I love how Danny refers to "us" winning and in posts he thanks his team properly. A legend does not have to play at having no support. I respect the personal character as much as his stellar riding style. Impressive.
Danny might not win every race but he is the riders rider and massively consistent. He takes the difficult technical lines other top riders shy away from and he’d be the last person still riding his bike if all the fame/money left DH. He is so egoless anybody (even your gran on her shopping trolley bike) could feel they could go up to him and chat bikes to him and he’d respond in kind. Good luck this season Danny Boy 🤟
What a great video, Steve is an excellent interviewer, he knows the tech and he gets Danny to open up. I could watch these sort of vids with any MTB discipline. Do Nino next!
Amazing interview - and an amazing guy, best of luck in future races! Also - for me watching from little Latvia, amazing to see brands that I can afford, maybe not at the top level - on my own bikes - being 40, tomorrow I'm expecting delivery at last of my first "world class" front fork for my HT - 2021 SID Ultimate SL - can't wait. Keep up the ride!
That glory was gorgeous. I have the same colorway with my Faith 0 2010. You can actually setup older bikes mullet 29 27, or 27 and 26. Use anglesets. i got my faith into a mullet 29 and 27 with a 63 degree head angle. Some bikes you may need custom dropouts though for clearance issues.
@@Yoda-em5mt Yes I think most people can convert inches to mm. That said, 50/0.25=200 not 2000. If you want 50” in mm it’s 50/0.03937 or 50x25.4 both will roughly equal 1270mm. I guess even an old Jedi can get confused.
the newer bigger bikes are great for being stable in racing but i still prefer the older 26 bikes for slope style/ hitting jumps they feel like a dirt jumper but with 200mm travel shocks great to wipe around
I believe they did. Danny's dad was pretty vocal about the problems, but didn't actually go into detail. The response from Saracen when the contract ended had quite a bitter monotone to it as well.
It's funny to see the similarities between Downhill and F1. I mean how people are talking about the earlier eras with the smaller bikes being much more entertaining to watch than nowdays with the almost overcapable bikes. Somewhat the same in F1. When Alonso did a showrun a few years ago in Abu Dhabi with an older and much smaller F1 people where shocked about the direction change of the thing compared to the much bigger, longer and more stable current F1 cars.
why wheelbase in inches when everything else is in CM/MM? it's pretty inconvenient could just not talk about the numbers and had a slide in part with measurements somewhere on the screen
Wheelbase on the older bikes was only available in imperial, you just couldn't get metric even though the manufacturers used metric for the rest of their sizing. I mean seriously, either size in imperial or all metric if you are going to give specifications.
Love the bike design th-cam.com/users/postUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L and functionality. It is hard to align the front tired to center the disk brakes. The brake wheel touches the stationery side of the brake caliper and pad. I aired the tire up to 40 psi as the markings say 40-60psi. Left the house for a few hours and came back to an exploded innertube.All in all it seems to be a good bike. Have not ridden it yet though so that's the max of my knowledge. Update, put a new innertube made sure the tire was set properly and it did the same thing in under 20 minutes as second pic shows.
BB height, chainstays and wheelbase(*) are actually pretty interesting numbers, but who on earth cares for the downtube length? The headtube angle, reach and stack would be way more interesting! And of course which framesize it actually is! Seattube angle is obviously not that important on a DH bike. (*): but why on earth use inches for the wheelbase, when you can use mm instead? His explanation is weak, because the wheels aren’t really measured in inches. In fact they don’t even measure 26“;27,5“ and 29“. These „measurements“ don’t stand for the real diameter of the wheel, it’s just a convenience for naming them. I know it’s stupid, but somebody decided it would be great to throw around vaguely guessed inch sizes, which end up being different from what they in fact measure. Calling 27,5“ 650b was a great approach, but the mtb industry sadly preferred the dumb random inch numbers, which is all you nowadays hear.
We picked Steve Jones for this because of his mountain bike history. Steve is one of the longest-serving and most knowledgeable people within the entire mountain bike industry, especially when it comes to DH racing. Think he was just excited to catch up with Danny and see these bikes 😂
@@wenlambotomy6231 I’m so sorry for your loss and weird things happened. But yes God does things for a reason and once again I’m so very sorry because that should never happen to anyone may God bless you.
I love how Danny refers to "us" winning and in posts he thanks his team properly. A legend does not have to play at having no support. I respect the personal character as much as his stellar riding style. Impressive.
that 2011 downhill run was mindblowing
th-cam.com/video/6KZV7zfMGTg/w-d-xo.html (focus on the commentators though, but not less funny ^^)
It still blows my mind
@@AlBorland3877 thanks
I go back and watch it all the time, It gives me chills, Absolutely love it
Basketball hoop between a glass window and glass doors, that's confidence in your game!
Thats plenty of money for new glass 😂
Danny's initials are DH! Born to be a DownHill legend!!!
The newer bigger bikes are obviously more stable and faster but damn the 26" era was exciting to watch!
the told 26s are still great for a slope style bike
@@nickdaigle yea i still ride a 26" glory, best bike I've ever ridden.
Lovely weather in Redcar, video shows Saltburn...
Great vid but downtube? Why not head tube angle? Also reach (and wheelbase) are the most important numbers in the evolution of DH geo.
Danny might not win every race but he is the riders rider and massively consistent. He takes the difficult technical lines other top riders shy away from and he’d be the last person still riding his bike if all the fame/money left DH. He is so egoless anybody (even your gran on her shopping trolley bike) could feel they could go up to him and chat bikes to him and he’d respond in kind. Good luck this season Danny Boy 🤟
What a great video, Steve is an excellent interviewer, he knows the tech and he gets Danny to open up. I could watch these sort of vids with any MTB discipline. Do Nino next!
Good to see you up in my neck of the woods and with the GMBN lads Steve, Dannys rigs are phenomenal.
My favourite Danny hart bike was the mondraker summum. Such a sick bike!
2016 Mondraker Summun was a huge improvement
Amazing interview - and an amazing guy, best of luck in future races! Also - for me watching from little Latvia, amazing to see brands that I can afford, maybe not at the top level - on my own bikes - being 40, tomorrow I'm expecting delivery at last of my first "world class" front fork for my HT - 2021 SID Ultimate SL - can't wait. Keep up the ride!
Favourite Dannys bike is 2011 Giant!
Iconic!
Huge thanks for this vid guys! Need to see Dan doing a reactions test The man is lightning
That glory was gorgeous. I have the same colorway with my Faith 0 2010. You can actually setup older bikes mullet 29 27, or 27 and 26. Use anglesets. i got my faith into a mullet 29 and 27 with a 63 degree head angle. Some bikes you may need custom dropouts though for clearance issues.
Legend, thanks for the great video and memories
Danny thanks for bringing us all the dirty dan tyres most fun ive had in the slopp ever .
I’m a hack trail rider but I switched from Kona to Cube on my last bike. This is a really good bike manufacturer.
I have never clicked on a video so fast
He’s a legend
Was great to be able to talk about these bikes! What was your favourite?
@@gmbntech the glory he did the most amazing run on
Wheelbase in inches! I’m British and wheelbase in inches means nothing to me 😂
Yeah annoying, makes no sense
Depends what year you was brought up. I was brought up with Metric & imperial.
Stop wiening 50 ÷ .25 = 2000mm some people like inches some mm for ff sake .
@@Yoda-em5mt Yes I think most people can convert inches to mm. That said, 50/0.25=200 not 2000. If you want 50” in mm it’s 50/0.03937 or 50x25.4 both will roughly equal 1270mm. I guess even an old Jedi can get confused.
@@satchelofdoom1564 my mistake i am very very old
Danny is the best British downhill rider keep it up i would love to ride with a local legend i been watching for past ten years mtb bike life
You mean Rob Warner #egg
@@richardwager283 no Danny hart is the the British rider and rob carnt ride downhill bikes anymore he a oldman now he needs a Ebike
@@sarahluther9671 he’s an old man who’ll spank your ass on any downhill track on any bike yer splitarse.
Summum and Danny are legends.
Oh man seeing that truvativ boobar brings me back
the newer bigger bikes are great for being stable in racing but i still prefer the older 26 bikes for slope style/ hitting jumps they feel like a dirt jumper but with 200mm travel shocks great to wipe around
Interesting, totally glossed over Saracen. No bike, little chat about them, makes it seem like they split on bad terms.
I was hoping to hear something about his Myst, I am riding one now...
...Like they split on bad terms... Lol.
I was thinking the same
I believe they did. Danny's dad was pretty vocal about the problems, but didn't actually go into detail. The response from Saracen when the contract ended had quite a bitter monotone to it as well.
Great insight.
Great segment about MTB evolution.
The Saracen Myst 2019 was my favourite, especially because of the pixel graphics.
Best video in a while
Thanks Tomi
@@gmbntech Can't beat the Tech show though!
I think I'd go with that sweet mondraker
This guy likes he's own voice way to much, let us hear Danny talk!! Missed some of the most important specs and geo numbers as well....
It's funny to see the similarities between Downhill and F1. I mean how people are talking about the earlier eras with the smaller bikes being much more entertaining to watch than nowdays with the almost overcapable bikes. Somewhat the same in F1. When Alonso did a showrun a few years ago in Abu Dhabi with an older and much smaller F1 people where shocked about the direction change of the thing compared to the much bigger, longer and more stable current F1 cars.
cracks me up how people are so addicted to 800mm handlebars and even Danny here is saying the bigger PRO RIDERS are using 780, and he's on 760.
Summum 🙌🏻
Amazing video please make another one
why wheelbase in inches when everything else is in CM/MM? it's pretty inconvenient could just not talk about the numbers and had a slide in part with measurements somewhere on the screen
i wanted to hear headtube angles
Favourite one has to be the Giant, because I was there!!.
steve jones is so effin' cool
Why use the downtube measurement and not reach and stack? Easier to measure while in the garden?
Seems like a similar measurement that Lee Likes Bikes promotes… calls it the RAD measurement…
www.leelikesbikes.com/rad-bike-setup.html
One is possible to measure quite accurately by anyone with the tape measure, the other one isn´t.
Shame we didn’t see the Appalachie. Beautiful bike.
Cool video but it would have been nice to have some clips interspersed here and there when they are talking about his runs
They can’t due to licensing.
big up the north east im still running a beautiful 2008 big hit s works see ya at hamsterly forest
What about headtube angle Steve? How has that changed over the years
great video
Cheers
Good stuff with a good guy.
stay on yo Bike
The glory
Awesome!!
Hell of a personality 😆
Favourite winning bike is Mondraker
great stuff
ta
Steve looking at a bike without a stick seems wrong.
Spoke too soon, he found a rake, now to see if he whacks a bike with it.
Morning folks
que buenas bikes hart !!!
Who on earth measures wheelbase in inches? Then all the others in metric.
Snapierre
Why some geometry specs are provided in metric while wheel base in inches? Thats so inconsistent and simply not elegant.
Wheelbase on the older bikes was only available in imperial, you just couldn't get metric even though the manufacturers used metric for the rest of their sizing.
I mean seriously, either size in imperial or all metric if you are going to give specifications.
Danny is like the Johnny Vegas of bike.
His accent sounds alot like a young Lemmy from motorhead.🤘
Not heard that one before!
a cracked leppiere. Written in the stars
The giant looks older than lapierre bike
" = inches. ' = foot. Who did the captions?
I bought a 2015 summum and still rips now
should have put video clips over this
looks like a Mc Kanzie HIll 500 =D
Love the bike design th-cam.com/users/postUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L and functionality. It is hard to align the front tired to center the disk brakes. The brake wheel touches the stationery side of the brake caliper and pad. I aired the tire up to 40 psi as the markings say 40-60psi. Left the house for a few hours and came back to an exploded innertube.All in all it seems to be a good bike. Have not ridden it yet though so that's the max of my knowledge. Update, put a new innertube made sure the tire was set properly and it did the same thing in under 20 minutes as second pic shows.
Steve... throws shit scope at Danny after Bike 1, later apologizes for waving it in Danny’s face. What a laugh... thanks!
the fisrt 27,5 rocket
did Saracen not let him keep his bike? :D
A lot of brands don’t.
@@danervin2530 really? Most racers I've known (WCDH and EWS) keep their "home" bikes and sell them each year.
@@hobmarg really depends on the brands policy. I’m sure a lot do, but plenty don’t.
lets seee is he can win on cube
BB height, chainstays and wheelbase(*) are actually pretty interesting numbers, but who on earth cares for the downtube length?
The headtube angle, reach and stack would be way more interesting!
And of course which framesize it actually is!
Seattube angle is obviously not that important on a DH bike.
(*): but why on earth use inches for the wheelbase, when you can use mm instead?
His explanation is weak, because the wheels aren’t really measured in inches.
In fact they don’t even measure 26“;27,5“ and 29“.
These „measurements“ don’t stand for the real diameter of the wheel, it’s just a convenience for naming them.
I know it’s stupid, but somebody decided it would be great to throw around vaguely guessed inch sizes, which end up being different from what they in fact measure.
Calling 27,5“ 650b was a great approach, but the mtb industry sadly preferred the dumb random inch numbers, which is all you nowadays hear.
Interesting
But what about Saracen? Did they split on bad terms or what?
I was expecting to see a Saracen bike, No idea
Yes they split on quite bad terms
If I remember correctly some of his Saracen bikes were stolen
26''
Let’s goooooo
Pleased
1st comment bro... 😍😍
✌👍
Does using a shit scoop result in a guaranteed Super nice?
Helps if ye know were you are Jones, that's Saltburn bye the sea ,NOT Redcar in the pic ye showing,ye I know he lives in Redcar
M word the brakes?
Mullet
Still not a fan of the looks of 27/29 mullet bikes... I dont know about the ride though 😂🥲
Pity you didn't have the Myst In your collection ...hope the scrotes who pinched it have Karna coming their way.
what the hell is up with the measurements and Downtube? eh?!
Danny Hart legend. But if your gonna get a presenter please don't get one who went to the 'Dave' channel school of presenting.😆
We picked Steve Jones for this because of his mountain bike history. Steve is one of the longest-serving and most knowledgeable people within the entire mountain bike industry, especially when it comes to DH racing. Think he was just excited to catch up with Danny and see these bikes 😂
Mixing in imperial units is just lame.. shame
God loves you guys and Jesus died for all of our sins
😐
Hail Satan 🤘😈
My 3 year old died of child cancer and god loves me you say!
@@wenlambotomy6231 I’m so sorry for your loss and weird things happened. But yes God does things for a reason and once again I’m so very sorry because that should never happen to anyone may God bless you.
@@lawsonroberts4332 did you just say god let my 3 year old daughter die with a painful debilitating death for a reason! And what was that reason?