2025 is here, and we’ve all got exciting goals and resolutions for the year! But what should those resolutions be for a cyclist? Dan Lloyd and Conor Dunne share 4 things cyclists should be doing this year to take their riding to the next level—based on the latest modern advice and scientific knowledge.
Plus, we’ve got more bad news for the cycling industry, world records, a questionable internet hack for inflating your tires, comments of the week, and much more!
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00:00 – Welcome to the GCN Show!
00:37 – This week in the world of cycling
02:42 – Tips to take your cycling to the next level in 2025
10:16 – Cycling Shorts
10:23 – Beware of scams! (Fake Rapha website)
11:32 – New Penny Farthing world record
12:30 – The biggest cycling loop in Britain
14:02 – Is this a hack or a bodge?
14:35 – Scheme to get more people on bikes
15:30 – Brompton’s profits down in 2024
17:12 – Hack/Bodge of the Week
25:16 – Caption Competition
27:23 – Comment of the Week
31:24 – This Week on GCN
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What are your 2025 goals as a cyclist? 🚴 Has this conversation changed your mind about anything you'll be taking up this year? Let us know down below!
Why does everything always needs to be taken to the next level. What about just riding.
Spotted a scam Castelli website on Facebook adverts and reported it to Facebook. They refused to remove the advert as it did break their rules.
Regarding running as robustness training bones against injury another British channel runningchannel showed x ray images of the shin bone of a runner vs an athlete of a sport with direction changes. Runners has a way wider front of the shin bone with miniscule everything else and athletes that change direction like soccer and basket ball had more round and totally on average thicker more resilient bone. Your body adapts to the kind of training you do and if you want to survive big hits you must cross train with 3d movements that jolt you enough to force growing adaptations to the bones. Meaning cycling and swimming are not weight bearing exercises forms and you need to add cross training with weights and jumps etc. to 3 dimensions to become a strong resilient athlete. A case in point: Last year I went OTB and landed downhill in super man flying position without broken bones downhill. Thanks to the lady who took a sudden running turn across a cycling lane in front of me and then ran across 4 of the most used car lanes in a national capital. Some are not built to survive without the grace of others.
That footage of Si in the gym is just gold. Could watch it all day 😂
caption competition "Jumbo Visma trialling new mud pack beauty products for that smooth aero skin we all want"
Ride because you love to ride. All the modern tools and apps are great but don't forget the fun. Happy Riding.
#captioncompetition WOUT! Missed a bit
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Wout completes first phase of SAS selection at Dendermonde.
"Shouldnt have drafted behind someone struggling with diarrhea"
#Captioncompetition Wouts secret to a smooth skin is riding his bike while covered in mud !
Caption: “Wout, I know cross might not be your priority anymore, but there’s no excuse for getting sh*t faced during an actual race…”
Great to see performance orientated cyclists turning to weights in their off season, but some of the stuff we're seeing on IG are just absurd gimmicks similar to what you'd see from Joel Seedman.
#captioncompetition Add a facial mud bath to the “You Need to Due This” list to make you an improved cyclist.
Caption competition: "Cyclocross is less of a sport, more a work of Aert."
Caption competition: "The new Visma kit tones down yellow with a camouflage theme"
caption comp. thanks for the mud pack, my skin feels younger already
Caption competition: Go for a winter ride they said, it will be fun they said…
Caption: What do you mean by “that wasn’t mud”.
What no "30 in 30" this year. I'll have to do it alone then.
Caption: Wout goes into a bar, pal says "here's mud in your eye"!
Exist till 26
currently -16C in Ottawa Canada -27 when you factor in the wind. Sad thing is this is chilly but not terrible for January. I’ve worked construction in -43 for two days, but i haven’t done anything that silly in decades.
Read Phil Cavell's The Midlife Cyclist.
Stay active and adaptable. If you can't ride then do some yoga or walk. There may be a time when you won't be able to ride (old age/injury) and you'll be happy that you can't comfortably participate in other activities.
Caption: “What d’ya mean I’ve got a bit of mud on my face”
Caption competition: Wout from AERTH
Caption competition: “Own up, who over indulged on sprouts”
#captioncompteition Who chose the brown tubeless sealant?
Funny thing here is how resistance training and running has became a thing in the last several years or so, for my my self I started doing so since the mid 70's to mid 80's saddle time I'd log north of 300 mile per week, commuting roughly 40 miles per day when working for a former bicycle supplier in SILICON Valley, hammer to work did a good days work then play cat and mouse with cars on my way home grab some grub while making ready for a trip to the gym at San Jose State for a weight training session with some of the guys from THE SJSU football team, 1,5 to 2 hour gym session was the norm then to the music field for a 2 mile run then some hoop time on the basketball court, 3 to 5 times per week, then came the weekend monster ride, these were the days of pushing a 7 speed friction shifting rim braked lugged steel rigs and for sure there no such thing as clipless pedals. Current day I'm 65 and now living in the Netherlands where the cycling is good, I'm not getting so much saddle time over here but I'm still going to the gym 5 to 6 times per week doing total body work-outs, 2 times per week will be double session days so in total I'm really in the gym 7 to 8 times per week. Some would say I'm crazy, so the best I can say, different strokes for different folks. Just my 2 cents.
Cycling advice: add in some running!
"Wout do you mean the hot water isn't working?" – caption comp
My goal for 2025 is for me to convince GCN to put a rack on the Dan Van…😂
Caption competition Oh no I pooped myself again!
looks like wout got caked, and ate it too
I do the same Calorie count… I've found an app that also scans the bar code as well as using weight. That works with Garmin Connect to calculate in and out going calories.. The reason I found using a watch better than a head unit for a bike…
#captioncompetition: If you’re not wearing it, you’re not moving it