Riding Road Bike Handlebars On An Enduro Bike! Can It Shred?
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 7. 09. 2024
- Our friends over at GCN built a crazy looking drop-bar MTB for a recent April fools video, but it got us thinking - Can you really shred a drop-bar bike or will it be a total fail? Gravel bikes are just mountain bikes with drop bars, right? There's only one way to find out! đ đż
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This is my favorite type of content - grown men doing ridiculous things in bicycles. We need more of this!
Older xc frames makes great monster gravel bikes with a rigid fork and som drop bars. Taking them to trails is so much fun
I did it with mine but i used a cornerbar so i can use mtb hydraulic brakes
@@andrestrd did the same. I'm having a blast
@@andrestrd I would love to try the corner bars - next build I guess :)
Wait, you guys ride gravel bikes on mountain bike trails? Well, I guess that's more contact to nature since you feel every, single, bump.
@@core-i7413 I do. Gotta pick my lines carefully, though sometimes i ride like i have suspension. What really sucks are braking bumps. I'm also riding on Maxxis Ravagers 40mm tires that gives plenty of grip.
now put blake on it and do some flips đ
Sam Pilgrim probably did it on a granny bike with a basket, which he added drop bars and 180mm fork on.
Yeahđ
I've been doing this for quite some time. Maybe not as an enduro rig, but as an XC bike. Wide flared drops, disc brakes, bars up-high, so the attack position is on the drops and climbing is done on the hoods. It is actually pretty fun. The only real difficulty is the fact that drop-bars tend to have quite a bit of reach, so the bike being modded needs to be of the smaller size.
EDIT: YOu'd need one of those Mondraker zero stems ( high and just 10mm of length ) to make it work well.
Better yet, use a Cunningham LD copy, such as the Velo Orange "Cigne", Crust "LD", Olsen Bicycles "Charlie" etc. Analog Cycles also make a tall 0mm stem. It's also useful to have a frame with a relatively short top tube, as drop bars (and hoods) do increase your overall reach.
honestly as someone who rides MTB and casual road, I could see myself having a lotta fun on something like that lol
The ultimate test would be to do it in lycra :D
Maybe not. đ„Ž
You should post it in the bike vault for Ollie to have a heart attack on the next GCN Tech show
Forget about drop bars, even flat bars at 400mm would be ridiculous to ride (unless you are a NYC messenger).
I have my own monster gravel build, more likely an XC setup with dropbars.
I love the terrifyingly fun experience!
You guys should try the opposite, put a MTB cockpit on a road bike. đ
Isn't that just a "hybrid bike", aka "city/touring bike", aka "Fitnessbike". For example the Canyon Roadlite, out of many.
What a monstrousity đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Far play Rich for sending it on the trails đđ€
Oh, dear! That scary!
Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines! #KeepBiking
I have wide drop bars on my hard tail titanium xc bike. I have a 120mm front fork and love it.
I tackle a lot of rough trails on it too and it works great. I get odd looks some time but makes it crazy fun to ride
Hey I pretty much use the same Set Up I was wondring what Breaks u use ?
The thumbs up position on the hoods is actually a much better placement for the hands, wrists and forearms than a flat bar! I would just get a wider and more flared bar on there! ;-)
The future of bike packing bikes. The only thing that would make this any stranger is a dual crown fork.
Oh, good old gravelduro bike, you guys are ahead of the marketing guys in the indusrty
I can see the influence of Sam Pilgrim here xD
Haha! đ
đđđ three days ago I put a Roadbike handlebar on my Bulls Hardtail. Itâs so much fun đ
Two idiots, same idea đȘ
i have a giant anthem xc 29 with a dropbar and a 2x11 group, i enjoy every time i see it and when people see it and his faces goes to -> Oo xDD
I have a Salsa Cutthroat with drop bars, a mtb drivetrain, and no suspension - and ride it hard on the trails all of the time. Running a 2.5 in front and a 2.4 in back and that is my suspension. It does help to had a wide set of drops that are flared (Salsa Woodchippers), and ride on the drops not the hoods. A bit slower on the downhills but a rocket on the uphills.
John Tomac with drop-bars back in the day
The one time I rode my cyclocross bike at the bike park, I found it easier to control riding the hoods as opposed to the drops. That looked sketchy AF riding the drops!!
You should also out aero bars on it đ.
how about you install a bigger chain rings on the front and a road bike fd on it.....
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GCN are great at ruining a perfectly fine MTB......... awesome stuff đ
ruining? it's better this way haha
Iâll do this on my liteville 601 enduro,cause i always use 601 for bikepacking and exploring new trail,drop bar mtb is defentily not for bike park
Mmh I ride my mtb always with road Bars. I can not ride normal with flat Bars. And I love it. But my Bars a bit full with gps speedometer, Bell, fork lock and camera mount
Absolute bonkers . Super Cool
"Is it possible?"
With the right attitude? YES.
No one has ever put more road bike parts on a mountain bike than Martyn Ashton. (And he rocked that thing!)
When there are drop bars as wide as XC bars itâs kinda fun đ
Obv not on Enduro bikes, but what about a super light XC ht? That's basically a low slung gravel bike. The lines actually do blur depending.
Nice
Can't be difficult to realise that it needs the shortest possible stem to get steering and center of gravity like a mtb.
Love the idea of drop bars on a mountain bike.
I would like to see you try some 520 mm gravel bike bars, they would give you a wider base and shorter reach and drop.
Fair play to you. Rode that like a boss
Do they even make drops wide enough?đđ Oh Lord
gravenduro
I am a roadie
And i have to say i kind of like it
Gravelbike in the park? yes!
It looked sweet
now go true old school like I did in the 80's BEFORE mountain bikes were a thing, reverse the installation of the drop bars and then rotate them UP to be RAISER bars (this put the ends of the bars still facing back). It positions your body weight higher so you are not falling over the front end.
Pre-90's, CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM, who pioneered drop bars for offroad use on his own bikes sometime in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
This channel is the best đđ€
Thanks for the support! Safe shredding! đ
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Its basically a full sus gravel bike. Maybe not the best mountain bike but I bet its a better ride back up the hill and back home at the end of the session. If you want to cross a country this is the machine for you lol
Drop bars on a fat bike and put Blake on it
You should try the 60cm Curve Walmer Bars!
Which brakes were you running? Iâm debating whether I need to run the rival brakes that come with my shifter setup for my GX AXS, or if I would be better off with G2 Ultimate setup (even though Sram only recommends a Level Ultimate or TLM)
Ok i was thinking about thisđ€Łđ€Łđđ but now I will not do
sick gravel bike bro đ
So funny....Mr bean brooo
What is this a mountain, gravel or hybrid bike?
All of those! đ
monstercross
Flat bars are the best for tech MTB descents.
Drop bars are the best for tech roadie descents.
And aero bars are the best for looking like a dickhead at 40 miles an hour, lol.
Roadie life in the Rhododendrons. HAH!
5/36 roadbike rings
I would go OTB on that thing 30s into the ride LOL
We think most of us would! You've definitely got to lean back with these bars! đ
GMBN goes r/xbiking!
Next video: Using a lawn chair for a saddle.
We're on it! đ
Wide handlebars are overrated. I barely clipped a tree on a narrow rocky downhill portion of a trail and got thrown and scraped/bruised my whole body. I cut an inch off of both sides of my handlebar the next day.
Oh god
How does it do on gravel?
Well this look more sense on gravel bike
Should use some super wide flare bars
Come to Shropshire and do a challenge on my local trail âThe Wrekinâ
Hahahah what the hell is this first it was downhill forks on a hardtail no this
Maybe there were some benefits to riding drop bars! đ„Žđ
Hi from Philippines đ”đ
Hi from the UK! đ
And the "Gravel" bike was born... But if on those "gravel" tracks you meet a drop, rocks, roots, or all these on a decent the bike is out of its scope. Enter the XC bike.
Monster Gravel in the USA.
This is so stupid so it's cool. To get the weight back a bit you could try put the stem om backwards. Then the hoods and drop should get roughly where the grips would be on a narrow straight bar.
No more road bike parts. I agree with the other comments, put Blake on it have him do some flips.
That's how gcn fooled us.
The ultimate pucker bike.
#GMBN drop bar VS #gcn drop bar
We like it! đ
Maybe it needs a really wide and grippy front tyre
Try it in a gravel road
Build a roadbike with fatbike wheels!
Iâm not gonna lie, it looks sick.
YESSS, WHEELS!! TEST TTEH LIMITS OF IIIIIIIIT
This is the next step in the world of âhow much stupid crap can we sell folksâ haha
New definition of a "Dirt Roadie"!!!
Blake should give this a go
You can but should you? Hell no.
The width of the bars alone is horrifyingâŠ
it's a gravel bike..!
i think if your on wheels and having fun , who cares what the bike is.
I imagine your wrists might need a break after this session
It was the done thing, is a bit of a stretch.
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ok
Drop Bars on a mountain bike.đ
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MONKE FLIP
Fun for a laugh, terrible as a bike. Anywhere the drops are a benefit, the tires and suspension is a liability. Anywhere the tires and sus are a benefit, the drops and levers are a liability. Even my gravel/bikepacking rig has Jones Loop swept back flat bars rather than drops. Drops are just too dicey in the rough.
This just proves gravel bikes are a mistake.
No
Dropbars on anything are a bad idea.
Monke
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