What is the most you’ve spent with regard to cycling?
Was it a whole bicycle?
Accessories?
Components?
Quite a subjective topic right?
Well, Si and Dan discuss some of the cycling things that they and the ex-pros at GCN Megabase have spent on, which turned out to be an absolute waste of money!
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00:00 Welcome to the GCN Show – Headlines
00:41 Mark Cavendish officially retires from cycling
01:10 $1800 ambulance ride after bike crash
01:34 The biggest money wasters in cycling
02:11 A commuter bike
03:50 An altitude tent
05:29 Cycling Overshoes
05:53 Cheap brake pads
06:46 Cycling kit
06:59 Top end bike components
10:55 Groupset upgrades
14:25 Cycling shorts
14:30 Mark Cavendish finishes his final race
16:18 MTB World Champ – Alan Hatherly tries road racing
18:47 A cyclist’s very expensive ambulance ride
20:17 Orro bikes and i-ride bikes bought over by Baaj Capital
21:09 App with Interactive map for cyclists
22:40 GCN x Zwift Club Rides
23:52 #AD Elitewheels releases new gravel wheels
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25:06 Hack/bodge of the week
31:40 Caption competition
34:08 Comments of the week
37:26 Coming up this week
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21 Comments
Any thing we missed out that can be deemed a waste of money? 💰
Its the olde saying ! All the gear, NO idea, 👍🤔
Waste of money – a mid range pair of carbon wheels. Freehub let go 40km into All Points North, I was riding as a pair with my partner, who then carried on on her own. It rained most of the race. Then, a 1000km Audax in the Scottish borders, again supposed to ride with my partner, she carried on. Then in TPR a front spoke broke descending the Col du Tormalet, with 24 hours still to ride. I made the wheel as good as I could with the remaining 27 spokes, but it made the rest of the ride terrifying, especially the 40kmph aero bar run in to the finish.
Orro’s warranty or aftercare was non-existent even before the brand went to the wall. They didn’t even reply to emails.
#captioncompetition New aero helmets debuted at the Singapore Criterium
Caught the cycling flu about a year ago, and bought an expensive bike during the summer. So far I've bought 2 bags for the bike. One for behind the saddle, and one for the top bar. The first is too big, so I can't fit a rear radar light, and the top bar one is too wide, so my knees hit it! So so far that's the first waste of money for me, but I bet there's more to come 🙂
Why are you using a gym matt as a table top?
For me it's been kit more than anything. My first few sets of bibshorts and bibtights were lower quality or non-optimal fit. Buying online has been part of problem in addition to inexperience. The absolute biggest waste was probably a pair of bibless shorts that I hated from day one, bought them by accident thinking they were bibshorts.
Caption competition:"When chapeau becomes your greatest desire..!"
No. 1: To buy a new, grazy expensive Bike …
Cool. So now I have a naughty store among my cycling bookmarks.
Never wasted money on bike stuff as I always do good research before buying stuff
Most silly waste of money for me was buying ultegra disc levers without the calipers to save $100 since I was not using them, only to have to pay $130 for the hose kit afterward. Sigh. 🙂
Which side lol
Total cope out, the silly things mentioned in purschase mistakes are all obscure stuff, or telling the audience not to buy cheap. No brands mentioned, and still pushing viewers to spend even though the title suggests avoiding spending.
Im the biggest waste of money in cycling and enjoyed every moment.
The GCN table needs a clean…😬
Dan’s off to start GBN…
Was using the word "Cockpit" a good idea when talking about "Bondage tape" ? 🤣🤣🤣
so it's buying a bike you don't want/like, not a commuter bike per se. mudguards catching strays left and right here 😀
Si… To put Doug Ford in context… Imagine Boris Johnson but without the education, intelligence, foresight, political skill, fiscal understanding, charisma etc. cough
And this has nothing to do with what "side" your on, he is objectively the biggest failure in the history for the province. Literally everything he does either gets struck down by courts for being illegal or has to be reversed for corruption reasons. He has managed to accomplish so little in a province that even a monkey could run effectively. It is a level of incompetence that you couldn't even fake.
When it comes to these bike lanes, he is not basing anything on facts and research, he just is doing it to appease a handful of wealthy people who live in that area. These very specific bike lanes ARE problematic. They were not designed correctly on bloor and the police allow cars to park in them on college. But nothing ford is suggesting will fix that, it will actually make them worse and cost us millions at at a time when that money is better spend on other more pressing things.