Riding the Gavia Pass // Legendary Cycling Climb // Giro d’Italia

EUROPE Day 4 – Gavia Pass! Bormio to the top of the Gavia pass.. and back. On a hire bike.

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so back on the bridge today because I quite like this bridge day four we took off from bouro and we rode the garia pass now the garia pass is on the on the maps it said about 24K from town not too bad only 12 of that was the climb even better what they didn’t tell us was as soon as you step out the front door it starts the 12ks is to get to the climb was about 5 to 6% yeah we went hard yeah we’re in the Box but it was beautiful such a magical climb today’s video is about the climb up the garia pass to the top on the higher bike I was on which is altegra 6600 maybe 67 it’ be 6600 cuz it had the cable wire the coat hangers on the top so I had a bit of trouble with the element Mount dropped down 2.5 mil hex key hard to find so the element was in the back pocket for all of the ride um at the very top I did a review just a quick review of my higher bike so enjoy that there was cows with bells not guns and what else happened on today and the descending with switch brakes my God that’s a different experience so look I’m really looking forward to coming back one day and riding it with my bike with my brakes it might be backwards to everyone else but in Australia we run left brake back right brake front different to Europe and the other side of the road wasn’t too bad it’s just picking the lines but again having switch brakes and picking lines on the other side of the road no Mojo there with descending I love a good descent I love bombing a descent you’ve seen the video on that just no Mojo but it was all about enjoying the up and the views the views were amazing we have nothing like this in Australia I was saying to the guys there’s probably two hairpins in Victoria that people get 180° hair pins you come around people stand in the corner and take a photo of that if you know the one up in Mount Buffalo just as you drop into the ski Village there the one over in South Australia I think everyone takes a photo of is the up the cork screw through there’s one corner there up these climbs in Italy about every corner is exactly the same as that so these guys have thousands of these hair pins which are brilliant so enjoy today’s views and we’ll see you [Music] [Music] tomorrow [Music] so day one in Boro my voice is still gone but we’ll uh we’ll carry on we’ve got some climbs plann this morning we’ve had some good coffee we shall be rolling in about an hour or so hopefully I can get some good footage from the bike I’ve got no bike mounts the bike is absolutely horrific no idea what brand it is I think it’s got 10 speeds about seven of those work but we’ll get to the top all right let’s [Music] ride morning boys and we’re rolling [Music] good for climbing we our first Cobble climb coming up yeah the views legs feel good heart like one so that was our blow the cobwebs out open up the [Music] [Applause] [Music] pipes the hurt is on pretty early up the climb [Music] so going to the front see if we can slow the pace down a little bit [Music] [Applause] [Music] brutal this there little a bad [Music] view under the cobbles [Applause] [Music] The Climb started off quite easy and then right at the top when you sort of wanted to switch off and just uh tick at home it bang it went right up I was lights out Steve came back to my wheel Matt’s way up the road super strong and uh we got it done so I think it was about 24K 25 maybe 26 the Garment oh sorry the the mount I can’t find a tool to get the Mount of my bike but we s I’m sure there’s a cyclist here with one of these so we’ll sort it out it’s a glacia behind me there’s a first none of those on Mount [Music] hoam [Music] scenery that I’ve just never ever ridden through before just amazing absolutely amazing I mean have a have a look at this a lot of good photo on the way down so I think I’ll just take my time and enjoy the day oh by the way the coffe is fantastic wow just wow this is awesome so I thought I’d do a steed review while I was up here before I got down let’s have a look at this absolute monster of a bike I’ll run you through the specs so as you can see I’ve left it in the little ring here to show it the respect it deserves it’s Shimano malgra um I’ve also got mismatching drink bottles as well now if I had to match the drink bottles it would cost probably twice as much as the bike itself so I’ve got a uh a freebie drink bottle here and uh signed by Tommy vuler yesterday at the eurobike so thanks Tommy I was going to put that on the Shelf but look function wins Tommy so sorry mate you’re uh you’re going to be in the washing machine history book soon but I really appreciate your uh your support there Tommy tongue’s out buddy now for the saddle here we’ve got some sort of I think it’s the couch armchair style I don’t know what that’s for probably oy straps or something so if you’re getting uh going up a hill a bit too fast someone can oy strap on the back must be an Italian thing uh look I’ve got a bike computer here but it reads so out that I’ve actually spun it around because this is doubling up the reading or so so this little bike computer I’ve spun it out of the way but the old might be able to dry some washing on these uh cables later on I hang my uh jerseys and nicks off those what else can I tell you about the bike not a lot I had to pick the glass out of the tires when I got it from the shop few chunks of glass in there and uh it’s got some fulcrum Wheels with not a lot of life left in them vbt V VL V L beat no idea no idea got some shim beautiful Shimano pedals definitely not carbon they had a few uh P scrapes good stuff and uh that’s about it so there we go quick rundown I think the handlebars are about 48 CM wide so I’m driving the bus all day but better than nothing anyway oh it was 80 for two days I think I got got ripped off there’s a cow down there another one another one cha spotting I think they live in that house there oh he’s a bit angry oh more over here the guys have gone and done the other side there’s no way in hell I’m ready to go do that so I’ve had I think it was about an hour and a half climbing with views that you just cannot believe look at that that’s just a glacier um another one there and more snowcapped Mountains out the back here I think we’ve picked a good time of year too I couldn’t imagine this in winter this would be a a very very different landscape in winter but today it’s just spectacular there’s a few gray clouds coming up over here I’ve got to go down that way to get back to where we are but it’s going to be 25ks straight down I’ve got switch brakes I’m on the wrong side of the road the element the waho element Mount that I’ve got has like bent itself we haven’t done it up tight enough so it’s bent itself down so I can’t use that it’s in the back pocket again same as the way up I had in the back pocket on the way up we tried to put it on at the top but we didn’t tighten it up and it’s uh it’s fallen down so I can’t read the uh the element of the maps but we right on fi Merk style let’s [Music] go not even halfway down I’ve stopped a few times already to take in the view the cows with the cow bells they’re [Music] hilarious I just hit a pothole in the dark tunnel back there I think the bike’s held up but I may have broken both my wrists holy that was a big hole I’ve hit killing me Ral [Music] bikes [Music] [Music] [Music] so today was Romeo du Gia amazing views out through here and through here on the way down so out of all these it’s only number two tick off maybe that tomorrow lunch some of the places around here have the most magnificent Gardens and they’re really really well maintained have a look at this one now I know good edging when I see it and that’s some good [Music] edging [Music]