How Much Faster Is The Best Climber In The World?

[@gcn]

How much of a head start would you need against Feather? ⏱ Let us know in the comments below! 👇

[@bardongalang32]

Maybe 24 cans of Heineken and a pack of chips 😂🤘

[@biggertree7063]

2 days.

[@aminmed1824]

3 hours maybe 😂

[@alinapopescu872]

One day.

[@2karvaly]

I'm not sure I could reach the peak without stopping for a coffee break.

[@iMarsiTV]

Nice to see Richie and Tobi on the Main Channel with Si. Greetings from Germany :D

[@djrlloyd]

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.

[@Jean-jk4zv]

And seat post, for safety reason ! (And weight)

[@hanef8852]

and the disc brakes

[@PercyTP5161]

Andrew Feather....absolute machine. Hats off to you all, what a tough climb.

[@gcn]

He's a machine!

[@abot4694]

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!

[@gcn]

Glad you liked it! For more climbing with Feather, you should check out our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/KOM

[@florianh.6981]

Richie is a machine 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@Rick--A-F]

I liked how you could tell he went in to Pro mode when Andrew caught them.

[@douglaspate9314]

True

[@AshH4rd1ng]

The look on Alex's face at the end 😂😂😂, we've all been there mate. Brilliant effort guys.

[@Albert_Reinstein]

Stolz auf GCN auf Deutsch! Good Job Richie

[@Sycliste]

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 :)

[@gcn]

Thanks for joining in 🙌 Great to hear you had fun 🎉

[@TheLawyerInLycra]

You would have had him if you’d brought along your secret weapon: Ollie Bridgewood

[@gcn]

Wouldn't he have just got dropped? 😉

[@tomrachellesfirstdance7843]

@gcn not anymore Oli has been on a mission recently, hasn't he

[@jw3638]

I agree. Ollie for the win!

[@beermonster1234]

Ollie’s in a redemption arc. He now only drops people. Geraint thomas etc

[@alpsalish]

Just, no.

[@fionahunt8530]

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.

[@nade3128]

I would love to see Simon and Ritchie do an epic ride somewhere in Europe. Such great humoristic chemistry.

[@benshannon3121]

Si is such a weapon. No matter what event or type of bike you put him on he is incredible

[@RainerBlumfeld]

I can not recommend the german crew enough, these two are such a joy to watch

[@joecardon7077]

“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.

[@danielrose6418]

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" 😅

[@whitehorsebricks2670]

Yes, except this was the peleton being caught by one guy.

[@heatherbellbikes]

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.

[@ethangodridge6833]

What a ride by Feather and Richie. Lovely national championship jersey too.

[@gcn]

It looks great doesn't it!

[@jelle5003]

@@gcncan you buy it in the shop?

[@kevin._.farren]

Relaxing comfortably in my nice warm bed I can taste blood just watching that effort. Well done!

[@justittude1524]

The guy who said he needs a headstart up to next week is an absolute legend 🤣🤣🤣

[@xfaarupx]

sounds so much like Guy Martin...

[@juancarlosdelgado7791]

10:27 had me cracking up when Si reacted to Andrew right behind him. I LOVE this channel. Gracias

[@vidyapremkumar3851]

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.

[@gcn]

At least you made it! Must've been satisfying to get to the top in such awful conditions!

[@AleksiJoensuu]

That's amazing

[@vidyapremkumar3851]

@@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 )

[@andrewmcalister3462]

@@vidyapremkumar3851What a fantastic story! 🤜🤛 Respect!

[@chriswintermute1518]

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.

[@lordad]

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.

[@ambulowan]

​​@@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

[@Jean-jk4zv]

An e-bike without a rider maybe 😂

[@stevencole7331]

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

[@henkdevrjes9640]

I love this cross-over with the Germans as i watch all the English and German GCN stuff

[@danielmcelrath9694]

I love when you bring out the super humans like Andrew and Mark.

[@petewillmot]

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!)

[@beermonster1234]

The national champ GCN jersey looks sick 👌🏻

[@gcn]

It's pretty sweet!

[@yourl0nglostfather]

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 😂

[@jeremymitchell995]

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.

[@Der_Richiee]

Sau starke Leistung Richie!

[@Hoodalump]

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.

[@gcn]

Nice! Good luck! 💪

[@Hoodalump]

Update: Did it on saturday :)

[@sigmagrindset4860]

I always love these cliombing vids specially with andrew feather, more of this in the future please.

[@shepshape2585]

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!

[@gcn]

Do you reckon you'll ever make the trip to somewhere with climbs like this??

[@shepshape2585]

@@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%

[@pretzelhunt]

Andrew's climbing form reminds me of the mechanical limb movement and trance-inducing exactitude of those penguin stairclimb/slide devices. Just incredible.

[@mitch_smith]

Alex was a locomotive. Hammering the pace for you guys! Great video! Well done!

[@GNX157]

Chris Horner, 42yo and 136#, 2013 Vuelta Stage 20 Angliru, final 40 minutes averaged 390 watts. Oldest man to ever win a Grand Tour.

[@238949]

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🤩🤩

[@Jdwmaguire]

Knew this was over when Oliver wasn’t in the team… but hey mad cycle by the King Andrew. Really enjoyed this video! 😂😂

[@ThuCommix]

Loving the Gcn auf Deutsch Collab!

[@a_diverge]

Great effort by everyone. Andrew is really an amazing climber/rider.

[@gcn]

Thanks! Have you seen his Everesting film on GCN+? gcn.eu/8848m

[@a_diverge]

​@@gcnYes, Im a GCN+ subscriber 😊

[@rosson1983]

Feather talking like he’s having a conversation in a coffee shop when he’s putting out 390w…

[@linasbar6951]

that pass he made on the outside edge near the top was incredible. so steep and he had no fear. wow

[@dionisiuskusuma1462]

Andrew Feather should be competing at Taiwan KOM Challenge. C'mon GCN, make it happen

[@gcn]

I'm sure that would be right up his street! Have you seen our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+? 👉 gcn.eu/KOM

[@DslainteC]

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)

[@g.west2372]

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!

[@michellejohnstone6106]

Great video guys Andrews climbing style when out the saddle reminds me of Contador dancing on the pedals well done everyone 👍

[@happymystic9800]

Great competition and hats off to all the riders. Outstanding performance that only gets outshined by Andrew’s stellar ride. 👏👏👏

[@gcn]

If you like that, you should watch our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/KOM

[@batchmotorsport]

This was so good. Would have loved to see some of the riders voslx popped flimed too

[@benoitdugas745]

Loved it , great job guys!!!

[@Hogiewheels]

Great video, always enjoy the ones where Si is involved. Mr. Patton did some ride.

[@tikiemon1811]

Andrew doesn't need a saddle You're incredible mate. Great video!

[@rachelharvey71]

Marvellous fun watching the GCN mice try and outrun the Cat that is the Feather ❤

[@leangrypoulet7523]

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.

[@tarmaccio]

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

[@trdi]

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.

[@tarmaccio]

@@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

[@tarmaccio]

@@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 😂

[@trdi]

@@tarmaccio That is a big difference, yes. So Carapaz was doing 360 watts, at 5.9w/kg for an hour.

[@velodavid1287]

That GCN National Champion jersey is a thing of beauty!

[@gcn]

😍

[@jills2157]

Enjoyable video - great camera work and what can you say about Andrew. Camaraderie was brilliant, well done everyone.

[@vidyapremkumar3851]

How much of a head start would you need against Feather? the chap who said a week was funny :)

[@gwaping2k]

Im digging feather's jersey ❤ hope it shows up in their GCN shop soon.

[@nstrug]

It’s a British national champion’s jersey. Unlikely to show up!

[@GCNuser123]

we made the call not to make it available! Gotta be national champ to wear the stripes! that’s what makes them special 👍🏼

[@NikolausLim]

But you can modify the stripes, like the color combo, make it thinner, only one stripe on the sleeve(s), etc.

[@gwaping2k]

@@GCNuser123that’s unfortunate 😢 you could replaced with the red stripes currently on your black jersey or just plain white 😍😆

[@jstogdill]

Casually singing while cranking out 320 watts. 🤣

[@Mavrik-60]

Bout two weeks lol That was real enjoyable I was on the edge of my seat. Already want more so keepemcoming guys.

[@gcn]

Glad you enjoyed it! You might also enjoy our 'KOM hunters' film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/KOM

[@Alan_Hans__]

WTAF. Andrew Feather did that climb without a water bottle. WOW.

[@beermonster1234]

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!

[@douglasbooth6836]

I have notice me as losing weight your body becomes more water. Which means you need less effort and less water.

[@samuele8361]

The cameraman probably gave him some water

[@Alessandro-xy7js]

Man, he's British. So probably he had a bo'how'o'wo'er

[@GCNuser123]

came to cycling late, focused on a law career.

[@G_Otieno]

Alex was ready to meet his maker and you can see that in his face🤣🤣, great work boys.

[@panosexplorations]

Amazing landscape. Greetings from Greece!

[@anthonypink55]

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.

[@RewildingFlanders]

Poor guy at 12:58 not getting a fist bump 🥲

[@davidf2281]

Yeah that was a moment

[@HolisticHealthEducation]

What about the Italian assassin? Having him in the mix would have made for some interesting viewing?

[@nerigarcia7116]

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.

[@goodcompanycoffee]

I love these videos. Fun one guys!

[@gcn]

Thanks!

[@homersadiarin9299]

Only few moments you saw Feather sit down the saddle and that's when the time he's gauging Richie. Crazy dude.

[@MartinBBB]

What an enjoyable, fun video. The highlight for me was the incredible size of Si's sunglasses!! 😂

[@gcn]

They are getting bigger by the day... 👀

[@thehandleiwantedwasntavailable]

Great content team GCN!

[@oliviermagere]

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 😮

[@trdi]

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.

[@RAWnikon2208]

I'd be happy to start at the bottom of this climb as Andrew was leaving his front door. In England.

[@bubblesezblonde]

Two days and a really good e-bike...Well done Siborg and Felix!!

[@aminmed1824]

Come on guys, show us the descent! 🎉❤

[@dave136]

Great effort to all the GCN guys…but you were trying to beat Andrew …as light as a feather 👏🏻👏🏻

[@colinlittlewood9613]

I thought Alex was about to go full Davide Formolo with his pain face at one stage!

[@michaeljames2250]

What a crazy fun video! I would probably need a couple of weeks 😅

[@flutoki]

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

[@kcchiok]

I like Alec's vibes in all GCN videos

[@DoNuT_1985]

I've ridden it three weeks ago and can't recognize much of the road because it was rain and single-digit temperatures all the way. In my opinion, the first steep part from the Bruck side is the worst... probably the steepest part and just into this endless straight. That's mentally exhausting when you know it kicks off like this and you have more an hour to go. Grinding from hairpin to hairpin is way more rewarding...

[@rog69min]

Now this is a Top Gear style race. More of these please. And next time, throw "The Stig" in the race too 😁

[@andrewmcalister3462]

In his white national champs jersey, I thought Feather was the Stig.

[@coverchick]

Bring Andrew Feather to California; love to see what he could do on climbs like Mount Diablo and Mount Baldy etc

[@jayclark1551]

“Zone 6 Tina, May she Rest In Peace” Oh Si😂😂😂 Private Dancer Tina Turner💃🏾

[@andras.89]

I thought you droped "thetwig" cickname, just call him Andrew :) Mr. Andrew Feather (Always joy to watch episodes with him!)

[@covrtdesign5279]

12:57 The snub to the random dude that thought he accomplished something worthy of a fist bump. HAHAHA

[@ajb4380]

AF pushed proper hard in that thin air, seemed a bit pale a depleted, max effort! amazing!

[@biffgordon8468]

Andrew’s Strava calls this a Lunch Ride

[@richards4422]

Every video with Andrew Feather is a winner for GCN !

[@CatManDoSocial]

Great video. Such a huge Andrew Feather fan. Amazing athlete and a true gentleman. Si, you're the best but those ski goggles you wear are ridiculous.

[@gcn]

If you're a Feather fan, you should check out his Everesting film on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/8848m

[@CatManDoSocial]

@@gcn Oh yes, already watched it. And the Alp one as well.

[@coverchick]

Need to take Andrew Feather to Maui to see how fast he can ride up Haleakala. I wonder if he could have won last weekend's Race To The Sun.

[@lilbruin]

So Mr Feather is the fastest civilian, so to speak? Brilliant.

[@gamby16a]

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.

[@xosece]

like the song goes, this guy has been written in machine technology. Andrew Feather is just a machine, can't be human.

[@zz-ko3fn]

Great stuff guys!

[@lennymccartney1]

ah, he's there! was like a horror film!

[@aprotista]

What an absolute legend!

[@chrisdunn8215]

Alex kept that dude hanging on the fist bump at the top of the climb, did he get one in the end...FEATHER is a MACHINE. Well done all of you but I knew how it was gonna end😅