Call of a Life Time Season 1 - Episode 2: UNBOUND Gravel (Men’s Race)
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- The Life Time Grand Prix riders pedal to Gravel City, U.S.A. (Emporia, Kansas) for the second and most intimidating stop of the series: Garmin UNBOUND Gravel presented by Craft Sportswear. Sickness, equipment controversies and unpredictable weather threaten to steal the athletes’ focus as they test their endurance and grit at the world’s premier gravel event: 200 grueling miles of tire-shredding, mud-soaked Kansas gravel.
A film by Cold Collaborative
Executive Producers: Kimo Seymour & Michelle Duffy Smith
Directed by Shannon Vandivier
Producers:
Bowen Parrish
Shannon Vandivier
Chelsea Jolly
Rebekah Sands
Ryan Cross
Edited by Blake Campbell
Assistant Editing by Tyler Domingue and Jill Garreffi
Field Producer: Chelsea Jolly
Consulting Producer: Payson McElveen
Cinematography by Bowen Parrish, Brian Freeman, Nathan McBride, Tyler Domingue, Chelsea Jolly, Austin Alvarado, Benjamin Kraushaar and Shannon Vandivier
Special Thank You to: 2022 Life Time Grand Prix athletes, the Life Time team and our partners at Mazda.
#cycling #gravel #mountainbike #grandprix #lifetimegrandprix #gravelbike
Learn more and follow Unbound Gravel:
www.unboundgravel.com/
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Thanks to everyone involved in the series. Just coming back from a winter of injuries so watched S1E2 while doing 30mins fast ( for me! ) on the static bike. Inspiring people like you are really helping me. Keep up the great cycling/filmin/commentary.
Will be sure to pass along your message to the team here @lifetimegrandprix! Glad to hear you're on the road to recovery, keep up the good work!
Now that was awesome coverage!!! Just what cycling in the Us needs!!!
This is an incredible series. Humbling and inspiring.
Lot of races just for fun in Europe bringing people together 😂. Just saying from a Dane. 🇩🇰😎 did several of events on my Road bike and gravel bike. Mountainbike races are also common but my skills sucks 😊
Yeah, I thought that comment by them was an uninformed one.
Wow very good coverage. Very lucky to stumbled with this.
Great vid! What a ride by Laurens.
Hooked on this series. This is like the MMA of different riding disciplines battling road tactics on gravel and mountain bike travels. EXCITING!
Cool vid!!! Tuff race especially with the rain guys
I'm confused about the riding in grass strategy on muddy sections.... When I attended the race prior to the lifetime acquisition Bob Cummings discussed how this damaged the prairie grass, caused erosion, and upset landowners during the riders meeting. I could be misremembering but I thought it was grounds for being disqualified.
Things change over time?
This is very high quality documenting amigosss. Thank you very much, very good production
I’m going to definitely buy a Mazda now! Great content!
Season 1 set the bar high! 🌟 Adding these timeless episodes to our collection. Already commented on Season 2, but the journey began here. Fantastic work!
Thank you!
Loved Payson’s summary of what happened after the race.
Found these by coincidence and loved them. Gravel in Europe is still really poor - US scene is amazing
Anyone else having trouble not binge watching the whole series at once? Im forcing myself to watch only one every episode every other day and its killing me!! I just want to know, who is the best!
hot sauce this!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great production! It takes a lot of work and effort to make this series possible.
Ivar with the classic euro tactics. slick is a fitting last name
Appreciate the nod and I adore what y'all are doing. Evolution is the process and innovation is the outcome. Great coverage on the men's side, would have loved to see the same for the women.
Thank you Chris 🙏 we hope you will keep watching, where you’ll see women featured in episodes 3 & 5!
@@LifeTimeGrandPrix Watching now...
@@LifeTimeGrandPrix Can you consider releasing videos of the uncovered sides per races please (wpemen and men) ? Just hungry for more and some drama has not been shown, 50% per episode actually, except on the first and last. Don't get me wrong all what you did is awesome, and that's why it's a bit frustrating, as for everything good : we want more 😜
Definitely wanted to see the girls race
Keep watching! Check out the next episode.
2:00 ever heard of the Tour de France? Love this series.
17:40 The Spirit of Gravel - has horns and a tail!
Pete seems like the kid in class that would remind the teacher about homework.
😂😂
I’m from Emporia KS! But move to Wichita! Now I’m still mountain biking and with my kids!
Fed ide 😊 at lave en præsentation af en ganske " almindelig " rytter - samt at høre om deres overvejelser og hvorfor. Gerne flere af den slags videoer.
Very interesting coverage showing the real dynamics during race: aerobars, wheel suckers,...
So well presented !!! Coverage and details I've not see before, just awesome !
The best unbound video coverage so far
I like this version of Ben Sachs so much more than the following year’s
Its ironic that they are making gravel more like road riding by adding all these rules.
Aero bars and anything other than ebikes should be allowed here. That’s the whole point. Do whatever you want and anything goes.
That part really made me laugh, glad I am not the only one that thinks that is goofy
I agree they all start doing EPO too, its gravel anything goes! Super kewl!
@@itstrbo Conflating doping with equipment choices is a bad faith take.
Pete is such a weenie
OMG, blaaaaaa ""the spirit of gravel""
when I was into cycling I was always against aero bars,
Dutch mafia for the win!
Looks like you really need a moustache!
The argument that he has against aereo bars is quite weak:
It seems that there is nothing wrong with all the aereo equipment used. Frames, wheelsets, helmets, bags etc, the cost of all of them add over thousands of dollars, but a simple aereobar for 150 bucks will give you way more improvment that all the other pieces of equipment combined.
Another point is the speech of trying to go away from all the UCI madness but at the same time try to impose your own set of rules, just because. The idea that He is not counting grams and calories for Unbound is just a nice sales pitch.
What brand jacket is Keegan wearing?
Awesome doc. Note to the organisation: please try and make the final few kilometers a bit safer. Cars driving on the roads, approaching the course from intersections, other cyclists driving on the narrow straight while the leaders are sprinting for the victory. Get this sorted out.
Ivar slickmeisterrrr 🔥 the smartest wins!
What did Keegan say to that guy who congratulated him at the end of the race?!
I know nothing about gravel but it looks kind of fun. Do they wear road shoes or mountain bike shoes?
Mountain Bike
People wear both honestly. More elite folks tend to go road but I have mountain/gravel shoes that clip into MTB pedals.
LFG Keegen!!
Ivar take a pull would ya!
Great job showing the men’s race!🙌A lot more speed and action then the women’s race.
part of the beauty of bike racing, not always the strongest wins… also what happened w the Women’s coverage?!?!?
Keep watching! Women and men have 50/50 coverage, with episodes rotating with a focus specifically on each. The next episode features the women.
Who cares?? JJ!
The videos are fantastic, great coverage and editing. Perfect to watch while sweating on a trainer! Only Payton's comments at the end of the vid were a bit unnecessary. Honestly, I understand the frustration just right after the event finished but the vid is out now in 2023 and it really comes across the wrong way. I can imagine it would have been great for the Americans to be able to cheer the winner by chanting USA! USA! whilst a bald eagle is screeching in the distance. But that did not happen, sorry. The final four had 2 guys from a country with no hills and no rough gravel - one retired pro well into his forties, one conti semi pro who despite his lack of gravel experience raced the smartest and won. Considering Ivar's track record in beach racing I think he would have beaten Keagan in the sprint even with more time up front but why take a pull when you don't have to? Also how would the race unfold if Ten Dam went full aero and had aerobars?
8.41 😳😳
No Alex Wild this year?
Agreed, that is a bummer.
ha, Payton re: Ivar.. Actually if you weren't such a fanboy of Keegan you would have realized Ivar Slik was actually the strongest rider out there that day. Keegan ran aero bars and used them frequently. It was his choice to lead so often. Poor racing tactics if you really wanted the win.
Ivar also had aero bars.
Yea, a lot of salty riders. You can laugh at Stetina's "Spirit of Gravel" complaints about aero bars, but Payson's comments about only Keegan pulling hard and Ivar not working sounded very similar. "Oh he was racing smart and not taking hero pulls, that's not the spirit of gravel." Just sounded like sore losing.
@@junksmiles creates some drama I guess. Funny how gravel is trying to be so inclusive yet suddenly a non US rider beats everyone there's this underlying superiority complex amongst the US riders which shows itself in comments not only from Payson but also Sofia about the tour de France (largely Euros) riders.
Just some observations
That comment about Ivar riding wheels. It's a big money marketing spectacle now, not a friendly community vibe. The racers seem to want to artificially maintain that, but this is what we get. He was doing what you do in a race. Being the most altruistic rider doesn't win. Would love to see low-key, grassroots gravel racing, but this stuff is all Walmart now.
I’m going to win this next year
Hipster Mecca
Stetina’s ‘spirit-of-gravel-don’t-use-aero-bars’ position
-or-
Win races.
Looks like the desire of athletes to win races is greater. Who knew!?!
Not the strongest, but the smartest.
Biggest in America yes, but biggest biking event in the world? 😅
They'll be calling it the world series next😉
"Unbound is one of the biggest cycling events in the US, if not the world"... Belgian cycling races get crowds of 800K+ and Tour de France? Unbound is great, but there are many bigger cycling events.
These are amazing but you guys should fire whoever decided to release these all on the same day. What a disastrous decision to do the exact opposite of what the CZcams algorithm needs in order to promote this content to the biggest possible audience.
I'm binging them tho can't complain
Helped me get through some over-unders on the trainer!
Yeah, missed a trick here.... drip feed this stuff
At the very least, a trickle would order them chronologically in their CZcams feed. Instead of the random order they came in
F the algorithm, let people binge ;)
On a serious note: I prefer the same day release over a really stretched out schedule. If I'm watching the first episode and then have to wait weeks for the next episodes (one per week e.g.) I probably won't see all of them... But maybe one per day would have been great.
if ppl do aero bars y not aero clothes?
“Lifetime has brought an energy to this type of racing”. Brought energy to one of the largest, most well known gravel races in the world? I mean, marketing is great and all, but….
Wow. Did they not interview the winner Ivar Slik? That’s bu..hurt. Ivar gefeliciteerd met de winst!
This is a Life Time Grand Prix film and he's not racing in the series.
Americans are banning aerobars for safety reasons... but you can bring your AR. 🙈 Road signs in Kensas full of bullet holes.
But aerobars are not banned...same with ARs. That's what good old American freedom is all about, brother!
@@nathanhaney91 they are, especially for the pros in some races.
When sports become professional they die of money poisoning.
These anti aero bar imbecil activists who keep [wrongly] saying it violates the spririt of the sport are clearly the ones who do not understand the sport they got into. They keep complaining about how they left road riding, expecting gravel would gave no aero bars? They though wrong. Thats their mistake.
The se activists should just go back to road racing and leave gravel alone. THEY are the ones who are messing this sport up, not everyone else.
Aero bars has been a part of long distance bike racing since aero bars were invented. It was standard equipment since very early on in the RAAM races, and then ling distance road tourists started using them because riding thousands of miles in the wind swept plains states has always been brutal. Then when long distance off road trails like the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route started to become popular, the were immediately using aero bars for the same exact reason the road tourists before them were, because a thousand miles of headwinds us unreasonable to expect peopke to deal with. Then, when gravel races started to become popular, particularly longer distance races in windy states, gravel racers were immediately using them since the very beginning if the sport. These guys should go pound sand.
And they are now banned!
Kimo Seymour: "Race number 2 in the series, probably one of of the biggest cycling events in the country, maybe the world" DUDE, ever heard of the Tour De France? Now if he had said, biggest event in gravel racing I would agree.
What on earth have you done to this race?
Laurens Ten dam was the boss. Bugger is in his 40's and is hanging on with guys like Keegan . A true elite level cyclist . And Boswell is another freak . Clearly shows the level of World tour. It will great to see someone like Wout Van Aert someday
I mean he went on an insane solo. If he just stayed with the group the hole time he would have had so much left in the tank
@@koreydeese890 I think he mentioned in a interview that he wanted to put on a show, which he did.
I met Peter in Tahoe one time. Super cool dude, but Laurens is my favorite cyclist.
Thanks for those great quality videos and coverage, the first race was perfect, but big fail on not covering the women race in this one. I mean guys seriously in 2023, when you watch Women MTB XC racing it is even more of a thriller than the men. You could at least explain why ? Did you delete the files by mistake ? Are you planning a second episode 2 for unbound women ? Come forward rather than wait for bad comments, it really looks like you just didn't care to cover it in this one. Equal price money, but apparently not equal coverage... A pity, as again, the videos are great otherwise.
Check the replies from LTGP in some of the comments below - the coverage rotates from race to race so as you watch the series, you will see LTGP feature the women's race in Episodes 3 and 5. The men are featured in Episodes 2 and 4. Both are in 1 and 6.
@@kristimohn4455 Thanks I noticed, nevertheless I still feel it's 50% of the story missing by event, 50% of the drama, missed opportunity really. Don't get me wrong, as I said the video are great, filming, editing, and of course the subjects : events are epic, athletes are inspirational etc...everything is great, and that's why it's frustrating. I really like the first and last episode, because they mix, and I love the other too - there is just 50% of story missing and never caught up 😉
@@pierh4724 write them a check that doubles their production budget and i'm sure they'll put it out for you
Pros complaining about aero-bars in an open gravel race is just hilarious. Sure Pete, you can have an aerobar-free field when you get your own gravel division. How's that?
funny that they complain about aero bars but look at the aid stations process that they do. be self-sufficient
I wish they road the 350 mile (530 km) Unbound XL course. And, what's with no women's coverage? I thought in the first episode there was an emphasis on gender equality in this race series; same prize money, same course, same distance. Just not the same coverage...
Keep watching! The episodes rotate male-female so that we can provide equal coverage and storytelling.
It’s an odd approach. Seems like we miss half of the action.
Why would Stetina try to convince other riders not to use equipment that is allowed by the race rules? If you don't want to use aero bars, fine. Don't use them. But if they're allowed in the race and you are philosophically opposed to them, and upset that others don't share your philosophy... well that's just nonsensical.
its funny when the guys says the difference between domestic vs foreign racing is non pro's and pro's can race together like its good thing. the reason why they do that is to create more of a draw and save money. theres much more cost to have two races for pro's and non pro's. it would also reduce the field a ton. this means the money and draw isnt there which also means the level of riders are not on the world tour level. so is that a good thing? or does it mean racing here is no where near the same level than the world tour. but guys are crazy to want to race in the world tour unless theyre winning or top 10 it just doesnt pay and its full of bs rules and hoops controlled by old traditionalist who are afraid of change all the while filling their pockets.
World tour is a different planet, than The US pro domestic race scene, which today is very small, and there aren’t enough US mtb/gravel pro’s to promote a profitable gravel races, without including amateur racers/ riders. 2022 is the beginning of the euro invasion of the U.S. gravel pro scene.
Especially in moutain bike marathons (which is very comparable to this) nearly all races are mass participation!
Missed seeing the women.
Keep watching! The next episode is all women!
I know it’s a budget thing, but maybe the episodes could be 2x longer to cover both. Especially for premiere Unbound
@@LifeTimeGrandPrix we want to see the women in all of the races - and the men, too, for that matter! Please consider either making the episodes longer to accommodate both or having two episodes per race.
Did none of the women race Unbound?
Keep watching! Each event rotates on men and women, in order to dig into their stories. Episodes 3 and 5 are the women’s races!
The episodes rotate between following the men then the women.
Is this what pro gravel racing is? A bunch of adults complaining about equipment choices and whether or not someone takes pulls? No wonder this isn’t more popular.
Wait to see the TdF documentary, where people get insanely upset if you sit in the wheel without a teammate upfront... It's not a gravel thing, it's a bike racing thing. Also I remember the Dutch guys (they were more than Laurens and Ivar) came there and raced as a team, so I am not surprised that Ivar didn't pull to bring back Laurens
It’s called courtesy. If you are going to be in the front group you or a teammate better be working. If you somehow stay in the front group by sucking everyone else’s wheel, you better not contest that sprint. Ivar’s win is always going to have a asterisk next to it amongst the racing community.
@@Charles-wz9sd 😂😂😂 that’s the dumbest post I’ve ever seen. Literally every other pro thought “damn I should have done that”. You are literally spewing nonsense. There is no curtesy in racing. You race to win. Period. Only losers think otherwise.
This was an absolutely disgraceful way to treat the race winner.
You intentionally edited Stetina and Swenson's interviews together to blame "Dutch guys" for being the "one brick that crumbles", and presented the "doing anything and everything to win" as a negative in this context. But it sure wasn't a negative in the first episode when interviewing US riders talking about their drive to win.
At the finish line the announcer voice claims this was Slik's first time at Unbound. I can understand making a mistake live, but it was your choice to include that in this documentatry as well. Or did you not care enough about the actual winner of your race to notice the mistake?
Then instead of interviewing or even congratulating the winner, you put on Payson McElveen being a text book sore loser on camera. Your guy lost fair and square. Just shut up if you can't be graceful about it.
I can appreciate you frustration, but this series is about the Grand Prix, so I can understand why they wouldn’t include an interview from them. They even took the time to note that Slick wasn’t part of the Grand Prix
Never again. No other course options? Pros get free bikes. Amateur riders pay for the bikes ruined by the mud and 1:30 walk.
No coverage of Women's race? Hard fail Lifetime
Keep watching! The next episode is the women’s race.
Ah. Bold storytelling choice.
Where are the women???
Keep watching! The episodes rotate male & female!
guys sound like a bunch of clowns complaining about aero bars. grow up, be a professional.
41 seconds in and already with the life time theme, "mtb-ers vs the roadies". I'm out.
Where are the women in this one? Seemed like 90% make athletes. What happened to equal media attention?
Keep watching! The episodes rotate male-female so episodes 3 & 5 are 100% female-focused.
More men race more men watch basic math
@@marshallheckman I like how you decided to give the wrong sexist answer after the producer have the correct answer.
If Pete doesn’t want to use aero bars……HE doesn’t have to. Not everyone is him, nor do they have his elitist-PRO background. It just seemed very whinny. 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
Boring.