The World's Steepest Climb? | Extreme E-Bike Climbing Challenge: The Slab
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Steve's endless pursuit of monolithic slabs of rock to tackle by E-bike has brought us to Italy, and arguably his biggest challenge yet! We've been up slate mines in Wales, famous faces in the South of England, but never have we seen one surface, so perfectly uninterrupted at such a tantalising angle. This may just be our steepest yet, so there's no better challenge, for the new Canyon Strive:ON.
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BIG props to the cameraman who kept pace with Steve on foot! And BIG props to Steve for doing this at least twice for the drone shots!
Thanks! Our camera operators are the unsung heroes 🙌
Both you and your crew worked their Ass off Steve. 😂❤Well done
Fun part would be the downhill!!
Was kind of expecting that to be part of the clip, STEVE..
Props tot the filming/editing crew giving the audience a video zoomout with the real impact of the slab, outside of GoPro's pov.
Well done, that climb is insane. 👍🏻🚲
Amazing work Steve. I was literally saying "holy crap" the whole time you were climbing that thing. I feel exhausted just watching you!
he celebrated with a 'holey crap' at the top!
If anyone else tries it and makes it to the top, Steve left a reward for you.
The fact that Steve could just talk and wasn't really out of breath during this says a lot about the level of assistance the motor gives.
Well that is a turbo climb for sure 😮
Geddon Steve... what a machine... and the Canyon ain't bad either!
Good job!!! I'm impressed with the camera guy!! Awesome job man!!
That was truly awesome. Well done Steve!! You are a legend.💪
Crazy gradient! Kuddos to you! ❤
Excellent 👌
Well done amazing to watch would love to give it go
Stevie man magnificent I've no idea how you held that together but you did brilliant 👏 👏💯👌🏾
Astounding! Steve you are now officially a mega legend!
There's mountain biking and then there's mountain biking with some serious prowess and big balls
There's one I've learnt watching Steve doing the rocky climbs. To never go there and try them myself. Let someone else do them.
There are 3 stars in this video, Steve, Canyon and the cameraman. The latter must have a name and he deserves all the praise he can get running up the slab with camera/gimbal and no assistance!
Congratulations, it was an amazing insane climb.
Bet you downed a few beers 🍻 after that epic workout Steve
Waht about using the TQ Motor with 120nm?
Bravely done! So, we don't have to! Bonus, while talking...👊
My stomach flipped so many times watching this! Amazing!!
I'm pretty sure that Pilgrim has a video riding DOWN this thing. Dude's a boss!
When the bike fell to the side, i had some bad flashbacks of Chris Smith chopping off the tip of his finger with the handlebar. And just few moments later, that scene appeared in the video. Seems the editor noticed the similarity aswell. :-D Luckily Steve had more luck than Chris had that day. ;-)
This is where the Rocky Mountain would truly shine 🦾
The end splat ..lol get well Steve
thundercheeks Jones! :D well done mate
A thumbs up for both you and the cameraman. If I could, I'd give two thumbs up.
Thanks Scott 👍👍
😂😂😂the end Steve 😮😅
I can't imagine riding that with an impending Bubbler....!
Hat's off to you
Stevie "the Hamster" Jones! Kudos to your camera man! To both you guys for almost making it!!! The Drone makes it look flat....;-). Thanks for such a display of effort both for Stevie and the camera dude!
It's like my commute to work after a night on the sauce.
What is the gradient and elevation difference from top to bottom?
Well done 👍🏻 and done an ultimative long nose wheely 👍🏻😉
Wow~~ Rock great
Using this video for my geology a level revision for next week
We wish this had been around for our exam revision! Best of luck 🤞
It would be nice to know what setting Steve used on the bike (power, gear...)
I have tried something like that , less than you have , and I harmed my knees ,, I have been suffering from little Joint roughness since that day !!! Be careful , not all tests are good !
Looked like you needed an even lower bottom gear. It'd be good to see some stats on the steepness of the climb etc
Amazing...Epic climb, specially at our age💪💪💪...in which part of Italy is that Slab? Is it in the area of Verona?
I think it's just above Lake Garda, north East shore
Arco?
Respect 👍🏼 I can remember such sections, but they were only 10m long or so.
Thanks 👍 This one's a whole different level!
What's your height ? And what's size of frame are you riding ?
INSANE CLIMB... 👌
Thanks for your answer 👍😁... 🔥
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Great good Job Congrats boaaaaaaaa
Bravo, should be trophies to the people than can do it.
Wow, simply Wow!
Brilliant, legend!
That was a Phenomenal hill climb! 😲Bound to be a blast going down it though (if youre brave enough 😂) Excellent! thanks for sharing
What chain ring was mounted? That‘s why I never would change my 32 ring on my Wild for a 34 or larger. To be honest, in the alps I often wish I had a 30 one…
I run a 30 on my regular mtb! who cares about top speed anyways...?
@@jokermtbmy words, fully agree,
Won't lie I've one of the gmbn and ebike haters at times but but this gets my respect so does that motor 👍
Holy shit, almost took out the camera man! ..Good thing he's invincible.
What is that, 40 degree of slope grade or what? Amazing, congrats!
Fantastic effort.
The end was epic he needs to dump 😂😅
Well done Steve - well deserved squat too🤣
Well done that’s some achievement the GoPro affect doesn’t do this any justice what’s so ever till the horizontal shot where it’s equal to you
I"m with you !
Time to Session it DH now lol
Location 45°50'56"N 11°01'29"E
Awesome climb!
Amazing!!!! What was the bike of choice for this achievement?
Great job!!! How much of that battery was drained?
Impressive 💪
Respect! And for the camera guy!
But not so much for the dummy who defaced that beautiful rock slab with his own graffiti.
Can you do it again please and see how much battery you used
Hats off to the camera man..and the rider
Might be easier with a reverse mini mullet setup (26 front, 29 rear), also lower bars, more fork sag
@@downhill64 reverse the wheel when you going down
@@zhouye7647 reverse the wheel, flip the stem, pump up the fork :)
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Surprised you didn't wear knee / elbow pads for this Steve? :O
Haha you can see trees are angled to the left not perpendicular up, cameraman is making it look worse. Besides cameraman had no problem getting there 😂
I think if I attempted that, constipation would certainly not be a problem.
We’ll done Steve, what size bike are you riding?
How did you get down?
Epic climb
Wow! That's insane! And what the heck was the cameraman doing chasing after you when you had to go.... well, you know 🙂
All that incredible scenery, downhills and singletrack... and you ride up a f******g hill.
Ohh it's an advert, as I thought you had done something very similar with criss in the past on another ebike 😂
That was a awesome video
Thanks Alf!
whats the gradient angle?
How much battery did that consume?
I want to see the Rocky Mountain powerplay dom that
Is this the one brendon fairclough threw himself down
That is my dream bike for riding in nepal hilly regions.
That does not look easy 👀
Again the slab? Weren't you there with Chris 3 years ago?
Running out of ideas.
Believe the one with Chris was Bristol slab this is on a different level
@@downhilljedi I'd say the number of people more interested in emtbs since then has warranted a revisit. Stuff like this does help show off what is capable on one, instead of the tired old misconceptions. I think they should have paid a bit of homage to the first one though instead of acting like they didn't try it before. They only made it 3/4 of the way last time though so..
Think it be easier with Rocky Mountain power play with the over 100 nm of power?
now ride it down
It looks like the motor was in an ECO or Trail mode, not really Turbo. I can't believe it was so hard in a Turbo mode.
Anybody know the evaluation for the Slab?
With the right gearing and motor that is powerful enough yes but the downhill cook your brakes
Wot, no SPDs?! 🙈
I did a wheelie up and frontwheelie down, but gopro stopped recording, for sure
Only Bosch can handle that!!! 👍👍
Where is the Downhill Part?
But how did you get down?
7:30 Poor bike.
Is this a natural formation, or artifical?
Artificial for sure in order to prevent landslides
would running the forks at, say, 85% sag helped. Or is that cheating?
E-bikes put skyrim horses to shame holy shit