RACE Me up Box Hill and I’ll Pay You $50
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- čas přidán 10. 10. 2023
- I decided to head to the WORLDS MOST RIDDEN CYCLING CLIMB and challenge people to a race, if they beat me to the top, I'd give them £50.
On board shots with GoPro
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There’s something missing from this…. 🤔
Don't say I didn't invite you...
Only one way to settle this, egg and spoon race up box hill
Yeah, there is! Where's the Zwift arch and drone shot at the top?!
Great to watch Cameron you gotta do this again would love to see you do this up the horseshoe pass north wales
Like half the climb.
This was a great video! If you do this again, it would be ace to have another camera to quickly attach to the handlebars of any willing opponents to see their perspective. I want to see the guy who was laughing while trying to sprint away from you haha
you know, I was thinking this during editing. Won't make that mistake next time :)
Or drone footage. I can do that for nothing if I’m in the area with the right equipment.
POV: you came after watching Ashley Neals video to see the comments.
Holy crap, as someone only familiar with this route from Zwift, I had no idea how much traffic there is in real life!
Yeah I literally said the same thing adam! It was soooo busy
Yeah it's too busy
They need to close it to cars. It’s becoming more and more popular, and Ryka’s cafe at the bottom is drawing in more and more motorcyclists. In the evenings it’s full of people parking in random spots to take photos or smoke.
Much nicer first thing in the morning!
Should give Alpe d'Huez a try, feels like a dual carriageway in real life!
Cheers for the race… and the head start! 😂
Hahahah. Thanks for being a great sport, mate. It was awesome to meet you!
This is the type of cycling content we need!
Amazing to watch, was smiling and laughing throughout the video 😂
Love to hear this mate! Thank you
Brilliant video and a great concept too. Let me know if there's ever a chance to win 50 quid racing Chris. I'll take that bet 😂
Hahahahha
Good to see you back Cam!
It's good to be back, madzo
Vintage Cam Jeffers. Appreciated this a lot.
Eyyyy Tristan!! The come back is on ;-)
Great content 🎉❤ really enjoying your videos now ive discovered them
I’ve ridden up box hill twice. One late on a Friday night in the pissing rain. One the next morning about 11am when it had dried out. Preferred it in the rain to be honest. I was the only person up there! Had the roads to myself. Quite enjoyed that area. The Surrey hills were surprisingly Lancashire - ish in places! 😃
That final sentence hurt me more than you know.
This was a great watch, would love to see more of these! 🤙
Is that a mic clipped to the front of your jersey? Could I ask where it's from?
Thanks! And yeah - it's a DJI mic, but I forgot the wind muff, so it was actually unusable. Haha
"The gap was massive!", I reckon it was just about 10 seconds ;)
Good going Cam, thank you for the entertainment.
Haha. Thanks for your comment :)
Hello guys. That was great!!
I cheered so hard during breakfast that I was completely sweaty
Haha. Thanks mate
Such a good idea and the video turned out really well 🙌🙌
Thank you Gregg!!! It was a lot of fun filming
That was a fun video, Cam. I'm surprised it's less than 3km, as it seemed a lot longer when we were racing 5 loops up it in the Boxhill Bullbuster duathlons 20 years ago! Lots of cars just like on Cypress mountain here in Vancouver.
It is. They are starting after the start and finishing no where near the top!
We raced up a 1km portion, due to all the cars congesting the top. But yeah, the full climb is less than 3km, haaha.
Nice video Cam , great content
Thank you mate. Glad you enjoyed it
I was waiting for Francis Or Lawrence to rock up hahahaha.
Great video Cam your giggle and excitement for the ride is priceless, we all often forget to have fun whilst cycling and take ourselves all to seriously
They daren't ;). Thanks ads! I agree. Always trying to show the fun side :)
Haha brilliant, great fun to watch 💪💪
Glad you think so!
I live only a few miles from Box Hill, I have had some very tasty professionals come flying past me on rides up there, you pick the right day (wrong day for you) you will lose all that money 😂. Great video 👍🏼
Hahhaha, was kinda hoping some big dogs were out! Oh well
In my younger days I did sprints up Box Hill, 6-7 minutes top to bottom, in his prime Sean Yates came past me like I was going backwards. I have had many world tour riders float by me 😂
Love these sorts of videos (watch a lot of Nick Symmonds ones for example). Hardknott next? 😂😂
Hahaha, would be a good idea. Just doesnt' get the volume of cyclists box hill does :/
Do an invitational somewhere in the Ribble Valley (The Trough/Whalley Nab etc). Some of your best content yet this.
NIce one Xander. Yeah, I've got a couple ideas along those lines actually!
@@Cameron_Jeffers one on one me bra. ;)
Enjoyed that. I’m not a fan of those bee 🐝 free hubs though. Get stuck on a sportive with a geezer behind you with one, drives you insane buzzzzz buzzzz 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻
Hahahha, they're like marmite for sure. I love it ahah
Loved this content. I think performance levels of 'serious' recreational riders vs pros is really intersting to see
Cam's basically doing intervals between racing people, so that's a good indicator of his fitness.
Thank you mate, i appreciate that!
Cheers Cam, a banger to watch as always!
Thanks mate. I'm glad!
Cool funny video Cameron! That's a lot of efforts up Box Hill man! Chapeau
Thanks Jason, I was certainly feeling it by the end
Best video you have ever done #kudos 🎉 (although the Borris bike was a good one)
Class comment that mate, thanks!
Great watch taking on the public ! Love it 💪💪
Can’t believe the filming rule ??
Great videos Cam 🚴🏻🚴🏻💪
Thanks addie. I think it's to do with insurance which I totally get :)
Worth knowing that Box Hill and Zig Zag Road are owned by the National Trust, and count as private land. There’s no public right of way so I guess because it is private property they can insist people obtain a licence to film.
Great vid pal! 👌 what set up for the cams have you got on your bike?
Rear facing Gopro. Bar mount gopro pointing at me then a 360 cam on the front of the bike!
@Cameron_Jeffers ahhh nice set up that. Looking forward to your next vid. 👍
Brilliant! I’d have fancied it in my prime, but at 52…nah you’re alright thanks 😂
Hahhaa, there's like in the old dog, I'm sure!!
@@Cameron_Jeffers yeah still some life, but also some lard! FTP is still decent, but could do with losing 10kg 😕
That was a real " jobsworth " stopping you from filming , imagine having a job like that going around stopping people filming in a tourist spot , is he trying to keep tourists away from the area . Must be like "area 51" if they dont want filming . Glad he didnt catch you at the start , great vid 😄
Frustrating, but at least he was pleasant about it. I'll get the license next time.....LOL
Luckily it wasn't a police officer given racing on roads is illegal.
Pity the fun police turned up in the end. Anyway, this was fab. Well done.
I know :/ Oh well!! £100 budget for the next vid haha
If you attempted to do this in the U.S. you would have to wait at least 20 days before a single cyclist even passed by. And when you finally saw one they would be riding a $150 mountain bike wearing shorts and a tshirt.
Haha. Yeah the cycling scene around box hill is pretty buzzing, to be honest. We are spoiled
Locally with have Streatley Hill and Combe Gibbet in the top 100 climbs. Gibbet is probably easier as it doesn't start at a set of lights. Or have a look at Sydmonton Hill. Great video and a addition to channel
Thanks for the info!
Yes benny 🎉🎉🎉 excellent craft
benny is the man
Sam was amazing! And looks hot, too :)
Enjoyed that cam
Nice one Martyn! I'm glad :)
You need to cycle up the cote de Jenkin road.. now thats an hill.. it was part of the tour de France 2014
We do climb differently int north!
Good vid idea this. Shame I wasn't riding box hill that day
Nice one mate. Next time I'll catch you!
I smiled all the way through this, excellent original content 👍🏻Well played to Sam at the end, humble in victory.
Love that comment mate. Thanks alot for that
So many cars… the joys of cycling around London.
It's horrible.. such a small lane and so many cars.
I was honestly shocked
Really enjoyable video
Thank you very much!
Great video, Cameron . Pop in for a coffee at our shop in Box Hill village next time you're there, it's on us!😉
oooo so gutted I missed this! I'll be there next time for sure
Great idea for content
How about doing Coldharbour or White Down nearby? It’s much harder than BH
oooo interesting! Do they get a decent volume of cyclists up them?
Enoyed that, nice one Cameron
Thanks mate
Good fun..but that was about half of Box hill…wheres the rest? 😂
I know! Sadly there was sooooo many cars at the top, it would've been dangerous racing to the top, so we just chose a decent 1km section
@@Cameron_Jeffers fair enough. Great video though
You should find a 1km loop and ride it on 10 different time of bikes, mtb, road bike, penny farthing, brompton etc to see the differences
I like it!!
The last guy looked at first like Andrew Feather and I thought, “Cam’s done for”… 😎
Thank god it wasn't
Give them a 30 second headstart next time!!
Do the same on Haytor in Devon, it’s a proper hill unlike these London speed bumps 😉
Hahaha good idea
The hill up to Haytor from Bovey is no joke! Still a load of traffic on nice days though ☹
Good video dude, was lots of fun to watch 👌
Glad you enjoyed :)
yo, what's the brand of your jersey? looks great.
i always loved the "beat me at (x) and win money" videos, nobody did it for cycling before so its pretty cool. too bad thats a very busy road with all the traffic
I know :/, didn't realise it would be so busy!
Here comes ed laverack. Lets go for 50 box.
Haha
Well done Cameron, You are a great sport!
Thank you!!! I had so much fun
A simple concept for a video, but as per usual so well done, but wheres the bearded Pritch gone, still in the cafe eating and drinking as per usual on the vids.
Thank you mate. Pritch is a busy man these days, hopefully we'll have him back soon :)
Fun video cam. Ill race you up cleives for 50quid 😂
Hahaha it's on!
Really fun vid
Thank you dmv!
Does not seem you doing the full climb , eg finish after the final 3rd bend just before the National trust cafe/car park ? Fun content though kudos
Yeah, sadly we couldn’t go all the way to the top because of the car congestion :/ so the safest / most clear section was the middle ~1km
Good Stuff !👍👍
Thanks 👍
Great idea for a video ✊
Nice one matey
Nice video I LOVE 💕😊
Thank you 🤗
Outstanding Episode For Sure - Well Done
Cheers
Awesome Travis, thanks!
lol wish someone would do that here that looks like some proper fun
Where are you based mate?
@@Cameron_Jeffers stateside brotha nj to be exact
Yes boy!
Quality Jeffers. Some good competition though, fair play to the other lads
Nice one mate. That first race set me up for a hard day hahaha
Awesome Cam! defo need Chris with you next time you two are great together !! 😁
Thanks Gary, he's a busy man these days sadly
Everyone at Salty now knows to attack you off the line 😂
Hahahah ffs.
Great vid
Thanks mate
If the Tri dude would’ve used his aero bars he would’ve had him
Very refreshing Content - nicely planned Cam!
Thanks mate, glad you thought so :)
please do more of this!! nice content!!
Thank you mate. Appreciate it!
love the idea lol
Nice one Timothy!
Great content
Thanks james
Cracking 👍 some very innovative thinking there. I really enjoyed watching it and great to see people having a go and a laugh at the same time
Thank you mate!!
Is the road private? If it's a public road then you can film without a permit
Maybe around the trough 😂😉
Be waiting a long time for a challenger round there on an october morning!!
@@Cameron_Jeffers 😂December morning would be better as it never gets snowy or icy there 😝
Good way to do hill repeats though expensive
Hahah
This could be a series 👀
YEAAAA
Good content. I once bet my dad 5 quid to eat a whole raw very strong onion at Xmas time. He ate it all ... Best £5 I ever spent. Gave me lots of laughs. Money has to be spent anyways... Good luck with the video
Hahaha, that sounds brutal
I've learned an important lesson from this video. Get a mountain bike! If a cameraman can beat a road bike while running off-road, just imagine how much faster he would be on a hardtail! 😆🤣😆
Hahahhaha I know!!
Back in the late 70s when I was a junior time trialist in the Norwood Paragon, Ranmore Common was our cruel form of punishment.
Do you know it?
It's sting in the tail?
Being a northerner, I don't. But I might check it out!
Would’ve loved a bash at this. Would’ve got ruined. 😂
Ahh next time warren!!
Great video, really enjoyed that, especially the last guy on the canyon who thought the offer of £50 was a joke.
Could I ask if you could show us the set up of your video camera as I’d love to do something like this for my bike rides. Not so much for CZcams channel but for personal memories.
Good idea! In a nutshell, I have a rear facing mount on the seat post, a mount on the handlebars then a 360 camera attached to my k-edge wahoo mount.
Hi Cameron. Have you any comment on the Road Safety aspect of what you were doing in this video? Quite concerning to be fair.
In what respect?
@@Cameron_Jeffers Do you think racing as you were with other motorised traffic is safe and okay?
@@ashley_neal of course? Why can’t bikes and cars share the roads in harmony? Surely that comes down to my own judgement as a cyclist to know what is or isn’t safe. I’m obviously not going to put myself into a state of danger for the sake of a CZcams video..
@@Cameron_Jeffers From 5:20 to 5:45 is very interesting for me if you class that as not increasing risk.
@@ashley_neal very interesting indeed.
You need to pin Ashley Neals Comment
I think he deleted it instead. He commented on Ashley's video asking something about pavement parking.
Edit: He didn't delete it. I found the comment.
@@andyb8015 ''Something about pavement parking''.... Which is a serious problem for pedestrians, and Ashley only has one video dedicated to it.
@@mikewade777 but the topic of the video is about the dangers of using the road as a race track. Not denying that pavement parking may well be a problem.
@@andyb8015 regardless of topic, a flatbed van mounted the pavement next to me a couple of days ago.
I needed to go to pedestrian Precinct which meant crossing a blind Y Junction, So went up the back of a service Road to Cross further down. Kinda pointless since a car Was Parked further up by the junction on the pavement, which meant I had to cross by the junction.
Today the exact same scenario played out, and at the pedestrian precinct a van had to hit the brakes as I appeared round the corner on the pedestrian precinct. On the way back another vehicle had taken up pavement Space by the junction, so once again I have to cross by the blind Junction.
Was relevant to me!
Good video
Sam was basically nose-breathing on your wheel. Stone cold killer.
The guy was a beast
Let’s race up box you definitely won’t keep the £50
Fighting talk! See you next time, Alex ;)
Nice video there
Thanks!
I genuinely think my bro in law would give you a good go… he’s just had his second kid, lives in Surrey and hasn’t been training as much recently, so would have loved to have seen him from where he is now! I’d give him a small lead out of about 5m before you’d both rinse me I think! 😂😂😂
Haha, gotta send him down next time
@@Cameron_Jeffers let me know and I’ll send him over 🤣🤣🤣
Damn should’ve pulled up
Thankfully most the hitters stayed home.
good to hear your Geordie sidekick in the house 👍🚴
Andy is never too far away from the camera! Haha
Brought in as security for the cash 😂
i really dont know the lure of box hill....is it the seeming resemblance to an alp because of the switchback....ive no idea....ive ridde it once and the number of hills that are far more difficult is long long long list.....go ride up Yorks Hill......or race up it....
Yes definitely the Alpes resemblance and the views. Plus when a climb is not super hard everyone does it.
I agree, being from Lancashire, we have some great climbs, but sadly don't get the volume needed to shoot a vid like this up here :/
I'd race you on my MTB for £50. I might not beat you but then the sign doesn't stipulate that!
Hahaha, shhh
Didn't fancy doing the whole thing? 😂 I can't blame you, I wouldn't want to do the full thing over and over either, but that start to finish can't be more than 1.2km?
Hahaha for the sake of the video/camera guys running around, it was easier to do 2 straights. (plus yeah, up and down the full climb all day sounds NOT fun)
@@Cameron_Jeffers I don't blame you! Plus I imagine filming closer to the cafe would be more difficult - including with the drone. Good video either way 👍
Can you imagine the traffic jam there must have been at the top with all the cars that day.
Very cool. Loved it. What was your fastest time up the climb that day. Keep up the great work.
Not sure actually mate. Didn't have my computer on. I'll have to have a proper crack when I'm fitter!
Box Office on Box Hill 💷
hahaa. Like it
Not using the Harry’s razor 😂
hahaha
Cross posting my comment from Mr Neil's reaction video:
Well, legalities first... cyclists can't be guilty of speeding, only "wanton disregard", since the offence of speeding requires an engine. Driving/Riding without due care comes into play for cyclists.
I also don't think that parts of the analysis are particularly fair... the points about the hairpin and overtakes without forward vision... even in this analysis, you can see a few times where the cyclists scan the road ahead, over the top of the vegetation... no differently to me on a motorcycle, not forgetting that bikers/cyclists sit higher up than your average car driver, too. Equally, the point about overtaking "just as the space clears" - absolutely nothing wrong there, if the space is clearing and you have the ability to pass within the applicable speed limit (something pretty much every biker will do).
Were they taking risks? Absolutely. Were those risks unacceptably high? Not in my opinion. Would I be happy with my kids taking exactly those risks? Well, I'd ask if they'd thought it through first, and if yes, fair play.
Lets not forget we are not the Police, Judge, Jury and/or Executioner. I'm sure if plod takes issue with it, the original video will be more than enough evidence for the CPS to do something about it. Lets try not to live in a nanny state, shall we?