You're riding looked in control (from what we see), bike sounded well damped. And, like the quiet hubs as I ride them myself. Thumbs up so far. Looking forward to the long term review.
You send so hard through Pingu. It makes me want to see you do another enduro race. I know you were beat to death last time, but you're a legitimately good rider and it's awesome to watch.
You asked about the silent hub. I usually like it for videos, but....at times I actually wish there was at least a little noise, so I can tell when the rider is coasting versus pedaling. It doen't really matter much in your videos, because you're either making a long climb, or a pretty steep descent where very little pedaling is required. But...in a lot of other YT videos, it's nice to be able to tell if the trail was level with some descending, up and down, or all descending. The hub is really the only way to tell on a GoPro at times. But....man, the dead silent new bike on the trail....sounds AMAZING!
Bike looks 👌 Only nitpick I'd get NOBL to send purple decals for your rims. It'd look sick with just that crown being purple. Excited to see how the Knolly compares to the Evil.
It’s nice to see someone promoting aluminum, skookum AF! That looks like a sweet ride for sure, I’d love to demo one. Seems like it could be a nice addition to my Troy. The Onyx hubs are also sweet, I built my Paradox V3 up with them this summer and couldn’t be happier!
The way your riding in this video makes this bike seem to fit like a glove 👌 Rad environment as well. Love the silent hub, somehow everything seems more amplified and even though a hub normally makes things and fast, at least in this kind of terrain, it sounds even faster with the silent hub! Love hearing the tyres grip and slide and the suspension working like a dream!
Bike sounds great,planted as hell I'd say,love the video, congratulations on that beauty 😍 Keep her lit, looking forward to see the new adventures with her
Empress sure has a pucker factor even in the video. lots of this shore riding blends speed/flow/tech, into slow/steep/tech and it looks like you better be very dialed, very on point to ride it well.
Love your videos bro! Your channel was the first one I started watching when I was really getting back into bikes and mtbing. I subscribed right away because I was blown away at the way you were/are able to rip down gnarly trails and just talk like you were sitting in a chair around a campfire or something! I loVe when you go bike shopping. Its almost like I am the one buying the bike as you talk about the different aspects of each bike as I would, or any of us. Anyway, dig the new bike and hope this one survives better than some of your previous!
Great to see the new rig getting put through its paces. What better way than on a trail you haven't ridden! Super quiet, I don't mind a noisy hub either, but the ability to not have the background noise is cool. Also looking forward to the long term review and great tip about the skinnies! Seem like the recovery went well! Shred on, Sir, Shred on!
Absolutely beautiful trails nothing like down here in Australia love to get over there sometime. Have checked out the Knolly frames recently and like way they're doing things with the reinforced area at the BB and seat post junction. They kinda look odd the way the BB hangs out the back and the seat post is several inches in front I guess that's a different way of getting the rider into a good climbing position but still being stable on the decent.
Man, these trails look so sick, and this light...❤️ It is one of my goals (and dreams) to travel to BC and do some riding. Keep up great work and whish you quick recovery from surgery.
Also, I don’t know if it was just me, or you were just feel’n your new bike, but when you dropped (hopped!) into Corkscrew, you looked to be carrying some crazy speed. Hitting those skinnies with that speed was insane!
When you set off I thought to myself: Wow, the bike is very quiet. And when you spoke about the silent hub at 10.30 I thought to myself: Ahh that's why. Really live the trails you're riding on
Agreed. I have raw carbon too, looks sick when you can see the layup underneath. They can't hide any mistakes since you can see the layup. Most carbon bikes have imperfections but they're covered with paint.
I love silent hubs, so this was great to watch. That squish sound of the rear suspension though.... After my last rear shock service, mine made that sound, so I brought it back to get redone. Other than tire sound, I want pure silence if I can get it.
Dude love the bike! U are killin it! Those trails are sick af.....i personally like the silent hub better u can hear the contact the tires have better. 🤘🤘
When it's 1 degree C and you ride in shorts. Here I am whining it's cold with long pants when its sub 10 C :') Reminding me of an Canadian teacher telling us 'winters here feel like Canadian Summers'
Love the bike and well done to ride at that speed, in those conditions! Now if Noel could only make a low powered ebike based on that frame, I would switch back to Knolly in a heartbeat.
Wao that bike handled the abuse like a champ!!!! Wish they made the chicoin in a small size lol for now I'm stuck and ride the delirium in a downhill setup !! Love knolly love your channel😁
i am very interested in onyx hubs but they have ONE thing stopping me from buying them and if i hear good reviews from you, nick, then i'm gonna send it on a rear hub. I've heard many times that over the course of a season or so of hard riding, the cam lobes that essentially act like ratchets in normal hubs can wear very quickly which causes the freehub to slip inside the hub. it makes me not want to spend $400 on the hub but it's one of the only instant engagement hubs on the market
I remember in the review of the Norco range, a lot of emphasis was made on how much more stable the high pivot made the bike feel. I guess that difference wasn't enough to choose it over a more "standard" suspension layout? I'm honestly really interested to know more. I have never ridden a high pivot myself.
I like high pivot but it would be a style change for me. It’s more stable but harder to hop and move around. Maybe one day I’ll try one for the year, but for now I wanted something I can move around the trail.
It looks like you were really hitting it hard and totally enjoying your new ride. Was it me or were your riding the trails more aggressively than you have before. Enjoyed the video but not as much as you enjoyed your new Chilcotin! Great content, keep up the Great Work!
I figured it'd be the Chilly. You rode it well and seemed comfy on it. I thought the Chilly, or maybe the Norco sight? It seemed you really got on with that bike well too. Great vid! Rippin as always.
@@VanCan That's great feedback. I haven't ridden one, but on paper, love the geo/reach etc. Have heard it's easy to use all the travel for bigger/faster riders. I'm about 185lbs so have been hesitant. Local shop just got a L Chilly frame though... maybe I'll follow your lead and build it. :)
So much shrrrralping cornering in this ride! The silent hub is noice! Did you feel any pedal kickbacks from "instant engagement"? Having said that, looks like you were going fast enough to out run all instances!
You're riding looked in control (from what we see), bike sounded well damped. And, like the quiet hubs as I ride them myself. Thumbs up so far. Looking forward to the long term review.
I've always liked louder hubs, but it is pretty cool having them silent. So long as there's no creaking, cause that'd irritate my OCD.
@@topspot4834 I like either a decently loud hub, not crazy loud or a silent hub
@@flashfive23 I have 350s with the 54t ratchet. Not as loud as CK or i9 but still has some buzz!!
@@topspot4834 My road bike has Winspace 6 pawl hubs and they are loud AF. I ride faster than the speed of sound so it doesn't bother me.
You send so hard through Pingu. It makes me want to see you do another enduro race. I know you were beat to death last time, but you're a legitimately good rider and it's awesome to watch.
Can't get enough of that ASMR trail sound. 🤤
And stoked for you on that new bike!
You’ll need to come here and make some sounds yourself
@@VanCan heck yeah! On my list for sure. 💯
You asked about the silent hub. I usually like it for videos, but....at times I actually wish there was at least a little noise, so I can tell when the rider is coasting versus pedaling. It doen't really matter much in your videos, because you're either making a long climb, or a pretty steep descent where very little pedaling is required. But...in a lot of other YT videos, it's nice to be able to tell if the trail was level with some descending, up and down, or all descending. The hub is really the only way to tell on a GoPro at times. But....man, the dead silent new bike on the trail....sounds AMAZING!
I really like the silent hubs. You can hear the suspension working.
It's not just "a silent hub", it's a marvel of engineering.
Absolutely love the silent hub, sounds so good
This trail looks so damned GOOD! The bike is lookin' mighty sexy too!
Great video! At 14:25 the end of that skinny is so tricky ! Only 4" off the ground - but only 4" wide !
I think I want a silent hub now. I do love my i9 buzz, but the sound of tires on dirt and rock is just so wonderful
Silent hub sounds amazing... I love the raw tires on ground sounds, and suspension working. Music to my ears.
New bike looking good Nik, you looked good smashing through corkscrew
Great video, trails look a lot the UK. Weather looks similar too!
That has got to be one of the coolest trails I've ever seen. So different from the dry and rocky UT trails.
Bike looks 👌 Only nitpick I'd get NOBL to send purple decals for your rims. It'd look sick with just that crown being purple. Excited to see how the Knolly compares to the Evil.
It’s nice to see someone promoting aluminum, skookum AF! That looks like a sweet ride for sure, I’d love to demo one. Seems like it could be a nice addition to my Troy. The Onyx hubs are also sweet, I built my Paradox V3 up with them this summer and couldn’t be happier!
Love the new bike love the purple accents and now knowing more about the company is making me look into them more cheers and happy riding
Same. Heard of Knolly but never looked closely. Hopefully it'll perform better than the Evil.
Place looks so sweet looks like you and that bike are getting along just fine 🤘
The way your riding in this video makes this bike seem to fit like a glove 👌 Rad environment as well. Love the silent hub, somehow everything seems more amplified and even though a hub normally makes things and fast, at least in this kind of terrain, it sounds even faster with the silent hub! Love hearing the tyres grip and slide and the suspension working like a dream!
Always nice to be able to hear sounds of the trail
Bike sounds great,planted as hell I'd say,love the video, congratulations on that beauty 😍
Keep her lit, looking forward to see the new adventures with her
Empress sure has a pucker factor even in the video. lots of this shore riding blends speed/flow/tech, into slow/steep/tech and it looks like you better be very dialed, very on point to ride it well.
Love your videos bro! Your channel was the first one I started watching when I was really getting back into bikes and mtbing. I subscribed right away because I was blown away at the way you were/are able to rip down gnarly trails and just talk like you were sitting in a chair around a campfire or something! I loVe when you go bike shopping. Its almost like I am the one buying the bike as you talk about the different aspects of each bike as I would, or any of us.
Anyway, dig the new bike and hope this one survives better than some of your previous!
Bike is swet and eats up all those bumps but the scenery on this trail is breathtaking 🙌🏽
Great to see the new rig getting put through its paces. What better way than on a trail you haven't ridden! Super quiet, I don't mind a noisy hub either, but the ability to not have the background noise is cool. Also looking forward to the long term review and great tip about the skinnies! Seem like the recovery went well! Shred on, Sir, Shred on!
Absolutely beautiful trails nothing like down here in Australia love to get over there sometime.
Have checked out the Knolly frames recently and like way they're doing things with the reinforced area at the BB and seat post junction. They kinda look odd the way the BB hangs out the back and the seat post is several inches in front I guess that's a different way of getting the rider into a good climbing position but still being stable on the decent.
That's some impressive, controlled, and dialed in riding right there! Feels like this bike was made for you man!
Looks like you had a good time! Heal up! Looking forward to seeing some more north shore on the Knolly.
love the quiet hubs
Crazy that these are current conditions! I thought the mountains were snow-covered until March at least. Also, what a bike!
Man, these trails look so sick, and this light...❤️ It is one of my goals (and dreams) to travel to BC and do some riding.
Keep up great work and whish you quick recovery from surgery.
Sweet rig! You are riding it amazingly! I like the silent hub at least for your videos. The raw tire and suspension noise is way more engaging to me.
In rhythm all the way down!! Congrats on the new build bro 👍🏻
killing it on Corkscrew and Pingu!🔥
Also, I don’t know if it was just me, or you were just feel’n your new bike, but when you dropped (hopped!) into Corkscrew, you looked to be carrying some crazy speed. Hitting those skinnies with that speed was insane!
The dirt looked amazing and the bike looks like it was working 👍👌
Honestly I do not like the look of these bikes but glad to see they ride awesome. Keep it shredding !
this bike looks and sounds so much better than all the others you have ridden, it seems to suit u very well
The enchanted forest- and steep af! Hope your recovery is coming along! 💪
When you set off I thought to myself: Wow, the bike is very quiet. And when you spoke about the silent hub at 10.30 I thought to myself: Ahh that's why. Really live the trails you're riding on
The lighting was 👌
This bike is so quiet.....amazing....
The person that designed this bike was thinking of you when they were doing it. The bike rides you well.
Best bike yet! So quite. Love it🤙🏻
Mad skills sick rig. Great work !! On sale now 30%off for 3989$ US. Might have to bend for that
The raw frame is beautiful
You are beautiful 😘
Agreed. I have raw carbon too, looks sick when you can see the layup underneath. They can't hide any mistakes since you can see the layup. Most carbon bikes have imperfections but they're covered with paint.
@@topspot4834 too? He has a raw aluminium frame🤷♂️
That silent hub “sounds” crazy. really nice to hear the traction of the tyres and the suspensions working!
I love silent hubs, so this was great to watch. That squish sound of the rear suspension though.... After my last rear shock service, mine made that sound, so I brought it back to get redone. Other than tire sound, I want pure silence if I can get it.
Looked like a great first ride! So smooth, like always 🤙
Dude love the bike! U are killin it! Those trails are sick af.....i personally like the silent hub better u can hear the contact the tires have better. 🤘🤘
New bike looks so sick!
When it's 1 degree C and you ride in shorts. Here I am whining it's cold with long pants when its sub 10 C :')
Reminding me of an Canadian teacher telling us 'winters here feel like Canadian Summers'
That lower Boogieman to Empress light tho. 😘👌
⛅️ ⛅️ ⛅️
Love the bike and well done to ride at that speed, in those conditions! Now if Noel could only make a low powered ebike based on that frame, I would switch back to Knolly in a heartbeat.
Sounds so good! Bumpity bump
Man that bike just EATS🔥🔥🔥
New to your channel. Great info and awesome riding. That trail looks sick
SICK!!…Great riding buddy! Keep it roll’n!…
Damn, you know that a trail is steep when it even looks steep on a GoPro, mad respect!
Wod be great to hear from you on the Tra1l components too how you liked the.
This build looks so dialed. Sick rig !!
Cool video, cool bike, amazing riding. Enough said!
Hilarious when you said "I'm no Dangerous Dave".. haha
You and the Chilly are an awesome combo!
Awesome video and great riding bike seems dialed in 💯🤙🏾
My Wahoo consistently reads about 2C cooler than it actually is, for what it's worth. My friends with Wahoos report the same for them.
Shocked on the quite ride for aluminum! Good Job on making it quite
Wao that bike handled the abuse like a champ!!!! Wish they made the chicoin in a small size lol for now I'm stuck and ride the delirium in a downhill setup !! Love knolly love your channel😁
Maaaan, that light tho! Atmosphere was amazing. Riding was ok I guess 🤣.
footage looks awesome nice job
Beautiful looking rig man!
Incredible skills. Bravo!
Can you do a video of your camera settings its soo nice
i am very interested in onyx hubs but they have ONE thing stopping me from buying them and if i hear good reviews from you, nick, then i'm gonna send it on a rear hub. I've heard many times that over the course of a season or so of hard riding, the cam lobes that essentially act like ratchets in normal hubs can wear very quickly which causes the freehub to slip inside the hub. it makes me not want to spend $400 on the hub but it's one of the only instant engagement hubs on the market
I remember in the review of the Norco range, a lot of emphasis was made on how much more stable the high pivot made the bike feel. I guess that difference wasn't enough to choose it over a more "standard" suspension layout? I'm honestly really interested to know more. I have never ridden a high pivot myself.
I like high pivot but it would be a style change for me. It’s more stable but harder to hop and move around. Maybe one day I’ll try one for the year, but for now I wanted something I can move around the trail.
“chain supply shortage”
the bike sounds so good
so fun to watch, thanks for sharing, you're a jedi on those skinnies! This is above my paygrade but atleast I can live the experience on video.
It looks like you were really hitting it hard and totally enjoying your new ride. Was it me or were your riding the trails more aggressively than you have before. Enjoyed the video but not as much as you enjoyed your new Chilcotin! Great content, keep up the Great Work!
That lighting looked so sick
Nice riding!
Downside to no loud hub, I can't tell what your feet are doing.. ratcheting, pedalling, backpedal.. I use that stuff to improve
Thats a pretty sweet ride my brotha, think its time i get a new bike too. Gonna try to get a commercial meta am 29
I aspire to be as skilled as you one day LOL
I figured it'd be the Chilly. You rode it well and seemed comfy on it. I thought the Chilly, or maybe the Norco sight? It seemed you really got on with that bike well too. Great vid! Rippin as always.
I like the sight but I’m too heavy for it. I’d need to run max pressure in the rear shock with a ton of compression.
@@VanCan That's great feedback. I haven't ridden one, but on paper, love the geo/reach etc. Have heard it's easy to use all the travel for bigger/faster riders. I'm about 185lbs so have been hesitant. Local shop just got a L Chilly frame though... maybe I'll follow your lead and build it. :)
Thought about changing shock to a coil or better air one?
What this the brand and model of your GPS? Cheers
Another awesome video!
Silent hubs are the best!
Very nice Video. Great Video and Audio quality. Do you know which settings you are riding with your zeb ?
80psi. Around 4 clicks of low comp, 2 of high, 5 clicks of rebound.
@@VanCan thanks a lot. I’m curious of the next videos with the Knolly, looks like a fun bike
So with those instant engagement hubs is there any kick back from suspension action or brakes?
Looking good on the new bike! What no snow?
When is this footage from? My bike is stuck in the Okanagan until I go get it but if the shore is this dry maybe I should be getting it asap!
looks like a sick ride!
Awesome, you seem to be getting along with the Chilly really well. I was wonder what gopro setup you use on the trails? it looks so smooth.
Rippin on the new rig (as always)! A sign of good things to come :D \m/
Interesting tip to drag the rear brake when riding skinny’s, I’m going to try that.
I tried that a few weeks ago, can't remember the channel but he does the same thing ... Didn't work out for me, but brakes might need modulation.
@@topspot4834 it does work, it’s a big technique used for slow speed motorcycle maneuvers
@@jessewilliams9575 just got back from riding, little slippery out but I definitely see what you mean!
You drag the brake but you keep pedaling.
Love the silence
Definitely not my kind of bike, but hey, whatever floats your boat😁. Nice riding✌️✌️
you are the man, sweet ride!
Love silent hubs! Is that an Onyx?
And geez, great riding!
Yup onyx!
So much shrrrralping cornering in this ride! The silent hub is noice! Did you feel any pedal kickbacks from "instant engagement"? Having said that, looks like you were going fast enough to out run all instances!
Luckily I haven’t noticed any pedal kickback