The Best Vintage Super Bikes We’ve Ridden [2+ Hour Compilation]

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Love vintage and retro bikes? In this compilation, we've put together our top retro and vintage bike videos from our catalogue just for you old-school bike enthusiasts! Watch us race legendary vintage bikes against modern superbikes, showcase our best retro rides, and take a journey through cycling history!
00:00 Illegal Super Bike | So Fast It Was Banned!
17:17 This Bike Changed Cycling Forever, But How Fast Is It Now?
38:53 Can We Beat A Bike So Fast It Was Banned? | Lotus 110 Vs Modern Superbike
54:22 The Bike That Beat Lance Armstrong - But How Fast Is It?!
01:14:27 The Fastest Climbing Bike Ever - But How Good Is It Now?
01:31:29 How Hard Did Cycling Use To Be? | Modern Cyclist, Retro Bike, Classic Climb
01:43:18 Can A Vintage Superbike Survive A Killer Climb?
1:52:28 50 Years Of Dura-Ace: From Outsider To Cycling Domination 🤝 In association with ‪@RideShimano‬ 👉 gcn.eu/Shimano
02:13:05 Radical, Cheap, BANNED! | Did The UCI Ruin Road Bikes Forever?
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@gcn 27 күн бұрын

Do you also love old-fashioned vintage bikes? 🚲🕰

@tonyBobb5209 27 күн бұрын

Yes! The perfect pub bike 😉🍻

@RSGSulldorfAltona-West 27 күн бұрын

Oh yeah, real bike-porn. 💖 Next time 2+ hours "L'Eroica" pls.

@dieselscartalk4146 27 күн бұрын

I'm a history buff for a lot of things so heck yeah

@peterwillson1355 27 күн бұрын

That is an absurdly broad question. A Raleigh Chopper? A Colnago Master?

@rovillelooks221 26 күн бұрын

I own 4

@craighoover1495 27 күн бұрын

I have been enthralled with "English Racers" since i was a child. Got my first one when I was about 13. Now at 68 I thought this quite the history lesson.

@SkyhawkSteve 27 күн бұрын

Still riding a few lovely steel bikes with Campagnolo Nuovo and Super Record parts. Fast enough for riding with my friends, and no worries about batteries running out of charge. I do have a 42 x 24 low gear to get me up the hills in style, though! (mostly 6% or less)

@reinholdachleitner2069 27 күн бұрын

The Hotta looks great,it's aged well but vintage bikes are awesome,they have so much character.💯👌🏻🚴‍♂️✌🏻

@Loremipsum555 25 күн бұрын

The pantani bit nearly put a tear to my eye. Yes, drug enhanced, but also, a man fastest up a mountain on his own power. On a bike pre-electric and carbon. Never to be repeated, never to be matched. Legend.

@whatwelearned 23 күн бұрын

What do you mean on his own power? You just said you know he was full of PEDs. Romanticising these people is so daft

@charlesdufour9276 27 күн бұрын

Job requirements for GCN presenters: 1. Must be a cycling enthusiast (riding and/or watching) 2. Must be willing to travel 3. Being able to hold a discussion while riding in Zone 5+ is considered an asset. Kudos to Si and Ollie for being able to talk while doing those climbs.

@87togabito 27 күн бұрын

If you’re able to hold a conversation at z5, you aren’t in z5.

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

We're true professionals 👌

@238949 27 күн бұрын

And again! Love these compilations , thanks GCN

@07storck 27 күн бұрын

I still have my Hotta but I fitted mine w/Specialized Tri-spokes frt & rr.

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

Nice one! 👌 How does it hold up against modern bikes?

@robertm1552 7 күн бұрын

Great production, thanks for compiling it together!

@WendsH 27 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for including my favorite in this compilation: Ollie on the Canning-special, exclaiming that after flipping the wheel his gearing feels 'positively MAGICAL!!' It's almost as lovely listening to his griping as it was watching Lasty's pain face.

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

Hahaha all classic GCN moments 🙌

@andrewl.3460 27 күн бұрын

I love vintage bikes!

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

We do too 🙌

@juliuscaesar4802 27 күн бұрын

Midnight sleepers will looooove this

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

Turbo lovers too 😉

@timetrialist 26 күн бұрын

Nothing is Hotta than this! ❤❤

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

Ayyyye! Nice one

@fredmcgough748 6 күн бұрын

Sick bike!

@robertchristian6910 23 күн бұрын

👍and FIVE GOLD STARS!

@andymerrison883 27 күн бұрын

Still love my Cervelo SLC-SL. A bit like triggers broom, all that remains is the frame and seat post. Everything else upgraded over the years. Shimano Ultegra Di2 now with Zipp 404 and Hambini racing BB.

@muhamadirfaan3329 9 күн бұрын

The cervelo I remember back in 2009 where I'm from there was a magazine that listed technological marvel. I remember the s3 was on it. I was only 9 at the time

@suhdud4646 27 күн бұрын

If I could ride or own any bike from this list it would be the updated Hotta and Jan Ullrichs Not Giant. Both are works of art.

@kevspss 27 күн бұрын

My last bike was a Scott Tinley Tri-Lite, talking about antique. lol

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

Classic not antique 😉

@michaelmccrea5031 24 күн бұрын

No cervelo bikes?

@thefucrew9865 27 күн бұрын

Didn't they say that it was a "Lotus 108" at the beginning, the call it a 110 later in the episode ???

@timetrialist 26 күн бұрын

LOTUS = Lots of Trouble Usually Serious

@youraveragecat4802 27 күн бұрын

Dam, in early

@gcn 27 күн бұрын

Nicely done!

@truthseeker8483 27 күн бұрын

Why isn't someone making these today???????????????????? Looks like an easy frame to mold in Carbon..could be made in two halves perhaps?

@wobbler101 22 күн бұрын

I know I know nothing but I wish Si would wear gloves. First thing you do in an everyday off is stick your hands out. Sorry, mate but that's my view. Perhaps I've missed an earlier vid that suggests - like when being tackled in junior rugby - you keep your hands in and roll with it....

@cycleistic1365 27 күн бұрын

Every bike from the last year or older than that are already retro which is a recommendation to upgrade post-haste. (Source: bicycle industry)

@gcn 27 күн бұрын

For you, at what point does a bike become "retro"? 🤔

@thefucrew9865 27 күн бұрын

My 1970's ('73, I think) black Schwinn Continental (now with some 80's Aero bars wrapped in pink bar tape, with pink tires) is a "retro" bike..... While my 2019 (I think) Fuji Sportif LE 2.0 is a modern bike for me. (Because I couldn't afford a more costly or better bike at the time) Living in Chicago, you have to worry about getting "bike-jacked" (like being carjacked, but on a bike), or having it stolen from in the garage or back porch, so you have to be weary. The streets (constant potholes, cracks, damage, and debris) also are not conducive to steady riding. Traffic, is the same everwhere...except for Denmark.

@cycleistic1365 26 күн бұрын

@@gcn When you can't get reasonably priced spares to keep the bike running, concerns mass produced bikes anyway, where extended life span is expected, to some level at least. Was potentially minimum couple plus decades earlier, but the derailleur hanger mess and proprietary components or designs have broken that a lot. Can be also when the shape and proportions of a bike starts to look more than couple of design generations back, but this is easily affected by perceived obsolescence aka bikes are changed intentionally to look different, so that the older bikes start to look old, goes with about any consumer products these days, from phones to cars to whatever. Old handmade or unique race bikes etc. are products of their time and the design biases easily render them 'retro' in an expert eye, when others may just see a bike that they may have never seen before and perceive it even the most modern.

@zagabog 27 күн бұрын

I'm sure this is a re-release, I've watched it before?

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

Bingo! We've lumped loads of our videos together so you can have the perfect background to your day 🙌

@rdd6366 24 күн бұрын

Si is soooo hot. Black color cannot hide it :) just saying

@pankratzrichard 16 күн бұрын

You guys really need to find another word other than “However”

@brandonhoffman4712 7 күн бұрын

The hotta isnt an antique, its vintage. 30yrs=vintage 50yrs=antique Though to the race inclined 30yrs doues feel antique.

@johnthompson5492 2 күн бұрын

🤔Why is it that people make mean an unnecessary comments? Someone who may not be as "electronically experienced" is simply sharing what he believes may be interesting or useful to someone. Constructive comments are welcome, but pompous, arrogant and useless comments should be kept to one's self. They only serve to make others shy away from posting for fear of ridicule!!

@andrewsandoz8005 5 күн бұрын

Barcelona=Barceloner

@lenwilkinson8541 27 күн бұрын

I'm sure this is a re-release. GCN is on the demise.

@WarHammerWH 27 күн бұрын

Don’t you see it’s a compilation of pre-released videos? It even says so in the title.

@Cycle9568 27 күн бұрын

Summertime! Folks are on vacation.

@gcn 26 күн бұрын

This is just extra content 🙌 We'll still be making the same amount of new content a week but we like to pepper in some spice for you all 🔥

@WarHammerWH 26 күн бұрын

@@gcn yes and keep doing this. Recently you posted a compilation of adventure/challenge videos that I rewatched in its entirety even though I had seen the original videos.

@robertm1552 7 күн бұрын

👎 on comment; 👍 on compilation