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    Our Favourite Cycling Products Of All Time – The Wild Ones Podcast Ep.18



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    Francis is back, and this week we’re chatting about Mark Cavendish’s new hopes for a record-breaking Tour, UCI controversy at the Gravel World Championships and expensive but cool bike stuff that we love. Plus we play more overrated or underrated, and answer your questions. Here’s the full rundown.

    00:00 Francis is back!
    00:25 The Return Of Cav
    07:42 Wahoo Drops RGT
    12:03 Chaos At The Gravel World Champs
    17:57 Did Francis Miss His Calling?
    21:47 The Cool, Expensive Bike Stuff We Love
    37:46 Overrated Or Underrated: E-Bikes
    40:18 Overrated Or Underrated: Cobbles
    41:56 Overrated Or Underrated: Cycling Coaches
    45:14 Overrated Or Underrated: Bike Lanes
    47:21 Someone Made Us A ‘Fluff Up’ Jingle!
    49:03 Advice For Restarting Cycling After Losing Fitness
    55:39 Mike’s Free Bikes For Kids Project

    If you’d like to support Free Bikes 4 Kids, you can do that here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/raising-money-for-mike-puffajones?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

    Also check out Francis’ Zwift Double Everest here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV17fgB-bkQ

    And his BMX Everest here:

    If you’d like us to send in a question, story, some good news, things you’d like us to discuss or anything else, email us at wildonespodcast@cademedia.co.uk
    Thanks and see you next time.

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    1. Shep Shape on

      As someone who has been in the shoes of the person who had to deal with mental health issues, weight gain, loss of fitness (I lost 160lbs cycling), my advice would be this: Start out slowly of course, set small, attainable goals, but more than that, if you can find someone to ride/walk/run/workout with, it'll help you stay on track. I've always found that if I had someone counting on me to show up, I'd always show up, whereas if I was just supposed to train by myself that day, I might be able to talk myself out of it. Best of luck.

    2. Vendetta Brown on

      Lifting weights might be the most underrated thing you can do for mental health. Cardio targets different parts of the brain, also amazing for you. Lift weights. Your 70 year old self will thank you someday.

    7. Robb Chastain on

      I like the long length of gravel races/events here in the States and I would liken it to super challenging road fondos for which riders pay real money to ride on public roads in a group event. And the gravel length is akin to the big rides of adventurers and vacationers and if you are going to spend the time and money for Kansas, as an example, why not make it a 12-hour day and return home with lots of laughs and memories, better that than a quick ride which doesn't really feel like it was worth the effort. On the other hand, if I were a local in Kansas and there was a year that I was stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, I could see driving over and simply doing the 100-mile length or whatever as it would be more a combination of a local ride and a world-class sporting event. Plus, historically, we in the States have been enthusiastic over off-road motor-sports such as Baja and desert races. And that form of racing for motorcyclists was initially based on big British scramblers.

    9. Rivnuts on

      Yours are the only 1-hour long videos that I look forward to watching and make it all the way to the end. It’s the variety of topics that intrigues me. Good job

    10. anthonybrown75 on

      I deal with mental health. I was up to 315lbs. I set my goal as 50 miles a week. Very achievable. I have not made it every week but have most weeks. Started Feb 21st, I am now at 260 and still riding. Riding is my woosaa. Find your your happy place and do it.

    13. Jonathan T on

      a) did not know Francis had human hair underneath a cap
      b) you and Jimmi are obviously friends as you've let him wear the team hat
      c) glad the podcast/chat style video is back and you're not whining about stuff people dislike – the world has some rubbish events going on at the moment and your content which focuses on chat or positive things is definitely a good thing IMO

      Keep up the awesome content everyone!

    15. Kram Renrut on

      No not top tube pumps they were the ali ones that sat between a pair of pegs, they were originally seat tube pumps but then now we all have two bottle cages, for anyone still using rim brakes you can feet the pump on the seat stay at the drop out to the seat clamp, still have two original silka pumps (well over 50’s rider)

    16. W2HTLCA on

      Relate to Emily’s comment about the mindset we can fall into once we achieve a fulfilling level of fitness. I found myself fretting over going on holiday if I was unable to ride. It took some time, but now focus on balancing my aims for health and fitness with the enjoyment of holidays.

    17. Carl Chambers on

      Your discussion that some bike lanes are overrated made me think of ‘sharrows’. I don’t know whether you have these in the UK. They are symbols painted on the road, two chevrons and a bicycle, indicating that bikes and cars will be sharing a lane. They were originally intended to direct cyclists to lower speed roads and to alert auto drivers that bikes may be on the road, but they are often (usually) misused. When towns and cities are under pressure to make their roadways more bike friendly, rather than go through the political and engineering challenges of making good bike lanes or separated bike paths, there is a huge temptation to slap some ‘sharrow’ paint on the roads, including high volume and high speed streets, and declare victory.

    19. DaxPlusPlus on

      Just once I'd love a road to be converted so that it has to give way to all joining side roads like some cycle lanes – so that some drivers might get an idea of what a rubbish that is.

    21. howard moore on

      that thing about wanting to get healthier, without letting the prospect be so daunting or somehow embarrassing that you don't . A couple of things that I have done that worked : 1. going for rides to explore, where the length and intensity were not the focus- one winter I did a thing where i did counter clockwise loops, each time going out the way I had come in the time before. 2. doing something where there are people who will say hi- like participating in a hiking series.

    22. Melissa Sinclair on

      Bike lanes are something that can be so useful, but if they aren't maintained well with frequent sweeping, they are useless. I used one the other day in the US and it is separated from cars – great, but there was so much debris on the road – walnuts in their shells, large and medium size branches and a dead deer. How could I use that?

    23. Sabrina McCarthy on

      As someone who has majorly struggled with mental health challenges, the thing that has gotten me out cycling was getting an urban e bike, I have a road bike that honestly has been sitting in my shed for years because I couldn’t ride it (mentally the hurdle was too high, and then I ended up out of shape) and getting an e bike and replacing car journeys I would otherwise be driving has made a huge difference (and the step to e bike for purely transport purposes made the mental hurdle much easier) and just regularly going out on a few miles every day or two has made me much more able to tackle longer rides and improved my mental and physical health

    26. Alien Audaxer on

      I was pretty excited about the "road feel" feature of my Tacx trainer before I tried it. On Zwift riding on the gravel sections makes it make a weird metallic grinding sound. I thought it was broken and was dreading having to send it back. The wooden panels feel nice though. Cobbles, not so much.

      On the subject of cobbles, the worst ones I've experienced are in northern Germany. Proper cat head sized ones which are a nightmare on a road bike.

    27. Onyxaxe on

      Jimmy: I think the Tour De France stages should be shorter.

      Would that still be a tour then lol? Like do you want the whole race to be shorter or just the stages? Even so then it'd be like 10 short rested crits lol.

    29. Pink As A Pistol on

      I don't get the Chris King thing at all. They don't make a functionally better product than brands charging four times less. Moreover, they were late at the integrated headset thing so they spent quite a bit of time claiming those were bad and dangerous, just because they weren't able to offer one then. Besides, integrated wasn't a nice standard for Chris King just because there's no space to laser their logo ten times in the space of 5 centimeters, in the boldest font that you'll have compared to every other component of your bike. Huge douche vibes as far as I'm concerned.

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