day one of avoiding riding a bike so i actually get better because i've had this
stupid cold for way too long now i'm in a car with lawrence and we're looking for a location
to do something which i think is i think it's a bit dangerous
i don't trust it but it's your job to convince me that it's gonna be okay and then later on
we're gonna make him do a horrible zwift race while i sit and watch and just eat
food and laugh at me and laugh at you no i'll be your swanny or your pre-race nutrition sorted
this next segment might be interesting for anybody who wants to attach a bike
to their car but it also might go seriously wrong whatsoever do you very little they're like
professional graded suckers sounds very weird when i say it like that yeah so laurence is doing a
brand deal with uh the company that i've sent him this box and inside of this box there is a sucker
that goes on the roof of your car and then you put your trust in the sucker to carry your bike safely
from one location to another no no no no no no this goes wrong it'd be a great video
didn't team sky use these on their jaguars maybe the sports one i'm guessing this is
for the back wheel the single ones for the front wheel the other way around that's
that's for the fork this supports the back wheels so that if you slam on the brakes
your bike doesn't go boom but each of these suckers are supposed to hold 20 kilos away
obviously your bike's not that heavy rebel might be where does the front wheel go uh in the car
can you read yeah but the sun's so bright i can't actually read it pumps all the air out
so it's three suckers on the front just for safety reasons yeah if one fails there's still
two and then just one on the back with a tiny strap well let's see if the bike is still there
after we drive to the studio when i rag it around the roundabouts yes would you guys trust this
put it in the comments down below the roof of your car is kind of bending as you yeah it does bend
i was using quavers as a tripod
still there yes we've made it a mile down the road
he wanted to get out and check let's do it it's still there
still there
how do i get a brand deal from these guys wow i probably need a car first don't i yeah
we are here on a bank holiday monday at work
whilst everyone else is riding bikes and that but you're not allowed to are you
so garmin sent me two of the new tax neo motion plates and it just so happens lawrence has got
a zwift race that he's doing later so we're going to unbox them install them and see how they ride
instructions there's these two stick bits and then a slightly different style looking front
bit where your front wheel goes in i've managed to immediately
lose the instruction manual so i'm going to try and install them without it now
the underneath the underneath has feet these have magnets on
surely not is that it so smooth well there goes my educational video segment on how to install them
you just put them on like i was saying this piece is slightly different to the old one which is kind
of got a big dip inside it i guess so the front wheel can roll back and forwards they've made this
flat so hopefully when laurence is riding it he won't be riding up and downhill
really quickly like you would on that one you look fantastic very warm in here we've got to
go to the extreme so a quick look at the setup we've got a vac master 50k an hour fan a shallow
wind machine fan tax neo2t with the new motion plates tax tablet stand with lawrence's ipad in
i hope you got enough battery and we're going to do you a lovely carb mix but now we can't
we don't know water let the suffering commence when i signed up there was only 35 now there's
55 on the star line with 30 seconds to go to the start including some guy called zimmerman that i
think i recognize the name i think he's quite good at zwift or something and we're in the a category
which says between 4 and six squats per kilo for 38 kilometers so just under an hour here we go
the rocking feels a lot more natural when you actually kind of
don't think about it just get on with your riding it's nice we're 8k into this one this one guy he's
just gone up the road he's 20 seconds ahead on his own and everyone else is saying flag him flag him
is she there's no way there's like 30 of us yeah dirty cheats even on zwift
never was a sprinter damn it wow oh i'm out of breath ouch
top 20. yeah are they all so fast oh you tell me they probably do this every night
4.5 watts per kilo for 50 minutes we're late for daisings swift racing looks absolutely brutal do
you think it's a good thing to do instead of training instead of no it's too intense
it wouldn't do you any good replacing all of your training for zwift racing
but if you want to supplement a few of your top end sessions for a race 100 it's awesome the thing
is about training is you'll struggle to ever get the same amount out of yourself as you can when
you're racing the rosters are after me francis oh [ __ ] i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm in
the bus lane now if i get a ticket i'm gonna be raging but you definitely get strong like if
if you did racing on zwift and then racing in real life you definitely feel the benefits but
ultimately at the end of the day it's still game like you have to play it
as if it's a game um so yeah it's very different but but it's a good workout
and you'll you'll go you've got pretty well off it if you do that on a consistent basis
that's for sure it's funny how many people you got beaten by today and i bet they wouldn't beat
you in a real life race absolutely no way in no way yeah so it certainly is its own discipline
maybe i need to try one have you never done a swift race no if i do i'm gonna have like five
fans and a doping program in their weeks leading up to it oh i see and stoker and steve yeah been
to the big smoke frances we forgot to sweep the floor i bet you haven't actually had we forgot
you