Is this kid a future world tour pro?

[@frankvdbroek]

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.

[@thymenvuik8357]

Haha, lekker Frank, lekker wt racen straks!

[@rmnts]

great racing, good luck in the future :)

[@frankvdbroek]

@@thymenvuik8357 Eerst maar ff studie halen haha

[@EddieOdora]

You are doing great out there. 3rd place whilst solo is insane.

[@pano360]

Your races are incredible - chapeau!

[@AlexRochette]

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!

[@adamweb]

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

[@NorCalCycling]

i know, it's very impressive

[@allthingsTechrelated]

Wattage wattage wattage

[@binkzera2777]

On cobbles nonetheless, so damn slippery, in the wet

[@leopers9225]

This is why most UCI pros are from europe or most international guys come here to get gud

[@Freyox0]

no biggie for us

[@detestrian]

All the best courses go through a Home Depot

[@peterslegers6121]

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.

[@orppranator5230]

1:52 I love how his heart rate is climbing just from sitting there, waiting

[@TGShunai]

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.

[@benji2261]

How the heck do they get permits for these races?

[@eriksvensson2098]

@@benji2261 very bike friendly country

[@kthoman00]

That kid actually looks like he is 13 next to those other riders. Someone just sign him now he is nasty good.

[@sknkwrksowner]

yeah that podium made him look super young.

[@mrmetd7585]

😂 now with dsm

[@minervali631]

He's pushing so hard even his cam had tunnel vision

[@cristianmarint]

Lol

[@runl6117]

And 3 years later, Frank has his first world tour contract with dsm

[@erich8258]

The contrast with the St. Louis crit in your last video is astounding. It doesn't even look like the same sport.

[@timothydean9407]

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.

[@mikecraig4998]

@12:25 guy is going 33 mph (53 kph) and gets sprinted past as if he's standing still

[@ChainringTours]

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.

[@cas2001]

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!

[@jshepard5840]

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.

[@isthatujeebus]

Love the fact a pro, with teammates, is bitching that the solo 19yo in the break isn't helping him to the finish.

[@amartinez0607]

Tactics. He probably knew he could get in his head as he’s less experienced and use him to do less work.

[@andrew7taylor]

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.

[@isthatujeebus]

@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

[@tewaewae]

that is racing, I've seen amateurs swearing at pros for not taking a pull. Just need thick skin and sell some fatigue.

[@isthatujeebus]

@Bernie Sanders U mad bro 'cos you bonked after somebody barked at you in a breakaway once?

[@NickMaovich]

Wow, this kiddo gotta go far Thanks for the commentary guys!

[@piccadillypie]

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!

[@NorCalCycling]

Best compliment, thank you!

[@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος]

See the dutch national championship, the course was nuts. Great racing

[@thisishowthetruthdies684]

Swear to God, the point where van der Poel broke away could have passed for motocross.

[@andrew7taylor]

I would've said that the course was rubbish :-D

[@MyDemon32]

@@andrew7taylor Funny cause the VAMberg is actually made of old compacted trash mixed with dirt XD

[@andrew7taylor]

@@MyDemon32 That's why I said rubbish. A pun!

[@SmokeytheBeer]

My word a nearly 100 km long crit. That looks so painful. Well done Frank!

[@ericarnold1739]

With a 92 km break away 😂

[@btbowers916]

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!!

[@Kefford666]

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 🤕

[@NorCalCycling]

These guys push it right to the limit. That one guy slid multiple times but always maintained control. It's very impressive.

[@koreystephens]

This man Frank Vandenbroucke has the name of greatness.

[@benzzoy]

Is that you, Lanterne Rouge?

[@renatolopes3622]

cycling has more strategy than I ever thought

[@mlupp]

Maan I wish there were races like this in Germany. We only have large-scale organized races.

[@markt3331]

there are dozens of crits in germany up and down the country. open your eyes and check bdr Ausschreibungen :D

[@hagenre8909]

bullshit there are hundreds of crits in germany

[@mlupp]

@@markt3331 Thanks, cunningham's law always works wonders :D I've only found jedermann-termine before

[@Northwindbreeze]

@@markt3331 thanks!

[@Northwindbreeze]

@@mlupp just like me.

[@carlos_g2]

learning a lot watching your videos, thank you man

[@nikls5343]

This guy is in front at the elite Dutch road race as of right now holding off guys like MVDP and Van Baarle

[@shizzler7176]

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.

[@enekkers]

Raced a district championship there a couple of years ago. Really tough course and that downhill is mental

[@davidreitan3609]

Great video as always, Jeff. Real glad to have Brian back; hope he’s doing OK!

[@user-ys6hl1uy1t]

"Being lightweight makes a big difference", i feel it

[@jamesambrocio]

Crazy how their speed almost never drops to 45kph on a two-hour course. That is INSANE!

[@paulmusters6802]

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 :-)

[@sachapaykin7020]

This aged well ! Great start to the 2024 TdF for Frank

[@NorCalCycling]

YES!!!

[@fellspoint9364]

Great work , Frank! This is only the beginning of a successful run. Keep punching!

[@geospectrum]

Great videos, thanks. I rode in Germany and Netherlands. The parcours were always very technical and if you survive, you lean a lot.

[@nikls5343]

Pretty good world Tour Rider too

[@souloftheage]

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.

[@xaviermelendez2639]

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]

So cool. He just signed a 3 year world tour contract with Team dsm-firmenich

[@jonathanwise47]

Great race analysis. Would be interesting to know air pressure for a race like that.

[@l.d.t.6327]

it's mostly around 1013 hPa over here!

[@Tomselven]

@@l.d.t.6327 I think he's talking about tire pressure

[@l.d.t.6327]

@@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-uy9dx]

This kid is amazing. Keep up the hard work.

[@syedrizvi8797]

These commentaries analyses are incredible , it would be awesome to see you guys do a tour de france rider

[@Caedo01]

Brilliant racing, brilliant commentary

[@JFomo]

These guy go faster up a hill than I can ride on a straight

[@askeen333]

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.

[@jiwangl434]

Great video Jeff! Hope you're doing alright amidst all the fires in Nor Cal right now.

[@Swampster70]

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.

[@Rene19191]

1:00 god damn i jumped so hard i spilled my tea .... thought he was gonna faceplant really hard.

[@RudiDwiHartanto]

Last time i was this early covid wasn't even a thing

[@NorCalCycling]

Do you now have the power to make Covid not a thing?

[@grandpalouis818]

Yes please

[@stevejones8418]

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_dev5918]

Get a different brand of action camera then

[@daanbarr1632]

He's roughly my age, but his FTP is almost double mine

[@gabedellar588]

What I his FTP?

[@graphics_dev5918]

@@gabedellar588 upper 300s

[@crailwah]

That was crazy fast

[@tewaewae]

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)

[@tearsinrain1824]

Great video! Love to see more of Frank’s races!

[@ze_ep]

What a fantastic course. Nice change from blowing thru stop signs in the burbs.

[@awakenedbahamut2574]

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.

[@ericarnold1739]

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

[@robertdiez3091]

@Nor cal go over to Europe and race some races. Some of my race stragies I use in crits comes from watching European races

[@disloyalyou5455]

Races like this en courses likes this is what makes you a skilled rider

[@VitaminD8000]

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.

[@mstrasser]

Pretty cool watching this now, 3 years later, and yup, Frank's a WT rider now

[@DimiPetrevski]

your pronunciation of Woensdrecht was actually really good!

[@michelvanlommen4092]

Frank Vandenbroucke. It remains me of one of the greatest cyclist. Vdb!

[@jamesclarke6828]

Awesome video as always 👍👍

[@thombakker2835]

My dude. That pronunciation of woensdrecht was on point

[@virgilfulton4426]

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".

[@NorCalCycling]

Sounds about right. Winning is hard

[@Requiredfields2]

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!

[@mikewow]

Can you make a video about how beginners should train?

[@michaelcarmean4906]

💥 Great Job… Frank 🚴‍♂️ Loved This💥

[@andyz3925]

All out... the whole entire crit? Congrats on him making podium!

[@MorganBrown]

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

[@nicolaasvandenberg3959]

Why tho it itsnt that hard. U just do cx in the winter so ur stearing abilty becomens better bc that is really important

[@Garadom]

Loving the Dutch content!

[@luukrutten1295]

Going berserk on the first lap is pretty standard... warm up is essential before any crit.

[@louwn]

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.

[@barryotieno2808]

Remember me too Frank😄😄😄 Great Job and analysis

[@wackery_zeimer]

Awesome video! Dang I wanna go to Europe!

[@S3thc0n]

what a circuit. legendary

[@hiddenrob6289]

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.

[@evanboyle4779]

He is in fact a world tour pro now.

[@fonsdeckers4476]

I love how you say woensbrecht

[@ruffrydazz2032]

I just want to say, this looks really fucking hard.

[@dakingrocco]

Let's be honest... the pronunciation was quite good!

[@GameMovieStudios2000]

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?

[@naturaltunes3444]

Hey, wanted to ask, how do you get this realtime, bps, kph, km, GPS and all in the video?

[@NorCalCycling]

I made a video about this topic, check out my channel.

[@pano360]

This is amazing!

[@samuelmundula2216]

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.

[@19KingLloyd]

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.

[@joren7653]

Definitely got the name for it!

[@bee_whisper]

great anaylsis and you have to be an absolute unit to ride a 2 hour crit that 90km .

[@m.ncycles]

Nice job today Frank wow

[@NorCalCycling]

So happy for him!!

[@m.ncycles]

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!

[@disloyalyou5455]

This video turned out well 3 years later this guy takes green in TDF

[@natonato8036]

wow loved this chapeau

[@minervali631]

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

[@gavinhlady873]

This aged well

[@NorCalCycling]

indeed!

[@davidleonardpir]

I done im Antwerp some years ago. Roads look really similar

[@tobiasbouma4071]

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

[@2rismo]

I felt that unclip-I'm-about-to-cramp as he rolled to a stop. Great ride, mate.

[@treneussen8338]

2:20 that road is not a single lane that's a double here in the netherlands.

[@TalonMerlin777]

hasn't even started and HR is 140... (me WATCHING the wait for the start)

[@Phones007]

Wooow this is the best 👌

[@CyberdyneSystemsSkynet]

Should get Fernwee (Martjin) on here to help with the commentary. :P

[@PTAguy2010]

Frank the tank!

[@strindberg8764]

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?

[@LeDore38]

max heartrate varies wildly between people. The 220 - age or 207-2*age/3 are just estimates and there are outliers.