Pro On A £100 Bike VS Killer Climb!
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- We gave a pro-cyclist a £100 bike and then sent him up the steepest climb we could find. Will he get to the top? How long will it take? Will the bike survive, or is it just as good as a super bike? Join Hank and Conor to find out!
Pro on a £100 bike VS the steepest climb we could find 0:00
Metrics: Max Stedman and the climb 0:37
The bike 1:42
The climb 3:58
Recap and Results 8:36
Did you get close to your PB? 9:33
Would you race on it? 10:37
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What was your last PB on a climb? 🚵♂ Let us know 👇
I made it up and a few seconds
Today in goulceby lincolnshire
Local speed bump. Im in NL. Short of a second.
@@escargoto8171 saw lots of riders on the Bluestone Heath road, what was on?
@@johnstrac quite a few club rides were on I was solo, I don’t think there was a sportive/ event on
Cheers for having me on! People welcome to drop any ideas for more videos with the £100 bike in the comments! 😂
8:54 racing driver excuses 😉 well done Max, amazing effort!
£100 bike vs Hardknott Pass 😜🤣
Well done handling the gear slip! What heart rate/power zone did you reach? Would you compare this to a leg-day at the gym compressed into 10 minutes? 😁
Yeah! £100 bike vs Hardknott!
Also, do you include training in "heavy gearing" in your PRO training plans? I guess you need to balance type 2 muscle strength with your body weight, your thighs aren't in the same league as the bikers in the velodrome 🦵💪
Max is a star. We really want to see him again.
We love having Max on the channel! Did you see what happened when we took him to the gym? 👉czcams.com/video/VDvwMOrYeio/video.html
Loved it when the pro reminded Hank that Connor had ridden in two grand tours.
If Max didn't say it... Conor would 😉
hahaha, this comment made the GCN show
All that effort with gears slipping and Max can still give us the play by play… what a boss, Go Max!
A true pro! 😎
he is a boss
@@JamesL-W hey so are you Hank!
@@WarHammerWH I am
GCN on every single video: Remember to bring your essentials, tools and spares are fundamental.
Also GCN, we dont have any tools, pliers, toothpick? anything!
Ha, how many vids have they made about what to bring, cheers.
GCN needs to watch GCN
I never leave the house without my multitool, spare tubes and patches, hand pump, etc. Not sure why you'd show up to ride a bike without those things.
@@Thezuule1 I changed my saddle recently and forgot to put the saddlebag back on. Wanna guess what came loose during my ride when I didn't have my multitool?
At least I didn't flat. And I did eventually get to one of those bike path repair stands so I could readjust the saddle.
and no shadowstand....
Dude's talking to the camera at 7w/kg.
NBD
Shows how strong feather is. Destroyed him on that climb
Was*
Strong strong rider 💪
unreal isnt it
Max is a good lad. More please!
This just shows that a well planned cassette and chainring ratio and a bottom bracket upgrade can make any bike great for every day joe riding.
Change the gear ratios to those used on modern bike and try again, a more fair comparison
1st - love that Peugeot
2nd- love the ride commentary
3rd- love that Max
Yes please ... Max and Hank are the perfect combo. Bring both of them again.
What's the challenge? 👀
Thank you, always love working with Max
@@gcn Good question. KOMs are gonna be hard to beat because of Andrew F.'s times. How about bringing back those big bikes, especially the one with green wheels?
thats a cool bike tbf
52 42 was my generation. With an 11-23. And 19 tyres. Mostly 20s. Just what it was. Crazy now looking back. And totally normal. Then.
Never ride it but I still have a Raleigh Criterium from that era. 2x6 with similar gearing, and the downtube friction shifters that still scare me. 11-34 cassette on my current bike and I still pootle up hills!
Still got mine. From 1989 IIRC. 700x20C was my normal, but I did go fat sometimes with 21C
Still rocking 52-42 / 11-23! But with 23 tires - Bought a 50/39, that's on its way now.
I still use the same gear set up. When 53/39 came in I hated it, you had to go up a two or three gears before you dropped down on the front, or you'd be spinning too much as soon as you hit the climb. I still love the drop down from a 52 to a 42, now have to buy the specialist TA chainrings and fit them to a Shimano crank. And 12 or 13-23, even on a 10 speed where you can pretty much run the whole cassette through one tooth apart is an awesome setup. I wouldn't have it any other way. As much as I don't want to quote Henri Desgrange: "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over 45. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear! ".
I rode 40 km/h average criteriums in the local towns on those bikes. Indexed downtube shifting ftw!
I had that bike for Christmas circa 1982 when i was 12, i loved that bike from memory 11.8kg.
Please guys, for the love of Max!!!! Bring tools but more important, have the bikes serviced… please. Poor Max! What an effort.
Hahahaha we can tell Hank to bring tools as much as we like...
Max now on the list for future GCN presenter, I reckon. Definitely have him back on.
Our presenters better watch out! He was ace wasn't he?!
hahaha he would be great
Fair play for just getting up the climb with those gears. Amazing effort.
Just shows how legendary the cyclists were back in the day doing the climbs of the tour with those gears.
unreal isnt it
Man, you guys gotta leave my boy Connor alone! Haha! Anyway, athletes truly are a separate breed. I'm glad you had the mic on there because most people that struggled the way he did would've stopped halfway even before the gear slipped. Also him adding to the point that he was staying in gear was insane to continue at all. That's why pros are pros.
Some climbing this was! 👌 How long do you think you would last on this bike?
A big like from Turkey 👍
Great time! Max must have really strong legs and core! Worst thing about those bikes are the gears. They're just so under-geared for steep climbs, and then if you want to change gears if struggling are actually quite hard to take your hand off the bars and drop down the gears to get in the right one etc. I couldn't get up half our 10%+climbs on a 44x23 let alone a 25%+ one!
Totally …. I am just figuring out the 34/42 mod for my bike having ridden a sportive recently with a brutal 12 km climb with ramos if 15-20%. My 36/34 didn’t cut it at age 63!!!
100 quid bikes are a mixed bag, I have had loads of these things, 100 will get you a brilliant vintage racing bike these days, might not be a Bianchi but a lesser known bike but great none the less.
Something like a Viscount Aerospace can be picked up really cheap but they are quick.
Here's a challenge, get a grandad bike and tt it. I sometimes ride my 3 speed 50s thing in local races for the amusement value.
Gearing is everything though, that Peugeot would be fine geared correctly.
Stedman is good fun. More of him please!
Here you go! 👉 czcams.com/video/VDvwMOrYeio/video.html
Max, you're a stud AND a natural on camera. Thanks for a fun video!
Serious effort put in there, loved it! More of these types of challenges on the £100 bike please!!
I had a Peugeot Triathlon when I was 16 in 86 from my mum’s Grattan Catalog with my YTS apprentice money just like this bike but with chrome forks loved it 🥰
Oooo sounds like a great bike 👌 It's always so cool to hear about the stories people get from their bikes 🙌
Great seeing my part of the world on GCN! I bought a rabbit hutch from that Garden Centre...
for a paper boys bike that's bl**dy good going, be nice to see an attempt with a decent 80s bike.
All I'm thinking about watching this is "MY KNEES! MY KNEES...."
“Chief mascot!” Haha that was pretty funny!! That goes to show that if you are an average cyclist, your $5k bike will not do much for you. Maybe make you a little more comfortable on the ride; but it sure will not give you 5 w/kg extra.
Practice and miles are the only way to get better, Having a bike you are comfortable with that makes you want to ride is super important!
The breathing always tells how hard it is, cheers.
I was never expecting to see a Beykoz rider in GCN. Great video. Well done Max great effort . Love from Turkey
i converted my neighbours one of these from 2x6 to 3x10 running 30/40/50 front on a sora triple mech and 11-32 10 speed rear on an mtb mech, still using those original friction downtube shifters.
saved him breaking yet another vintage frame grinding up a climb.
Welcome back,Max! It's been awhile. Definitely enter it in some race!
What style of racing? It would be interesting to see how this bike would get on at a crit race 🤔
@@gcn That or a hill climb? lol
Dude, going up steep hills is like the best thing in the world! Love your channel. Cheers from Ukraine.
Max is fun! Definitely a good candidate for a GCN presenter when he retires from pro racing.
finally 4K videos keep it up, love the high resolution!
A great illustration that any decent (well maintained) bike can get you riding! Build your fitness and skills on the bike you've got.
Then move on the n+1 when finances allow 😊
Well done Max (should be a regular on GCN). The pug needs a campy Seatpost.
Nice. And guys were going up Mont Ventoux on even stiffer gears. And then there were the riders of the 1930s doing the End to End on only three gears…
Cyclist nowdays are super spoilt and spoilt for choice.💯👌🏻✌🏻
@@reinholdachleitner2069 My bikes are both three speeds, inspired by the 1930s Raleighs; with Sturmey-Archer hubs, of course. I know Mark Beaumont did a feature retracing some of Tommy Godwin’s accomplishments using a four speed hub. I would love to see Ollie or Si do a 25 or 50 mile time trial on a re-creation of a vintage three speed Raleigh Record Ace like the one Bert James rode.
Those tools! I am sure Park Tool does not make a pruning cutter.
This is why Hank doesn't make our maintenance videos 😂 ✂️
Babadag climb would be awesome! Cannot wait!
Super amazing effort!! Kudos!!!
Climb Babadag in Turkey is a real deal, not possible with this type of bike High gears and heavy weight like my walk bike 😅
I feel so much better struggling up a hill in my cheap bike, knowing that he struggled, too. I love these kinds of challenges!
Love my old Peugeot. It's nice to see the old stuff getting love like this even if they don't compare to modern bikes.
We love a retro bike too 🙌
I own a purple Peugeot Ventoux - probably form the late 80s - and I'm in love with it! Obviously when I have the chance to ride a modern bike, it seems I'm flying compared to when I ride the Peugeot =)
Great video!
It's not all about performance! Sometimes having a love for the bike is what makes the ride more fun 🙌
More of Max + Hank and Conor please! This was truly impressive of Max, bossed that climb like he wasn't putting down mad watts on slipping gears 🤯
Makes you realise how many old people must have creaking, knackered knees...42/23 is horrendous and fine for Florida, Norfolk or the Netherlands..
I'm no spring chicken either, about to turn 56, back in the day only owned one road bike I bought in 1995, a Peugeot and cannot for the life of me remember what the gearing was back then but think it was pre- compact era... 12 or 14 speed I'd imagine a 39/25 or 28?? Not too bad for the rolling hills of Fife! ( I was on triple MTB mainly!)
Love this kind of video,s! I once rode up a steep climb (12,4% average, 20% slopes, +540) with a €200 euro 17 kg mountainbike. One of the hardest things I have ever done but I made it in 38 minutes. I think also this video shows that a good bike is not that important as some people might think.
A good bike can help but a good engine... now you're talking 💨
Great video - really enjoyed this. More Max on the channel, please.
We would love to have max back 🙌 Any challenges that we should set him?
Years ago I had a Peugeot winter hack made of Reynolds 501. I'm quite a big guy (78kg race weight) and when I put power down it felt like riding a rice pudding.
But then when you climbed on your best bike in Spring, it felt soooo good.
this is so similar to my current bike except my 44/28 is a little easier than the 42/23 on this peguot. So awesome seeing a pro make 20%look so easy with that ratio. Would love to see max on the channel again
A hundred-pound bike? That's pretty heavy.
😂
hahahaha
It is really strange to see a Turkish flag and a Beykoz Belediyesi sign on a random af cycling video but i am here for it.
What a phenomenally nice bloke Max is! Fab vid guys!
Always a pleasure to film with! Want more of Max? Here you go 👉 czcams.com/video/VDvwMOrYeio/video.html
Two points from this video:
1. I'm gonna borrow Max's words and coin them - "Big Panik"
2. Connor's taking the mascot role like a champ, he's smiling from ear to ear!
Second on Strava segment.
Only one other time recorded and they beat me by heaps, but second sounds pretty good, I’ll take it.
Great effort max, these old bikes make for great winter training and you won't half notice how much stronger & better you will have become because of it when you as hank out it ride your super bike, oh yeah for sure max has to take it to ride a race on it, just for the giggles at least.
10:24 let's appreciate Conor's effort to fit in the frame.
“I am coming back from a broken collarbone” … so Hank proceeds to slap him on his shoulder 😂
Really? 12kg? I have a Koga Miyata Pro Racer from 1978 and it has 9,8kg. Wow! Now I see my old racer really impressed!
I live reasonably close to Draycott and my son is always wanting to have a crack at it. Having seen that I'm glad I'm rocking a 34/34. Got up Ebbor Gorge though just along a bit from Draycott with 50 miles in my legs, and on that day for some reason I couldn't get my big ring so had to use 34/30.
Go give it a crack and get back to us 🙌 It's one steep climb!
This was amazing!
Brilliant, so funny too at the end. Poor Connor, he gets quite a bit of stick. 😂
Awesome Max.. we need more Max on GCN superstar 😊😊 👍🚴🏻 Pete 😃👍🚴🏻
Only Conor and Hank could turn up with a bike the rider has never ridden or seen before without any tools to adjust it for him!
Wow, super climbing skills. I like to think I am a climber but this was epic.
Well here in Italy in the "Giro di Lombardia" race they used to go up the "muro di Sormano" climb, that's 14.1% average but up to 27% peak. And they did it in the '60s, with much, much heavier bikes than this.
Bring back Max! That was fun but painful too. I bought a 1985 Peugeot PXN-10 for 200 Euros in 2010 and rode it twice at l'Eroica in Tuscany. Surprisingly good bike albeit with more reasonable gearing than the one in the video but only average workmanship compared to my Italian steel bikes.
I'm currently riding a Peugeot Monaco circa 88 as a daily commuter and it's a lot of fun even though the tires are 23c and the crankset is a 52-42,it corners beautifully and and picks up speed quickly at 10.4kg.💯👌🏻✌🏻🚴
Sounds like a beautiful bike! What do you make of the 23mm tyres?
@@gcn 23mm tires definitely feel less stable particularly over bumps and debris and they sometimes feel hard or over inflated because they are really narrow but I'm looking forward to fitting 25mm Michelin Lithion 2 I've ordered.💯👌🏻✌🏻🚴
What a nice chap Max is! Sign him up.
I had an original Peugeot team bike from that time. Got it from a friend who actually won a Tour the France etappe with it. The original bikes had a 24 21 19...or a 28 23 19... cassette on it. The gear slipping was a general problem on climbs.
What awesome bike to own! Do you still have it in your your collection?
@@gcn It was a awesome bike, but did not last for eternity.
100 quid. Absolute bargain 🙂. You would get way more than a 100 quids worth of fun out of that bike ! I'd ride it happily
As a yank, I heard you say, "100lb bike" before I saw the video title and thought Max was going to attempt the climb with a super heavy bike
Once Max steps out of the pro racing scene, I sincerely hope he joins the GCN team. He's been really good at presenting and he rides really really well.
Proper bike that 👍 Great effort too! Why not do a programme on the Eroica?
Maybe one day we will!
I love how talkative max is. I always wished that the guest pros had more to say in videos.
hes a natural
Awesome video! We need a hank torture challenge soon.
I am having mixed feeling about this new £100 bike, on one hand it's really great to see GCN ride a bike like mine, on the other seeing how well it is doing in the challenges it is getting increasingly harder to justify my planned upgrade. :)
Comment for Max !!! get it done mate you got this !!!
I felt every pedal stroke. Bravo
Brutal climb at the best of times!
Max is a damn riot, get him on the show more!
I have an ‘80 PX-10, same gearing, 9.8 lbs, congrats Max!! My question is why wasn’t the bike set up properly for Max, not even a multi tool on set? Seat, bars, and Down tube shifters needed adjustment. Hope you get the # of likes, but bring that nice Park toolbox to Turkey, haha😅😂😊
Would love to see a “neo-retro” build series. Each presenter pics a classic bike frame, and use modern parts to see how the old frames handle modern components. Some blips and AXS rd. Bingo bango.
Great job Max! some feat..
Adoro essas bikes retrô. Ótimo vídeo
I'm 1,60 and 48 kilos, and that's the closest I'll ever come to Max. But, how about giving this bike to Andrew "The Twig" Feather and see what he can do with it?
Probably close to 7 minutes.
Not the first ride they made with Andrew and bikes like this
5.......4.....kg!? Wahht? 😳
ETA, Max is great, loved his everesting videos a while back. Great to see him back and glad to hear he got a Conti GC ride. Would be great to see more of him as long as it doesn't get in the way of his pro-riding. 💪
HOLLY UP GRADE Batman CGN has a 4K 2160P video.
About time Lads. Congrats!!!
Enjoy 🫡
Bl00dy hell this takes me back. Max is a similar height and weight (and skin tone 🤣) to me (my former weight, that is). And I had that ANC-Halfords bike, with Carbolite frame.. (the only carbon was in the name!). I added my own LOOK pedals though and Weinmann wheels. I flippin loved that bike, conquered every hill in the Cotswolds bar one gravelly one near Chalford). Some git cut the lock and nicked it though. I still haven’t recovered and it was 35 years ago.
I could watch twenty to fifty “pro on Beryl Burton’s 1962 bike vs Si, Manon, and someone from gmbn all on modern super bikes built for X, Y, or Z terrain course” episodes.
Ok that's GCN Max!
Gear slips on those old downtube shifters were always an issue for me to. No idea how Pro’s managed to ride them without gear slips back in the day.
That hill sounds like a leg breaker!
One like closer to looking like a Turkey! Carbolite HLE.. 😄 This is what many of us started off on back in the 80's.
I've got one of those Pug HLE tube bikes. 25lb. Huret Eco mechs.
What I consider is 'I am 12 lb overweight'.
With any bike up any hill, the tactics is 'Climb a ladder to the handlebars'. Use the Glutes. Hip extensions.
Is that bike for sale?
Yes I hit that like - I want to see this race!!!
We're waiting for the likes to come in... you might have to share it around for us 😉
@@gcn I have been! 😉
Even in summer your back wheel can slip on this hill and Andrew Feather must have had a bone dry day.
Absolute respect for Max.