A 1000km ride with 26,000m of elevation gain (that’s three times up Everest!) over 25 brutal climbs in the beautiful Swiss Alps. Ollie Bridgewood takes on the Tour des Stations Ultimate 1000 – the hardest challenge we’ve ever done here at GCN! Can he conquer the mountains and complete this truly epic ride? Cycling doesn’t get tougher than this!
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30 Comments
What is the biggest that you've ever done and where was it? Let us know 🙌
WELL DONE! My longest ride is only 280km. I thought that was tough. Great GCN video as always.
So do you still class yourself as an average rider?
All Ollie wants is aero gains but @gcn still won’t make a race skin suit for him 😢
Lost for words, what an epic effort and achievement!
What an awesome video and personal accomplishment! Riding in Switzerland never disappoints and this video showed all of the natural beauty that keeps me flying over the pond every summer. This has to be the best GCN episode to date and there have been some great ones. The quality of the content the team keeps putting out is next level!
Fit aerobars to be able to change position
Absolutely amazing!
Dr Ollie B you are an absolute machine bro! Well done. It's been awesome watching you develop as a rider over the years into a challenge eating animal! Thanks for the great content and also a big thank you and well done to the GCN crew!
GCN.. why haven't you guys done Paris Brest Paris Audax this year……😢
Worst feeling in life is waking up from that short sleep and getting yourself to get pedalling again… Man.. respect bro
Ollie should be part of the next impossible route.
There will be an event where vegan cyclists and gcn will meet
i admire you oli you are a real role model.
explain to me: how can you cover so many kilometers on a completely new bike without bikefit? i could only do it with my favorite bike, but never this distance of course, hats of to you guys
Awesome job Ollie.
Chapeau, Ollie and the team. Inspirational stuff! Thanks for sharing with us. On a side note, I'm kind of wishing I had that van to travel in.
Awesome stuff ollie and the crew.
👍🏆🏅
Congratulations, Ollie, to you and the GCN crew. What a phenomenal achievement. Respect.
This is madness. But i would like to try something like that.
kudos
good. now that your base training is finished, time to smash 450W on your 20KM TT 🙂
Huge physical effort. You asked me how much I’ve done! I’m a million miles off. I did 4,200m of ascent over a weekend at a gravel event this summer. More than enough for me. However I’d like to made a point about gearing. If the pacing strategy went wrong on the first climb. Surely that’s got to be a gearing problem. What was the bottom gear 34×32? Surely you’d want 30×34 at least
Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Biking man origine is a great race as well 😊😊
Cracking effort. Well done !
I wonder if one Of the other Presenters is dumb enough ( again) to say about this ride "can't be that hard".
That's just absolutely NUTS, congrats Ollie you're not an average rider anymore for sure 🔥🔥
Just wondering, is GCN like "regular" companies that give annual performance reviews? if so, how the heck do you rate Ollie versus his peers?
You’re a freaking beast, Ollie! Mad props, man! Pleasure watching you accomplish amazing things!
Congratulations to all great video 😊.
"I can't look behind me" What a trooper! Great way of looking forward and keeping up the pace 👍🏻.
Awesome