I think that is the only time I've ever ridden the MTB with sandals on.... and I remembered why when I saw the massive holes all over from my flats afterwards XD
I live near there and have ridden that hill hundreds of times in both directions. That hill aint no joke!!! Kudos to you for busting it out on the Fat Ripper! That's hardcore man!
Since the one-uppers won’t be able to help themselves in the comment section today, let’s flip the joke around on them. Some great example replies would be: “wow your town has bigger hills than Florida? Impossible!” or “Wow, you must be really big and strong!”. Anyway, it was great to ride with Alex this weekend. He should be back on the trails by February, and with a little luck, out of his sling in a few weeks. In the meantime he can still do stuff like this just fine!
@@illuforce We have other sports like snowmobiling, skiing, snowboarding. And best of all, we dont have to deal with all the crazy crackheads of Americas sweaty asscrack.
This is a fantastic Video!!! I grew up in Lake County and we are proud of Sugarloaf being the tallest hill in Florida. I've driven it, know people who live on it but never ridden, I would like to one day. Thanks for showing that FL has great places to ride!!
As someone who lives in Colorado and has "everested" sugarloaf it is quite funny to call it a mountain, though it's legit steep. 135 reps on this "Mountian" is no joke.
I really like your videos, it's just about the love of bikes and riding them and not about having the latest gear. Great job and thanks for all the videos.
The hills on US 90 around Madison are surprisingly steep. San Felasco Hammock Preserve in High Springs is another good place to ride trails. Not so sandy like a lot of places around FL.
This video was awesome! My college cycling team used to go to Florida every spring for training because riding in NH in February and March sucks. I clocked my highest ever maximum speed of 50.7 mph down that hill and that record held for 3-4 years!
Good video Seth! All of them are great IMHO! When you come back north give a heads up I'd love to do stillwell or even glacial ridge with you! Keep posting
love your videos keep up the good work ps. can you do an in depth review on the diamondback hook im looking for a good budget bike and nobody does videos on it
What I love about riding in my area is we have a lot of hills like that, get a little shorter as one moves north, a little taller as one moves south; encourages one to go into the red more often, knowing that a respite is just ahead, unlike other places where one just climbs for a long time so ya can't blow your top or you're done. Can't convince myself that going hard into a headwind on flats is just as satisfying as climbing either!
Mount Seymour in Vancouver is absolutely crazy for climbing. To go up it's like 6.5 miles of very steep incline, but it's fun getting low in the hairpins coming down.
This is interesting. My school bus when I was a kid used to go down sugarloaf. I know it’s been a few years since this was posted though lol. I’ve lived in clermont my whole life and I’m just now getting into cycling, so I’m looking at this stuff from a different perspective for the first time.
It's call the Wall. I remember the 1st time I rode it, I had to get out of my bike and walk it up hill. Next time I did it (a couple of months later) I was gassed out, but I refuse to get out of my bike and did it at 3 mph... But Felt like a Champ
So much of Florida is flat that the hilly sections are an enjoyable relief. Brooksville toward Ocala and a bit more north has a little ridge. The people chiming in about bigger hills/mtns elsewhere miss the whole point. Yea I know where you live in the Himalayas is steeper and higher.
hey Seth you should do another hill bombing video but this time you should do it with one of those companion bike seats from Amazon that allows you to have a passenger ride behind you and have it where you test out the seat and what it's like bombing a hill with a passenger behind you and switch riders just saying
The area of hills is called the Ocala up lift. It’s just a small ridge of decent sized hills. There’s a decent hand full of caves out there as well. Because caves in Florida makes as much sense as hills.
Yikers, that looks painful, I should know, as I live in flagstaff arizona, and hills like those, around the 300 foot range are hell, but going down is fun.
As someone who grew up in Clermont and recently moved to upstate New York, I find this amusing. One of my best friends lived right at the top of sugarloaf. For me, the area I live now feels like less hills than Clermont, even though a quick ride down to Lake Ontario has a more demanding climb than sugarloaf.
Love the pads on the BMX, brings back childhood memories :) Also that Fat tyre BMX looks HUUUGE with you riding it hahaha (btw that wasn't me mocking your stature just the bike itself is a beast)
Take a drive up State road 41 in Florida, or many of the back roads between Zephyrhills and Dade City/Brooksville. These are legitimate rolling clay hills that also look out of place to most of Florida.
It's so fun how earth's biomes are so different from one another. My house is a little bit above the elevation you were on and i have this kind of view everyday!
gotta go check that out , lived here all my life (about a hour and a half south of there) and never knew it was there !! Seth , check out the florida caverns state park. pretty hilly up there also.
Wish I had known you guys were in the area, I am over in Citrus City. I would have come out to meet and ride with you. I will be hitting Santos the next 2 days, hope I see you guys out there. cheers.
Clermont also has the NTC national training center, and there is a multi million dollar facility being built now. Claremont is the cycling capital of Florida
The biggest hills at the trails in Baton Rouge, Louisiana come from clay mining and silt that was dredged up from a nearby canal. Erosion and the steepness makes climbing them no small feat.
Sup! In Copper harbor Michigan, there was this one road that climbed to the top of a 1,200 foot tall mountain/hill. I rode trails down to the bottom then rode back to the top on the road. That was a crazy climb. It looked like this but about twice as long and it curved to the left. Definitely the biggest climb I've ever done. My dad was with me and he was dying on that climb.
Clermont and the surrounding areas (part of the Lake Wales Ridge) is about as good as it gets for hilly terrain in Florida. North Florida and the Panhandle have a bit of relief as well as parts of west Florida, around Clearwater/North Pinellas County up to eastern Pasco/Hernando Counties. Keep in mind, these are all ancient sand dunes or part of ancient seabeds when sea levels were higher. There is a bit of lift created from geologic processes, but nothing like you'd get elsewhere in the world. Florida is assuredly flat by and large.
Yeah man in PA you have to bike a hill that size to go anywhere. You should see some of the climbs up here, easier 2-3k foot assents. MILES of uphill that steep or greater.
Imagine passing these guys in your car. You got a hippie with one arm riding a full spec trail bike in flip flops and Seth's oompa loompa lookin ass just mashin his way along with a fat tire bmx. Ultimate Florida man shit.
We have a Sugarloaf Mountain in New Brunswick Canada and it has some single tracks it's mainly more most people in New Brunswick go for some downhill singletrack action
come visit pa, giant hills, i reccomend mystic moutain in pa, its a steep decline and a steep incline with a giant lake in the middle with a great 7 mile trail with great views
You should have rode mountain Dora trail you were very close to it and it is in Lake County it is very fun with lots of berms and jumps and small drops next time you get a chance you should ride it.
In my state, the highest point- at 1,257 ft above sea level, has a fifteen foot prominence. You would never know it's what it is if you saw it. It's just a little hill with some trees.
I’m guessing you’re talking about Hoosier Hill in eastern Indiana? Not the most disappointing state high point in the country, but disappointing nonetheless
While Delaware will never be a downhill destination it does have some hilly XC trails in the northern part of the state. Iron HIll just off I-95 has a very similar prominence (220 ft) as Sugarloaf mountain but has actual trails to ride. Other well crafted trails with plenty of rolling hills are nearby. Please accept this as a formal invitation to stop by the First State for a ride on your next trip north.
Props to Alex...hope he's enjoying the nice weather while his shoulder heals! Does he have a hovercraft to get around or does Jesus teleport from place to place??
I grew up near here.... Climbing it on our bmx bikes to bomb it every few weeks.... Bombed it on my long board once (half way down I made a deal with God that if I lived then I'd never do anything that stupid again) was in tears of fear by the bottom..... But at the end of the day that hill is no joke and props for doing that on the fat tire......
I live about 15 miles from Sugarloaf, and rode up and down it hundreds of times over the course of a 25+ year road racing career. The fastest I've ever gone on a bicycle is down that hill. 56 mph.
Wow, I didn't realize Florida was so flat! How do you do much elevation on a MTB ride? Living in southern California I'll typically do 1000 to 3000 ft on a single ride. Is it even possible to do this kind of elevation on a single ride out there?
I live in Newfoundland. My town (CBS) is one main road following the curve of the bay and roads go down toward the bay or up they go the other way which every every road (Except one) is almost as steep as that with my road being the second steepest (The steepest connects to my road). I delivered papers and it was the best workout you could get. in high school I weighed 165lbs but could squat about 280lbs simply (never tried any higher lol couldve probably done 350) because I biked like 10k uphill everyday!
I live at a higher elevation than any one spot in Florida. My town center is over 1400 feet, and the worlds most hiked mountain is a few miles from my house. The south is weird to me because of the low elevation.
I think that is the only time I've ever ridden the MTB with sandals on.... and I remembered why when I saw the massive holes all over from my flats afterwards XD
oh, and of course, because it's not safe
Wow, i didn't notice you were wearing sandal lol!!
Once did a century in flip-flops, can confirm, it's not that great.
I love this goofy stuff, never stop doing it!
BKXC I love your vids
I thought this said gooey stuff, and was suddenly concerned about completing the video.
Bring back some goof!
I live near there and have ridden that hill hundreds of times in both directions. That hill aint no joke!!! Kudos to you for busting it out on the Fat Ripper! That's hardcore man!
The Adventure Biker biggest hill in flordia, smallest hill in the US
Lol go to California, steepest mountains
Since the one-uppers won’t be able to help themselves in the comment section today, let’s flip the joke around on them. Some great example replies would be: “wow your town has bigger hills than Florida? Impossible!” or “Wow, you must be really big and strong!”.
Anyway, it was great to ride with Alex this weekend. He should be back on the trails by February, and with a little luck, out of his sling in a few weeks. In the meantime he can still do stuff like this just fine!
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Seth's Bike Hacks i live in colorado and i walk higher to get to my garage
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Seth's Bike Hacks I live over in the Catskill mountains in New York I do this every day
Townsend Pritchard no it is not wow you are town has bigger hills
All the non-Floridians: "I don't get it.....where was the mountain." Floridians: "That WAS the mountain."
Lmao!
To Coloradans this is a sorry excuse for even a hill. Colorado hill is at least 3x larger at minimum
@@nk6197 here in PA a hill is 2x the size at the minimum.
You guys haven't heard of The Netherlands..
@@nk6197 same in Massachusetts.
Basically a pimple for those of us who live in the Rocky Mountains.
cool! enjoy those blizzards in april and snow until may!
Christian Burrell FACTS
@@marketqueue7236 you're wrong
At least in Florida we can go to MTB trails year round
@@illuforce We have other sports like snowmobiling, skiing, snowboarding. And best of all, we dont have to deal with all the crazy crackheads of Americas sweaty asscrack.
This is a fantastic Video!!! I grew up in Lake County and we are proud of Sugarloaf being the tallest hill in Florida. I've driven it, know people who live on it but never ridden, I would like to one day. Thanks for showing that FL has great places to ride!!
Also I don't think that most people know that Clermont is where world class triathletes train and they climb that hill a lot.
As someone who lives in Colorado. Calling that sugarloaf “mountain” is kinda funny
Same bro Colorado bills are 3x as large
That's the joke
As someone who lives in Alaska. Calling those Rocky Mountains a “mountain” is kinda funny.
@@YTAccount82825 lmaoooo
As someone who lives in Colorado and has "everested" sugarloaf it is quite funny to call it a mountain, though it's legit steep. 135 reps on this "Mountian" is no joke.
I know it's been 7 years, but thanks for this informative & lighthearted video.
I learned something new about one of the highest points in Florida.
I can only imagine the faces of the other bikers who watched you descend.
Nipple
on a bmx
Hey seth you should make a trip here to bc, tons of trails everywhere, and quite different from the dry sandy stuff in florida.
That’s not a hill.....that’s a speed bump.
Andrew Bratcher a very awsome & larhe speedbump too :)
@@AmusementVision r/wooooosh
@@-73- r/woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh, it no speedbump or hill, it be a mountain ;)
I'm not sure if I love your vids because of the bike content or because I grew up watching and loving the wonder years.
I really like your videos, it's just about the love of bikes and riding them and not about having the latest gear. Great job and thanks for all the videos.
moves to florida cuase it has no hills. ends up living on that road
I live in a really hilly area, south wales (in uk) so this is like everyday ride for me
Forest of dean for me just down the road
In 1991 I did my first century ride during the Mount Dora Bicycle Festival and rode Sugar Loaf Mountain.
It was awesome.
Alex is always smiling, that's so awesome, dude. PRETTY COOL VIDEO, Seth. Thanks a lot, and kudos!
The hills on US 90 around Madison are surprisingly steep. San Felasco Hammock Preserve in High Springs is another good place to ride trails. Not so sandy like a lot of places around FL.
This video was awesome! My college cycling team used to go to Florida every spring for training because riding in NH in February and March sucks. I clocked my highest ever maximum speed of 50.7 mph down that hill and that record held for 3-4 years!
Good video Seth! All of them are great IMHO! When you come back north give a heads up I'd love to do stillwell or even glacial ridge with you!
Keep posting
A True Mountain Biker Never Quit. Love Your Videos!
I live in Suffolk, UK and I know how you feel!
Our highest point is 100m or so, which is about 330ft but those few hills get me every time!
love your videos keep up the good work
ps. can you do an in depth review on the diamondback hook im looking for a good budget bike and nobody does videos on it
I can't believe I just watched you guys climb a road... yet here I am. Healing vibes to Alexander!
What I love about riding in my area is we have a lot of hills like that, get a little shorter as one moves north, a little taller as one moves south; encourages one to go into the red more often, knowing that a respite is just ahead, unlike other places where one just climbs for a long time so ya can't blow your top or you're done. Can't convince myself that going hard into a headwind on flats is just as satisfying as climbing either!
Mount Seymour in Vancouver is absolutely crazy for climbing. To go up it's like 6.5 miles of very steep incline, but it's fun getting low in the hairpins coming down.
For people asking, the average grade for the whole climb is 8.4 percent.
This is interesting. My school bus when I was a kid used to go down sugarloaf. I know it’s been a few years since this was posted though lol. I’ve lived in clermont my whole life and I’m just now getting into cycling, so I’m looking at this stuff from a different perspective for the first time.
It's call the Wall.
I remember the 1st time I rode it, I had to get out of my bike and walk it up hill. Next time I did it (a couple of months later) I was gassed out, but I refuse to get out of my bike and did it at 3 mph... But Felt like a Champ
So much of Florida is flat that the hilly sections are an enjoyable relief. Brooksville toward Ocala and a bit more north has a little ridge.
The people chiming in about bigger hills/mtns elsewhere miss the whole point. Yea I know where you live in the Himalayas is steeper and higher.
Clermont trips are always a blast
hey Seth you should do another hill bombing video but this time you should do it with one of those companion bike seats from Amazon that allows you to have a passenger ride behind you and have it where you test out the seat and what it's like bombing a hill with a passenger behind you and switch riders just saying
The narradation always on point.🔥🔥
The area of hills is called the Ocala up lift. It’s just a small ridge of decent sized hills. There’s a decent hand full of caves out there as well. Because caves in Florida makes as much sense as hills.
Yikers, that looks painful, I should know, as I live in flagstaff arizona, and hills like those, around the 300 foot range are hell, but going down is fun.
As someone who grew up in Clermont and recently moved to upstate New York, I find this amusing. One of my best friends lived right at the top of sugarloaf. For me, the area I live now feels like less hills than Clermont, even though a quick ride down to Lake Ontario has a more demanding climb than sugarloaf.
there's a hill this size outside my grandparents house in maine, it's a nice little warmup for a trail ride
Always love watching your videos Seth!
What Happened to Jesus arm?
ua-cam.com/video/TeW6D5VGsbY/v-deo.html this!
I drove by here this past weekend on my way to orlando airport, it really is funny to see this place in florida, I would love to live on this road.
Love the pads on the BMX, brings back childhood memories :)
Also that Fat tyre BMX looks HUUUGE with you riding it hahaha (btw that wasn't me mocking your stature just the bike itself is a beast)
Take a drive up State road 41 in Florida, or many of the back roads between Zephyrhills and Dade City/Brooksville. These are legitimate rolling clay hills that also look out of place to most of Florida.
It's so fun how earth's biomes are so different from one another. My house is a little bit above the elevation you were on and i have this kind of view everyday!
I just got my first flat today
Oli Lee First of many! I got one too just today :P have fun changing!
A minute of work
Wow. That is crazy. Never knew Florida was that flat. You guys should try Cali.
gotta go check that out , lived here all my life (about a hour and a half south of there) and never knew it was there !! Seth , check out the florida caverns state park. pretty hilly up there also.
Wish I had known you guys were in the area, I am over in Citrus City. I would have come out to meet and ride with you. I will be hitting Santos the next 2 days, hope I see you guys out there. cheers.
Clermont also has the NTC national training center, and there is a multi million dollar facility being built now. Claremont is the cycling capital of Florida
Respect for doing that on a ss bmx fat bike! my coach had us do a monster hill like that twice every friday on our mountain bikes and it was brutal.
I was looking at the thumbnail and realized i literally live on that fucking road xD
Dude!! I can't believe you guys, always up for some shenanigans. Keep charging and remember to Live-Life-Loud!!!
if you guys are ever in New Mexico, Albuquerque has a 9 mine hill. I not sure what the elevation change is but it still a long hill climb.
The biggest hills at the trails in Baton Rouge, Louisiana come from clay mining and silt that was dredged up from a nearby canal. Erosion and the steepness makes climbing them no small feat.
Sup! In Copper harbor Michigan, there was this one road that climbed to the top of a 1,200 foot tall mountain/hill. I rode trails down to the bottom then rode back to the top on the road. That was a crazy climb. It looked like this but about twice as long and it curved to the left. Definitely the biggest climb I've ever done. My dad was with me and he was dying on that climb.
That whole area looks like it came straight out of where I'm from, Northeast Ohio! That's really something for Florida though!
We just went yesterday for the first time!! This was so nice!
Awesome video almost to 200k keep it up Seth
Clermont and the surrounding areas (part of the Lake Wales Ridge) is about as good as it gets for hilly terrain in Florida. North Florida and the Panhandle have a bit of relief as well as parts of west Florida, around Clearwater/North Pinellas County up to eastern Pasco/Hernando Counties. Keep in mind, these are all ancient sand dunes or part of ancient seabeds when sea levels were higher. There is a bit of lift created from geologic processes, but nothing like you'd get elsewhere in the world. Florida is assuredly flat by and large.
Love your uploads pal, Florida looks like an awesome place to live from a cyclists perspective and the awesome weather, so much better than the UK!
Yeah man in PA you have to bike a hill that size to go anywhere. You should see some of the climbs up here, easier 2-3k foot assents. MILES of uphill that steep or greater.
Lol props for climbing in a bmx, and the other person with one arm!
Imagine passing these guys in your car. You got a hippie with one arm riding a full spec trail bike in flip flops and Seth's oompa loompa lookin ass just mashin his way along with a fat tire bmx. Ultimate Florida man shit.
We have a Sugarloaf Mountain in New Brunswick Canada and it has some single tracks it's mainly more most people in New Brunswick go for some downhill singletrack action
come visit pa, giant hills, i reccomend mystic moutain in pa, its a steep decline and a steep incline with a giant lake in the middle with a great 7 mile trail with great views
I live in Clermont I love this area you're riding in
5:05 My home town. I love the trails here
You should have rode mountain Dora trail you were very close to it and it is in Lake County it is very fun with lots of berms and jumps and small drops next time you get a chance you should ride it.
LOL, when we were kids we used to hit 70-75mph on our bicycles flying down much bigger "hills" in western Pennsylvania.
Holy hell Seth, you got some Endurance sir. i would not be able to Pedal that uphill on a single speed.
You live very far but cwmcarn scenic drive is amazing for mountain biking there downhill with up lifts and trails and a pump track
I live on a mountain and the hills about that long, but much steeper, yet Seth is better than me at climbing.
come to pontesbury in Shropshire were full of hills and I climb them every day on a bike with badly rubbing disc brakes which hardly work
I've longboarded down this! So much fun
Finally early to one of your videos I love your channel Seth it's dope
Oh my gosh this is insane!! I get winded just going up the stairs!
Summit and Mountain are obviously loose terms🤣🤔
Hey I got a question I can't wheelie that well can u make a vid about some tips and tricks to wheelie better
Dev-Destroyer Rules he either has some or check out gmbn
Seth has done this
In my state, the highest point- at 1,257 ft above sea level, has a fifteen foot prominence. You would never know it's what it is if you saw it. It's just a little hill with some trees.
I’m guessing you’re talking about Hoosier Hill in eastern Indiana? Not the most disappointing state high point in the country, but disappointing nonetheless
One of my buds lives on that road. Havent ridden it yet, but I will.
You should do a video about that bike park it looks awesome
”Imagine seen a rabbi on a nascar race”😂
I just love it when a person on a bicycle smokes a car, nice.
While Delaware will never be a downhill destination it does have some hilly XC trails in the northern part of the state. Iron HIll just off I-95 has a very similar prominence (220 ft) as Sugarloaf mountain but has actual trails to ride. Other well crafted trails with plenty of rolling hills are nearby. Please accept this as a formal invitation to stop by the First State for a ride on your next trip north.
+RongGearRob that's pretty sweet! I'm glad the builders are making the most of the elevation.
This is my favorite channel
pfft I have to do that every day to go to school
Polny Vlogs same
Polny Vlogs same
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You must all be very proud of yourselves
Hermeez yes yes indeed
Props to Alex...hope he's enjoying the nice weather while his shoulder heals! Does he have a hovercraft to get around or does Jesus teleport from place to place??
0:30 I love how he mocks apple
lol in Austria we usually have to climb hills three times bigger than that one in order to enter a trail ....
I used to live in ocala its a pretty calm place and surprisingly the trails are nice
Keep up the great work Seth!!
You should come visit us a small town in Northern California, there are many mountain bike trails and tons of wildlife. Come to Paradise
I grew up near here.... Climbing it on our bmx bikes to bomb it every few weeks.... Bombed it on my long board once (half way down I made a deal with God that if I lived then I'd never do anything that stupid again) was in tears of fear by the bottom..... But at the end of the day that hill is no joke and props for doing that on the fat tire......
I live about 15 miles from Sugarloaf, and rode up and down it hundreds of times over the course of a 25+ year road racing career. The fastest I've ever gone on a bicycle is down that hill. 56 mph.
i climb 300 feet of stairs up to my garage
Wow, you must be really big and strong!
thatIlluminati _ your reply has more likes than his comment
Hunter Eriksen lol
Hunter Eriksen prescott Arizona???
me too
Wow, I didn't realize Florida was so flat! How do you do much elevation on a MTB ride? Living in southern California I'll typically do 1000 to 3000 ft on a single ride. Is it even possible to do this kind of elevation on a single ride out there?
You should try Sugarloaf Mountain in Urbana, Maryland.
I live in Newfoundland. My town (CBS) is one main road following the curve of the bay and roads go down toward the bay or up they go the other way which every every road (Except one) is almost as steep as that with my road being the second steepest (The steepest connects to my road). I delivered papers and it was the best workout you could get. in high school I weighed 165lbs but could squat about 280lbs simply (never tried any higher lol couldve probably done 350) because I biked like 10k uphill everyday!
Not to brag but on my local trails, Fort Ord Californian next to Laguna seca. two hills like this is are part of my daily ride.
I live at a higher elevation than any one spot in Florida. My town center is over 1400 feet, and the worlds most hiked mountain is a few miles from my house. The south is weird to me because of the low elevation.