- Blake, what do you think of fat bikes?
- Martyn, I absolutely love fat bikes.
This is like one of my best bikes I've ever owned.
- Well that is very good news.
'Cause today, we're going street riding on fat bikes.
Can you ride street on a fat bike?
- I actually don't know.
This thing is designed for certain terrains, isn't it?
- Yeah well, snow, sand, that's what it's been designed for.
But we're gonna see if we can push it today.
- Yes.
- Work with its limitations.
- I'm up for that.
- And amplify its strengths.
- I know a few good spots, do you?
- Dude, let's go.
- Oh yeah.
- We're gonna have it.
Boy them steps are big.
Like what about like trying to just ride through them?
You know, use the fat bike to just ride.
Look, like three sets.
- Just ride to the top. - Just ride the lot of them.
I'm scared you're gonna get punctured,
'cause you wouldn't be able to do that on a normal bike.
- Maybe e-bike.
- Like right now, just ride through.
- Sure I can. - All right.
- Oh my God.
- Wow!
- That was easy.
Now you gotta come down with style.
Take it off the bottom.
That's not style.
- [Blake] Oh, that's nice.
- Can you come down them like mega fast?
Down hill speed?
Like clack clack clack.
You know, like clack, clack, clack, clack.
Send it, fast as you dare!
(heavy metal music)
(laughing)
Woohoo!
(claps)
I reckon you could go up with only pumping.
- You reckon?
- You're doing the first two sets so smooth.
- It's hard when I lose speed.
- Come on.
Pump it all the way up.
Look at that crazy boat.
Oh yes, speed's good.
Easy!
Fat bikes are unreal, aren't they?
Wow, that's amazing!
- Yeah.
Fat bikes are insane.
Last step, last step, last step.
- That's nice.
I like that a lot.
All right, next spot.
- Next spot.
- Let's go. - This is fun.
There's a gap there.
- Oh yeah. - It's pretty big.
- I see this one.
- Yeah, it's pretty big.
Oh dude, you gotta try it. - It's like two bike lengths.
Two bike lengths?
Two bike lengths, 'cause I'll have to land two bike lengths.
- I think you could do that.
It looks big but I think you've got it.
- I think that it's on.
Should we gap it?
- Have a roll at it.
- Roll at it.
- Offer it up.
- Right.
- It's tricky as well.
'Cause Blake's gonna have to land, like on a narrow thing
as well as gap a big thing.
It's gonna be hard.
It probably looks better from there than here.
- [Blake] I dunno.
Yeah, actually.
The speed I'm going.
- Once you've hopped your bike up in turn,
you've done a normal bunny hop.
- [Blake] Yeah.
- You're there with your back wheel, easily.
- [Blake] Easily.
- Like if you did a lame bunny hop off that,
you'd land here.
- We're flying up.
All right just envision.
- All you gotta think about
is make sure your front makes it.
- Yeah, exactly.
Imagine.
Oh no, oh no.
- The most important thing is you land front high.
(Blake laughs)
- Yeah.
- If you're not gonna make it.
- I reckon I could bunny hop it.
- I think you're gonna do it easy.
You just gotta commit to the speed big time down here.
- Big time.
- Well, you can't deny he's brave.
Oh my God.
Easy.
(laughs)
- Let's try, let's try it again.
I've got something in mind.
- Oh yeah?
- Potentially. - All right.
Maybe keep your eyes on the landing.
We could be looking at a bit of a manual landing.
(hip hop music)
- I reckon I got it though. - Go on, have a go.
(hip hop music)
Hop to skid's pretty good.
- I reckon I can do it. - I don't think you can do it.
- Shall we move on?
- That usually works, to be fair.
Awww.
Hop to manual.
So flippin' close.
And here he comes, a slight jump into gear,
and he hops to manual.
I think we can give him that one.
I think we can give him it.
Yes, yes Zimbabwe is delighted,
along with Blake Samson, their one and only rider.
The only man on the planet who could have done this.
And the emotions have come through now.
Sampson on fire.
- Thank you so much everyone for supporting me.
I'm actually crying, I made it super emotional out of it.
- Next riding spot.
- Do you reckon I could bunny hop
and stop just before the end? (laughs)
- That would be hilarious.
- Should I try that?
- That would be pretty funny, I'd say.
- Like jump, yeah it's a fat bike.
- Fat bike super grip.
- Watch this. - Oh you've got to stop it.
I'll tell you what, let's make it definite.
I'm gonna park at the end.
So you have to stop.
(laughter)
- You know, this is testy.
- I'm putting myself on the line here.
If he doesn't stop, oh my God, this is terrifying.
- [Blake] You ready?
- Wait a minute, you're at the end.
Full speed ahead.
(screams)
(laughs)
- I thought I wasn't gonna stop.
- It really didn't look like it was gonna work.
- No it didn't. I was like, oh my God.
- Fat bikes have got some grip.
Thank God.
- Thank goodness for that, dudes.
- Let's go somewhere else. - Next spot.
- Let's go to this one now.
(laughing)
- Drop in, drop in.
- [Blake] I see it.
- [Martyn] Straight in that bank.
- You've seen this one before.
- [Martyn] That was so scary.
- Oh my goodness, me.
I thought I actually wasn't gonna stop.
Imagine, it would have plowed into you.
- You've gotta try this drop on the fat bike.
I know you've done it before. - Yeah, I've done it before.
- Putting style into the fat bike could be quite hard.
- Yeah, there's some big wheels, eh?
Lovely day.
- [Martyn] I'd like to see that.
- [Blake] Droppin' in, on the fatty.
- [Martyn] Here he comes, crazy (bleep).
- [Blake] Oh yeah, oh.
- [Camera Man] Did you get it, Martyn?
- I got it.
- [Blake] That looks.
That is a sick 10,000 likes on Martyn's Instagram.
- Should I put it on Instagram now?
See if I can get 10,000 likes on it?
(hip hop music)
(skidding)
- [Martyn] Yes.
- That's a big, that's a nice gap.
I like that gap.
- That's a successful piece.
Look, we've already got 144 likes on the post.
- Oh, and it's only been four seconds.
That's not bad.
- That's not bad. - That's not bad.
- That's good going.
- That means I got down here in four seconds.
That's pretty clever.
- That is pretty clever.
- Shall we go on to the next bit?
'Cause I've got a feeling there's a bit
of a wall right down there.
(claps) - We need a wall all right.
- It is that way, I think. Yeah, down here.
- I think it is.
- Come on, fat bike.
I've got more for you.
- So you're going to call me fat then? (Martyn laughs)
- [Martyn] Fancy bit of park.
- [Blake] Oh look man, yea, a park is something interesting.
- [Martyn] There will be something there.
- [Blake] Shall we go?
- [Martyn] Yes, go have a look at that. Look at that slide.
- [Blake] I hope there's no dog poo here.
- [Martyn] A playground mate, instant challenges.
- [Blake] Oh look at this!
Look at this.
I'll just ride down it.
- [Martyn] Maybe give it a roll,
and then maybe give it a manual.
- [Blake] Manual?
- [Martyn] Manny.
- [Blake] I think that's on, dude.
- Manual, manual!
- [Blake] You're acting up.
- [Martyn] You gotta manual it, man. That is perfect.
(laughs)
- [Martyn] Have another go at getting up it.
- [Blake] Getting up it?
- Have another go at getting up it.
That looks pretty difficult.
- [Blake] 'Cause you can't pedal going up it,
you gotta strike on the side.
- You gotta get all the speed at the bottom.
And get a proper pump off that bottom piece.
- [Martyn] Oh yes.
Yes.
(laughter)
That fat bike works well for that.
- The fat bike is the best for this at the moment.
- Do a stopping down it.
- Stopping?
- Stopping in.
- [Martyn] Yes, yes.
Oh nice!
Yes.
Mate, manual time.
- Scary time. - C'mon, just go for it.
It's full commitment.
- [Martyn] Whoa.
- [Blake] See, that's what I was worried about.
- [Martyn] Whoa.
Ohhh.
(laughs)
Go on, go on.
Whoa.
Go on, dude.
Go on, I want this, I want this.
Yeah.
Wow.
I like the hop in. - [Blake] You like the hop in?
- Two more.
You should never say one more, really,
'cause people think it's bad luck.
Never believed in it myself, but it is a thing.
Lots of riders don't want to hear "one more go."
'Cause it's always the last one where you do yourself in.
Good luck, Blake!
- [Martyn] That was (bleep) hot.
Oh my God, that was good.
No messing, that was good.
That was well done.
- [Blake] That was good, wasn't it?
- [Martyn] That was well done.
- [Blake] I kept hitting it.
I was like rev up!
- [Martyn] I was like no, no, no, yes.
Right, I spotted the rocks.
- Rocks.
- You can't have not seen them. Look at them.
- That's the thing when you go out with mine, you do trials.
- Can the fat bike do trials?
- [Martyn] Aw, look at these.
- [Blake] Look at that.
- [Martyn] It's a simple challenge, isn't it?
- [Blake] Well.
- [Martyn] Can you get from one end
to the other on the fat bike?
Can the fat bike do trials?
- [Blake] That's quite, that rock, that third rock
looks like, no fourth rock looks like.
- [Martyn] Yeah, but dude I've got this, right?
You just break it up into little bits.
- Yeah, I've broken these, this first one in.
- It's like, that's one move.
Front on to that one, then you can stop.
Next one, stop.
That one, you've got space on to really pause,
and get this last bit right.
Back roll, back roll out.
- [Blake] Yeah.
- High five.
- High five at the end.
High, not hi.
- At the end.
- Oh, yeah, true.
- Just think about doing a second hop
once you're on it.
Get on it, hop again.
Hop.
Yes.
- [Blake] Oh it's hard, quite hard.
It is hard.
- [Martyn] Oh, fat bike saved you there.
Keep your game.
(laughs)
- Now there's no place for annoyed when trials riding.
You've just got to.
- [Blake] Be zen.
- [Martyn] Yeah, trials is zen.
There's no annoyed.
- [Martyn] Take it apart, put it back together.
- Oh lovely, lovely.
Big lift.
Awww.
Yes, yes.
Go on, put that front wheel on it.
Now wait, wait wait.
(laughs)
Damnit.
When you get there, dude, when you get there,
- Yeah?
- I'd check, because this is so common in trials.
If you get there, then what you're going to do
is let the front creep over so the axle is right there.
- Oh so it uses it like a hook.
- And then it'll pull you over here,
all you've got to do is forget where the back wheel goes.
- Yeah.
- And you've got to get your front, you know,
just think about the front wheel.
It's going to want to go this way.
Go phew and then just stuff it into that.
- Yeah.
- And your back wheel will be here.
- Yeah, it's got loads of platform.
- And it's got loads of surface area.
- [Martyn] Aww, nearly.
Aww, nearly.
- Go.
(Martyn laughs)
Yes.
Yes, yes.
Yes.
- I got across that.
- And that is how you do trials.
That was amazing.
(laughter)
- [Blake] I need to sit down, that was scary.
- That was amazing.
- Sorry, bike.
It got me through.
- We are finding the fat bike limits.
- We are.
(laughter)
- We're finding my limits.
Let's get away from here before I get hurt.
- Oh God.
- [Martyn] What have we found here?
- They're steps.
- [Martyn] That is a serious set of steps.
- Do you reckon I can get up them?
- [Martyn] They'll stink to come down.
I don't know if you'll get up them.
But I think you should try. - I should try, yeah.
(laughter)
- And you get plenty of speed around here.
It's just how fast you come round this turn.
- [Blake] Yeah.
- [Martyn] Full commitment on the turn, and then hit it.
- [Blake] And you don't really want to pump into it
because I don't know if you'll get punctured.
- You won't puncture that bike, it's not puncture-able.
This corner's a lot tighter than he thinks.
(laughs)
What do you think of that corner?
- I, I don't know how fast I can go around that.
But let's try.
- [Martyn] Let's try. But I think you can do it.
- That's steep.
That's steep.
- [Martyn] You've only got to get the front hook
over the top and then you just hop it up.
- [Blake] Yeah, and pedal.
- You're gonna roll over the top of there, no problem.
- [Martyn] Go on, bingers.
(bike on stairs)
- [Martyn] Oh my god, that was a horrendous noise.
- It's all good.
It's all good.
- [Martyn] Yeah.
- It's not good.
- [Martyn] Oh no.
You won't puncture that bike, it's not puncture-able.
- Martyn, you know what?
You jinxed it, man.
- You know what though?
I think this is a good way to end it.
I hope you enjoyed our street ride today.
We definitely did.
- I loved it.
I just wish it carried on.
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