Aero WAS Everything, Light Bikes Are Back?! | GCN Show Ep. 621

From our brand new GCN studio, we're talking all about lightweight bikes! After seeing Scott's new Addict RC, we were wondering whether light bikes are the holy grail (and always have been) or if weight really doesn't matter... We've also got some opinions on Lance Armstrong from Si, a massive new launch from Wahoo (hello, Wahoo Elemnt ACE!), and even a chance for you to WIN one! 🥳

⏱️ Timestamps: ⏱️
00:00 - Welcome to the GCN Show!
01:13 - This week in the world of cycling
03:01 - Lightweight bikes are back!
08:08 - What does it mean for the rest of us?
13:07 - Cycling Shorts
13:13 - The new Wahoo Elemnt ACE
17:12 - Free studded tyres in Canada for winter cycling
18:36 - New Colnago?
19:49 - Ineos' Steve Cummings moves to Jayco-AlUla
20:22 - 10-year-celebration Zwift update!
21:30 - Hack/Bodge of the Week
25:34 - Caption Competition
28:12 - Comment of the Week
36:38 - This Week On GCN

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Do you think lightweight bikes are back? 🪶 Let us know in the comments! And what do you think of our brand new set? 😍

[FilipMoravcik]

Some acoustic treatment of the new studio is needed!

[bobvonkaenel]

Love you guys, but the audio needs some work. Sounds like you're speaking from the bottom of a bucket.

[stuartwalker]

Not that the other combos aren't good!, but Dan and Simon are the PERFECT duo! The dynamic is spot on.

[lwittrock]

Lightweight has never gone out of style nor has it gone away but is simply back in the forefront.

[eduardomartins]

Without GCN Show life wouldn’t be the same.Thanks guys, big hi from Portugal 🇵🇹

[Dxniel.editss]

Hello everyone. I come from Germany and really enjoy watching your videos. I really like the British humor and the quality of the videos is excellent. Better than GCN in German. Please keep it up.

[pinkyfull]

as a 96kg male, i can safely say that a few grams of weight on a bike is by far and away NOT the thing that will make me faster.

[easternbrown]

#captioncompetition Being cyclocross the bikes do not need to abide by the laws of gravelty

[heatherbellbikes]

My hubby, who’s not a cyclist (anymore), but who’s been roped in by me to watching GCN, and now watches the GCN Show voluntarily with me, says ‘you need Lavalier mics and sound dampening tiles. He also says ‘get yourself a sound mixer’. He’s a musician, so he’s passing his knowledge onto you, while he gains from your knowledge.

[Stephen-nqkd]

#captioncompetition: sometimes you’re jumping canyons other times the Canyons jumping you.

[JIMMYHIBBS]

Litterally sounds like you are in a shipping container 😂

[santiagobenites]

Of course lightweight bikes are back. Now just re-engineer the direct mount rim brake to accommodate a wider rim and be done with it! 😉😄

[charlesdufour]

The difference between Canadian and British winters: Canadian winters are cold, British winters are depressing. Once the temperature gets cold enough (below -15°C I would say) snow tends to stay bright white on the fields and trees, the air seems to sparkle from small water droplets crystalizing, and it is more likely that you will have clear, sunny days and starry nights that make things beautiful and the cold more tolerable and enjoyable (to me at least). The perpetually grey skies and drab browns and greens of the British winters would just be miserable.

Edit: This comment is a generalization for both countries in the style of the annual worse winters debate on this website (areas of northern Scotland tend to get mostly snow, coastal BC gets a lot of rain and cloud cover, Atlantic Canada gets lots of cloud cover and mixed precipitation...). The purpose of this comment was to highlight that it is not necessarily the temperature that makes one winter worse than an other, but the conditions that are associated with those temperatures. If it were possible to get Edmonton type cold with persistent Vancouver level cloud cover and there was no snow on the ground, I would find it unbearable.

[seanshumka]

Stopping at red lights: Having grown up in Canada, lived in London UK for 17.5 years, I’ve always stopped at red lights as the norm. Now having recently moved to Denver Colorado, by law cyclists can yield at a stop sign and use a red light like a stop sign. And it works. No increase in traffic to cyclists accidents, and I stop, look that it’s safe to cross and I pedal on. If done correctly and safely, there seems to be no problem with cyclists doing the above at stop signs and red lights under the law allowing us to do so.

[StratoJohn]

Odd looking at a different background, but love the bike frames on the wall. Didn't even notice any sound issues, but the rest of the comments section did

[michaelskelton]

Best intro ever…so ‘real world’ 😎👍🚵🏻‍♂️

[mtbwithben]

#captioncompetition Canyon’s new bike is Inflite!

[fredrikbeskow]

The studio looks great! What an improvement!

[johnrodgers]

Like the new studio. The Orbea frame would be better in a bright color against the black walls.