8 Mistakes All New Mountain Bikers Make

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From screwing in pedals the wrong way to being in the wrong gear for a section of trail; all MTBers make mistakes. Here are Neil and Blake with some of the most common ones 👍
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@gmbn 4 года назад

Have you made any of these mtb mistakes?

@kyleslater5245 4 года назад

All of them if I’m honest. Best was not tightening the stem bolts on the handlebars... they decided to come lose when I went to lift off a jump.

@tristanahlheid4436 4 года назад

The pedal one

@arviddistner3017 4 года назад

I'Ve NevER mADe a MiStAke BRo

@mtbreviews1505 4 года назад

Yes I was once with a friend at his local trails about a 20 mile ride away from me. So I go down this trail blind and as we're going down he shouts back what's ahead. Well I heard him shout 2 or 3 then the one important one I miss. He shouts big rough hill bomb and by that time my momentum had already carried me half way down it. That day the bike fliped an uno reverse card as it took me for a ride! 😂 I did make it all the way down with both me and my bike in one peice though!

@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse 4 года назад

Never be afraid to learn from them,Einstein made thousands of mistakes before he found out 42 was not the answer to everything.

@eat-a-cinderblock 4 года назад

1:34 - riding off and not locking your vehicle

@richarddecredico6098 4 года назад

Locked cars got broken into more than unlocked cars. #FACTS

@AndreiNeacsu 4 года назад

@@richarddecredico6098 That's because most unattended cars are locked. #FACTS

@bobjones3533 4 года назад

@@AndreiNeacsu More like #statistics

@anheedadhump9173 4 года назад

@@AndreiNeacsu has an unlocked car ever been broken into?

@dylanpickersgill2088 4 года назад

@@anheedadhump9173 yes

@blackopes10 3 года назад

Pro tip, whenever you tighten the pedals, going towards the handle bars tightens them. Then When you take them off it’s towards the rear of the bike

@nathanclark3193 3 года назад

Blake is a gem, what a guy. Couldn't imagine the channel without him.

@pinoylowbudgetproductions7290 4 года назад

A beginner mistake that my friends and I did when we were starting was riding fire roads, designed for climbing, going downhill. We thought mountain biking was easy until we saw the actual trails 🤦‍♂️😂 also. Thinking back. We did no research before trying mtn biking lol

@Mallchad 4 года назад

People have stripped their pedal threads?! I don't know whether to be horrified or impressed by the feat of strength and determination.

@jamble7k 4 года назад

some have alu threads made of cheese

@tysonlennard2213 4 года назад

I've done it with my carbon cranks after putting on some chesters wrong

@barni5666 4 года назад

Same here and im waiting for new parts like 2 months now!😂😂

@aaronplvan8915 4 года назад

Dude that was literally just me tonight

@southernjac8430 4 года назад

I had a friend who stripped the crank but the pedal was fine, lol

@mikebussart2575 4 года назад

Blake was so funny screaming Neil while going down the trail alone. Made me laugh out loud.

@aliens1990990 4 года назад

its absolutely hilarious

@akairborne 3 года назад

From now until I die I will scream "NEIL!!!" at the top of my lungs when I go downhill

@The44kGaming 4 года назад

I really wish I could have someone to explain to me everything when I'm riding the trails.

@parkourtwins2441 4 года назад

Yesss pls

@hardtail_reapers_mtb8014 4 года назад

Same here, I would like to do more when im riding but I get scared just cuz there nobody with me.

@danielbeachyt5057 3 года назад

I feel you

@brathersadda9436 3 года назад

i wish som1 would ride with me and not just fucking talk...

@MisterItchy 4 года назад

I've always noticed pedals have an 'R' and an 'L' on them. High IQ stuff! I might get a mountain bike soon ... good tips!

@latinumbavariae 4 года назад

Mistake #1: screwing in the pedals without greasing the threads.

@MichaGajek 4 года назад

this is highly underestimated. I had to unscrew my pedals after a season of hard riding and was so thankful for myself I did put a grease when screwing them in a year ago :)

@confusedsay 4 года назад

Screw that. 🙅🏻‍♂️

@sebastianjost 4 года назад

This should have been in the video instead of the first one. Putting them on the right side is easy as it is always written on the pedals.

@jairdabrini 4 года назад

Yeah, gotta get sum of that premium lithium grease on there.

@thelongestnameinthecomment9677 4 года назад

I had to stomp on my allen key to unscrew it

@patriiiiiii 4 года назад

Putting WD 40 on disc breaks lmao

@reidheine8838 4 года назад

This comment made me cringe never seen anyone do it but I can only imagine

@retrojimmyx 4 года назад

I did it. I thought it would clean them. Then I read about it and used a combination of rags, a small blow torch and fine sand paper to get the oil off; and cycled round the area for an hour to sort them out. Eventually, I gave up and replaced the rotors and pads. Pricey mistake.

@officialkpfpz7049 4 года назад

Bruh stfu thats what I always do cuz I'm broke

@olivercox6007 4 года назад

Thats just common sence not to

@kevinkesler6856 4 года назад

@@officialkpfpz7049 It's not about price man, you're not supposed to get certain things (expensive or not) on your brake pads in general or they won't work right anymore.

@ROSE-by5su 4 года назад

Never did something wrong because of these vids man

@meteturhan3505 4 года назад

Tightening the pedals in wrong direction. I knew that left pedal and right pedal have opposite tightening direction thanks to your videos. But i needed someone to help and he was thinking that the pedals direction are the same. And he never listened to me. So yes, i have a overtightened pedal which will be never loosen back :D

@TheKoosterify 4 года назад

stripped my crank once when incorrectly installing a pedal. ends up mortgaging my house to buy a new bike from scratch

@paulevans4334 3 года назад

Why didn't you just buy a new crank?

@hariarumugam2901 4 года назад

Blake and Neil = Best video

@mtguy234 4 года назад

Im not a beginner but I have definitely reversed my pedals and had to rethread cranks

@HWG-wm8ld 4 года назад

Does your mom mark your shoes L & R

@maximotermebiksietow2076 3 года назад

@MrTastyCarp 4 года назад

4:02 that was hard to watch.

@cougar231000 3 года назад

Looks like he was just too slow...

@jacob.rausch 3 года назад

"forgetting to shift" *me whose been biking for 10 years and still forgets*

@kanescrimes4848 4 года назад

Regarding the pedal mistake: Some ppl might say that's ridiculous and hardly anyone ever actually makes that mistake(due to the giant R and L), BUT I've been skateboarding for 30+ years and just 4 months ago I put a truck on backwards. I've seen other seasoned skaters do the same thing many MANY times. I've forgotten to snug up a freshly built BMX before too. My bars ended up against my top-tube after one hop. 😂 I said "OH YEAH!" EDIT: Putting a truck on backwards is WAY more visible than putting the wrong pedal on.

@lnlyby_yt 4 года назад

Always get a good laugh when we get a Neil x Blake collab.

@movieman6588 4 года назад

LOL!!! Thanks for the advice about the pedals, I did not know this!

@Gumpa2 3 года назад

4:03 I think this is gonna give me some nightmares. Out of the blue that crash. Damn

@jasonmason066 3 года назад

Thanks, this is helpful. Brand new mountain biker and I literally cannot get enough of it

@kyleslater5245 4 года назад

Unless the guide is oily Wilkins and he says to just roll it... then you are on your own...

@kevinfrmkdz 4 года назад

😂

@thelongestnameinthecomment9677 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@gusmtb328 3 года назад

‘You said just f....ing roll it!!!’

@lwittrock1 4 года назад

Love watching Blake and Neil ham it up!

@joeinglesfield7446 4 года назад

2:42 Wooaaaahhh Captain Jack!

@J_Lo_fro 4 года назад

Haha that was literally the first thing I did on my mountain bike was put the pedals on the wrong side and stripped them out 😂

@416to212 4 года назад

How about a video on ‘wardrobe mistakes’. I’m always confused about what to wear for what temperatures. When are pants/tights warranted vs shorts vs shorts with knee warmers. I wish I could see what GMBN recommends for different temperature ranges. Ex: A split screen that shows a picture of Neil and how he dresses for sub 0, 0, 10, 20, 30 degree Celsius.

@marioelenes5808 4 года назад

That sounds like an incredibly subjective, personal topic. Different people have different tolerances to temperatures. Maybe a video showing the different bits of kit for different weather could work better?

@Titanium516 3 года назад

You guyz fun rock. Love all your videos...

@travisburton2948 3 года назад

Not mentioned but important to remember. Left pedal is a left hand thread, so that the torque of pedal strokes will always tighten each respective thread.

@tomp329 4 года назад

I love how Blake always acts as a newby

@joaquinvergel1581 4 года назад

1:37 I did it when It's my first time in that road and the climb is like 20° like that and my gearings are 2x8

@chris.s1678 4 года назад

Ahaha have done the loose bars one, hit the first little feature on the trail and Woop bars flip upside down 😂

@donnabehen424 4 года назад

If you screw the left pedal on the right crank or vice versa you can fix it by threading it on the inside this only works if you only screwed it in a little bit

@greedfox7842 4 года назад

what kind of person puts bolt in backwards and then actually cranks them down? do you not know the "turn a bolt backwards until it lines up first before cranking it" trick?

@unicorntelecoms4387 3 года назад

@@greedfox7842 English do you speak it? Have you renamed tightening cranking? Cranking having nothing to do with the crank then? Thoroughly confused as a motorbike a rider.. 💚✌️

@greedfox7842 3 года назад

@@unicorntelecoms4387 I am using "cranking" to mean tightening with great force. Because if you put a bolt on incorrectly you would have to tighten it down with a lot of force to go against the threads.

@unicorntelecoms4387 3 года назад

@@greedfox7842 the great force is normally known as torque, normally in Nm or foot pounds etc. Mountain bike people dont use torque wrenches to know how tight?

@greedfox7842 3 года назад

@@unicorntelecoms4387 yeah, most of the time, but anyone dumb enough to put their pedals on backwards is not going to use a torque wrench.

@devianb 4 года назад

Once I was going to swap a stem for a shorter one, but decided not to after loosing two of the four bolts. Forgot about it and took bike out next day. After a mile the bars started to gradually get loose.

@kindereggsurprise 4 года назад

GMBN at work love it

@HollywoodGreenFresh 3 года назад

not having advice about the trail is probably my biggest mistake, friend knows the trail and i just follow him blindly and tried to match is speed. It was a downhill and a fairly steep one, it was straight down no turns; you just need to choose the right path to avoid puncture as you will easily hit 60km/h. There was a bend to the right, under normal circumstances you can easily brake and take the bend at around 40km/h becasue it was wide, but it was pure gravel(big ones). I braked, no grip, and the tyre jsut bounced and skidded on the gravel, tried to bank/lean and turn, still no grip. "Oh shit". I jsut decided to straigten up and brake to reduced my speed as much as possible before i hit the bushes. *Big ass rock hidden behind a bush*: "Surprise Modafocka" Suspension botommed out and i did a frontflip, fortunately landing on soft bushes. Never would i go that fast again without knowing the trail, i still got phobia on very fast downhill i do not know and my fingers automatically feather the brakes.

@Everyday-man Год назад

Love a full beginner video like this one, some i see class a beginner as basically an intermediate. Some like myself are just getting back on a bike for the first time in many many years, i was a teenager lol 😅have no idea what i am doing lol

@DoroteoVilla 4 года назад

The stem was my undoing my firs time out. Painful but unforgettable lesson.

@christopherfarish4965 4 года назад

Blake is my MTB Spirit Animal

@Matiakos 4 года назад

it seems that no one won the Canyon bike from the giveaway....!!!Blake has it !

@jackshuttleworth6570 4 года назад

Matiakis Dimitrios weee neeeeed aaaaaa wiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeer

@insan0r 4 года назад

1:10 is that the rollercoaster in Finale Ligure? I miss that trail though

@BionicRusty 3 года назад

If you’re riding A-B and then back to your car/home and only carry one spare tube, that one tube is to get you back and not to carry on regardless. If you get another puncture, you may as well have not carried one at all. 👍

@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe_ 4 года назад

"You clumsy ****" LOL

@theo_4174 4 года назад

I never not have at least 1 finger on back and front wheel, 24/7 finger on brakes

@mitchwarren1600 4 года назад

I was wondering if I’m still making the same mistake years on !!

@mtbboy1993 4 года назад

1:50 if you struggle with that it might be that you got too short reach, which was the case for me so I am exited to get a new build soon, much longer reach, I hit my knees several times on the fork,and thee cockpit.

@warrenjohn3156 3 года назад

2:33 was epic 🙌🏼

@isaacsabel5100 4 года назад

These guys are amazing 😂

@gabeb242 3 года назад

This is me.lol we need more comedy like this in biking after all it’s supposed to be fun.

@leebridgwater 4 года назад

Really good, fun

@smuy3782 4 года назад

I actually intentionly death grip some times to build confidence in cornering speed and stop me being overly cautious.

@felpel1027 4 года назад

I don't think it is a good thing to force yourself like that if you don't have enough confidence, you might crash and hurt yourself

@timmyboy525 4 года назад

I never like to let my index fingers off either brake, death gripping like that is dangerous I've seen people OTB because they forget they have brakes to stop them, learn to feather them(really useful for cheap brakes and even some shimano high ends) to corner better or just modulate better if you have real nice set of calipers.

@smuy3782 4 года назад

@@felpel1027 it's hard to progress if you don't go out of your comfort zone. I know I will unnecessarily brake if I hover my fingers over the levers. Death griping let's me focus on cornering technique. I do it where I know I'm over braking.

@smuy3782 4 года назад

@@timmyboy525 it's not dangerous if you do it intentionally. I will never forget I have brakes.. That would be like forgetting I have pedals.

@Tokyo-go2du 2 года назад

I really find a place inside my head for these advice. I'm a noob!! xo lol

@Keyno77 4 года назад

On my new bike I noticed the chain was slightly touching the front derailiur, it was a pain adjusting it with the two screws and the lever adjuster but I took care of it and went off to a road trail. Noticed my front brakes were making noise all the time and rear were not. When I got home part of the caliper was always touching the disc, loosen the bolts adjusted until no noice was heard while spinning the wheel now is very quiet.

@7ackoatl476 3 года назад

You was funny dear.i like😂👍🙏

@SergeRom47 4 года назад

The worst is seating a new tire only to realize that you have botched the rotational direction once the sealant is in. You have to very carefully dance around it and try to not spill anything. So annoying.

@spark9615 4 года назад

I come here for the awesome awesome acting. No really. It makes learning fun.

@after_midnight9592 4 года назад

Not walking the trail upwards to check for any new jumps or logs in the way. My local trail is being worked on quite often, so every time I go, it can be a little different.

@andrewellison9932 4 года назад

Don't know why but Blake taking the wrong trail made me LOL.

@Leo_Inclan 4 года назад

Been riding for years, I still sometimes stay too far forward, or forget to do a bolt check. doik

@nynomadfjc3907 2 года назад

i'm bad a checking bolts.. and my nephew ate dirt with a loose front wheel.

@randommountainbiker9305 3 года назад

Who here can do jumps and drop offs, but can’t bunny hop or manual

@charlesstenner7526 4 года назад

I work at a bike shop and I’ve seen people put pedals on the wrong side and they completely destroy the the cranks. On brand new bikes, when we tell them what they have done they think it should be fixed under warranty.

@bobhump36 Год назад

The acting in this video deserves an Oscar :P

@rileypurshouse4298 3 года назад

You can get the crank arm re tapped and they put a spacer to allow you to put normal pedals in

@plexi4295 4 года назад

Hi from Sweden!

@hindesite 3 года назад

Ha, the second one happened to me. Straight from a bike shop rebuild! :-(

@hocuspocus5920 4 года назад

Luv It..😍 .

@Nanchi 4 года назад

Thankfully I've never stripped my cranks lol

@alexyoung7480 4 года назад

Hahahaha "My Hand Boykin" best subtitle

@Gabesafish 3 года назад

Going off the beaten path…free riding/trailblazing and then busting out your spokes when brush gets tangled in your wheels.

@finlayaffleck3982 4 года назад

I’ve definitely made some of these

@thijmenterh 4 года назад

Is click shoes good for whipping or mountainbiking?

@peterquigley1614 4 года назад

Blake is the funniest presenter by far

@2slow5oh 3 года назад

I’m a intermediate jump 40 or so ft and race dh and I still cross thread pedals

@jasonvalent7882 4 года назад

Is hardtail and 120 travel with 70kg enough for trail like in this video ? How high is 120 travel can endure the drop?

@lsmeteor4652 3 года назад

All of my friends never make mistakes. They all ride perfect, jump perfect, know perfect, while I am SirCrashALot.

@rinajana826 4 года назад

Yup.... Nice facts.

@jb-il3vh 4 года назад

the bad acting makes it real... so fun!!!

@M3PH11 4 года назад

1:39 So broken leg 2019 update (only coz it's related to this). So i've been riding a week after breaking my right leg in 2018 and then 51 weeks later in 2019. I've had 2 surgeries, a stainless steel bar screwed onto my right femur, I'm never running again, Jumping when on foot is gonna be risky, I can only bend my knee to 110 degrees and as of the date of the video I can ride better than I can walk. The problem is the soft tissue in my right leg isn't very stretchy any more, so for me, not being in the correct gear all of the time could put me in the hospital and then a wheelchair. Fun times! :(

@M3PH11 4 года назад

@Aditya Wardhana no it's more of a case of avoiding spinning my legs too fast and heavy load. If the freewheel engages while I'm pedaling (you know when you go from the bottom of the cassette to the top quickly and you lose drive coz the wheel is spinning very slightly faster than the hub internals) I have a 80% chance of snapping all the soft tissue in my knee, which is already mostly scar tissue, resulting in a completely unusable leg. So I always pre-shift and break to load up the hub when going up the cassette. Pedaling downhill isn't too bad because I'm a little crazy and I pedal most downhill sections I ride so the gearing in that situation is never more than a gear or two off, which isn't too much of an issue

@adithyakaushik5611 3 года назад

I took a spill like at the 4:00 mark and had a concussion 🤕. Is there more info about that clip?

@Shadowghost81 3 года назад

Spraying muc off silicone shine all over your brake discs

@gainlabs 2 года назад

4:03 I'mma head out 😂

@morbly 4 года назад

The worst mistake I think I've made on my bike was trying to remove a pedal the wrong direction, the threads probably weren't greased either. I couldn't remember which direction to unscrew it and managed to shear off the metal of the crank surrounding the spindle of the pedal. The pedal spindle would turn inside the crank arm, wobble, but I was completely unable to remove it without using a saw.

@cho4d 4 года назад

So, i come from motorbikes and... a few things i've noticed regular bikers do that is a big no no on motorbike is locking the back wheel and braking with one or two fingers. First one is obv... no traction = no control. Also you brake less efficiently. The brake thing is coz you can end up "bottoming out" the brake lever on your fingers that are still on the grip before you actually reach the maximum brake force.

@jaredhernandez8753 3 года назад

Im not a very new mtb rider but I came back to the sport about a year ago after getting off for a year I put in the pedals the way I did before it worked and then it was to lose it stripped the crank and now I have to get a new crank set so to those people who are cocky cause they’ve ridden before and are coming back to the sport and you want to replace a part just take it to a tech or he extremely careful please I had to pay 60 dollars for a new whole crank set

@felipi2179 4 года назад

0:40 omg I once done this XD

@coopersharp2921 Год назад

I think the worst mistake I ever made was cleaning my disk break rotors, but it's not what you think. I had a cheap Walmart bike and the brake rotors were dirty, rusted, and squeaky. My child self thought that wd-40 would clean the rust and clean the rotors preventing it from squeeking. All it did was prevented me from slowing down😂