Who Is The Best Hill Climber In The World?

[@hansjansson1568]

I hope for a rematch but also the viewers - can see the number of watts in real time to actually understand how hard that effort actually was.

[@andreschlegel4861]

+1! Now give Feather home court advantage! Get IL Bandito to the UK

[@bratSebastian]

@@andreschlegel4861 And make him ride in the cold rain and got rode over by some car driven on the left side of the road that in the UK is being called the right one! The revenge is going to be brutal!

[@charlesmiv3842]

@@andreschlegel4861 Bandito still going to win. Dude was literally built to climb

[@GotDamBoi]

I agree, I've seen much smaller cycling channels have this feature so I'm kinda shocked GCN doesn't implement it for videos like this. Still a cool vid tho

[@jonnylindsay3645]

These comments are totally spot on. Gcn have the budget to do this so much better. Smaller channels making a much better job of it. Great content, just an encouragement to consider how to make it more exciting by video and audio on riders and power and HR, gradient overlays. 👍

[@thomasharteveld9614]

Luca Vergallito just won his first race + GC at Oberösterreich Rundfahrt after winning a prof contract by winning the Zwift Academy last year

[@mickelkobeck7376]

This duo climbing against each other should be a regular on this channel.

[@gcn]

Which climb would you like to see them climb next?

[@FHKP85]

@@gcn Etna like GCN Italia vs GCN en français

[@mickelkobeck7376]

@@gcn Stelvio

[@jmmislang]

We should call it "GCN Suffer Fest"

[@mickelkobeck7376]

@@jmmislang Might be some Copyright challenges to that. LOL

[@rh6078]

Loved the confused dog at 3:02 wondering what on earth all the shouting was about!

[@LazyKatze]

And then shaking its heads seeing them take off... "Idiots" 🤣

[@prestachuck2867]

Both men are impressive riders! I give Andrew a little extra credit for being older, and also for most likely not having had adequate time to recover from his KOM on Italy’s hardest climb before this attempt. Yes, let’s see more of both gentlemen on the channel!

[@gcn]

We'll see what we can do!

[@nstrug]

Luca’s attack was a thing of beauty.

[@davideferlin8053]

Having Vergallito involved in something like this is probably one of Giorgione's dreams brought to life. Kudos to both riders, remarkable effort!

[@WilhelmGutentag]

Rowan Barrett from Montreal is essential here to complete the triade. This guys strava and yt appearances are beyond real.

[@garrettchurchey]

Bring in Phil Gaimon too for a quartet of Strava climbers 🙂

[@tasdrouille]

+1 for Rowan

[@Sionnach1601]

Great idea lads. It would be great to see, say, 5 - 10 of the very best, but give them all at least a few months prior notice.

[@WilhelmGutentag]

@@garrettchurchey Oh, yea. I mean - that would be awesome. Let’s hope GCN sees this.

[@rowanthomas6428]

yea Rowan is nutty I agree

[@samgooding-matthews3175]

There has to be a home ground race on a hill of feathers choice and a neutral ground one where neither have the KOM only way to make sure it’s fair and they are really fun to watch

[@chrisharvey8356]

Sounds great, but feather has all the KOMs 🙈❤️

[@KelvinSuddith]

Adding a comment so GCN will be more likely to see this!

[@CastleKnight7]

Definitely!

[@ayvanmakesvideo]

Sounds like a proper battle of champions

[@deFruitberg]

Just take a wellknow climb, and long one. Like Ventoux or Galibier.

[@Mububban23]

I recently found myself on a climb that maxed out at 18% and thought I was going to have a heart attack, and that was in "just get to the top" survival mode, so hats off to riders like these who can race up them at that speed where I'd be gasping and probably dying 😀

[@geraldtone5914]

I'm 240 lbs, so on a hill, I'm always in "just get to the top" mode. Doing what these guys are doing is just a distant fantasy to me.

[@cyclnvancouver8060]

@@geraldtone5914 I know your pain

[@gcn]

Don't worry, you're not alone! They're incredible riders and most of us are in survival mode as soon as it gets to double-digit gradients.

[@2002RM]

@@geraldtone5914 Ha! Same here.

[@NYGiants4Life]

@@geraldtone5914 245 myself. Trying to loose all the weight I've gained since surgery. It's excruciating trying to get to the top. I try to not even look up when I see a hill coming.

[@markkorondi5983]

Kudos to Feather for keeping up like this after having a BIG effort the day before. Theese super steep climbs leave quite the pain in your muscles after (at least for me it did) so I understand why he couldn't keep up with IL BANDITO :DDD

[@charlesmiv3842]

Yeah climbs kill quads. Not so much hamstrings though

[@Kimberly_Sparkles]

Man, I want to see a rematch. My money was on Feather.

[@Sionnach1601]

Why oh why was it scheduled for the very next day??? How stupid can you get.

[@mauricetremblay1324]

OMG! That looked like serious torture! I admire them both. Incredible effort.

[@MarkPipkin1287]

Great video! Home advantage is always good ….. so get them to Britain and pick a beast of a climb here!! Hardknott perhaps?

[@GCNuser123]

yesss!!! would love this

[@79andywilson]

@@GCNuser123 Trip to the Peaks and have them tackle Winnats, Riber, Rowsley Bar and The Clough?

[@oceanedetotes]

After this video Vergalito is now in world tour, thats strange for someone who didnt win when he was younger , but beating Andrew Feather give you wings !

[@ausbrook]

I like to see more of the two going against each other. Go somewhere it is not someone’s home advantage and both are fully rested.

[@mlafleurhua]

The long climbing challenge in Taiwan or one of the massive climbs in Hawaii

[@gcn]

Which climb would you like to see them on next?

[@garydunn3031]

Andy Feather has climbed a few of the hills near me, I think whilst he was in area for the UK champs a few years ago. His times are phenomenal - I'm convinced some people take longer to get down a few of the slopes than he did to climb them!

[@gcn]

It's tiring just watching them shoot up the climb!

[@GOLTEB]

1:02 andrew just standing there not wasting even a single once of energy by staying still.

[@lukask.6976]

He initiated npc mode

[@pioveluca]

As an Italian, at 7.29 I spat out the pasta while laughing :D

[@pioveluca]

Nooo, they deleted the curse on God :) that was sooo Italian

[@lufo5]

Minute 7.27 Dan completely destroyed any kind of revenue on this video 🤣 you are mad to say "*** 🐕"! Best video ever in any case 👍

[@carlofino4666]

your pronounciation of one of the most important italian expressions ("Dio cane, cazzo fai!") is simply perfect. congrats

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

And a wholehearted “Dio cane cazzo fai complementi buon appetito!” to you to, GCN 🇬🇧🇮🇹

[@tomlist99]

Il Bandito has the feather in his hat. Favourite GCN video ever - more races please

[@nerigarcia7116]

Luca knew where to kick but I think Andrew could've kept up had he known that climb better. Tough race. I'd like to see Feather v Bandito on the famous Alpe d'Huez or Angliru. Neutral ground.

[@gcn]

That would be truly epic!

[@corymolloy-advertisingprof4689]

I sure would love to see that... @@gcn

[@douglasbooth6836]

Never a disgrace being beaten by someone so talented. Great athletes.

[@swites]

KOM on the Stelvio??!!! Impressive by Il Bandito! Great ride by Feather though, only a few seconds behind.

[@jimking6484]

Wish you had power meters that we could see real time throughout the ride. Great video.

[@DanielLloyd1]

Apologies for any offence I caused with the last part of my race commentary. I used a few words that I used to hear from the Italians in the peloton and hadn't realised they were as strong as they are. Dan

[@barbamatteo]

Don't worry! Hahaha

[@gamakichisama]

Maybe somebody was offended, but it was hilarious! You learned the worst in such an impeccable way... Grazie mille! from an Italian living in Japan

[@Daniel-ng8fi]

Haha, that is awesome, will someone please translate what it was lloydy said?

[@ritrattoaziendale]

@@Daniel-ng8fi part of the phrase was about comparing God to an animal, which is ok if talking about ancient Egypt, but out of contest, it's just one of the worst offence you can tell God, at least in Italy. Theoretically (by law, but of course is not applied in reality) you could be sanctioned by law enforcement if you say that in public on italic soil

[@v0ldy54]

@@Daniel-ng8fi "Dio cane, cazzo fai, complimenti, buon appetito!" Roughly that is "God dog, the fuck you're doing, well done, enjoy your meal!". Dio cane is considered extremely offensive if you're a bigot, normal people just say it among other bestemmie and I have no doubts Daniel heard plenty of them in the peloton hahah

[@komrad5273]

They should take the best climber form each the countries represented by the GCN foreign language channels and fly them all to the US to take on Phil Gaimon

[@willsketchesmusic]

Great idea!!

[@Kvs-vf9nt]

@@paddymurphy-oconnor8255 Phil Gaimon wins easily Edit against Durianrider fraud I mean

[@travismcgarry]

This would be awesome

[@bryceclass4827]

Nooooo. Not even close to easily.be MIGHT win

[@eto2352]

@@paddymurphy-oconnor8255 :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHLCo4iPrdqCgsU

[@Rick--A-F]

I'm not surprised Feather was 40 watts down if he'd ridden the other hill just the day before. It must have been a novel for them both to be riding so fast and still have someone with them.

[@paro64]

The cyclist with right train can recovery an hour at full effort in one day

[@BobBobson321]

@@paro64 so not true 😂

[@paro64]

@@BobBobson321 one hour of maximum effect at FTP level, like a test, produce more or less 100 TSS…. According with Coggan description, this type of effort will be recover in one day. During the gran tour the professional cyclist reach 300tss per day….and the best cyclist get each performance at same level day by day.

[@philipk4475]

@@paro64 this is a huge simplification. 100 TSS is not always the same. Think a pro cyclist could go for the hour record and then repeat that effort the next day? LOL

[@paro64]

@@philipk4475 of course, I’m just give the idea about the concept behind single effort. I think that Feather did’t done an hour of FTP test or hour record competition during the day before. If he did a 20min of full effort 24h before this competition I think that it is totally irrelevant. It’s my opinion. Anyway, regarding the professional cyclist…during Imola world championship WVA reach 2° place in crono race on Friday and another 2° place during road race on Sunday, against other fresh professional cyclists.

[@WaechterDerNacht]

When Ollie made his "beeps" the dog in the background was probably like: "What do those clowns do here... Well, you do you! I'm off!" :-P

[@alexkawasaki8506]

Who told dan what to say in Italian? As an Italian myself i wasn't expecting that 😂 basically he just said "god is a dog, what the fu*k are you doing? Congratulations, have a good meal." I've been laughing for the past five minutes to that 🤣

[@FlatSpinMan]

Hah! I’d been wondering what it was.

[@danieltipu7379]

The part with god and dog toghether is blasphemy here in Italy, i'm surprised Georgione didn't informed the man edited the footage ..

[@lucaairoldi686]

Noooo did they edit it before I could see it?? You can notice that micro cutting at 7.28ish

[@Kimberly_Sparkles]

@@lucaairoldi686 Sharp ears! I don't speak Italian, but I'd say your right just based on the way Dan sounds.

[@alexkawasaki8506]

Yes, they did cut it and it was glorious R.I.P Dan swearing blasfemy in Italian

[@southbankboy]

Great stuff GCN. Thoroughly enjoyable with a glass of wine in my hand. Now I’m ready to go up Broomfield Hill in the small ring.

[@mattityahuyehudah7748]

Loved the use of commentary please use more often, thank you

[@katiel7166]

The "yeah, I don't really know" cracked me up for some reason

[@acarlux]

Dan Lloyd’s swearing a blasphemy like ‘D*o Cane’ make my day 😂

[@declanbroderick4453]

"Bandito has the feather in his hat" comment of the week😂. I bet dan practiced that too, wonder what he would have had to say if it was the other way around..... "Bandito has been unmasked and has justice has been served! case closed" Well done to both, amazing effort and great to watch.

[@cyrillgross5641]

I'd love them to do Mt. Rigi (nicknamed "Queen of the mountains") in central Switzerland. It's neutral terrain, 1200+m ascent on 11km, good part 20%+ and a magic view from the top.

[@peterhaslund]

Ooh, ooh! I know this one! It's that Danish Tour winner who lapped the rest by 3 minutes for starters

[@norconster]

I used to be just a runner that could run a half marathon at a pretty good pace. I found GCN after starting my training for a triathlon when I could barely make half distance (12.5 out of 24.9 miles) on the biking portion without felling like my legs were going to fall off. Many of these videos helped change how I train/how I bike during a race and I just did a ride yesterday that was 120% of the race distance for triathlon biking at race pace (30 out of 24.9 miles) and I even felt great enough to run most of the 10k (6.2 mile) run immediately afterwards. With the help of GCN's videos, I am well ahead of what I thought was ever going to be possible with my current level of fitness. Thank you GCN!

[@toweringtrio]

Keep going, sounds like some more training is needed. Good for you

[@gcn]

Thanks Connor! It's great to hear our videos are helping you improve. Keep up the good work and keep us updated of your progress

[@titomon]

A rematch in the UK would be great to watch! Go Andrew Feather!

[@gcn]

It's only fair, right? Which climb would you like to see them on?

[@titomon]

@@gcn the world’s steepest climb! Or Bamford Clough! Fastest time wins since the road is narrow.

[@ptkewl]

Luca is now a candidate on the zwift academy finals. Interesting!

[@GrouEEf]

Yeah, the guy has won it already tbh.

[@dangerfulmind]

Two top riders putting all their effort in and a bloke on an ebike tootling up the climb looking around and probably whistling to myself. Yet ebikers love to tell us all how they still need to put the work in and how much fitter ebiking get you!

[@lemao_squash4486]

This is some of your best production ever 😂😂

[@MalcolmAber]

More of this please.....this video was awesome!!

[@lorenzodevallier]

7:29 🤣very funny blasphemy

[@badenleo9036]

That was insane! Hats off to them both! 2 things I would love to see: GCN v’s these 2 boys, top 10 invitational KOM’s to a nominated climb & let them loose on a race to the top. That would be awesome to see. 💪🏽

[@GCNuser123]

yes!! would love that!

[@Alan_Hans__]

Andrew Feather is a machine but when Il Bandito dropped the watt bomb near the end he had nothing remotely like the power needed to keep pace.

[@knarf_on_a_bike]

That was too much fun! Props to both these guys. Great competition!

[@petyrkowalski9887]

That was fabulous. If I could give 10,000 thumbs up I would. It would be amazing to see the two of them go up Stelvio together.

[@gcn]

Now that would be a crazy race! Who do you think would win?

[@langholdlang5544]

Amazing. Both Riders are just like machines.

[@mellissanash7517]

you need to get Phill Gamon to race some of these climbs. Or you know come to Big Bear, California to race him on his favorite climbs & to race the Team Legion climber.

[@123456789ib]

Great to see. More of this. Great effort Andrew.

[@whatwelearned]

Love it when they break out Dan for a bit of commentary

[@matthewrepucci3564]

That was great! And yes, more info on their watts and more head to head battles!

[@oldsquashmonkey]

Great effort from both, as others have said Hardknott Pass 😀

[@GCNuser123]

going to see if i can make it happen! please share the vid! 😉👌

[@declanbroderick4453]

And keep feather rested next time please....

[@marcellushoods7912]

Kudos to both riders !! My money was on Andrew (biased fan 😁) , but one cannot discount local knowledge and homeground advantage and il Bandito used it to the max with a sterling effort. Great video and one could "feel" the intensity and the pain # BrutalKOM

[@gabriplc3473]

Dan full on swearing in italian at the end was completely unexpected ahahahah. You know you would get banned/fined if you said something like that on italian television

[@lookinforanick]

Hey, I am from the NE of Italy, which is notorious for our over-reliance on blasphemy and expletives , so I loved every second of that final bit XD

[@TravelAddicted]

As an Italian, at 7:29 you killed me.

[@jaco_marche4597]

Momento altissimo

[@davideferlin8053]

Sottoscrivo

[@fabiopoz9617]

Bestemmione degno di Renato al GF ungherese

[@ziopresty]

Momento chiave del video

[@thegunner12]

Io ho tirato la risata più rumorosa della mia vita 😂😂😂

[@dalis994]

Really incredible to watch, an amazing duel and hats off to both of them.

[@Zahgil]

Would have been nice to see Power and Heart rate during the effort.

[@mnbv5555cxz]

I agree, it's time for @GCN to use transponders in their videos - lead the way for the Peloton!

[@invisiblescout6335]

@@mnbv5555cxz don't even need transponders, you can just take the data from from the ride file and use premade overlays to display it on video, it would be literally less than an hour of work for the editors

[@simonlovescycling7977]

03:00 - 03:05 😂👏 What‘s the dog thinking?

[@renecornelius113]

We've recently done a 300m hill with a max of 27% and sat at an average 20% for the majority of the short climb. But I didn't know if I was more scare of flipping my bike backwards or not making it to the top! 😂 So a massive sized kudo to these two men! I felt breathless just watching it.

[@TheGazavman]

At 40% you may backward your bike 😉

[@lgarcia67]

Of course we want to see him again that was awesome!! What a climber!

[@badenwheeler6890]

When is Pagacar, I want to see the difference between a tour de France winner and a strava segment winner

[@VIEultimate]

or Vingegaard, for that matter

[@thomy2562]

@@VIEultimate Feels more like a Pogačar climb due to the lenght, but yeah would be great to see both

[@badenwheeler6890]

@@VIEultimate true

[@VIEultimate]

@@thomy2562 Ah. yeah, true. Forgot that Vingegaard seems to mostly beat Pogacar (when doing 1 on 1(?)) when they're on much longer climbs

[@gurinderkular7209]

The hill climb by feather the previous day explains the result!

[@BamBamSamification]

Il bestemmione a 7:29 e’ da leggenda,,, 😂😂😂😂😂 grandi ragazzi. Great video

[@votiskygabor]

These guys are ridiculously fast

[@jespercato]

Nice video, very fun to watch. Keep the challenges between these two guys coming.

[@GrouEEf]

And this is why Luca will crush zwift academy.

[@Michaelsmith21588]

I burst out laughing at 7:13 😉 great commentary and very entertaining. These 2 are machines.

[@SmoothNSIdeways]

Great content more like this please

[@GCNuser123]

will do our best! share it with your friends (or enemies)

[@bobzuidema3560]

massive video!!! congratz to both for the effort and hats down for the victory!!

[@LouieBaLLz]

Damn, Feather been hanging out with Ollie to long.🤣

[@gcn]

Haha, we also blame Ollie for Feather losing

[@jonathangiddy530]

Brilliant video, amazing effort from both riders

[@filippocodeluppi8922]

7:28 HAHAHAHAHA MA CHE CAZZO

[@FrancescoNieri]

mi sono pisciato addosso

[@filippocodeluppi8922]

@@FrancescoNieri letteralmente

[@rothotborski]

This vid motivated me to take on the two steepest hills in my neighborhood in one ride and now I'm so proud of myself...definitely want to see some more ❤GCN❤

[@petermarshall7775]

Bring Luca to Rosedale Chimney

[@CedricParkour]

yessss, more of ill bandito :D amazing video and insanely good climbers

[@nightsfalling]

I love these videos and the fact that these cyclists have full-time jobs and still doing amazing on these climbs. Also, the steppes climb I have ridden is about 12 or 15% I cannot imagine going on a 20% climb ill probably do the walk of shame 😆

[@gcn]

There's no shame in walking up a climb, unless you're Ollie of course 😉

[@asdfha19]

@@gcn 🤣🤣

[@nightsfalling]

@@gcn 😆😄😄

[@andrewsadler8088]

Return fixture in the UK please - perhaps Yorkshire? Also would have loved to see some eye watering heart rate data.

[@docongtam]

Now , he is Zwift Academy winner 🤣

[@gianpaolovaia6550]

07:29 "complimenti, buon appetito" XD

[@paolot8999]

You must edit the last Dan comment, the one in italian! I don't think he know what he said!

[@FlatSpinMan]

Good fun again. Some of the gags at the start made me laugh out loud. Il bandito is a good sport for wearing the Zorro get up.

[@Alessiodiani]

dann che bestemmia non ha prezzo

[@niteriderband4713]

Great ride by both, I loved it!

[@davideandreagalelli6175]

Guys, the swearing in Italian cracked me out of laugh I must say, so out of the blue. Although I have to point out for your knownledge @GCN that the first bit is consider a pubblic offence here in Italy (for real, I am not jocking even though is rarely rarely pressed as charged) and it could lead to some form of shadow ban or demonitization of the video, if someone presses the report buttom, I am afraid

[@ritrattoaziendale]

Yeah i pissed my pants laughing, but actually it's pretty harsh talking in a public video, i don't think it's a good idea by them to leave it audible, I'm sure many people (not me) may be offended and hit the report button.

[@elettricista24]

Repeating and not translating can lead to blasphemy we have learned ...

[@DanielLloyd1]

Huge apologies for this. I repeated words I used to hear all the time in the peloton and didn't realise how offensive they are. I should have known better. I'll see if there is a way to edit it out. Dan

[@ashkandi1337]

@@DanielLloyd1 that was funny as hell, they're just making sure you know youtube doesn't really like that...

[@davideandreagalelli6175]

@@ashkandi1337 100% :)

[@karstenmeinders4844]

Yes please! More of these epic performances!

[@stevenqirkle]

“They’ll have no time to take in the views at this point. Possibly no vision either” 😂 Really impressed with the mental toughness of both of these guys to be able to put in those sorts of efforts consistently. I can only do about one all-out, vision impairing effort per month… definitely not a place I like to be!

[@MartinHencek]

Kudos to both riders. What an epic ride 💪👏. Definitely a rematch is needed as Andrew has done a savage climb day before. Despite that he was able to keep up with IL BANDITTO. Great performance !

[@javalamaxi1]

cycling its pretty tough with tall riders. we got to lose weigth a lot and look like a spaguetti :C.

[@trailzrock2]

Awesome!!! More videos like this. Maybe have a multi day race on different inclines from 5 to 20+ percent averages and different lengths. Even some relays 👍

[@ekuz100]

Just do the same in "El Alto de Patios" or "El Cerro de Guadalupe" in Bogotá, Colombia. 🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@Ergallu93]

Gran Gas ragazzi! Bravissimi! Grazie Giorgio!

[@aw1273]

Great one ☝️… and YES! Want to see a rematch on Feathers home turf 💪

[@aGhost0o]

Had me laughing from the start. I love it when you guys get silly!

[@mathewemden2068]

REMATCH! Great video, I love these.

[@divinemercy7036]

great vid. Would like to see more of these two in future videos

[@leoania]

Luca vs Andrew up Draycott Steep in the Mendips. I’d love to be part of the ‘1-deep’ crowd for that! 👍🏻