No but I do have a IXF crank set on my jump bike that's held up to abuse for the past 2 and a half years. I would definitely buy again if the price stays the same
GMBN always looks so much fun ... Compare that to the Global Triathlon Network where they are usually comparing socks or not socks, or how to transition in order to save 0.01 seconds, etc ..... the fun is here !!
GMBN has just the people with that special something, the typical you'd like to be friends with, of all the different GCN channels. I love Heather though.
Those guys get up to some pretty crazy excursions every now and then! Still worth a watch on a lot of the highlights ... but of course... keep it here 😉
@@gmbn btw, hope you guys covered certain types of bikes. I LOVE fitness bikes and I have a Canyon Pathlite 6 (2022 model), which is technically a hardtail (1X 36T 10-51T XT Deore 12 gears cassette) and my most favourite bike at home (I also have a road bike and a MTB), and I'd love to see those types of bikes features in this channel. It's also a beautiful bike imho. My most favourite bike ever when it comes to looks is the Canyon Roadlite 6 2023 model (1X drivetrain 46T, 12 gears XT Deore 10-51T cassette like a MTB). But for very hilly places like the one where I live where the weather is very rainy etc, the Pathlite 6 is a better fit, that's why it's called mountain biking, even if you aren't just in the trails. Other GCN channels might cover gravel bikes but those aren't a fit, plus they have drop bars, which is not my thing, and most of them imho just look like road bikes with fatter tyres, meh, also many of them have very similar gearing compared to road bikes, meh again.
I use my brother's leather track sportbike gloves with carbon fiber slidepads and i love them, they're absolutely overkill but since they're super thin they don't cook my hands, wich is a problem with other gloves since i'm a sweaty dude
Hilarious, you need to do more of this kind of videos where you guys just mess around and do silly stuff. You made my Monday morning a little less dreadful, thanks a lot!
Rich is very brave, testing that cheap saddle. Every proctologist watching this video exhibited an expression of horror. I also learned from this video never to buy a product that has more than 10 words in its name.
He wouldn't test the fake carbon seat because he was concerned about safety but happily sent it on the crazy back rest one, which was probably the more dangerous of the two!
I bought a seatpost-mounted mudguard for my MTB (reputable brand), and within about 10 minutes of my first ride I swung my rear leg over the seat and broke it off.... After that I just excepted I would be muddy on the MTB from then on.
Very amusing guys. Respect to your bravery in testing those saddles - a failure could lead to the insertion of a seat post into a delicate region. Having worked in A&E you guys need to know that we never believe the stories about how the object got there!
A bit more expensive safety glasses would be perfect. As for the gloves. I've bought leather gardening gloves last fall. And all time I've spent mowing the lawn since then was asking myself how would they work as a mtb gloves. They're leather not fabric, they fit very well. I'll try one day. In general - in my opinion MTB brands are overpriced significantly. I've got for example decent motocross FLY googles which cost 1/3 of the MTB specific ones. It's worth trying.
I exclusively ride in work gloves. I typically buy the Husky brand from Home Depot, they go on sale a couple times a year for 10 bucks for a three pack. They fit great, have knuckle protection, and even have a sweat wiper.
I was looking for a pair of MTB gloves, but ended up using work gloves akin to the ones you showed, except they cost 1.5€ a pair! The grip is excellent, they work with touchscreens, and I got two thicknesses for winter/summer riding! I do agree that you need to go for a smaller size to keep them tightly on the fingers, rhe only downside is they smell awful and they still do after one year of sweating and washing!
5:00 Chromium and molybdenum are the two elements that give chromoly steel its name. It’s not made up, or a translation fail, even if it’s not clear whether there actually _is_ any in that impending splinter injury of a saddle.
I used to use painting and construction safety glasses back in the 90's for MTB. I still buy very cheap glasses from RockBros for even now. I'm not going to wear $50, $100, $200 glasses on a ride when they can be destroyed so easily. To each their own.
@@ivansemanco6976 lmao, if you went overkill i just disintegrated existance with my 2009 Demo 8. Old but gold, i love this thing. Currently living an undesired adventure about the rear shock, the original one got destroyed by using too large a coil and i found a DHX2 Factory Series kashima looking and feeling fresh out the box for 200 bucks with no spring. Turns out the mounting hardware isn't compatible from the old to the new shock and i had to have a custom one made. Now i tested the shock and when it reaches full extention in jumps (not compression) it makes a fairly loud noise that has me concerned, hopefully it's nothing catastrophic. I don't ride super hard but i just love DH bikes and i don't mind the workout
Molybdenum is the the moly in Chrome/cro- moly. Common alloy added to steel. Most of which comes from Climax Mine near Leadville, Colorado. Mo- lib- du- num.
That saddle looked sketchy as hell but the cro-moly bit was probably the best of it. All decent steel bike frames are made of cro-mo (chrome molybdenum). Back in the day cro-mo was the only material for decent mountain bikes as opposed to hi-tensile steel which the cheaper bikes were made of.
The saddle is not for MTB rides. It's for a regular commuter bikes, probably the "Dutch" style with an upright back to gain any support out of the backrest.
Two saddles in the video and both fall way short of any expectation. The Jingpin looks like something you'd buy from Alibaba, and the 'carbon' saddle was creaking before it was even sat on. 😳
I don't know, but that seat saved you an emergency room visit from shaving down your nutz or other Netherlands on the back tire. Not that I've ever experienced that.
A feel a new double-act brewing... more comedy bike bits please. This was very entertaining. Also made me wish I was in Finale....especially with the stormy weather here in the UK.
Turbospokes are the best. Avaiable in Brisbane for $14 from Kmart. Slowest time in our group at an Enduro race had to run the Turbospoke at the next race - no excuses. Brilliant!!
As a broke biker, I have found that most of rock bros products were OK...ish. Especially for the money. While commuting in the dark, I also use clear safety glasses mostly to keep the wind out. On cold mornings I could use something with antifog while stuck at reds, but for a few bucks, not the end of the world.
I must admit , I tried those mudguards ages ago , commuting to work and not getting a wet ass en route , and when having fun on the " long way " back home , natural trails etc. , pushed them together and they actually did stay in one piece for the next morning to work ..
Mudguard: I do like the Idear of it. Someone should do some that actually work. Fake Leather Grips: They look like Fake SQLab Trekking ones we had for years in the store I work.
I think there's already a Donut media fan thing going on with your crew, but every time Pumphrey gets to read out those silly Amazon-Wish-Ali Express descriptions its a golden moment!!!
I have similar work gloves in my car for doing trail work. On a couple occasions I've used them on rides when I have forgotten my bike gloves. They worked well enough for me.
I attached an Atlas rocket on my MTB. Unfortunately the bike suffered structural failures upon lift off. The worst part is that I scratched my right knee.
Just paused at the last one because well...idk how I feel about it without watching the rest of the video so my complete unbiased opinion is...hell why not I'd give it a try
I think they make product names so long online so they show up in keyword searches. They do the same with books (obnoxiously long, descriptive subtitles).
I’ve been wearing safety reading glasses for many years absolutely great. Don’t want to mess up expensive prescription glasses. But I used higher quality ones. Between 10-20 dollars.
@@gmbn I don't exactly know why they made them like that, but one dude at my workplace never retracts it or atleast I haven't seen him retract it. My other workmate that has the same fender, made some sort of attachment that he screwed directly into the mudguard to make it a little bit more durable, he can't retract it obviously but he says he never retracts it anyways🤷.
@@gmbn those are horrible mudguards for sure but the foldable/telescopic feature would allow them to work with some bike racks that have a hook that goes over the tires.
Amazing Love the content, Yesterday I create my own exhuast for my bike using a player card and a peg same position just dosn't have the muffler, sounds like a pit bike
I got a Full Carbon Rockbros saddle that looks just like the $325 S-works power saddle. It was $50, thousands of miles on it, if it breaks I will buy another!
That exhaust one reminds me of when I was a kid with my friends I would put cardboard like a rear mud guard taping it so it would touch the wheel and used to think it would sound so cool lol. I think the cardboard actually sounds better than the exhaust lol
Amber safety glasses from a reputable safety equipment store are very cheap (from $3 NZD, bout Pound fiddy)... Smooth optics as they are better quality... and bonus... Amber lenses allow you to travel in and out of a forrest section without being blinded or needing a guide dog... they have the effect of turning on a light in the shade sections (You MUST try someone's Amber specs.. Please. Gloves... There are some cheap MX gloves and Cheap suede leather work gloves (like car accessory shops sell.. I have a pair from NX Supercheap) ... excellent... and when the finger stitching etc goes... cut back (usually you can leave the last 2 for a while) the fingers for summer fingerless palm protection.
That saddle will break. A friend of mine used something like that and that junk couldn't handle his weight and the part of the saddle that held on to the rails literally broke. Absolute rubbish.
i had one of those seats, what you did not know that if you are a chunky rider like i am 150kg rider, the springs loose their strength at about 100km of riding and the seat frame starts to bend like a old tree.
I ride with Bollie safety glasses easy to get from toolstation or screewfix and long lasting. I wear the same style of glasses for work and bever had an issue with distortion. Great alternative
I just think that many of these products are meant for commuters, so it's no wonder that they are less than half pleasing when used on the actual trails. Btw, PU leather as grip material will never sit right with me. 🤣🤣
