Great analysis again, thanks!! Definitely could have played that final a bit smarter but I guess there was too much lactate in my legs and not enough oxygen in my brain to think smart lol.

Me: Hits 35mph going downhill and feels like a pro Euro Crit guys: Pass each other on 1ft wide slalom course in the rain @ 36mph for 2 hours

All the best courses go through a Home Depot

1:52 I love how his heart rate is climbing just from sitting there, waiting

He's pushing so hard even his cam had tunnel vision

That kid actually looks like he is 13 next to those other riders. Someone just sign him now he is nasty good.

Love the fact a pro, with teammates, is bitching that the solo 19yo in the break isn't helping him to the finish.

I am dutch and I raced aswell in the past. These kinds of courses are very normal in the Netherlands so it's funny for us when you talk about a "technical course" when you're talking about a norcal race which are always on wide tarmac roads with like 4 or 5 corners haha. These kinds of races is the reason why dutch and belgian rides are good in the classics and are such technical rides in general.

The contrast with the St. Louis crit in your last video is astounding. It doesn't even look like the same sport.

cycling has more strategy than I ever thought

I raced in the Netherlands in the late 1980s and can honestly say there is nothing like it. I remember my first crit thinking, how fast can these cats be? I was introduced very quickly. It is balls to the wall. So many corners, narrow roads, bricks, cobbles...insane. Took one race to know the score...get your butt to the front and try and stay there! Frank rode a heck of a race here. Very nice.

Wow, this kiddo gotta go far Thanks for the commentary guys!

Nice to see Frank back on the channel! A World Tour pro is maybe a bit too much for him but he's definitely talented!

learning a lot watching your videos, thank you man

@12:25 guy is going 33 mph (53 kph) and gets sprinted past as if he's standing still

And 3 years later, Frank has his first world tour contract with dsm

My word a nearly 100 km long crit. That looks so painful. Well done Frank!

Great video as always, Jeff. Real glad to have Brian back; hope he’s doing OK!

Awesome video. That looked like so much fun. No business parks there. You could have included a lot more footage in this one, FWIW, but it was still one of my favorites you've done. More, please!

This man Frank Vandenbroucke has the name of greatness.

I would have been willing to bury myself in pain just for the glory of that music at the finish line. Those Dutch, they're well known for their party mixes.

This kid is amazing. Keep up the hard work.

Great videos, thanks. I rode in Germany and Netherlands. The parcours were always very technical and if you survive, you lean a lot.

This is awesome content. Live the breakdown of European racing. So much more fun than US crits. Glad to hear Bryan back on the channel!!

Great work , Frank! This is only the beginning of a successful run. Keep punching!

Great video! Love to see more of Frank’s races!

Crazy how their speed almost never drops to 45kph on a two-hour course. That is INSANE!

I don't race bikes just run, but this is honestly terrifying to watch. I realize experienced racers probably get kind of into the flow of this but the speeds are incredible for such a narrow course with crap surface conditions, you combine that with the high physical level of competition, this whole thing takes real balls.

Brilliant racing, brilliant commentary

This guy is in front at the elite Dutch road race as of right now holding off guys like MVDP and Van Baarle

Great video Jeff! Hope you're doing alright amidst all the fires in Nor Cal right now.

Raced a district championship there a couple of years ago. Really tough course and that downhill is mental

They ride on the cobbles like they’re nothing! I took a corner once on some wet cobbles...woke up a couple of minutes later with a really bad headache 🤕

These guy go faster up a hill than I can ride on a straight

"Being lightweight makes a big difference", i feel it

These commentaries analyses are incredible , it would be awesome to see you guys do a tour de france rider

Great to see the racing in this part of the Netherlands. A lot of great riders in Tour de France history come from this part of the country. Every serious cyclist in the Netherlands probably rode here and knows these tiny climbs :-)

Awesome video as always 👍👍

See the dutch national championship, the course was nuts. Great racing

Maan I wish there were races like this in Germany. We only have large-scale organized races.

Brilliant to get some Euro content. Thank you @Frank van den Broek. Good liuck for the rest of the season. Do you race cyclocross? (hint hint)

💥 Great Job… Frank 🚴‍♂️ Loved This💥

Great video, this is classic P/1/2 racing in Europe. It's much the same across most countries with lots of racing... France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands... If any Americans want a taste of stage racing at this level, try and get into the Milk Rás in Ireland, it's a legit 8 day pro/am stage race rated UCI 2.2. Racing like this Dutch Kermesse , but for 8 days straight at over 150k per day in rain, wind, climbs, town after town, via chip-seal roads and some cobbles too. Some consider it the hardest pro/am week long stage race in the world. The year I did the Rás, the entire race averaged a higher speed than the first week of the Giro d' Italia. It's THAT fast!!!

I'm guessing NorCal Cycling wasn't around when SuperWeek was going in IL/WI. Plenty of 100km crits. With guys from Euro pro teams, USPS, Rock Racing, Colombia National Team, etc. Mike's Bikes had guys at those races, as well as the old California Giant Berry Farms teams.

What a fantastic course. Nice change from blowing thru stop signs in the burbs.

That was crazy fast

All out... the whole entire crit? Congrats on him making podium!

As a physiology major and poor cyclist, I find it very interesting how a particular sport selects for a particular body type. Here, so many seem to have much longer toros to leg length, than the average male(males tending to have longer bodies/legs length relationship than women, who are the opposite and so often do require frames with different geometry). Tom Boonen was 6'4" and rode a 54cm frame with a 160-170cm stem: ALL TORO that lad!. It is so helpful, if one is to be tall, to have as much as possible in the torso as to limit the few % of wind resistance that often makes all the difference in the race's final sprint or during a T.T.

Awesome video! Dang I wanna go to Europe!

Loving the Dutch content!

This is amazing!

Hats off to the kid, that's some great riding. Best wishes to him and hope he gets a ride over there and makes it. That was a good watch. You could do something like this in pretty much any town, even in NorCal. Figure out a race format that works and makes the racing good for the riders and for spectators. As someone that grew up on the other side of the "pond" and moved to California - and then discovered IPA and BBQ after my career wasn't bound by two wheels - you could take it either one of many ways. You can make it classic "for somewhere else" racing and lets say you have a crit in Davis: make that crit a bit longer and pull it out of town and run it down Levee Rd and take them down the gravel and give it "character."Crita-Bianchi! Make it "hard" or "European" (whatever that means) and stuff a bit of crapped out road on it. Or you could do the absolute opposite and do a "devil takes the hindmost" but with a crit and run it on a course that's a mile long and s**tcan a rider per lap and enthrall the spectators whilst giving the riders no room for sitting in and taking it easy. Run it by Sudwerks Brewery and offer a prize for a free beer for the spectator that does the best guess on the first three riders that cross the lines on preem laps. Hell, turn it keirin-crit and bet on who wins on preem laps and influence some Japanese style track racing. Figure out a 1 mile course to run a "devil" on with over a dozen corners and you're pretty much guaranteed a no BS race. The US did an awesome job of starting six day races over 100 years ago and that went back over to Europe - maybe it's time to reinvent racing fun.

Remember me too Frank😄😄😄 Great Job and analysis

He's roughly my age, but his FTP is almost double mine

Great race analysis. Would be interesting to know air pressure for a race like that.

I felt that unclip-I'm-about-to-cramp as he rolled to a stop. Great ride, mate.

Last time i was this early covid wasn't even a thing

Pretty cool watching this now, 3 years later, and yup, Frank's a WT rider now

1:00 god damn i jumped so hard i spilled my tea .... thought he was gonna faceplant really hard.

Definitely got the name for it!

My dude. That pronunciation of woensdrecht was on point

Love cylcling videos just what I need to get it going the blood I love it. I always watch these before I go out and get my body moving. I always watch one of these, and then put up my heavy playlist like Delta Parole, Three Days Grace, System and then I just go haaaaard!!!! Tactic hasnt let me down yet.

what a circuit. legendary

wow loved this chapeau

NorCal Cycling i am looking to buy a pair of bib shorts and i am not finding any straight forward information on the size and fit it should be. should they be tight? should the straps feel to tight when standing up?

I love how you say woensbrecht

Hold on is it the race from sat 15-aug-2020? Din't go because had no time but i did check out the race from today. So 2 more races in this comp, i'll keep a eye on how he is doing atm.

Can you make a video about how beginners should train?

your pronunciation of Woensdrecht was actually really good!

Outside I can push my hr above 180 with no problem but when riding indoor everytime I go over 180 I feel like I'm passing out

Love these race vids. So fast and furious. British cycling doesnt allow gopros in races so we wont ever see this side of things over here

I done im Antwerp some years ago. Roads look really similar

Seems like steerer tubes snapping is more common than I thought - my steerer snapped for no reason pulling away from a light a couple years ago & I'd never heard of it happening until then, now it seems like it's happening all the time.

He is in fact a world tour pro now.

I just want to say, this looks really fucking hard.

Frank Vandenbroucke. It remains me of one of the greatest cyclist. Vdb!

great anaylsis and you have to be an absolute unit to ride a 2 hour crit that 90km .

Going berserk on the first lap is pretty standard... warm up is essential before any crit.

@Nor cal go over to Europe and race some races. Some of my race stragies I use in crits comes from watching European races

Wooow this is the best 👌

Hey, wanted to ask, how do you get this realtime, bps, kph, km, GPS and all in the video?

ahh yes, classical euro race. Usually we don't call 2h races crits, crits here are still around 1h mark. More like a circuit race. Such races are held around Belgium and Netherlands all the time.

Guys can you explain how the sleeping sprint works? I can find videos of it but it works like you dont see someone put effort just sitting but accelerates faster than someone on sprinting position.

Legs are cramping, heart's a beat track to a rave, all navigating an incline on pave... race reviewers, "yeah... he should be attacking here".

That was legit!!!

2:20 that road is not a single lane that's a double here in the netherlands.

how did you sync up the MPH with the GoPro video, on the same screen?

If his ftp is that high, why not? The only things I can think of that he can improve are bike handling, confidence, and tactics.

Let's be honest... the pronunciation was quite good!

Can someone kindly explain to me how the winner is determined as they don’t all start from the same point. Some are in front and a good number of them several meters behind.

Respect.

how long do these races go for

How do people get the speed data on the video?

Frank the tank!

I start wussing out whenever I have to race a crit that isn’t a wide car racetrack. Glad I don’t have to make a living bike racing in Europe

Should get Fernwee (Martjin) on here to help with the commentary. :P

190bpm .. I know, let’s attack!

I love to whatch These races becaus i now the team with the BMC bikes and fluo helmets they are the metec boys . i ride with the batauwers becaus i am 14 years old.

Woensdrecht...the oe you say as oo. As like the double o in woot.

Is this a high HR? I didn't know... I'm 35 and I can sit at 180-185 "comfortably" for over 90mins and peak at 205ish. Should I be worried my heart is about to collapse?