a few episodes back you might remember that me and two friends cycled all the way through europe we
got a ferry to amsterdam and then rode through france and belgium and the netherlands and then
got to switzerland did some mountain biking and on the way we went to the uci headquarters we got
invited to go by a guy called zach who works there can i ride a bike backwards no he can uci uci what
does the uci say yeah uci says no zak is the uci he's basically the nicest man in the world he gave
us a tour a look inside the velodrome and also a present something quite special a new world chance
jersey with quite a few different autographs on it one of them evie richards amazing cross country
mountain biker and this one here yesterday was yellow jersey in the tour de france wild van are
but zach didn't know and i don't know who the other signatures are so i need your help this
one here definitely evie richards this one here definitely wow van are i check that on google the
others i can't decipher so you're all cycling fans if anybody recognizes this this or this
please put it in the comment section down below that's one two and three anyway that
was a really cool experience going to see zach and the uci and um yeah we'll just thank you so much
for this it'll be uh framed i need to find someone who frames stuff nicely and put up in the studio
soon almost two o'clock and i'm only just starting today's video today's video is a vlog and i'm
gonna go cycling just for a change i've got a fair few new viewers on this channel and uh the new
viewers don't know tony this is tony he works for scott and he's very fast on a bike as apparently
everybody there's a reputation for people who work for scott being fast on bikes i was being
told very very fast at the battery you've just been where i was i was there just as you were
leaving i think it was like an exchange wasn't it a lot of splendid time went on two rides and
i had a splendid day at the beach on lake geneva i only had the underpants to go swimming in so
i did the classic british thing and then went to swim pool in the underpants against all odds tony
did eventually make it home so now we're going mountain biking which is good my bikes haven't
got home yet i've only got off-road bikes left hence the decision so we're going to hamsterly
whoa
johnny
i have to admit tony riding bikes first time since switzerland feels good when we're going downhill
but it feels really going uphill look where are these fires coming
from flyers are attracted to the gopro a couple of trails done feeling really good
on the bike always takes me a while to warm up but everything here at hamsterly looks
since riding in verbier with the lifts and the steep descents everything looks a lot smaller
and less steep which is good only problem is we are being attacked by flies so things could be
better they're not following you blowing them up from me to you my gift to you oh thanks
my gift to you is a red bull nice of a weird flavor oh the flies are back
hey tony do you remember the last time we came here you got puncher just like you have now and
then we pointed out how it might look like we know what we're doing on bikes but really it's just an
illusion because we didn't even bring a pump today i actually have a listen to my watch my own video
done well there thank you that's not going to work i've put it on the wrong end this goes against
everything you do i've sliced the tire on every time i come out with you against the [ __ ] done
it's a good job you've got one of them a little light in the tubes you know it's the same one as
you used last time it's literally the same tube but he came back to my house gave it back to me
all rolled up nice and neat you're very thoughtful tony yeah yeah well except exactly not really yeah
yeah good that isn't it and only 25 quid i know bargain twice the price
it's so quick
oh
so for people who don't know this is my scot spark rc this is 120 mil of travel so quite a lot for a
cross-country bike it could almost be considered trail bike geometry and i've got it set up today
in what i like to call trail bike mode so bigger tires these are hutchinson prototype tyres i don't
actually say anything on the side but mega knobbly 2.3 inch so a little bit wider than the cross
country tires that i've been running and i'm using a set of elite wheels 29er carbon mountain bike
wheels who are a chinese brand and they actually gave these to me to test if you want to check
them out there'll be a link in the description down below not an affiliate link or anything
but uh just in case you were interested i'll be trying them out for the next few weeks and it's
nice to have a second set of wheels particularly if you have a mountain bike like this and today
because i'm riding with tony and he's really tired don't need to be super fast so but it's
nice to have options particularly as mountain bike gear takes a bit of a beating sometimes so
spare wheels nice to have so far they have been excellent easy to set up tubeless went
up straight away what do you think they look very round yeah they're around super round
most round i've ever seen a wheel can you substantiate that i'll put an image here of how
how round they are these are the ones with the sapling spokes the stock hubs that they come
with the cheaper option this hub is actually compatible with a star ratchet so if you want
slight increase in reliability then you can switch that out why did i choose to do all that bit like
while riding up the i should've done it down the trail way easier like more to
bike tires then extra roll and resistance which means you're getting a harder workout
there you go selling point for these hutchinson tires what are they actually on them sc173 you
work for a bike company yeah well if i was gonna call if i was gonna put sc on a tire it would be
soft compound then the french they might not it's soft soft seriously cool saucy saucy saw
i did it best trail here yeah that's the best one i think that's called section 13. tony used
to have the kom on that like a long long time ago 24 people actually had garments oh oh i see yeah
yeah also had it on the rails before like all the pros raised up like got garments and things
i think i was one of them the early adopters of a gps garment on the bottom by all times oh
thank you i don't think i've ever had the apricot and strawberry variety i don't think anyone has
well some people have somebody will have people who work for red bull i've got women's shorts
on have you yeah nice good underneath here they are underneath which is equivalent to wearing
women's knickers isn't it and if i'd come in and said to you there not exactly francis i've
got women's panties on it would be slightly weird wouldn't it i wouldn't be surprised neither would