How Cycling Boosts Your "Love Hormone" WTAF? | GCN Show Ep. 585

[@gcn]

Share with us why you love cycling 😍

[@ulrichwinkler722]

I lost almost 40kg and found love. What can I tell: all those long endurance rides paid off ;)

[@Jari1973]

I do sports for my male ego.. Because I would look better in the eyes of women.. Because I could protect my life better..

[@thesimracer]

Please do a compilation of the best out-of-context quotes at the end of the year

[@jmax9782]

I loved sports as a kid but I wasn't very good at them. Got my first road bike at age 12 and all of a sudden my scrawny body and long thick thighs became a noticeable advantage! I loved to explore and travel long distances on my red Raleigh and forty seven years later that joy is still there. That cycling buzz never gets old.

[@McLovin38FFs]

Just cos!

[@HoldenDoesBikeStuff]

I was diagnosed with severe Major Depresson Disorder a 2 years ago. I was a mess and my life wasn't really worth much at the time. My friend introduced me to cycling and it has changed my life forever. I can't remember feeling this good ever in my life. Bikes will save the world, I have no idea how... but I know they will.

[@rbonn3880]

Yes, I met my significant other on a group ride 10 years ago, pulling her through a nasty headwind and sharing a beer afterwards. We've been together ever since!

[@gcn]

🤗

[@spinnersf]

I met my significant other on a group ride too! Of course we broke up on a group ride a few years later. Oh well. Oxtocin comes, oxytocin goes... Still friends, though! 🙂

[@julianallen515]

Caption competition; "Hey Lotte, did you hear Simon Richardson has a sock sponsor?" "It must be Giant".

🤣

[@marcuspartridge11]

Hello GCN! This is Marcus from Southern California (8 year viewer) with a contest idea. As much we all love your trips to exotic and beautiful cycling destinations (Italy, France, Mallorca, etc), most of us don't live in such amazing locations. BUT, I'm sure many of us are proud of where we live and the relatively great places to ride! For example, I live in a boring town called Banning, CA (NOT a prime destination for cycling tourism I can assure you), but we are surrounded with beautiful 10,000 to 11,000 foot snow covered peaks, low traffic roads, incredible mountain biking trails that are minutes away, Big Bear Lake is only 1 1/2 hours drive, and challenging climbs within 1-2 miles of my house. So, my idea is that you start a contest where viewers write in and pitch their home towns for 1 or 2 GCN presenters to come and visit! If you do come, I vote Si. Thoughts?

[@goshirago]

I love this idea because they could give a shout out to your local bike shop, too!

[@mrcycling7007]

I found love in my cycling group. We had a lady join our group and her and I would do extra kilometres after the group’s ride. Then we started riding together ourselves and on one ride I told her at coffee that I wanted to kiss her while we were at a lookout on the ride. She said that she had been wondering what that might be like. Three and a half years on… ❤

[@JonCannings]

Love it!

[@gcn]

Love to hear it 🙌 May there be miles of open road ahead of you!

[@allanfoster6965]

We miss the App. 😢😢😢

[@gcn]

So do we 😢

[@prestachuck2867]

My wife and I met in 2010 at a club ride. I ordinarily would never have been there. I lived some thirty miles or so away. I had no car at the time (bicycle and motorcycle only), and there was plenty of great riding in my own area. But a friend kept trying to get me to go to that particular ride, and one day finally showed up to drive me and my bike out there. There was this really attractive woman in the club who immediately won my attention not only with her beautiful eyes and incredible physique, but also her fabulous sense of humor, and unusual sense of cycling fashion…which I guess sort of fell back into the humor category. A week later, she brought her bikes into the shop I was managing, for new tires….at closing time on a Sunday. We began dating almost immediately afterwards, and married two years later. We’ve taken a lot of great cycling road trips, ridden many charity events, and watched a lot of races both over the internet and in person, together. We still ride bikes together every chance we get, and we still watch The GCN Show together every week.

[@JonCannings]

This is brilliant ❤

[@gcn]

This is amazing! Sounds like fate 👌Thanks for supporting what we do 🙌

[@WarHammerWH]

Guys, the microphones aren't performance enhancing. They do NOT sound better.

[@erich8258]

I don't think they're worth the silly look, but they clearly have a more detailed sound with a wider frequency range.

[@traderz13]

The sound is also out of sync now

[@Mis0ph0nia]

@@traderz13And theres an annoying static noise too now.

[@galenkehler]

Static, heavy breathing, distorted frequency... it's not great

[@shaun7163]

They do

[@justwillup]

Thanks for mentioning the passing of Christopher Barker. A true legend of Australian cycling.

[@artistglyn]

The saga of the water bottles hads reached a point where you should just ask another supplier.

[@gcn]

They'll be worth the wait 👌

[@DB-sj8km]

Contract is already signed probably. But yeah this is ridiculous. Also, camelback doesn’t make big enough bottles so they’re already out for long rides.

[@Ok_Rouleur]

I didn’t like the new sound, so I compared with old shows, and clearly the sound of the new mikes is metallic and muffled, and it’s harsh to the ears, through my AirPods. It may be better for the podcast, but doesn’t suit KZbin. Sorry to be negative, I hope that you can take it as « constructive criticism » :-) the show is still entertaining !

[@gcn]

Thanks for the feedback 🙌 We're always keen to hear from the community on how we can improve 🙌

[@brianridley1102]

The Mic's are still hideous 😂

[@gcn]

But the sound is ♥️

[@galenkehler]

​@@gcnno it doesn't. All the audio has static and consonant pops. Sounds a bit like someone's talking loudly straight into your ear.

[@prestachuck2867]

@@gcnJust get some pop filters for those mics. They are worth it.

[@vacuumbrainbimbo]

@@gcn Get rid of the unnecessary mics! Trying to solve a problem that never existed.

[@daz4627]

@@gcn Wrong. It still sounds the same... especially as most people listen to it on crappy computer speakers... lose the mics.

[@maxsievers8251]

Now let's applaud the first man openly living in a house number 11 to 20 and who's favorite dish is Spaghetti with tomato sauce cycling around the world.

[@justinschultz4325]

That brief segment of the show was utterly pointless.

[@derekwilbraham9828]

Those microphones have to go. Can’t see your lovely T shirts

[@gcn]

Don't worry. Head to gcn.eu/shop to see the t-shirts up close 😁

[@vacuumbrainbimbo]

@@gcn or get rid of the unnecessary mics!? Trying to solve a problem that never existed.

[@samwatts6590]

Caption competition: ‘hey have you heard Dan Lloyd is restarting the Cervelo test team’…… ‘PHAHAHAHAHAAH’

[@adedee4781]

Guys. Please ditch the mics !

[@easy2prononce]

now the sound is not better than before you get those 400$ hipster mics. but that is to be expected, when you set them up like this (to far from the speakers mouth). please just go back to your previous shotgun mic audio setup. the sound back then did not need to be improved.

[@marick791]

Also need to dial the lighting down a bit too, looks like a flood light 😂😂

[@Return_oftheMac]

Is the mic broken, what is that hissing sound?

[@ElRoberto182]

Something is definitely off. Sounds like someone's cooking a fry the whole way through the episode.

[@fionahunt8530]

My aunt & uncle and my mum & dad met through their local CTC group (now Cycling UK) back in the early 1950s. A total of perhaps 135 years of marriage between them. Beat that!

[@andlum83]

I’ll do the zone 2 training experiment. 20 years no sport, 7 years of having kids and 4 years of home office. and recently bought an orbea terra to fight the kilos. :)

[@lovemesomedetail]

What happened to the kids after those 7 years? You gave them back?

[@gcn]

This is great to hear! Best of luck with it

[@JustSayNotoGravel]

Caption comp: "phew, big route today!"; " Nah, it was just a liddle trek!!"

[@gcn]

Ayy! Nice one 🤣

[@Wills_world813]

Caption “Hey did you hear Lance hates seeing people happy”

[@centeredcycling.isbipedalt9544]

It’s the generational change that gives me hope for the future. Lance was an American Boomer Capitalist who succeeded at the game with the rules of play at that time. Winning at all costs is an American Boomer Capitalist mantra. Don’t hate the players, hate the game and nurture the change to the world we want to see. It is such a refreshing difference and I think Lance recognizes that.

[@galenkehler]

Sound is off, you need to back the mics away so you dont just hear them breathing into it.

[@MartinBrown-mb7pz]

Ditch the vanity mics. Get some off camera shotgun mics or better wireless mics similar. You don't need them. They inhibit interaction,. Look a bit try hard.

[@blahblah24304]

I tried 100g of carbs per hour for a 90 minute turbo session. Unfortunately it was haribo and I'd finished it all within the hour.

[@gcn]

😂😂

[@chrisridesbicycles]

Haribo training from the childhood on is what I think makes me consume 120g/h without any problems.

[@JimKJeffries]

2,763 days of living off a bicycle: nothing has contiributed more to my mental health. Ride more

[@JonCannings]

❤ this!

[@frednew687]

I once found a mouse swimming round a bucket of water in my garden. It couldn't get out. I reached in to give it a hand and it very socially ran up my arm and jumped from my shoulder into the grass. (Don't worry, the bucket got emptied.)

[@wspmjw]

What does your orientation have to do with an endurance event?

[@gcn]

It's all about representation. Cycling has historic issues with this. People like Andrew are going a great deal to change the sport for the better 🙌

[@simonwilliams1696]

oh no, they've kept those microphones, sounds like you're in a cardboard box. Looks/sounds more like an amatuar podcast now rather than the quality program you done before.

[@peterhowe-si8fg]

I thought we had votes the new mics off the island. Maybe they sound better in studio but no difference watching. And Si might get injured doing a face plant into his. What was the tally on comments?

[@rhodesprinting8652]

The quick cut to Ollie, “boring antisocial mice” 😂

[@paulberry5686]

Caption competition "look it's Dan Lloyd in white bib shorts"

[@JonCannings]

😂

[@gcn]

Nobody wants to see that... again 👀

[@stevemawer848]

Don't take up ballet, Si, the best you can hope for is to graduate with a 2-2. 🙂

[@ramsden35]

I get a buzz/high after every ride. Really does help with mood.

[@gcn]

Sounds great! Does it matter what style of ride you've been on?

[@hbrameus]

Those microphones should be above your heads out of view of the camera.

[@alfredongos]

#CaptionCompetition: After racing, Lotte Kopecky didn't even have a Lidl of that Oxytocin...

[@Gribbo9999]

What's with the obtrusive mics? Oh we told you that last week.

[@bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling]

Swimming mice? I now have Christopher Walken talking in my head. 2 mice fell in to a vat of cream. The first mouse drowned but that second mouse - he kept swimming and swimming until he churned that cream in to butter and climbed on out.

[@prestachuck2867]

Hahaha! That’s a good one! I could just hear him telling that story!

[@gcn]

Think we all read that in his voice 🤣

[@barrysimpson9645]

I found love on a bike ride! I fell in love with my bike!

[@JonCannings]

Like so many of us 👍👍

[@alfredongos]

#CaptionCompetition: Lotte: "Come on Chiara! Don't tell me Elisa's joke makes you laugh a Lidl !..."

[@mrabresnahan]

The oxytocin triggered by this episode did not offset my hatred for those damn microphones

[@gcn]

Love hate relationship? 😵‍💫

[@Aussie_stu]

Give Si a bodge for running butyl inner tubes after he has spent years along with GCN singing the praises of, 1. Tubeless set ups, 2. Latex tubes, and 3. TPU tubes. What about the rolling resistance Si?

[@___Bebo___]

Butyl tubes give the best ride quality out of all those options IMO. I like TPU better myself, but I miss how butyl hit potholes. They should come out with a thicker TPU tube that dampens road hits a little better. Up the 45g cyclocross tube to 55g or something, I'd buy it.

[@gcn]

I think you might be confusing me with other presenters! I don't think I've ever even talked about TPU tubes! And I'm happy rolling whatever on my road bike, it's off road where I'm tubeless through and through. Cheers, Si

[@gavinm717gkm]

Still using the silly microphones eh?

[@jamestoday2239]

Oxytocin.....cycling has always been about escapism and getting naturally high through exercise for me as a way of coping with life, so I've definitely noticed that long slow rides don't give me what I'm after in that regard compared with a short and vigorous workout type ride. Something that really becomes apparent when trying to adopt recommendations like the zone 2 riding mentioned on other videos. So, riding for mental well being like I do maybe doesn't fit in with the type of riding that people 'without issues' would be recommended?

[@CarsAndBikesBklyn]

After a nice ride, especially this time of year in the US, my girlfriend, and I look forward to hot chocolate with a shot and some whip cream afterwards.

[@hughmac0]

Very difficult to admire the fabulous Tee shirts with the enormous mikes in front, just saying!

[@bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling]

mice are actually pretty good swimmers - just like rats. They can swim and tread water for up to 3 days and can even swim under water for a few mins.

[@JustinCfromBC]

#captioncompetition : Hey Chiara, have you seen GCN's new microphones? 😅

[@jayjo675]

Still don't like the mics! It makes you all sound like you are actually in my head...get out of my head!

[@konstantinpapoutsidis6076]

Riding with friends with about the same fitness levels is enjoyable whereas diffrent levels of fitness can be stressful to the weaker rider 😢

[@KevinAxt-om5on]

#CaptionCompetition - "Hey, Chiara, why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other Si!"

[@cruachan1191]

captioncompetition: Hey Chiara, have you heard Si's Scottish accent? Seriously Si, that was worse than James Doohan in Star Trek. 🤣

[@markhoward1573]

I am more social after a high intensity workout... But to be fair that could be because Im bragging about the high intensity workout 😂😂

[@ItsBugsy]

Yes it's annoying. The more I cycle, the more I fall in love with GCN presenters.

[@gcn]

We love you too 🙌

[@wanderingboy8271]

So you’re sticking with the mics then, despite all the negative responses from last week..you asked, we said, you ignored!! 😂

[@evantozer]

I like the mics

[@dustinmhill]

The mics are so big I can't get a good look at the t-shirts.

[@mikegrudzinski]

I like the mics too. Maybe those boom arms could be arranged differently. Sounds good though.

[@gcn]

​@dustinmhill don't worry. We have a solution, head on over to gcn.eu/shop to see the t-shirts 👍👍

[@tobimaxx]

Mics are rubbish

[@mommamooney]

I didn’t find love by cycling, but love is what got me cycling

[@JonCannings]

❤

[@gcn]

Oooo do tell us more! 👀

[@mommamooney]

It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook

[@mommamooney]

@@gcn It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook

[@mommamooney]

@@gcn It’s been quite a journey but my husband has been an avid cyclist for many years. It just wasn’t for me. I have my own chapter in Ollie’s Big Book of Cycling Excuses with pain being the biggest one. I’d end any ride with a massive headache. Then we found GCN. Watching with him was how I could share an activity that he loved with him. After a couple of years you all made me want to explore the world by bike. After watching Hank’s works record attempt I decided that I was not trying the hard thing so I couldn’t fail and the husband was in the middle of cancer treatments, so I decided to give it another go. I thought that if my time with him were to get cut short, I’d rather be doing the thing he loved and wanted to share with me and not regret faffing about. I got a bike (4x smaller than his), no headaches. I still need a bike fit to fix some numbness issues (scheduled 4/7) and I’m deep into training on Zwift so I can ride a couple of his favorite rides in my favorite places. The future looks bright, both for the couples rides and the health outlook

[@hamuerahura7520]

Geez fellas, are camelback sending them from the moon? 4 months 😂😂😂 pretty bad. Love the show

[@jayjo675]

Caption: Who cares about the pic, get rid of the mics!

[@wuzihuzi]

Explains why I feel so shit when I miss groups rides.

[@robbie6638]

Two things: 1. A good friend met and married a lovely lady who he met on our Monday road ride. 2. I love cycling, of all types, because of the freedom and time to think.

[@etoyocthebackwardscoyote3572]

Caption competition: "Did you hear Simon Richardson is taking up ballet?"

[@allanfoster6965]

He had to give up the modern and tap. Something to do with ankles. . . .

[@whatwelearned]

I know it's been said before, but VDP in that white world champ's kit and the white Aeroad just looks so good. Born to do it!

[@gcn]

He's looking pretty sharp right!

[@CarlForde]

#captioncompetition: Prize parity with the men's teams?? hahaha

[@markcowell8096]

My missus took up cycling just 3 years ago and now drops me regularly during the seasons (Oct-March) 100km Sportives down here in Cape Town. She has also bought herself a fancy pants Liv with all that Di2 stuff etc, whereas I've always been a 2nd hand 1st gen tech man! Trust me, in these circumstances, the love hormone needs to come in pints to maintain a happy road cycling marriage!

[@cd66061]

The love hormone does come in pints doesn’t it? #beergoggles 😉

[@gcn]

Great to hear the two of you bonded over cycling 🙌 Do you think it makes the both of you better cyclists? Bit of friendly competition

[@markcowell8096]

@@gcn Definitely! But more importantly, because we now both cycle, the bikes go on the back of the car for our frequent South Africa road trips and when there is a formal race, we make a weekend away. I certainly cycle more regularly (and as a result have become a fitter, better cyclist), now that my wife has joined the fraternity.. PS spectacular cycling down here in the Western Cape (with a great sportive season Oct-March). GCN should come down for a taste

[@secretbrad9259]

See the mics remain 👎🏻 great show regardless

[@davidheathfield5040]

Another week with no “welcome to the GCN show” from viewers? Has it been scrapped for good? And those mics 🤦‍♂️ on my iPad it sounded like I needed the old Dolby hiss reduction button.

It hasn't been scrapped. The uploader was (is?) down, tech issues. Tried it myself, wasn't possible.

[@adamgwaltney2798]

Keep it hip with the times and call Rider's Rizz.

[@ChristopherSterwerf]

#captioncompetition UCI to explore Oxytocin testing after World Tour cyclists were clearly under the influence immediately after the race.

[@Realciderreviews]

On my old group ride, one guy let’s call him Ben, would be there every week. But when another guy lets call him Chris showed up Ben would say “sorry lads not feeling it today” and leave. Turns out Ben was having an affair with Chris’s wife while Chris was on the group rides. Ben was caught when he left his Strava recording the rides to Chris’s house!

[@gcn]

Oh wow. That's not what we expected to read!

[@seattlegrrlie]

Interval training definitely gives me a huge high. Just have to get past the point of "can't do this anymore"

[@gcn]

That's part of the fun though isn't it! Pushing through and enjoying this part of the journey 🙌

[@Albatrossamongus]

Yikes, the ugly intrusive mics are back! And they don't make for better sound... Si's level and high EQ is noticeably higher than Dan's. The old mics might have been marginally lower fidelity but they made for an overall better production and viewer experience.

[@ggold3357]

100% experienced the post ride "high/buzz". Even more so than after running. Even after my long rides, after which I'm completely knackered, I still feel mentally good. Haven't found extra "love" on my rides though... which my wife appreciates 😉 Overall though, if I don't exercise on the regular I get to feeling low. Need the bike and the weights to make sad voices go away.

[@robertturunen9746]

The mics?.The sound wasnt that bad before

[@thomasriding8448]

A good example of the cuddle chemical kicking in is si singing to James blunt and crying under his massive shades whilst riding the ultra gravel race.

[@bulletprufrodo]

If i forgot about the mics, i remembered them when Si could not show his shirt. I still dont know what his shirt looks like.😂

[@gcn]

Sweaty! That's what they look like 😂

[@km09876-t]

l'enfer du Nord (Paris Roubaix)

[@philipsheppard8861]

why is it runners high???? why not cylists high 😉

[@andieymi]

Caption: Look, GCN Show is back with the silly mics! 😂

[@alanfreeman7932]

Caption competition:- Have you seen this picture of Dan wearing white shorts

[@midcenturyadventures]

I met my partner on a group ride! We've been together 13 years and still ride together every Sunday. Also, I'm definitely one of those people who feels the "cycling buzz" - moreso with intervals or short, fast rides than long, slow distance. (Long slow distance makes me "slightly grumpy" like Simon.) I do a GCN Training video once a week, and it's always a mood-booster.

[@JCoe-mh8rt]

Is it just me or was Dan's volume a lot quieter than Si's in this episode?

[@polarvoidx6366]

Caption, did you see that Bambi bloke riding the wrong sections of the Paris-Roubaix 😂

[@simonrichardson7808]

Ballet?.......with those ankles?

[@andlum83]

Isn’t there some speech to text solution for swift? seems way easier… :)

[@wotexpat9367]

Boring Anti-Social Mice - Shows Ollie at his laptop... Harsh! But funny. :)

[@gcn]

Very harsh 🤣

[@matt_acton-varian]

The caption contest tangent - pretty sure EPO blocks oxytocin, explains his grumpy persona.

[@prestachuck2867]

That and the fact that he’s always been that way (jerky). Even when he was a junior.

[@andymakarewich]

Please lose those mics

[@brannmacfinnchad9056]

If this video gets 5,000 likes, Si will record his beginning ballet classes.

[@JonCannings]

😂

[@michaelcarmody2095]

What's Irish and doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain? Paddy O'Furniture.

[@stephenyoung5368]

CAPTION "Hey Ciara, did you hear Si is thinking of taking up ballet...... with those ankles?"

[@exothermal.sprocket]

LGBTQ+ suicide prevention and carbon-neutral tire factories and love hormones and bicycle keyboards.... GCN must be in a low cycling news cycle.

[@bike.mad.kimbos]

Would love to see how nice those t-shirts are but i'm struggling to see de ronde those massive microphones..................

[@DancingIK]

#captioncompetition: Hey Chiara, did you hear that GCN claims to be giving away Camelbak water bottles to prize winners?

[@Aeroasduck]

I met my wife at a triathlon club. We used to train together and our first date was a bike ride.

[@rdlperry]

Mouse #1 “Mate I thought I was a goner, I had to keep swimming for an hour or else I’d have drowned” Mouse #2 “You too? I thought it was just me that happened to” Mouse #1 “Yippee, I’m so glad to be alive!” Mouse #2 “Yeah, life’s good. I really love yer mate”….🐁❤️🐁 Oxytocin or just the euphoria of surviving a near death experience?

[@magicknight8412]

Caption competition "Bucket loads of oxytocin for first and second place, but not much in third !"

[@gcn]

We would take 3rd on a pro race 🤣

[@craigmaberly8561]

In our club of 500 members MDCC a lot of new relationships have blossomed.Also mixed riding is very good for all.

[@MartinBentancour]

Caption: it takes a Lotte of effort not to laugh at Lance’s comment about riders hugging it out

[@elrictdb]

#captioncompetition Did your oxytocin levels spike when you heard Si's Scottish accent too?

[@caillou450]

#Question for next show : where can one get a (custom?) cassette, like a 12 speed 12 to 34 cogs!? Would a 2-cog increment be ideal with a 50-34 compact front ring? Thx.