The Hardest Ride I've Ever Done! Higher Ground HUNDO!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Wow! What a weekend! Higher Ground Hundo in Johnstown, PA was an awesome event. Two night of camping, beers, food, new friends and the hardest 72 miles I've ever done. 8300 feet of elevation! It was a mix of gravel, dirt and roads - all up and down. Challenging and fun bike event.
I will definitely be back! #gravelbikes #gravelride
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Calvin on the single speed! He's an animal. We rode the 50 (56.5) miler and it was the toughest thing I've done. Good times.
Yeah - and he still out climbed me! I heard there was a super tough climb on the 50. These ride’s definitely weren’t about the mileage but the feet up!
“There’s some some really tough climbs in them, but they END!” 😅
8:38 Gotta watch out for the laser goats.
I don’t know if goats go after people - but I didn’t hang around to find out either. 🐐!
That looks like a tough ride. We just finished up the Katy Trail a few days ago. I'll have to get in the chat and talk about it. Great music! :D
It was - but worthwhile! I’ve seen lots of videos on the Katy Trail - I definitely want to do that at some point.
Amazing video, I love the how the sky looked with the fall colors that day Amazing 👏!
It was stunning! 🍁
Great ride..loved the scenery.👍🏾
It was so rad - I already signed up for next years!
Thank you....that looked really cool !
Heck yeah - it was a blast!
@@TimFitzwater thanks for sharing
Nice view cool talk thnx bub
Hey Buddy, new to the channel, love the way you describe the ride as we watch the vid, fantastic.
Hello from London Uk 🍁🍁🍁
Thanks so much! As a music & history nerd visiting London is bucket list for me. Cheers! 🍻
@@TimFitzwater fantastic, whenever you get to London get in touch, we’ve got a spare bike for a ride 🏁🏁🏁
Your thoughts on a bigger range rear cassette - Tim channelling his inner PLP 😳
Ha - just don't need it that much around here - totally needed it out there!! For the record though - I never stopped running 2x - so I was ahead of Russ on that!!
As always great video Tim 😊
Thanks!
nice video thanks for sharing
Thank you!
Hell yeah. Looked like a fun weekend.
It was awesome!
Incredible scenery here. The fall colors have been amazing in MN as well. I especially like the scene at 10:35
They seemed to charge quick and peak quick but so amazing. On my way to CT now and hoping it is still colorful.
WOW….What a epic ride. The views 😍 were AWESOME. 🍁⛰🍂
It was awesome - perfect peak Fall colors too!
Banger! Ride and vid 😀
Thanks!! It was so good.
Sounds tough… and awesome. Type 2 fun and good times you’ll remember. Thanks for sharing it with us.
My parents asked if I’d do it again - I was thinking maybe I’ll just do the 50 - but by next year I know I’ll probably be back in on the longer ride! 😎
Nice to meet ya Tim! Glad you made it out to Johnstown. It was a punishing ride for sure…Calvin is a wild man lol.
Nice to meet you! You guys/gals where all pretty tough - but single speed hundo takes the cake!
I concur everything you've said. I've ridden further, and higher, but this was the hardest ride I've done without bonking. Got started an hour late due to mechanical and GPS issue. Absolutely loved it. That long 5 mile gravel climb was just mean. Calvin was Emmet's friend on the single speed Crust Lightning Bolt. Off to Nutmeg next, see ya there!
Calvin - yes - thanks! I was repeating so many names in my head really trying my best to remember - specially the people I know I'll see next week.
I've gone longer many times but never that much elevation - but I can imagine a ride with more elevation that isn't this hard. See you next week! I'm excited for it!
Great job Tim & Co. Epic. This is what it's all about.
Thanks! It was definitely epic! 🍂 🍁
Amazing ride you did there Tim. I've never biked at Johnstown however about 25 years ago I did travel there by Amtrack when there was a stop behind Quaker Square. left very early in the morning back after midnight. Visted the Johnstown Flòod Museum.
Thanks. I rode right past the Amtrak station - can still get there from Cleveland I was told. Hopefully I will get back and have time to visit places like the museum.
damn the landscape your rode through looks epic! like a nuanced hybrid of rocky mountain foot hills with some west coast open meadows.
It was pretty amazing! 🍁🍂
Way to go!!!!! I did a similar ride a couple weeks ago and sounds like we had a very close experience. The feeling of accomplishment afterwards!
Thanks! Yeah - some people don't get it - but it is amazing to push yourself like that(sometimes)!
Great videos. Missing the Midwest. Not the cold.
Even though we are in cold morning/evening territory this is my favorite time of year - so amazing out(not looking forward to what comes next).
Fuck yes. Northeast what's up
Heck yeah!
I'd love to be doing those rides but I got my own life trip I'm on for now.
Sounds like fun, but maybe something shorter. Are you using an extension on your head tube? I need something to save my back and this was one solution or buy a new-er bike - which isn't awful either. But does it work for you or is raising the stem angle better?
I never cut my steerer down too short on this bike. I also just flipped my stem to raise the bars a bit too.
Nothing wrong with the e-bike if you think that is the best route for you. Also look into something like the Velo Orange Happy Stem - a fairly elegant way to bump your bars up and closer. I have two for other bikes that were a bit too stretched. (Something like sweep bars are also an option a lot of people had at this ride - may require you to change your controls though.)
Tim that is quite an accomplishment. How does your back feel? Mine does not like long climbs like that.
Thanks! I was definitely feeling them - the combination of long/steep/loose was tough on it. Still a bit sore. Ice & Advil!
@@TimFitzwater so impressive! Especially, while nursing an injury!
@@dawngifford1638 Thanks! Probably not the best idea but....
Hey there. Do you have a link to your titanium handlebars?
I don’t - I bought them at Dirty River Bicycle Works. They are made by Carver - I don’t even know what the model name is.
@@TimFitzwater thank you!!!
i don't understand the desire to replenish with beer after such a depletion. i'd go for a bananas and ovaltine milkshake and a burrito.
i would also require bong breaks on such a beautiful ride, i'm not gonna lie. alcohol is just so entrenched in our society. wrong poison!
looks fun as heckfire though.
It was an awesome event!
There were plenty of people smoking grass, plenty of people drinking their water bottles - nothing is required and no one gave anyone shit for their personal choices. My kind of people.
(I definitely enjoyed a beer or 5 though)
@@TimFitzwater no judgement, just puzzlement. i would fall over after that.
Great job Tim, as expected.
Looking ahead to Nutjob err I mean Nutmeg...
Yeah! 🍁