 So, if you've just landed on this channel, I am currently at BMC head offices in Switzerland and today I'm very lucky I get to ride with a pro cyclist. I've been a pro cyclist for 17 years, he's currently working out his average wattages for 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 20 minutes so he can share it with us and we're just going to go for a cruise and then I've asked him as a lead out man and he's going to share with us surely who he leads out, can he try and lead me out but more importantly can I hold his wheel as opposed to coming around him. Tell us, who do you lead out? Nowadays I lead out Greg Van Avermaet and Ben O'Connor in Australian. My two leaders in the old days I was leading out Kedel Evans, which was a lot of fun when we went to tour together in 2011 and he got the yellow jersey. So tell us what's your best power or your power for 1 minute? My 1 minute is **** and then I got on 5 minutes **** then 10 minutes is **** and 20 minutes is **** Now apologies I had to beep that out. Mickey found out after recording team protocols don't allow them to share their data which is understandable but we tried so if you appreciate the fact that we tried don't forget to give the video a like and hopefully my reaction will demonstrate to you how many watts we're talking about here. Holy **** ****. There we go on a short ride and yeah I think we have a goal to drop you from the wheel which is mostly not my goal. My leader should suppose to stay on my wheel as long as possible. Right. So today we changed roles a little bit. Yes and how are you going to do that? We're going to go uphill. You don't think you can drop me on the flats? I find that surprising. No I'm convinced I cannot drop you on the flat. Is that because you're too tall? Too much of a windbreak. How tall are you? 1 meter 98 tall 6 foot 5. Wow. And that's so much draft behind I think you're gaining 30% or you're spending less 30% on your watts so I think on the flat it's impossible to drop you. Maybe a little drag 3, 4, 5% or a proper climb. So 6'5". How much do you weigh? 77 kilos. 77 kilos. Let's go. Just when you don't want to be a hubbid with a pro, your cleat comes loose. You wouldn't rate about it. All three screws loose. I do every year 37,000 kilos of these. I've never seen this. So out of all the Aussies you could love, which one did you just bring up? Yeah the other guy with the tall as me skinny guy. Almost different. Yeah different kids. I love him. And what does he do? Follow him when he attacks he makes boom boom boom. How are I today? Say thank you to your shoes. Have a look at these babies. I've got a tag on it. Boom boom boom. So as we get going here, I wanted to thank Mickey for his time and if you missed our chat together where Mickey shares how training has changed over the past 17 years and why the Elite Pros are getting stronger younger, there will be a thumbnail at the end of this video you can click on to watch that piece. So on the screen from left to right you can see the time clock so we can see see how long I'm going to last on Mickey's wheel. The course for this lead out where there's a sharp hairpin, which I genuinely did not know was coming up until the last minute. And it's now a corner that will haunt me for years to come. We have cadence, speed in kilometers per hour. And you'll see we hover around 50 kilometers per hour, which is circa 31 miles per hour. We have power, heart rate, where my max is around 183, I thought. And you'll see us go over that before I get dropped. And strangely, I hit 180 out of the blocks, which I feel could be a data artifact. And finally, we have gradient. And for all those data geeks out there that want to know my numbers, I am 179 centimeters in height, currently 79 kilograms. And an FTP of around 350 watts, give or take 10 watts either side, depending on form. So Mickey was right. He's a monster windshield, and I'm sitting on his wheel without feeling like I'm going to get popped. Sitting in the draft, I can appreciate why. He's had 17 years in the game as a rider for the GC guys. However, the rough 30% more power he's producing than me right now, it's gonna hurt a lot when we hit this corner and go up the hill. So this corner we're about to turn into, turns into my second big cock up for the ride after the shoe incident. So I feel better about myself. Let me give you a little bit of context as to why this happened the way it did. I know I cares your buddy excuses, dickhead. Number one, I didn't know there was a corner involved in this lead out dropping. In fact, not only is it a corner, it's actually a hairpin. Number two, there is a car coming down the road we're about to turn into. You can't see it on camera yet, but I knew it was coming. Number three, I'm on unfamiliar roads, riding on the wrong side of the road. For me anyway. And number four, suffering from a fair bit of jet lag and I'm also slightly hung over. So all those things combined, my split second decision was Mickey was gonna take it nice and easy into the corner, enabling me to re-establish myself on the wheel as we came out of that hairpin, but he didn't. He ripped it into the corner and ripped it out. So by silly split second decision, now leaves me looking like a fair old peanut, dropping the wheel with a lot of catching up to do. And it was a fair old 900 watt effort to get back on the wheel and an effort that has left me close to max heart rate while having to pump out what is essentially an anaerobic effort to maintain wheel contact. And I feel Mickey, he could sense my heavy breathing. He let me suffer for a while and then decided to step it up a notch. Back up over 600 watts and I'm now heading for a new on-road max heart rate. The last time my max heart rate was this high, I was doing some stupid YouTube challenge on an indoor trainer and overheated and overreached. But this, my friends, is outside in the cool Swiss air. So as my heart rate exceeds max, hopefully we could all appreciate why I got dropped and why I sound like I'm being penetrated. So now let's have a look at my today's plan data, a software we use at the Road Cycling Academy to analyze athletes data. And here you can see my sustained effort after the initial spike on the flat, where I truly got to use Mickey as a shield with circa 400 watts. And after that initial spike up the hill, we're talking closer to 550 watts to hold Mickey's wheel. So all up for this dropping, I lasted roughly two minutes 40 of which one minute was uphill. So what did Mickey have to say about all this? What was your strategy there in the corner? It was lovely. It's actually what I'm doing since all my career. What's that? Riding hard into a climb and then try to go as fast as possible around the corner to make the guys behind the suffer. Yes. Because it's all about the position. Yes. And then kick right from the bottom of the climb. And that's what I did with you today. I put my experience on the game because I'm a little bit in off-season mood. Yes. So I didn't want to go too long on the climb. Yes. So I tried to make it kick hard right from the corner. What's it called? Bang bang. The bang bang. Nice. Thanks for the ride, mate.