HEAT WAVE (GRAVEL) - Downhill / Urban / Road bike / Descent / POV / Cycling / Adventure / Fast

[@K41]

wow interesting idea at the start, chopping off some nubs to get the clearance

[@IsaacRC]

Yeah i had heard it's common in MTB history they had to DIY a lot so helped me endure the nightmare of doing it, recently found out there's a tool sold for doing just that which is much easier 😅

[@littlebread100]

Hey man, im really intrigued in these videos, im a big fan of them too, it just calms me down for some reason, but anyways, how do you hop with the bike? Like how do you get both wheels up at the same time? Its been something ive been trying to do, but keep failing time and time again.

[@IsaacRC]

@@littlebread100 dropping both wheels from an elevation and hoping are two different moves that can be combined, for practicing both wheel perfect landing i recommend practicing first landings doing a wheelie, that is letting the back wheel absorb the full weight impact of a landing from an elevation and in essence counteracting the physics that would make the front of the bike always fall first, then once you you got that (not too high otherwise the wheel might start to damage) you'll notice that if you increase the speed of the bike before the drop the impact will be much less hard and is in that soft point that learning to calibrate a two wheel "touch down" is appropriate because it provides the softest landing possible. Practicing hops i would recommend practicing it first on rolling over small (and safe) obstacles like some stone or some log because in essence one does the same "propulsion" of the bike like lifting the front wheel and pushing the body weight upwards to compensate for a bad or impossible traction for the wheels (an air hop is effectively detaching all traction from the wheels)

[@littlebread100]

​@@IsaacRCThanks man!

[@littlebread100]

​@@IsaacRCNow i just gotta practice lol.

[@IsaacRC]

@@littlebread100 You got it!

[@littlebread100]

​@@IsaacRCKinda doubting myself already 😅

[@markay_]

another sick video bro! what is the width of those tires? they look crazy wide

[@IsaacRC]

@@markay_ they are gigantors indeed 29x2.3 in MTB measures, with knobs was 52 mm wide now they must be less

[@Mercy-kp3kb]

What gear do you use?

[@IsaacRC]

@@Mercy-kp3kb a combination of two plates at the front (46-30) and 11 sprockets on the back (11-42) (shimano), it's not a theoretically compatible combo but i got it hacked up to work minimally well with a grx derailleur model that officially only works for one plate ( a forty something) in combo with 11 sprockets (11-42) and some other mods like a long chain etc