
and we now have a couple more videos
which we think you might like to watch
if you haven't done so already.
Down here is "Descending Made Easy,"
and down here is one of the videos
that Si keeps alluding to during the show.
It is weird and wonderful
tech from the Taipei show.
- Did I say I've just
come back from Taipei?
- No.
