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- Alright guys, you ready for special ask GMBN?
- Yes.
- We've been for a ride, it's very cold.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- So, we are going to go through our
favorite videos the last couple of weeks
and answer any of the questions hopefully.
Right, Blake, this ones for you from Comment Channel,
whoever that is, talking about your fixie ride.
- Oh, yep.
- Horrible, isn't it terrible,
- It's pretty scary. It is.
- It's hilarious.
- Yeah, it's pretty scary. Another one coming soon.
- Well, Mr. Comment Channel says:
- That makes sense.
- I've nearly been over the bars trying
to ride a fixie from exactly that.
Forgetting it is a fixie and it bumps you
and you're like, "whoa!"
- I've had that a lot of times.
- I went to the Velodrome Manchester with the British
Downhill Team and Brendan Fairclough almost did that.
- Yeah, it's terrifying, never do one again.
- Looking forward to getting clipped in the turf,
face getting wiped out.
- OBESWINNY says:
- Yes, we can.
- I don't know if this is a good thing or not.
It's always funny.
- Yeah, it's a special one this year, very special one.
- DIEGORAD:
- What's the time?
(speaking in Shona)
- Was that a yes?
- What did you just say?
- I said, "Good afternoon, my friend.
"I speak a little bit, but I've forgotten a lot."
- That's Shona, is it?
- Yeah. It's probably like--
- Can we confirm you got that right because
- I haven't been back for like 16 years,
so it's good that I can kinda remember a bit.
- I feel you need to go back to the motherland.
- Right, I think I need that.
- It's probably a bit warmer.
- Let me know comments, if I should go back.
- For Doddy, Zachary Mildram:
well, actually it's all of us,
- It is, you've got to be pretty persistent
to be able to get enough hours in on the bike.
I think in the summer it's quite easy,
since you ride off to work.
You've got enough daylight, but winter
is definitely a lot harder.
- It's 2 PM now and it's getting dark.
- I think, it's getting older,
becoming an adult, like Blake,
- Aye!
- With children, it definitely is more difficult.
- I just blame it on the old wife.
- Yeah, true.
- Yours, yeah, you got a wife.
- I always go once a week, try to sneak another one here
and there, but, yeah, probably not much more
than a couple times a week.
- Yeah, that's about right, I think. It's tricky.
- Sam Walker 1234:
- I haven't got a bad hair day.
- We're all wearing hats though.
Yeah, its alright, passable.
- Standard.
- Sounds like a donkey is
taking the mickey out of your hair.
- Laughing at my hair.
- This one's for Doddy, Andrew M Hearn,
he rides a Norco 29 hardtail.
- Yeah, it's definitely possible.
You will invalidate your warranty 100%, straightaway.
And a lot of people tell you not to do it, but you could.
You could do it, to be fair,
I'd probably have a go at it myself.
You're on your own if you do that though, I think.
- True.
- Yeah, it's a brave move, but I know a lot of people
that have done it successfully.
- I wouldn't do it to a brand new bike.
- No.
- I'd do it to a bike that's like, out of work.
- Alright, got a few questions about the video I did
recently, actually, where I raced
Titouan Carod, the Cross Country Pro.
- Banjo Wells asks:
That's actually not clear in the video,
but I didn't make it round a full lap.
He caught me about 3/4 of the way around the first lap.
- [Doddy] That does not sound fast.
- [Neil] With a 2 minute head start as well.
- [Neil] So, yeah a lot faster.
- Eric Griffioen says:
I did see him spend a lot of time stood up.
I definitely like sitting down and grinding away,
but he was sprinting, stood up a lot,
I don't know about Titouan, I was using the lock out
all the time, to be fair, going between
the middle and the open.
I wasn't going full lock out.
What about you guys, do you run your lock out?
Do you use them?
- Well, I actually really like using a lock out,
since I've been riding the Scott, to be honest,
I've never really bothered before,
just opened with it but I really like the system.
- Yeah, I use it on my Genius, as well, my Scott Genius.
- I do think your right, especially when
you're stood up cranking.
To fully lock out a bike, does make a big difference.
- But, an interesting point is,
riding style affects things more, I think.
So, look at Nino.
When he's racing, he's out of the saddle loads.
Some of the other guys, some of the big guys,
Yoraslef Gohavi, he's seated quite a lot.
- He's got big powerful legs and he just sits there and
cranks down, so it does depend on your riding style.
- Now there's a bit of mixed opinions about the
skin wall tires on that BMC, the fourstrokes.
- No, skin walls are good.
- So Lance Hatch says:
Now, I agree with that.
I love the look of that bike, all black skin wall tires.
Whereas, Christopher Barnickle says:
Well they were in that video, of course.
- No, I disagree with that.
I think they're nice, but it is a personal thing.
- I like tan walls. It works--
- I feel like make a bike look longer, weirdly.
- Yeah. It works on a specific, like, it does work.
- OLY2468, another question about that BMC actually:
So, it only drops 80 mil, but I think that's enough.
- I think that's probably enough, isn't it?
It's a nice little bike.
- Just to get that saddle out of the way,
especially in tricky situations.
- It's not like you're really, really gonna be
soaking up jumps, as hard as you would be on other bikes,
so, I think that's probably alright.
I don't feel like it needs more.
- Well, I guess, a lot of the EXC World Cup Bikes, I saw,
it looked like they were running their saddles
a little bit lower than normal anyway.
- Yeah, true.
- Just to try and be able to pedal through rough stuff,
so, if you can accentuate that
at anytime it's gotta be quicker.
- Okay, one from Will is:
He's a 2011 Lapierre Spicy 216,
- I don't know, I'm in two minds for this.
I love having a bike and maintaining it
and looking after it and upgrading it.
But then also, if you keep it long enough,
you start having problems with new standards,
wider drop outs, all that sort of stuff.
- I think the biggest question here, you'll ask yourself,
Will, is are you one of those people that
likes having the coolest, newest kit?
That's why people would potentially
get rid of an old bike for a newer one.
But I don't think for a lot of people that's an issue.
- I think it's fine, you know, I'd probably carry on
with it, but that's a good point.
If you want to be that person with a new bike,
you gotta get a shot at your bikes quick,
to keep the value up.
- And there are a lot of people that want
the coolest, newest bike.
- Yeah, couple of years they'll get another one
just to stay with the times but, not for everyone.
Question about tires here from Mike Stevenson:
- There's loads that comes into that.
- There's lots, yeah. - Fitness as well as,
- Skill.
- For me it's big on fitness.
So, I looked at Sam Hill's bike at Finale,
he had some big, soft, rubber tires,
and I wouldn't have been fit enough to pedal those tires
round the loop, even if I could have
potentially made time on the stages.
- So, the fit you are, the grip your tires,
and the slower tires you use.
- You get away with that.
- Personally, I also sort think
about how fast can you corner?
Are you gonna be using all the grip
you've got on that tire or potentially could you
get away with a faster rolling tire?
- I bet Sam uses every bit of that grip.
- Yeah, I bet he absolutely does.
- Inside line all the time.
- I rely on a faster tire to be honest.
- I most of the time go for a faster tire.
- Yeah, I think I would go the same.
- But that's a tough question.
- Make it easier for yourself.
- Yeah, on those climbs.
- Yeah, get your skills and they also that
you can push that potentially less grippy tire to the max.
Nice one, thanks for your questions.
This was a bit of a special Ask GMBN this week,
out in the open, but next week we'll be
back in the shed, so leave your questions below
this video and we'll try and get back to ya.
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- I reckon we'll put your jumping video there
- Oh, yeah, learn to jump.
- Blake, your common mistakes. Super good one there.
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