True Story: Ben Hildred
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Ben Hildred has spent years in search of the eternal summer. A native of Lincoln, England, he milks the Northern Hemisphere’s warm months in places like Whistler, British Columbia, before absconding to Queenstown, New Zealand, to make the most of the Southern Hemisphere summer. Ben’s quest for the endless summer has allowed him to explore the world’s premier riding communities on his constant source of ground transportation-his mountain bike.
He’s never owned a car, opting instead for two-wheeled freedom, whether commuting to work or simply riding his favorite trails. Ben’s daily bike time is sacred, offering space for relaxation and reflection, as well as serving up a perpetual series of self-conceived challenges. These challenges are anything but ordinary. In 2018, he successfully “Everested” the agonizingly steep Skyline access road to the Queenstown Bike Park, climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest’s 8,848 metres in a sleepless, 19-hour sufferfest.
Having conquered Everest, Ben last year set his sights on an arguably bigger challenge: To climb 55,000 vertical metres in only 30 days, using his beloved Skyline access road as the principal conduit-all while holding down his full-time bike-mechanic job at Queenstown’s Vertigo Bikes. This meant dedicating December of 2019 to burning the candle at both ends, waking each day at 5 a.m. to grind out a minimum average of 1,834 vertical metres of ascending before opening the bike shop at 7:45 a.m. to work a complete shift. Over the course of 30 days, he climbed the Skyline access road 111 times-a feat that was rewarded with 111 blistering descents on the steep-and-rowdy bike park trails. For Ben, the challenge was its own reward. But bombing all those sweet downhills was the icing on the cake.
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What a legend, if only more people were as dedicated and motivated as Ben
Dang! That's an impressive challenge and what a beautiful way to live life. Determine your principles and live by them truly. Respect!
So sick man. Well done. I knew Ben back in Lincoln and even back then people knew him for the huge road rides he would do.
Love the story and cinematography. Top notch!
Good work Ben! If you put your mind to it, anything is possible!!!
Heftig! Respekt an ihn🔥🔥
Ben!!! 🙌
An incredible challenge and hugely inspiring!
inspiring!
Fkn brilliant, mate!
Sick! What an absolute weapon.
Out of curiosity where are you from. In my country if you call someone an absolute weapon it means you think they are an idiot?
Big ups Ben
What a champ
Sweet video
So cool
Song ?
Mental! And then I ask myself how some blokes on the bike have bull-like calfs yet still no endurance.
Marco Mayer
Muscle mass does not mean you have endurance. If you look at marathon runners or road bikers they usually are very skinny
Less muscle = less oxygen and glycose usage. Endurance and strength are neural work.
I have 1 missing part of my bike is the drive train
love this brand sram is one of my dream to by but i cant buy
Track IDs anyone?
Can you guys help me build a bike
😮🤭
μπράβο φίλος...πηγή έμπνευσης
Γειά εσύ που είσαι Έλληνας δεν χρησιμοποιείς. Shimano?
@@eugenio4073 χαχαχαχ...οχι
@@ystefanidis οκ
can you esponsord me
Is this channel does giveaways?
But Ben is wearing good halmet and nice bike, he could have spend some money for a second hand bike
Oglądam to srajac proszę pana SRAM
#sram ist das beste und nicht shimano der schrott