whoo
welcome back guys today we're in Leadville Colorado at 10,000 feet the
oxygen is thin and we're doing a gravel ride in fact it's 65 miles it's
something I don't normally do I got my buddy Ed holding the camera he's riding
with me today we're out on the gravel bikes come check these bikes out this is
Ed's adventure bike and Ed's got a pretty cool setup unlike mine I've got
33 millimeter tires in old pole brakes this is gonna be interesting for me
today really slow at stopping and I really got to make my line choice as
well Ed's got a better set up a little newer
bike it's got the disc rotors 2.1 tires more of a mountain by gearing setup so
you got the Shimano XT stuff d re cranks my buddy ed up here you've seen ed
before he's been a lot of my videos we're gonna hit the trails hopefully get
some adventures we're gonna be seeing a lot of cool stuff out on the trails like
this old hotel there's actually another hotel down the way and just a lot of
beautiful scenery out here mountains are still kind of snow-capped and it's about
a week away from AH June which is really weird for Colorado we're just having a
really bad winner yeah let's get to it just started off the journey leaving
from Twin Lakes right here
these felder pretty cool
so we getting kind of a mix today uh it's kinda a singletrack so it's a
little bit technical get a little bit of G pro dirt roads I think a little bit of
paid really mixes it up let's see working on a lot of different skills
especially being on a totally rigid cyclocross bike with pull brakes and
like you know 33 millimeter tires it isn't a whole lot of forgiveness I hear
so needs to pay attention to line choices
we're coming across Twin Lakes right now Twin Lakes is ruining pretty dry we
can't wait for that snowpack to melt off and so upset blow up the lake here
whoo
all right ed so where where are we at on this 65 mile ride about 11 miles in 11
miles in north towards Leadville and we're gonna catch some dirt road a
little bit of single track catch the pipeline in the turquoise lap around
turquoise head on back we just got done with kind of a single track portion of
this coming down off a twin lakes now it's gonna be mostly like dirt roads
jeep roads I think it's a few small sections of a single track right it yes
yeah and we might catch some pave road - but yeah this view is just spectacular
out here I mean it's beautiful love it look at the Snow Peak mountains back
there still snow in the mounds in June almost
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and keep all my weight back pedal these bars so we're taking a little fuel break
if you love choice today era boo bulls bears so good
the food parts of our gravel granny you never know what's coming up this is
speed
so we're about a third of the way to a turquoise lake the weather is blowing in
it's feeling good and now he got this huge water feature we got to get around
for about a few miles finally from turquoise lake which is the
turnaround point for us today so Eddie's back here what do you think Eddie it
says what 40 more miles to go well yeah kind of close that on the way back so
it's brutal man but scenery is still great still feeling pretty good are we
so far just drop it into turquoise snake over here still frozen over pretty crazy
this Fanta just about to be getting a junior right
we're gonna weigh around the atop a turquoise lake ain't never be the
halfway point and then Waverly backs
so up here around 10,000 feet in Leadville snow is still everywhere gosh
that's got to be about 4 foot of snow over there
pretty crazy
climbed up to turquoise lake we're on the way back out got kind of cold on the
way up got some some snow and some sleet a little bit of wind and we're just
about to the point where we're gonna turn right back around and head out
we're about 50 miles in tell you what I am definitely starting to feel the legs
but just been really nice we're totally cooled down how you
feeling it II do another 60 I could do another 60
well we're 50 and so getting closer so
we got a huge thunderstorm that's starting to roll in right and we got
about 10 more miles and so we're back so we're out in the middle of nowhere
hopefully we beat the storm before it starts raining on us
33 zon these hurt
now
we just finished the last two three mile climb brutal started raining on us but
I'd saved you guys the the torture watching that long climb up about four
miles out from the car so just about there
basically all rode all rode on the way back
let's do it again tomorrow
so we're at the last little segment here a mile out the car store
roben here for them in the cloud Suns trying to fall through but it's not
gonna happen
and I am beat yes we just made it back Eddie's over here it was an epic
adventure it is pouring on us right now all right so we just made it back that
was 65 miles of epicness dirt roads paved roads single track you name it we
did it and it was tough thanks for hanging around thanks for checking out
the channel if you guys like this type of content the gravel grinding content
let me know down in the comments I'm soapy that was like eight hours on
the bike 65 miles we'll catch you guys on the next ride