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- This week it's Paris-Roubaix special.
How did Peter Sagan finally win?
- It's another big week
in the world of tech
with a new sprocket
introduced by Campagnolo.
- Yep, that is twelve now,
people, twelve sprockets.
We also have new shades from Oakley.
- [Daniel] And a new crank set from 3T.
(celebratory energetic music)
Unfortunately, though, we
have to start this week's
GCN show with some extremely sad news.
A tragedy struck the
cycling world on Sunday
as Belgian rider Michael
Goolaerts with Veranda's Willems
passed away in hospital,
having reportedly suffered a heart attack
whilst riding Paris-Roubaix.
- Yeah, he crashed at
around 100 kilometre mark
and was air lifted to hospital in Lille,
where unfortunately, he
could not be revived.
He was just 23 years of age.
All of us here at GCN
would like to pass on our
heartfelt condolences to
his family, his friends,
and his teammates.
- I think it is worth mentioning, Si,
that professional cyclists,
that world tour level,
but also, the pro-continental level,
do undergo regular medical screening,
which includes specific
checks of the heart.
In fact, some pro-riders
have been forced to retire
prematurely because of what
the tests have shown up.
But, obviously, these tests
don't foresee everything.
- Yeah, very true.
Now, fortunately, there
was also much to celebrate
in the world of cycling this week
like the fact that the
seemingly whole generation
of young people in London
who were turning their backs
on gang culture, and actually
replacing it with bike riding.
- Yep, "bikes up knives
down" is the hashtag,
and in fact thousands took
to the streets at the weekend
to protest against the
escalating levels of knife crime
in England's capitols.
Side-by-side and
shoulder-to-shoulder, in fact,
with policemen and women
on their bikes as well.
- [Simon] Yeah, that
footage is taken from the
Bikes Up Knives Down
documentary, by the way,
which is well worth a watch.
A link is in the description.
- [Voice Over] There's no hierarchy.
There's no one better than someone else.
It's done a lot for me as well,
it's like helped me go on a different path
and it's a path that I
chose, that I've chosen
to progress with bikes and use my time,
my anger, my happiness, my stress
and put all my emotions
into bettering my talent on the bike.
- Some amazing skills on show as well.
Now we also learned this week,
that what we all think we
know about cycling technique
may well be about to go out the window
because smooth is out,
and the Ikebe Shuffle
may well be coming in.
- [Daniel] Yep, this is Sota Ikebe
who's been causing quite a
stir over on Zwift racing.
This is him, in fact, over
at the recent CVR world cup.
And he attributes his quite
impressive ride in part
down to this unique style on the bike
because he says it
optimises his body position.
- [Simon] Hmm.
Now also this week, we were privileged
to watch a true master at work.
Peter Sagan absolutely dominated
Paris-Roubaix on Sunday,
taking his first win at the race.
- I think it's fair to say
that the entire cycling world
has been waiting, quite
expectantly, for this win
at Paris-Roubaix for Pete Sagan.
I mean, his results prior this
year haven't been anything
special by his standards,
and he's been quite inconsistent too;
so what was the difference
this time around?
How did he win it?
- Can I say the obvious, first of all?
He was flippin' strong, wasn't he?
I mean Niki too.
- Well, obviously.
- Well, yeah, Niki Terpstra
said as much in fact, post race,
he said that his team,
Quick-Step, couldn't do anymore.
And that actually the
strongest man won on the day.
Well, then I was thinking,
he did look an awful lot
stronger this week,
compared to Tour Flanders.
Do you think he was
actually in better shape?
- [Daniel] Well, he did drop
the group of main favourites
over the last climb of the Paris-Roubaix.
- [Simon] True.
- But then didn't make much in roads into
Terpstra's lead after that,
but then Sagan is always strong,
and that's half the problem for him.
- Yeah, I guess so.
So what has made the difference then?
- Luck.
(crowd gasping)
- I'm not sure you can say that.
- No, don't worry, I'm not
saying that he had good luck.
What I'm saying is that
he avoided bad luck.
And that's half the battle,
as we know, in this race.
So he didn't have any punctures,
he didn't have any mechanical problems,
and he avoided the multitude
of crashes around him.
- I'm pretty sure that
we've said in the past
that actually you kind
of make your own luck,
to a certain extent in bike racing.
Like, in the past, Peter
Sagan has bunny-hopped his way
out of crashes, like
over Fabian Cancellara.
- [Daniel] Well that is true.
- [Simon] That's quite impressive.
- So there must be more
to it, even than that.
What about his team?
- Well, so here's a point, I
wonder that whether actually
he's starting to get his
head around Paris-Roubaix.
He was always in the
right place, wasn't he?
And he's got his team to
thank, largely, for that.
They seem particularly well-drilled,
and actually, I think, we gotta say,
that they ignored our advice.
Seemingly that they were
riding 100% for Peter Sagan,
as opposed to giving
Daniel Oss a free reign,
which was what we suggested.
- There were a couple of fleeting moments
where Oss looked like he
was given a bit of freedom,
and I thought we might come
back into the set here,
record the show,
and actually look like we knew
what we were talking about.
- Oh, yeah.
- But it wasn't to be.
- No.
- So he did have a
fantastic team on the day.
It would take nothing away
from his own performance
because that attack did look
perfectly timed, didn't it?
- Oh, absolutely.
It was one of those
fleeting moments where,
it just seemed like, whereas
normally, all eyes are on him,
no one was looking his way.
Were they?
- No.
So, no one on his wheel when he went,
and then, when he did go,
everyone seemingly looked at each other
to try and pass responsibility.
So by the time someone did
get round to chasing him,
the horse had already bolted.
- Yeah, very true.
- And he was going that well,
it was going to be pretty
tough to bring him back.
- Well, it was; they couldn't, could they?
Now, the breakaway riders, in
the early break in the day,
also had a factor in the
ultimate outcome of the race,
didn't they?
Because somewhat remarkably,
Sagan seemed to manage
to persuade all three of them
to start working with him
almost as soon as he bridged across.
- It's just that little,
that's what does it in the end.
As soon as you get that
- Yeah.
I wish he hadn't done that, otherwise,
it wouldn't have worked.
But Silvan Dillier in
particular was immensely strong,
wasn't he?
He was giving equal terms to Sagan,
all the way to the Roubaix velodrome.
- Yeah, now, many of you
were probably wondering
just why he was giving Sagan
equal terms, given that,
the fact that they did arrive
at the velodrome together.
It was gonna be a foregone conclusion,
or you would have thought.
But, I think it's worth remembering,
that second place at Paris-Roubaix
is a phenomenal result,
particularly for someone like Dillier
who has yet to land a big one.
And, indeed, his team, AG2R La Mondiale,
would be pretty thankful for
second place, I always thought,
at Paris-Roubaix.
- Yeah, French Team.
- Yeah, so he did work with Sagan.
Sagan didn't drop him, and he
managed to claim second place.
Although I do have a sneaking
suspicion that maybe Sagan
did try to drop him at
Carrefour de l'Arbre,
and couldn't.
And Dillier wasn't a
formality in the sprint.
- No, I think the the same.
But they both ended up getting
what they wanted it seems.
- They did indeed.
- There was also a tale,
we may be clutching at
straws slightly here,
but, there was a point where
under the impetus of Terpstra
the gap did start to come
down inside the last 10 K.
But when you've got a tail wind,
you just roll along a
lot easier, don't you?
- Yep.
Oh, I think Sagan was tired by the end.
But he timed that attack
perfectly, didn't he?
So he got the gap.
Anyway, there we go.
It all adds up to Sagan's
second monument win
after the first at Flanders in 2016.
So I guess it comes back to that,
that question again, Dan.
Where does Sagan feature
now in the all-time list
of cycling greats?
- Oh my word.
Well, we did come in for
a bit of flak, didn't we,
in the comment section
beneath the Paris-Roubaix
preview show,
because we had quoted a
tweet from Richard Moore,
where he listed a current crop
of riders who have won more
monuments that Pete Sagan.
But his fans are pointing out
to us that he's still a 28,
and significantly younger
than some of those listed.
- That's a valid point,
but, don't forget that Tom
Boonen had won five monuments
by the time he was 29, hadn't he?
Although, admittedly, only
one world championship.
But I suppose what separates
Sagan, at least in my eyes,
is the sheer scope of
the races that he's won.
I mean, Tour California over-all,
Boonen never won anything
quite like that, did he?
So maybe, Paris-Roubaix is a is a sign
that he's reaching maturity,
and the floodgates are gonna open.
- And we might get an indication
of where the floodgates
have opened this coming Sunday
because I think he's down to
ride the Amstel Gold Race.
Not a monument, but one of
the biggest one-day races
outside of it.
- Imagine the Roubaix Amstel double.
Has that been done before?
- The famous Roubaix Amstel double.
I've not, I don't think so.
Let us know in the comments
below if somebody has.
- Yeah, you know what?
To a certain extent, it's kind
of irrelevant whether or not
he gets the Roubaix Amstel double
or however many monuments that
he does win in his career.
Because we spent all day
talking about Pete Sagan,
and we regularly do,
and I think a lot of people
out there talk about Pete Sagan
all the time.
And I think that's why he is so great.
So great for cycling,
because, no matter what he
does, he's just interesting.
- Well this is rather awkward.
- What's that?
- I'm in complete agreement.
What a terrible way to finish a segment,
just by agreeing.
- Well, wait a minute, let's
not leave it there, mate.
Let's talk about our race predictions.
- Mads Pedersen.
(buzzer sounding)
Well, there was a point where
I thought John Degenkolb
and Trek were working for
Degenkolb at Champaign,
and then I realised he was
riding on the front for
Jasper Stuyven and then he got dropped.
- Yeah.
- Wout Van Aert.
(buzzer sounding)
He might have won, but he
punched his crucial sector.
But, perhaps, the embarrassing thing, Dan,
was actually that I got his
number of world championship
cybercross victories wrong.
And then worse still,
was that when I read that in the comments
it took me a bloomin' long
time to work out which
of his world titles I'd missed.
And then even more embarrassingly,
I realised that the one
I missed was actually one
that I'd gone and watched,
and been there, seeing him
cross the line in Zolder.
- That's a bit strange,
why would you not remember that one?
(celebratory music)
- I don't know.
Really strange, isn't it?
Bizarre.
- Anyways, better give a quick
shout out to Jon Cannings
who managed to predict
the race winner correctly.
Well done, Jon.
- Yeah, very quick shout out.
- Peter Sagan.
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- Ahem, beginner's luck.
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- It's now time for Cycling Shorts.
- We're gonna start Cycling
Shorts with a few tidbits
from Paris-Roubaix,
like the fact that the
youngest finisher in 50 years
crossed the line at the
hallowed velodrome on Sunday.
- Yes, at just 19 years
of age, Tanguy Turgis,
a rider for Vital Concept,
crossed the line in 42nd place.
What I particularly liked about this story
was the fact that he cross the
line with his older brother
Jimmy, who rides for rival team Cofidis.
- Yeah, that's cool, isn't it?
And now in finishing
42nd, Turgis also became
the second place French
finisher in this year's event.
- Does that mean he rolled
his brother Jimmy on the line?
- [Simon] He did roll Jimmy, yeah.
Making it a great result for Tanguy,
but not a great result
for the host nation.
Two in the top 42.
- [Daniel] No, not great.
- [Simon] No.
- Meanwhile somebody who's
most definitely missed
at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday
is the living legend that is
Tom Boonen who, of course,
retired straight after
the event last year.
However, he has still
managed to hit the headlines
on the run up to the race this year.
- That's right, so in an
interview on Belgian TV,
Boonen doesn't dismiss the allegations
that Fabian Cancellara had used a bike
with a hidden motor in during
the 2010 classic season.
Now, we are not experts at Flemish.
In fact, you know this, because
we can't even pronounce it.
However, we have it on good
authority, that perhaps
something may have gotten
lost in translation,
that Boonen doesn't
suggest this after all.
- Flemish-speaking people,
what did he really say?
- Let us know.
- Yeah.
- Somewhat ironically,
Tom Boonen does now race
with a motor, doesn't he?
- Yeah, he does.
- Although the one that he raced with
did blow up before the
end of the race on Sunday.
- That's right, Boonen
is into motorsport now,
and it was engine failure
in his Porsche apparently.
But, he did say there was a silver lining,
and that he got to watch
the last 50 kilometres
of Paris-Roubaix.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
- Right, well, Hell of the
North is quite famous for the
number of crashes that take place,
and Sunday was no different.
And one of the worst
ones looked to be that of
Tony Martin and Luke Rowe
and Alexander Kristoff
when they hit the deck.
It wasn't actually on one
of the cobbled sectors,
but Kristoff lost a hell of a lot of skin
as this Instagram post goes to show.
- [Simon] Ooh.
- That has got to be seriously sore.
- Yeah, does it just.
Right, now finally from Cycling Shorts,
another reason why Peter
Sagan may have wanted to have
kept Silvan Dillier with
him in the run into Roubaix,
was if he'd seen the research
that just been published
in the International
Journal of Sports Physiology
and Performance.
- He probably did see that.
It's certainly one of my favourites.
- Well, and mine too,
as well, actually yeah.
- Eh?
- And the research has shown
that a cyclist will perform
better when racing an
opponent, even a virtual one.
So, in the case of Sagan, he
will have obviously gone faster
from sharing the pace,
but as he will have tried harder as well;
thereby almost guaranteeing
that he wouldn't get caught
by the chase crew.
- And there was us thinking
that the incentive of winning
Paris-Roubaix would be enough on its own.
- [Simon] Well yeah.
- It just goes to show you though,
that software like Zwift will
indeed help you to go faster.
- Yeah, and finding a
training partner as well.
There you go.
- I've got a sneaky suspicion
that people that ride with me
go fast when they ride with me.
I don't think they would drop
me if they were on their own.
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It is time now for the
GCN Wiggle of Fortune.
No doubt you all know the score by now,
but to remind you, there
are five prizes on offer,
and four of them are vouchers.
Prize number four is 25 pounds,
prize three is 50,
prize two is 75,
and then the big one is 150
pounds of Wiggle vouchers.
- Oh yeah, and this week's contestant is
Duncan Crouch, from Australia.
Although, Duncan tells
us, he is actually a Brit.
He's been living in Australia
for eight years now,
and he loves riding in
Adelaide Hills year round.
And he also says he's got a
penchant for Belgian beer,
but Duncan, step away from our fridge.
That is property of Dan,
although Dan can only
get his hands on it if
the wheel stops on that little icon there,
the beer icon.
That's right, prize number
five is Dan gets a beer, yeah.
- Right, are we ready?
- Pretty sure, Duncan,
even though you're a Brit
in Australia, I gotta say
that the wheel spins perfectly
without tampering, that's right.
- Oh, my goodness.
- That'll come up in the
comment section, sorry guys.
- Right, three, two, one.
(electronic clicking tones)
- Spin the wheel, spin the wheel!
- Come on.
Alright, where's it gonna
stop, where's it gonna stop?
- You gonna have a beer, Dan?
- Yes.
- Ooh, this looks good.
This looks good for your beer, mate.
Ooooh!
Come on, Dan's gonna get,
ooooh, is Dan gonna get beer?
Daniel gonna get a beer?
Oooh, no!
- Oh no.
(electronic bells ringing)
- I thought it was gonna stop on the beer.
- I thought it was gonna
stop on the beer, ah well.
- Prize four then, 25 pounds
on its way straight to you.
- Yeah, now we've gotta
have a bit of recap
of previous weeks as well.
So we had Linda Findley,
who won in week one.
She bought herself a nice
new pair of road cleats.
- Meanwhile, was it Sean?
- Bolger.
- Bolger, that's right, well
he crashed his bike recently,
scrapped his jersey.
So he's gonna buy a new jersey,
but he's also sharing his
voucher with his younger brother
which is very nice.
- Ahh.
- Awful, isn't it?
When you get into an ambulance,
and even though you've
already got a scuffed jersey,
and then they get the
scissors out and cut it off.
Do you know how much those things cost?
- Yeah, that is bad.
Now, right now if you want
to take part in next week's
GCN Wiggle of Fortune,
then, in the description
beneath this video,
there is a link.
And you stick your name down,
once you've clicked through to that,
and then we will select someone at random
to be next week's Duncan Crouch.
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Some big news in the tech world this week.
We've got ourselves another sprocket.
A 12th.
And that's curtesy of serial
sprocket adders, Campagnolo.
- Yes, they always seem to be
the first to add that extra
sprocket, aren't they?
- They do.
- I remember it for nine
speed, 10 speed and 11 speed,
possibly eight speed before that,
I don't really remember,
but they have now added 12 too.
Well, however you spell, you got two 12,
with their flag ship group
which is Super Record,
and also the one below,
their Record group set.
- Yeah, why don't they just add two,
and that would just
- Blitz the opposition.
- Like oh my god, they've got 13.
Anyway, there we go.
Now, many of you obviously
will be thinking,
"Well, SRAM have already done it,
with their Eagle mounts by groupset,"
but Campagnolo are the
first to do it on the road.
- I'm not too sure, though,
whether it's going to add
particularly much to
your conventional bike
with two chain rings on front.
I can see why this would
be extremely beneficial
if you're running one bike,
because you could have a
nice range of gears and
it would reduce the ratio gap
between each one of those.
But, don't know about you, I
don't tend to run out of gears
with two by 11.
However, if you do want those extra gears,
the new cassettes will be
available as an option to buy
as 11 to 29 or 11 to 32.
- We will, of course, have
all the details on the new
Campagnolo groupset right up here in fact,
on the GCN Tech Show, coming up this week.
But for now, I wanted to draw
your attention to something.
Once we're kinda vaguely
thinking about One-by,
because this is the new One-by specific
3T Torno Limited Crankset,
and it's an absolute work of art.
You can tell it's One-by,
because it's only got one chain ring,
but also, because of that,
they've managed to narrow
and clean up the whole ensemble.
Now, the chain ring itself
is actually custom made by
Wolf Tooth Components.
It's got that distinctive
narrow-wide profile,
and it's custom made.
As you can see, it's got a
unique bolt pattern there,
which again, helps to
neaten the whole thing up.
And in use, 3T say, that
it makes it the thinnest
and most aero crankset, ever.
Now, as you can tell, it
is a full carbon crankset.
It weighs just 445 grammes.
That's with a 40 tooth chain ring.
Weight weenies will probably recognise
the quite distinctive look.
It is indeed made from the THM factory,
which is now owned, of course, by 3T.
Now, as you can probably tell
from the look of this 3T Explorer,
it has already been exploring.
And in use, probably the
most distinctive thing,
aside from the look,
is actually the fact that the Q factor
is significantly narrow.
It's down to just 142 millimetres wide.
Meaning that when you get used to it,
theoretically, your feet
will also be in a more
aerodynamic position as well.
Aero feet.
It's a thing.
- Oakley have released
two new models of shades
just recently.
The first of those, which you can see now,
are the Flight Jackets.
The novelty here being a small button
located on the nose bridge
which Oakley are calling
The Advancer.
Now will you use this to push the glasses
slightly further away from your face,
which apparently prevents
them from fogging up.
Although, conversely, if you're
starting to get a bit hot,
you press that button
because the extra gap means
there's more air flow behind the glasses.
- That sounds great, Dan,
but it's probably of no
relevance to me, whatsoever.
- No, no you need two Advancer
buttons on your armpits here
on your jersey.
- There is no technology
under the sun, mate,
that can help me, in that department.
Now, the second pair of glasses are these.
The Field Jackets, which as you can see,
have a dual lens design.
And I hope you see that
both these new ones have
what called a Prism technology
which enhances both colour and contrast.
So it sounds a bit like
your own Instagram filter
everywhere you go.
That's pretty cool, isn't it, yeah?
- [Daniel] I just use HDR
full 100% and whack it up.
- You need to acclimatise to
life in HDR, I think that,
otherwise you'll probably be
like a jibbering wreck by,
by lunch time.
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- Last week the Tour of
California announced the
18 teams who will be participating
in this year's event.
And along with the teams,
some of the star riders
who will be there as well.
And it looks like we're going
to get a real sprint fest
on the fast stages, because
Marcel Kittel is confirmed
as is Mark Cavendish.
Kehle Beur,
and of course Pete Sagan,
who absolutely loves that race.
- Oh yeah, it's gonna be great, isn't it?
One surprise omission though,
was Team Aqua Blue Sport.
So you would have thought
that they would have been a shoe in,
given that they've got the
current US national champion,
Larry Warbasse, on the team.
Poor guys just can't seem
to catch a break this year,
can they?
- No, they really need to
step it up a gear I think.
- Is that a joke about One-by?
- Yeah, it was.
Very poor, very sorry.
Moving straight on.
The incredible tough week that is
the Tour of the Basque
Country concluded on Saturday.
And it was the first ever
over-all world tour race win
for former ski jumper Primož
Roglič of LottoNL Jumbo.
He laid the foundations for
that win by finishing runner-up
to Julian Alaphilippe who
was flying on both the first
and the second stages.
He then won the time trial
which gave him really
comfortable gap over everyone,
including eventual second
place finisher Mikel Landa.
- Yeah, holding off the
Movistar team on that final day
was no mean feat, was it?
- No.
- Very impressive.
You know, he just continues to impress,
but such is his rate of progression,
that it's actually hard to
know exactly what type of rider
he's eventually gonna become, isn't it?
I mean, his Tour de France
could be an opportunity
to take it up a notch.
- [Daniel] I'd quite like
to see how he'd get on
at the Ardennes classics
we'll be discussing next week.
- But, unfortunately, it doesn't look like
he's down to ride any of them.
- Oh.
- One rider though, who is riding them,
and looks very much ready for them,
is Lotto Soudal's Tomasz Marczynski.
This is the current state of his legs.
- Whoa!
That's impressive.
I've not seen legs like
that since riding behind you
last summer.
- You really think they look like mine?
- (laughing) They're nothing like yours.
Alright, sorry mate,
they are mighty impressive
legs, aren't they?
As are yours, to be fair.
- Thanks.
- You've got great legs.
(dynamic electronic drum beats)
- It's giveaway time now.
We've got three prizes on
offer for three lucky potential
winners this week.
- That's right.
So, we have three bike
computer bundles here,
courtesy of friends over at Wahoo.
So we've got the Wahoo Elemnt over there.
And with that you will
win additional cadence,
heart rate, and speed sensors.
Then we got the Elemnt Bolt, which,
if you hadn't noticed, Pete
Sagan was using when he won
the Paris-Roubaix, just the other day.
So that too comes with a candence, speed,
and heart rate sensor.
And then, third prize
is the Wahoo Elemnt Mini
which comes with an
additional speed sensor.
- Wow, some top prizes to be had.
- Oh yeah.
- All the details on how
to enter can be found
if you follow the link
which is in the description
below this video.
We also have a winner to announce.
- Oh, we do.
One very lucky winner.
- It's a big one.
It is the Orbea Orca M20 Team-D
with the option of the
Myo custom paint job.
And we have a winner
- Oooh.
- This one definitely deserves a drumroll.
(desk thumping)
Careful, so's not to knock
these off or something.
See?
- Right, that winner is Mark Thomas
of Montclair, New Jersey, in the USA.
- (clapping) Congratulations, Mark.
- There's more than one
Mark Thomas out there,
we will be in contact, and
so you'll know it was you.
And apologies if there is another one.
If you don't hear from us, it wasn't you.
- Oh, that's cruel.
That's so cruel.
Though there's only gonna be
one in Montclair, New Jersey,
isn't there?
Make sure you let us have a
look at your Myo design as well.
We really want to see
what you come up with.
Oh, and make sure you get
involved by entering this one.
Link's in the description, remember.
(drilling sounds)
- Hack forwardslash
Bodge of the Week time.
Now don't forget to use
the hashtag "GCNhack"
on social media if you
would like to show us
any of your hacks and bodges.
Love the first one this week.
Sent in on Facebook by Patrick Topem.
- [Simon] Whoa!
- [Daniel] Is this hack or bodge?
That is amazing piece of
kit right there, isn't it?
- [Simon] Oh yeah, I mean,
that's gonna make your car
quite unwieldy, I'd've thought,
but it certainly looks like
quite a piece of engineering.
A homemade bike rack.
- [Daniel] It says "bodge" on
the back of the car though.
- [Simon] Yeah, that's cruel though,
I think it's more of a hack.
- [Daniel] Yeah, I really like that.
I think it's a lovely piece of kit.
- Yeah, absolutely, hack.
This one, if you got rattly valve stems,
then Marius Tirle has got an idea for you.
That's not the prettiest.
- [Daniel] That's got to be a bodge.
I'm sure it works and stops
your valve stems from rattling,
but there's got to be
neater solutions than that.
- [Simon] What was wrong with
a bit of insulating tape?
Yeah, that's a bodge, you know, sorry,
but that's a total bodge.
- [Daniel] I think this is
gonna be a bodge, isn't it?
- [Simon] Whoa!
- [Daniel] From Bo-Yun Liu.
When you forget your shoe covers,
it's 20 degrees out.
Presume he means Fahrenheit.
- [Simon] As opposed to Celsius.
- [Daniel] I mean, I presume
it would keep your feet
at little bit warmer than
if you didn't wear them,
but it looks weird.
- [Simon] Yeah, a glove
that's going under your shoe
as opposed to over your
shoe, but nevertheless, yeah.
Ingenious, I suppose.
Yeah, still a bodge.
- [Daniel] Still a bodge.
- Well, there we go.
Right, what about these?
Sticking with the feet
theme, verruca overshoes.
Right, so Adian Rider, who
is apparently eight today,
from Edinburgh Road Club,
couldn't find small enough
waterproof overshoes so he
made a pair from verruca socks.
There we go, aero and waterproof.
Now is that a hack, Dan?
- [Daniel] I'd say so.
- [Simon] I think that is.
- They're very snug, aren't they?
That was actually a tweet
from a little while ago,
so happy birthday for
some, some time ago, Adian.
- (laughing) He's now 12.
- [Daniel] Here's one from Wilian Amaral
with an epic road bike.
Lack of bar tape, suspension
forks on a mountain bike
with some bare drop bars
and some mounted STI lids.
Bodge.
- The reach on that would be epic.
That's like a Graeme Obree type position.
Alright, now this one is interesting.
- I've never seen
anything like that before.
- [Simon] No, I just,
I can't quite understand
how that's a thing.
But there we go.
Want to hang you bike from
the wing of your plane
when you're going flying.
- [Daniel] Yes, sent in
by Pauline Janet Symonds.
- [Simon] Is that with a gun as well?
Like a touring bike and
a, and a machine gun?
- [Daniel] Not a solution many
people need to find in life,
is it?
- No.
- How to transport your bike
on your own private plane?
- Just buy a bike bag
and stick it in the hold.
That's what works for me.
- Right, this one's definitely a bodge.
I'm calling it, right away.
- Whoa, from Dan Butler,
a rutting bike.
- [Daniel] Now we've seen
similar experiments before,
haven't we here,
- Yeah.
- on Hack and Bodge?
But I've never seen so
many different bar edge
and hand positions on one single bike.
- [Simon] Nor in the wild, either.
Often that sort of like
artificially engineered
in a laboratory setting,
but that generally looks
like a bike with antlers
in the wild.
- There's just too many options there.
You wouldn't even know where
to start putting your hands,
would you?
- Well, imagine having a crash.
Imagine how many things there
are to impale yourself on.
People think disc brakes are dangerous.
Look at the antler bike.
Terrifying, anyway.
- Don't forget to keep sending
your hacks and bodges in
using the hashtag "GCNhack".
We check Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
(dynamic electronic drum beats)
Caption Competition.
Last week's photo was this
one from the podium of
the Tour of Flanders.
- [Simon] Oh, it was
an easy one, that one.
- First up, not the winner, hasten to add,
but we had this sent in from Tim Williams.
Have a read of that.
- ♪ Oh Niki you're so
fine, you're so fine ♪
♪ You blow my wine, hey Niki, ♪
♪ Hey Niki. ♪
- See, he'll go straight for that.
All Tim wanted to see you
do was sing on the show, so.
- Okay, he wanted to
win a bottle, didn't he?
Sorry Tim, Dan's in a funny mood today.
- Well that's a better prize,
seeing you sing, isn't it?
Alright the person who will
be receiving a GCN Camelback
water bottle through the post
is Max Freeman who put caption,
"Drink Lidl and often, otherwise
you're a Quickstep away
from bonking!"
Well now, Max, get in
touch with us on Facebook
with a message and we'll
get this off to you.
- That was a good one, to be fair,
- It was.
- from Max, yeah.
No, Tim, sorry, that was
deserving of a victory.
- This week's photo comes
from the final cup of classic
Paris-Roubaix and it's Peter Sagan,
and Si is gonna get started.
- (laughing) Well, I'm
not sure about that Dan.
People think I've got
a chip on my shoulder,
but it's actually a cobble.
- That was your worst Sagan impression.
He's been practising  this
before we started recording.
- Oh you can't do an
impression of Peter Sagan.
No, no.
- I think he was afraid of
getting Sagan fans irate
in the comments.
- I think I got everyone
irate with that effort, mate.
- Leave your captions in
the comments section below
and we'll chose a winner of said bottle
this time next week.
(dynamic electronic drum beats)
- Now before we get on
to what is coming up
on the channel this week,
as always, we would like
to have a quick recap
of some of the amazing and funny comments
you've been leaving
under last week's videos.
Such as this one from Humberto Leandro,
and "Matt said, When on
cobbles, stay on the saddle
and do not hold the hoods
and the end of the video,
he grabs on to the hoods and
sprints out of the saddle
uphill on cobbles."
There you go, typical Matt for you.
- I need to have a talk
with myself for that,
when I watched my own video back.
Michael McDermot put underneath
the Paris-Roubaix preview
"Si's beer reminds me of
when my Grandad was put in a
care home and three months later
we found a full chamber
pot under his bed."
Ugh.
- It was a bloomin' good beer, that one.
- Yeah, it went straight to his head.
- Heh heh, yeah it did, actually.
Right then, this last one from J Mise.
"55 PSI, that's all it needs,
yeah, that's what I would
say after struggling
to manage one puncture per kilometre
through the Annenberg Forest."
And another comment about Matt there.
- Yeah, he just doesn't learn.
- No.
- Does he, from his own mistakes?
- No.
- Right then, coming up
on the channel this week.
On Wednesday, we are showing
you how to corner safely.
Thursday, we show you top
ten reviews from a road bike.
Friday is ask GCN anything.
- Yeah, and then, this weekend,
we've got another ride to do
before you die.
That's right.
Matt and Emma this time
have got to go to a
European destination, which
we will find out on Saturday.
You will get a nice bit
of behind the scenes look,
and then on Sunday, you
get the ride itself.
Should be absolutely brilliant.
Pretty jealous that I'm
missing out on that one.
And then, on Monday, is of
course, the GCN racing news show
where Dan will no doubt be
recapping the Amstel Gold.
- I will indeed.
And then on Tuesday, we are
back right here on the set.
(electric guitar strumming)
- Right, we are unfortunately
getting towards the end
of the GCN show now,
but don't worry, there's still time for
Extreme Corner,
and this week, it's an
absolute belter from
Rin Nakamura, a BMX rider from Japan.
(high energy punk rock music)
Whoa!
That kid's got some
serious talent, doesn't he?
- Yeah.
I like that, but I think I
could've done that last trick.
- Let's skit.
- Yes, right, that is pretty
much the end of this week's
GCN show.
I hope you've enjoyed it.
If you have you can click
on the thumbs up button
located just below this video.
Make sure you head over
to the shop as well,
which you'll find a link to on the screen,
if you'd like to get your
hands on GCN merchandise.
- Yep, and if you want to
watch another video now,
why not check out that
mid-range bike versus super bike
video that went up just last weekend.
Plenty of comments under that one.
Make sure you get involved.
