impeccable timing i've turned up in calpe as ribble we're on a recovery ride so we've done that
i'm here with red red walters from youtube fame
and pro cycling phone because he rides from ripple we're gonna have a look at his bike
we've only been riding it since we got to camp obviously it's an aero bike
obviously it looks pretty cool but the standout feature which i'm sure you may have heard is the
handlebars now you might find yourself asking how why do those bars read they're mad narrow 38 no 33
uh center to center which you know it sounds a bit crazy but once you're riding it like
it feels after a couple rides pretty normal i'm already used to 38 so yeah going down to 38 and
when the proper again arrow it uh it fits like a gap so it feels really nice where did you get
these by the way these track grip so well funnily enough i ordered some track grips because i was
thinking about do i want bar tape or what am i going to do i ordered some track grips try them
out they didn't come in time before we left the cam so i just purged them off my track bike and
uh they fit on they fit pretty well actually uh they look alright they feel they feel good so
yeah they're working for me for now underneath those what's that is it like a grippy bar because
some of the guys back at the villa are not running any bartender yeah so you can get
there's like you don't need to have bar tape they've got like a textured paint type thing
so you can grip it quite well but i just quite like a a bit more of a handle to hold them while
i'm sprinting and stuff so i'm running slightly controversially a size small um i quite like a
fairly big drop so for my height it's a bit small but that's what i'm running it's about a 53 and
a half like how tall are you because people will ask people will ask i'm 181 centimeters
um and this is yeah like a 53 and a half 535 mil frame 172.5 cranks 53 39 chainset 1128 cassette
shimano ultegra jira no what am i talking about shimano ultegra di2 mavic 65 slr wheels on gp5000s
those are huge they are absolutely huge but i'm so far they've been alright and it's been quite windy
so uh we've managed we've managed the right with those and then to top it off we've got the rsm pn
3.0 saddle that's a pretty unusual saddle to put onto a road bike you see them in triathlon and
time trials a lot don't you because it lets you get further forward what's the reasoning behind
that yeah so when i initially switched to them i was all about like i really wanted to open
up my hip angle um so when i'm going arrow i still like my hips aren't completely closed off
um so that's when i started using them like a couple years ago but funnily enough this team
like there's like half the riders are on items so it's just funny that i think a lot of people have
a similar mindset of like getting forward getting aero and like being able to open up a hit angle
and all that sort of stuff um and obviously like there's less less pressure points when you're
sitting right on the front that was like the main problem with doing the similar position with other
saddles you end up just like sitting right on the nose of it which is not comfy interesting
that nearly all of you guys are riding your deep wheels out here i guess it's quite a good thing
to test especially with the aero frame just to see how they perform in like windy conditions
before using them for the first time in a race because otherwise you might end up
well shocked it's really good to like just practice everything with the race setup like
we did a few team time trials the other day the guys were like just do everything as if it was
a race just to like get everything you know aero socks planning everything fueling like as well i
think it's also good to just get used to feeling right and doing that for a race so yeah we have
the full race set up out here and obviously you know it's sunny skies clean roads so it's
not like you're going to wear out the rotors or the rims anytime soon why is your left crank 105
well see this is a result of a google searching power meter and filtering price low to high and
that's that's what we've got well if at least it fits and it's compatible i mean it feels
possible it works uh yeah that is so much heavier you see so when i try and get the bike over that
it just doesn't want to turn it's just the one it is so heavy but you know it gets the job again
you guys have done some fairly big rides over the last three days so now you're nice and tired
hopefully you'll be really slow when i join you on the long road tomorrow do you feel like you're
getting on form and when is your first race i'm like quite happy with where i'm at at the moment
like i'm not i'm not one to brag but compared to previous years like i'm in a really good spot this
is like by far the smoothest run of winter i've had like not getting ill just constant hours and
getting everything bang on target um my first race is well the first race of doing a team is on luke
dauphin rockford which is in the netherlands catchy yeah yeah it's catchy name once you get
you say it a few times it really gets stuck in your head so that's in the netherlands on the
13th of march maybe the 12th whichever the sunday is um so i'm hoping to get selected for that but
selection depends kind of on this camp so we'll find out at the end of this camp who gets selected
and then yeah off to the netherlands for a uci hopefully and this won't be your first
time racing on the continent at all because you've been doing you did a whole season in
france yeah yeah so last year i spent about five weeks racing in france um so that was more like
not not quite national level races but just yeah localish to medium level races and then
for the second half of the year i was on hug and sperman so i got to do a couple of really
big races in belgium like uh what was it brussels cyclone classic i got to see remco who by the way
isn't small you think of remco like small kind of guy he's jacked out of his mind he's absolutely
hench so yeah it's funny seeing people like that in person but um yeah it'd just be good to get
some like proper big dog racing in the legs again how does the racing compare over on the continent
to the uk it's so different like obviously it's a higher level but like the way it's race is just so
such a different like mindset i think the main thing is the control like there's teams that will
ride for a sprint or ride for whatever breakaway in the uk it's a bit of a free-for-all like you
go to a nat b and you might get a four or five from a team but most of the time it's just like
carnage it's just really different the control thing the timing i think positioning you have to
get in the right position at the right time to to make the split or make the selection and it's
uh yeah obviously it's a lot harder bigger fields that kind of thing well good luck for the season
i'm excited to see what you do with this machine i forgot one last question
how can people find you on the on the internet oh on the internet i'm
the register on youtube or the underscore register on instagram this guy makes some of the funniest
videos i've ever seen so 100 link in description go there to subscribe to him because well i want
i want you guys to watch the one where you talk about this bike because there's something inside
that video which i laughed at for like 10 minutes straight yeah and it is great i wish i had uh 10
of this guy's creativity honestly subscribe to him what have you done we've got a spanish pizza
i can't freak we have a tortilla with uh edam chew it so an avocado we've got something else tomorrow