ATTEMPTING TO QUALIFY FOR THE GRAVEL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS….

Club of aces members Elliot and Nathan go all in for the UCI gravel world championships qualifier, UCI Gralloch in an unusually sunny Scotland.

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all right so we flew in from Dron airport into stanstead Elite Airport jet 2 needs to just lower the volume in their bloody tanoy that [ __ ] was way too loud couldn’t even hear my own mix anyway we flew into London got home had a quick nap I went to go watch the local track League we woke up in the morning at like 6:00 in the morning we got the train from CL Junction to Leighton we’re going to go pick up a car going to drive from Leighton and we’re going to drive all the way to Scotland which going be 78 hour drive that’s a long ha but hey no rest for the wicked we just picked up the 10 box car as you can see the up hand a spec the Italian would be very proud we’re about to go to josy’s and get some food in our stomach before the 7h hour drive I think but honestly we’re traveling in style these days can’t really complain the Fiat Panda cross I didn’t even know this car existed to be fair I just thought they were all those box shaped kind of uh it’s looking beautiful I’m excited to see how it drive they said you can put the 10 bucks on a small car and they sure ain’t wrong I hate driving manual side of the road other side of the road oh [ __ ] right BOS absolutely lovely scr at jy’s phenomenal breakfast this man went for the American breakfast in England this is just criminal behavior from this man like beans at 10 a.m. is not there bro that’s the British way you’re not in America anymore brother I’m sorry to say but you’re not in America anymore oh man breakfast was delicious shout out to J’s in Winchester or wherever the hell we are backck we are off to Scotland Man 4 hours and 48 minutes on the clock and I’m about to rip this Panda all the way there let’s go UCI U must inform extremely right we’ve made it to Scotland but we have one problem how are we going to power any of our [ __ ] like we can’t keep the car running all night he’s got like one USB socket so that’s a problem that we have to overcome the wagon held up the 10 box is still on the top of the roof and the bike is still in the back at this point this is a success now we just need to navigate what’s this place called again something of Fleet Gate House of Fleet Gate House of Fleet so yeah let’s just time to navigate this man you know I’m seeing a couple of 10 boxes here I made the right move we came here to Camp man and John wants to go into town and work in the pub that’s not true camping man we’re here we have the tent we just need to set it up and then we’ll be living we have three Outlets we’re going to survive we’ll make it to tomorrow man thought you were the outdoorsy person here we don’t have out I’m the here in the sticks with the raoa suitcase man no idiot is doing that times get really tough we can just call on Monster mango Loco flavor all problems will be solved okay we’re going to put the bike together we did have to take both Wheels out honestly I’m surprised how much stuff we fit in this Panda she’s a home she’s a bike storage is a fridge what isn’t she anyways yeah we’re going to put this [ __ ] together so let’s go they’re running the carago g3x this is their gravel bike and we’ve got the air stem for the volt two so for Wheels we’re going to be running the lightweight Pathfinder Wheels they are lightweight gravel Wheels they’re like fully carbon from the spokes to the hubs yeah we’re going to run the 40 mil pelli Cado on the back the hon Tundra 45 on the front lots of people got punches here last year so this is my reason for going this setup the racing gravel bikes they take a beating an absolute beating they just get thrown in and out of bike boxes crashed scratched this is what the tread looks like on the tire I’ll probably run 29 28 PSI in each of the tires we’re going to be running more nutrition we’ll definitely run carb mix and electrolytes all right then there we go okay gear ratio we’re running a 40 xync sham chain set this is sham red we’re running the 1042 cassette on the back this got me round tracker so this is definitely going to get me around here we use a woman spec mimic saddle these gar rally pedals are phenomenal these are the best power based pedals I’ve ever used they’re Mega accurate and they take a beating that is wrap that is the bike checks let’s get it let’s hope this gets me round Recon on it tomorrow make sure everything’s dialed let’s go hello good morning the Sun is up the goose is loose that’s what John would say we actually slept [ __ ] good it’s the day before UCI GRC yeah somebody asked me like what what you want to achieve with this and I actually I’d love to qualify for gravel World Champ we screwed up last time I had three of the most horrific races for for the last three UCI qualifiers let’s hope we can get this one in the bag early days and I don’t have to make a heinous series like that again bashed out some editing got that done the cams is pretty tame tame way of life here in Scotland yeah taking some getting used to we’re going to go for a ride at around 2 we’re going to Recon the start and then finish but yeah there’s actually quite a few International heads here it’s going to be a stacked field I’m pretty [Music] sure time to sign on Boss how you feeling actually it feel good man yeah like no nerves today we’re going to go do Recon we’re going to Recon the start and the finish of the route hitting the CL blind without any Recon is like kind of sketchy especially if you’re coming to the finish with like a group you don’t want to be looking at your GPX wondering where the hell you need to go you going to be focusing on Dust in the other companions that you’ve been riding the rest of the day that’s the end of the game I’ll catch you in a bitow [Music] we’ve been for a ride we’ve done the Recon I’ve done my Recon and now I’m joining the double Recon with John the grind never stops and with that we in the mud once again in a very literal way literally man prediction for tomorrow quick one million punchers I was on the Recon one guy cracked his frame and he got a double puncher it’s going to be rapid I think so it’s going to be a fast day tomorrow really 1,700 M of climbing it’s up and down it’s quick Rolling Hills but I think my setup is is died I’d say losing a bit of money on the slightly wider tires but I think I’m going to make that up when uh inevitably lots of people are punching and I’m not so that’s a plan let’s go it’s the morning of the UCI egg fried rice for breakfast this is breakfast VC let’s get it Style no Forks to be found in this town so the toothbrush they gave us Works we’re like 2 and 1/ half hours out from the race just making sure I get all my food in and making sure it does jce before we get onto the start line the midges are in full force full force man Lord hopefully I right back in mid today who do you think you think you’re on the road or something get up the road four whe bruh BR he thinks four wheels is better than two how are you good how are you [ __ ] warm I’m apparently in this VIP box I’m trying to work out how to get in there very important pedaller very impotent person I’m actually kind of nerv Dan is I’m okay pun last year let’s see how it goes this year how are you feeling this morning it’s a pretty strong field isn’t it yeah that’s an understatement it’s impressive gravel is growing out of insane [Music] come [Music] on you I’m you [ __ ] [Music] [Music] yeah I’m so cooked went through everything I gave it everything oh my God I suffered for so long I took out Isaac wow R into the back of me what a day man what a [ __ ] day I want to see if I qualified we did it we did it yeah yeah no [ __ ] wait oh my God we qualified for worlds bro man I [ __ ] damn so Cy [ __ ] I don’t even know what to say I’m stoked bro yeah how you doing man how’s your day I qualified so how was your day what did you get punctured after just 17K so that was terrible and then my valve snap ran out of gas but I finished didn’t see you by Side Road no I was in a bush trying bodies bodies everywhere you didn’t even need a GPX for that one it’s the only course that I’ve seen fuing yeah yeah yeah and mattes attack on that last Road no he went under the radar all the major gravel heads were just marking each other’s attack he didn’t even attack he just rolled off the side and I was like that’s it the big deal to just take it off yeah now I don’t have to worry about this [ __ ] bro you know what’s going to happen now now you’ve qualified you probably going to do it three more times by accident now the pressure is off you know a long day in the box man great day in the Box phenomenal day in the Box actually cuz we qualified for the gravel World Champs so let’s [ __ ] get it we [ __ ] got it that’s what happened the legs the legs were in and out of the champ there I’m it’s starting to settle in now the nutrition strategy was literally on point did the whole down car mix and two caffeine J Savage shout out to one good thing for these little soap looking blocks but they’re actually pretty tasty bang the 360 on The Descent just left the chat and I had to go back and get it really okay we averaged 30k an hour we came for more than what we expected qualified for gravel World Champs Nathan got second today it couldn’t have gone any better the setup was DED I had no punches the weather came out for Scotland what more could we ask for thanks for coming let’s get it