How Much Faster Is The Best Climber In The World?
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2023
- How much of a head start do you need in a race against the world’s best climber up an epic climb? At the Global Bike Festival, we tried to beat the #1 ranked climber on Strava, Andrew “The Twig” Feather, to the top of the 2571m high Grossglockner / Edelweissspitze. This brutal climb (14km at 10.8%) stands between us and glory. Can Feather chase us down?
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How much of a head start would you need against Feather? ⏱ Let us know in the comments below! 👇
Maybe 24 cans of Heineken and a pack of chips 😂🤘
2 days.
3 hours maybe 😂
One day.
I'm not sure I could reach the peak without stopping for a coffee break.
Andy Feather could save some valuable weight by ditching his saddle. It’s a bit of his bike he rarely uses. What a legend that guy is.
And seat post, for safety reason ! (And weight)
and the disc brakes
Nice to see Richie and Tobi on the Main Channel with Si. Greetings from Germany :D
You would have had him if you’d brought along your secret weapon: Ollie Bridgewood
Wouldn't he have just got dropped? 😉
@gcn not anymore Oli has been on a mission recently, hasn't he
I agree. Ollie for the win!
Ollie, sorry I got dropped Bridgewood
Ollie’s in a redemption arc. He now only drops people. Geraint thomas etc
Richie is a machine 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I liked how you could tell he went in to Pro mode when Andrew caught them.
True
Andrew Feather....absolute machine. Hats off to you all, what a tough climb.
He's a machine!
“That air is nearly as thin as Si’s calves” 😂
I guess it’s not thin enough stop him from thinking of top shelf jokes.
The guy who said he needs a headstart up to next week is an absolute legend 🤣🤣🤣
sounds so much like Guy Martin...
The look on Alex's face at the end 😂😂😂, we've all been there mate. Brilliant effort guys.
Andrew is undoubtedly a machine, but props to you guys for pushing as hard as you did. Completing that climb alone is a W and the competition made it an even better achievement. The drone shots were awesome too. thank you GCN!
Glad you liked it! For more climbing with Feather, you should check out our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/KOM
loved that: "this is like being in an early break-away in the Tour de France, you know you're doomed, you just don't know when"
😅
Yes, except this was the peleton being caught by one guy.
I would love to see Simon and Ritchie do an epic ride somewhere in Europe. Such great humoristic chemistry.
Yes Andrew Feather is a legend and true champion, but what is also amazing is that someone so competitive can also be so humble and seem such an all-round nice guy.
What a ride by Feather and Richie. Lovely national championship jersey too.
It looks great doesn't it!
@@gcncan you buy it in the shop?
I can not recommend the german crew enough, these two are such a joy to watch
Si is such a weapon. No matter what event or type of bike you put him on he is incredible
It was such great fun to be there with you guys ! (My first appearance on a GCN video by the way ahahaha !) - Keeping up with you was just impossible, not even talking about Andrew's pace :)
Thanks for joining in 🙌 Great to hear you had fun 🎉
It’s bordering on criminal that Ollie wasn’t there!
It was great seeing Joe Public being asked. It would’ve been great to see their times on it too. I bet there would’ve been some great times and everyone would be winning to get to the top anyway. Amazing job to everyone involved.
Stolz auf GCN auf Deutsch! Good Job Richie
Relaxing comfortably in my nice warm bed I can taste blood just watching that effort. Well done!
Feather talking like he’s having a conversation in a coffee shop when he’s putting out 390w…
The national champ GCN jersey looks sick 👌🏻
It's pretty sweet!
Andrew Feather should be competing at Taiwan KOM Challenge. C'mon GCN, make it happen
I'm sure that would be right up his street! Have you seen our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+? 👉 gcn.eu/KOM
Poor guy at 12:58 not getting a fist bump 🥲
Yeah that was a moment
Huge kudos everyone! I adore Andrew’s onscreen humility. He really seems such an understated guy and has every right to lord it over everyone yet seems genuinely grateful to be part of what’s going on! (Although he could be a right p***k off screen 😂😂😂 but I highly doubt it!)
You learn so much from breathing patterns over power and heart rate . By turning of the video and just listening to the conversation is so enlightening and translated to riders watching and comparing effort to what your hearing it's all comparable to a pro rider and someone just starting out
10:27 had me cracking up when Si reacted to Andrew right behind him. I LOVE this channel. Gracias
Not certain that an e-bike could keep that pace. They were all impressive. The amount of out of the saddle sustained pedaling was unreal. Fantastic video! Thank you.
An e-bike can keep a steady 25km/h as long as the battery lasts and the rider has at least some FTP in the 200w region.
@@lordadf course depends all on the weight of rider & bike and the gradient. At 10% even for a 74kg rider 200 Watts will not be enough with a 25kg Bike.
But you can just "tune" your e-bike. Open it up and you can do 45 km/h on most gradients
An e-bike without a rider maybe 😂
WTAF. Andrew Feather did that climb without a water bottle. WOW.
Most of his daily rides are in the 35-40 mile range and seems to never take a drink with him! I can’t go 5 mins without needing a sip!
I have notice me as losing weight your body becomes more water. Which means you need less effort and less water.
The cameraman probably gave him some water
Man, he's British. So probably he had a bo'how'o'wo'er
came to cycling late, focused on a law career.
Fantastic riding from all you GCN guys, success for the "Twig" of course, think I'd need about a week heads start to stay in front🤩🤩
Chris Horner, 42yo and 136#, 2013 Vuelta Stage 20 Angliru, final 40 minutes averaged 390 watts. Oldest man to ever win a Grand Tour.
that pass he made on the outside edge near the top was incredible. so steep and he had no fear. wow
Andrew's climbing form reminds me of the mechanical limb movement and trance-inducing exactitude of those penguin stairclimb/slide devices.
Just incredible.
i rode the Grossglockner in 2011 Sept in heavy winds, and then snow. on a 20-year-old hybrid with 8 functional gears. took me 7 or so hours ( of pushing ) up the mountain and even that was hard.
At least you made it! Must've been satisfying to get to the top in such awful conditions!
That's amazing
@@gcn it was. but once we ( me and my friend ) reached the top , we learnt that they closed the road past 6pm ( and it was very past that ) and it was snowing hard. so knocked on the only place that had lights there ( turned out to be a museum about the mountain and building the road ) and the chap there said if we stayed out we'd die. so he allowed us to sleep inside the museum ! yes, night in the museum was real ( except that none of the creatures came alive and we slept immediately ). all our clothes also had gotten wet , but thankfully the museum was warm + i had newspaper that wasn't wet so we wrapped outselves in that and slept. it was a long long day and the next day we had the equally difficult task of going down a very steep decline ( me with one set of brakes too )
@@vidyapremkumar3851What a fantastic story! 🤜🤛 Respect!
I'm not a cyclist (not for many years anyway) but I can see now how my Bro' in the States got bitten by the bug. I'm loving these videos, the fantastic camaraderie between you GCN blokes (and girl), the brilliant video shooting and the in-depth info of your many vids. Many thanks for all that...who knows...maybe a bike is on the way.
I always love these cliombing vids specially with andrew feather, more of this in the future please.
I would love to know how much faster Andrew could have done it if he weren't carrying the weight of that fly on his back (6:09)
What about the Italian assassin? Having him in the mix would have made for some interesting viewing?
I love when you bring out the super humans like Andrew and Mark.
Knew this was over when Oliver wasn’t in the team… but hey mad cycle by the King Andrew. Really enjoyed this video! 😂😂
I live about 20 minutes from there and left a lot of rubber and brake compund on that pass (with a car, sorry cyclist brothers).
Everybody that rides up there has my deepest respect - it's one hell of a climb.
I recently got my first road bike - my humble goal this year is to ride up there, no matter the time.
Nice! Good luck! 💪
Update: Did it on saturday :)
Great video guys Andrews climbing style when out the saddle reminds me of Contador dancing on the pedals well done everyone 👍
Loved it , great job guys!!!
Alex was a locomotive. Hammering the pace for you guys! Great video! Well done!
Sau starke Leistung Richie!
I love this cross-over with the Germans as i watch all the English and German GCN stuff
Enjoyable video - great camera work and what can you say about Andrew. Camaraderie was brilliant, well done everyone.
Great competition and hats off to all the riders. Outstanding performance that only gets outshined by Andrew’s stellar ride. 👏👏👏
If you like that, you should watch our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/KOM
Great video, always enjoy the ones where Si is involved. Mr. Patton did some ride.
Andrew doesn't need a saddle You're incredible mate. Great video!
I thought Alex was about to go full Davide Formolo with his pain face at one stage!
Loving the Gcn auf Deutsch Collab!
That GCN National Champion jersey is a thing of beauty!
😍
Great effort by everyone. Andrew is really an amazing climber/rider.
Thanks! Have you seen his Everesting film on GCN+? gcn.eu/8848m
@@gcnYes, Im a GCN+ subscriber 😊
Being a bigger rider (90kg), it would take me a good while to get up that climb. Living in FL I don't have any real experience with long steep climbs, but I will tell you this; I would love to ride it simply for the amazing scenery. What a beautiful part of the world! Epic!
Do you reckon you'll ever make the trip to somewhere with climbs like this??
@@gcn Perhaps. The wife and I do one bucket list vacation per year, so you never know. We do have some great climbs here in the states. The 6 gap race in Georgia has some pretty substantial climbs, and that's only 8 hours away from me. It's 103.67 miles (166.84km) with 11,663 ft (3,554m) of climbing with the steepest climb being 7 miles (11.27km) at an average of 7%
Marvellous fun watching the GCN mice try and outrun the Cat that is the Feather ❤
This was so good. Would have loved to see some of the riders voslx popped flimed too
Amazing landscape.
Greetings from Greece!
Alex was ready to meet his maker and you can see that in his face🤣🤣, great work boys.
Two days and a really good e-bike...Well done Siborg and Felix!!
Great content team GCN!
Bout two weeks lol
That was real enjoyable
I was on the edge of my seat.
Already want more so keepemcoming guys.
Glad you enjoyed it! You might also enjoy our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/KOM
Im digging feather's jersey ❤ hope it shows up in their GCN shop soon.
It’s a British national champion’s jersey. Unlikely to show up!
we made the call not to make it available! Gotta be national champ to wear the stripes! that’s what makes them special 👍🏼
But you can modify the stripes, like the color combo, make it thinner, only one stripe on the sleeve(s), etc.
@@oliverbridgewood3929that’s unfortunate 😢 you could replaced with the red stripes currently on your black jersey or just plain white 😍😆
I love these videos. Fun one guys!
Thanks!
Great effort to all the GCN guys…but you were trying to beat Andrew …as light as a feather 👏🏻👏🏻
Come on guys, show us the descent! 🎉❤
What Andrew didn't say is that he rode it the day before and completed 160km and 3500m of climbing, I was talking to him in the bike room. If he had some rest he would have smashed it. I was 1hr 31m to the car park, but i am 67 years old.
SICK looking jersey, Mr. Feather!
What an enjoyable, fun video.
The highlight for me was the incredible size of Si's sunglasses!! 😂
They are getting bigger by the day... 👀
Great stuff guys!
What a crazy fun video! I would probably need a couple of weeks 😅
What is the link to the Strava segment that was ridden? I did the south side, this is the north side? I do not see any 14km segment with such extreme gradient. 8 or 9%, yes, but not this.
What an absolute legend!
Nice work, team! Feather climbing is a thing of beauty. I am curious... It looks like he is out of the saddle for most of that climb. Is that a personal preference, or does he find it more efficient? Or does he sacrifice efficiency for power and speed?
I'd be happy to start at the bottom of this climb as Andrew was leaving his front door. In England.
I thought you droped "thetwig" cickname, just call him Andrew :) Mr. Andrew Feather
(Always joy to watch episodes with him!)
Will done to the person on camera, one of the rare times when you can actually see the incline on this kind of video. Amazing effort all, making taking that much pain look not that difficult 😮
Only few moments you saw Feather sit down the saddle and that's when the time he's gauging Richie. Crazy dude.
I like Alec's vibes in all GCN videos
I think it’s quite incredible u can hear the fitness in Andrew just by the way he casually talks while hitting red zone LOL he’s a machine cut his skin see if he bleeds or sparks
Jersey looks mint!
love videos with Andrew
Have you seen his Everesting film yet, on GCN+? 👉 gcn.eu/8848m
Andrew’s Strava calls this a Lunch Ride
Assuming that your Wattage is equal, there’s a calculation for extra kg/time/km. It’s approx 7sec/km for every extra kg carried. So that GCN presenter could, in theory, beat Si by almost a minute and a half just with the same power output.
So if I’d added my thoughts to those guys at the start, and with Andrew Feather weighing in at 63kgs, I’d have to add 32mins, assuming I could average 350w for 14kms at an average of 10%. Which I can’t, not even close, and which is arguably the most important stat of this post.
Now this is a Top Gear style race. More of these please. And next time, throw "The Stig" in the race too 😁
In his white national champs jersey, I thought Feather was the Stig.
Feather hammering while standing on the pedals like Pantani in his prime was super rad.
Looked like a ghastly effort but the GCN squad held their own nicely.
Awesome video. Hugely fun to watch.
Bring Andrew Feather to California; love to see what he could do on climbs like Mount Diablo and Mount Baldy etc
ah, he's there! was like a horror film!
How much of a head start would you need against Feather?
the chap who said a week was funny :)
Every video with Andrew Feather is a winner for GCN !
those canyon bikes are seriously looking good!
AF pushed proper hard in that thin air, seemed a bit pale a depleted, max effort! amazing!
“Zone 6 Tina, May she Rest In Peace” Oh Si😂😂😂 Private Dancer Tina Turner💃🏾
4:49 "it's a really hard climb" while a couple on a pack bike pass by 😂 not saying it's easy I know it's a really hard climb it's just funny to me 😂
I would love to see Andrew Feather come down to LA and tackle some of Phil Gaimon’s KOM. Or maybe Phil could be a guest on GCN.
Been riding up the Mont Ventoux Climb from the Tour de France lately and on an effort scale i gave it a 9/10 and it took me 1,5h. Afterwards i checked Strava for the segment and the best time was half an hour. I was blown away
Are you sure it's the same? The TDF one I think is usually the hardest of the 3 ways you can ride to Ventoux and the record is one hour by Carapaz.
@@trdi I might have mistaken. I rode up from Bedoin through the forest. I compared the segment "EB - France - 84 - Mont Ventoux (Saint-Estève / Chalet Reynard)" which took me 01:24:00h and the KOM is Egan Bernal in 00:29:20h :D
@@trdi Actually the correct segment was under hidden segments on my track, found it! It's "Ventoux start to finish" and it took me 2:39:36h of pure riding and Carapaz made it in 57min. Even more ridiculous 😂
@@florianbusch3082 That is a big difference, yes. So Carapaz was doing 360 watts, at 5.9w/kg for an hour.
Making up 10 minutes on any climb is amazing. Andrew is a beast. I think I'd need a day to beat him up the climb.
The segment: Edelweisspitze: from Ferleiten
Needed 44 minutes longer last year on the global bike festival... 1hour 38 minutes of pain and swearing... Totally worth it!
So Mr Feather is the fastest civilian, so to speak? Brilliant.
Wow 😮 Feather is a machine!! I would need at least 30-35 minute head start lol 😂