How I FINALLY Rode An 18-Minute 10-Mile TT (52km/h Average)!

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Thanks mate, I really enjoyed your info and insight, lets see if this soon to be 60 year old can use it? Cheers

Seen this on Strava, then loads of jealous loosers where commenting that you where using an e-bike 😮

Congratulations on completing your TT mission, Ollie! 👏

I noticed you were wearing your Whoop during one of your indoor sessions. Is this your main source of heart rate or do you also wear an additional HR sensor around your chest? I was wondering what the variance is between the two and what you make of it. Maybe you could do an in-depth video on Whoop for training specifics like this @gcntech. Personally, I don't use the wristband on my Whoop for training, but rather the arm sleeve, which gives me much better and more consistent HR data. Wondering what your experience is.

impressive pace my friend

Great video, very clear ! But I think I paid a new bike to the media by looking at all the pub...

I think you regularly drinking coffee might be part of why you don't find it to be particularly effective while cycling. If your body isn't caffeine naive when you use it for sports, the effects you feel will be greatly diminished compared to someone who is. But caffeine naivete requires not consuming caffeine for 3-4 days, which probably isn't worth it for a 20 minute time trial

The hell did you eat there at the end in the tupperware?

Hold up: 0.1-0.15g/kg equates to 20g for you? You weight 133-200kg??

I think bike handling/cornering is massively underrated. I’d consider myself a pretty poor bike handler to be honest, can’t MTB for toffee, slow descender etc etc but I recently did an Ironman and found myself was catching lots of people on turns who were then blitzing me on the straights between them. I was even having to push before braking zones to pass people who were particularly bad bike handlers and then opening a gap through the turns that they’d inevitably close on the straight and so on.

Can you repeat the effort on a standard road bike to see the difference?

So Ollie what you mean if you have improved your cornering skills for May ride then you would have broken the 19mins without all that extra training 😵‍💫

Also help you improve by using very expensive equipment😅. The goal should be on average equipment and improving strength and fitness

Inspirational, Ollie is like 38 and the man is speed.

18 Minutes didn't make the top 10!!

Ollie, (or anyone else if you know) what is the recipe for the oatmeal concoction you make in the video?

Firstly, you’re mixing imperial and metric measurements. 10mile a at 52kmph doesn’t make any sense!

I am in love with time trialing, but our friend was so boring i almost fall asleep

In my uneducated guesstimation, segments of ~20 seconds are not reliably and consistently measurable by modern cycling GPS devices. You are going to miss or add 1 second entering and exiting. You could run a cohesive peloton through a segment like this and have times +/- 2 seconds across the board while everyone essentially ran the same time in reality.

Impressive and as usual great to see your enthusiasm for the sport coming through in this video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I can also do this when I have a tailwind of 60 kilometers per hour

😂😂😂😂 What a load of crap. The course has an almost 1.5 mile down hill section!

Bravo, bravo, bravo..........................Ollie is a fantastic role model for us "everyman" riders. I love watching his success.

You're actually a lot better than the average cyclist, you should give yourself some credit for that.

most educational practical science video so far 👍

Hard luck sliding out yesterday Ollie. Come back next year in this shape and a course record beckons. How about a medical tech show about recovering from grazed skin etc.

Really outstanding achievement Ollie. Bravo.

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Think you should test a massive massive helmet and any kind of fenders in the wind tunnel. Maybe a helmet that is joined to your suit

I want to know how many watts he'd save with a clean shave.

Passion and planning. Brilliant.

question: why soft pedal through the round-about? Do you not have pedal clearance? Would it be better to maintain speed?

Great stuff, Ollie! Is there a video of your sub-19 ride?

The fact it’s 10 MILES at 52 KILOMETRES per hour, is really bugging me…

Those helmets just remind me of Spaceballs' Dark Helmet

OK. Now put on normal socks and then beat the time. Then a normal helmet. Then keep reducing tech until you can't. That would be interesting.

Love this sort of content, but definitely had a Silence of the Lambs flashback when Ollie mentioned "making a skin suit".

Thank you Dr. Bridgewood!

Super interesting video

Great video. Really intelligent, concise content. Genuinely useful.

No wonder my best in the 1960s on a steel road bike with tubular tyres, and woollen shorts and jersey, was only a short 22. No aero helmet, either, just a cotton cap with the peak down. You modern guys don't know how easy you have it! 🙂

"7 watts faster", I cry as an Engineer when I hear people say this kind of thing! I know exactly what you mean, but watts is a measure of power not speed. "7 watts less power for the same speed" please. Yes, I am a pedant!

Beautiful bike and great performance. The helmet size information is very interesting and a bit stressful. Makes one wish they had booked a date in some wind tunnel. 👍

This is really motivating for me as I've just got the Wahoo Kickr and I was slightly worried that I'm spending too much time on it, but I find it easier to be consistent and train efficiently. I still get out on the road, but my goal is to get as fit as possible over the coming months and this just accelerates that process. Congratulations on that fantastic time, really happy that you have ticked off one of your goals Ollie...

Units Oliver! Congratulations on the 18 but why use KM/hr to define the speed not mph? If you are going to randomise the Units why not say the distance is 80 furlongs.

Between 0.1 and 0.15g of bicarb per kilo? Taking 20g means Ollie weighs 130-200kg, I'm pretty sure that's not right...

Is there a safety performance reduction from wearing a cycle helmet that is larger than ideal? Has this been tested, and do we understand the risk?

Well done Doc… personal satisfaction is a great thing for one’s self being…. Chapeau!

Am I the only one that's confused by an imperial ride length described with a metric average speed?