5 Unbelievably Light Hill Climb Bikes | 2020 National Hill Climb Champs Tech
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2024
- We were at the 2020 National Hill Climb Championships to take a look at some of the wildest, maddest most ultra-lightweight tech to feature at this year's event.
Hill climb racing is all about your power-to-weight ratio and, while aero considerations come into play on longer or faster climbs, there are still potentially significant gains to be made by dropping weight from your bike.
Potential performance gains aside, dropping grams from your bike is also a lot of fun, and ogling the resulting builds is even more fun (and less harmful to your bank account than doing it yourself).
Which of these stealthy bikes makes you want to ride uphill as fast as possible? Would you like to try hill climbing? Let us know in the comments!
This video was filmed before Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in England. Some shots used are also from 2019 and 2018, before the pandemic.
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Which of these stealthy bikes makes you want to ride uphill as fast as possible? Would you like to try hill climbing? Let us know in the comments!
I still love Joe's custom Al build from a few years ago. Absolutely loved the process of designing and making the bike. In saying that, as a 100+kg rider I think I will stick with a sturdier frame and pushing it up hill 😂
Seeing as the SuperSix Hi-Mod (with horizontal top tube and non-dropped seat-stays) is the nicest frame from the last 5 or 10 years, it obviously wins on this list too 🙂
I’ve just realized that hills climbs are normal to me. My hometown where I used to live is actually called Addition Hills. The first thing I do when I get back home from school as a kid is ride my bike (first BMX & later MTB) all over town. I love to ride fast. So what I do is climb the highest hills so I can ride really fast downhill. I never thought picking up cycling again as an adult that i’m a hill climber. Since i’ve always fancied myself as a downhill rider.
I'd pick the fixed-gear Dolan for a hill climb any day! (well, at least for a short, steep one)
Hill climbing is utterly intriguing. I ride road to stay fit for MTB. Living in Vermont we are all about the climb to get the down. Most of the KOM's on my local road route are up hill. LONG LIVE THE CLIMB!
Hill climbs are very popular in Japan where I live. They are generally much longer but many are also steep and it is surprising that you don’t see this level of commitment to weight weeniism. If you could do a Japanese version of this video, it might start a revolution... and send the price of Hunt tubular wheels and Cane Creek ee brakes skyrocketing!
That's interesting, thanks for the comment! BikeRadar's video manager Felix would love to check out the hill climb scene in Japan, although the hills can be extremely tough!
Wolftooth Components for the win!
Josh is my mechanic so a bit biased to be fair but defo looks the best out of all of them. Cube all day long!!!!!
The X-lite was my fav!
🤔 Hills? I live in the Netherlands 5 meters below sea level...
très bonne vidéo je vais suivre ta chaine !!!
6:47 Is that Hamish 'two quick links' McDougal?
They're all quirky and awesome, but the Rose X-Lite steals the show.
I prefer a 3by but I would pick the Cube light, cool ride
I managed to do Streatley Hill at 54 mph... What fun.
There is something mischievously zen-like in presenters demeanor. I think it answers the question of: what it would look like if a Buddhist monk who was a bike racer in previous life, dreamt he was a Pokemon, and went to make a video while sleepwalking.☺️
We think that might be one of the most intriguing descriptions of Jack we've ever read! Thanks for watching, from all at BikeRadar.
Hill climb 😎🤘🏻
Just stumbled upon a hill climb video... I am captivated.... All I have thought about for two days is buying and stripping a bike...
those pads at 7:54.... :O
Gutted my prediction of all the HC races being cancelled (including nationals) didn't pay off. Not because I didn't get to race, no. Because my bike didn't get to feature on this glorious channel with Jack 😂.
Hopefully see you next year! Thanks for watching, from your friends at BikeRadar 💥
That Dolan frameset is sooo nice
We think so too! Thanks for watching from all at BikeRadar.
@@bikeradar While you're here, more fixie fashionista Jake content please :)
@@TransforDerek Stop, I'll blush x Thanks for the comment! Jack
I understand. Too much home-office is a slippery slope but staying in pajamas even for a video posing is maybe pushing it too far :)
Was this on Streatly Hill? My first car could barely make it up there! Brutal
That cube is so sexy.
Why go with a normal sized bike though? Get some 20 inch wheel and drop some real weight!
Perhaps od sized wheel combinations would also be nice to experiment with 🤔
It's probably not practical in terms of sourcing components, but to be fair I did see a guy ride a superlight folding bike with HED trispokes at a hill climb and thought you could save a lot of weight with a weird custom bike like that!
I'd take the fixie over all 4 of the other bikes
My bike weighs 3kgs and I weigh 140kgs, any good?
I would like a 20 mile hillclimb fest
McFk is pronounced as MuckFuck. how brilliant is that.
The bikes start at 2:50.
Was that Cycling Weekly's Rupert at 1:38?
Oh it's not. Sure looked like him tho
I live in Norfolk 😢
My favourite?The Dolan fixie,hands down.
And here's something that I imagined:
Converting a road bike to ss(with an appropriate ss freehub conversion kit and chain tensioner),while using those Hunt wheels.We might be seeing a weight loss of at least 100g(from the lack of shift cable,and the option to use tt brake levers on bullhorn bars).
Boy, things have changed. What happened to full Campagnolo beautiful Columbus tubing Custom made Wizard and Masi bicycles? Been 20+ years since I have been on my Schwinn High Sierra 40 Lb. Mountain bicycle. As a trainer of mainly Senior 2 riders I could stay with the Cat 1 and 2 paks pretty well training 300 to 500 miles per week. Those were the days!
dolan
Some nice bikes; but I've never understood the attraction of hillclimbs - ultra lightweight riders and bikes need only apply.
To me it reminds me of being a kid - no team tactics, no drafting, just who can get to the top fastest??? Something very pure about that
Would you say "I don't understand the attraction of Matched Sprints, only musclebound hulk men need apply"?
Although that does help if you want to win, we've found the local (to us) hill climb scene is very accessible with lots of first timers and plenty of stock road bikes being raced. If you watch last years Hill Climb Diaries you'll see video manager Felix has racing on his gravel bike!
Hill climb is not really a thing here in Washington state. I see you covering it or talking about it allot on here which makes me think it's a big thing in europe. It should be big here in Seattle since we definatly have hills. You can go for a ride and gain and loose 2,000 feet easily in under 6 miles without even leaving the relative down town area. Smooth pavement, cobles, dirt trails we have it all right outside your door.
I was expecting an Aethos
Too heavy 🤣
There's no rim brake option for an Aethos so I doubt hillclimbers would use it. If there was a rim brake option, the frame would absolutely be light enough but would probably need some modifications to get into this gallery of bikes (the whole thing is still over 6 kilos)
Don't care how fast or how good you are. Not wearing a helmet on a bike is full idiocy!😏
so they’re not wearing helmets because it weighs too much..?
No disc brakes :) Please tell me, why bikes manufactures are forcing people to buy bikes with disc brakes.
Because, other than in fairly niche applications (e.g. hill climbing), noone is buying rim brake bikes.
Because disk brakes are better and ruining rims is dumb.
@@mazevx2451 Sssshhhh, let them have their crappy brakes and bizarre sense of superiority :)
Maybe because no need to brake in this race ?
@@nicolasledoux355 good point...
Cutting 20g rubber hoods off your shifters and then wearing a helmet, right.
Video of MTB on a road hill climb vid is stupid
helmets should be mandatory though..
Caveat Emptor - This is gonna get plastered on every single Dolan bike clip i can find on youtube as a warning to the buyer.
I purchased a reduced price frame with a "cosmetic blemish" that was so rediculously small not even their own cameras could document it. Turns out a year later that the actual frame is misaligned and not fit for purpose. How did this frame get past Q&A at the factory and at Dolan itself? Greed.
They put this frame out with the "cosmetic" defect fully knowing that it was not cosmetically defective but structurally defective. I only discovered this a year later when i tried to build it up, finally, after getting parts. I paid decent money for a junk frame that i cannot even sell as i dont want anybody riding this piece of shit of a frame. So now i am out of pocket. A lot of money of out pocket
If you buy anything of theirs, be it new or if it has a "cosmetic defect", inspect it immediately. I emailed them when i discovered this. Of course it was ignored and no response given.
Personally, i would avoid buying anything at all from them now that i know what practices they use. Basically sell the customer shit that is not fit for purpose and hope they dont discover it right away. I would avoid any of their sales purported to be "cosmetically defective" as that most likely means the frame was sold, came back and they are trying to shift it that way.
I am actually thinking of sending this to Hambini so he can explain to me why my bottom bracket does not want to last. Thsi will be a huge negative publicity for them.
How did this frame get past the internal Q&A at the manufacturing level as well at Dolan's themselves? You tell me.