BRUTAL 23% Climb in a Crit- (Cat's Hill Criterium P/1/2)

Thanks for coming out, and HUGE thanks to Mike's Bikes for title-sponsoring the race!! We're thrilled to keep bringing back the race!!! (I'm the race director.) Awesome racing!

Damn, Ryan smashed it without getting a leadout, incredible win

*Now that is teamwork. literally the whole team sacrificed themselves for the sprinter.*

Ryan does his own lead-out. Just get him in contention for the last km. Incredible stuff. Congrats to Team Mike's Bikes.

Tobin put in an absolute awesome effort. Hard to believe that he was on front from beginning to just shy of the end.

Thats an awesome win, the fact that it took the entire team and the whole race to bring back that one rider is insane

My roommate did that race back in the 80s. Pulled her foot out of her shoe on the Cats hill sat in the middle of the road and put her shoe on remounted and won the race.

Kudos to Sean! Kid got some serious power!

As always thanks for posting! I always learn something in every video. "drink ketones" is what I learned in this one 🤣

Jeff on a Cervelo? Video needed!

That crashed rider at the end looked like he was going straight into a post! I hope he is ok!

Been following this channel for a while. Quality of content is phenomenal. Great job lads!

I’m not one to enter crits nor enjoy the crashing aspect of it but I love how detailed you are in your videos!! Keep it going!

3:05 I almost got taken out there in the rear cam, ended up jumping onto the sidewalk and rolling it out...

EJ would’ve loved this course. Big power every lap!

Hey Jeff, love your videos. I’ve been waiting for this video to drop, Thank you. Looking forward to more!!

love the footage and the play by play. thanks!!!

I'm from Los Gatos but I moved out to Colorado two years ago and have since been watching all your NorCal crit videos. Nostalgic to watch this as I recognize every part of the course. Great video !

Loved that! Getting better and better at the commentary/narrative of the race. There should be more crits with short steep climbs

Brilliant teamwork

What a race! Congrats to Ryan and the whole Mike's Bikes team. Big win!

What a legend, this is the content we subscribe for.

That post up at the end was sick. Live gnarly team mikes bikes

🤣🤣🤣 just a crazy thought… have you ever done a video on how to pin a number on… 😂

What a race, awesome work 👏🏼

Nice to see this race hasn’t changed and continues to this day!

Awesome! I miss going to this race. It was my goal just to finish it, but I was unable in 3 tries. So impressive to see this from the perspective of P/1/2. That pavement is so irregular drafting is very tricky. You all are very brave. kudos

damn. That got my heart pumping just sitting here in front of my computer! Well done to all!

Great race💪

Now that brought back some memories for sure. Exciting race

since when you're riding a Cervélo? did I see right?

Is Sean's heart ok after that?!
Also sweet Cervelo!

What a back to back win! Ryan is a beast.

Hi Jeff big fan of your channel, I participated in a cycling study on ketones and one thing I can tell you for sure is you do not want to take them before a race, but after! It helps recovery and much more, but the researchers were always laughing with people that took them before the race, just a little tip.

Wonderful team effort, I really prefer to watch crits rather than pro tour. Shows how much team work and strategy is important in cycling

Great positioning, sprint for the last corner, crazy strong = easy victory.

I love watching guys climb a 20+% grade 30 times...from my home...in FLORIDA. We feel like we're climbing the Alpe d'Huez if we're over 5%! Great vid though and another great win for Ryan.

Lol Eamon Lucas lived here in Belgium! Saw him at some races :)

Interesting to see you on a Cervelo S5! has the team bike changed for this season?
great video as always.

It's great how ryan has the 53t to smash it on the down hills, definitely an overlooked bike hack

One of the Mike's Bikes guys, I think it was Ryan, came past me and just blazed off into the sunset at like 6w/kg consistent on Zwift about a month or two ago. I had just been bumped up to CatB and was ripping along on my TT bike feeling fast... until that moment, lol. Beast of a rider, congrats Mike's Bikes, taking the W in that field was no joke!

Awesome race

Early af! Gotta go to work but I'll definitely tune in during my break

Ryan is a total beast!

What a boss finish

Sweet race

Switched to cervelo?

Good stuff!

DANG! Good Smart racing!

So after all that, where did Tobin end up finishing?

Hey Jeff, what happened to the giant? Has Mikesbikes switched to cervelo?

Total animal... he then attacked the breakaway at Murrieta and stayed away solo a week later. Killing it.

Great stuff

Wayne Stetina in front of Lemond in old photo📸

I traveled from Texas once to do this race. I really get the bike handling mistakes we see in the video; hardest crit I've ever done and it's really hard to keep focus in all the pain...

Dude Ryan is such a beast

Plans to race in Austin, Texas? Driveway series is every Thursday night

Woah new bike Jeff! Will we be getting a bike review soon??

I raced this many times, many years ago. The last race I broke an early carbon bar on the climb! Tough crit but super fun.

We need a new bike breakdown!
Sick video

Hey new bike? Cervélo. Are you making a video showing it off?

I don't race yet but I have been 8:49 a LOT :D

Sick to watch, but definetly the last crit i would enter with 100kg+ and close to 200cm tall. 😄
Absolute top Content! 👍🏻👍🏻

Did I miss you walking us through the new bike?

Did you guys swap down to the small ring on the climb or just smash it in the big ring.

scary with the trees just off the gutter !

Hey, is that Iman that was in another video of a couple of years ago? The calves carved from stone dude?

What a ripper!

I'm racing my first crit tonight and my hb is in zone 4 already after watching this video :o

That first picture of Stars and Stripes is Wayne Stetina, not LeMond

If there’s a hill, can you shade it in on the map or something? Thanks

So fast 🔥🔥🔥

I was waiting for this so I can watch Chainless TVs video about it.

Would Ryan be down to give us info on his training?🤣 absolute beast

*Superb*

oh wow, u guys on Cervelo now? nice.

Quinn is a stud, remember when we used to race Cat 4's together

When did Cervelo happen?

Is that a cervelo soloist youre riding jeff??

watt bombs droppin everywhere...nice team effort vid. congrats on the win.

What camera do these guys normally use? Gotta be something better than a GoPro because my battery dies after like 30 minutes of continuous use.

jeff riding Cervelo??😮😮😮 what happened to TCR??

Lactigo is my go too. I feel a difference when I don't use it

That Cervelo areo probably saved you some watts over the Giant.

WOW! That finish!!!!!🎉💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🎉

how you liking that soloist?

Damn Legion got worked.

Is the team all riding Cervelo bikes this year? Would be interested in a video of everyone’s setup

Aren't we going to talk about the bikes you guys were riding?

@2:01 looks like David Hasselhoff

I Spy Jeff on a cervelo!!!

The moment I tried to check the time between breakaway and peloton on the left top corner of the screen...

What’s the music used?

team sponsor changed to cervelo?

A bit more about ketones: the effect of ketones is massivly overrated by a lot of people in the sport. Most of your body's organs can mainly use carbohydrates and fats as a source of energy. (and in case of these two nearly running out, there is a way of converting proteins to a source of energy, but this is not relevant here). During an effort, say for instance a cycling race, your muscle's will mainly be using carbohydrates as an energy source. sounds familiar right? the thing is, your brain is a bit of a different organ. It can solely use carbohydrates as an energy source, and not fats or even proteins in the form of amino acids. But when your body has run out, or is very low on carbohydrates, that technically means your brain cells would die of because they don't have an energy source. The body has a way of preventing/prolonging this: ketones. they are made in the liver from free fatty acids (fat) and are able to pass trough the blood-brain barries (unlike fats) and thus are able to compensate a bit for the lack of carbohydrates. The aim in using ketones in cycling, is to fuel your brain on ketones, subsequently leaving more carbohydrates for the muscles to use. however, we cant tell our brain to ONLY use ketones, and not carbohydrates, so as long as there are carbohydrates (which every racing cyclist ingests before and during a race) they will also be used by the brain. so technically ketones will give your body a tiny bit more energy, but the effect is really minimum, especially for the price of them compared to carbohydrate sources. Even in top tier world tour teams like Jumbo Visma, only their top athletes get them in certain races, because the price just doesn't wheigh up to the gain in performance.

cyclocross racer going off the front first lap sounds about right

Please, a WarmUp Crit Video 🙏🏼

Cerveloooooo!

Are we not going to discuss that the team is on Cervelo? 👀

new bike？