That’s what 90% of mountain bikers say on every ride. We’ll think to themselves at least. Can’t be admitting you’re rubbish when you spent >£5k on a bike. 😅
Agreed. And I’d like to see it go the other way where Blake gets taught road racing craft and has to take part in a crit. I reckon he’d do pretty well!
Love how Ollie explains why they've moved the levers so that they're more accessible when you're not on the drops, because who wants to be on the drops on a muddy descent... then Blake spends the entirety of the downhill section on the drops.
Im a mountain biker that recently got a road bike...when i do single track on it, im usually in the drops. The 4 inch lower center of gravity for my torso is a HUGE advantage.
It just depends on the terrain. If it's fast, not too steep not too bumpy, you go for the drops. If it's steep, slower and technical because there is rocks, you prefer be on the hoods in a position more similar to moutain bike flatbar.
@@mirak63I'm the opposite, my hands can bounce off the hoods on the rough stuff, I hold the drops through all the fast and rough and corner carving too
My two absolute favorite presenters in a cross over. Fantastic! You two should make more content together. Like Blake can teach Ollie to send it lika mad man and Ollie could take Blake for an epic 24 h ride or bike packing.
Neil and Si did a bikepacking trip in Iceland a few years back, with Neil on a hardtail and Si on a gravel bike. And Mr 24 hour rides is Hank, not Ollie.
Defo but vice-versa too. Would love to see Blake’s road race placement try beat Ollie’s MTB one. 2 great cyclists trying to outdo one another’s discipline with tips + hints from the GCN/GMBN crews respectively. I’m sure they could both learn a lot off each other, and us lot too at the same time.
One of the best videos in awhile. The dichotomy of Ollie, barely able to ride the jump line on a XTR/Fox Factory build Reactor, and Blake throwing whips on a gravel bike is priceless. I vote that Manon should do the next GCN/GMBN collaboration.
Kudos to the editor that chose the music for Ollie’s decent! I was rolling on the floor! I’m pretty sure Ollie rode them brakes so hard I saw smoke coming off them!
Please more Ollie on a mountain bike! I would love to see him do a series on learning to mountain bike as a cross over, ending with a race. I'm a roadie learning to go off road and the combination of Ollie and Blake is magic.
absolutely love the GCN GMBN crossover episodes! Having Ollie on a mountain bike made me laugh out loud. Would love to see his journey to becoming a proficient mountain biker. More crossover episodes!!!
obviously he's in on the joke. But I can't decide if he's pretending to be worse than he really is, or if he's just never been on a mtb at all before. we would all look like that our first time riding a trail, but I find it hard to believe that he's that green
Nice Ollie ....as a ex roadie and now a MTB XC convert i tell you its the best move i ever made . no cars almost running you over , out in nature and best of it all is the tech skills you acquire . however that said my foundation in road cycling has helped me lots with training stamina and cadence . get out there and ride even if you dont have an expensive dual suspension or fancy hardtail . THE DARK SIDE AWAITS YOU OLLIE ..... great content again from the Cycling Network and both awesome channels keep up the good work
Cool video Ollie. Yeah I like my road bike to. A friend took me out on MTB, I got to ride a Santa Cruz with a dropper which is a great feature to have on a MTB except that one time as I was going down a steep incline, I reached for the dropper but instead got a handful of the front brake lever. Funny how everything slows down as you go over the handle bars then, Bam you hit the ground, I got up looked around got back on the bike. The next day I had a bruise on my left hip(I was 60yrs old), which I thought for sure I was gonna break but, luckily it help up. I haven't ridden a MTB since(64yrs old now) and my hips feel just fine.
I ride MTB from time to time and i am still a beginner. Seeing hin going down so slowly, like i do, makes me feel more comfortable. xD The trail does not look tricky, but as a beginner, i always must use my brakes because i don´t feel safe enought, to get down the trail with more speed. so that was nice to see, that going down so slowly is a normal thing. i feel better now. actually i felt as if i was waching myself. xD
To go all in on a trail needs a lot of confidence in your own skills and trust in your bike and believe me when I say that every mtb guy hammering down a trail super fast has crashed and fallen multiple times before...
Seems like he never had a decent experience on trails. You would expect that he will hit that ramp full gas like what we normally do on tt ramps but he really eased off on the decents, hilarious!
@@bentolzabala4055 you know someone have no MTB experiance if the rear wheel is lifting like that and or if you look how he garbed the brakes. MTB brakes are powerful enough that you need one finger.
unfortunately its a fact that Road riding does not require anywhere near the bike handling skills that mountain bikers do. Other than missing the odd pothole or going round a corner a bit quicker than usual thats about it for a road bike... with continioulsy variable terrain and grip levels a relatively fit MTB rider will win almost every time on a challenge like this. Teach a good mountainbiker to generate power and efficiency and you end up with the best road bikers like Sagan!
Agreed. MBN seems a lot more technical. Only issue is having to drive out to a technical trail to get the full use out of the bike, rather than starting from home. I don't own a mtn bike, but the handling seems fun.
Doing both, I can say Absolutely. Being able to ride more technical trails with jumps and rock gardens takes more technical skill than a road ride. However, a good long road ride takes quite a bit of fitness. I know people that are faster than me on a mountain bike solely because of their riding skill not fitness, Put those riders on a road ride for 50+ miles and they wont make it.
It's a different set of skills. Mountain bikers don't have the pack skills to handle themselves in something like a criterium where dozens of riders are consistently shoulder to shoulder. And cyclocross racers probably have better bike handling than many MTB riders simply because they can't rely on the bike to deal with as many problems on its own.
@@tylerreid1789 I know that a lot of people in the MTB world drive to the trails then ride for 1-2 hours, and mainly focus on descending, tech skills, jumps, etc. But you can hop on an MTB and do all day rides off road on technical and not so technical terrain, and a 50 mile off road ride might take you as much time as a 100 mile road ride. 🙂 It's really up to you how you use your bike. Personally I do long rides on the MTB as well. I ride everything. Gravel, dirt roads, smooth trails, rough trails, sometimes even pavement. We don't have trail systems, bike parks, 2000m tall mountains, but I still enjoy it more than road riding because i'm out in nature with no cars.
Thats just weird....if you enjoy it, and know that sponsors, are the reason these channels are delivering free content, and likes shows sponsors, that we like the content, and makes them continue to sponsor, for more quality content.... weird🤔
@@wonderwatch2239 You are getting stuff mixed up. A TH-cam channel has the right, and often need, to have sponsored content. But: Them having the right, and need, to be sponsored, doesn't come with a "Johnny must watch and throw likes at all of it" clause. That is not how things work. I do respect their business model and even watch some of their sponsored videos. More than half of it i think. I just won't throw a like at people being paid to sell me stuff (with a few exceptions, like this video). Commercials doesn't excist for my benefit. I have no reason to give a commercial a like.
Maybe I'm old. What does dope mean in this context? To me, being old, the word dope can be a noun, meaning 'herbal/happy baccy', or a verb, meaning to alter performance through drugs, for example, the rider was disqualified after allegations of doping.
I think Ollie might have done a bit better with clipless pedals and maybe without the dropper post as well. Blake was more clearly confident on that course environment, but hats off to Ollie for giving it a go and now has the proper Mt biking bruise for his effort. :) Nice to see what a Mt Biker like Blake can do on a gravel bike.
can the gravel bike keep up....actin like we never heard o sam pilgrim! gotta say, that final coffee scene was tip top if you ask me. great way to round up the video. looking how lovely those woods are, us roadies are definitely missing out!
Then Si would surely win? They wanted to show the gravel bike is pretty good, if it got smashed then it wouldn’t of looked so good. Think that’s why they’ve done it this way
@@TheJanope13 blake wasn't pro DH, he jumps, anyway, you missed the point, the difference between Blake/Si would have been way way less than blake/ollie
Definitely love my Orbea Terra, didn’t recognize the frame at first with that oddly design…but Blake provides a sense of realism on my bike if I actually stop babying it
Really fun video to watch. Something I think would be amazing is a relay. For instance; 2 GCN and 2 GMBN presenters (1 from each network per team) race. Climb + Downhill
Ollie has been my man for past couple of years and must have watched most of his clips and learned a lot about roadies. I recently found Blake and watched his clips and ended with a new Giant Talon just to try the trail as a beginner. I took it out on a trail last week for first time in 20 + years and much older and wiser I really did took the trail like Ollie 😃 I can't give up my roadie but found the mtb to be as entertaining in different ways. one thing i will do differently, I will make sure to end the ride with a coffee [real man drink] instead of a tea 😃
Fun video...just goes to show us that, for the most part, MTBer's can ride just about any terrain on their bikes whereas roadies are left with, well, the road. LOL In all seriousness, looked like an interesting bike park. Too bad my back and neck can't take the abuse from jumps or rough rides. Thanks for the collab and sharing.
GCN/GMBN entertainment at it's best. I am a roadie triathlete, but love to watch anything with Blake in. Love the editing, and especially the soundtrack.
This video shows that you can have fun with everything - no matter if the gear is "right"...I mean both Ollie and Blake had a fun time: Mission accomplished right? More of this please 🙂
As a mtb'r planning to make the crossover to start riding road as well once the 2021 bikes are available, would like to see more of Blake on a road bike, maybe some bike handling skills sort of thing, pretty wild to watch him use that gravel bike to its full potential.
Let's take a moment to appreciate that intro. I don't know if it's a UK thing, but where I am in the US, many (though certainly not all) road cyclists seem like they ride with their saddles up their butts. Many of the trails I ride here are adjacent to roads, where I feel the judgemental eyes of roadies looking at me from the pavement as I pedal through flinging mud on my modest hardtail. The snobby roadies here could learn a thing or two from your hilarious, self-deprecating English humor, which encourages me to invest in a road/gravel bike. (But rest assured, I will set my saddle properly when I do!)
Two of my favourite presenters in one fun video? Get outta town! and down to a bike park! Great episode, not gonna lie Ollie going down that path is exactly how I'd be going down too, not leaving the ground. Would love to see Blake teach him some basics and see how he gets on. Also slight advantage to Blake (apart from being amazingly talented) in that he's been riding gravel lately too so he's certainly more familiar with that than Ollie is with mountain biking.
I have always maintained to my roadie mates that XC Mountain biking would be ideal training for Time Trial Road races as you are on the power the whole time - perhaps a video in this regard where Roadies explore the benefits of training on XC Mtb for time trials
GREAT VIDEO! I loved hearing Ollie say with a big smile that he had a lot of fun. It would be neat to see more cross channel videos... like Neil on a road bike or Connor on a MTB.
Seeing Blake destroy that downhill on a gravel bike reminds me of how lame us roadies can be, need more Blake on GCN
Blake is pretty awesome! Wish I could jump a gravel bike like that.
He does love all bikes. As it should be!
We need more Blake, full stop!
And just casually in the drops all the way down, rendering that bit about leverage redundant. For Blake.
John Baxendale Hear, hear.
Ollie - "This is so much fun, even though I'm rubbish" Best Zen cycling quote ever!
Sounds about right for me on the blue trails
That’s what 90% of mountain bikers say on every ride. We’ll think to themselves at least. Can’t be admitting you’re rubbish when you spent >£5k on a bike. 😅
@@mustdobetter6748 Yes you can. I'm shit, so I need the best material to compensate.. :-)
Love this eps, blake now needs to ride a road bike vs ollie
Yes
Now we potentially have a series of head to heads
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Blake On a full TT set up against Ollie on a standard road bike.
Blake’s sprint power and FTP are pretty good, he would give Ollie a run for his money on the road.
I'd love to see a series where GMBN teaches Ollie to ride off-road, similar to his hour record videos. That would surely be great to watch.
would like to see that as well.
Definitely
I second that, it would be great
Agreed. And I’d like to see it go the other way where Blake gets taught road racing craft and has to take part in a crit. I reckon he’d do pretty well!
yep
Love how Ollie explains why they've moved the levers so that they're more accessible when you're not on the drops, because who wants to be on the drops on a muddy descent... then Blake spends the entirety of the downhill section on the drops.
Im a mountain biker that recently got a road bike...when i do single track on it, im usually in the drops.
The 4 inch lower center of gravity for my torso is a HUGE advantage.
It just depends on the terrain.
If it's fast, not too steep not too bumpy, you go for the drops.
If it's steep, slower and technical because there is rocks, you prefer be on the hoods in a position more similar to moutain bike flatbar.
@@mirak63I'm the opposite, my hands can bounce off the hoods on the rough stuff, I hold the drops through all the fast and rough and corner carving too
This entire video is: what I think I look like vs what I actually look like
Andy A. That’s a very insightful comment, actually. I feel that one.
Too right
Mahalo my dude
Right in the feels...
Dr Jekyll Mr. Hyde
The music they used for ollie is killing me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
That was a dirty move, haha
He took his lumps like a champ
GCN vs GMBN. A better crossover than the Avengers 😝
Avengers? Crossover? When?
Very true!
Easy cause Avengers is trash
that moment when your fav. GCN Presenter does a video with your fav. GMBN Presenter.
I love Blake
thanks mate! glad you enjoyed it!
Agreed they are the best
My two absolute favorite presenters in a cross over. Fantastic!
You two should make more content together. Like Blake can teach Ollie to send it lika mad man and Ollie could take Blake for an epic 24 h ride or bike packing.
Hell Yeah,
Or... Or... Ollie introduces Blake into Hill-climbing. Ollie has tons of background experience in that and TT (a.k.a. hill-climbing without a hill).
@@MauricioAlsinaLee That is also an option. :)
Love this idea! My two fave presenters as well!
Neil and Si did a bikepacking trip in Iceland a few years back, with Neil on a hardtail and Si on a gravel bike. And Mr 24 hour rides is Hank, not Ollie.
Blake is a beast! Look at those jumps!
Also, much love to Ollie.
if you think he's a beast here, go back and watch the video where Blake does an FTP test against Si
@@better.better whats the bid called?
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Jumped in the drops, without any suspension :D
I vote that Ollie has a month to get ready for a mountain bike race, and the whole thing gets documented
Sign Ollie up for an EWS 100, with a month to train haha.
And have Neil, Blake and Richard help him train.
Defo but vice-versa too. Would love to see Blake’s road race placement try beat Ollie’s MTB one. 2 great cyclists trying to outdo one another’s discipline with tips + hints from the GCN/GMBN crews respectively. I’m sure they could both learn a lot off each other, and us lot too at the same time.
@@Piplodocus Cracking idea mate!
u compare normal rodie to pro downhill rider 😂
One of the best videos in awhile. The dichotomy of Ollie, barely able to ride the jump line on a XTR/Fox Factory build Reactor, and Blake throwing whips on a gravel bike is priceless. I vote that Manon should do the next GCN/GMBN collaboration.
In the past years, roadies have used the word "dope" a bit more than mtbers I believe 🤔
Nope
Only in a UCI context
that is so funny
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhha , nailed it lol. +1
Kudos to the editor that chose the music for Ollie’s decent! I was rolling on the floor! I’m pretty sure Ollie rode them brakes so hard I saw smoke coming off them!
The crossover is awesome.
Please more Ollie on a mountain bike! I would love to see him do a series on learning to mountain bike as a cross over, ending with a race. I'm a roadie learning to go off road and the combination of Ollie and Blake is magic.
The Senior Citizen at 9:33 gearing up gives me hope i can still play in the dirt forever
With the funny nature of Oliver and Blake together, it is a win win.
absolutely love the GCN GMBN crossover episodes! Having Ollie on a mountain bike made me laugh out loud. Would love to see his journey to becoming a proficient mountain biker. More crossover episodes!!!
The change in music whenever we see Ollie riding doesn't really help him. haha
More crossover episodes please.
Glad you enjoyed the video! More to come!
obviously he's in on the joke. But I can't decide if he's pretending to be worse than he really is, or if he's just never been on a mtb at all before. we would all look like that our first time riding a trail, but I find it hard to believe that he's that green
Please show the full version of Ollie’s obvious fail after that somewhat timid jump
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Reported 🙄
I have also reported but so far it is still there.
Reported
Reported and now it's not there!
I am a simple person, I see Blake, I click
Nice Ollie ....as a ex roadie and now a MTB XC convert i tell you its the best move i ever made . no cars almost running you over , out in nature and best of it all is the tech skills you acquire . however that said my foundation in road cycling has helped me lots with training stamina and cadence . get out there and ride even if you dont have an expensive dual suspension or fancy hardtail . THE DARK SIDE AWAITS YOU OLLIE ..... great content again from the Cycling Network and both awesome channels keep up the good work
Cool video Ollie. Yeah I like my road bike to. A friend took me out on MTB, I got to ride a Santa Cruz with a dropper which is a great feature to have on a MTB except that one time as I was going down a steep incline, I reached for the dropper but instead got a handful of the front brake lever. Funny how everything slows down as you go over the handle bars then, Bam you hit the ground, I got up looked around got back on the bike. The next day I had a bruise on my left hip(I was 60yrs old), which I thought for sure I was gonna break but, luckily it help up. I haven't ridden a MTB since(64yrs old now) and my hips feel just fine.
I love to see Ollie outside of his comfort zone. It brings that everyman quality to the narration that can inspire us to do something different.
"it's basically a 90s MTB with weird handlebars"
very fitting synopsis of gravel bikes.
The awkward response was nicely done too^^
Sporting1210 He has a strong line in ‘awkward’, does our Ollie.
Always makes me laugh.
Just way better components
Its so funny when Oli reacts "with just weird handle bars..", kinda offended saying "yeah." good stuff, the way Blake smashes the course, brilliant.
I've never seen anything with drop bars have that much air time. Seriously well done, and wow - the bike held up.
Ollie looks really good on MTB gear. Take that bloke to a few green and blue trails, GMBN!
Heck, take him to bike park Wales, it's not that far from their offices.
I ride MTB from time to time and i am still a beginner. Seeing hin going down so slowly, like i do, makes me feel more comfortable. xD
The trail does not look tricky, but as a beginner, i always must use my brakes because i don´t feel safe enought, to get down the trail with more speed.
so that was nice to see, that going down so slowly is a normal thing. i feel better now.
actually i felt as if i was waching myself. xD
To go all in on a trail needs a lot of confidence in your own skills and trust in your bike and believe me when I say that every mtb guy hammering down a trail super fast has crashed and fallen multiple times before...
The attitude of blake is just gold. Fun video and shout out to ollie. If you had fun, keep it up, we all have to begin somewhere.
Cheers
Looks like Ollie has never even touched a mtb before🤣
Ollie wasn't slow... He was just majestic and noble!
Seems like he never had a decent experience on trails. You would expect that he will hit that ramp full gas like what we normally do on tt ramps but he really eased off on the decents, hilarious!
@@PrzemyslawSliwinski like a soaring eagle... or a blimp!
@@chr1sj4 A little bit too harsh...
@@bentolzabala4055 you know someone have no MTB experiance if the rear wheel is lifting like that and or if you look how he garbed the brakes. MTB brakes are powerful enough that you need one finger.
Blake aka Hank of GMBN by the looks of it. Production meeting "We've got a silly idea..." "I'LL DO IT!"
Haha!
I wish I rode my mountain bike like Blake rides a gravel bike...
This was great! Best part of mtb is doesn’t matter if you’re slow as long as you’re having fun
As someone who loves both muddy downhill and aero road biking i do find this video quite amusing. Also love the music when ollie gets going (5:30ish)
Was waiting for this since Ollie's stories on IG . Finally 🔥🔥🔥
Brilliant ollie and Blake bike packing now that will be awsome. Slightly different routes and a enduro type race to camp one and two.
I would love to see more such videos of GCN vs GMBN ... Even more Hank vs Blake
Nice Colab! Cycling was the winner on the day!
unfortunately its a fact that Road riding does not require anywhere near the bike handling skills that mountain bikers do. Other than missing the odd pothole or going round a corner a bit quicker than usual thats about it for a road bike... with continioulsy variable terrain and grip levels a relatively fit MTB rider will win almost every time on a challenge like this. Teach a good mountainbiker to generate power and efficiency and you end up with the best road bikers like Sagan!
Agreed. MBN seems a lot more technical. Only issue is having to drive out to a technical trail to get the full use out of the bike, rather than starting from home. I don't own a mtn bike, but the handling seems fun.
Doing both, I can say Absolutely. Being able to ride more technical trails with jumps and rock gardens takes more technical skill than a road ride. However, a good long road ride takes quite a bit of fitness. I know people that are faster than me on a mountain bike solely because of their riding skill not fitness, Put those riders on a road ride for 50+ miles and they wont make it.
Tyler is completely right on this. Is a different type of skillset and fitness required
It's a different set of skills. Mountain bikers don't have the pack skills to handle themselves in something like a criterium where dozens of riders are consistently shoulder to shoulder. And cyclocross racers probably have better bike handling than many MTB riders simply because they can't rely on the bike to deal with as many problems on its own.
@@tylerreid1789 I know that a lot of people in the MTB world drive to the trails then ride for 1-2 hours, and mainly focus on descending, tech skills, jumps, etc. But you can hop on an MTB and do all day rides off road on technical and not so technical terrain, and a 50 mile off road ride might take you as much time as a 100 mile road ride. 🙂 It's really up to you how you use your bike. Personally I do long rides on the MTB as well. I ride everything. Gravel, dirt roads, smooth trails, rough trails, sometimes even pavement. We don't have trail systems, bike parks, 2000m tall mountains, but I still enjoy it more than road riding because i'm out in nature with no cars.
This was fun. I would like to see both of both of you riding both bikes, to see how much slower a gravel bike is downhill.
Funny how Ollie seems like he’s being sarcastic about being a thoroughbred road cyclist, but he definitely loves everything he lists! 😆
100% 😂
GCN+GMBN together is the best thing. Road and MTB are fun AF!
I never thumb up sponsor/promo videos, but i did enjoy the two channels together, and would like to see more of that :)
Thats just weird....if you enjoy it, and know that sponsors, are the reason these channels are delivering free content, and likes shows sponsors, that we like the content, and makes them continue to sponsor, for more quality content.... weird🤔
@@wonderwatch2239 You are getting stuff mixed up. A TH-cam channel has the right, and often need, to have sponsored content. But: Them having the right, and need, to be sponsored, doesn't come with a "Johnny must watch and throw likes at all of it" clause. That is not how things work.
I do respect their business model and even watch some of their sponsored videos. More than half of it i think. I just won't throw a like at people being paid to sell me stuff (with a few exceptions, like this video). Commercials doesn't excist for my benefit. I have no reason to give a commercial a like.
I really like the Ollie-Blake combo for presentation.
Some road cyclists like the word dope too Oli 😉
Maybe I'm old. What does dope mean in this context? To me, being old, the word dope can be a noun, meaning 'herbal/happy baccy', or a verb, meaning to alter performance through drugs, for example, the rider was disqualified after allegations of doping.
@@anftrew3775 It's definitely ambiguous, both meanings make sense in this context.
Dope = EPO
You likely do both road and mtb 😂 🤙🏽
I think Ollie might have done a bit better with clipless pedals and maybe without the dropper post as well. Blake was more clearly confident on that course environment, but hats off to Ollie for giving it a go and now has the proper Mt biking bruise for his effort. :) Nice to see what a Mt Biker like Blake can do on a gravel bike.
One of my local trails that became easy on mountain bikes became much more fun on my gravel bike. Now I regularly blow past mountain bikes on it.
can the gravel bike keep up....actin like we never heard o sam pilgrim!
gotta say, that final coffee scene was tip top if you ask me. great way to round up the video. looking how lovely those woods are, us roadies are definitely missing out!
Think this may have been better if it was Si vs Blake, due to Simons background.
Then Si would surely win? They wanted to show the gravel bike is pretty good, if it got smashed then it wouldn’t of looked so good.
Think that’s why they’ve done it this way
@@kaneallardyce4501 si was an xc racer and blake was pro DH wasn't he? Bike handling skill wouldn't even compare!
@@TheJanope13 blake wasn't pro DH, he jumps, anyway, you missed the point, the difference between Blake/Si would have been way way less than blake/ollie
@@kaneallardyce4501 good point, I'm a cyclocross person who is taking part in the odd gravel race this year.
Best video ever. two of the best presenters hanging out awesome
Nice video, loving the dry humour and obviously the bikes.
Definitely love my Orbea Terra, didn’t recognize the frame at first with that oddly design…but Blake provides a sense of realism on my bike if I actually stop babying it
Thanks this idea is nice! Blake is the nicest person in GCN /GMB, also the best suited for this challenge.
Really fun video to watch. Something I think would be amazing is a relay. For instance; 2 GCN and 2 GMBN presenters (1 from each network per team) race. Climb + Downhill
yes more crossover action!! more downhill for the gcn crew and get a gmbn presenter on a solid roadie loop!
Ollie has been my man for past couple of years and must have watched most of his clips and learned a lot about roadies. I recently found Blake and watched his clips and ended with a new Giant Talon just to try the trail as a beginner. I took it out on a trail last week for first time in 20 + years and much older and wiser I really did took the trail like Ollie 😃 I can't give up my roadie but found the mtb to be as entertaining in different ways. one thing i will do differently, I will make sure to end the ride with a coffee [real man drink] instead of a tea 😃
For everyone saying we need more Blake, watch gmbn
Great episode! Blake and Ollie worked really well together.
Have a great day, beautiful people!
Great chemistry between presenters! Fun content! You 2 def must do more videos....next time Blake should try going up Tourmalet, 😊😊
Awesome to more crossovers. It will bring awareness to cycling in general of all types.
Crossover videos between GCN and GMBN are the best!
More GCN Vs GMBN please. Let’s see Blake on a TT bike!
More gravel stuff too please.
well, who wouldn't want to see ollie learn how to ride mtb under the gmbn crew after that? I think it would be a good series. hmmmmm
Love your videos: storytelling, filming, editing, just everything! 👍💫❤
That was a great video. Really enjoyed it. Quality banter and skillz. #SickEdit
GCN and GMBN should do head to heads like this more often. Highly entertaining. Plus, watching them poke good natured fun at each other was great.
Gmbn and GCN is always a good time. Really enjoy this.
Fun video...just goes to show us that, for the most part, MTBer's can ride just about any terrain on their bikes whereas roadies are left with, well, the road. LOL
In all seriousness, looked like an interesting bike park. Too bad my back and neck can't take the abuse from jumps or rough rides.
Thanks for the collab and sharing.
GCN/GMBN entertainment at it's best. I am a roadie triathlete, but love to watch anything with Blake in. Love the editing, and especially the soundtrack.
Think I may need a new mtn bike now too (thanks Blake)... and a cup of tea. Cheers!
This video shows that you can have fun with everything - no matter if the gear is "right"...I mean both Ollie and Blake had a fun time: Mission accomplished right?
More of this please 🙂
As a mtb'r planning to make the crossover to start riding road as well once the 2021 bikes are available, would like to see more of Blake on a road bike, maybe some bike handling skills sort of thing, pretty wild to watch him use that gravel bike to its full potential.
More Olly mountain biking please. It's hilarious!
Let's take a moment to appreciate that intro. I don't know if it's a UK thing, but where I am in the US, many (though certainly not all) road cyclists seem like they ride with their saddles up their butts. Many of the trails I ride here are adjacent to roads, where I feel the judgemental eyes of roadies looking at me from the pavement as I pedal through flinging mud on my modest hardtail.
The snobby roadies here could learn a thing or two from your hilarious, self-deprecating English humor, which encourages me to invest in a road/gravel bike. (But rest assured, I will set my saddle properly when I do!)
Sorry Ollie, voted against you. In my defense you were a bit of a big girl's blouse on the downhill.
Not Kate Courtney's blouse. (her commercial played during this vid)
For this comment alone there ought to be a video of a big girl in a blouse beating all the big boys.
@@ruan13o Isn't that called every video with Manon?
The entire first minute of this video is so spit-take-inducing-hilarious 😂😂😂 well done Ollie
Please do more crossovers! Great dynamic going on guys, great vid 🤘
#GCN #GMBN These are the best videos when #GCN and #GMBN team up for content. Would love to see another head to head soon!
Gotta love Blake, next vid is Blake on a hyper road bike and Ollie on Blake’s nukeproof scout!
Enjoyed Ollie's Slow mo parts.
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There should be an awesome, epic gcn vs gmbn race, road vs trail
Two of my favourite presenters in one fun video? Get outta town! and down to a bike park! Great episode, not gonna lie Ollie going down that path is exactly how I'd be going down too, not leaving the ground. Would love to see Blake teach him some basics and see how he gets on. Also slight advantage to Blake (apart from being amazingly talented) in that he's been riding gravel lately too so he's certainly more familiar with that than Ollie is with mountain biking.
Hands down in keeping the community well informed and entertained!!
The crossovers are brilliant and by far my favourite episodes
Quedos to Ollie for being such a good sport. Great video, lots of fun ...
I started adding mtb to my road bike training, just like Ollie I'm rubbish, but I love it!
Great Video GCN (Ollie) and GMBN (Blake). Please give us more content like this!
More Ollie and Blake videos! They are brilliant together!
Being a mountain biker, I always love the crossover vids. And Blake is an absolute beast, that was unfair lol
Haha - yeah Blake made Ollie look pretty rubbish off road...although I'm not sure he needed Blake's help to do that....
@@gcn true, after running weakly episode it can not go worse Ж)
I have always maintained to my roadie mates that XC Mountain biking would be ideal training for Time Trial Road races as you are on the power the whole time - perhaps a video in this regard where Roadies explore the benefits of training on XC Mtb for time trials
That was awesome. More gmbn crossover would be very entertaining
FINALLY, been waiting for a blake/oli colab for ever!
Blake is skilled. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
GREAT VIDEO! I loved hearing Ollie say with a big smile that he had a lot of fun. It would be neat to see more cross channel videos... like Neil on a road bike or Connor on a MTB.
« We don’t have to shoot much slowmo » oooh, someone call the burn ward!
Always nice whatcing GCN colabs with GMBN
Yes please more interactions between channels, at the end of the day we love cycling and bikes and doesn't matter on the weapon of choice