How to dominate on power climbs video tutorial.

durianrider
durianrider Posts: 62
edited June 2015 in Training, fitness and health
I did a quick vid tutorial recently filmed at this years TDU. My strava data indicated I rode it quicker than the actual TDU pro peleton did too. I was on my 11kg bamboo roadie with 120km in the legs that morning and 315k the day before + wearing a back pack with a few tins of fruit in it. Power meter FTW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKw-q2GLQZs
Over 400 000km cycled as a vegan.

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  • Froomes Edgar
    Froomes Edgar Posts: 359
    I've just let the OED know they need to change their definition of the word "c*nt"
  • durianrider
    durianrider Posts: 62
    If you look in the OED and look up 'power meter' you see this video.
    Over 400 000km cycled as a vegan.

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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Froomes Edgar wrote:
    I've just let the OED know they need to change their definition of the word "c*nt"

    I just did a bit of snot out of my nose - classic!

    This is one of the most pretentious slices of ego stroking w4nk I have ever seen. I thought being a vegan hippie sandal wearing cyclist was all about peace love and equality man – yet you go through that video slagging other riders off and stating how awesome you are. You my mung bean eating friend are a c0ck.
  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    He is funny though :D

    And a lot fitter than me :oops:

    I f***ing hate bananas tho...
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    I am curious though, is it a bicycle made of Bamboo or is that an actual make of frame over there? :-)

    A bycycle made of bamboo would look pretty wierd.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Calfee make road bikes out of bamboo

    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/tech/bik ... -road.html
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Froomes Edgar wrote:
    I've just let the OED know they need to change their definition of the word "c*nt"

    Proper funny :lol:

    As someone on Youbtube commented can you imagine this guy on the roids and racing it would be like Father Jack Hackett turning up :evil:
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • lawrences
    lawrences Posts: 1,011
    sure would be a shame if your bamboo frame snaps and you get the splinters in your private parts.
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    durianrider wrote:
    I did a quick vid tutorial recently...

    What's your FTP compared to the other riders? What's you 'climbing FTP'?

    Do you think the walkers were walking because they ran out of gears or paced themselves really badly?
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    GiantMike wrote:
    Do you think the walkers were walking because they ran out of gears or paced themselves really badly?

    Duh - they were walking because they didn't have power meters ;)

    To paraphrase some of the video commentary - "look at that slow guy - NO POWER METER !!"
  • Froomes Edgar
    Froomes Edgar Posts: 359
    Imposter wrote:
    GiantMike wrote:
    Do you think the walkers were walking because they ran out of gears or paced themselves really badly?

    Duh - they were walking because they didn't have power meters ;)

    To paraphrase some of the video commentary - "look at that slow guy - NO POWER METER !!"

    Odd. All I heard was "i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt ". Then I stopped talking and he was saying exactly the same!
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Froomes Edgar wrote:
    Imposter wrote:
    GiantMike wrote:
    Do you think the walkers were walking because they ran out of gears or paced themselves really badly?

    Duh - they were walking because they didn't have power meters ;)

    To paraphrase some of the video commentary - "look at that slow guy - NO POWER METER !!"

    Odd. All I heard was "i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt i'm a c*unt ". Then I stopped talking and he was saying exactly the same!

    :lol:
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    The annoying thing though, is he still went up that hill quicker than the other people in the video.

    Perhaps he had his camera on 3x ffwd :-)
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    smidsy wrote:
    The annoying thing though, is he still went up that hill quicker than the other people in the video.

    Maybe, but going up a hill faster than a load of slow people is nothing much to celebrate...
  • Froomes Edgar
    Froomes Edgar Posts: 359
    Imposter wrote:
    smidsy wrote:
    The annoying thing though, is he still went up that hill quicker than the other people in the video.

    Maybe, but going up a hill faster than a load of slow people is nothing much to celebrate...

    I clicked on another of his videos before laptop-through-the-TV-gate, and the f*cking ar$epirate tacks onto the back of a bunch of Movistar riders on a course recce, proceeds to tell you how he's got more miles in his legs and he's still keeping up. Knobber. I once rode with Pozzato up the Jaizibel the day before San Sebastian and kept up - not because I'm any good, but because he was doing a f*cking COURSE RECCE at recovery pace. GRRRRRRRRR.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    Froomes Edgar wrote:
    I once rode with Pozzato up the Jaizibel the day before San Sebastian and kept up - not because I'm any good, but because he was doing a f*cking COURSE RECCE at recovery pace. GRRRRRRRRR.

    Are you sure it wasn't because he did not have a power meter :?: :mrgreen:
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    durianrider wrote:
    Hardest thing about fuelling up on ripe bananas is find enough ripe ones. My record is 72 in a day.

    Things people actually type with their actual fingers.

    Has anybody heard from Bhima lately?
  • ArdyOCD
    ArdyOCD Posts: 136
    What a c*nt, he seems to be a wannabe professional road racer.... does he have a job or is he one of these bums that blog for a living?
    1-2-3-4 Tell me what you're looking for
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    You mean that's serious? I thought it was a parody?
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    haha chapeau for the oed quote froomes

    But I have to say I like the guys vid :D
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Ashtheman
    Ashtheman Posts: 1
    I know this is an old post but I bet a lot of the people's opinions have changed on his video. To me he is talking absolute sense. I've been watching his videos for a number of years now and while I'm not into the whole vegan thing I find his cycling tips very helpful. So I guess if you know better then maybe you should make a YouTube channel so people like me could learn a thing or two?......... No?....... Then I'm not really sure who the c$nt is? :D
  • DKay
    DKay Posts: 1,652
    Ashtheman wrote:
    So I guess if you know better then maybe you should make a YouTube channel so people like me could learn a thing or two?......... No?....... Then I'm not really sure who the c$nt is? :D

    If not posting videos on YouTube makes you a c*nt, then I guess 99.999999999% of all of the worlds population (including you, probably) are c*nts.

    I post Youtube vids btw. ;)
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  • 964cup
    964cup Posts: 1,362
    Rides well. Makes sense. Is still a kn*b. You can achieve exactly the same outcome by riding to heartrate, or by riding to feel; so many ways he could have been more instructional and less "look at me".

    As for the vegan thing, incisors & canines, mate, incisors & canines. Cows don't have 'em. We do. Why's that?
  • DKay
    DKay Posts: 1,652
    964Cup wrote:
    As for the vegan thing, incisors & canines, mate, incisors & canines. Cows don't have 'em. We do. Why's that?

    It's obvious; they'd chafe on udders.
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