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We are going to Italy and we are going to Italy for two reasons one is because I upop and the other one is to go do the Strada bankee Grand Fondo actually the third one is that we’re going to go and do a shoot for carago carago kindly
Brought all of the bikes that are supposed to be riding this year to Jona but some idiot ordered the wrong size me and basically I need a whole size smaller my mechanic who is currently stripping the bike that I got him to build I’m fixing that mistake cuz both
Of the bikes that came were the wrong size I’m going to take them back to Italy and if you don’t know what sh banke is it’s a really big one-day race in Italy it’s an amazing race to watch on telly but I can imagine it’s an even
Better race to watch him pass it’s on the white roads in Tuscany through some crazy Landscapes and apparently the grand Fondo is a pretty serious gig for the Italians and they go pretty crazy for it so I’m looking forward to doing that and then we also got a shoot for
Carago cuz they want to shoot the c68 road bike going to be living out of the bike box because nothing’s changed there for 2024 flying out of Barca we’re going to land in Milan then from Milan we’re going to go to the kago HQ and we’re
Going to drive south to Sienna which is where the start of the Strate banke is I believe we’re going to just be continuing to shoot on the Monday let’s go so we have landed in ban we’ve just come from the kaga HQ but we had a pretty seamless Journey it needed to be
Seamless running a bit short on time for some reason when the plane landed was like some can’t park there situation where he just like backed into the wrong gate and he had to put it in reverse and we drove to the HQ and I was instantly
Met by just like a of carago and if you don’t know carago has some of the deepest Heritage in cycling they’ve got all the World Tour bikes there the special edition bikes they’ve got like Ferrari spec bikes for the F1 team you’ve got a bike that was made for
Michael schumacker which is insane mountain bikes from like the 80s they just decided to make a mountain bike for when they won the World Cup at football which is just insane besides the bikes there was just some crazy components there some of the spec on these bikes so
Much like retro campagnolo and actually kago one of the first people to make a disc brake road bike not that the disc brakes were very good though no modulation one pull on those handlebars and it gone over the bars I’m here to pick up two of my bikes the c68 gravel
And then a c68 cuz I stupidly ordered the wrong size and we’re going to fix that problem we’re going for pizza because when in Rome and this place was recommended so it should be pretty good the pizza was bomb can’t wait to show you more we’re going to go build the
Bikes tomorrow and we’re also going to go see how they’re made we lock in tomorrow and see what’s going on then but yeah HQ they’ built my bike it looks really sick a couple things I need to get dialed in we’re going to drive to Sienna now but that’s where the grand
Fondo is and where the St ban is get a ride in tomorrow I’ll see if I can ride a little bit today to make some adjustments on the bike we’ve actually got a group ride that we can go on tomorrow we got a space in the UAE
Women’s team car I’ve always wanted to go in the team car so that should be pretty fun let’s go we have arrived in Sienna it’s really pretty going to go get some dinner something very Italian is going to be on the menu cuz the food in this region of Italy apparently is
Bomb and we’re with the Italians so we’re with the best tomorrow we’ve got a group ride that we’re going to go on and going to ride the c68 for the first time literally can’t wait to ride it so we just got back from the group ride we did
Like a a Recon of the St Yankee route and some of the sectors despite the really really [ __ ] weather it’s actually fun it’s really really fun I got covered in mud good to see some of the boys as well c68 is performing extremely well I’m actually really really impressed on
The way I’m actually really impressed on how comfortable it is compared to the sl8 the sl8 is like more of a raw ride and the c68 is definitely more comfortable I’m really really happy with the choice and it looks phenomenal too especially with the lightweights there’s
A few adjustments we need to do slam the stem so it goes down to the bottom there’s a few of componentry bits which we’ll do in the next couple of weeks that I need to change to get it to standard once those are dialed it’s just going to be the perfect machine so
Really happy about that I get the gravel bike dialed at some point some people are riding gravel bikes for this Grand Fondo I feel like it’s not that necessary but you know you can ride what you need to ride we got a slot and the UAE women’s team car tomorrow the
Weather stays like this it’s going to be absolute Carnage and if the weather doesn’t stay like this it’s still going to be Carnage either way we’re in for a really really good day then we’re going to hop out the team car probably watch the finish and then we’ll be able to
Watch the men’s race as well and I’m racing on Sunday if you’re ever planning on coming to the St Yankee Grand Fondo I would highly recommend it even though I haven’t done it yet cuz the vibe in the air despite the really [ __ ] weather is really really good we’ve got a big
Dinner with the carago heads tonight we’re going to be eating good before big day tomorrow the vibe in Italy is good at the moment so yeah let’s get it if you’ve never been to AAL Yankee it is 100% worth it and I’m going to tell you
Why the women’s race and the men’s race were both spectacular the women’s race we got to go in the Convoy which was pretty sick we had a good time with the UAE staff and we did like a few swanny duties for some of the Riders so swanny
Duties when you hand out bottles and bars and gels and help them with wheels if the Riders have got a puncher so we did a bit of that in the the women’s race and we had to like Dart around to the different locations obviously there’s like tons of road closures as
Well for the race so it makes it pretty challenging to get about we managed to catch the women twice up the last climb which is cool they re-rooted the route so that the spectators basically get to see the Riders go up the hill twice and also the Italians they put on one hell
Of a show they had like free food on the side of the road I swear to you I saw a ham like a full like a roast ham and sausages just in a toy pram next to the race it it’s really strange but it was pretty good I won’t lie I definitely had
Some the Italians were already going crazy on the side of the road shout out to the SWAT club for the men’s race we didn’t quite have the same amount of luck when we were doing swanny duy we kind of messed up the timing and we
Didn’t get back to the the main climb to watch the men go up it twice but by the time we got there Tad had already done his thing you know he attacked a solid 80k out from the Finish but it was good to see Ben Healey chasing I caught him
At the camper after the race I was suffering and then you all there with cam C in my face he said he was feeling pretty good but he crashed at a pretty crucial time when the lotto Destiny Rider tried to get across so that was pretty tough luck for him good to see
Leis ASI out there he was riding pretty strong until he crashed again the Italians just went absolutely insane on the climb for this race and I wasn’t even on the main climb and they were going crazy after we’d seen the men come through on the last little sector we
Went back to the team camper I had to speak to basically Teddy pater if you don’t know has got his own personal photog graer who got some insane shots of Teddy that like nobody else got basically we’re shooting the new c68 colorway and I’m doing it with Teddy’s
Personal photographer so that should be really really really sick and I’m really looking forward to what those pictures look like he’s an absolute G he’s basically just Tedy Pat’s best friend at this point they go on like holiday together and stuff like that and we had
A decent dinner after what was a pretty epic race I wanted to take the cro Pepe for takeaway so I could have it for breakfast but apparently that is a major sin in Italy and the Italians wouldn’t let me do it which is hilarious they’re like there’s just no way we’re going to
Allow you to eat pasta for breakfast so we went to the supermarket and I bought Pastor any tomorrow we have to get up for the grand Fondo it’s going to be a major major major early day my bike is ready I think everything is going to be
Good I’m not too sure how my legs are going to feel because at this point I’ve been on my feet all day I’ve pretty much used up all the energy I’ve got so and we have to do the c68 after the grand Fondo so I would
Have done 136 km and then have to go and shoot for a bike so wish me luck CIA today we got up at 5:30 in the morning we had coucho Pepe for breakfast which is basically a sin in Italy according to the Italians just to have already committed one crime in this country
Saying that I would have highly recommend it it was a great breakfast and it got me around and I think Italians should do it more often we got the start of the grand Fondo which is actually just a race if I’m really honest even though I started in the
Second wave it was just flat out for the first third 30k I’ve never done such a big event in my life cuz I started in the second wave which was a bit of an L I was passing people for ages but I was also drilling it with a bunch of other
Guys to get to the first group eventually we got to the first group which was sick cashed a lot of checks that I shouldn’t have been cashing by then and I definitely would have needed to have cash those a bit later in their events had a pretty tough last 30k which
I’ll get to third cat Palace would be proud an insane amount of dive bombing happening from Italians and other International locals the racing was absolute Carnage got a new respect for the world tour professionals that’s literally their job to fight for position also these potholes just come
Out of nowhere on these gravel sectors you just can’t see them they they’ll literally take your hands off the handlebars as well if you hit one dead on hey new respect for worldtour boys doing that that’s something I actually wouldn’t want to do even if I rode at
That level I had about eight gels throughout the day of the race I averaged 240 that wasn’t normalized that was just average which is pretty good for me cuz I weigh 58 59 kilos there’s way more climbing than you think from what it looks like on telly it is just
As good as it looks on television as what a beautiful place it is Sienna I cramped for the last 30k which was pretty horrific but I’m pretty good at nursing cramps these days I just kind of move my body into a position where it doesn’t cramp I ended up also riding
With Quinn Simmons dad who looks just like Quinn Simmons I think he rides just like him as well just Ultra aggressive he’d ran out of water so again man of the people handing him some of my bidom I don’t think he really likeed the taste of my electrolytes and the Italians Are
Good Vibes they do Shout each other the entire race but it’s funny made it back to Sienna and then guess what I did I actually Trooper on I did a shoot for the new c68 road bike colorway that’s coming out I am now officially a cracked unit I just need to
Eat something and go to bed and I’m going to wake up feeling like I’ve been hit by a brick that is the aim of the game and I love doing it thanks for coming let’s get it feeling like I’ve been hit by a brick if you watch this
Video love if you watch the 7 Days of London video also love ciao
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bro your videos are such a vibe congrats to the new bike 🥰🥰 one day I gonna have a colnago 🤲🤝