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Lachlan Morton hasn’t killed the Spirit of Gravel, Lifetime Grand Prix has. The 1hr highlights coverage package is terrible. So hyped, so frustrating not to be able to watch more of the actual races, too much focus on the commentators and above all, too much focus on the elite top 10. ...The Spirit of Gravel is the 99% of participants who are not in the elite races. The coverage of Unbound should be 50/50 divided between the elite races and the general participants, to celebrate the true Spirit of Gravel ...which is participation. This is what Unbound is built on. The coverage should be less broken and more cohesive, showing more of the actual racing. The commentary is presented as if we have watched the whole race, when in reality we see only snippets inserted amidst commentator hype. Very disappointing coverage, especially given the whole race is filmed by vehicle and chopper. Currently the hype is more important than the actual overall event. This is what's killing the Spirit of Gravel, not the elite riders, who are all awesome. …But no more awesome than every other finisher, who is competing with themselves and enjoying being part of the Spirit of Gravel.

You two are naive beyond belief. What did Greg say? Power curve to rpm on the climb. Empirical science is there to prove doping evidentially. History is there to prove the probability. Just ask your namesake David Walsh and read L A Confidential. Pogacar is in my view a doper. I know the history of cycling well and it is synonymous with doping from strychnine to steroids to EPO and beyond.

Lachlan drinking beer before the podium was pure gravel. Keegan would have made it a better race had he not crashed. He was ahead of Dylan Johnson who was in the mix for spots 3-13 (finished 10th) and Dylan caught Keegan with Matt Beers after the crash.

The old axiom: traditions are solutions to problems that we did not know we had. When people throw off traditions, then the problems begin to resurface.

What does Benji know? He never was doped to his gills in a brutal late summer La Vuelta to win it all at the ripe old age of 42, the perfect age to start winning Grand tours. Your point would be valid if these doped riders turned "expert analysis" men actually told the truth about what was going on when riders get back from a rest day and are suddenly the latest "miracle", full of new bags of blood and vials of EPO. Instead of just babbling on and on about putting rivals to the sword.

Really great podcast thanks Anthony!

What a load of Shite. Froone was just far better than the rest .

You guys are at least three years behind the "death of tHe grAveL sPiRiT!!11!!". "T3H GrAv3L sP1riT" died when someone named Peter Stetina and some other has-been-pros started waxing poetic about the spirit of gravel and then using sad poetry to dictate how the front of the bunch runs and races.

Top man the Beast!!

Lemond is a loser. Get over it

JP: you don't need any of the stuff that they've been going over for the last 9min. In the beginning, wear what you're comfortable with. IF you decide to race AND you're at the pointy end vying for wins, then do what the pros do. I still wear mtn shoes, but there seems to be a trend for road pedals and shoes. You'll want to run lower pressures than you ever thought. There are a couple pressure calculators that work well, but you'll still need to experiment HTH

I Don't care about what they ride They just need to stop promoting poison like coke and Gatorade red bull

The man won Tour Divide… needed rest. Had to back off the efforts and be ready for Unbound. The talk I would like to hear about is, the Aid Stations. In road you don’t attack in the feed zone, gravel don’t care. As for the Gravel World champion, well, when will we see a real course that reflects real gravel? The guy rocks up with two teammates and 40mm tires, what a joke! I’m glad he got a lesson in that half ass rainbow jersey!

Well done. MUCH beter than Nero show!

Lachlan is a lot of talk. He was smashing out 30 hour weeks on the run up to Unbound. Hardly the ‘just going with the flow and just doing what I love/not following high performance’ attitude he likes to promote. Lots of people chat a lot of shit, to present themselves in a way that they want you to see them.

Mate, you need to say “women’s team”…it’s not the “females team”. Just like there are elite men, it’s elite women. Thanks for the great guests on the show.

Using mountain bike shoes .. unless you are in the tdf

Been hit with bright lights and colourful kit. if a driver doesn't want to register you they wont. It might help a little....but it isn't an absolute.

Great hones discussion 👏 👍 👌

LeMond the greatest American cyclist, EVER!

Hi guys! Love the podcast. Regarding fluorescent gear, there is a study from Flinders University, commented on others channels (GCN), that found out that “Safety vests and helmets make cyclists look ‘less human’ to other road users”..

Lachlan puts in the crazy time/miles. The Tour Divide is a good example!

fascinating when real riders talk mechanics

Lachlan is definitely the spirit of gravel. He wore what he wanted in spite of what people thought, he drank beer the night before, He rode the Continental Divide for fun and stages of the TDF in freakin sandals. He didn't have any teammates like Keegan or Moric. He had a coach, but told the coach what he wanted to do. Quit racing road because it sucks and basically is a dirtbag biker just cruising around. He went the wrong way. And he still beat everybody. That's gravel. Experimenting with what works best for you is gravel. He wanted to try an aero helmet? It's no different than trying a snickers bar at mile 90. It's the lack of rules that is gravel, not making people conform to what you think gravel should be. Saying he can't wear aero socks and an aero helmet is the opposite of the spirit. If he wants to ride a huffy with unicorns on it and a clown wig, that's gravel. If the point is to go slow by wearing and using the slowest gear possible like some people want to do, then the spirit of gravel is no different than to just sit in the parking lot and talk about what it would be like to actually go somewhere. Complainers are just jealous he had the balls to try stuff first. It's just choices. He didn't try harder than others, he just didn't stick to the status quo, which is literally what gravel is about.

Gravel - and Unbound, was epic. So happy for Lachy.

Honestly? Does that mean you usually lie so you must announce "honestly" before speaking the truth?

are yah dating keegan already? did lachy give yah the brush off years ago? c'mon love, lachy pasted the boys - he did what he aways does and he knew something - he knew just how hard it is to make speed atop such chunky gravel. the difference between his move this year and others is not the people behind him - it's not that they couldn't make up their minds - because when they did, the group parsed quickly down exponentially as the miles dwindled... No it wasn't what happened or did not happen behind that allowed morton to win, it is that lachy did not falter. he finally is in a space inside where he can finish what he starts. that's what happened. crashes - there were crashes and you and others have said it was because it was a bit crowded and nervous - but more than that, it was that they were all trying to push it to catch the leaders over really really chunky stuff and there is a terminal velocity over that stuff - people were pushing the physics envelope er boy keegan included - lachlan figured that out = note the size tires he started using last year - before everyone else... much love and much respect to you and yer channel.

When there is money involved, everyone will do whatever they can to win. Ridiculous to think otherwise or expect "your heroes" to not do whatever they can to win

😂 wrong friendo. His bike set up ain’t nothing crazy

Seems like gravel is for those who couldn’t cut it in the World Tour. I don’t respect anyone who uses expensive marginal gains to gain an advantage over those who might just be better in a fair fight!

On descents for speed, look at the road ahead, go light in the seat, this will help control the bike, weight on the outside pedal ( down ), and weight on the inside of the bar. Learn the racing line.

Lemond is so bitter than Lance obliterated his records

oooops

Think we discovered insane training loads don’t always equal insane performance. MB, KS and SGV seem to have left at least some of their legs at the training camp.

This is the hardest podcast I've ever watched. It's gut-wrenching, especially as a victim of a bad car/cycling crash. I don't even tell my wife how many close passes, incidents I have.

No mention of doping and Armstrong lost 7 TDFs latterly?

I'm thinking it may be a mechanical advantage that enables him to quickly separate from everyone else. Look at his attack on La Redoute in L-B-L. There's a closeup of his hands on the hoods as he accelerates, but one of his thumbs is on top of the shifter in an unnatural position and he's pressing it down repeatedly. Once he gains his big separation he cannot be seen doing it again. He also did the same thing in the Giro last month. I'd love to think I'm imagining it, but....

Along with Alex Dowsett’s, I think Dan’s book is one of the best cycling autobiographies I’ve ever read. Far from the usual anodyne account of a career, it’s a much more open and honest account of life as a pro, as well as the personalities within the sport. Well worth a read.

Stairs kill alot of people.

Class rider!, was one of my most gutting moments watching cycling when he crashed out at the finish of LBL! was always enjoyable seeing him race, much more relatable than the vast majority.

I've been cycling on the road for 50 years and it's definitely gotten a lot more dangerous out there. Today, there are way more people on the road then when I first started, and they all seem to be in a real big hurry. I believe most think the roads were made for motor vehicles and bicyclists shouldn't be there. Now, to make matters worse, the drivers are constantly distracted by their digital devices. I have to say that many people are still curtious and they give me sufficient room, but there are still those few that are mean spirited and reckless in their actions. Today I try to spend as much time as possible on dedicated paths that are farther away from car traffic because I fear that my luck will run out soon and things aren't getting better.

Thanks for the video and the session! I watched a video with Matt Beers who also trains with John. From this point in the video he speaks about his Metabolic interval training session. When he focuses on using lactic acid as fuel, "buffer" lactic acid". I am wondering if anyone knows at which zone, it is FatMax that he is riding at most of this workout before he does his 10-20 hard effort in the end? Also does anyone know if he is eating anything before and during these workouts? czcams.com/video/vAaoIbG54ig/video.htmlsi=WejheWrt16yAYNQz&t=404

Tyler seems like such a humble guy and many bike racers from that era definitely suffered from their poor decisions.

Tyler is a nice guy, but forgiving, even in the most.totalizing way (a christian way.i would say),doesnt mean necessarily to say "wow he is cool, isupport him!"... This is being stupid or naive at.best in my opinion. Everybody should behave well, people like armstrong are a cancer to the world. We can say a murderer is a murderer because of his childhood, but still we have to condemn him, otherwise how about our society? Our community??

The excuse of saying: the doctor did, for it was his role, otherwise someone else would have done.... Well, it doenst work with me, for in my opinion you should say: no, im not doing this, let someone else do it, but im not. If everybody think lime this, no one is doing it. However theres a difference between proper doctors (ferrari, even if he is evilish) and random doctors who can create massive health problems to athletes (just think about pdm....). But still there is cheating to become more than you are, theres cheating just for youre the best, but you would finish mid-group if not doping, and doping foolishly, endangering your health. I never heard so much of hamiltons words, for in my opinion he is not the smartest guy out there, and he is pretty naive. But he is a really nice and hinest guy! And this is probably why he fell completely into "the system". So not like pantani (the phenomenon once in a gen) doping to regain his place where he deserved, amd not like armstrong (doping contiously to become the best even being the worse of the peloton)

Hub motor that's what happened

Conconi Is some 85yrs old... Anyway conconi Is a different case for i think he was more into studying the effects, and trying to reach the best, not with the aim of cheating or getting superrich... Ferrari Is there formoney instead, and conconi cut any connection with him already in the '80

After Hinault we had two fenomena, two of those "One in a generation": Lemond and Pantani. Champions were Indurain ullrich contador, but Lemond and Pantani without doping and bad luck would have monopolized races

That was a brilliant pod nice one guys 🙌

I have a GoPro Hero 4 that's been laying around my apt. I've actually been considering using it again lately. However, a guy at the local bike shop told me he has cameras on his front AND back, which w/LA drivers makes sense. Unfortunately, I don't have the money for another GoPro at the moment. These things tend to get expensive. I also don't have a computer at home to download footage, so in the past, I've simply had it recording in Loop Mode for some protection.