(lighting)
- It's a new bike day for me and I got something special!
I got this (laughs).
It's not new, no.
Here's my Nukeproof scout.
But this is new.
Look at this peddling backwards!
(gasp)
and then forwards!
You can't stop peddling.
This is a fixed gear bike so that means
I have no free hub, I have no rear brake.
I've never ridden one of these fixed gear bikes before.
And I'm in the woods and there's a lot of single track
in these woods so I'm going to go test it out.
See how hard it is. Challenge accepted.
Which way?
When I go I can't stop peddling though.
(groans)
Oh my god!
(groovy music)
I can get used to this!
Just peddling away.
Knowing that I can't stop peddling right now is fine.
But I reckon if I get into some corners.
Aw hell! I don't know what I'm gonna do!
Crash probably.
That's probably what you want to see,
crashing. (laughs)
I see a trail!
It's time to out my (laughs)
That's alright!
(grunting)
You can't stop though!
Oh my there's jumps.
Oh my god!
Oh no look at that.
I've got, like, some rock step thing over the gap.
(grunting)
Can't stop peddling!
Literally, it's like full gas!
(laughs)
(grunts)
It worked, yeah?
Nice!
I hate rock gardens!
Oh no!
You can't stop!
Definitely riding the trail way slower.
Oh no.
Goodness me I can't.
(grunting)
Oh no, no.
Oh trees!
Tree!
Oh no what are these?
(laughing)
No rear brake!
Oh my gosh look at this one.
(laughing) easy!
(stammering)
I hit my foot.
That's hard but you know I'm getting so used to it,
like, popping the back wheel stopping for
I know I'm running a front brake but I'm scared.
I'm gonna try that again.
This is quite tacky.
I'm going to have to go faster into it
because I didn't know what I was getting myself
into when I was over there.
Pedal strikes!
(wheezing and laughing)
Give me more!
A little insight to what this whole thing is all about.
Look at this,
so this is just a rear sprocket
and it's bolted straight to my disc mount rotor bolt holes.
That's why I can't run a real brake because
that has been taken up by his fixed gear
cassette thing here and then on the front,
because it's not a horizontal dropout,
it's a vertical dropout so you can't really get tension
and I haven't got a tensioner so what I've done,
I took my chain device off my Canyon Sender
and what I've done with that,
basically I've just pushed it all the way up.
Pushed the chain way up into there
and that gives me enough tension so
that chain doesn't really bounce off on the trail.
Pretty clever stuff!
You can just buy that!
(laughing)
Too easy!
I'm gonna have to make it harder for myself!
And you guys that probably know about fixed gears
front brake, it definitely helps you slow yourself down
so I'm gonna remove that brake so I'm brakeless.
So I have to brake by locking up
that really grippy rear tire.
And the next bit is really steep.
Oh no.
Huge crash.
Right let's remove it.
Now I am true fixie and
I don't like it.
I actually don't like it.
We're going to steep stuff.
Why did I take the brakes off when I want
to go do steep stuff?
I can do skids though, watch this!
(laughs)
I'll bunnyhop this.
It's really hard.
I'm trying to get used to hopping, slowing myself down.
Hey, let's bunnyhop this log!
Let's go down here.
(grunts)
Yes!
For the single track, no brakes.
This one gets really nasty.
(straining)
Oh you!
I can't stop!
Can't stop, can't stop, can't stop!
(struggling)
It probably doesn't look fast
and great and stylish. (laughs)
but when you're on the bike it's like
I'm going mach 10 with no brakes
and you can't stop peddling on some horrible
rough rooty stuff.
Oh look at that pecky trail!
Looks horrible, nasty, consequences are high.
Let's try it!
(laughs)
On a normal bike I'd land over there no lie.
I'll come and I'll launch that.
But I have no brakes and I can't stop peddling
and this is death and that is death.
Alright I'm going for it.
You can't even spin the pedals.
(struggling)
My wrists are so sore!
When I was pushing down on the bike
trying to keep my weight on the pedals
to stop them coming off.
So yeah,
don't want to do that again please.
Please don't give me another challenge.
Oh you're giving me another one.
- [Cameraman] Yeah, maybe jumps?
- Jumps?
(electronic trap music)
Jumps.
I'm seat bouncing everything
because that's the only way I can get over it!
Down that?
Oh you!
(laughs)
That's horrible!
I think there's something wrong with my gear.
Oh, I found what's wrong.
My front chainlink's like the loosest thing
in the whole world.
(laughs)
Well that ended prematurely look at that!
I lost two bolts out of there!
These are nearly out.
Those two are nearly coming out.
If they came out I had no chance of stopping.
I reckon that would have just spun like.
I think because of that I think there's gonna
be a part two for sure because,
I reckon, because it's my first time riding a fixie
and I thought it was getting kind of interesting.
I was doing those jumps which,
I didn't think I could ever do jumps
on a fixed gear bike.
I ask people how they're doing it.
They're on some crazy ass bikes.
So hopefully you enjoy this video.
Hopefully this is like, I don't know.
Inspired you to want to go and do it?
I hope not because it's flipping horrible.
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