What do you think are the biggest advances in cycling technology? Let us know in the comments! 👇

@perwiratempur

3 жыл бұрын

Feels like Shimano 100 year celebration groupset launch is imminent...

@barryfromperth

3 жыл бұрын

Still,have an original SiS with shifts on the downtube.

@Ystadcop

3 жыл бұрын

Shoes. When I started in the 60s, shoes were awful. Rubbish soles, shoeplates nailed on, laces, leather that got soggy, clips and straps. Today they are brilliant.

@darrendunn54

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve raced all the tech you have shown thanks so much for this film even Mavic mektonic 😬👍. The biggest by far we’re look clipless pedals I got mine in Dec 1985 starting and sprinting in crits was so much better. Then STI or campag ergo, actually campag we’re crap at downtube indexed but the ergos were better for racing than STI as they survived crashes better and didn’t get tangled up in your musette at feeds. Keep it up chaps great stuff

@clydea.hutchisoniv5742

3 жыл бұрын

@@perwiratempur exactly, 12 speed wireless, 2021 is the biggest advancement:)

This video looks like a prelude to Shimano’s new upcoming di2 that will likely be revealed during TdF to commemorate their 100th anniversary

@TroggyPK

3 жыл бұрын

di3 maybe hahah but all jokes aside i was thinking exactly the same thing

@sepg5084

3 жыл бұрын

Better wear you tinfoil hats then, right?

@tudidingsapparel7197

3 жыл бұрын

Shimano 105 Di2 and Shimano 12 speed Wireless (Hopefully!).

@hmartinspliff

3 жыл бұрын

@@TroggyPK di3 automatically changes the gears for you using an algorithm based on data from a powermeter, cadence, speed and a built-in tiltmeter so you don't even have to think about it. It also has a super pursuit mode and talks telling you useful information like _"You're going too fast, Michael!"_

@georgefarrowgreen01

3 жыл бұрын

@@tudidingsapparel7197 di2 12spd won't be fully wireless it will be a similar system to FSA K-Force WE

What a great Video, It was brilliant having you down for the day & I look forward to seeing some of the follow up videos. Thanks for visiting & you are always welcome back to come and ride some of the other bikes.

GCN: Look at all the History! Me: I’ve ridden all these systems….you calling me old!

@hutchmusician

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Yes they are. Yup.

@gcn

3 жыл бұрын

😂We would never!

@lloydhlavac6807

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I started racing in 1980, before any of these innovations came along. Hard to imagine now, shifting with ordinary, friction downtube shift levers.

@ScottGilbert_Agent

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! I remember pre-sis. If you wanted to shift as you stood up you had to use your knee to slam the shifter level up.

@2dcutout

3 жыл бұрын

I'm on an early 80's World Rider 14sp with NONE of these shift technologies right now. I do miss indexing!

“We’ve come to Suffolk” sorry to hear that. Hope you have both recovered

@gcn

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@andyleatherbarrow7322

3 жыл бұрын

I love how it is referenced to London. Suffolk which is south(ish) of Manchester.

STI is the biggest innovation

@RazzFazz-Race

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was a real gamechanger in racing. gives you an advantage of 5m at every tight corner.

@angel_loves

3 жыл бұрын

Jon I thought you were making a joke about sexually transmitted infections

@Kimberly_Sparkles

3 жыл бұрын

@@angel_loves this is what I think of whenever I read STI.

@willmarks1984

3 жыл бұрын

I used STI for the first time last weekend. Great technology. (I'm only 31 years late!!)

@frankpeter9145

3 жыл бұрын

For me it's sealed bearings.

That Eddy Merckx is still one of the best looking bikes of all time

@feelingmoovey6318

3 жыл бұрын

Best looking shifters ever

@kedarkulkarni3030

3 жыл бұрын

what is your successor doing? ... 7:19 teleported to a different time?

@AWLor0

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but that Kirk cast magnesium thing is positively the ugliest bike frame ever.

@randellgribben9772

Жыл бұрын

marco paniti's bianchi is..

@randellgribben9772

Жыл бұрын

@@feelingmoovey6318 record cable shifters are

Alex says, "[...prior to this, changing gears required careful control and judgement from the rider to ensure they had the exact gear that they wanted... and changing gears was a slow process and something you certainly did not want to do when you were tired or under pressure in a race situaton." While SIS, STI and Di2 are massive improvement in shifting, those of us old enough to remember using friction shifters, we'd say it was an art and became intuitive. A skill rendering a competitive advantage. Also notable, you could see when a competitor reached down to shift gears. (Or a competitor reach over to shift your gears as seen in "Breaking Away".) Hyperglide (ramped gear teeth) have made shifting so much smoother. A change that you do not mention is the switchover from freewheels to cassettes in the late 80's and 90's. Freewheels maxed out at 7 cogs? Now we have 10, 11 and even 12 speed cassettes. Climbing with a five speed 13-23 freewheel paired with a 52-42 crankset "back in the day" is a world of difference compared to today's 11-34 cassettes paired with a 50-34 crankset Loved seeing Shimano's tech developments over the years.

@guytatler9769

2 жыл бұрын

Maillard made 8 speed freewheels so it's not that they maxed out at 7, more that cassettes just improve profit margins due to compatability

I must admit that for 40 years now I have had huge admiration for, and loyalty to, the faceless Japanese company that is Shimano. 👏👏👏

Thank you for bringing back the fond memories of Shimano’s great inventions. There was a Shimano factory near my old office 20 years ago and I never had the chance of trying all the good technology they brought to us,. Yes, needless to say, Shimano is still number one to me in shifters and gears technology since I was a kid. The world would not be the same without them in the bicycle world.

The Cervelo kit still looks great!

2:45: I had one of those Gitane bikes, sold under the name of a particular bike shop in southern France, with the SIS system. That was indeed a game-changer. Click-clunk. No more squirreling around for the right gear adjustment. The hyperglide and STI have been on my last couple bikes, and are definitely wonderful

I'm glad they found a Cervelo Test Team bike that Lloydy hadn't crashed.

@gcn

3 жыл бұрын

It was a hard task...

@Calum_S

3 жыл бұрын

Be glad they found some CTT kit Dan hadn't crashed in!

@robbchastain3036

3 жыл бұрын

And it is in color, too, not old-timely black-and-white when Dan was racing in the '30s.

Great vid guys, informative and fascinating. A great tribute to Shimano, only a channel like GCN could pull this off

The Merckx is gorgeous. That's my favorite era. Oldschool classic steel frames with newschool STi shifters. Beautiful bike.

Ollie from 12 years ago looks exactly same as today.

@jasonmcgrody9472

3 жыл бұрын

Still getting dropped

This video brings back memories! I still love my 1987s Centurion Ironman Expert with 105 SIS downtube shifters and Biopace! I totally regret selling my Nishiki Ariel that had Hyperglide and Deore DX thumb shifters... SIS and Hyperglide. Great picks for best innovations!

@mebesceptic

3 жыл бұрын

Had a Shogun with 105 downtime shifters and biopse as well. Coming from a running background I liked the biopace.

SiS, Hyperglide, STI & Di2 - sounds like things you go to the doctors with after a club 18-30 holiday.

Love it....what is going on, GCN feeding us all this ultra retro road bike pleasure! I had a Kirk Precision on the channel, heavy stiff fast frames, plus I’ve just finished a retro road bike build inspired by the Shimano Tri colours. Enjoying the celebrations, so congratulations and thank you Shimano. Oh and GCN for the content, spot on.

I really liked this video and I think it's great that you guys are showcasing these old steel bikes which are the foundation of all that is good in road bikes today. I happen to have one or more of each of these technologies (except Di2) and even have a bike with Shimano 600 friction shifters which work beautifully. Keep up the great work and more vintage!

If you had a single bike without SIS in the olden days, you were used to it and shifting was intuitive and automatical, as a professional where mechanics fiddled with your bike and you had to change bikes a lot it was a nightmare because everyday shifting was a bit different. There was a period where you had to get used to the shifting of the bike, SIS changed that.

@robbchastain3036

3 жыл бұрын

I agree and I would compare it to typing a letter with a manual typewriter, not even electric. You just knew you had to crisply and sharply strike the keys and you did. And same with automobiles, I rented a van a couple of years ago and the thing didn't even a knob for turning on the lights, some sensor did that for you. And yikes, not interested in that. And these days I am happily driving a sporty '97 Ford with five-speed manual and roll-up windows and lots of basic automotive tech, at least compared to now.

@weevilinabox

3 жыл бұрын

True, but friction shifting never went out of alignment.

@carstenweiland7896

3 жыл бұрын

@@weevilinabox That is also what I miss about it, but truth be told, your shifting usually has to be realligned once (a short time after you driven the first few days with it when things settled).

@MrBJPitt

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had a non sis downtube bike for a long time doing courier work. It was second nature finding the right gear, plus best of all, when you got good, you simply shifted up or down 3 or 4 gears in one go based on the upcoming circumstances.

@martijnheil8825

3 жыл бұрын

@@carstenweiland7896 and you can compensate bad shifting by overshifting and then trimming it back a little.

thanks steve for the bikes contribution, awesome piece of history there for us cycling nerds 👍

Ollie : our "grubby little hands" nice choice of words ollie, you got mr canning's legacy to carry on GCN tech.

I love love love this video, please make more tech timelines!

Watching videos like this make me feel really old. My first bike had non index gears and my bikes haven’t moved on from Sti. Nice to see the rh sti lever had seen plenty of action, no garage queens here!👍

@robbchastain3036

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way when I see trailer queens. A few days ago I saw a gorgeous Riviera on a trailer and I get it, just that, man, that cool car should have all fours on the road.

That was such a fun video to watch. A real trip down memory lane. I'm old enough to remember all of these innovations as they happened. Now I'm really stoked to pull out my 1997 (ish) Casati Duo roadbike and go for a ride! Loved the change to STI shifting back in the day.

@domestique3954

3 жыл бұрын

Casati,the italian stallion!! 🤙

during my "cycling career" i experienced all of these inventions. the first look clip pedal and SiS = King of the road!

@JoeOsChannel

3 жыл бұрын

I had the first set of Look clipless pedals in New Brunswick Canada. Though I got them second hand from a friend of mine who bought them years earlier.

Awesome video! It's really hard to think now what was to shift gears taking our hands off the handle bars... and I didn't knew about hyper glide. Great work, guys! Cheers!

Really cool video - can't wait for the more in-depth tech videos

its great to see the evolution of cycling tech. please make more videos about old bikes and how the tech evolved

I have bar end friction shifters on my bike, but they're hooked up to a Shimano Deore system so the shifting is amazingly smooth anyway.

Really nice video, gents, and thanks for modeling the coolest cycling threads of the era. And speaking of 7-Eleven, yesterday at work two gents parked their bikes as they did a bit of shopping and I got to talking to one when they returned--I had blocked off their bikes in a corner by parking shopping carts around them inside the front door--and when chatting with another rider, I default to the topic of favorite cycling channels and we agreed that we like GCN and Chris Horner--and that it'd be nice if Bob Roll did something again. And then he said he met Bob awhile back and there you go, racing and riding stories about a famous 7-Eleven rider. So thanks for wearing the 7-Eleven colors, Systeme-U, too--and was anyone more stylish than Laurent Fignoun at speed? He was about the coolest.

Absolutely brilliant video, guys. Very well made and fun to watch, thank you.

Awesome presentation 👍🏽 enjoyed every minute. Straight to point, just enough information to inform & leave me wanting more. I have got to catch Up.

Always a good review from Ollie and Alex and some super cool looking bikes from across the periods of modern cycling there, chapeau GCN.

This is the best "Included paid promotion" I have ever seen.

@collenkelton4095

3 жыл бұрын

12 speed DI2 about to drop is all I hear

Wow that Kirk Precision is such a beauty!

Great video! Really interesting and well accompanied by high-quality video editing.

That Kirk is a work of art! 😍

@stevemawer848

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, channelling Dali!

@ds3505

3 жыл бұрын

Yes loved the Kirk I had, amazingly smooth ride. Unfortunately they had to put aluminium inserts in the rear wheel drop outs to provide sufficient durability. Due to the reaction between dissimilar metals, (aluminium and magnesium), these aluminium dropouts detached resulting in bent and broken axles or worse. Actually surprised they found one in ridable condition. Just wish I kept mine as an ornament and hadn't scrapped it.

Thanks for making me feel old. I had bikes with the SIS, hyperglide and the original dura ace sti. Plus I had the original white Look Pedals. I feel ancient now lol.

This is really cool my dudes!

Still enjoy taking my vintage Bridgestone RADAC 3100 with 7-speed Dura-ace Hyperglide out for a spin on occasion. Still shifts as precisely as it did when I bought it new in 1990. Enjoyed this segment. As always, thanks much for sharing. Steve

This trip down Shimano memory lane was fandabbydozy - looking forward to the in depth tech vids. As a relative newbie to road cycling it would be fascinating to see a bit more about how people shifted before SiS.

@randellgribben9772

Жыл бұрын

it was called suntour might shift.. shimano took the patents to build sis

Great video, lot of genius involved in all that innovation 💡👏

When the content is flat-out cool and interesting like this no one actually cares that it's an ad.

Where would cycling be without GCN? 🤔😎💪🏼🌎 This video is amazing.

@stevecooper7038

3 жыл бұрын

😂

And here I was expecting you to start out with wool riding shorts, jersey (Molteni, of course) and Detto Pietro leather perforated shoes! That Gitane 531 was a beauty to kick things off. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.

Glad to see GCN extend the love to the 7-11 kit and Merckx team bike: the best looking team bike ever IMHO.

Love the System U jersey. I have one of these and wear it all the time for road rides. The System U decals and seat are pretty sweet!

Great job guys - nice Retrospective ! Now can you PLEASE do a 'Futurespective' (is that a word?) on Shimanos NEW 13 speed gearbox ? I'm very excited to hear about its details & availability especially for Road / Gravel applications !

THIS is what I love! Get vid!!

I went 30 years between changing road bikes. I had a Schwinn World Sport in 1987 that had shifters on the stem. When I got a new road bike in 2017, I was blown away with being able to shift using the brake levers.

looking forward to the deep dives on each tech.

Thank you Shimano!

This was a great video! Thanks Alex and Ollie👏👍Does anybody remember these small, three speed, black, shifters that sat on top of the handlebars? ”Torpedo” was one brand. This was early 80’s and for standard, every day bikes. You pulled the leaver for an easier gear and pushed it up for a harder gear. Those were the days😂

@randellgribben9772

Жыл бұрын

yup..i had one...modded the bike to take drop bars and brake levers.. but the 3 speed shifter stayed on top of the bars.next to the stem

This is what I want to see from GCN ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@domestique3954

3 жыл бұрын

What?! Advertises for bike parts manufacturers?! Then just go to the Shimano website! All bias....

I rode a Gitane in early 80s. Loved that bike!

Thank you for this! I owned bicycles like these back in the day. The Gintane reminded me of my Raleigh 753 from 1989 - Reynolds 753 frame, Shimano DuraAce SiS. My grandson now rides that bike as a retro enthusiast.

@petergiourelas3753

4 ай бұрын

Still riding 86 motioncraft 105 groupset biopace crank, still smooth, love it

I love the 7400 DA STI levers.. still great… The scraped up levers after many crashes still work great is amazing

when you re done filming with older bikes just send em to me thanks ,thats pre Di2 thanks :) GOTTA LOVE THOSE CLASSIC LOOKS

Ollie looking dapper in the Cervelo kit :-)

12 speed for road, that's the greatest Shimano innovation... So innovative, we are still waiting ;)

Well done video.

You need to check out Shimano Positron, it existed in 2 versions before SIS. I sold bikes with it and I still see them coming in the door for service. Positron was the put on bikes for customers who had trouble learning how to shift friction systems.

I took my wife's very, very old bike down the street the other day to just see if it was in working order and worth keeping and it had the downtube shifters that were non-index shifters. I found it really , really hard to ride and change gears. I used to ride one of those when I was a kid, but now I couldn't imagine not having indexed shifter/brake levers. Now I also have Di2 so I can't imagine ever shifting gears and having the shifting miss ... ever. I also have the wireless unit so I can't imagine not seeing which gear I'm in on my screen or not being able to just swap screens on my Garmin without my hands leaving the handlebars. We are so lucky. I'm very aware on every ride of what a convenient set up I now have.

I have Suntour on a vinty Allez and it also has the friction optional setting. I firmly believe that if you haven't trained on a bike with downtube shifters you're missing out. It really tests your dexterity and stability being able to move those shifters at high speed when you're fatigued.

Well done 👍

Lmao I just realized my bike doesnt even have the oldest tech shown here. Student budget hurts

@hobbybaschtler7896

3 жыл бұрын

same here. But I also love my heavy 1983 miyata bike :). More style than everyone else on the road.

SIS. I still recall how blown away I was when I bought my first Dura Ace SIS gruppo in 1985

Thank you Japan for giving us the gift of innovation. THANK YOU, SHIMANO!

Try making a video on campy group sets also. Since they have invited RD and FD in cycling

Always wondered why cassette theeth are uneven! Thanks GCN

That Gitane is a right beauty! I had that same saddle in pink on my first roadbike that I built, a light blue Peugeot, but sadly it got stolen two years ago.

Great presentation. Hopefully a future one might cover Shimano's equally impressive innovation in hub gears. The freewheel (-- c. 1896?) must rank as one of cyclings greatest leaps, though I don't think Shimano got there first. 😊🚴

Those tiny cassettes on those 80’s bikes. Crazy to think of those on the mountains of the tdf.

That Gitane is beautiful as well as the Merckx.

I remember well using friction downtube shifters. Even whilst using a brake! Hyperglide coming out was massive news with me and my mates. I remember looking at manuals with exploded diagrams of shimano parts for hours

Here’s an innovation I’d like Shimano to try...give us a 32T or 33T option for Dura-Ace!

@einundsiebenziger5488

3 жыл бұрын

That would be an option, not an inovation.

Super nice 🙂

I used a bike with a six-speed non-indexed, non-hyperglide cassette for my daily commute until 2000 and i still release power when shifting almost completely untill the chain stops rattling from one gear to the next. Can't get rid of this old habbit. But I have to say that the twisted teeth of the Uniglide SIS-cassetes made for a bigger improvement than Hyperglide. With those you just moved the shifting lever until you felt the chain jumping over and you wre done, even without indexed levers. With hyperglide you also could do this with power on the pedal but the SIS-cassette to me was a bigger improvement. And btw. you could mix your own cassettes with ease as there were no fixed and bolted combinations of sprockets. I really was a bit disappointed when hyperglide replaced the more flexible Uniglide-system as I felt Hyperglide was a thing more target towards mointainbiking.

MAVIC were the first company to introduce electronic shifting with the Mectronic system. It was wireless. Where Shimano's system is wired. It gets overlooked way too much and doesn't get the respect it deserves. Thanks.

@guytatler9769

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The sponsorship is very obvious, if you want to talk about cycling innovation objectively you can't do it without Simplex, Suntour and Sachs Huret as well

Love the Kirk frame.

I loved seeing the KIRK. Talk about being ahead of it's time.

When will GCN do a similar video celebrating Campagnolo's history and innovations over the many decades?

@kalenderquantentunnel9411

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the beauty of the Ergolever. How to stop twisting around your break-levers!

@Rover200Power

3 жыл бұрын

When they get given a load of free stuff . . .

@helmutkok7833

3 жыл бұрын

@@kalenderquantentunnel9411 and the amazing braking of the record delta brakes. But they sure are pretty

@einundsiebenziger5488

3 жыл бұрын

@@helmutkok7833 Delta brakes were indeed a failure, but Ergopower levers were a success from the very beginning. The ergonomics of their 2009 iteration (since 11-speed) is still unsurpassed and not matched by any competitor.

@larsborghouts8360

3 жыл бұрын

Mind you, that video would be a lot shorter ... 😉

I do recall the days of down tube shifters and friction shifting-to Ollie and Alex they are archaic features! I must be getting old!

The biggest advances in shifting were well presented by you guys. Other than that i think disc brakes are worth considering beeing a big advance of course imho. But wait, there is also the aero component which changed dramatically and may be the biggest improvement of all and is shown well off in numbers at the end (avg. Speed´s a.s.o.) All in all it´s the same thing as driving a Ford Fiesta from the late 70´s and from 2021. They also are better in comfort, breaking technology, shifting, aerodynamics, efficiency and leight wheight material technology. It really turned into an equipment sport and no offense against very sympathic Ollie Bridgewood, but of course he doesn´t "need" a Pinarello F12 for his rides. Anyway, who am I to judge, riding a fine Storck myself as a pure hobby rider :-))) Kind regards from Austria to you guys! ♥

fantastic

The guy in a red jacket reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson. Very knowledgeable on their subject and similar talking style. Cut from the same cloth as Kevin McCloud from grand designs... the voice and the knowledge to complement

@bradders501

3 жыл бұрын

Knowledgeable but annoying, his pauses inbetween words at the end of sentences is infuriating but he knows his stuff

Bring on Campagnolo. 🤔 Can't wait for that one.

I liked my shifter on the down tube. I could shift quickly and there were not any silly adjustments.

'this bike has seen some action' Yeah, I'd noticed the levers were a bit ground down on the outside ;-)

Reynolds 531 tubing 💕. I was lucky enough to have a Raleigh bike with Reynolds 501 tubing and Shimano SIS 2x7 speed sis chain set. Bought second hand of course.

@johndef5075

3 жыл бұрын

I have a 531c Raleigh. Rides very nice.

Those power meters are the ones where pros sometimes cannot do without. Still have to wait for those electronic/digital brakes though.

That was a moonwalk, not an "untethered spacewalk", and that photo is from 1969. -10 points GCN.

@LinasVepstas

3 жыл бұрын

Hardly the only mistake. Freewheels are not the same thing as cassettes. Google showed up in 2000, five years after the web. I stopped listening after a while, I could not figure out if they were making all those mistakes to be funny, or if they're really just that confused.

Nice shout out to Steve Bauer 🇨🇦

@qbertq1

3 жыл бұрын

I raced in the Northeast in the 1980s and was occasionally asked if there was any relation between Steve and myself. Sadly, no.

Just saw a 13 Minute Shimano Comemrcial, when is the video starting?

Love it

I have a 2 yo 105 groupset in my Canyon fitness bike and I love it. I commute year around in icy Finnish roads, and it has worked like butter. I barely have washed and cleaned it ever.😔

Love the shout out to Steve Bauer. Signed from Pelham Ontario Canada

@geoffthomson6602

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that was great as well, our cycling CDN hero and the reason I got into biking in the 1980's

Loving the Kirk Precision racing bike.