Ultra Cyclists 10 Most Hated Things

Our friend Chris has cycled across Australia, completed the Badlands Ultra Distance gravel race 3 times and come top 10 in the national 24 Hour Time Trial champs. Here is 10 things he hates.

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Chris Hall is an ultra cyclist who’s finished Badlands three times cycled across Australia and come top 10 in the National 24-hour time traal Champs in this video he’s going to go through 10 things that he hates number one foil blankets I understand why people think these are an amazing thing for an

Emergency situation but I hate them and this is annoying me doing this I’m doing this for you Francis that is a big reason why I hate them they’re so noisy you wrap yourself up in one of these yes you look like Ziggy Stardust I don’t know if you can

Hear me but every time you move around you hear the second reason why I hate them is once you’ve unfolded it you just can’t get them small like it’s still huge right so it’s basically a one use policy thing a lot of people take these for Ultra races and

They use them always at night instead of using it for an emergency situation so my hatred with them is relying on them it’s an emergency product to be used in an emergency situation not a guaranteed thing that you should be using every single time because it’s horrible sorry to interrupt

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Like them mainly because they damage your bike unless you have them positioned perfectly they’re going to rub on your head tube damage your frame scuff it up ruin it just don’t use it you’re not going to see a frame that’s got damage on it yeah yeah we got one

Yeah that’s exactly it that is the reason why I can’t stab it this is exactly what we’re talking about that has scuffed it right back to the carbon that’s dangerous and it looks it looks rubbish unless you have a black bike we could solve it by riding black

Bikes this is number three air canisters it’s unnecessary you don’t need to carry air canisters just take a little trap pump you can get pump now which will do a better job at pumping your tires up and will tell you the PSI there’s a little hand pump that we showed in a

Previous video which works fantastic for pumping your tires up for me it’s about waste this is unnecessary waste is having one of these it’s quite an annoying thing to carry on a bike packing trip a disposable nature of it for me that annoys me unless it’s

Laughing gas so my next biggest gripe is wrappers and now why I’m referring to rappers is so in Badlands they were sponsored by a nutrition company throughout the whole route you would find rappers of gel wrappers bar wrappers whatever it was so if you’ve got a lovely bath like this

One actually right just make sure you put the wrapper in your pocket I know some I’ve got a mouth full of stuff now Sports Nutrition stuff comes in rappers it’s fine is what it is but just make sure you put it in your pocket and put

It in your pocket properly it’s not cool seeing wrappers and stuff out in the middle of nowhere you know not expecting to find a person let a load a load of rubbish this kind of stuff takes years and years and years to deteriorate and to break down so just please try and

Make sure it’s in your pocket I don’t want to be the person going to go pick up everyone else’s rubbish and I understand there a lot of packaging like this you need it cuz it keeps the product fresh especially with gels and stuff so that’s fine completely

Understand that there’s one brand that I can think of that is wrapping their guava things in like a palm leaf which you can dispose of the palm leaf but my only gripe with them is if you buy them they still come in a plastic outside of

The palm leaf so you still have to throw away the plastic to then have the sustainable thing which is the palm leaf lunch number five of things I really don’t like heart rate straps it is nothing against the product they’re very very useful and being able to capture

Data and allow you to train or ride or understand how fatigued you are completely get it’s more in the context of when you’re doing an ultra something like this becomes really uncomfortable to be wearing all the time for me what I tend to do is I just if I need the heart

Rate data I record it on my watch this is a Garmin uro 2 which I can basically go on here and start with my heart rate now I will admit that this may be not quite as accurate as a chest mounted heart rate strap but it’s a metric which

You can use which is ultimately what you need is a consistent metric so please become uncomfortable after a while I wear a watch anyway so it doesn’t really bother me so number six I do not understand why people do Ultras with Road pedals it’s nothing against the

Pedal system it’s very very good works really well good pedal efficiency and stuff but quite often in Ultras you’re going to be walking around quite a lot and needing to be off the bike as well whether that’s going into shops you know if it’s getting a fery whatever it is so

Just using an SPD pedal is so much more convenient I and useful they’re not really much heavier you can clip in on both sides and ultimately you can wear shoes that you can walk in and you’re not going to fall over on so just use Mountain bite pedals not Road

Pedals seven extreme weather conditions I don’t know why I’m using this I found it here we’re seeing that climate change is obviously causing more volatile temperatures rainfall etc etc there’s something very unenjoyable about being in 40 5° heat which happened in Badlands in 2021 or being in a flash flood

Thunderstorm which happened in Atlas mountain race in 2022 so I really don’t like extreme weather conditions there’s not much you can do about them I just don’t like them is that fine rain oh this is from this is from this is from the national Hill Climb um number eight bad root planning I’ve

Done this before I think many people have done this before you’re kind of at the Beck and will of all these root planning apps and you know mapping programs out there and ultimately it does happen where you have terrible bits of Road Road that’s not Road Road that’s not

Anything about 20 km of gravel which we had on our trip once and ultimately you can’t do much about it but it’s really really annoying it slows you down you get frustrated by whatever app or program you’ve used to plan it because ultimately you’re using that to dictate

The surface that you ride on now bad root planning is annoying because it can cause things like Mechanicals punches extra time that you didn’t expend to have to waste so bad root planning is bad if you’re doing an ultra event or an organized event you would like to hope

That those rootes are well planned and well versed I have done an event once where I ended up walking up a sewage pipe a really good thing to think about when you’re planning your own routes is just use Google Street View you can double check most of the things

And if there isn’t a street view of it it probably isn’t a road unless you’re aiming for Offroad but probably isn’t a road if you are aiming for a Road Number Nine Saddles saws a lot of people do struggle with saddles saurs it’s all about good hygiene when you’re doing Ultras and

Stuff there’s probably a chance that you’re maybe not going to get to shower regularly or as much as you’d like to take some baby wipes these are little ones from sbes sensitive 60 in a pack it’s good them out they’re also scented oh no the fragrance free even better

Give yourself a bit of a clean down below do it twice a day ultimately it’s going to make you so much more comfortable and it’s going to help reduce the chance of saddles SS I’m also a believer in using stuff like Shamy cream for me it just helps it’s a way of

Reducing friction I know certain people like Francis C believe it’s a lie but there are ways you can help improve your comfort and hygiene and ultimately allow yourself to ride for further was that okay I like number 10 now let’s not bother with it uh number 10 is make sure

You’re well prepared I’ve done many events where people have not carried things like this where I’ve had situations where I’ve had people ask if they could borrow a pump now on some events having external help from another Rider like borrowing someone else’s hand pump would be classed as cheating and

You will be disqualified from the getting a finishing time it’s very annoying for me as the person that has to lend this to you because it means I am slower and then you’re probably going to overtake me so please just be well prepared think of things like taking a

Pump taking everything you need there’s tons of great videos out there where people have gone and broken down everything they’ve taken for races and trips use them as resources there’s loads out there that is all for today’s episode if you want to give Chris a follow there’ll be a link in the

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