We climbed for FIVE HOURS just to ride this epic trail
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- When your buddy that just had a baby finds himself with an entire day free to ride bikes and he wants to make the most of it... well, you just say yes. So, when my buddy Andrew invited me to pedal the most epic mountain bike in town with him - a 28 mile, 5K climb, 5K downhill, for better or worse, you know I'm in!
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This was one helluva adventure and honestly, despite all the pain and suffering along the way, I wouldn't change a thing!
I'm still recovering from this one, hope you all enjoy and have a great weekend!
LFRHGS
Alexander
I know this is a long vide, but I hope at least some of you enjoy getting to witness my full, slow decline into insanity, the kind you only get on truly epic rides such as this.
We love the long ones. Glad you had fun. My bikes in the bike shop right now and im itching to ride.
I kept watching for the HBar tree grabbers! I've ridden CC road, been wanting to go Up this way also! Sweet Vid!
I loved this video! This seems to be reminiscent of your original videos!!
I don't think any of us are gonna complain about the long video; lets us spend more time with you. Might have to do an epic on this one of these days.
Hey Alex, can you post your Strava links to some of these rides?
Andrew has acquired and exercised his “Dad Strength.” It’s that special gear dads have to open tight pickle jars, loosen stuck bolts and climb steep trails with quiet ease. Parenthood builds grit in a man and it’s such a great experience. Thanks for the content.
Please do an epic with BKXC next time you see him. The two of you suffering together is pretty wonderful--such positive vibes!
Suddenly, I believe in humanity again. Well done guys!!
Dude the high altitude views to the right were amazing, now I want to ride this badly 😍
My job here is done :P
Never enjoyed a climbing video so much! Love your energy and your mental strength 👊
bro it was a 28 mile ride you think that is testing mental strength they are goin like less 10 mph💀💀
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The Singletrack Sampler turned into his evil alter ego “The Doubletrack Disaster”
LOL 😂
Maybe one of the best mountain bike videos I've seen. Enduring the pain is what makes riding worth it.
FINALLY SUM REAL MOUNTAIN BIKING
50/50 uphill/downhill
You must ride one of these each month.
12-BIG RIDES EACH YEAR ❤
one reason why you gotta love mountain biking is the amazing nature view. nice riding dude!
Enjoyed every minute of that ride! No way I could make that climb so cheers to you both! Keep on doing what you do!
The problem with having it soo chill and flat for ages at the start of a ride is that it means you are eventually going to his some very steep climbs!
I got tired watching the climb and had to go to sleep halfway through the video :D
That downhill though, pretty sweet.
Man I just accidentally did a ride yesterday that ended up being 2800' (wrong turn down a trail that squandered all my previous climbing that added another 1k) and it killed me. 5000' is no joke, awesome stuff!
youtuber mtb'ers always show up to the trail in a car and they leave in a car...
one day, i will meet the David Goggins of MTB'ing and I will be fulfilled.
the only way to get better is to practice indiscriminately and harder than anyone else around you.
i want to go to live to the U.S.
So fucking hard!
As a beginner I enjoy when you do gear checks! Awesome ride!
There are several shorter ways to pedal up to heartbreak.
I’m giving her all she’s got captain! She can’t take much more of this!
Man ! Those are tears of joy guys !!! I could almost feel the win on my face during the descend! Great ride. Keep up the amazing job!!! 👍 Yeah..That was absolutely enjoyable.
Hey Alex, you'd really have a much better time (and better recovery) if you got more carbs in and more often. For 4+ hour rides you really need to be getting in at least 40g carb/hr on the low end and high end would be around 100g carb/hr. Two bars and a croissant aint gonna cut it for this long of a climb. You will be amazed at how much better you feel. Give it a shot.
Truth. Carbs and regular eating on a ride like this make a world of difference.
I just read something that a person can only absorb about 200-400 calories per hour (while working out). Your 40 - 100g / hour of carbs is spot on for max benefit and absorbing without as much GI distress.
@@playgroundchooser Its certainly an individual thing. I struggle to keep good GI with 100g/hr on 4+ hour rides but I can do 80g/hr pretty easily. The gut is also trainable to an extent. I think there's recent studies showing some people can even tolerate (and benefit from!) even higher amounts. Something like 120g/hour. Makes me sick just thinking about it haha.
I’m starting to think your friend is an android 😂 any normal human being would be dying at that point but he’s absolutely unfazed the entire ride there. Either kidnap him and find the secrets to his infinite energy or he is Mark Zuckerberg’s android brother lmao btw please don’t kidnap i was just joking in case he does get kidnapped and i get sued for suggesting it lol
Epic! I haven’t done many 20+ milers recently unless you count the ebiking? Lol
One of my favorites MNT videos I seen, what an epic ride!!!
How'd you record audio for this? It sounds fantastic!
I rode the Duluth traverse (Duluth, MN) which is 44 miles with 3000/3000 elevation last year and it was brutal.
Absolute troopers…I’m not sure I will ever have the fitness for such an adventure.
Man! A six hour total ride with all the altitude gain and an sweet downhill! That's absolutely a epic ride if i've ever seen one!! I feel you on the pain, happened to me riding across the Colorado rockies many moons ago. Absolutely great video bro! Lookinf forward to the next adventure!👍✌️
Dang! And you didn't do it on your e-Bike! Now you should do the route again on the ebike and compare how you feel after! Well done! And to put my comments in perspective, I am waiting for my Fezzari Timp Peak to arrive! I thoroughly enjoy your videos.
Hey Alex... What is your bar width? My new bike came with 800mm bars and they feel soooo wide.. just curious what you ride.. Thinking of going to 760 or maybe 780.
You should ride at Legacy Bike Part in Lakeside Montana, It’s a fun sick park with lots of trails and sweet jumps. Would recommend Freestyle/DH bike. 👍👍
Much easier to do that distance and vert when it's continuously up, down, up, down. Doing all the climbing at once though? 💪💪💪
Soryy you have problebly Said this a million times by now. Do you use Strava so we kan follow the ride?
Love your videos and your passion about the trails. Love following Them from Denmark. 🎉
Heartbreak and Kitsuma in one go. Oh I remember the pain the day of and the following day.
We rode Spencer last Saturday. About 500 yards down from where you took the right at that fork near the top. We came across a huge rattlesnake chilln in the middle of the trial. It was crazy. He wouldn't move lol
Pictures and video on my strava
I wish i had as big of a climbs and as much forest here in the uk as you guys do in the US. The only place that could match that is the lake district, wales and scotland. Sadly I don't live near either so I'm just here wishing I had this.
34:38 Pedal uphill for five hours to ride downhill for seven minutes. Every mountain bike ride ever.
Double leg cramps for weeks is what I'd get! Way to go guys! Brutal!
@The Singletrack Sampler - do you use chamois butt'r?
I’m 65 with chronic pain and fatigue. I can get the same exhausted feeling on any climb. 😊
I have the same Cognative MTB shorts and I really like them. I’m a lardass and it’s hard to find riding shorts so I appreciate the 2xl size
It's an epic ride for sure, but I can't imagine climbing that high for that long for only a huge rocky/rooty bump fest with nothing but another switchback to look forward too.
It really didn't look like a fun decent after all that hard work. I wonder if it's one of those, the climb was so hard that the brain makes the "payoff" worth it to the individual no matter what.
Brian is probably pissed he missed this ride.
I did an epic ride with my 4 year old recently, we did around 3.5 miles. Epic ride for him lol. I went out about another 4 miles, doing some down hill stuff. Only 300ft up and 300ft down, but still a blast.
Need some Bag Balm after that one. Is there something loose on your buddies bike? It was sounding kind of clanky towards the end - loose brake, rotor or pivot or something?
Bro, You would be at least 10 degrees cooler without the beard. Just saying.
What is that app you're using? :O Looks perfect!
@7:00 I carry a little lock pick set with me so when I saw you come to that fire road gate the only thing I was thinking was if I could pick that lock faster than you could lift your bikes and jump over it. hahaha
Dude started plotting against Andrew and everything 😂😂
Also bring zip ties Ive had to zip tie broken spokes, a dollar bill in case you slice a side wall or use a wrapper from a gel or bar. A patch kit, and first aid kit, and shit kit.
At the 16:50 mark, that's what she said. Awesome video. I enjoyed every second of it.
@The singletrack sampler time to do some training i think for those climbs to feel easy mentally.
For future huge climbs, i'd love a elevation time stamp, and little dot moving on a map!
Avoid the butt sore with a proper Coullote. Are very very comfortable.
I reckon I’ll shuttle that one. Wayyyy to much road riding for my taste
14:15 omg I thought you were gonna say you asked him to apply chamois butter for you… hahaha
I was expecting the seasons to change and you to age dramatically . That’s a bobo video maybe
Awesome man that is some gnarly riding the 5 hour climb is definitely worth it.
Western NC!
What water filter do you use for your bike rides. I live in WNC as well.
Dude, you put a huge smile on my face, and now I must plan a trip!! 😉🤙
This looks very not fun......Classic!!!
Gonna need those energy tubes cause damn all uphill...
I've ridden up that way, it really isn't that bad as I remembered lol
So.... I got a hardtail, should i even debate this trail?
What ride app was Andrew using, it looked nice!
Congrats on the challenge. what if you get lost and you loose your phone?
26:34 this made the climb all the more worth it
Maybe my favorite trail. We shuttled to the top of heartbreak, hit up heartbreak and star gap, then pedaled back up to Kitsuma. I loved it so much. Great video, such good vibes!
One of my favorite rides out here. It's such an adventure. Looks like you got the peak bloom of the laurels too! That rock bed on the upper part of the toll road looked brutal. I have actually never done the route ya'll did up the old Mitchel toll road. My route starts where lower heartbreak (star gap) spits you out. I take star gap east to Jarret Creek road, then up the 8 miles fire road climb Curtis creek. Blue ridge parkway to Heartbreak entrance. About the 31 miles with 5,400 feet vert. I ride this route probably 3 to 5 times a year. Loved this video.
My cousin got married in old fort
This is the best video I have watched😂!!
I took a nap half way through this.
You can really here the soccer lungs
you asked when did you a similar epic ride with your buddies? We just did, yesterday. 32 miles, 5500 feet, in Switzerland. Took us about 10 hours including long breaks (that is pretty slow). Alex, If you ever come to Switzerland looking for epic rides let me know -Alex
What bike are you riding
last epic I did was the left and right loops at tsali + the overlooks a little west of cherokee (Fire mountain) . I think it was like 21 miles and 4k climb, but the climbing and DH were all mixed in along the ride. Epic views but not super gnarly, perfect for group rides and camping.
Climbing in from the other end up Newberry makes it a little bit less painful...A LITTLE BIT.
Glad you're back posting videos Alex!
Cheers, another great video, have a lot of rain here for the past month+ in Bulgaria, but everytime you upload I just want to get out and ride!
Over 15 miles of just climbing…. That just sounds agonizing. Good on you guys for doing it though! Embrace the suck and reap the rewards!
Brooo let me ride with you 🤘🏻🤘🏻 I’m down for any trail
That climb is no joke!!!. 5 hours is about right. What an awesome downhill though.
09:20 That's a "petit pain" or "petit pain chocolat" and not a croissant. The latter has the shape of a quarter-moon and MUST have pointy ends (the French get very anal about this, take it from me, I live in France right now)
Who parks at the bottom of Kitsuma to ride Heartbreak and not include Kitsuma? Did your plans change?...cuz you can park a lot closer to Heartbreak and chop a lot of that pavement out. Just sayin.
Great vid… what advice would u give a freshly on riding the mountains on bike in Colorado. I can’t afford to drive so I’m going to watch my son golf. Just a lil advice plz.
Alex, you've got to ride Weed Patch if you haven't - it's got it all views, death march climbing and a 360° view at the top. Would be sick video. A buddy and I rode it without shuttle and I wanted to die. Thanks for the vids!
As my father used to say, "It's better to have and not need, than need and not have". Keep up the videos man. Some day you should come to Ohio. I know a place you would have a TON of fun.
Any chance that you'll make a video about your bikes? I'm interested in how you choose/acquire the bikes you've had.
I used to have that excitement before rides, but after coming back from injuries and being older, I have near none. Such a lack of motivation.
Actually just got back from an epic few days of riding out in Snowshoe West Virginia! And he's a super new rider and falling in love with the sport very quickly. Love the content too, it helps inspire me to get out and ride
@ 20:12 I have definitely been there. Hahah climbing up claw hammer the first time. My buddy was leading the way.
As someone who likes biking (normally, was intereted in getting into mountain biking), but haven't been able to due to current life situation, I love your content. Vibes always on point and it's always just a blast following along on your adventures. Keep living ya best life my dude 🤘
That was an amazing ride. Longest video of this type I've watched yet. I loved the little scenic route after getting down the mountain as much as the actual climb and decent.
That was a crazy climb! Fast downhill! Excellent video! Enjoyed it all…Kudos!!
Sorry I forgot to press record
I did this when you could take the trails through the church (before they closed it). Definitely a ride to remember.. lots of pain.
I'd love to do this - but not necessarily by myself. Any suggestions to find a group to ride with?
The climbing was exciting! Lol. Wood Mountain Trail has very punishing climbs near there also. I hate rhododendrons after getting battered to death on that trail.