Canyon: "these bikes are also suitable for gravel paths and off-road trails where a short loss of tyre contact with the ground due to small stairs or steps at a height of 15 to 20 cm can occur." Blake: "I'll hold my own beer while jumping 2 meters in the air"
Man, that was insane show. But, this would be not possible without your tremendous skills. Ordinary man probably kill or hurt itself more than dozen times. Anyway you encourage me to shred some trails in my neighborhood with my no suspension 90's cromoly MTB. I will ventre, its geomety is closer to road bikes than current gravel bikes. Cheers
I had pro XC friends in the 2000s that I would ride with. They consistently road their road bikes on pretty gnarly, rocky trails. "Underbiking" before it was a thing. I joined them a few times, then realized I wasn't getting my road bike for free like they were and got a MTB.
This brings back the memories of taking my Trek X01 CX bike out in Panorama, BC. Wasn't so bad, but I definitely got fatigued MUCH faster than riding my SC Hightower.
I do wonder though, given the extremely aggressive position of a road bike what's the time difference with a full sus? How much would the superior ground contact and control of the full sus overcome the aero advantage of the road bike, when the road bike does almost certainly need to brake more?
I ride my 1984 Miyata road bike with 25mm tires on gravel and mild trails all the time and my specialized Tricross on MTB trails regularly. Good fun. An easy trail on my RSD sergeant V5 is quite challenging on skinny tires and drop bars : )
My brother in law has some really cool trails in the woods behind his house. We like to go riding, him on his full suspension MTB and me on my cyclocross.. It's shockingly good in the trails and we have a blast in there.... Sure I struggle in some bits but as soon as the trail flattens out I get on his tail... Then once we're out of the woods and on the way back home on the gravel/paved road, that's when I make him huff and puff!!
Great video, reminds me of growing up. In the early 80's I was in high School and all I had was a Huffy 10 spd road bike. 37-590 road tires. My buddies and I would singletrack through the forest preserves all the time. Had one basic rule in that we need to keep the tires on the ground. I must say, frames and wheels are built so much stronger these days. Rims were bending all the time back then and we weren't in stuff that gnarly. My brother broke a fork when he tanked a wheelie/bunny hop over a log. We were essentially 40 yrs ahead of the gravel bike craze!
This was awesome! I took a road bike down some singletrack (not as gnarly as this) last year in Portland. It was so fun. I did put flat bars there for control, but the feeling was exhilarating.
I grew up mountain biking on a Trek Antelope. This brought back so many memories, but really highlights why bicycles have become so specialized. A rigid bike can do it all, but at great cost to the rider. Modern bikes have really improved the experience.
This reminds me of a few weeks ago where i was riding my '98 fully rigid mtb on a group ride. We went from gravel to tree root single track. Definitely tested my usage of the right lines, was a different type of fun!
Exactly how I got in trouble with my wife the last two times. Not the wandering eye, the breaking things "jumping" on the way home. Very fun video, and relatable.
This does make me feel a lot better about hitting pot holes :) Also, front wheel catching on your toes....that's the real killer of maneuverability. I was genuinely wondering if I had the thing set up right when I first got my road bike, turns out it is more or less inevitable on smaller frames.
As a very happy owner of a Canyon Endurace AL I'm kinda pleasantly surprised by how well it held up on the trail considering how hard it was ridden here. 😅 Guess I don't have to worry so much about riding the heck out of it on the road. Lol
It's how my mates and I rode firetrails and hiking tracks 45-50 years ago. Though I used my 5 speed Sturmey-Archer commuter communter bike. I'd never trash my road or track bike.
I take my road bike (Kinesis Racelight T2 with 28mm smooth tyres) off road quite often, and it can be great fun. Gravel, grass, mud, but nothing as extreme as that. Hilarious.
So... on GCN they try hard to kill Hank, and on GMBN they try to kill Blake. Fortunately in both cases with no success. About the video - this was obviously an extreme example but I think it still shows that different bike types do not differ from each other as much as the industry wants us to believe. Don't take me wrong - obviously, a road bike is not suited to going 'gnarly', but I'm pretty sure that one can feel equally confident (and have fun) on a couple of different types of MTBs from neighbouring categories.
In NL we don't really have difficult or extreme trails so most times you can manage on any bike. One of the times I had most fun on the bike was when riding mtb trails on fixie, underbiking ftw
Amazing skill as always! 🎉 And good call to choose a cheaper aluminium bike, it hurt just thinking of my Aeroad doing the same stuff 😅 Even if it would survive I'd have a heartattack not only from the carbon creaking but also seeing you on an even more racy geometry 😮
I ride a fully rigid 26" MTB converted to dropbars, and it has only V-brakes. Every ride is a adrenaline rush because the brakes don't work that well, and the lack of suspension almost throws me of the bike... it makes me feel alive 🤣 XD
Do you pick the challenges, Blake or who have you recently pissed off😂 Last video, puking in the bushes and now you're riding a road bike down a mountain 🤣. Still smiling though
that is the one advantage of AL or Ti Frames of road bikes they can take a lot, disadvantage is you will feel every single bump but they can take a lot, which is why many companies still use AL and Ti for frames of mountain bikes
A major survival factor for that road bike is your skill and finesse as an expert rider. I’m sure a significantly less experienced rider would break welds on the first few jumps! 😂
I used to race XC back in the 90s, and this is pretty much what I do every weekend now. I have a vintage steel road frame that I put some 38mm knobby tires on, a 50mm stem with 480mm flat bars, and converted to a 1by. It's a ton of fun and makes easy trails more challenging and fulfilling, but whenever things get really rough I'm always afraid that the fork is gonna fold under me or something, but it hasn't happened yet.
I wouldn't even think about riding these trails with my (old) full suspension MTB. Let alone one of my road bikes. Road bikes are great for getting around and traveling fast. MTB are great if you want to know how it feels riding like you have the handbrake slightly unreleased (on smooth terrain). And for the forest.
9.4 kilos isn't exactly a heavyweight, but considering some of the super lightweight carbon stuff out there from brands these days, well... We wouldn't want to break anything that nice just for a video! This bikes still 100% good to go and we can use in more vids 😍
@@gmbn How about videos making upgrades to the road bike to improve it as a MTB? Probably pretty pointless, but there are probably a few easy changes that would help quite a bit.
Same thoughts! Martyn would've had fun watching Blake if he was there filming with him! Blake really mastered that climb up there, you can tell it's the tire's traction on the roots while his technique is perfect.
While doing similar downhill rides on my gravel bike, my arms were more tired from keeping my body from going over the handlebars than my legs were from riding all day.
I competed in a xc race with my caad13 on 28c road tires because the race took place on my local trails that I would cut through on my road bike sometimes so I was confident enough to enter the race. I got smoked instantly because I was underbiked and unfamilar with xc racing. However I did complete the race with only dismounting twice. That day convinced me to get a full sus mtb and start mtb'ing
4:19 Well I _was_ thinking "it's better you destroy one beautiful road bike on purpose than for people to destroy many beautiful road bikes on accident", but now I'm concerned.
Wow. You took a road bike down a trail I wouldn't want to even walk down! Not sure if that's brave or the other thing, but I'm impressed. Off now to take my little hybrid for s spin :-)
We used road bikes in the bush on rutted, gravelly trails with badly made jumps back in the mid to late 80s. BMX was the only other option, which was no better. We didn't bother putting the chains back on until we needed it. Plenty of broken bikes and bodies.
I have that same bike albeit the blacked out version. I run a grx derailleur and a 11-36 cassette it has seen gravel mud and some much smaller jumps than what you rode.
That's why I ride a cx bike as a road bike. More robust frame and 28mm tires will allow a lot of exploring. Geometry differences to a road bike are minimal.
Ffffin hell Blake. Im scared for my life when there are puddles and a bit of gravel on country lanes. And you just go and do legit black stuff on that thing. Respect Blake and GMBN
I got an urban step thru a Verve 2.. yeah it fit a 2.25 rapid Rob and a 2.10 smart Sam in the rear. Changed to nicer looking crankset and it's kinda mean having enough rubber to load up for big hops. You would have taken it down that so much easier
Now we need Gmbn on roadbikes vs gcn on mtbs
@@TheCrashingPigeon i agree. Especially if it's ollie.
MTB on road is boring at most
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GCN needs to take a full suspension up one of the famous climbs they are always bragging about.
Watch this space 👀😍
Pure talent and technical skill. Beautiful insansity.
I tried chunky trails on my gravel bike and hands and teeth were chattering like they were going to fall off
@@riffmeisterkl It's when you chatter over bumps so hard that you literally lose the ability to focus your eyes! 🤣
@@clivegower-collins9012 no kidding !
Absolutely!
Canyon: "these bikes are also suitable for gravel paths and off-road trails where a short loss of tyre contact with the ground due to small stairs or steps at a height of 15 to 20 cm can occur."
Blake: "I'll hold my own beer while jumping 2 meters in the air"
Hes Build different
Canyon's marketing department just cleared their road bikes for double diamond downhill trails. So this usage legally falls under factory warrenty 😂
This is now an official advertised use case for this model.
Blake you are by far the craziest GMBN person I have seen. absolutely fearless! thanks for being so crazy! 🤣🤣😅
Man, that was insane show. But, this would be not possible without your tremendous skills. Ordinary man probably kill or hurt itself more than dozen times.
Anyway you encourage me to shred some trails in my neighborhood with my no suspension 90's cromoly MTB. I will ventre, its geomety is closer to road bikes than current gravel bikes.
Cheers
Gently used Canyon for sale.......
😂😂😂
magical seat. you dropped it and in the next shot it was up again 😅
Automatic dropper.
and an automatic skrewdriver 2:58
The magic of dodgy editing 🤣
All this video shows me is that blake is superhuman 😂
I had pro XC friends in the 2000s that I would ride with. They consistently road their road bikes on pretty gnarly, rocky trails. "Underbiking" before it was a thing. I joined them a few times, then realized I wasn't getting my road bike for free like they were and got a MTB.
9:50 That face says it all. Brave man!
As a mountain biker with a gravel bike, I enjoyed watching this! It's AWESOME! 😎🤘💯
This brings back the memories of taking my Trek X01 CX bike out in Panorama, BC. Wasn't so bad, but I definitely got fatigued MUCH faster than riding my SC Hightower.
''You wouldn't ride a mtb on the road...'' My bank account would like a word with you.
Running cost of MTB on the road is more than a car
@@dquadfr my Magiy Mary hates me
Blake still managed to send that black run faster than i could with a full sus. Mega this guy.
I do wonder though, given the extremely aggressive position of a road bike what's the time difference with a full sus? How much would the superior ground contact and control of the full sus overcome the aero advantage of the road bike, when the road bike does almost certainly need to brake more?
I ride my 1984 Miyata road bike with 25mm tires on gravel and mild trails all the time and my specialized Tricross on MTB trails regularly. Good fun. An easy trail on my RSD sergeant V5 is quite challenging on skinny tires and drop bars : )
My brother in law has some really cool trails in the woods behind his house. We like to go riding, him on his full suspension MTB and me on my cyclocross.. It's shockingly good in the trails and we have a blast in there.... Sure I struggle in some bits but as soon as the trail flattens out I get on his tail... Then once we're out of the woods and on the way back home on the gravel/paved road, that's when I make him huff and puff!!
Man canyon makes some good bikes! There’s a few videos out there of Walmart “mountain” bikes tackling similar trails and results are hilarious!
Mtb can be ridden on and off road. Road bikes are strictly for the road.
Blake: hold my Canyon
Thats why we have gravel bikes 1 X clutch rear derailer and wide tyres and flared bars !!
Yeah man!!! Probably this bike is better on the trail than my first mtb (1988) but I had fun too!!!
Great video, reminds me of growing up. In the early 80's I was in high School and all I had was a Huffy 10 spd road bike. 37-590 road tires. My buddies and I would singletrack through the forest preserves all the time. Had one basic rule in that we need to keep the tires on the ground. I must say, frames and wheels are built so much stronger these days. Rims were bending all the time back then and we weren't in stuff that gnarly. My brother broke a fork when he tanked a wheelie/bunny hop over a log.
We were essentially 40 yrs ahead of the gravel bike craze!
This was awesome! I took a road bike down some singletrack (not as gnarly as this) last year in Portland. It was so fun. I did put flat bars there for control, but the feeling was exhilarating.
I grew up mountain biking on a Trek Antelope. This brought back so many memories, but really highlights why bicycles have become so specialized. A rigid bike can do it all, but at great cost to the rider. Modern bikes have really improved the experience.
We've never had it so good!
This reminds me of a few weeks ago where i was riding my '98 fully rigid mtb on a group ride. We went from gravel to tree root single track. Definitely tested my usage of the right lines, was a different type of fun!
GCN is calling the police
🚓🚨🚓🚨🚓🚨🚓🚨
Super fun and super motivation indeed. Thank you.
I've ridden my old road bike quite a few miles on some really rough terrain. It's amazing to me how much abuse they'll actually take.
Exactly how I got in trouble with my wife the last two times. Not the wandering eye, the breaking things "jumping" on the way home. Very fun video, and relatable.
Blake's greeting and energy get me stoked for riding every time.
Have a great day, Sir!
And there was me thinking I was ga-narly taking my hover barred Canyon Grail on red routes! Great work Blake.
This does make me feel a lot better about hitting pot holes :) Also, front wheel catching on your toes....that's the real killer of maneuverability. I was genuinely wondering if I had the thing set up right when I first got my road bike, turns out it is more or less inevitable on smaller frames.
I was just thinking of this yesterday. Thank you for reading my mind hahahaha
Good wavelength! Hope you enjoyed the vid 🙂
As a very happy owner of a Canyon Endurace AL I'm kinda pleasantly surprised by how well it held up on the trail considering how hard it was ridden here. 😅 Guess I don't have to worry so much about riding the heck out of it on the road. Lol
Mad mad mad respect
Blake is actually a madman.
I have taken my road bike some reasonable rocky stuff without problem, but also punctured repeatedly on a day on inoccuous gravel.
Tyres are super important! Some are good on just road, others will take a bit of mixed terrain no problem
Blake - You are both talented and crazy in equal measure. And that mix makes superb videos. Chapeau fella - I really enjoyed this.
Fair play, Blake. Fair play.
It's how my mates and I rode firetrails and hiking tracks 45-50 years ago. Though I used my 5 speed Sturmey-Archer commuter communter bike. I'd never trash my road or track bike.
I don't ride MTB trails on my road bikes but this guy has some serious skills!
1x?! Whatchu talkin' about, Willis? I've got a triple on my mountain bike! (2009 RockHopper Pro Disc, so I guess it's a little out of date...)
I take my road bike (Kinesis Racelight T2 with 28mm smooth tyres) off road quite often, and it can be great fun. Gravel, grass, mud, but nothing as extreme as that. Hilarious.
That thing is so much stronger than what we had as kids. Great vid guys!!
Yeah they're made out of solid stuff! Thanks 👍
Have almost the same bike but the 7AL instead of the 6. Amazing bike but no way will I be doing any of that on it. You absolute nutter Blake! 😂
So... on GCN they try hard to kill Hank, and on GMBN they try to kill Blake. Fortunately in both cases with no success. About the video - this was obviously an extreme example but I think it still shows that different bike types do not differ from each other as much as the industry wants us to believe. Don't take me wrong - obviously, a road bike is not suited to going 'gnarly', but I'm pretty sure that one can feel equally confident (and have fun) on a couple of different types of MTBs from neighbouring categories.
Good luck with your ‘farmers’! 🍇
Superb skills.
In NL we don't really have difficult or extreme trails so most times you can manage on any bike. One of the times I had most fun on the bike was when riding mtb trails on fixie, underbiking ftw
well, hand the bike to Sam P and you will know...
that was where I first saw a road bike doing jumps 😂
Next try gravel bikes 👍👍👍🔥🔥💯💯
Amazing skill as always! 🎉 And good call to choose a cheaper aluminium bike, it hurt just thinking of my Aeroad doing the same stuff 😅 Even if it would survive I'd have a heartattack not only from the carbon creaking but also seeing you on an even more racy geometry 😮
Wow, he’s even done it on the drops. Mad lad.
It's much more secure in the drops than on the hoods!
I ride a fully rigid 26" MTB converted to dropbars, and it has only V-brakes.
Every ride is a adrenaline rush because the brakes don't work that well, and the lack of suspension almost throws me of the bike... it makes me feel alive 🤣 XD
Do you pick the challenges, Blake or who have you recently pissed off😂 Last video, puking in the bushes and now you're riding a road bike down a mountain 🤣. Still smiling though
Blake, I bet you got a great full body workout at the same time!!
that is the one advantage of AL or Ti Frames of road bikes they can take a lot, disadvantage is you will feel every single bump but they can take a lot, which is why many companies still use AL and Ti for frames of mountain bikes
A major survival factor for that road bike is your skill and finesse as an expert rider. I’m sure a significantly less experienced rider would break welds on the first few jumps! 😂
I used to race XC back in the 90s, and this is pretty much what I do every weekend now. I have a vintage steel road frame that I put some 38mm knobby tires on, a 50mm stem with 480mm flat bars, and converted to a 1by. It's a ton of fun and makes easy trails more challenging and fulfilling, but whenever things get really rough I'm always afraid that the fork is gonna fold under me or something, but it hasn't happened yet.
I wouldn't even think about riding these trails with my (old) full suspension MTB. Let alone one of my road bikes. Road bikes are great for getting around and traveling fast. MTB are great if you want to know how it feels riding like you have the handbrake slightly unreleased (on smooth terrain). And for the forest.
Road bikers: if a road bike can take that kind of punishment it's too heavy.
He wouldn't have the balls to do the same on a carbon frame, pr9bably wouldn't have front teeth at the end if it either
9.4 kilos isn't exactly a heavyweight, but considering some of the super lightweight carbon stuff out there from brands these days, well... We wouldn't want to break anything that nice just for a video! This bikes still 100% good to go and we can use in more vids 😍
@@gmbn How about videos making upgrades to the road bike to improve it as a MTB? Probably pretty pointless, but there are probably a few easy changes that would help quite a bit.
@@gmbn Get something old and dusty from the storage room at GCN and see how much it can take before it snaps!
@@Twistandgouk My carbon frame gravel does that stuff regular
Love this content! Throwback to Martyn Ashton and his Road Bike Party videos. Keep them coming!
He basically answered the question put forth by this video.
Same thoughts! Martyn would've had fun watching Blake if he was there filming with him! Blake really mastered that climb up there, you can tell it's the tire's traction on the roots while his technique is perfect.
I like to mix in a bit of light gravel or rocky stuff when I ride my road bike but man nothing like this 😂
Certifiably insane, that Blake
That was awesome to watch and can't believe you did that on a road bike, you obviously destroy those trails on your mtb! 💥😎
While doing similar downhill rides on my gravel bike, my arms were more tired from keeping my body from going over the handlebars than my legs were from riding all day.
10:26 the funniest DH video on youtube ever.
Dude what a fucking gangster, that shit was hardcore, you have my subscription now
Im honestly suprised you didnt atleast put a flat bar on for this. Props for running the drops. As sam pilgrim would say.. "thats death"
I competed in a xc race with my caad13 on 28c road tires because the race took place on my local trails that I would cut through on my road bike sometimes so I was confident enough to enter the race. I got smoked instantly because I was underbiked and unfamilar with xc racing. However I did complete the race with only dismounting twice. That day convinced me to get a full sus mtb and start mtb'ing
4:19 Well I _was_ thinking "it's better you destroy one beautiful road bike on purpose than for people to destroy many beautiful road bikes on accident", but now I'm concerned.
Wow. You took a road bike down a trail I wouldn't want to even walk down! Not sure if that's brave or the other thing, but I'm impressed. Off now to take my little hybrid for s spin :-)
Enjoy your ride!
Great advert for the Endurace!
Loving the geometry details!
dude we need more of this, and you need to meet with sam pilgrim do some weird shit like this i lvoe it
I bought that exact Endurace AL 6 a week ago to get into road cycling, in addition to my mountainbike. Guess I can sell the latter, thanks!
No no no! N+1 always! It's an understatement 😂
Visiting Oslo, I saw a lot of people riding rough gravel road with 30mm slick tyre
We used road bikes in the bush on rutted, gravelly trails with badly made jumps back in the mid to late 80s. BMX was the only other option, which was no better. We didn't bother putting the chains back on until we needed it. Plenty of broken bikes and bodies.
NGL that Heineken add before the vid was fire 🔥 😂🎉
Major gonzo sized nuggz. Nice one mate
I have that same bike albeit the blacked out version. I run a grx derailleur and a 11-36 cassette it has seen gravel mud and some much smaller jumps than what you rode.
this one really drives home how we're all pansies relying on the kit to do all the work and honing none of the skills. blake, you are a MONSTER 👊
if you have a puncture with tubeless you need to position the tyre so that the spot is pointing to the ground. the selant does a better job that way.
This is really impressive riding.
Thanks very much :)
Need to use a Propain Terrel CF to be a fair comparison with the Spindrift.
Pilgram did this with a second hand cheap road bike, and ita always funny to watch a road bike fly 😁
Blake cracks me up haaaaa
We get some big storms in SE Asia so I often ride a hardtail on the road after rain.
Only @blake can make it look that easy 😅
Bring that saddle up!
Was that the new MOUTH MOUNT gopro mount, lol? Hey, no hatin, gotta get the shot aye!
Blake going full Gabriel Wibmer in this 😂
That's why I ride a cx bike as a road bike. More robust frame and 28mm tires will allow a lot of exploring.
Geometry differences to a road bike are minimal.
Rember Martyn ASHTON ( road party one, road party two, etc... ).
Assuming the fork is carbon, I'm impressed it didn't break off. Carbon is some pretty durable stuff.
Now you have to try it on 25mm slicks!
Not even the Tour De France guys are running 25mm anymore! ☠️☠️☠️
Ffffin hell Blake. Im scared for my life when there are puddles and a bit of gravel on country lanes. And you just go and do legit black stuff on that thing. Respect Blake and GMBN
Howzit from Gauteng 🤙🏻
I got an urban step thru a Verve 2.. yeah it fit a 2.25 rapid Rob and a 2.10 smart Sam in the rear. Changed to nicer looking crankset and it's kinda mean having enough rubber to load up for big hops. You would have taken it down that so much easier
Reminds me of the old day-out. I’m curious, if you could change one thing on that bike for that trail what would it be - handlebars?
Me: Can't ride through a forest when I pumped my semi slicks too much
GMBN:
Respect 🙌
Also, completely mad!
I bet you could cook eggs on those disc brakes by the end of the runs 😂