Understand Bike Racing In 10 Easy Steps | GCN's Guide To Watching A Bicycle Race

Drop us a like if you spotted Carl the Chipmunk!

My husband is very happy with this bike so far! If anything changes in the near future, I will update

I have followed pro cycling a few years but not knowing enough. You made it more sense.thank you.

Thank you for this. Learning to follow TDF 2023

That was most useful. However, I am still unclear about the TEAMS: I understand that there are different teams, presumably of a c ertain number of people, but within the team there is a hierarchy? That's where I get lost. I am enjoying watching cycling - erm, to see better weather... (Scotland rains a lot, sunshine is heartening). And yay the chipmunk!

The motherfuckers are like migrating birds

I need spandex, a sock, a helmet, and one 'em skinny wheeled bicycles now. Don't ask what the sock is for.

The chipmunk got his 15 second's of Fame

Talks too fast. Doesn’t explain completely.

In the very beginning, there was a squirrel running behind Dude. Wasn’t even drafting at all, though. 🤣😂

You did not mention the points awarded.

This is a real step up

The size of this bike 49 "?

I miss Jeremy at GCN

here after watching yowamushi pedal, im currently now saving money to buy a good road bike haha.

here after watching yowamushi pedal, im currently now saving money to buy a good road bike haha.

Cool video, it helps a lot! I'd love to see a video in which you apply all these perspectives to an analysis of a stage :)

George Hincape was a great domestique

Really good video. I race a lot at national events(like Oulton Park, Isle Of Man Youth Tour) so this will help for my drafting as I sometimes find it hard to stay on the wheel. Thank You for making this.

I wish you see my comments i wanted a bike so bad but i cant afford it i hope you can give me one i like watching. Youre. Video i hope you see my comments im from Philippines i love your videos 🥰

Jeremy is the best!

I think some more about tactics, especially surrounding breakaways would round this up nicely. To explain how a breakaway works, who will work and who will sit and why would be important for a noob to understand. Tied into this: Why will one team work on the front of the peloton (whether it is to catch a break or whether it is for other reasons) and why another team may not be interested to waste any cornels. And lastly the differences between teams, with some having contenders for the GC, KOM or point/sprint jersey while others may "only" be after a stage win. Last thing that comes to mind but perhaps most important: the many differences between one day races, especially the spring classics and the grand tours.

What about the cars with a bunch of bikes on the top.

Is a Domestique allowed to win a race?

Breaking wind reduces the drag of the riders behind 😃

I’d be interested to know what is meant by general classification rider/team. I know the GC is where the riders are overall but are there certain riders who are designated by their team to finish higher up?

Thanks for the explanations , love Road Racing

That was an excellent informative video. (Actually, all GCN's videos are superb). Thank you.

It's awesome that roadies look after each other. From the trails up in the hills we don't see that, us MTB guys look out for each other in the same way, if stuff goes wrong it might mean a gelling walk back or even life-changing injuries.

Do they get to keep their awarded jersey?

This was great. I am a new fan Thank you !

War of attrition

Thanks for the video, I'm new to the sport so this really helped me understand a lot more.

Why races are so long? What for?
Do they really need to ride 6 hours in rio Olympics to get the winner? 3 hours is not enough?:-)

And how riders cope with it? I'm done after 1 hour of easy cycling

Record and fast forward to the sprint segment. Got it 👍

THERE'S my chippy

what are the types of events in cycle race?

Why is their many saying squirrel its chipmunk 😂😂😂😂

The one I've never understood is why riders are allowed to be pushed at certain parts of the race.

Well explained 👍🏼

Lets be honest we all love cycling videos this is just what I need to get it going the blood I love it. I always watch these before I go out and get my body moving. I love when I always watch one of these, and then put up my heavy playlist I love like Delta Parole and then I just go haaaaard!!!! Tactic hasnt let me down yet.

This was very interesting. I appreciated the explanations...would you also consider doing a piece called "Race Talk" where you share the types of conversations that go on duringa race. We get hint in this video..but more would be delightful. Thanks!