- Welcome back, you beautiful people.
Don't you wish you could ride like a pro,
your favorite rider? And you wish you could look like them?
Or even just achieve a little bit above them in your riding
or on your bike or in yourself?
Well, I'm going to give you tips on how to achieve this.
(techno music)
- Man, you've got to look super fresh when on the trails.
Can't go out looking like this. I need to freshen up.
Whoa! Yes! You got to look pro and I'm going to like
my favorite rider. Neil Donoghue, obviously.
Fresh jersey, fresh gloves, fresh socks,
I'm clipped in. Neil gets clipped in.
So I'm going to ride clipped in but if you don't know
how to ride clips, I wouldn't recommend following everything
but I'm going to everything.
Fresh helmet, now I just need a bike.
What bike am I going to choose?
Right, I'm all fully kitted up, in the right fritz.
And I look pro, I feel pro. I feel like Neil, you know.
Like chose him cause he's my favorite rider, you know,
cause for obvious reasons.
But you don't want to get too far
you don't want to be the factory guy, or do you?
We're all want to be a free, cool, pro dude.
Nah, it's all well and good, sat on the side of the trail
looking all fresh in your nice threads man and chilling out
but you need a rake.
Now this can get expensive.
Now, what did Neil have? What does he ride?
Hmm. I like that one, his Downhill bike.
Nah, what about his Mega? I love my Mega.
But I've got a Mega. What about, isn't Cross Country back?
No, hell no! Ooh, that one.
The Strive.
Oh, that bike!
Yeah!
This Strive, yes,
but you know, like I said
it can get a little bit expensive, you can't really
go out there and buy a pro's bike because sometimes
you can't even buy those things, it's priceless,
it's just for them, signature colors, it's like Neil's
got the most expensive Strive in the market.
I can't afford that! I can get this, though.
It's kind of similar. Now I've got the same rig.
Let's go to shred this machine or just pose
on the trail and be like, heyo, man, look at my fresh rig
I look like Neil. Nah, let's go and shred.
Right, if you don't want to go out there and spend your
hard earned cash on a new rig, just to look like your
favorite rider, like Neil, then just spice up that rig
of yours, man. Make it super unique to you,
make it look pro.
Now, I've done a little bit of spicing up on my rig.
Take a look at this, I've got the GMBN, all mountain-frame
protecting kit that we sell at our local store. Merch.
There in the right top corner if you want to go get that.
But, look at this. I've got the Maori kit,
now that's different.
I haven't seen a Strive out there with that on it.
That looks pro. It looks pro.
Okay, so there's two types of riding like a pro.
There's all flat out speed demon,
going fast and being gnarly.
Or, it's just plain and old being super steezy on the trail.
And that means just like style with ease.
Just having some fun, popping some manuals,
hitting some turns, being super flowy. And speed on the
other hand is exactly what it says on the tin.
Flat out fast, looking gnarly, just going horribly fast
through some narrow trees.
Now, we're going to kick it off with the steezy one
because it's super flowy, I love a bit of flow,
I love a bit of steeze.
(techno music)
- Okay. I love Neil's riding style.
Now, Neil is a Downhill racer, he thrives on
this sort of terrain. I hate it.
But I've learned a few things from Neil.
Because I like to follow him. Cause I want to ride like him.
Cause I want to be pro, like Neil.
Now, I've seen a few lines, I'm going to get these lines.
I want to go as fast as I can to my comfortable speed,
and try and do these gaps on the rock section,
just because I want to be like Neil.
(music)
- Neil's about--oh, my gosh. Neil's about speed.
Oh, scary.
Oh my God.
Phwhoa, jump.
More rocks.
You know, we're always striving to be a super pro,
like look like a pro. Trying to ride like a pro.
Now, I like Neil's Donoghue's riding, like he's super smooth
when it comes to horrible, rocky sections.
He's like--he's like riding a magic carpet.
Like I'm going to try that. Yeah, it probably won't look
like I'm on a magic carpet, so I'm going to try going down
on this trail here. It's a black,
it's called Deep Navigation, I'm going to deeply navigate
myself through this trail. It's going to be really horrible.
I hate it, but I want to be like Neil. So I'm going to try it.
Wish me luck. No punnies, please.
Oh, my gosh.
(Techno music)
- Enough riding in the woods and enough shredding,
enough super fast and looking like your favorite rider
out there in the whole world, like myself, like Neil.
It's all about social media, as well, cause there's
pros are always on that social media,
they're always on there.
Flicking through, basically showing off
to the rest of the world, like look how good I am.
Look what I'm doing, and that actually helps inspire others
like I'm inspired.
I'm looking up Neil now, I'm going through Instagram going
whoa, I need to do more of this.
Yeah, you want to build your social appeal,
you want to build that audience because those people
are going to be watching you and they want to be like you.
Tables turn. You want to be a pro? You end up being a pro.
The next guy, or the next person, wants to be like you.
So, you're just going to build that.
Build that all the way through your career.
Because it can help you. But it's not all glamor.
Because it takes a long time sometimes to nail
a certain trick, especially for a video just like this one.
We interrupt this broadcast for this manualing interlude.
(music)
- Try and manual through here in
all the way down there, dude.
(music)
- Argh. I've got it, Jack. Don't worry. I've got it.
(music)
- Six go lucky!
Seventh time lucky! Come on.
No!
Eighth time lucky.
Eight's still my lucky number. Ninth time.
Not quite Nico Vinc, but I'll take it.
Or shall we have one more go? Tenth time lucky.
All right. Yeah.
Eleventh time!
Oh, nearly.
(bike brake screech)
- Oh, off. I'm going to call it. These big wheels eat my bum.
Let's move on. Let's go do a manual somewhere else.
Cause, eleventh time, and I can't do it.
Well, you just can't get it all the time, can you?
It's social media, can't get it.
I'll probably land it now, without the camera even watching.
Actually, no, I did land, just didn't get any in.
Just, yeah, just faked it.
Jack: Go on, did it one more go.
- Watch this.
Oh my God! I did it! Ha-ha-ha-ha.
I actually did it, Jack.
Yeah!
- Whoa. That, my friends, took me a while. In actually,
I it conquered me, I did it right at the end, but, hey.
Did it still. It's up on social. Done. Been super proactive.
Now I feel like Neil.
Ah, look like pro my bike is. My bike is more fresh
than I am, but that means that's a good sign, dude.
That is a good sign. Now that's a few tips on how
to be a little bit more pro in yourself,
out there on the trail.
It just helps you in--get inspired, and spices up your
ride, spices up your life as well
and just being a little bit
more pro, help you follow or be one of your pros.
Just a little bit. Like, I'm pretty tired being Neil
right now because he's too flat out,
it's all about speed with him.
Anyway, hope for this top chart, if you want to carry on
watch GMBN, start binge-watching just this one over here.
It's a video on how to be a pro, or life as a pro.
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