Is This The Future Of Bike Tech? | The GCN Show Ep. 212

The future of road bike tech, cyclocross world championships and the NEW GCN kit by ASSOS of Switzerland. It’s the GCN Show

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Si got all scientific the other week when he found out all about graphene. Graphene, it has to be said was (WAS) a solid bet for the future of road bike (and all bike) tech. Then, a day or so later, researchers at MIT created 3D graphene – basically the future wonder material for humanity, let alone cyclists. Let us know your thoughts down in the comments.

At the same time, Tom Boonen clocked the first professional win onboard road bike disc brakes. So, in a few years from now, is the future of bikes 3D graphene frames inspired by the shape of coral featuring disc brakes and wireless shifting? Quite possibly. It has us excited, at least.

The cyclocross world championships were epic. You knew we were going to say that, but, really, the battles between Sanne Cant and Marianne Vos and, Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel were EPIC.

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– From Israel Cycling
Academy Training Camp in the not so sunny Girona, Welcome to the GCN show. – From Bieles, Luxembourg,
Welcome to the GCN show. – Welcome to the GCN show. (yelling) (dramatic fast chains rattling) (yells) (dramatic music) – Yeah yeah yeah. (dramatic music) (crowd yelling) – Welcome to the GCN show. This week we look at the next
wonder material for bikes, and we also revel in a dramatic weekend at the Cyclocross World Championships. – We’ve got the best cycling news stories from around the world, and we hear from the
king of bling himself. (peppy music) – Not Lloydy. And if that’s not enough Tom, we also tell you how and
when you can get your hands on the new GCN Cycling Kit. (energetic music) This last week Tom Boonen made history by becoming the first rider to win a pro road race on disc brakes. Not that he actually used them to win, although they didn’t seem
to slow him down either, if you see what I mean. Cause he actually won a sprint stage of the Vuelta San Juan, pipping ace rider Italian
Elia Viviani to the line. Now he seems to be, Boonen this is, one of a number of specialised riders that are contemplating
racing that Venge Vias disc. We’ve seen Sagan messing around on his, and then if you check out this video here. Look, that’s Lloyd effortlessly
leading Marcel Kittel out of the Tour Dubai. Although the video does
cut a little bit short, I quite want to see what happens next, probably when Kittel drops a water bazooka and blows Lloyd into the desert. – Like how Andre Greipel backed
off a little bit from that. – Yeah – Maybe Marcel can back
off in a similar matter, but quicker with discs. – Test his disc brakes out, well maybe. – Now discs on road bikes
have been a thing for awhile, and they are all well and good. And you guys, actually, seem to be getting on board with them now. 85% of you voted, Tom Boonen
racing on discs this year, hot, last week. – [Simon] I agree,
definitely agree with that. Definitely. – Now, we don’t want to stop there on technical developments at GCN, because you might
remember a week or so ago, Si did an amazing video about graphene. And graphene could well be
the future of bike design, or at least Si said, it could help to push carbon
fibre and how it’s used on. But just a day or so later, researches at MIT somewhat
stole Si’s thunder with what could be a fantastic
advance in material science. – Yeah they did kind of rain
on my parade ever so slightly, but the fact is what they have discovered could have really a
pretty positive effects on the whole of humanity, not to mention what amazing
things it could do with bikes. Because what they’ve done, is they’ve successfully
fused flakes of graphene to make 3-D structures. You’ll remember from the video perhaps, that graphene is a
two-dimensional material, and so the only way it can help bikes is if you can add it to
stuff like carbon fibre, but here the substance
that they’ve created can be made three-dimensional. And what it makes is a substance that is 10 times stronger than steel, but 95% lighter, which is pretty mind blowing. Apparently it’s all down to the unique geometrical
structure of this new material. – Now all this talk of super,
super, super light bikes does, for me, raise quite an
interesting question, mate. Which is, if you can build a 3 kilo bike using graphene or this stuff, I can see that on a smooth climb that would make any rider a lot faster. – Yeah. Dan might keep up with me. I might keep up with you. That sort of thing. But, if you are on a
really flat rough road or a rough technical descent, would a 3 kilo bike
really have any benefits over a 7 kilo bike? – Or would it in fact hold you back, because there would be less
inertia in the wheels maybe? It is an interesting question, and I definitely think that, maybe, there is a
sweet spot for bike weight, but we probably just actually
need to check it out. Do you think we need to do some science? – I think we need to do some science. I actually have got my
science classes ready. Ready for science. – Ready for science! Let us know what you
think in the meantime, whilst we wait for Tom to do some science, because actually this is really important, can you be too light? I think maybe you can. – I tend to agree. Let us know. (bugle horn fanfare) – It’s now time for Cycling Shorts. – We’ll start Cycling Shorts with the hot news of the weekend, and potentially the biggest
non story of the week too. That’s because very well-respected
investigated journalists at 60 minutes, which airs on CBS, released their long awaiting documentary into mechanical doping in
the pro cycling peloton. The conclusion: inconclusive. – For me, Tom, I think it all hinges around the star witness, who is this Hungarian
inventor called Istvan Varjas, who supposedly created
the hidden motor for bikes right back in 1998, and then sold the exclusive
rights to an individual for 10 years, and then when 10 years elapsed started creating these
hidden motors again. My problem with him, is that no one has seemed
to check out his backstory or his claims yet, so he’s not really a credible witness. No one has seen any of his
supposedly hidden motors. So, for me, at the minute,
it does just feel like we’re missing some crucial evidence. Right, Tom. This is a story that I
think is particularly cool. Following up from last week’s piece about our weekend warriors,
the healthiest cyclists. Doctors in a borough of London in the UK are now going to have a new treatment that they are going to be
able to prescribe patients, and it will be a course of, wait for it, cycling. How cool is that? They will be able to
prescribe this cycling course to obese patients in order
to help them cycle safely, and therefore be able to ride and get fit, and ultimately end up losing weight. I just think it’s a brilliant initiative. – That’s an amazing initiative. Now, cycling shorts is usually
about the news in cycling, but perhaps not surprisingly, at least for the name of the segment, we are going to touch
on fashion this week. (Simon exhales) And that’s because, in the
comments of your first ride of Dura-Ace video,
Simon Knowles was really quite derogatory about your
use of arm warmers and shorts. – [Simon] He was. Now, I’m not going to lie, Tom, but that completely shocked me. I was ready for the storm of controversy surrounding the choice of
black shoes with white socks. That was fine, but this. Arm warmers? I wasn’t wearing them too
look cool, I must stress. I was wearing them,
actually, to keep warm, but I didn’t think it was
even a fashion issues, so I asked him as such, and he said that apparently in Australia, it’s a big faux pas, so we wondered whether
you lot could help us settle this matter once and for all. Arm warmers and shorts, cool or not cool? And if it’s not cool, what on earth are you
supposed to wear instead? Serious question. – I’d say arm warmers and shorts when it is cool outside,
and not really cold. I’ve always thought it a practical thing. We’ve got more fashion, because the king of bling, Adam Blythe, has been showing off his
new shoes at the Dubai tour. Look at these. – He has, look at that, seriously. Snake skin with 24-karat gold Nike swoosh. They would look pretty good with Sagan’s new wheels, actually. Now Daniel Lloyd, ever
the intrepid reporter, has actually risked the wrath of Adam Blythe’s mum
on Twitter, once again, and actually caught up
with Blythey out in Dubai. Let’s hear what he says about his shoes. – Here we are here with Adam Blythe, who is now the official head
of fashion for the GCN show. He’s going to be deeming
new products hot or not after the disaster which is
us saying these weren’t hot, which we got a lot of flack for, so we’ve promoted them to that point, but he’s going to go through his shoes. He hasn’t got the new ones
that you saw in Instagram, but he has got these. Talk us through them, because you can’t actually buy Nike cycling shoes these days, so where did these come from? – Yes. It’s just a guy in Italy basically, DMT soles with branded up Nike obviously, and then it’s just a guy
that makes the football shoes for all the football players. It’s just basically
any design that I want, within reason through Nike and
then they make them for me. – You design it yourself
at home and send it off, it comes back? – It’s not like the little details, I’ll find like a print that I like or a pattern or some colour, that’s it. Send it off and he’ll generally do it. – Well I do have to say,
they look pretty smart. We are looking forward to
seeing new ones very soon, unfortunately not here in Dubai though. – Thanks Dan. Away from sartorial matters now
and back to the nitty gritty where bike share schemes are big news, and nowhere more so than in China. Where the latest is that Foxconn, where they also make
the iPhone, good facts, will be producing 5.6 million bikes for one of the big bike
share scheme players, Mobike. That’s just fantastic news. – Great to hear. More people on bikes always good. Now unfortunately, we do
have to end Cycling Shorts on a sad note again, as the young and super talented
British rider Charlie Craig, unfortunately, passed away
within the last couple of weeks. He was just 15 years of age, and only very recently clinched the National Cyclocross
Series for his age group. So, he will be sadly missed, and our sincerest condolences go out to his family and his friends. (energetic music) – Caption of the week, and we actually had some
absolutely amazing efforts for our last caption of
the week competition. And the winner is Maciej Stefanczyk, who came in with, Some people
really need smart helmets. That’s pretty good. – It is pretty good, but you’ll have to cast
your minds back, obviously, to remember that that we were
talking about smart helmets, but anyway. This week’s caption photo is this one, which is an absolute pearler. We are obviously taking full advantage of the treacherous conditions
at the cross worlds. Tom, do you mind if I
have a go at this one? – Just go straight for it. – Alright. Disc brakes are so 2016, ass
brakes are the new thing. – That is, I mean, if you
think you can beat that, and I know that very
few of you will believe that you beat the caption
as excellent as Simon’s – Ass brakes. (laughing) – Leave your caption efforts
in the comments below, and don’t be deterred by
how good Si’s effort was, because the winner is going
to be one of you guys. You will win a GCN Camelback bottle. – Get it out, mate. Show them the bottle. Once you are doing that, can we just take a moment to look at how amazing that photo is, and how amazing the opportunities you have for creating far better captions. He’s still holding on to his bars, look. It’s as if he’s about to ride it out. – That is an amazing photo series. – Even though Lars Boom’s handle bar is wedged right between his legs. (energetic music) – Tech of the week, and Si, you saw some
very interesting stuff when you were over at Shimano last week? – I did. Obviously, all the new
Shimano Dura-Ace stuff, but Pro were out there as well, and they’ve launched a
couple of new components. Have a look. Shimano Dura-Ace Di2
press camp hasn’t actually just been about the new Dura-Ace, Pro have also launched
a few components here. So in my hand, I’ve got the new
Vibe aerodynamic handlebars, so you can clearly see that they have an air foil top section, and that is a naca air foil I’m told, which is the most aerodynamic,
optimal cross section that you can get, but the reason it it being
launched here in the Di2 camp, is actually it’s ability to
integrate with the new Dura-Ace. There is, you’ll be able to see an
exit for the Dura-Ace cable, and that’s because the
new Dura-Ace junction box can live as a bar end plug, and so you’ll see on my bike here. It means the junction box
is within finger distance when you are riding. One final feature that I particularly like is the fact that woven in
amongst the carbon fibre is an innegra fibre layer, what that means is that
should the handlebar suffer an impact, it wouldn’t give way catastrophically like some carbon fibre
bars are prone to doing. What it would do, is
actually hold it’s shape, so that you would know in advance that there was something wrong,
and you could replace it. So that would be after
a catastrophic crash or maybe you’ve flown with your bike and the airline squashes it. This Vibe handlebar is complemented by the Vibe stem as well, which has also been designed to be aerodynamically optimised. Part of that is the fact that
they put the bolts rear-facing as opposed to forward-facing, which I thought was kind of cool. And then lastly, we’ve got
the new Stealth saddle. Pro say this was designed to
be for the modern cyclists, and the aggressive fast-riding cyclist. So effectively it’s designed
to be ridden in a position where you are leaning
quite a long way forward, so you are more aerodynamic. And the way it accommodates
that is by having that large channel there,
so you can lean far forward. But also you notice, it’s
quite a short saddle, and so the idea, is that you can actually
move it further forwards, while still not falling foul
of the UCI’s regulations. – Aside from that, how
was your week last week? – It was pretty awesome
actually, it has to be said. I got to ride the new Dura power metre. Video about that coming soon. Got to ride the new
C14 and the C60 wheels. Video about that coming soon. And then to cap it all off, we happened to be
staying in the same hotel as Quickstep and also Giant Sunweb. One thing I did notice
about the Quickstep guys, those Venge Vias discs we
were talking about earlier, there were a few of those knocking around. Nicki Termpstra for one
was checking one out. So potentially, will we see the
classic squad go full discs? (energetic music) – The moment has arrived, the new GCN cycling kit is
now available for pre order. And not just one, but there’s actually
three different versions. – Firstly, our GCN pro team
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shipping from late march. It’s all there: jersey, bib shorts, vest, knee warmers and arm
warmers, caps and socks. As worn by all of us on
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price point as well. And there will be a women’s
version coming soon as well. – And to say thank you for your support, if you buy a set of GCN ASSOS kit, so a jersey and bib shorts, we will send a GCN bottle with that too. – Nice, and last but not least, as promised we have also created
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through the power of magic, there will also be a link at
the end of this video too. It’s probably not magic is it. It’s just you doing some clever stuff. – It’s not that clever. – Just Tom doing some stuff. – Just stuff. (drilling) – It’s time now for Hack
forward slash Bodge of the Week. Definitely one of our
highlights of the whole show. First of all we got this from
Tonne Trakulon on Facebook, This has got to be one of the
greatest hacks of all time. Now, when you haven’t got the right clamp for your front mech, why not use an old stem saw it in half, and then you
can use any mech you want. I can’t even work out
what bike that is, mate. – [Tom] I can’t, I just had my mind blown because I realised the
stem clamp diameter of 31.8 is actually the same
as most things anyway. Cause they are also 31.8. – [Simon] Unless it’s a retro
one from 25 whatever it was. – [Tom] 25.4. – [Simon] Anyway, genius,
genius hack there. That is a cracker. – [Tom] Next up Jason McCullum, kind of moving on from our
cycling-themed furniture, found this bar stool for sale on Ebay. (Simon laughs) – [Simon] Nice, look at that. What does the chain do? – [Tom] I don’t know. It would be quite cool
if you could pedal along, so you could burn off your
beer calories whilst drinking. – [Simon] Yeah, or you pedal
and it triggers something and it orders you another beer. I like that. – [Tom] This one is Jason Daw. I’m hesitant to say hack on this. It’s ingenious, but he just used a
bottle cage in a old car that doesn’t have cup holders. – [Simon] I think that’s a hack. – [Tom] Okay, it’s a hack. – [Simon] Yeah, for sure a man, a bodge would be just
sticking your water bottle on your dashboard and having it roll around
all over the place, and potentially get stuck
under your brake pedal, but that, there is going to
be no such issues with that. Nice hack. Alright next up we’ve got this one, the ultimate commuting setup, which I don’t know about
ultimate community set up. It’s another of these ones with utterly bizarre handlebar stem setups. That is pretty epic that, I don’t even know how that works. – [Tom] So you’ve got a stem, which is connected to a bit of pipe, which is connected to another stem, and out of the next
stem there’s a chunk of, it’s probably not steel tube, but it’s effectively steel tube
that goes up to another stem that points back over the other two stems where you have your riser handlebars. But the thing that really
confuses me about this bodge is I can’t imagine
anyone who is tall enough to sit on saddle that low
and reach those handlebars. They’d be like, how would you do it? – Imagine if you had a bump that things just going to snap in half. Right, that is a definite bodge, absolutely, bodge of the week. Although possibly this one
gives it a run for it’s money, because I believe that’s a
broom handle for a handlebar. – [Tom] I love, on this
broom handle for a handlebar, cause that broom handle is too
wide to attach anything to, he just drilled into it and
screwed the break levers on. – [Simon] Well, that’s quite a good hack, but the whole thing is
just a monumental bodge. This one actually looks a
little bit neater, doesn’t it? This one was sent in by @DO_KEG, who has built himself his
own laptop or iPad stand for when he’s wifting. – [Tom] Fair play. – That looks like some
pretty good joinery there. Hack. Okay I really like this one. (Simon laughs) For me this one it’s probably a hack. It’s from Jaime who said, “when looking for some bar mitts online, I came across this awesome alternative.” I don’t own Ugg or Ugg style boots, but if I ever do, I’ll now know what I’ll do
with them when they wear out.. – [Simon] They look
pretty good don’t they, stick ’em on your handlebars. – [Tom] With a bit of gaffer tape. – [Simon] Not only do you have warm hands, but you also have stylish hands, cause there’s no arguing with sheep skin. – [Tom] It’s also a
Cannondale Headshot bike with a pair of BMX
handlebars, which is a bodge. Finally Si, I know you want
to talk about this one. – Well yeah, this I love. This was sent in by Callum Crew. Now unfortunately it’s
not actually a tandem, as we first thought when we looked at it. Although it almost could be. What it is, is a man needed to transport another bike with him, and so he has fashioned this
nifty bike carrying device out of a panny rack and
load of old bungees. Good bodge. – [Tom] Good bodge. – [Simon] Fantastic bodge there. Make sure that you keep sending
your hacks and bodges in. We will decide whether
it’s a hack or a bodge, but whatever it is we’re
going to love doing it, so make sure you keep sending it in using the hashtag #GCNHACK. We should really have a
GCN Bodge one shouldn’t we? Actually, that’s double
the work, don’t do that. – Just #GCNHack. (energetic music) – Competition time now, and the winner of the Rotor
twin-power power metre and Rotor key rings
unboxing competition is, you ready? – Yeah. (drum roll) – David Ferenczi from Hungary. (cheers) – Congratulations David! – Apologies for the pronunciation David, get in touch and we will
make sure amazing prize. – He’s probably not that
surprised the pronunciation, I’m imagining he’s a regular GCN viewer. I’m also imaging there quite a few of you going to be slightly disappointed now. In fact, all but one of you
are going to be disappointed, but don’t let it hold you back. There is another competition
running live now on GCN. We are giving away, an amazing
Elite Drivo smart trainer, so in the description beneath
this video there is a link. Click on that and you get
through to the competition. (energetic music) – It has been an incredibly
busy week in racing. Firstly, we’re going to tell you about the World Cyclocross Champions, because what a weekend it
was over in Luxembourg. Frozen on the Saturday, and then semi frozen on the Sunday, which was as you remember, I’m sure, is one of the top three
slipperiest kinds of mud there is. – It’s well up there. The weather pattern meant that the women’s race
was run out in the ice, and it looked for most of the race that Marianne Vos was going to take her eighth career women’s
World Cyclecross result, which is unbelievable, but anyway. She had quite a close
battle with Sanne Cant, and partway though the
last lap Vos stumbled. Slipped her chain. Cant got back to her, which left a high-speed,
highly technical drag race right away to the finish. It was a real nail biter, but Cant just held her
off in the finish straight to take her first ever world title after many years of trying. Vos was second and Katerina
Nash came in third. – Yeah, it was an absolute nailbiter. My heart was in my mouth, but the one thing it
does definitively do Tom, I think it ends right here, right now, our long running joke about Sanne Cant, because now she’s got the
rainbow bands on her back. We will always know that Sanne can. (crickets) Alright sorry, moving swiftly on now to the men’s elite race, which was another absolute belter. It did look, it has to be said, as though mechanicals
were the order of the day. Mathieu van der Poel saw
his 20-second lead at half evaporate with four punctures
over the course of the day. But for my money, while
Wout Van Aert put in an incredibly mature and controlled ride, he started slowly, he
caught Mathieu van der Poel, and then he had enough in the tank to really put the advantage home, when van der Poel was struggling
with yet another flat tyre. Ultimately Van Aert was
a well deserved winner. Mathieu van der Poel an
unfortunate second place. And Kevin Pauwels was a very
distant third on this occasion. – Everyone was miles behind those two, and some people did put the prevalence of
punctures on that course, down to the fact that it was
frozen under the layers of mud and to account for that all the guys were running really low tyre pressure, but apparently some of the riders, Lars Van Haar included, had up to seven punctures, which must mean that
something else was going on. It’s not just equipment choice. The course was supposedly
on an old steel factory, which meant there’s a lot
of old building rumble and maybe even some sharp
steel shards under the mud, that they found after two days of racing. – That would be a real shame, I did think that Van Aert
looked a little more in control, a little bit smoother, but you can’t argue seven punctures that goes beyond bad luck. There’s something funky
going on there, isn’t there? – Almost one puncture a lap. Now it’s a really tech nerdy point, Si, but feeding into your
thing about Van Aert, perhaps looking like a smoother, more mature rider on the day. He chose to use green Michelin mud treads on his Dugast Tubalar, which are really hard to get a hold of. They are very old. – I’ve got a stash if you want. – Si, here. Get in touch
professional cross riders. They are in my opinion, having rid both those
and the Dugast Rhino, which is it most common mud tyre, I think that the green Michelin muds are slightly slow rolling, but
do offer slightly more grip, so Van Aert used a grippier tyre at a slightly higher pressure, which could have helped him
have slightly fewer punctures. – To road now, slightly fewer punctures
and an awful lot less mud. We will start with the Cadel
Evans Great Ocean Road Race, which is the first one-day
world road race of the year. Annemiek Van Vleuten
won the women’s event, and it was Nikias Arndt
who won the men’s event, just pipping Simon Gerrans to the line. – In Argentina, Quickstep force won an incredible five out of seven stages at the Vuelta San Juan. However, it was a much
improved at time trialling, Bauke Mollema who took the
overall victory for Trek. – And then up in the northern hemisphere at the Trophy at Mallorca, Andre Greipel took sprint
stage, and in doing so, I think has definitively proven that if Matt was still racing, he would have won that stage, which is an interesting thought, isn’t it? (Tom laughs) And then we’ve also got to
give a shout out to Dan Mclay. He won a stage as well, but then had to miss
the podium celebration, because he had crashed into
the bank of photographers after the line. Smashed himself up pretty badly, but he did Instagram this from
his hospital bed later on. “Super happy to win today in mallorca. The team was excellent! Regarding the crash
after the line, I’m fine! Still a beautiful as ever and
the moustache remains intact!” – It’s time now for Wattage Bazooka. – Man that was the flatest
Wattage Bazooka I’ve even seen. – I’m not Matt. – Here’s Wattage Bazooka (sighs). (beep) – It’s time now for Wattage Bazooka! (Simon laughs) (military drum music) (explosions) And with such a busy week of racing, it has taken a long time to sort through and pick the pro Wattage Bazooka. But Si, I think you’ve got someone. – Yeah, after much debate, this week’s pro Wattage
Bazooka goes to a man, who hopefully will find
some solace in this award, as opposed to his silver medal. And maybe he’ll even have
stopped crying by now. It is, of course, Mathieu Van der Poel. His Wattage Bazooka goes
for the fastest start ever seen in cyclocross. He dropped everyone by
the end of the start loop, and didn’t see a single rider until Wout Van Aert caught up with him mid race as he was two or three punctures
in to his puncture fest. – Two or three. – A very well deserved Wattage Bazooka, and hopefully some consolation that you haven’t got the
rainbow bands this year. But you’ll get ’em next year, it’s fine. – The viewer Wattage Bazooka
goes to Rachel McKinnon, who has made a breakthrough, she is now able to make the break, drive the pace in the break
and keep her pace really high. Great stuff Rachel. (birds chirping) – Tweet of the Week now and for the first time
in a couple of weeks, these are actually tweets,
not Instagram posts. Going to kick of with
Mathieu Van der Poel, who’s Sunday clearly
went from bad to worse when he posted this picture
of his cars’ computer system, notifying him that he had four flat tyres. (chuckles) – That is genius, isn’t it? That is unfortunate Mathieu, but an absolutely genius tweet. He could have Instagrammed
that one as well. – I think that was an Instagram as well. – Probably yeah. – We took it from Twitter. – And then this on from Wout Van Aert, arch nemesis and ultimately
the rider that came out on top. “Good way to make money
on a Sunday evening. No joking right now, I feel sorry for everyone
who had bad luck today!” And he has retweeted Igor Tavella, who is looking to put some of his stash of green Michelin wide grip tyres on eBay. – Igor would probably
get a pretty nice holiday out of that at the moment. – Probably would. Check it out, good stash. (energetic music) It’s time now for Comment of the Week, and as ever we have
been thoroughly enjoying reading everything that you have to say underneath our videos, and also Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter as well. This is one of the best
from Pietro Casteletti, had a laugh in a way. “Daniel and Matt still battling
for the sexiest voice-over!” To which when asked who wins? He said, “Daniel sounds more professional-sexy, Matt more romantic-sexy.” (beep) We think it might be a silhouette
of the Abu Dahbi skyline across the midriff as well, and it certainly growing on us. – His voice is just gone. – Yeah, I’m feeling a bit of pressure now. It did sound a little
like David Attleboro. (clears throat)
(mumbles) – Alright, are we on? – Yeah we’re on. (beep) – And all I would have to say Pietro is you’ve forgotten about
Jon “Chocolate Voice” Beven, the man with the sexiest
voice, not just at GCN, but arguably the world over. Jon care to add anything? – [Jon] Not at the present moment no. – C’mon Jon. – So, so chocolatey though. – Well from chocolate voice to Sugarman, who commented, “I want
to Si do the FTP test, he looks fit AF…even with
those horrendous white socks.” Which I think is harsh, and that had 18 thumbs up. – Yeah, well thank you very
much for the compliment. Maybe I will do an FTP
test this year actually, I’m quite interested, but
the sock thing, c’mon. Pete Sagan wears black
shoes and white socks now, and admittedly he is far more talented and much cooler than I am, but still, just trying to
follow in his footsteps. Any way the last one, is
this one from APOND58, who said, “Lasty needs to do
some upper body and core work to stabilise that upper body that flails like a wet noodle when
sprinting.” (laughing) Lasty you pulled that comment out, you don’t flail like a wet noodle, do you? – I just thought it
was a vague compliment, because when he said, “flails like a wet noodle when sprinting,” by default that means that I can sprint or he considers that I
might be able to sprint. No one has really ever been
that kind to me before. – Fair enough though, that you are looking
at Lasty’s upper body, most people I think probably
look straight at the gurney. (energetic music) – On the channel this week, on Wednesday we have got how
to do an ultra endurance ride. – Ooh. – Similar to other goals
though is the gradual build up, increase the length of your
longest ride each week, and do so gradually, because going in too long, too early, could do you more harm than good. Once you know what your end goal is, work out a plan about
how you can get there between now and then. – On Thursday, we’ve got the bikes that you need to know about
in the Pro Peloton this year, and on Friday it is, of course, Ask GCN. – Saturday, Tom here has had a close look at John Degenkolb’s brand new trek, which I personally am
very intrigued to see. On Sunday, we’ve got a doubleheader. We’ve got a brand new
unboxing for you, so make sure you check that out and
get your entry in early, and then Matt has also
challenged John Degenkolb to a head-to-head, to find out who the greatest cyclist is between the two of them. Then Monday, in Maintenance Monday, we have a look at steel bikes, and find out all there is
to know about that material. Tuesday? Tuesday? – Welcome to the GCN Show. (energetic metal music) – Ready mate? – Just about. – Good, cause it’s now
time for extreme corner and this week, I almost want to say, it’s as extreme as it gets, because this is BMX Rider Bas Keep. Over to you Bas. (energetic metal music) – Woah. No matter how many times I’ve seen that, that still absolutely blows me away, fair play Bas. But unfortunately Bas’ extremeness marks the end of the GCN
Show for another week. I hope you’ve enjoyed it. If you have, please
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subscribe to GCN as well. To do that just click on globe. – And if you would like
to pre order you very own ASSOS of Switzerland GCN kit, there’s a link on screen
to do that right now too. We spoke a lot about graphene
at the start of the video, and Si’s expose on graphene
in cycling is right there. – Expose I like that. And then also the video about the new Dura-Ace Di2 with hydraulic discs, that’s definitely worth checking out, and that is just down there.