From the start of the 2018 attempt to tour welcome to the gcn show
Welcome to the gcn show brought to you by wiggle this week
We are celebrating Peter Sagan one of the greatest writers of all time a true goat
This week in the world of cycling
We learned that the football World Cup is affecting cycling in more ways than one not only are the Tour de France stages starting
Particularly early, but Mark Cavendish is sporting some soccer inspired cycling Suzman sponsors night
Check out these bad boys. Do you like them?
They're interesting. Really. Hmm. Yeah, but you also learned that Lawson cranek is one tough
He crashed in the feed zone in stage one of the talk
But he's continued writing despite having a fractious scapula and multiple stitches above the eye
not an ideal start to - of the way, I think we'll see how
We get on the bike in the morning just to just give it a I'm gonna put too much work
That really is heartbreaking stuff on the first day of the Tour de France, isn't it?
However, Lawson decided to turn a huge negative into a huge positive. He has decided to contribute
$1 for every stage that he finishes to the our cake velodrome
Which is where he started competing as a cyclist and which was damaged in Hurricane Harvey
So have you'd like to get involved in those contributions as a GoFundMe link in the description below?
And finally this week we learned that Peters again is a goat
or should that be the
Goat or at least one of the goats
We should probably explain for people my age and older that goat. Apparently according to Google means greatest of all time
Correct. Yep. I looked it up in Google
Yes. Anyway this year in January
We question whether Peters again was all style and no substance and now we have an answer for you
Which is that he is both style and substance
He is
most definitely
I think we should start here with a video sent into us by Killian Kelly who's giving us a stat per day from the Tour
De France for our tour highlights
Peter Sagan is the first rider to win a stage of the Tour de France in three different years as world champion now
There's a small Club of riders who have been even able to try and do that over the years
Alfredo Binda Rick van Steenburgen, Eddy Merckx and Oscar Freire all won the World Championships three times as did Peters again
But none of them were able to win a tour stage in each of the following years even Eddy Merckx didn't do it he won
his first world title in
1967 and didn't ride the Tour de France until 1969
So Peter Sagan is the first well when you start to surpass the records of the likes of Eddy Merckx
You know that you will forever be known as the one of its cycling is great
And actually the way you started this year's tour really cements his place in history, doesn't it? I think it does
Yeah, so as we record this they have completed two road stages he was second in the first one and he won stage two
which means it also got the green jersey already and the yellow jersey to boot which
prompted me to take a look at Pro Cycling stats and his overall record over the years of
Master road stage finishes in this race and those stats are just like predict a fad. Yes. Just sick
So he's done 99 master Road stages and out of those. He's finished in the top
56 occasions and he's finished in the top three on
36 occasions plus he's won the green jersey every Tour de France in which he hasn't been disqualified
That's insane
I mean that consistency is matched by will like literally nobody in the modern era
But the sack I really love is
how many days or perhaps that should be how few he's actually worn his trade team kit because he's had so many days in the
rainbow jersey
Or the yellow jersey or the green jersey or the national champions Jersey that the last time he actually wore just his normal trade team
Kit and anything except the national championships was back in June
2011 at the Tour de Suisse well, we're talking of the Tour de Suisse
He's actually got the record there for stage wins having won 16 over the years and he's won a stage of the Tour de Suisse
every year since 2011
Wow, there's a good stance, but do you know this in his last 100 one-day races?
He's finished in the top 10 59 times. Not bad. But what about this?
He has been eligible for 41 points. Jersey's a stage races throughout his career and he's won
26 of them and I'm not even finished yet. Don't start butting in
Also this year he's had 36 days of racing and he's been in the top ten 25 times feed that right
But I've got a graph actually
Choking there's my point of a hat
Well, actually I've got three graphs
because I thought it might be interesting to compare again and with some other similar kinds of riders so went for Cavendish Boonen and
Cancellara and of course mercs and a toss it up how many wins?
podiums and top tens they had and the best five years of their career and I went to
Already here to ask him which were their best five years five consecutive years
I should have and then I just compared them. So as you can see here just in terms of pure wins
Got point to him right here
there are actually years when Cavendish and Boonen were way up there with us again, but but when you go to podiums
You can see that Segen is actually more consistent arguably. Hmm and then top ten that's even more clear. Look at this
This is me the bottom. Is it by the way? Yeah, that is. I thought we'd put you in his reference
Look, you're very close to Spartacus. That is 2008
You had a total blinder that was top tens. You had loads think about 18 or join speakers. Yeah
It's a good year in the noid household
It is worth noting that mercs is well clear on every stat whether it's top tens podiums or or wins
But then again was a different era of racing wasn't it?
Yeah as much as I'm reluctant to admit it those graphs are actually quite good
Thanks, but it does really show how much better mercs is than everybody? That's come after him. Doesn't it?
I mean mercs did race more days of her year, but that's staggering how far above me is. Yeah
Right you finished if you graphs let's get back to normal. So in conclusion again, there's really bloody good
The proof is in the graph, isn't it?
Anyway, I think what also makes him a goat is not just his remarkable results over the years, but also a couple of other factors
Firstly he looks like a complete athlete, doesn't it?
You wouldn't be surprised that if he wasn't a pro cyclist, he could be almost equally good a multitude of other sports
I mean how many pro cyclists can do this?
And a second, I mean how many pro cyclists are featured in many films as John Travolta in grease or as Forrest Gump
Yeah, but we not very many life was like box of chocolate. You never know what you are gonna get
And then we come to his personality
Which is sometimes quite frustrating to journalists trying to get a sound bite but ridges just genuinely endearing to cycling fans
I mean why so serious Bing is his current slogan. I mean, he's clearly just loves racing his bike
Yeah, why so serious he says there's quite a lot of times at the moment
Oh, there's also beyond his personality his bike handling skills, which really are second to none loves his stunts and wheelies
But beyond that he rarely crashes does he? All right?
So I think back when Peters again has hit the deck in races
There was stage 1 of the 2013 tour there was an instance of the Tour of Flanders last year where he's running a bit
Too close to the barriers and his handlebars snagged on a raincoat
There was a stage of the Tour Down Under in
2010 and there was a state of world it where he got knocked off by a motorbike which wasn't really his fault so effectively three
Crashes in 9 years. That's not too bad. That's amazing
In fact, he basically he's lost less skin in his entire pro career than most cyclists lose in just one race. Yeah or X pros
All right. All right. You can talk limping around the office with your dodgy hip after your mountain bike
Oh, oh, oh that hurt that dude. Okay. I'm nope. It's again
I've lit that probably the proof is in the pudding way before my mountain bike crash
But I'll say that nevertheless right then
This is the point which we would like you to get involved
Can Pete's again really be classified as a goat remind the greatest of all time, even though he's likely never to win the overall?
Grand Tour or you could actually did us know if there's anything you don't like about
Peterson that could be quite interesting given that he does seem to be a real favourite with the fans
Yeah, and um, so I've ever heard of anyone who doesn't like peaches again. Yes
It's now time for cycling shorts, we're gonna begin with some good news
you
Could ride in the pro peloton
Yeah
I mean in theory at least but a study that was carried out Eindhoven University put
121 mannequins on bikes in a wind tunnel and then tested find out how much wind resistance each one was experiencing. Yep
And at the sweet spot in the peloton, it was found that a rider would only face
5% of the resistance that they would otherwise encounter if they were riding on the front or alone
Yeah, although that doesn't actually translate is just 5% of the power because it doesn't take into consideration
The other factor is like rolling resistors that would contribute to the overall resistance
But nevertheless it does make me think that were we to actually get on the start line of the Tour de France
We might be able to keep up on the flat for a bit and then maybe set some carbs
Absolutely, but this wasn't the only secret of the Tour de France that was potentially revealed this week. The English newspaper The Telegraph
reported on the new Wonder sports drink containing ketone esters, but apparently
7 Tour de France teams are using now keto fyr produced naturally in the body in the liver
in fact when your body doesn't get enough energy from food and what they do is they
Encourage your body to actually conserve is precious stores of glycogen by burning fat as fuel instead now
They can be reproduced outside the body, but it's a pretty expensive process and one actually is owned
The pattern is owned by Oxford University. So they're getting cheeky little facts for you
But all in all a bottle of the stuff cost 30 euros as in like an energy drink
Yeah, that's right. And interestingly the technology has been around a while
But team Sky's nutritionist told The Telegraph that he wasn't convinced and that Team Sky are not using it
So 7 Tour de France teams apparently using this stuff. It's got one of them. No, and that is interesting, isn't it?
because there were a few kind of suggestions that maybe
Ketones have been part of fringe nutrition strategy on his epic Giro
D'Italia stage win that stage 19 but clearly not clearly. They are unfounded rumors
In other news has a really cool story of Edmonton in Canada
Now this has been reported in the Edmonton Journal a publication that left me entire avid
subscribers off
Now this story talks about how a group of cyclists in Edmonton 600 volunteers
Have all banded together to combat bike theft now
this is all built around a Facebook group called the stolen bikes Edmonton group and
They're basically reporting any and looking out for any stolen bikes that have been reported
Yeah
Now apparently bike theft is often carried out by quite a small group of criminals who then caused widespread
Carnage and so actually a group like Edmonton's could genuinely have a really positive effect on cycling community. That's right
So there you go people. Let's mobilize. Let's get organized. Let's fight these
Baron's yeah
Scumbags now we're a week late on this, but we want to talk about anyway
Because it's kind of cool so around the summer solstice. That's the longest of the year that were very cool events
You mean Donny's jam be on road
three Corvettes
I mean that was really good a definitely well worth that watch but no these ones were called it race to the Sun
So the idea being that it's a ride from coast to coast from east to west
Starting at dawn and then riding across to the finish before dusk
And as I said, there were two one was across Italy and ones across the UK. They total 700 people took part
yeah, I really like that concept because it kind of adds another dimension to a really epic ride and
Apparently they're looking to expand it, but it just means finding some new venues
So yeah, you know don't be quite hard to find the right venue for education. Yeah
Well you reckon like New Zealand in December, maybe yeah, I tell you what
We kind of cool race across Iceland because then you'd have like two weeks to do it before sunset
Yeah, happy awesome cheating
It's not all about epics though
we told you about the Red Bull million mile commute a few weeks ago and we thought we'd drop back in to give you an
Update yeah, it is now the 10th of July as this show goes up. And apparently the Red Bull million mile commute is currently on
300,000 miles so an amazing achievement but fractionally behind schedule
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Where Lloyd he's gonna try and win a beer good like Dan. We just get buy one now come away. Yeah, right what it
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Tech of the week now and despite being at Eurobike and surrounded by
1,400 brands all showcasing their latest and greatest
We're actually going to tell you about two that aren't here and for good reason firstly they both look amazing and secondly
we've been filming loads of awesome tech for GCN and
GCN tech and we don't want to double up but the first bike is the trek Madone and
the second one or bay were the first brands to take advantage of the UCR dropping its
Three-to-one ratio with regards to tube shapes and this helped them make the bike more
aerodynamic so features such as the wide bow shaped fork the cam tail profile of
the downtube and other
Features as well such as the oval seat post clamp and a ton of other little details that help make the obey our Orca
really Aero and slippery
without
Feeling like a wet fish and what about the trek?
We're doing then well, just like the obey this two comes in a rim and disc brake version actually
This is the first disparate version of the venerable platform and interestingly
I think Trek didn't set out to actually improve the aerodynamic performance of this in by all accounts
It was kind of class leading anyway, but what they wanted was actually improved the all-round
Usability of the Viking that's right
So the bike features an updated version of treks ISO speed decoupler at the rear which is tricks kind of proven method of improving
The compliance of a bike in a similar to that found on the trek domani
however
this new version actually is tunable via a bolt that's on the top tube and
They've also looked to improve compliance in the front of the bike as well
so they've actually changed the cockpit and now it's a two-piece system rather than the
One-piece integrated bar and stem that was found on the old version
Yeah, not adds a nice bow to nobility you think yeah
I think we should also mention the new paint jobs look absolutely stunning denne incredible yet
They definitely could make quite the statement much like Mark Cavendish is new cycling shoes, which which they're quite a lot like football boots
I think it's coming home
Well, hopefully for cab as well perhaps I mean
I'm not biased but still would be nice to see him nudge a little closer to works when it maybe use football boots will help
Racing news now
Don't forget if you like detailed analysis of the biggest races the Tour de France and the Giro Rossa. They're over on our Facebook page
Alternatively, I went through a lot of them on our dedicated breaking news show here on YouTube yesterday here the on the GSN show
We're firstly going to focus on a couple of rumors. Yes indeed
First off Gregor Brown has reported that Richie Porte has signed a two-year deal with Trek Saiga Pharaoh now
of course Porte currently at BMC
Future is a little bit uncertain one would imagine that he would slot straight into Grand Tour team leadership duties
Which might put Balcom monomers nosed slighly addict? Yes could well do couldn't it interesting to see whoever that room is true
And also how many domestics he might take along with him and the other rumor came from the Ducks newspaper de telegraaf
They have speculated that world cycling champion
Van arts might have penned a new deal with lotto NL yumbo which could start as soon as next year 2019
Yeah, apparently a four year deal on the card and there's no doubt that he would massively boost their classics team
Anyway back to Tour de France news and Fernando Gaviria won the opening road stage in his first-ever
Tour de France to know who the last rider was to do that
No, no. Well, here's Keenan Kelly to tell you today's Tour de France stage one GCN stat of the day
Is that Fernando Gaviria?
the Colombian sprinter is the first rider to win the opening stage of his Tour de France career and
Take the yellow jersey for the first time since war it sells the Belgian rider
Did it in 1964 beating Michael Wright in the Sprint Cup riders have done it in prologue time trials?
Including Fabian Cancellara and Chris Boardman, but not since 1964. Has anybody done on their opening road stage of the Tour de France?
And that brings us on to hack
/watch and I'm really excited. This is my first one. Yeah, you ready? Oh, I was born ready. Okay
Mmm, first up we've got this one sent in by a try John 85 productive morning with my little human
$20.00 sawhorse old front bike hub some pipe saddle brackets 30 minutes my time
And we have ourselves a brand new work stand
You know what?
I think that's pretty cool
And also love the site kind of dichotomy here of like a you know
Probably an eight thousand dollar bike and a homemade work stand genius priorities. Absolutely
You know, I like that face brake line answer straight off the back. Yeah hack cool right next I woke up
We have got just well a headset protector from junu 180
Here's a little hack for you to protect your headset with an inner tube
You know what that is a proper vintage hack that I used to do that on the mountain bikes back in the early 90s
But I can't quite see how you've done it
but basically if you get a small knife in a tube you cut it and
Then you take your Forks out you put the inner tube over the forks
Then when you put it back you then kind of like pop it over the frame as well to create that seal
So yeah, if you live in England
or if there is anywhere else in the world with weather quite as bad as us then you might want to consider doing that as
Well, so your own hack
Yep, hack done right then Mike Quigley trying to tilt the elbow pads on my TT bike
I like this he's taking this is another retro one if anyone's got V brakes out there
Remember the little kind of tilt awhirl washers. He stuck those honestly, dude
I painted them black when she's just taking it to the next level and there you go voila
Adjustable angle on your TT bus. What do you think? I I think I think it's it's a good idea
But until make my people worried about hitting a bump of speed during a TT with that sort of thing on there
So yeah, there's a relatively important consideration and then you see our legal tilted bars. Yeah
Well, yeah, I believe they are the ice go get him, right?
Kind of a hat if you survive so good luck right next up. We've got a trial blitz. This is super cool an
office chair
Strapped to your bike instead of a saddle and I mean I'm looking at it
It's comfy. I think there might be some duct tape going on. Actually. I was hoping it would be welded
But no, I think it's just silver duct tape. I mean that's hack. It is for bajjis then straight up. That's a bunch
yeah, the theory is hack worthy the
Execution. Yeah, it's definite but right okay now for this next one, which is quite confusing
pioneering on bike Tupperware from Jack F Cooper
I mean, he's got a bottle and he's put some food in it. Well, why is that inside his bowl?
I'm not sure what's in there. No, I don't know either but he's a place to store dry food
But I also quite like the bottle ride DMC. So for better if he said Run DMC buzz don't
All right, this next one would it be so as a hacker watch? That's a
massive Dodge
Yeah, I think it is Malik see right Arthur. Asorio. My wife's hybrid had no way to its actual water bottle cage
He says presumably because women don't drink water not for a strictly true
No, but Fuji probably do have some question answers questions to answer as I was going for anyway
So he attached one to a rack mount point instead
Mother courage, isn't it's a bunch from Fuji because you've married a bike without water bottle bosses and it's kind of a budge from you
But you I suppose got around a problem. Yeah, I don't get in the way of your leg
Yeah, I would have thought your leg would catch that bird Yeah, right bounnam
Okay, great. Oh
Really gives me the creeps I think all right
Okay
I'm gonna say I'm gonna be an asterisk on this one if that toilet brush is brand new and has only ever
exclusively been used on bottles then it's a hack if
It's if it's a previous it's a recycled toilet brush then that is definitely a bunch. I
Wouldn't even trust a toilet brush back tree to produce sterile toilet brushes
I mean perhaps it is producing the exact same standards as a genuine bottle brush
but I just just want to look at that next just sink just
Are today is it hacker podge? I'm sticking with my yeah, it's a it's a hat with an asterisk on it
Yeah, frankly terrifying. Anyway that was set in by Alex pond Alex
You've you've got horrific food poisoning then please let us know and if you're okay then similarly
We'd like to know just make sure that you're okay right then lastly
I think we're gonna end on a high
because this is pretty bonkers given that we've actually seen something that Y who are producing for real and
Someone's that hacked version which presumably take some serious?
Engineering skills. Yes, if David Whelan has said that this is Bluetooth controlled variable speed fan
39 miles per hour it can go with Macklowe and it has a found speed range of 40 percent to 100 percent and the fan
Speed can vary according to his heart rate cycling speed or power and he's controlling it
Using an iPhone app and it works with drift and trainerroad
So David you made your own iPhone app?
I don't even understand how we've done it but it just seems amazing. Yeah, but he's amazing
That is I mean us if I don't if that's hack of the week. I'm yeah, it's amazing hack at a year
Yeah, anyway, yeah, so that's a definite hack and if you want to see the way who wants the wire headwind
which is kind of like a
super polished version of that and that you and I can actually go out and buy it then that is on a
GCN video that went up on Sunday night. Yeah. Anyway, okay that is it for hack or bodge this week
Remember if you want to submit anything to us
Then it's pretty simple just buy the gcn hack hashtag on Twitter and Instagram or send us something on Facebook
There we go. Hey, David
Caption: the Froome wagon in action
Well, it's like the caption comes it's now your chance to win hu si an come on back bottle and a brand new one -
Not even a dirty one. I found a dirty one in here everyday
Yes, last week's captain photo was this one from the Italian national championships and we have a winner that winner be
Brandon Tucker who put caption comment Viviani national cramp Ian
Well done to you Brandon get in contact with us on Facebook with your address and we'll get this sent out to you ASAP
This week's photo is from the Tour de France in this Chris Froome recovering from his stage 1 crash
Emma is going to get it started
Yes, well, it looks a little bit like he's doing some side of course
They are I reckon but anyways, let's have a go with her. How about ready for this? Yeah
There's not enough room on the road
That is not bad. That is not bad
annoyingly if you can do better though leave your
Captions in the comment section down below and we will award another bottle at this time next week
Before we get on to telling you what's coming up on the channel over the next 7 days as if we're going to go through
A few of our favourite comments underneath the videos from the previous 7 days
Indeed starting out with Neil's heldens who was commenting on psy and alia Euro bike
There was a moment where I got a bit excited and as Niels put out a sign momentarily turning into Gollum
That was embarrassing when they both Versailles and for all of us yeah why frankly yeah, I agree
I think maybe we should edit that out
Yeah
Next up Dave Pratt wrote in under the giro Rossa preview show and said Dan
Emma's time might have run out but unlike another presenter. She had a time
I take your point Dave very good point then darling never edit or defrost me
But yeah, okay top ten Yankee but he would have been right at the back had you done one moving on
Yes, so last of all we've got fur girl. Okay? Okay. Sorry. I forgot your name
That's brilliant because everyone's always commented about how good your pronunciation is
Yeah
Device looks pretty small. I think I need my meeting specs, right?
What the heck Tom last not even getting the charts to make a prediction this year
How's the brick disappeared release the Tom free the last e rise up and smite your oppresses my son or at least topple sigh?
He's passionate Fergus me
Yeah
I know and I have to say that we were lepton know back in the cupboard where he's locked up that you support him
He had a lot of support actually underneath that Tour de France preview show wondering where he was with this prediction
That was actually our fault because we did film his prediction for the 2018 tour and then forgot to put it in
She was just rubbish. So we didn't put it in. I don't mean what it was but here it is for you right now
Vincenzo Nibali will win this year's Tour de France right then coming up on the channel this week starting with tomorrow
Wednesday if you're not watching this on a Tuesday, we have got how to sprint
This is a must watch tightly because for the first time everyone GCN this how to sprint episode comes from somebody who can actually sprint
That being mr. IP so forget all our advice before and make sure you listen to that one
NOP is back again on Thursday showing you seven ways that you are slowing yourself down then on Friday as ever
We have asked GC anything leading into Saturday, which is get fit quick series with again
Chris Opie and Sunday retro climbing hacks with you guessed it Chris Opie
Although I do have a minor writing Rideout role what Chris Opie week it is isn't it as ever on Monday?
we'll have the jisun racing new show wrap ups from the Tour de France and the Giro sir a
Tuesday back in the set for the gcn show and of course make sure you check out our daily content on
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Make sure you do that and also stay tuned for extra content right here on our YouTube channel
Coming from the Tour de France and also from Europe I that will be spread across GCN and GC and tech
Almost the end of the show and that means
extreme corner bit late with your Xterra this week
It comes from the big white slopestyle contest
Those kids that just
redic
Sneak fat. Yes. That's the end of this week's show polities for being slightly old most of the way through it
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