Video Transcript
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this video is designed to be a quick
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reference to show what types of bike are
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available and for what purposes so if
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you ever asked yourself the question
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what type of bike do I want then come
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back to this video and in the
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description down below I'll leave a link
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to each bike in this video so you can
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get to it quickly so what type of bike
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do I want well that all depends what you
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want to use it for so let's start at
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this end of the scale
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it's the all-round lightweight Road race
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bike you're going to buy this bike or
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this style of bike if you like riding on
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the road you like racing I like going up
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hills they see your all-round road bike
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that you can use for racing so it's
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quite it's quite specific it's very
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lightweight if you spend a lot of money
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and this is what the pros are gonna ride
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this type of bike next up we've got the
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same again except this is the Aero bike
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so if you look at the difference between
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the two this bike has very sculpted
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frame in an attempt to cheat the wind
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the wind being the biggest thing that
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holds you back once you get up to a
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certain speed on a bike there's a
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picture of foetus again a very popular
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racer riding his fringe ok so still in
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the road race type category we come to
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this extraordinary looking thing now
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really this is a triathlon bike in this
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sort of category we talk about time
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trial bikes as well and basically these
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bikes are designed to cheat the wind
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usually in an individual effort against
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the clock although is a bit different
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for triathlon now if you look at the
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difference between these bikes the tri
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bike or time trial bike really throws
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the rider forward so if you look at the
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different positioning of the seat there
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and you get into a very aggressive
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aerodynamic position on the bike sort of
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like this guy here who's a full tilt so
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you're not gonna buy a bike like that
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unless you have a very specific idea of
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what you want to use it for ok next bike
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up track bike now this is a very
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bog-standard track by nice and cheap
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made by dolan and you can always tell
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when you're looking at a track bike so
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she's got no gears horizontal dropouts
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so that you can tighten up the chain no
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brakes and it's it's a fixed gear so in
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other words you can't pedal backwards
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you've always got a pedal on this bike
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that's just sort of beginners track bike
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and I would strongly advise going and
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having a go at this it's great fun this
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is the Manchester Velodrome
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I've been there a few times myself and
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had to go takes you a while to get up
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onto the bank but once you're up there
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it's great fun so going
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so this is another track bike and by the
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way the word pista is Italian for track
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actually Spanish with track as well
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sometimes you hear these bikes being
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called pista bikes now this is a much
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more aggressive bike if you see the
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difference there between the sort of
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bog-standard tracked by this bike here
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much more Aero carbon obviously much
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more expensive but disc wheel is very
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aerodynamic these basically get ridden
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by pretty serious dudes so if you've got
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legs like that then yeah maybe have a go
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at that and if you compare that bike to
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say the all-round road bike that's our
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look you see it's quite a lot more
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aggressive in its stance so you don't
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really want to be riding that on the
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road be pretty uncomfortable
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not to mention probably illegal without
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brakes on it there's another cool form
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of racing that I've been following a
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little bit lately and that's called the
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Red Hook crit which started in Brooklyn
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but now it runs in Milan Barcelona and
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London and these guys basically ride
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around a little circuit and they
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basically do that on track bikes and
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that generates some pretty exciting
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racing worth checking out ok next one up
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that I've got in my list is the
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endurance bike now this is our bike is
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sort of aimed at the people who want to
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do sport efz sort of longer comfortable
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rides and if you compare that to the
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road race bike you can see is designed
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for your comfort so much higher at the
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front tiny bit longer just nice and
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comfortable so if you'd you want to get
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into road riding you're not too bothered
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about being the fastest guy in the
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village then this this is a good a good
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bike for you to get this type of
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endurance sportif bike because you can
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pretty much do everything on that on the
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road right so moving on we've got this
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and I've basically called this the flat
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bar road bike as you can see it's very
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similar to the endurance type geometry
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so it's gonna be pretty comfortable this
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one is from Scott it's a pretty nicely
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Specht bike with flat handlebars which
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well I sort of don't entirely see the
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point of it myself because you've
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actually cut down your options on where
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you can put where you can use the
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handlebars but I guess people like it
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some people use it for commuting on so
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yeah why not so that's the flat bar road
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bike moving on to the next one that I've
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got in my list this one the single speed
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or fixie street bike these coming up
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quite a nice
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and they were sort of I guess this
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started from the careers using them
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basically nutters who ride around town
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delivering stuff on fixed wheel bikes no
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brakes
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yeah not something I would want to do
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because I get killed pretty quickly but
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this particular one here from Oro Fe
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Street comes with a flip-flop hub so you
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can flip the back wheel round and either
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ride it fixie or single speed I've had
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one of these flip-flop wheels before and
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yeah fixie is it's interesting to use
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but on the road I found it really
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difficult judging the moment where you
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jumped up onto the curb or something
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like that I struggled with that so it
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didn't work for me but they're
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cool-looking bikes
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okay so moving on we've got something
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Kanyon are actually calling it Canyon
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urban and what we've got here is a bike
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that you would use to commute on I guess
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great feature on this buy is it's a belt
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drive and the gears are internal in the
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hub so you can get on this bike in your
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business suit and not get grease all
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over yourself so that's quite a nifty
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feature quite a heavy bike pretty cool
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for getting around town on and then we
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come to what we kind of call the hybrid
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bike and there's no sharp line between
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all these bikes they kind of
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manufacturers decide what they think
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they're going to do now apparently the
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hybrid bike or bikes that look like this
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I kind of call them super market bikes
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they're like a sort of combination of
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your urban bike and your mountain bike I
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guess I'm not a big fan but they seem to
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do well and I guess this is the bike
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yourself see families out on mom dad and
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the kids have all got one which is great
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can't moan about that these are pretty
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cool I call these Dutch bikes I'll step
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through this is the Gazelle classic
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pretty reasonable price anybody who's
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been to Amsterdam or Holland will know
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that this is just sort of default
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transport to get around very cool very
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laid back great fun so the touring bike
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designed to put your luggage on and take
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you to cool places around the world just
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get on and pedal and go and if you
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compare this bike say to look at the
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endurance buy it you can see it's quite
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a lot longer because by the time you've
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got your luggage on there you need it to
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be as stable as possible so it's not
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gonna be a particularly it's not gonna
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be a particularly fast bike but get your
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luggage on there that will see you
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around the world tandem bike I've never
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had a go on one of these I'm not sure
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I'd ever want to have a go on one of
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these but if that's your thing
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one of you sits on the back when he sits
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on the front pretty cool I guess give it
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a go
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how you get on Brompton folding bikes if
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you get on a train in the morning and
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then you want to cycle a few miles to
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your office why not get one of these
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because they fold up like a bit of
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origami so you can take it on the train
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like a briefcase that's pretty cool
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the chopper probably wouldn't advise
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anybody buying one of these who wants to
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do any proper cycling I've got no idea
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where you would use that but they make
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them they sell them so if somebody buys
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them I know when I was a kid I always
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wanted a rally chopper they were cool
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back in the 70s when I was a kid and I
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always wanted one my birthday when I
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thought I was gonna get one my parents
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actually bought me the tomahawk which
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was the baby chopper without the gears
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on it and I was absolutely devastated
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and to this day I don't think I've
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recovered from that so that's the
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chopper bike the recumbent bike so this
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is a weird thing again I've never had to
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go on one of these weird-looking things
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I'm not sure I really would want one
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either but people like them they're
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pretty quick because they're aerodynamic
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and get you out the wind so I've never
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seen any side-by-side comparisons but
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that would be interesting thinking I
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should probably do a search on YouTube
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and see if I can find one so that's a
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recumbent bike pretty much my last bike
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in the road series is the electric rode
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by now I sort of have mixed feelings
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about these is it a bike or is it a
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motorbike I guess there's a time and a
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place so if I'm out on a road ride or
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there's a bunch of us out on a road ride
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there's someone who struggles to keep up
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but still wants to be part of that ride
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maybe an older person or I want to say a
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less fit person but really they should
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be getting a normal bike and trying to
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get fitter but certainly an older person
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who maybe can't get fitter or fit enough
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yeah why not ride an electric bike then
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they can keep up with let's say their
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kids who are faster so mixed feelings
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about that maybe maybe there's a time
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and a place okay here's another type of
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bike looks like a road bike but it's
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called a cyclocross a race bike
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cyclocross bikes are quite specific to
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cyclocross racing which is basically
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where you race around a little circuit
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offroad with obstacles where you have to
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get off and carry your bike never done
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it myself it's getting bigger and bigger
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people like to do it in the offseason so
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yeah why not and this canyon in flight
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this design so that you can get it over
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your shoulder easier and then run with
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it that's a good idea I guess and if I
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compare that to the endurance bike
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you'll see where you probably not want
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to buy one of these to ride on the road
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if you're looking for a more comfortable
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type of bike you can see that it's quite
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focused at the front there don't
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accidentally buy a cyclocross bike
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unless you know that's what you
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definitely want to do then we've got the
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gravel bike which in my mind is quite a
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new sort of genre of bike and I guess
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it's almost a cross between an endurance
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road bike and a cyclocross bike if you
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like but it's it's used for days out on
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gravel tracks and Road and you've got
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the fatter tires on it and again if you
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look at this a against the endurance buy
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it's quite a bit longer so it's gonna be
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more stable and even more relaxed at the
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front you can see the difference there
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so it's an interesting genre of bike
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this it's gonna be comfy stable and you
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can take it down gravel tracks so if
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you're not interested in going really
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really fast I think these are probably
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quite a good good option really so
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that's the gravel bike most of those
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bikes that we've looked at they're based
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around the 700 C type Road wheel but now
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we're gonna move into the mountain bike
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type genre of bikes off-road mountain
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bikes and this is where wheels become
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very confusing originally most mountain
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bikes came with 26 inch wheels
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we all thought they were pretty good and
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then war if the way all started and what
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came along was the 29 inch wheel mostly
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on sort of the lighter weight XE
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mountain bikes hardtails and actually
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the 29 inch wheel is in diameter the
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same as a road wheel 700 C wheel so in
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theory the 29 inch wheel some people
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think is faster off-road so it kind of
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all made sense for a while we had 26
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inch wheels on our full suspension bikes
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and we had 29 inch wheels on our XE
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hardtails then it got a bit more
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confusing because they decided to go
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27.5 inch or to make an even more
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confusing they call it 650 B and they
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started putting those on our full
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suspension bikes and that's kind of
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where we are today so difficult to get
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mountain bikes of 26 inch wheels now
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unless you go for dirt bikes that will
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have a look out and sick so most of the
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full suspension bikes are coming 27.5
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unless you happen to be doing
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cross-country and it's more likely to be
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29 inch or than although not exclusively
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anymore and then to make it even more
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confusing and something I haven't even
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really seen myself but
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I've seen it popping up it's the new
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plus-size tires so I'm not even going to
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talk much about them because I don't
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really know much about them but they're
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basically they're just putting bigger
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fatter tyres on but presumably you need
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plus bikes with extra clearance I'm
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gonna have to do some research on that
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ah it's all gone a bit crazy but
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hopefully it'll settle down at some
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point but I kind of missed the nice
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simple days when we just had one wheel
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size and you could get different tires
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for it
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so the first bike I'm gonna look at is
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the Scott scale RC 900 SL and this is a
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super-fast cross-country bike used by
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the racing snakes we used to laugh at
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the cross country boys way back when
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because they didn't really do any
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technical stuff but now cross-country
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has become quite technical as well so
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fair play to them and you can either go
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for a hardtail with no suspension on the
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back with a hundred mil upfront or you
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can now gear pretty lightweight full
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suspension cross country bikes like this
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one the Scotts Park you can see that the
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slight difference in geometry there okay
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so that's the cross country mountain
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bike
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these are 29 inch wheels by the way next
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up the full suspension trail bike so I
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kind of imagined the trail bike being
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ridden by sort of normal blokes down the
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trail centers with their mates that's my
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sort of idea of a trail bike with
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anything between 130 front/rear up to
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this type of thing which is the whitey
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Jeff see this has got 160 front and rear
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this is supposed to be a really good
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bike from the mail mail order company
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whitey so I kind of see that range of
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suspension travel sort of 120 to 160
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then there's the trail bike and then we
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move up to the enduro
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so this is the s-works enduro mountain
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bike and this is obviously full
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suspension and this is a hundred and
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seventy millinery R and this is
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specifically designed for enduro racing
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which is basically where I think it's
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something like three or four stages over
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a weekend and the riders are timed going
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downhill but then have to pedal uphill
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in a certain amount of time so the bikes
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do have to be able to pedal but they
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also
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need to deal with fairly gnarly downhill
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and in fact enduro world series I think
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it is EWS the champion at the moment is
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Sam Hill it was an ex downhill rider
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that's him on his nuke proof maker I
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think it was so that's the enduro up
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from that we've got the downhill bike
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and the downhill bike is very
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specifically you guessed it for going
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downhill which is where they basically
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go up in a chairlift to the top of the
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mountain and they have a course taped
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out they get down as faster they can
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against the clock basically they're a
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bunch of nutters and they pretty crazy
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sport is downhill and in fact Aaron Gwin
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managed to win one of his races even
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after his chain fell off on the first
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jump so there's the downhill bike and if
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you compare that against say the
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cross-country hardtail you can see the
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difference in geometry there and I have
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actually seen guys riding trails the
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local trails around here on downhill
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bikes so they obviously went to the shop
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and thought all this looks pretty cool
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and then they bought downhill bike but
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you really don't want to ride these
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around or up hills you can kind of tell
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when you're looking at a downhill bike
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because they've got the double crown
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forks so if you look at say a trail bike
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you've got a single crown fork okay next
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up fat bike this is the Norco
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if you don't hae pronounce that I get
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told off in the comment sometimes about
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my pronunciations of things but hey
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never mind so there's no suspension on
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this bike the suspension is basically
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built into these big fat tires and the
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fat bike was originally designed to ride
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on snow but you can ride it in sand as
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well and in fact I've had to go on a
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bike like this and they are really good
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fun I would definitely say have a go
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maybe not as your first bike but
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seriously good fun and that then takes
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us to the electric mountain bike and
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again my feelings are the same I guess
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about the electric one as the road one
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is it a bike or a motorbike well you
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decide on that
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but I guess they're good for getting you
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to the top of the hill and having a good
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run down freeride so very similar bikes
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to a downhill bike but these bikes get
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used for doing this sort of crazy thing
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at Red Bull Rampage and this is a whole
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different world of mountain biking
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where you have to be a complete lunatic
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to even consider it this bike here is
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ridden by Graham Agassiz who is
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basically a complete nutcase yes that is
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freeride slope style or dirt jumps these
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little bikes he would ride them on this
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type of terrain and this is Sam pilgrim
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styling it up on his NS I forget which
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one he rides now but he does ride for NS
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bikes this one here's the NS movement
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one and that's a hardtail obviously you
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can also get the full suspension version
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so this is the NS soda SL what's
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interesting about this bike is in the
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description on the website they I think
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they say it's 26 inch wheel if I just
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put my guide up when I was lining these
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up I lined up the front wheel to be a 26
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inch wheel but it then looks like the
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rear wheel is a 27.5 wheel so I don't
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know is that a thing if you think that's
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a thing and people ride bikes with two
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different sized wheels right in the
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comment below please otherwise they've
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put the wrong wheel on the back there
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right I've checked this one in this is
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the rally ultra burner so not when I was
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a kid in the 80s this is what everybody
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was riding and they were awesome in fact
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looking at that picture there just
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brings my childhood straight back to me
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other than the fact I never had one my
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parents brought my brothers one they got
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one each brand-new but for some reason I
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never got one I had to get my own from a
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mail-order catalog that was rubbish so
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I've never recovered from that now the
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modern BMX looks quite different this is
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the GTFS slammer freestyle BMX and you
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can still see quite a big difference
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there so this is a shot here from
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freestyle BMX competition and you can
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see they get all these ramps and stuff
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worth checking out some of that on
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YouTube because these guys are mental as
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well there's some crazy stuff going on
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so you can also race BMX
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and this particular one here is a
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24-inch wheel and then the last bike
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that I've got in my list is the trial
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bike not to be confused with the trail
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bike this is the trials bike this is the
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Monte Kaizen 220 and this is for crazy
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people who never like to sit down on
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their bikes obviously there's no seat
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but you may have seen some of this on
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the TV it's basically where they jump
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from obstacle to obstacle they yeah it's
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basically a competition there's not put
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your feet down and if you put your feet
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down you get a penalty point again
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slightly crazy Bunch
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never done it myself because I probably
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would just kill myself okay so there we
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go that's I think that was 35 bikes
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we've looked through they're all with a
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different use I hope that's been helpful
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