- Welcome back you beautiful people.
Now we've done a video like this before
but there is so many more bad habits
out there in mountain biking.
So we are going to run through a few of them
and show you, so you can eliminate them from your biking.
- Get rid of them
- Get rid of them - Gone!
- Gone - Don't need 'EM no more.
- Let's kick it off with this one.
- (grunting) Richard!
- What's up now?
- My gears always skip when I--
- You got to learn how to use them.
You're always moaning! - Don't you start--
- Complaining about your bike.
It's important to remember
what mountain bikes used to look like.
Rigid, heavy
and with minimal gearing.
These bikes were capable of riding pretty much
the same sort of terrain the majority of us ride today,
albeit in a bit less comfort.
- I can't hack it anymore, Rich.
- Come on! - NO!
- What? - I've just had enough!
- [Narrator] So if your excuse
is that your bike isn't good enough,
you should cast your gaze back a couple of decades.
It's just an excuse
and it's all in your head.
- (groaning)
- [Narrator] You need water when you ride.
It's a simple fact.
When you exert energy you sweat,
and that moisture needs to be replaced.
So why would you not bring a long enough water?
- Mouth's like cotton!
Help!
I'm so parched.
I need to get water.
Water, puddle!
- [Narrator] If storage is an issue
and your bike doesn't have room for a cage,
then just bite the bullet and get a pack.
Keep your body happy and you won't need to suffer,
like this fellow.
- Ah, dizzy, dizzy spells.
Did I hear a bike? Richard!
- Take it, I'm going.
(dramatic inspiring music)
(belches)
- Would you, can I just take a pic here, would you mate?
- No, you've just taken one down there.
- Come on, just one for the bike vault.
Bike vault, quick one, come on.
- You took one down there.
- [Narrator] While we all love sharing images
of our shiny new bikes, the most techy tech,
or our latest riding achievement on social media.
But we shouldn't get obsessed.
What we all really want to do Is just ride,
so put that phone away, and get out on the trails.
(fast paced rock music)
(classical music)
- What the hell are you doing?
- Sorry boss.
Just on my phone.
- But you were pushing up the trail!
- Yeah, but I didn't know what-
- There's the push up, right there.
- [Narrator] One of the best ways
to get into a bad situation really quickly
is to walk up a downhill track.
We know that sometimes a trail is so good
you want to immediately ride it again,
and going up where you came down
might sound like an okay idea.
But it's not.
Some trails are lucky enough to have a walking section
on the side of the downhill track.
But if that isn't the case,
take the long way up, and keep everyone safe.
(whooping)
- You killing it, stop that!
You're killing it, you're killing the track.
- Yeah! High five!
- Uh, No! - Why?
- Look, I'm having so much fun!
- No, you're skidding!
- No skidding. - Why not?
- 'cause, stop throwing your arms up!
You're killing the trails!
- Aw come on. - No, killing them!
No, down!
- High five! - Yeah, okay, go on then!
- No! - Aw come on!
- No! I don't even want to ride with you,
'cause that it just damaging tracks.
Doing it in corners, you did it on rollers,
you're killing stuff.
- I'm having fun! - Murderer!
- I struggle with standards.
- There's a lot of them out there.
- Industry standards that is.
I'm telling you, industry standards, I cannot keep up.
- They do my nut in, mate.
- Like boost, 29, 27, 26, 24? - Yeah.
- You got boost hub. - I hate it.
- Bottom brackets, there's all sorts,
it's a pain in the ass now.
- [Narrator] None of us like the fact
that some standards almost make your bikes obsolete.
But the whole point of new standards
is to make newer and greater products for us to ride.
And there's really no pressure to go out
and buy the newest and greatest.
The bike industry is always progressing
and developing new core products,
and standards are a part of that.
(slurping)
- There's something wrong with my tea.
- Let's see.
Yeah, the tea bag's still in it.
- Oh that's correct, yeah, standard.
- Thank you watching.
We've managed to point out a few bad habits
and hopefully help you eliminate them, hey?
- Yeah, eliminate them,
'cause they're terrible and make you bad.
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- See you, cheers.
- Do it.