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Ever wondered how fast a pro cyclist is? The answer is VERY! But what about the slowest in a pro bike race such as the Tour of Britain. The pro cyclists who have done there job for the day, the domestiques, the sprinters saving themselves for flatter stages or the groupetto?
To find out Jamie decided to race a Colnago Y1Rs up the Tumble, one of the hardest climbs in this year's Tour of Britain to find out where he stacked up on Strava...
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How fast are the slowest riders in a professional peloton
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This is one of the fastest bikes in the peloton, that's the tumble, and tomorrow the Tour of
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Britain ride up it. So, in this video, I'm going to ride up it. How fast can I get up it
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and will it be anywhere near the slowest in the race? You see, I'm not interested in whoever gets
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to the top of it first, whether it's Oscar Onley or Remco Ebnapol, or I might look really stupid
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it might be someone completely different tomorrow. But how fast do the slowest riders go up it
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You know, the riders who have already done their jobs, who have already sat on the front all day and led out their leaders
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The ones that are sprinters and, well, this day isn't going to matter to them
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How fast do they ride? Well, we're going to find out. The tumble was arguably the hardest climb of this year's race, and it was tackled not
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once but twice during the Stage 5 Queen stage The climb in the Bracken Beacon stretches for 4 an average gradient of 9
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which means it finishes 385 vertical metres higher than it started. It was Remko Evenapol who took the honours on the final ascent
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taking the comm in the process with a time of 12 minutes and 27 seconds
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In fact, the first 10 finishers beat the previous KOM, which was held since 2014 when the Tour of Britain last went up it
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Clearly, these riders are different gravy, and going after one of their times would be silly
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But who was the slowest rider up it? Well, the answer is Paolo Fernandes of Team Anicolor TN21
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But the slowest time that we could find on Strava belonged to Victor Le Fay of Team Decathlon Asia 2R
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and he did it in a time of 19 minutes and 17 seconds
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He was the penultimate finisher of stage five of the Tour of Britain
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So, can we beat him? Well, make sure you're subscribed to the channel and let's find out
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This year the Tour of Britain took the tumble from the Abergavenny side and it starts off as a fairly gentle incline although you do climb a bit further from abogaveni so we set off it was about five percent average and then you hit the first hairpins and
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this is where i i ran out of gears even so i knew that it was on these steep sections that i had to
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keep pushing as this is where a lot of time is made or lost and in some sections it hits 12 13
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As I came out of the trees, I knew I had to dig deep and decided to dig in. Although I probably
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dug in a bit too hard because as I passed the sheep at the top, I was absolutely cooked
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It's at this point that the hill flattens out. It turns into about a 3-4% climb
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although there are some steeper ramps, and I can't even blame it on a headwind. I was just
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riding slowly. It was kind of a crosswind, but as I was doing it the day before the Tour of Britain
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they had a similar win so I definitely can't use that as an excuse. As I near the top the fans are
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out and crossing the line it's safe to say that I've given it my all. So what was the result of
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all my sweat and tears? Well I've got my time here on Strava I've just uploaded my ride and it says
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that I did the segment in a time of 19 minutes and 43 seconds so how does that compare to the slowest on Tour of Britain day Well a lot of people rode up at on Tour of Britain day I tell you that but I weeded out the
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pros and it appears that I'm still 20 seconds or so slower than the slowest time on Saturday
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according to Strava Le Fay averaged 288 watts for his effort I say effort I'm I think he was
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probably chilling quite a bit although mine was actually I held quite a few more watts I held
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just shy of 320. Now there's probably two reasons for this number one I didn't start off in a peloton
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and that might have helped on the lower, flatter sections a little bit
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And B, I don't weigh 65 kilos. That's probably the bigger one
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Either way, I reckon I must have Le Fay worried because he's considering his retirement at the end of the year
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Sorry, Le Fay. So, there you go. Even when a professional cyclist is feeling under the weather
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or saving their legs for tomorrow or just not bothering, they're still probably faster than you
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They're certainly faster than me. If you enjoyed this type of content then please make sure you subscribe to the channel, give
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