Great analysis again, thanks!! Definitely could have played that final a bit smarter but I guess there was too much lactate in my legs and not enough oxygen in my brain to think smart lol.
@thymenvuik83574 жыл бұрын
Haha, lekker Frank, lekker wt racen straks!
@rmnts4 жыл бұрын
great racing, good luck in the future :)
@frankvdbroek4 жыл бұрын
@@thymenvuik8357 Eerst maar ff studie halen haha
@EddieOdora4 жыл бұрын
You are doing great out there. 3rd place whilst solo is insane.
@pano3604 жыл бұрын
Your races are incredible - chapeau!
@AlexRochette3 ай бұрын
I knew it! Hahaha, I watched an interview with Van Den Broek earlier today and he showed his “home course”… and I recognized it! 😂😂😂 Super nice to have this footage a few years later now that he is racing in the Tour de France!
@adamweb4 жыл бұрын
Me: Hits 35mph going downhill and feels like a pro Euro Crit guys: Pass each other on 1ft wide slalom course in the rain @ 36mph for 2 hours
@NorCalCycling4 жыл бұрын
i know, it's very impressive
@allthingsTechrelated4 жыл бұрын
Wattage wattage wattage
@binkzera27774 жыл бұрын
On cobbles nonetheless, so damn slippery, in the wet
@leopers92254 жыл бұрын
This is why most UCI pros are from europe or most international guys come here to get gud
@Freyox04 жыл бұрын
no biggie for us
@detestrian4 жыл бұрын
All the best courses go through a Home Depot
@peterslegers61213 жыл бұрын
Lol, I think it's a brilliant move to keep the village up and running during the course. Van der Pol Pallets and Chests. The course: goo.gl/maps/qwg6iBUonUPuA6fR8 This is 1km from the farm where Jacques and Adrie van der Poel grew up, west from the cyclocross parcours at Hoogerheide.
@orppranator52304 жыл бұрын
1:52 I love how his heart rate is climbing just from sitting there, waiting
@TGShunai4 жыл бұрын
I am dutch and I raced aswell in the past. These kinds of courses are very normal in the Netherlands so it's funny for us when you talk about a "technical course" when you're talking about a norcal race which are always on wide tarmac roads with like 4 or 5 corners haha. These kinds of races is the reason why dutch and belgian rides are good in the classics and are such technical rides in general.
@benji22613 жыл бұрын
How the heck do they get permits for these races?
@eriksvensson20983 жыл бұрын
@@benji2261 very bike friendly country
@kthoman004 жыл бұрын
That kid actually looks like he is 13 next to those other riders. Someone just sign him now he is nasty good.
@sknkwrksowner4 жыл бұрын
yeah that podium made him look super young.
@mrmetd7585Ай бұрын
😂 now with dsm
@minervali6314 жыл бұрын
He's pushing so hard even his cam had tunnel vision
@cristianmarint4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@runl61179 ай бұрын
And 3 years later, Frank has his first world tour contract with dsm
@erich82584 жыл бұрын
The contrast with the St. Louis crit in your last video is astounding. It doesn't even look like the same sport.
@timothydean94074 жыл бұрын
I raced in the Netherlands in the late 1980s and can honestly say there is nothing like it. I remember my first crit thinking, how fast can these cats be? I was introduced very quickly. It is balls to the wall. So many corners, narrow roads, bricks, cobbles...insane. Took one race to know the score...get your butt to the front and try and stay there! Frank rode a heck of a race here. Very nice.
@mikecraig49984 жыл бұрын
@12:25 guy is going 33 mph (53 kph) and gets sprinted past as if he's standing still
@ChainringTours4 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Europe! It's nuts here at the speeds they go in some attacks. I did a pro race once where we averaged 51kph for the first two hours, that was even with 10 minutes of "slow" at the start of the race. I think the whole race was only 4:10 for a 195km race in the end.
@cas20014 жыл бұрын
Nice to see Frank back on the channel! A World Tour pro is maybe a bit too much for him but he's definitely talented!
@jshepard58404 жыл бұрын
I would have been willing to bury myself in pain just for the glory of that music at the finish line. Those Dutch, they're well known for their party mixes.
@isthatujeebus4 жыл бұрын
Love the fact a pro, with teammates, is bitching that the solo 19yo in the break isn't helping him to the finish.
@amartinez06074 жыл бұрын
Tactics. He probably knew he could get in his head as he’s less experienced and use him to do less work.
@andrew7taylor4 жыл бұрын
Mind games. You can guilt people into riding against their best interests if you complain, they're inexperienced or weak-minded. Most people want to be liked, you have to learn to ignore that in a race.
@isthatujeebus4 жыл бұрын
@Bernie Sanders Tactics? Who the hell is gonna fall for that? If I want to help I'll help. I'm not gonna burn myself out just 'cos some random is having a tantrum. :D
@tewaewae4 жыл бұрын
that is racing, I've seen amateurs swearing at pros for not taking a pull. Just need thick skin and sell some fatigue.
@isthatujeebus4 жыл бұрын
@Bernie Sanders U mad bro 'cos you bonked after somebody barked at you in a breakaway once?
@NickMaovich4 жыл бұрын
Wow, this kiddo gotta go far Thanks for the commentary guys!
@piccadillypie4 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. That looked like so much fun. No business parks there. You could have included a lot more footage in this one, FWIW, but it was still one of my favorites you've done. More, please!
@NorCalCycling4 жыл бұрын
Best compliment, thank you!
@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος4 жыл бұрын
See the dutch national championship, the course was nuts. Great racing
@thisishowthetruthdies6844 жыл бұрын
Swear to God, the point where van der Poel broke away could have passed for motocross.
@andrew7taylor4 жыл бұрын
I would've said that the course was rubbish :-D
@MyDemon324 жыл бұрын
@@andrew7taylor Funny cause the VAMberg is actually made of old compacted trash mixed with dirt XD
@andrew7taylor4 жыл бұрын
@@MyDemon32 That's why I said rubbish. A pun!
@SmokeytheBeer4 жыл бұрын
My word a nearly 100 km long crit. That looks so painful. Well done Frank!
@ericarnold17394 жыл бұрын
With a 92 km break away 😂
@btbowers9164 жыл бұрын
This is awesome content. Live the breakdown of European racing. So much more fun than US crits. Glad to hear Bryan back on the channel!!
@Kefford6664 жыл бұрын
They ride on the cobbles like they’re nothing! I took a corner once on some wet cobbles...woke up a couple of minutes later with a really bad headache 🤕
@NorCalCycling4 жыл бұрын
These guys push it right to the limit. That one guy slid multiple times but always maintained control. It's very impressive.
@koreystephens4 жыл бұрын
This man Frank Vandenbroucke has the name of greatness.
@benzzoy4 жыл бұрын
Is that you, Lanterne Rouge?
@renatolopes36224 жыл бұрын
cycling has more strategy than I ever thought
@mlupp4 жыл бұрын
Maan I wish there were races like this in Germany. We only have large-scale organized races.
@markt33314 жыл бұрын
there are dozens of crits in germany up and down the country. open your eyes and check bdr Ausschreibungen :D
@hagenre89094 жыл бұрын
bullshit there are hundreds of crits in germany
@mlupp4 жыл бұрын
@@markt3331 Thanks, cunningham's law always works wonders :D I've only found jedermann-termine before
@Northwindbreeze4 жыл бұрын
@@markt3331 thanks!
@Northwindbreeze4 жыл бұрын
@@mlupp just like me.
@carlos_g24 жыл бұрын
learning a lot watching your videos, thank you man
@nikls5343 Жыл бұрын
This guy is in front at the elite Dutch road race as of right now holding off guys like MVDP and Van Baarle
@shizzler71763 жыл бұрын
I don't race bikes just run, but this is honestly terrifying to watch. I realize experienced racers probably get kind of into the flow of this but the speeds are incredible for such a narrow course with crap surface conditions, you combine that with the high physical level of competition, this whole thing takes real balls.
@enekkers4 жыл бұрын
Raced a district championship there a couple of years ago. Really tough course and that downhill is mental
@davidreitan36094 жыл бұрын
Great video as always, Jeff. Real glad to have Brian back; hope he’s doing OK!
@user-ys6hl1uy1t4 жыл бұрын
"Being lightweight makes a big difference", i feel it
@jamesambrocio3 жыл бұрын
Crazy how their speed almost never drops to 45kph on a two-hour course. That is INSANE!
@paulmusters68024 жыл бұрын
Great to see the racing in this part of the Netherlands. A lot of great riders in Tour de France history come from this part of the country. Every serious cyclist in the Netherlands probably rode here and knows these tiny climbs :-)
@sachapaykin70203 ай бұрын
This aged well ! Great start to the 2024 TdF for Frank
@NorCalCycling3 ай бұрын
YES!!!
@fellspoint93644 жыл бұрын
Great work , Frank! This is only the beginning of a successful run. Keep punching!
@geospectrum4 жыл бұрын
Great videos, thanks. I rode in Germany and Netherlands. The parcours were always very technical and if you survive, you lean a lot.
@nikls53433 ай бұрын
Pretty good world Tour Rider too
@souloftheage4 жыл бұрын
As a physiology major and poor cyclist, I find it very interesting how a particular sport selects for a particular body type. Here, so many seem to have much longer toros to leg length, than the average male(males tending to have longer bodies/legs length relationship than women, who are the opposite and so often do require frames with different geometry). Tom Boonen was 6'4" and rode a 54cm frame with a 160-170cm stem: ALL TORO that lad!. It is so helpful, if one is to be tall, to have as much as possible in the torso as to limit the few % of wind resistance that often makes all the difference in the race's final sprint or during a T.T.
@xaviermelendez26394 жыл бұрын
Great video, this is classic P/1/2 racing in Europe. It's much the same across most countries with lots of racing... France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands... If any Americans want a taste of stage racing at this level, try and get into the Milk Rás in Ireland, it's a legit 8 day pro/am stage race rated UCI 2.2. Racing like this Dutch Kermesse , but for 8 days straight at over 150k per day in rain, wind, climbs, town after town, via chip-seal roads and some cobbles too. Some consider it the hardest pro/am week long stage race in the world. The year I did the Rás, the entire race averaged a higher speed than the first week of the Giro d' Italia. It's THAT fast!!!
@enekkers Жыл бұрын
So cool. He just signed a 3 year world tour contract with Team dsm-firmenich
@jonathanwise474 жыл бұрын
Great race analysis. Would be interesting to know air pressure for a race like that.
@l.d.t.63274 жыл бұрын
it's mostly around 1013 hPa over here!
@Tomselven4 жыл бұрын
@@l.d.t.6327 I think he's talking about tire pressure
@l.d.t.63274 жыл бұрын
@@Tomselven I know :-) Most ride 25mm and most would ride somewhere between 6.0 and 8.0, more likely somewhere between 6.0-6.5 as this crit has cobbles and some other less smooth types of pavement.
@Rob-uy9dx4 жыл бұрын
This kid is amazing. Keep up the hard work.
@syedrizvi87973 жыл бұрын
These commentaries analyses are incredible , it would be awesome to see you guys do a tour de france rider
@Caedo01 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant racing, brilliant commentary
@JFomo3 жыл бұрын
These guy go faster up a hill than I can ride on a straight
@askeen3333 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing NorCal Cycling wasn't around when SuperWeek was going in IL/WI. Plenty of 100km crits. With guys from Euro pro teams, USPS, Rock Racing, Colombia National Team, etc. Mike's Bikes had guys at those races, as well as the old California Giant Berry Farms teams.
@jiwangl4344 жыл бұрын
Great video Jeff! Hope you're doing alright amidst all the fires in Nor Cal right now.
@Swampster704 жыл бұрын
Hats off to the kid, that's some great riding. Best wishes to him and hope he gets a ride over there and makes it. That was a good watch. You could do something like this in pretty much any town, even in NorCal. Figure out a race format that works and makes the racing good for the riders and for spectators. As someone that grew up on the other side of the "pond" and moved to California - and then discovered IPA and BBQ after my career wasn't bound by two wheels - you could take it either one of many ways. You can make it classic "for somewhere else" racing and lets say you have a crit in Davis: make that crit a bit longer and pull it out of town and run it down Levee Rd and take them down the gravel and give it "character."Crita-Bianchi! Make it "hard" or "European" (whatever that means) and stuff a bit of crapped out road on it. Or you could do the absolute opposite and do a "devil takes the hindmost" but with a crit and run it on a course that's a mile long and s**tcan a rider per lap and enthrall the spectators whilst giving the riders no room for sitting in and taking it easy. Run it by Sudwerks Brewery and offer a prize for a free beer for the spectator that does the best guess on the first three riders that cross the lines on preem laps. Hell, turn it keirin-crit and bet on who wins on preem laps and influence some Japanese style track racing. Figure out a 1 mile course to run a "devil" on with over a dozen corners and you're pretty much guaranteed a no BS race. The US did an awesome job of starting six day races over 100 years ago and that went back over to Europe - maybe it's time to reinvent racing fun.
@Rene191914 жыл бұрын
1:00 god damn i jumped so hard i spilled my tea .... thought he was gonna faceplant really hard.
@RudiDwiHartanto4 жыл бұрын
Last time i was this early covid wasn't even a thing
@NorCalCycling4 жыл бұрын
Do you now have the power to make Covid not a thing?
@grandpalouis8184 жыл бұрын
Yes please
@stevejones84184 жыл бұрын
Love these race vids. So fast and furious. British cycling doesnt allow gopros in races so we wont ever see this side of things over here
@graphics_dev59184 жыл бұрын
Get a different brand of action camera then
@daanbarr16324 жыл бұрын
He's roughly my age, but his FTP is almost double mine
@gabedellar5884 жыл бұрын
What I his FTP?
@graphics_dev59184 жыл бұрын
@@gabedellar588 upper 300s
@crailwah4 жыл бұрын
That was crazy fast
@tewaewae4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant to get some Euro content. Thank you @Frank van den Broek. Good liuck for the rest of the season. Do you race cyclocross? (hint hint)
@tearsinrain18244 жыл бұрын
Great video! Love to see more of Frank’s races!
@ze_ep4 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic course. Nice change from blowing thru stop signs in the burbs.
@awakenedbahamut25744 жыл бұрын
If his ftp is that high, why not? The only things I can think of that he can improve are bike handling, confidence, and tactics.
@ericarnold17394 жыл бұрын
I don't know, you gotta think that his body isn't even fully done developing. He's gonna end up like a Daniel Oss in my opinion, just a crazy powerhouse
@robertdiez30914 жыл бұрын
@Nor cal go over to Europe and race some races. Some of my race stragies I use in crits comes from watching European races
@disloyalyou54553 ай бұрын
Races like this en courses likes this is what makes you a skilled rider
@VitaminD80004 жыл бұрын
ahh yes, classical euro race. Usually we don't call 2h races crits, crits here are still around 1h mark. More like a circuit race. Such races are held around Belgium and Netherlands all the time.
@mstrasser8 ай бұрын
Pretty cool watching this now, 3 years later, and yup, Frank's a WT rider now
@DimiPetrevski4 жыл бұрын
your pronunciation of Woensdrecht was actually really good!
@michelvanlommen40924 жыл бұрын
Frank Vandenbroucke. It remains me of one of the greatest cyclist. Vdb!
@jamesclarke68284 жыл бұрын
Awesome video as always 👍👍
@thombakker28354 жыл бұрын
My dude. That pronunciation of woensdrecht was on point
@virgilfulton44264 жыл бұрын
Legs are cramping, heart's a beat track to a rave, all navigating an incline on pave... race reviewers, "yeah... he should be attacking here".
@NorCalCycling4 жыл бұрын
Sounds about right. Winning is hard
@Requiredfields24 жыл бұрын
Instead of attacking at 11:02, as stated in the commentary, Frank V went to the front and conceded the race, happy to be on the podium, I guess. He succumbed to the complaining of the rider in yellow who, guess what, won the race! This was a lot of fun to watch, though!
@mikewow4 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video about how beginners should train?
@michaelcarmean49063 жыл бұрын
💥 Great Job… Frank 🚴♂️ Loved This💥
@andyz39254 жыл бұрын
All out... the whole entire crit? Congrats on him making podium!
@MorganBrown4 жыл бұрын
I start wussing out whenever I have to race a crit that isn’t a wide car racetrack. Glad I don’t have to make a living bike racing in Europe
@nicolaasvandenberg39594 жыл бұрын
Why tho it itsnt that hard. U just do cx in the winter so ur stearing abilty becomens better bc that is really important
@Garadom4 жыл бұрын
Loving the Dutch content!
@luukrutten12954 жыл бұрын
Going berserk on the first lap is pretty standard... warm up is essential before any crit.
@louwn4 жыл бұрын
Hold on is it the race from sat 15-aug-2020? Din't go because had no time but i did check out the race from today. So 2 more races in this comp, i'll keep a eye on how he is doing atm.
@barryotieno28084 жыл бұрын
Remember me too Frank😄😄😄 Great Job and analysis
@wackery_zeimer4 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! Dang I wanna go to Europe!
@S3thc0n3 жыл бұрын
what a circuit. legendary
@hiddenrob62894 жыл бұрын
Love cylcling videos just what I need to get it going the blood I love it. I always watch these before I go out and get my body moving. I always watch one of these, and then put up my heavy playlist like Delta Parole, Three Days Grace, System and then I just go haaaaard!!!! Tactic hasnt let me down yet.
@evanboyle47795 ай бұрын
He is in fact a world tour pro now.
@fonsdeckers44764 жыл бұрын
I love how you say woensbrecht
@ruffrydazz20324 жыл бұрын
I just want to say, this looks really fucking hard.
@dakingrocco4 жыл бұрын
Let's be honest... the pronunciation was quite good!
@GameMovieStudios20004 жыл бұрын
NorCal Cycling i am looking to buy a pair of bib shorts and i am not finding any straight forward information on the size and fit it should be. should they be tight? should the straps feel to tight when standing up?
@naturaltunes34444 жыл бұрын
Hey, wanted to ask, how do you get this realtime, bps, kph, km, GPS and all in the video?
@NorCalCycling4 жыл бұрын
I made a video about this topic, check out my channel.
@pano3604 жыл бұрын
This is amazing!
@samuelmundula22164 жыл бұрын
Seems like steerer tubes snapping is more common than I thought - my steerer snapped for no reason pulling away from a light a couple years ago & I'd never heard of it happening until then, now it seems like it's happening all the time.
@19KingLloyd4 жыл бұрын
the speedbump on the downhill in this course doesn't help either i think, looks like a 30 km/h zone so if you hit a speedbump that's designed for 30 at around double that speed bad things might happen.
@joren76534 жыл бұрын
Definitely got the name for it!
@bee_whisper4 жыл бұрын
great anaylsis and you have to be an absolute unit to ride a 2 hour crit that 90km .
@m.ncycles3 ай бұрын
Nice job today Frank wow
@NorCalCycling3 ай бұрын
So happy for him!!
@m.ncycles3 ай бұрын
Lots to love here but just 3 small ones: 1. The fact that early days Frankie was tuning into NorCal Cycling on rainy Dutch evenings 2. Jeff & Bryan sifting thru 1000's of hours of fan submitted races and picking out Frankie's 1080p footage 3. Frankie gifting the stage for the Greater Dream! Frank used his TdF debut perfectly! His compassion is bigger than anyone's FTP, and it's only his first day of the rest of his life!
@disloyalyou54553 ай бұрын
This video turned out well 3 years later this guy takes green in TDF
@natonato80362 жыл бұрын
wow loved this chapeau
@minervali6314 жыл бұрын
Outside I can push my hr above 180 with no problem but when riding indoor everytime I go over 180 I feel like I'm passing out
@gavinhlady8733 ай бұрын
This aged well
@NorCalCycling3 ай бұрын
indeed!
@davidleonardpir3 жыл бұрын
I done im Antwerp some years ago. Roads look really similar
@tobiasbouma40714 жыл бұрын
I've looked at the power data of the winner of this match. Average watts 265 over the course. He is 65 kg so maybe that accounts for the speeds at those wattages, idk. Strava file: www.strava.com/activities/3918172630/analysis
@2rismo4 жыл бұрын
I felt that unclip-I'm-about-to-cramp as he rolled to a stop. Great ride, mate.
@treneussen83383 жыл бұрын
2:20 that road is not a single lane that's a double here in the netherlands.
@TalonMerlin7774 жыл бұрын
hasn't even started and HR is 140... (me WATCHING the wait for the start)
@Phones0073 жыл бұрын
Wooow this is the best 👌
@CyberdyneSystemsSkynet4 жыл бұрын
Should get Fernwee (Martjin) on here to help with the commentary. :P
@PTAguy20104 жыл бұрын
Frank the tank!
@strindberg87644 жыл бұрын
Is this a high HR? I didn't know... I'm 35 and I can sit at 180-185 "comfortably" for over 90mins and peak at 205ish. Should I be worried my heart is about to collapse?
@LeDore384 жыл бұрын
max heartrate varies wildly between people. The 220 - age or 207-2*age/3 are just estimates and there are outliers.