The Problem with Gravel Bikes

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@EverythingsBeenDone Год назад

What are YOU going to name your Bike?

@benoitbvg2888 Год назад

I just like that you capitalize it.

@johnnydoe66 Год назад

I always use the first letter of the brand in naming my bikes. My road bike is a Masi named Milla. My mtn bike is a Trek named Trixie (I know it sounds like a stripper's name, but she does like getting a little bit nasty...lol).

@estimatedprophethawk Год назад

One of my bike is named, 'Beer Hauler's. Pretty self explanatory.

@dlange38 Год назад

Rocinante (Don Quixote’s donkey) translates to workhorse

@kriztyle5295 Год назад

Ron 😜

@mikemazzantini6397 Год назад

I love putting together routes where there is no right bike. Everyone is going to hate what they brought at some point and I love hearing about it 🤣

@tongpocalypse151 Год назад

Devious!

@gingleb3792 Год назад

hahahaha brilliant

@Ferrichrome Год назад

That’s what happens in our group rides in the city. On the trails the gravel riders have fun and the roadies cry, on smooth asphalt the roadies fly.

@thetroylf Месяц назад

Proper gravel bicyclist sir. Good on you! Suffering isn’t only physical.

@Vancouversour 11 месяцев назад

As a newbie in the cycling world, I appreciate statements like “As long as you’re having fun, you’re doing it right” in a community that is so detailed on every little component. It can be very intimidating. Looking forward to getting out there and learning as I go.

@PumpkinVillage Год назад

Fun is the key. Don't let the bike snobs suck it out of you. Ride what you got. Thanks for another entertaining video. Take care, Al

@mannyechaluce3814 Год назад

you can't ride a gravel bike on a single track

@enkeltrik9330 Год назад

@@mannyechaluce3814that's neither relevant to OP's point, nor true.

@thatguynar Год назад

Thank you. This comment just inspired me to take my unicycle to that offroad trail everyone keeps yapping about where I’m from.

@rah4981 Год назад

I read on internet cycling forums that you literally was going to die if you go bikepacking on a full suspension bike. Well, I had the best bike ride ever this summer. 600 kilometer on my enduro MTB with some easy rolling tubeless xc tires, on mixed surfaces, even on asphalt. It was great, I will go bikepacking on that beast of a bike next summer also 🤗

@lbgstzockt8493 6 месяцев назад

Ask six people on cycling forums and get seven different, exclusive answers.

@juanaq Год назад

for a poor bastard like me, owning only one bike (i ride an stupidly beaten Raleigh mojave 5.0 from 2015), and using it for every task (commuting, grocery shopping, biketravelling, dayriding, even a little bit of dirt jumping), a hardtail with front suspension is like a swiss army knife, useful even in flat terrain. i ride sometimes with some gravellers, and their machines are awesome, but everytime we hit a sandy-dusty segment of the trail my big tires make a real difference. and man it's getting dusty where i usually ride! and no, it hasn't have a name, nor gender. just my bike.

@user-on1bs2wo8e Год назад

This!! You absolutely don't need to own 4 different bikes... Hardtail with 100mm of travel, two/three by anything and grippy tires for your kind of terrain... been riding this way for 10 years, never gets old :)

@szakal192pl Год назад

best youtube content for cycling stoners like me

@EverythingsBeenDone Год назад

We are united!

@318isGood Год назад

No right bike. No wrong bike. Thank you, Dustin! This is what the people need: FUN!

@plixplux Год назад

I had fun once. It was terrible.

@lovelybi11 Год назад

I really enjoyed the snippets of quiet and ASMR in this one. Forest rustling, not-meat sizzling, gravel crunching. Little droplets of Zen.

@1410DS Год назад

Little droplet of Zen would actually be a cool bike name!

@tongpocalypse151 Год назад

That mustard squirt

@ziyanide Год назад

It got me good hahahaha@@tongpocalypse151

@telepopepic Год назад

I’ve got a garage full of bikes and no matter what bike I choose to ride the only factor on whether the ride is good or bad seems to be me. Guess, I’ll work on optimizing ME. Thanks for a very nice video.

@theweightofarms Год назад

Everyone is on this debate rn it feels like and I’m glad it was approached by the most level headed, non dramatic. It’s all about FUN.

@EverythingsBeenDone Год назад

Player!

@krtong Год назад

Trails around here ate my rear wheel yesterday, so your timing is impeccable. We dont have 'gravel' per se near me. Fire roads deeply rutted by winter rains, sandstone trail formations and stony creek crossings all are a bit much and I'm looking at an XC. But honestly I might be the person niner built the MCR 9 RDO for. You should test one if the opportunity arises.

@kstoeb Год назад

The video is fun (as always :-) But back to the topic: When I bought my current bike, I had only money for one bike. I bought a Gravelbike. And now I just ride with the assumption that I have the right bike for (almost) everything 😅

@oakleytrecartin6524 Год назад

Been out of cycling for a while due to older gear lack of time etc. but it’s true just get out there on whatever’s hanging in garage and ride! Thanks for the motivation man!

@dumber-plumber7253 Год назад

Had this problem to. I always felt i took the wrong bike for the ride, so i bought a kona sutra (u)ltd. in the summer some 45-50mm slick tires, in winter some beefy 29-2.25 mtb tires. Its a bit in between xc/gravel. It can almost handle everything i throw at it… depends on where you live off course. We dont have a lot of mountains in belgium😂 Really enjoyed the vid👌 Thumbs up👍

@threeinoneoil Год назад

XC bikes with a slammed stem and fast rolling tires will fly on almost everything. Put aerobars on and you can arguably go faster on gravel roads than a drop bar gravel bike.

@tomrodriguez9052 Год назад

I'm leaning more to the mountain bike for my gravel adventures. Descending on a gravel bike just isn't that much fun, I don't mind being slightly slower, I'm still going to be passed by the guy on the e bike.....

@kerrywilliams6596 Год назад

Very well said Dustin. Sometimes we all need that reminder. We’re on bikes, life is good.

@thomasseymour4190 Год назад

Drop bar 29r full rigid with a dropper; mediumly optimized all the time.

@EverythingsBeenDone Год назад

I’m here for this!!!

@JRvillablancademendoza 5 месяцев назад

Love your sense of humor and your philosophy about how to bike the right way -- to have fun. Cool trick when you spread your arms and bring them back in. I'm in! Subscribed.

@markbabcock Год назад

First, ride whatever bike you want. But in my very humble opinion, a rigid MTB with 2.2 - 2.6 fast rolling tires is the right bike for most people most of the time. It’s the Subaru Outback of bicycles.

@lukehendrickson3669 Год назад

Ha! I have a Rivendell Atlantis with 2.25” DH tires, racks, and flat bars and it does it all.

@123dwd 5 месяцев назад

'just one hand position' easily rectified with a pair of sick bar ends, that what i put on my flat bar hardtail for gravelling

@bojanvasic8273 Год назад

This is probably your best produced video yet. You become really good at this. Bravo. I like the gloves. What are they ?

@jeffandersen6233 Год назад

Yes its about the fun, the enjoyment. 50 years ago, God I'm getting old, me and a friend explored on steel road bilkes with our IRC skineall 28c tires. Never thought about bigger tires because that meant heavy balloon tires or gumealls. Just ride.

@ericgelders 28 дней назад

Just found your channel and love what I see: great review stuff and experiences, with a big sense of (sarcastic? ironic) humour! Subscribed.

@mruizsr Год назад

I love my DV9. I find myself grabbing that sucker over putting on the gravel wheelset on my Diverge. I'm not as fast on the DV9 but it's more comfortable and kinda more fun... especially on the downhills.🤷🏾‍♂️

@fieldlab4 10 месяцев назад

Put big slicks or hybrid slicks on the MTB and use a little higher pressure. You would be amazed how bulletproof and effective they are off road and how fast they are on road and climbing.

@fieldlab4 10 месяцев назад

Seriously. Try slicks. The ultimate go anywhere tire. You would think they would be terrible off road but you would be wrong. In sand or thick mud they are far better.

@EverythingsBeenDone 10 месяцев назад

I have been wanting to try this! thanks for the nudge.

@fieldlab4 10 месяцев назад

The one classic issue with slicks and semi-slicks is a tendency to pick up tiny slivers of glass. Just check them occasionally before they have time to work into the casing.

@themindunset Год назад

Why is it so strange to see you on a wide flat bar mountain bike? F.U.N! That's the message, my brother. I love that. Every time I feel the "pressure" to get rid of my old Forest Service Green Fargo... I go for a ride and then I smile. The bike still makes me smile. Peace. Awesome video. #pretzelbun

@TheScandy37 Год назад

That farting squeeze of mustard in the middle of your ASMR bit had my dyin 😂

@Daragon525 Год назад

Bro your editing is so good

@jojoanggono3229 Месяц назад

I love most when someone spring the question "what best bike for....blah blah blah" or "best tires for....blah blah blah". It's like arguing what is the meaning of life....😁✌️

@Garrick42 Год назад

Just came here to say that yours is the first Bell XR helmet I've seen in the wild besides mine. But then again, I mostly hang out with roadies.

@baloghlcb Год назад

I've got my full sus MTB and my in between a gravel bike and hardtail MTB and love them both. As long as I'm riding, I'm enjoying myself 😁.

@fieldlab4 10 месяцев назад

If you want to go fast or cover distance, climbing and flats are all you have to worry about. You just don't spend enough time descending to make it worth worrying about unless you are basically looking for thrills.

@PhiLoSoPheR_NonSenSe 5 месяцев назад

I don't know if this thought of mine befits every riding situation but... a good rider who knows their bike and knows that the terrain may call the shots at some point in the ride will never complain but... will play the shots...

@gman6059 Год назад

There isn't a gravel ride that I can't do on my mountain bike. There IS a mountain bike ride that I can't do with my gravel bike.

@platypushatstand Год назад

The same goes for my Brompton H6R. Though I did see a brave soul riding a road bike down the South Downs Way Chanctonbury Ring hill climb (albeit very slowly) he must know a good wheel-builder. I was on a non-riding day, also called walking.

@tflspitfire Год назад

there may be gravel rides that become quite boring on a Mountain bike anyway when you want to go a little faster.

@vfxray Год назад

But then you need to pay to get your fork serviced all the time

@drill_fiend1097 Год назад

@@vfxraywell some gravel bikes are getting front suspension forks like Rockshox Rudy and Lefty forks. And I'd say carbon forks on gravel developing invisible hairline fractures are just as frustrating.

@gustavolepe741 Год назад

That’s always the answer I give to gravelers ( just use a surly corner bar if you want that “drop bar”)

@machikot5527 Год назад

I am completely off the topic, but I LOVE the cutting board & knife combo! Who makes it?

@sangriastudios Год назад

not off topic! good question, its cool

@GeirEivindMork 7 месяцев назад

I tried several times during my life to buy the perfect allround bike, but have realized the perfect bike is the one perfect for the kind of riding I like - not the terrain I am in. ;) So I select the perfect bike for the kind of riding I want to do and set out. if I meet terrain it is not intended for - that's not the bikes fault. ;)

@MarathonMindy 10 месяцев назад

Ordered swag to support the channel. Love the content, funny, inspiring and really well done filming

@Hi.Im.Andrew Год назад

The cinematography on this is Chefs kiss

@JamesEvans97 Год назад

I'd love to know where this is. I looked through the links, but nothing seemed to indicate where you rode. Great video!

@KorbensBum Год назад

I feel seen. haha. For 3 days now I have been neurodivergently obsessing over my decision to ride a wider mtb-ish tyre on my gravel bike ride. 85klm and 2000m of ascending. For 5klm of wet clay, 5 klm of lumpy downhill - it was the perfect bike. The rest of the day = wrong bike. But some days you just don't know which way it's going to be. I have a Cervelo Soloist named "Han" I have Trek Checkpoint named "Dirty Rambler" I have an e-mtb named "Lance" (everyone always says I'm cheating when I'm on it) Thanks for all the content.

@EverythingsBeenDone Год назад

All of this YES!!!!

@mikemazzantini6397 Год назад

I've went from 42mm up to 2.25" tires. I feel a little slower on the road, but so much faster on everything else.

@radiocontrolled9181 Год назад

@@mikemazzantini63971.95" Maxxis Pace for me does it

@KorbensBum Год назад

@@mikemazzantini6397 I wasnt slamming MTB tyres. Just my decision to use them on THIS particular ride. Im in Australia and "gravel" roads here can be as firm as pavement for 80% of the year but come winter they can be full of potholes and corrugations or be very much like soft wet clay. It had been raining so i went with the bigger tyes but disnt notice 18klm was on pavement. The wet clay and washouts were bad when I found them. But there was more roads that were still compacted. Are you riding a steel frame? If so, i can see how the 2.25s would help. I generally ride a full carbon drop-bar gravel bike with the "suspension" stem. Its very smooth and quick... usually.

@retovogler103 Год назад

1:15: 🙌🏻😂 Also: Spitfire sticker on the fork. ✔️

@Brian-qv1ir Год назад

It's not original, but I call my bike Bichael.

@xaviermelendez2639 10 месяцев назад

Yup. Still one of the best channels on the 'Tube!✌

@robertbergren8680 10 месяцев назад

'Bout 25yrs ago my girlfriend was given 2 dutch bikes at a shop we both worked at. She barely fit on the step thru frame, named Hildy. I got the mens frame. It was a shogun brand. Black frame, chrome fenders with a stylized shogun warrior head badge. That was Mr Roboto. I rode that a lot for 1 1/2 yrs for $0 til it got pinched in an Ann Arbor alley. Best $/mile I've ever had.

@Andy-x3i8y 5 месяцев назад

Hearing the word kryptonite reminds me of when I used to work at a shop, and customers would ask me if the locks were made from real kryptonite. Fully formed adults would ask me this routinely.

@Alistair_Spence Год назад

I enjoyed this video, as much for the insight into your camping setup, as for the cycling content. Just discovered your channel and recently subscribed.

@ophrasbankaccount7716 10 месяцев назад

Brotha, the quality and transitions 🤌🤌

@EverythingsBeenDone 10 месяцев назад

My people! 🤜❤️🤛

@chaseelmore2897 10 месяцев назад

Really enjoy your videos! Video quality, video content, and humor wrapped up in one, killer combo. Thank you

@landonthings 10 месяцев назад

I rode this route on a CX bike with 40mm tires and was pretty worked on the single track section! That bikes name is “Scoot” haha

@brotherfranciz Год назад

For me, it's all about N+1. I need an excuse to buy a new bike. I bought a cheap mountain bike (because I wanted something cheap to commute but also able to go off-road on the weekend), and then bought an expensive road bike when I wanted my commutes to be faster and also able to ride on roads during weekend coffee rides, and then bought an even more expensive gravel bike when I changed jobs and the commute included a gravel section through a park reserve... Now I need another excuse to buy my next N+1 bike...

@victorvannatter312 11 месяцев назад

I agree on the off-road stuff. Gravel bikes aren’t very good at it. But gravel bikes make perfect road bikes. Roads bikes are ok if you’re literally racing. Otherwise the small advantage isn’t worth the loss of riding comfort

@mayfieldcourt 11 месяцев назад

Great video - you looked overbiked for much of it!

@EverythingsBeenDone 11 месяцев назад

Appreciate you. I felt “appropriately bikes”

@LackofFaithify Год назад

Wish I would have seen more videos like this before I went and finally purchased my first "real" bike. The entire experience of dealers and the level of overpriced misery loves the company of other snobbery in the biking world made something I once enjoyed into something I don't even want to do anymore.

@rogerhuston8287 6 месяцев назад

A waterfall that defies gravity and flows up! Nice.

@EverythingsBeenDone 6 месяцев назад

Good eye!

@michaelhayward7572 Год назад

Superb. Gen 1 fully rigid Surly KM 29er owner who rides everything and everywhere inc tarmac touring.

@ShootsProductions 4 часа назад

I like naming my bikes after animals. Currently I got the Trek SL Gen 3 which I named Scarab, like the beetle.

@RahLoh Год назад

my method atm is "just take the track bike, that way im at a constant underbiked level

@nayrdrumr Год назад

Sameee got a fixed cross bike and I loveeee it. Fun around town great on single track (given the trail) and obviously fun on gravel. Kudos

@vfxray Год назад

After being on an organized gravel ride this year with multiple ambulances called I was happy for the mtb tires I was on.

@willreasoner4384 Год назад

Have you ever done a video on the Priority Apollo? I for 1 would like to know what you think about it. I'm thinking of buying 1... I'm 71 years old and need to get my legs into shape a little so I don't loose my mobility.

@shaun1900 Год назад

Hardtail mountain bike with an Enve Rigid fork at 9k's is absolutely a weapon on gravel and accommodating everywhere else.

@ddminwi Год назад

It boils down to what your cycling mates are riding. All for one, one for all.

@vladimirvlad6441 Год назад

I used a gravel if over 70% of my route was on highways. And vice versa used mtb if 70% of my route was on mixed terrains.

@Innogrouphongkong Год назад

Funny bits, good editing, an Ibis. You've got it all.

@EverythingsBeenDone Год назад

Thanks!

@theLastpanda935 Год назад

love the ending, really cozy edit

@G60syncro Год назад

I just built a nice cyclocross bike and that first bit is just what I would like to blast through all day long... That being said, it could probably do the other bit as well but some full on MTB trails my brother in law took me to, it would'nt cut the mustard... Ya need the crawl gears for that ride!! But I still love my bike!!

@jeffhall1002 6 месяцев назад

my favorite part about gravel biking is that it's never quit the right bike for the job.🙃

@LanarkAriadne Год назад

Flowers By Irene! Appreciate that one.

@jazzfan7491 Год назад

Single track looks insanely dangerous to me. That’s why I’ll get a road-oriented bike though obviously a mountain bike is the most versatile

@dannyzuehlsdorf3697 Год назад

Give the sound guy a raise for the mustard squeeze at 08:22

@forecasting_scott Год назад

The fun its the holy grail...10 years i was ride road bike ... And last tear i was so tured to go out for training... Body and mind tired... Until i test a 29' hardtail...my life change 180 degrees!!! I am smiling all the time on the bike!! So the fun its the most importand thing on the ride!! When you put the mustard....some people near me at the park i wached the video, look at me shocked!!! Hahahah

@williamsham0 Год назад

Looks like Gifford! Was just up at Juniper Ridge yesterday on a gravel bike. So much hike-a-bike.

@AllisonRoberts-gv6it 6 месяцев назад

"If the Pope poops in the woods, does it make a sound?" Laughed like I'm weed wacked!

@bebopman5 Год назад

1:31, I agree 1000%. That's actually how I've been naming my bikes. Humans names (unless it's already named like one, such as the Schwinn Madison) don't do it for me.

@TsunamiKitten Год назад

This is complete and solid gold. Spot on. TY!

@kawabus Год назад

The shower is clutch, for some reason if i'm camping and hiking I don't feel I need a shower. When I camp and bike I want a shower. And how did you find a Starbucks out there? Regardless of the bike, bikes are just awesome. 🚴✨✨

@ziyanide Год назад

What about Ultrracers? They often have Dropbar-XC rigs, to me that's like the optimum of both worlds. Good hand positions, 100mm travel up front, big tires, just overall comfy .)

@Jean-jk4zv Год назад

Loving the ending no music edit

@jexrun 8 месяцев назад

my man living the best life

@EverythingsBeenDone 8 месяцев назад

Player! 🤜❤️🤛

@darrenrettburg1473 Год назад

I love mixed terrain rides. That is why my bike has a trail bike frame, XC components and gravel tires. I call it The Jackalope. My wife calls it The Flying Purple People Eater. 😂

@roddas26 6 месяцев назад

That hardtail is a sweet rig.❤

@crux_timberjack Год назад

Dude… You know how to live your best “impossible” life.

@daviddougherty114 Год назад

Sweet, Cleveland Kraut for the win! The garlic one is my favorite... Bike name is Rhonda or Dirty Harry depending on the day...

@robnoble9570 Год назад

Have put hybrid tyres on my mtb and works brilliantly

@Alex_564 Год назад

Wouldn't the Cutty with the sus fork be the balace?

@JakeLuke308 9 месяцев назад

So thought provoking and entertaining. I didn't know bikes could be either of those.

@SirCharcoal 11 месяцев назад

That hardtail with slicks would have been fun (+fast)

@denniskurama1974 Год назад

New subscribers here from Philippines, I love watching your videos 😊

@EverythingsBeenDone Год назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@peterwilliamson4296 2 месяца назад

Gravel bikes that focus more on lower gears would be a good thing. Most are geared too high to entice MTB folks.

@arcadialive4265 Год назад

Fact: If the trail doesn’t fit the gravel bike, it’s an MTB ride. But tbh I’ve ridden gravel on slick red rocks, in some ways it was more fun than a full suspension that I tried the same week. Be careful as always, but when I’ve push the bike it pushed me to be a better rider.

@motoed Год назад

Your Starbucks clip at 3:04… wide angle, low angle… Would you share what you shot that with? The color and dynamic range is excellent and a standout. My guess is new DJI action 4. Love your edits.

@jazzechos1372 6 месяцев назад

If you are on a secondary road no matter the bike it is a gravel ride. Fire roads and single track and all other off-road type rides are cross country, but you can change the bike to deal with the specific level of difficulty. See, now that was not that hard.

@gregghershberger7968 7 месяцев назад

I have two specialized full carbon mountain bikes, one electric, one not, a trek hybrid, a trek road bike, and another Rad electric bike. Looking at gravel bikes but do they really make that big of difference over a mountain bike. Trying to justify the cost.

@cycleholic58 Год назад

I don't care what labels the marketing gurus place on particular styles of bikes. However, I will say this, if a bike doesn't appeal aesthetically I won't even consider it. That's why I prefer bikes with a road / cyclocross geometry, with wider drop bars and with wider rims and tyres, because I ride both on asphalt and off road, and I like to ride faster when on asphalt, so the wider tyres are much safer on our pot hole ridden roads here in the UK. Hard tails just don't appeal to me and never will although I completely get why they are the perfect machine for more technical off road riding.

@drill_fiend1097 Год назад

I wish there's more XC MTBs with less aggressive geometry. Solid forks are still too harsh for some gravel and hardtails still feel a bit sluggish. Only class of bike that scratches this niche are gravel bikes with front suspension.

@EverythingsBeenDone Год назад

Salsa Cutthroat, and new stigmata from Santa Cruz..in fact this might help: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J7JxnPRykDQ.html

@drill_fiend1097 Год назад

@@EverythingsBeenDone I see. This and Grizl 7 Trail seem pretty great.

@erickozokas Год назад

Fun video as always. I like the random cuts. It plays well with my short attentions span. Why do you use a flowers by Irene magnet on your van?

@TheCapitolScouter 2 месяца назад

Waited eight months for someone else to answer: F.B.I. (see Simpsons "Hit & Run"episode.) Boomer going back to sleep now...

@bobbyenglish7803 Месяц назад

I'm beginning to form the opinion that a hard tail, electric mountain bike is the most versatile bike out there!

@jonamcc Год назад

forgive my unsolicited opinion but you could probably relieve some of the pain of gravel and paved road climbing by swapping to some faster xc tires! the Rekon Race is a great choice. or the Schwalbe Racing Ray/Ralph. without honestly giving up too much on the singletrack.

@jonamcc Год назад

but yeah, the few mixed terrain rides i’ve brought my carbon hardtail on, the performance on the roads has never been so awful to detract from how good it is on the trails (and honestly it’s not bad on gravel roads and double track imo)

@radiocontrolled9181 Год назад

Yep, Maxxis Pace for me do the trick ....