World’s Steepest Climb Vs World’s Best Climber: Can He Defeat It?

[Music] i'm back at the hardest climb in the world and this time i've brought the world's best climber that's right gcn's very own stig slash twig and number one ranked climber on strava andrew feather with sustained gradients over 40 percent this climb the scanupia in trento italy is pure torture and if multiple hill climb champion andrew feather can't make it up this then well there's no hope for the rest of humanity yep we are back at the scanupia but for those of you who didn't see the last video i came here and tried to ride up it and said if the video gets 10 000 likes we'd come back here with feather well you guys liked the video and so here we are back at the foot of this seven kilometer wall with sustained sections as steep as 40 is killer feather may be one of the best natural born climbers on the planet but this climb is so ridiculously hard i'm not convinced he's going to be able to make it up so before i set him off i'm so glad it's him and not me before i set him off let me show you the special bike that he's going to be attempting it on to ride up gradients this horrifically steep demands a lot of your equipment fortunately campagnolo and pinarello have helped us out with some pretty special kit so i mean to check out this absolute stunner the primary things you need from a bike to do this are super wide tires so you have plenty of traction and grip and then also big easy gears the secondary things are for the bike to be stiff because you're dealing with quite high torque loads and just as light as possible so we've opted for the pinnarello gravel f which is pinarello's high performance gravel bike it's essentially the off-road gravel version of the dogma f road bike it's aero features like the the fork flap and the special shape tubes aren't coming into play here today but other things are it's got loads of tyre clearance up to 50 mil wide tires we've got 45s fitted also the stack height is slightly higher on this bike compared to the road frame which means you're a bit more upright which is nice for when you're climbing and you've got a slightly longer geometry which makes the bike a bit more stable with a bigger fork rake so you've got more front center and when you're weaving up the super steep parts of the of the climb having that extra front center means you're less likely to catch the the front wheel on the front of your foot when you're pedaling around it it really does make the bike feel much nicer we've paired the frame with campagnolo levante wheels which tick all the boxes of what we need here today say they're 25 millimeters internal width which is ideal for our wide tyre needs they sit really nice they're tubeless as well which means we can run those tires at lower pressure which means added grip you've also got no rim tape in the designs they're just really nicely made so no rim tape required helps keep the weight down you've got 24 spokes front and rear in a two cross lacing pattern which helps uh make the wheels really stiff but they're still light just 1485 grams a pair which is only a touch heavier than like the road wheels but i know what you're here for you want to hear the free up sound check cup and cone bearings in these bad boys [Music] smooth love those cupping cones we've also got campagnolo's ecar gravel group set on here so we can fit much easier gears than you can on a road bike so we've got a 38 tooth chain ring at the front and a 44 tooth big ring at the back which is actually considerably easier gearing than i had i had a 40 at the front and a 42 at the back so if feather makes up today that's why it's not because he's better than me it's because he had a easier gearing that's my story and i'm sticking to it [Music] this is it we're at the bottom feather it's time for your date with destiny how you feeling i think it's gonna be hard i think it is as well you're gonna make it up i'm not sure to be honest uh we'll give it give him our best shot brilliant right well i'll i'll count you in and then you can you can go okay right you ready yep um oh by the way if you do make it to the top there's some fantastic gravel trails this will be absolutely perfect you'll have a great time excellent yeah three two one go oh he's gonna die [Music] this feels right this is not too bad [Music] oh straight into it for those of you who didn't see our first video this climb is seven kilometers long with an average gradient of 18 however that is very deceptive there is a crazy section of three kilometers which averages 22 and features pictures of 45 we've even measured 48 on the inside of some of the corners it really is the hardest paved climb we've ever come across and feather is flying although he's no idea how ridiculous it gets around the next corner oh my god [Music] [Music] oh it's so hard [Music] ah [Music] ah another happen actually this is the last happen i want to see [Music] [Music] so [Music] how far [Music] nice nice traction on the tyres just under a thousand meters elevation [Applause] for 39 minutes on the clock [Music] [Music] [Music] oh that was by far the hardest climb i've ever done that middle section was just i didn't put my feet down but i was so close to so close to another 100 meters and i would have been off uh yeah just relentless i mean it just went on and on about 30 percent even more than you know it's peeking out probably i saw 44 on my wahoo and i've never seen that before it's just it was just incredibly steep and just just relentless and it was it was probably harder by the fact that it was just so hot today you know i certainly wouldn't have got it got up here on on my ordinary road bike so you know i think it's i think it's probably time to uh to head down and see ollie and let him know have we done there he is ah how was that absolutely savage did you make it to top without putting your foot down i did yeah no way i did yeah no no no i was really pleased it was it was absolutely brutal by far the hardest climb i've ever ridden it was just relentless all the way up it was just so steep um i'm glad you said that yeah and i don't i you know it's clear that with an ordinary bike i wouldn't be announced to it so yeah um i think the gears really helped you know on those steep bits which were around 45 percent on the apex of the benz it's just it was just horrible i was another 100 years old i'd have i think i would have uh started walking i can't believe i mean hats off to you fair one that's ridiculous you made me look rubbish as well but the only reason you could do it is because you had easier gears on than me otherwise i would have done it well there you have it feather says it's the hardest climb he's ever done it's the hardest we've ever found but if you know something harder then let us know in the comments section because we we will come and we will have a go at riding it but this is definitely the hardest thing we've found and i've just checked online and um well feathers he's only gonna got the kom hasn't he course he has but like last time we said if we got ten thousand likes would bring feather we did that right we're gonna up the stakes if we get a hundred thousand likes on this one then we'll we'll we'll try and bring down lloyd down get down lloyd's right he's past his best so he really doesn't want to do it so we need a lot of likes i hope you've enjoyed this vid thumbs up and love you bye

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Length: 10min 59sec (659 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 14 2022