Riding My New Knolly Chilcotin!

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[@raivkka4313]

You're riding looked in control (from what we see), bike sounded well damped. And, like the quiet hubs as I ride them myself. Thumbs up so far. Looking forward to the long term review.

[@topspot4834]

I've always liked louder hubs, but it is pretty cool having them silent. So long as there's no creaking, cause that'd irritate my OCD.

[@flashfive23]

@@topspot4834 I like either a decently loud hub, not crazy loud or a silent hub

[@topspot4834]

@@flashfive23 I have 350s with the 54t ratchet. Not as loud as CK or i9 but still has some buzz!!

[@raivkka4313]

@@topspot4834 My road bike has Winspace 6 pawl hubs and they are loud AF. I ride faster than the speed of sound so it doesn't bother me.

[@jasoniannone9675]

You send so hard through Pingu. It makes me want to see you do another enduro race. I know you were beat to death last time, but you're a legitimately good rider and it's awesome to watch.

[@Tequila628]

It's not just "a silent hub", it's a marvel of engineering.

[@willbros1499]

You asked about the silent hub. I usually like it for videos, but....at times I actually wish there was at least a little noise, so I can tell when the rider is coasting versus pedaling. It doen't really matter much in your videos, because you're either making a long climb, or a pretty steep descent where very little pedaling is required. But...in a lot of other YT videos, it's nice to be able to tell if the trail was level with some descending, up and down, or all descending. The hub is really the only way to tell on a GoPro at times. But....man, the dead silent new bike on the trail....sounds AMAZING!

[@junjunmulleda5467]

I really like the silent hubs. You can hear the suspension working.

[@chengloroutdoors9211]

Hilarious when you said "I'm no Dangerous Dave".. haha

[@mtb_alan]

Can't get enough of that ASMR trail sound. 🤤

[@mtb_alan]

And stoked for you on that new bike!

[@VanCan]

You’ll need to come here and make some sounds yourself

[@mtb_alan]

@@VanCan heck yeah! On my list for sure. 💯

[@StonedRoxs]

When it's 1 degree C and you ride in shorts. Here I am whining it's cold with long pants when its sub 10 C :') Reminding me of an Canadian teacher telling us 'winters here feel like Canadian Summers'

[@ShitStefanShoots]

Not the least bit chattery - just the sound of tyres on the ground and breathing. Perfect

[@CaliradoKid]

This trail looks so damned GOOD! The bike is lookin' mighty sexy too!

[@brentoncrittenden3496]

New bike looking good Nik, you looked good smashing through corkscrew

[@muratkaraca2694]

This bike is so quiet.....amazing....

[@topspot4834]

Bike looks 👌 Only nitpick I'd get NOBL to send purple decals for your rims. It'd look sick with just that crown being purple. Excited to see how the Knolly compares to the Evil.

[@calcite84]

Great video, trails look a lot the UK. Weather looks similar too!

[@siebitup]

That has got to be one of the coolest trails I've ever seen. So different from the dry and rocky UT trails.

[@tommitch6872]

Always nice to be able to hear sounds of the trail

[@therealsteen]

Looked like a great first ride! So smooth, like always 🤙

[@maartendenhollander1348]

love the quiet hubs

[@gogovitch66]

Bike is swet and eats up all those bumps but the scenery on this trail is breathtaking 🙌🏽

[@pippinrush1520]

footage looks awesome nice job

[@DaleStone]

That lower Boogieman to Empress light tho. 😘👌

[@VanCan]

⛅️ ⛅️ ⛅️

[@apolnicki]

Incredible skills. Bravo!

[@snoopyboobs]

Wow that was awesome! Glad you’re likin the new bike!

[@kenjiMTB]

In rhythm all the way down!! Congrats on the new build bro 👍🏻

[@KestrelYI]

Looks like you had a good time! Heal up! Looking forward to seeing some more north shore on the Knolly.

[@janzeddrieck5801]

That's some impressive, controlled, and dialed in riding right there! Feels like this bike was made for you man!

[@vwmk5gtiblk]

Best bike yet! So quite. Love it🤙🏻

[@taylorklein2378]

The lighting was 👌

[@matthew_dag6201]

Absolutely love the silent hub, sounds so good

[@craigsteele8178]

SICK!!…Great riding buddy! Keep it roll’n!…

[@Biking_with_Akiva]

Awesome video and great riding bike seems dialed in 💯🤙🏾

[@jamesandbrendaoates7637]

Another awesome video!

[@BowzKnows]

Silent hub sounds amazing... I love the raw tires on ground sounds, and suspension working. Music to my ears.

[@cehovski3690]

Cool video, cool bike, amazing riding. Enough said!

[@ericklaurila1293]

Nice riding!

[@enduro_sztambuch]

Man, these trails look so sick, and this light...❤️ It is one of my goals (and dreams) to travel to BC and do some riding. Keep up great work and whish you quick recovery from surgery.

[@broxy55]

Sounds so good! Bumpity bump

[@inthewoodsmtb]

Beautiful looking rig man!

[@balazsgalambos4458]

Bike sounds great,planted as hell I'd say,love the video, congratulations on that beauty 😍 Keep her lit, looking forward to see the new adventures with her

[@marcoosellame]

I aspire to be as skilled as you one day LOL

[@jakowz7619]

I think I want a silent hub now. I do love my i9 buzz, but the sound of tires on dirt and rock is just so wonderful

[@d-nicebikes]

Great to see the new rig getting put through its paces. What better way than on a trail you haven't ridden! Super quiet, I don't mind a noisy hub either, but the ability to not have the background noise is cool. Also looking forward to the long term review and great tip about the skinnies! Seem like the recovery went well! Shred on, Sir, Shred on!

[@ononewheel7]

Place looks so sweet looks like you and that bike are getting along just fine 🤘

[@panhandlemtb4308]

Love your videos bro! Your channel was the first one I started watching when I was really getting back into bikes and mtbing. I subscribed right away because I was blown away at the way you were/are able to rip down gnarly trails and just talk like you were sitting in a chair around a campfire or something! I loVe when you go bike shopping. Its almost like I am the one buying the bike as you talk about the different aspects of each bike as I would, or any of us. Anyway, dig the new bike and hope this one survives better than some of your previous!

[@thefannypack2873]

looks like a sick ride!

[@nosreuter]

The way your riding in this video makes this bike seem to fit like a glove 👌 Rad environment as well. Love the silent hub, somehow everything seems more amplified and even though a hub normally makes things and fast, at least in this kind of terrain, it sounds even faster with the silent hub! Love hearing the tyres grip and slide and the suspension working like a dream!

[@Happy_Biker]

The enchanted forest- and steep af! Hope your recovery is coming along! 💪

[@Wade970]

It’s nice to see someone promoting aluminum, skookum AF! That looks like a sweet ride for sure, I’d love to demo one. Seems like it could be a nice addition to my Troy. The Onyx hubs are also sweet, I built my Paradox V3 up with them this summer and couldn’t be happier!

[@toddjohnson779]

Mad skills sick rig. Great work !! On sale now 30%off for 3989$ US. Might have to bend for that

[@TheHidben]

killing it on Corkscrew and Pingu!🔥

[@8664antonio]

you are the man, sweet ride!

[@satn3345]

You and the Chilly are an awesome combo!

[@Alanvictoryoung]

Sweet rig! You are riding it amazingly! I like the silent hub at least for your videos. The raw tire and suspension noise is way more engaging to me.

[@ottomtb]

Damn, you know that a trail is steep when it even looks steep on a GoPro, mad respect!

[@mikeevans8318]

The dirt looked amazing and the bike looks like it was working 👍👌

[@stepheno.2730]

Man that bike just EATS🔥🔥🔥

[@coreymtb420]

Love the new bike love the purple accents and now knowing more about the company is making me look into them more cheers and happy riding

[@topspot4834]

Same. Heard of Knolly but never looked closely. Hopefully it'll perform better than the Evil.

[@olivierhacking]

Crazy that these are current conditions! I thought the mountains were snow-covered until March at least. Also, what a bike!

[@markrem6573]

New to your channel. Great info and awesome riding. That trail looks sick

[@mbelfry]

Great video! At 14:25 the end of that skinny is so tricky ! Only 4" off the ground - but only 4" wide !

[@waylon7371]

Dude love the bike! U are killin it! Those trails are sick af.....i personally like the silent hub better u can hear the contact the tires have better. 🤘🤘

[@323johnnybravo]

This build looks so dialed. Sick rig !!

[@duffyrides]

Honestly I do not like the look of these bikes but glad to see they ride awesome. Keep it shredding !

[@spokeplaymtb414]

The raw frame is beautiful

[@sageie27]

You are beautiful 😘

[@topspot4834]

Agreed. I have raw carbon too, looks sick when you can see the layup underneath. They can't hide any mistakes since you can see the layup. Most carbon bikes have imperfections but they're covered with paint.

[@wonderwatch2239]

@@topspot4834 too? He has a raw aluminium frame🤷‍♂️

[@dman5703]

Shocked on the quite ride for aluminum! Good Job on making it quite

[@brokkoli535]

the bike sounds so good

[@moandhannahtravel]

New bike looks so sick!

[@mtbville]

Cool stuff man 🤘🔥

[@thecount1001]

Empress sure has a pucker factor even in the video. lots of this shore riding blends speed/flow/tech, into slow/steep/tech and it looks like you better be very dialed, very on point to ride it well.

[@solaris8118]

Love the bike and well done to ride at that speed, in those conditions! Now if Noel could only make a low powered ebike based on that frame, I would switch back to Knolly in a heartbeat.

[@brownsworthy7323]

Absolutely beautiful trails nothing like down here in Australia love to get over there sometime. Have checked out the Knolly frames recently and like way they're doing things with the reinforced area at the BB and seat post junction. They kinda look odd the way the BB hangs out the back and the seat post is several inches in front I guess that's a different way of getting the rider into a good climbing position but still being stable on the decent.

[@nicks2716]

Also, I don’t know if it was just me, or you were just feel’n your new bike, but when you dropped (hopped!) into Corkscrew, you looked to be carrying some crazy speed. Hitting those skinnies with that speed was insane!

[@BGbikeandski]

That lighting looked so sick

[@bikeninja956]

so fun to watch, thanks for sharing, you're a jedi on those skinnies! This is above my paygrade but atleast I can live the experience on video.

[@inellialp]

That silent hub “sounds” crazy. really nice to hear the traction of the tyres and the suspensions working!

[@rrolleman4879]

I love silent hubs, so this was great to watch. That squish sound of the rear suspension though.... After my last rear shock service, mine made that sound, so I brought it back to get redone. Other than tire sound, I want pure silence if I can get it.

[@chrislaing123]

Love the silence

[@RobbisTV]

Rippin on the new rig (as always)! A sign of good things to come :D \m/

[@leviwilliams4961]

this bike looks and sounds so much better than all the others you have ridden, it seems to suit u very well

[@davidmatyja5485]

Thx for making school fun

[@mr6368u]

Maaaan, that light tho! Atmosphere was amazing. Riding was ok I guess 🤣.

[@19biddly97]

The person that designed this bike was thinking of you when they were doing it. The bike rides you well.

[@timothytw]

When you set off I thought to myself: Wow, the bike is very quiet. And when you spoke about the silent hub at 10.30 I thought to myself: Ahh that's why. Really live the trails you're riding on

[@_Vicarious]

Love it.

[@stevevazquez751]

Wao that bike handled the abuse like a champ!!!! Wish they made the chicoin in a small size lol for now I'm stuck and ride the delirium in a downhill setup !! Love knolly love your channel😁

[@kingrat738]

Bike looks like it was made for you 🤘

[@BGbikeandski]

Thats a pretty sweet ride my brotha, think its time i get a new bike too. Gonna try to get a commercial meta am 29

[@danieldoble7674]

It looks like you were really hitting it hard and totally enjoying your new ride. Was it me or were your riding the trails more aggressively than you have before. Enjoyed the video but not as much as you enjoyed your new Chilcotin! Great content, keep up the Great Work!

[@craigflyer]

Beauty day!

[@Personalinfo404]

gives me Kona process vibes

[@rascal1234]

Looking good on the new bike! What no snow?

[@ThisSideUp12]

Silent hubs are the best!

[@owainroberts123]

Can you do a video of your camera settings its soo nice

[@VincentJGoh]

My Wahoo consistently reads about 2C cooler than it actually is, for what it's worth. My friends with Wahoos report the same for them.

[@JLambinator]

I figured it'd be the Chilly. You rode it well and seemed comfy on it. I thought the Chilly, or maybe the Norco sight? It seemed you really got on with that bike well too. Great vid! Rippin as always.

[@VanCan]

I like the sight but I’m too heavy for it. I’d need to run max pressure in the rear shock with a ton of compression.

[@JLambinator]

@@VanCan That's great feedback. I haven't ridden one, but on paper, love the geo/reach etc. Have heard it's easy to use all the travel for bigger/faster riders. I'm about 185lbs so have been hesitant. Local shop just got a L Chilly frame though... maybe I'll follow your lead and build it. :)

[@balazsgalambos4458]

Wod be great to hear from you on the Tra1l components too how you liked the.

[@lepro3310]

Awesome, you seem to be getting along with the Chilly really well. I was wonder what gopro setup you use on the trails? it looks so smooth.

[@hugojones6686]

I think loud hubs are better but for KZbin videos silent is better

[@believe8263]

Nice!

[@dash0173]

i am very interested in onyx hubs but they have ONE thing stopping me from buying them and if i hear good reviews from you, nick, then i'm gonna send it on a rear hub. I've heard many times that over the course of a season or so of hard riding, the cam lobes that essentially act like ratchets in normal hubs can wear very quickly which causes the freehub to slip inside the hub. it makes me not want to spend $400 on the hub but it's one of the only instant engagement hubs on the market

[@S.Mallard]

You looked right at home