Use doping, and think to get away with it. (Not a cynical man here, I don't think they are all on dope, just a fan that's very amazed whenever a rider is caught.
Wanting to ride on the front of the bunch in a flat stage's final 3 km. Whereas if only sprinter teams would be up there, the likelihood of crashes will be greatly reduced, so no harm for the gc riders (and maybe provide a 'safe zone' of 12 km or something?)
Odd question, is there a maximum weight limit for bikes? I'm wondering why pros don't use 6.8k bikes uphill and then change to a heavier bike for the descent :¬]
@@gregor9921 Probably because being heavier only yields very slight advantages if your profile is more streamlined, and also because the bike change will likely cost way more time than you'd gain from such a scheme - especially if you have to climb up another mountain again as well.
@@gregor9921 There is generally no place you could easily do a bike change at the summits; they are tight and team cars are back a bit. So you'd have to stop and wait for your team car while your competition rides away. And the do the same thing at the bottom of the descent. Not to mention most grand tour descents have sections that are tight at twisty and having extra weight might actually make you slower and/or put a lot more stress on your brakes.
@4:54: To be fair, a good stainless steel brake cable that's 1.6mm in diameter can be loaded to >235 kgf (517 lbf) of tension. That means you can actually hang rider, bicycle, bottles and even a musette full of goodies off a single brake cable.
@@LBLLBLBLBLB Melting tub glue is a thing. The tubulars will roll off the rim if the weather is hot (e.g., Le Tour is during July), and the riders don't practice good technique (i.e., don't drag down long hills).
Actually with riders of 65kg you can hang about three of them plus bikes and gear on it. So you just need 3 wires to hang up an entire pro team during the tour. Well if that's not useless knowledge.
Fun fact: 17 is thought to be unlucky because in Latin numbering it is XVII using the same letters used in the word VIXI which is the past tense of VIVO (“I live”) and means I used to live and thus I’m dead.
#11: Get medical assistance from the neutral race doctor out of moving white convertible without stopping. Thibaut Pinot wasn't too happy with the bandaging job they did for him this year, but they couldn't exactly fix a torn muscle without stopping.
I just want to say that this video is excellent; each point was short but gave a lot of info, it was really fun to watch with you two bantering! Love the channel guys!
when they fill up with all those bottles, they most of the time are doing that to give bottles to their teammates, so only one rider has to go back and then come ahead again, instead of having every rider do it for himself
@@thewatcher9778 I mean the science is already out. For every force is an equal and opposite reaction- you blow air out your face, your face is pushed back. It's just a matter of whether you care
Luke Rowe asked G if he wanted a jacket as he was in charge of bringing them up from the team car. G said no but when luke got back with the jackets G was like... I'm actually a bit cold so luke gave him his. A spectator on the side of the road handed him a newspaper as he didn't have time to get back to his team car.. He mentioned it in his podcast
"fare 13" (making 13) is linked to the win of the totocalcio schedina, a football betting scheme where guessing all the 13 football game meant winning the highest prize
"Fare 13" it's an old bet called Totocalcio where you could do years ago in italia; There was a pre-setted card with 13 soccer matches on, from serie a to serie c where you had to choose the ending of every match with a sign on Win or Draw, 1 X 2. The anagramm of "17" - XVII is VIXI and it means dead
It's weird that they allow fans to get that close to them. It's so easy for someone to trip them, throw things at them & even say offensive things that could offend the cyclists.
@@johnnytsunami6185 Yeah lmao perpetually offended SJWs are failures at life who are incapable of putting in the effort of being a pro cyclist like this.
Being chilled does not cause a person to get sick. Sickness is caused by germs. There's an actual reason to use the newspaper down your jersey - to maintain core temp during the descent and not get too cold which would negatively affect performance. But to do it not to get "sick" is a silly superstition.
"Fare il tredici" in Italian has nothing to do with 13 being a lucky number. It is related to aport betting, particularly to totalcalcio, where there were 13 games played. So if someone guessed correct results of all 13 games was definitely a lucky winner.
Usually it’s not a problem for the men either. The human body can take in up to 1,2 litres of water an hour, but can consume much more. In high heat conditions, it can be as high as 2,5 litres an hour, meaning that the cyclists are constantly dehydrating themselves. In case of emergency you can always go full triathlete, and just have a trickle down yourself.
I used to use newspaper up the front of the jersey on cold wet spring race days as well as descents, amazing insulation. For keeping cool, half frozen sponges were popular the Hinault was racing, went down the back of the neck... One of the best things you can learn is to have a piss on the bike, makes life a lot easier..
Number 17 is unlucky in Italy because the Roman Numeral is XVII, which can be rearranged into VIXI, which I think means "death" or something similar to that.
Dumping water weight is no joke. I can attest from long distance backpacking (and those with military experience who do long ruck marches). If you know you're near the end and won't need additional hydration, that extra water is just slowing you down. Also, I can imagine that in a stage race, they aren't just saving a dozen or two seconds on that stage; they are saying a little bit of energy long term. A little bit less they have to recover overnight until the next stage. Even just a little less time under tension can make a difference when parity among competitors is so tight.
I take back what I previously said about 18 being unlucky number in Italy according to the website you are correct 17 is the unlucky number so I don't know why there was no 18 dec on the ship
Well, the # 13 is an unlucky number BUT if you flip it upside down, it turns into a very lucky #. 😊 Same with 666, flip it upside down it's good luck (or is it just an indian area code?). 🤔
this is not on the video topic but i have a question. Have you ever had a video about rear cassette and how to select one upon your needs ? matched with the Sprocket there is a "communication" between both that i just Don't understand what's best for me. What's the difference between a certain rear cassette between another ..same for the sprocket..Thanks and Cheers from Montreal !
It's not just the number 13 that's considered unlucky, it's Friday the 13th. In 1307, King Philip was the King of France, and he had long wanted the riches accumulated by the Knights Templar. So on Friday, the 13th of October, he had them rounded up. They were subsequently tortured into confessing to crimes they hadn't committed, and then killed.
ration your consumption of electrolyte drinks (ex. Nuun tablets that dissolve in your water - they have magnesium which relaxes your muscles to avoid cramps, but magnesium has laxative effects), basically don't chug a whole bottle of it within the first 2 hours of your ride. And don't overeat - keep it around 100 calories every hour & have a light lunch [my go-to is a boiled egg, a banana, & half a sweet potato]. Make sure you poop before the ride [less likely if you're rolling out at 4/5am] after your morning coffee/caffeinated beverage, lemon water first thing also helps. Don't overeat as you carb up the night before.
This was the most confusing and tangent riddled explanation ive ever heard. The question was why they squirt water out the bottle, and you start explaining the mathematical process of keeping on time!? The hell lmao
Let’s just remember we are talking about cycling, we are a weird bunch. We get hard for pain, shave until we are more smooth then marble, spend hundreds if not thousands on saving just 50 grams or to be more aerodynamic, wear short yoga pants with a build in diaper, wear helmets that us look like sonic the hedgehog and make us feel as fast as him except we don’t go much faster anyways , and much more.
If you can get a magic bike it climbs unbelievably at 25 pounds i had one it's a very rare thing to have the bike was so damn fast i could jump cars 45 miles an hour and stay behind them i'll could fly up hills ! Thank you specialized bicycles for helping me out your the best ever.
Anyone noticed this? It kind of confuses me when the older guy is talking and keep looking into the camera and then insecurely switches to left side all time to check if he said it right or not
I'd say one of the weirder things is disc brakes. On road bikes. They make sense on mt bikes and cyclocross for wide tire clearance and because of the possibility of muddy rims, they seem less than useful of road bikes esp. in fair weather. Is this just about the sponsors making them do it to bump sales or is there a performance benefit to this?
😬 isn’t nutella like liquified chocolate?! That would ruin my stomach in any road race , I guess everyone is different ! this why I tell some don’t follow , figure your self out
But chocolate is basically cocoa/cacao, which has flavonols that aid muscle recovery and increase blood flow. I'm not a Nutella person either, i'd rather have hot cocoa.
I hate to correct you when you said in Italy the unlucky number is 17 i went on a cruise with MSC cruises which are Italian and they had 19 Decks on board but there was no number 18 Deck when I looked into this it was because in Italy the number 18 is the unlucky number
"Riders relying on that 1.6mm diamterer wire to stop them ....." Like they have been doing for decades before the alterative started to become fashionable.
I've been using rim brakes for 12 years or so, and I've never not been able to stop. They're also MUCH easier to maintain. Disc brakes, you're bound to have either brake rub and squealing, or no brakes at all. Fuck that shit. I can easily fine tune my rim brakes to millimeters perfection within seconds, wile disc brakes are some kind of black magic where you fidle with some stuff and conclude with "nah, this is the best I can do" and go get a beer instead of riding
Adam Brickley I can set a disc brake up in 45 secs with no rub, brake bleed an average of 3 mins, pad change in less than a minute. They really are very simplistic. Wheels can be way lighter when rolling as you don’t need to have a braking surface on the rim which adds weight which then multiplies more than a disc as the diameter is larger when you add in rotary G forces. Let’s not even bring the subject of brake performance in poor weather conditions as I’ll be here all day. Discs are superior in every way, road cyclings about 20 years behind other cycling disciplines in brake technology. It’s not just “fashionable”
@@spainobmxer69 ive just bought new xt calipers and rotors. Wheel has had new bearings and trued. Disk still moved slightly from side to side. Any idea why?
Adam Brickley if it’s a six bolt rotor are you using the 3 spacers that spread across the 2 bolt holes? If it’s a centre lock disc there should be a spacer behind the fixing, it’s very similar to the spacer that goes behind a cassette lock ring on your rear wheel
They stop for pee breaks? And a lot of them too. That seems kinda weak. Specially if they're sweating. I remember working out in the sun and drinking water non stop, I could still go the whole day without taking a leak, pretty easily. These people don't stop to eat or to treat injuries, but they will for pee? THAT is weird to me.
Don't knock the ice in the sock trick as strange. I have done it way before I picked up cycling and before those neck things you can freeze while I was working outdoors. Still do it while out in this 100+ F summer heat,
Jeffrey Clark .. I mean if we look at the human autonomy most of the heat is pretty much everywhere but your feet, so if it’s about cooling your core temperature as he says then anywhere but near the core of your body or your head is actually kind of pointless.
@@ieatslag5947 Did you even watch the video? They put it down their jersey, and I used a crew sock full of ice around the back of my neck. It is not on anyone's feet
but what about the performance loss due to dehydration on a hot climb? Would they better having the water and staying hydrated, and having no performance loss due to dehydration? Allowing them to performm at a higher level longer. Sometimes I think they are too fixated on weight to their detriment.
You only need 1 bottle per hour so no need for two in the cages. Also smart teams have a domestique up the road so when the GC rider passes they will hand over their bottles. Finally, at the Crest of the climb theres a swanny waiting for the rider with another bottle. Therefore no need to carry two while going up climbs
I used to live in a semi high-rise apartment. It didn't have a 13th floor. Living on the 14th floor, I would have been on the real 13th floor. Except that it had a ground level and a mezzanine level. So in reality I was actually on the 15th floor. Point is people REALLY don't like the number 13.
What's weird is that they even use water bottles! They should use the kind with a straw where you wear on your body. It's better for your neck, not distracting, don't have to focus just on the water bottle, only have to use your hand for a second to put the straw in your mouth & it takes less energy.
