Is This Really What We Want? | The GCN Show Ep. 249

On this week’s GCN show we’ve got triathlon bikes, cyclocross dominance, and some really quite intelligent bike lights.

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With the Ironman world championships in Kona last weekend, we have been seeing some weird and wonderful tech from the triathlon world. But should the UCI allow some of this tech to be used in road racing?

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Mathieu Van der Poel has continued to assert his dominance in the world of cyclocross, winning the prestigious Zonhoven round of the Superprestige series

This week in cycling shorts includes a backwards cycling juggler, the bicycle index, and a new film about MAMILs

In tech news this week we have got some seriously innovative lights from SeeSense, that actually learn your riding style so they can be more effective

Sam Bennett won 4 stages at the Tour of Turkey, Nathan Elliott won the Warnambool Classic, and Bahrain Merida rider Ivan Cortina won the final round of the Red Hook Criterium Series in Milan.

This week’s viewer Wattage Bazooka went to Rachael Elliot for her stupendous power in a Zwift time trial

As always we’ve got some truly unique creations in Hack/Bodge this week, including a teddy bear saddle, and a garmin mount seatpost clamp!

And in Extreme Corner there are some seriously fast trikes in the Red Bull Trike Strike.

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