Ollie and Alex are back with another episode of the GCN Tech Show, and this time, they’re diving into a bold claim—the new Toot Black Falcon road bike is being called the fastest road bike in the world! 🚴♂️💨
But is it really that fast?
Our tech experts break down the data, analyse the components, and put the claims to the test. Plus, in Hot Tech, they check out the new integrated FLITEDECK handlebar and discuss Shimano’s latest entry-level groupset that’s set to replace all previous models. 🔧🔥
00:00 Welcome to the GCN Tech Show – Headlines
00:38 Is this the fastest road bike in the world?
03:03 Caveats in the tests conducted
06:00 Similar bike designs
07:05 The components
07:50 Price
08:52 The integrated FLITEDECK Handlebar
10:33 Is the handlebar practical?
12:47 The new Shimano Cues groupset
16:08 Converting Sora to 105
16:41 New Orbea E-road bike
17:24 Canyon’s reduction in packaging waste
19:28 #AD CORE as new channel partner
21:30 Comments of the week
25:58 Bike vault
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What are your thoughts on the 'World's Fastest Bike'? 🚲💨
Speaking of wind tunnels, during a speed skating competition in Milwaukee last week, organizers used wind blowers to create a tailwind for the skaters. Great method for breaking track records… But at some point, tweaking the conditions and technology too much crosses a line where it's no longer a fair competition. The same goes for the "world's fastest bike".
Just look at the "About Us" part of the website. The duo sell bikes under T-RED branding. One of 'em is a marketing-maven by trade while the other claims to know something about material science. Sadly, the bike biz is full of people with dodgy credentials claiming proven expertise in fields they may not know anything about…but the rubes suck it up for some reason?
Biggie big gets a super nice. 😂
Insoles are only needed because our shoes suck. Toe boxes are too narrow and push your big toe inward toward the center line of your foot. This forces your arch to collapse because the force through your foot isn't distributed the way our bodies are designed to function. There's very slow progress being made with shoe design but for over a century shoe designs have been for aesthetics and go completely against healthy human anatomy.
There will of course be exceptions to that and some people do legitimately need fitted insoles. They should be a rare exception on an individual basis.
Anyone who buys those bars are idiots
Next Shimano is going to make the end cues called cues-ace. Then when that is a success because e shifting is absolute trash they will make an e shifting version. Those idiots should've just kept mechanical versions of their old group sets
Normally you would spend more for durability and ease of use less maintenance, in the cycling industry you pay top dollar for e shifting that breaks more, is harder to maintain and doesn't last as long.
What does the backer’s source of income have to do with the computerized handlebars information?
Friend of mine noticed it years ago.called it sorta 105
Alex. If it was so hot why in the world did you wear an all black kit?
11:00 do you also get life membership to her onlyfans?
This guy sprung to mind whilst watch the segment about the aero bike….
https://www.ttlegends.org/wp-content/uploads/photo-mens/thumb/WALKER%20HARRY%20(5).jpg
"Too many Standerts…", goes on to include two Pinarello bikes out of the seven 🤔
Surely some of your viewers in the USA could work out exactly how many polar bears Canyon will be saving, since they'll use anything but the metric system 😂
(About the Toot THEFALCON bike)
Ticks all the boxes? More like, fits in all the UCI boxes.
(Thank you, I’ll get my coat.)
Is that a gorgeous E61 machine by Ollie’s left elbow?
Flightdeck handlebars : what if the screen was connected to a forward camera, you could hold an incredibly aero position for an entire TT! Come on Dr Aero Ollie, feel the watts!
Toot have a lot to prove before it is anything more than a toot. Looks horribly uncomfortable.
Kudos for citing Carl Sagan.
As for the saving of Canyon, I wonder if they did not forget some magnitude of order in their press release: 65 tonnes kg of CO2 is peanut, it is equivalent to one less flight between Heathrow and Mallorca. According to Canyon, they emitted 82 800 tonnes of kgCOeq. We are talking about 0.08% of reduction.
They would have saved orders of magnitude more by increasing delivery time but using trains to transport their bike 😵💫🤷
Just noticed the Parks Tools Pizza Slicer in the background! X-D
Garmin 1050 = 599gbp, Enve 1 Piece Aero = 1399gbp, 1998gbp total. If Flitedeck could execute, the price would not be unreasonable based on current market for similar products.
My first thoughts were „this is a contraption Adam Hansen might like“. I like if designers try to deviate from the tradition, the new Ridley is also an example. The questionable bits is the claims. „We have modelled that you could enter the Arenberg at 0.67% light speed at 400 watts and when the front whee disintegrates you have enough momentum to fly into the ditch on the other side“
Martin Brown, are you the one that follows me on Strava and has a picture with G there?
Dear GCN Tech, should I order my FLITEDECK handlebars before or after my bike fit? 😉🤣
I don't know the cliff behind the 3T, but I'm pretty certain I can see chalked holds up above the handlebars so presumably its rock that people climb or boulder on. Someone else thought maybe Central Park NYC, I walked past Rat Rock where NYC climbers have bouldered for decades (didn't have my climbing shoes so didn't climb myself) but it was 20 odd years ago so don't remember exactly what it looks like – but maybe. Any other climbing-cyclists or cycling -climbers out there with suggestions?
I'm sick of all this marketing bullshit can we hsve real world testing the claims are wild all theydid was take the dater for other web sites
According to one of their recent videos World Bicycle Relief have put two chains onto their Buffalo. It would be great if GCN covered this and explained the reasons why. 👍😀
Welp . I just updated my Facebook marketplace for my bike from a Sora drivetrain to 105..
Find the GCN Orbea for next bike vault please😅
I personally think this Toot Racing is better looking than that Y1RS. If the numbers are true i'd like to try one. But I think the numbers are rubbish since they are stitched from 3 separate test sessions performed by different groups of ppl in different windtunnels and test conditions. For a brand that claims a rider centric approach to performance, it's laughable at best to have so much variability in testing parameters alone.
We don’t endorse it. Until they sponsor us, and then we do
No mention of what material the frame is tooted from? (it's not carbon)
Aero? Maybe Comfort? Ftom you looks of It no
You wont really get any faster If your body Is strained
Why do you keep deleting our comments linking to our data page—is this standard practice for everyone?
I didn't have Neil DeGrasse Tyson commenting publicly about cycling on my 2025 bingo card.
But, I'm not surprised. He'll yap about anything but his doctoral field if you give him room to. I thought I'd be safe from him here, but nope😂
I think this bike is brilliant. Though I too think the numbers are a little exaggerated, it also bypasses and outwits a lot of UCI rules.
I had a TCR and that is what my bike looked like. I painted black and have a super long stem