I somehow transitioned to not wearing gloves anymore. A few years ago I used to put on gloves when I went to town to get breakfast. Nowadays I ride bikepark without gloves. I don’t know how or when it exactly happened, but I feel comfortable and confident without gloves now.
I'm waiting for my meta am! I've been racing enduro races on my full squish xc bike. Finally upgrading to a bike that is fit for the racing I wanna do!
What great choice you picked to ride down that mountain . What a great bike I got mine last year and loving it every since . The meta ht is a beast it can do pretty much every thing you put it through . Great bike and great event !!!
Damn, this video proves it's not the bike, but the rider! 👊 Pinkbike, can you guys make more hardtail content, like reviews, such races and trips? As a fellow hardtail rider, it's really inspiring seeing what great riders like Tom can do on a humble hardtail. Cheers! 👊😎
That is an insane fast hardtail time. Way to go man! The first time I rode it was on a Kona Humuhumu as a shop dare. Bahaha. Missing the golden bike family.
I’ve ridden full sussers and hard tail tbh the hard tail takes more skill to handle on rough trails but it’s also one hell of a blast leave’s me with more of a adrenaline rush 🤪💪🏻💪🏻
To me, this is one of the best videos PB has ever produced. This track is so iconic and I know there's a younger generation that doesn't fully understand but Tommy, you crushed it with the mention of season and the integral role that played. Well done mate. Also, a quick PSA for those who don't know: Anthill films and red bull are doing a full on documentary about Stevie's life and if you know anything about Anthill it's gonna be epic. Everything they touch is🤘 here's a quick teaser trailer for it..ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KPTLhQ4WqNc.html Thanks again for this Tommy! And long live Chainsaw.
It's wholesome content like this that makes me never want to upgrade to a full sus. Although I may have to look into a more competent enduro focused ht in the future. 🤙
This guy is crazy as all get out, never not hooting and hollering. Curious if he did anything with his fork because of the steepness of the trails? To me looked like he was running about 50% into the fork travel most of the time, could have pumped up the fork another 20PSI and added one or two volume spacers to help it sit higher in the travel and keep the HA closer to it's designed static angle.
107,000ft / 32,000m is MUCH higher than nearly every plane flies. Jet airliners tend to cruise at around 35,000ft, give or take. Very few fighter jets have made it up as high as 100,000ft.
i ride my local trails (which are mostly tech) with my 23 kg E hardtail and i get better and better by day. You just learn more with a hardtail. You learn how to ride smooth avoiding little bumps and alot more. And because of that i am able too keep up with full suspension bikes cause i know every bump of the trail and know the perfect line to ride smoothly. Yes it is less comfortable, but you get more experience and more feelings over your bike than on a full suspension.
@@paulm9340 where i live the mountains are steep af and the trails are hidden in the woods cause random people build them themselfs, even getting there is an exersice with an e bike.
I just ordered a Banshee Paradox V3 and can’t wait, thought about duel sus but quiet honestly hard tail is just far more fun, if I want a duel sus I’ll just buy a motorbike.
Can anybody tell me re how to set-up a camera to capture such an amazing video during a biking such as this? Thanks a lot, you jolly people! Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines! #KeepBiking
After 10 days of mtb i started riding red donwhills here in switzerland with my xc hardtail.... At the beginning 20 min, after 2 month 8, jn a year ? We will see, i can just say: do it and everyone will respect ya, you first :)))
Well I've got the same bike so I've really got no excuses.... What upgrades do you have? Looks like XX1 cassette, AXS mech and dropper and possibly brakes? Binning the Guide T's was the first thing I did but unfortunately replace them with Code RSC's which are utter shite. Should have got Saint or XT.
Hey Rowan haha don't need to do this kind of carry on to have a good ride on the HT! I'm running the GX AXS drivetrain. Then Code RSC's with a 180mm rear and 200m front HS2 rotor. They were unreal 🤘 - Tom
Great bike , rides smooth ru-vid.comUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L I added a bigger spring loaded seat to it . Takes a bit of adjusting cables to get brakes and shifting to perfect . I've owned quite a few bikes in the past that were absolutely uncomfortable to ride and they always ended up as garage wall decor . I'm not seeing that with this one. It's pretty light I've only ridden it a few miles but I like it . As for the pedals falling off in the other reviews , the pedal arms are aluminum along with the pedal studs look to be also . I would not overtighten them. I can see it would be very easy to overtighten them and strip the threads right off . All in all I think it's pretty good quality besides the aluminum pedal thing .
