Ride 181 - 10th Annual Okanagan Gran Fondo (2022)

[@carlolsson4618]

You ROCK Steve!!! And I am honored to be your mate!!! ❤🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Thanks Carl. I am glad you enjoyed it. Perhaps we can do it all again next year. Hopefully, it will be 25C instead.

[@carlolsson4618]

@@cyclnvancouver8060 we will kick ass in 2024!! Great to chill out with you over beers and pizza yesterday 🍺🍕

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

@@carlolsson4618 Carl. Here is my video for Ischia. I think you would absolutely love cycling there, and your GF would love the beaches. And, it has lots of history and culture which I think you would also love. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4a5aGicjaiLgrM It's called Ride 242 - Under the Napoli sun. Ischia - Cycling in Paradise. Mediterranean style.

[@carlolsson4618]

@@cyclnvancouver8060 i have seen only 11 bears 🐻 on my last 3 days of riding 🚴‍♂️

[@scottlyall7712]

Thanks for the video. Helps inspire me to do this for the first time in 2023

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Your welcome. Good luck with it.

[@InspiredITALY]

Well, now that's a ride! Congratulations Steve. 🥇🏆🥂

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Thanks Tim. As I was approaching those 2 insane ramps, I was thinking about our ride around Lake Trasimeno. I think that experience helped me through this ride.

[@velosapien]

Thanks Steve, looking forward to the next ride. May I no music please, only your surroundings

[@thegoodwheel]

Absolutely awesome Steve! Such beauty and diversity of terrain. I felt like I was watching 5 different rides! Good job, way to push through on those climbs... the segment with the cheering girls made me take a Justin Timberlake break.👍🏾

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Thanks Luis. I love that ride. It's an incredible route. I just wish I was much better prepared.

[@maf5454]

Spectacular! Absolutely breathtaking views on your ride. Your roads and scenery remind me of the roads around Annecy France and the path around the lake. The only thing I can see missing in your footage is some high snow capped alpine peaks. Rode around the lake when there and to a person in my group we swore that we must have been good boys and girls someplace along the way! Thank you for sharing your ride footage and I for one am very envious. Be well and safe, peace to you and yours.

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Thanks very much. Unfortunately, the desert around Penticton at that time of the year gets pretty hot and I doubt there are any snow capped peaks nearby. You can check out Ride 196, the Whistler Gran fondo, and I guarantee you will see some snow capped peaks.

[@CalgaryToothDoc]

Well done, Steve. What the mind wants, the mind gets!

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Thanks Andy. I get another chance this weekend with a 160km ride to make up for that effort.

[@roubaix3843]

Only got round to watching this today - well done, Steve, a massive ride. Just shows what a bunch of screaming girls can do to a man 😉

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

It really did help. Sexism for the win!

[@GordoGambler]

Beautiful ride and so is your video style. So tell us some of the ride times, 7.5 hours for you?? Beats me why they were whining at you so much. 95 miles is a puny ride on a race bike, LOL. All I ride is heavy steel and IGH now, with NO stupid helmet ever. I rode thru there on my 120 lb Rohloff14 tour bike in 2018. Worst aggravating day was from Vernon to Summerland, 71 crazy hilly miles. I was 65 then. Took me 22 days from Edmonton to Stanley Park, with 3 days in Summerland and an extra night in Revelstoke after the 98 mile Roger's Pass day. 98 days for the whole 3,900 miles to Oregon and back. I've done 133.6 miles in 12.5 hours on the tour bike at 73 lbs with a SA XL-RD5w. Ride on Buddy.

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Thanks very much. I don't actually know what my ride time was. I expect it close to 8 hrs. I was woefully underprepared for this fondo and it showed. But, I love the course and have been waiting patiently since 2019 for another go at it. Next year I should have the Strava data to include in the video. I didn't really understand why they were concerned. It seems there was some issue about closing times for the aid stations but, according to the event website, I was well within the time. But, when I got to the finish, the post-ride area was mainly packed up. My spouse was quite ticked off about that. Your rides are very impressive, especially the ride from Edmonton to S.P. I will be heading back to Italy next May for another week of cycling.

[@GordoGambler]

@@cyclnvancouver8060 Don't be so hard on yourself, you are what you are, a big guy. You have 200 ride videos with lots of hills. So it's bizarre how you say you are so unprepared. LOL. Maybe your job and time keeps you from doing the over 90 mile rides I suppose. I looked at the time results. So likely you would have beat 8 hours with the full ride. There's over 400 guys behind you that got their times cut off after the 8 hour limit. Buggers. 7 o'clock + 8 hours is 3 o'clock. You should be mad they were packing up. The front 100 guys get to pack ride, so it's no wonder they can do 24.5 mph. Easily a 4 mph boost. Plus they were riding in way cooler temps and finished by 10: 30. I have to start over every April. I'm lucky if I have one long ride after Oct.7. I never did any kind of race or event. But there was a day I went to see the pro's doing the Tour of Alberta about 8 years ago. I actually went 108 miles to their 98 I think. LOL. Then another day, my 125 mile ride overlapped some of the local grand fondo route. I showed them how I go 44.5 mph on my favorite speed hill. LOL. I have a 45.8 mph video from another day, in my YT channel.

[@vengermanu9375]

Well done Steve! 👏 (Robin)

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

Thanks Robin. Surprisingly, as hard as that was, I didn't feel that worn out by it after I'd finished. Perhaps it was the 2 beers. It was a beautiful ride though.

[@Alien_nation]

What kind of equipment for filming do you use.? I’m want to film my next fondo

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

For this, I had a GoPro Hero 8 attached to my front bars, and I had a GoPro Hero 10 in my back pocket for B-roll shots. I shot it in 4k which meant batteries last 40-45 mins each. I went through a pocket full of them.

[@SiklistangRaketista]

Nice ride. I was there too.

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

I love that fondo. Did you enjoy it?

[@GordoGambler]

So what was your finish time SR?? You said nothing at all on your video.