GMBN’s XC whippet Rich Payne has been tasked with the EPIC challenge of riding a triple black diamond DH run on his Orbea XC bike! Has Rich bitten off more than he can chew or will our multitalented rider beat the infamous Dyfi trails!? 🎬
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43 Comments
what is this ?… rename this to "hiking the hardest trail we could find with an XC bike"
You won't be able to walk the trail if it was a real triple black.
New to Mtb-Ing damn your fast…really enjoy you content
I would ride that trail in my $500 2015 hardtail with ease. Bike type doesn't matter, what matter is having fun.
That doesn’t look very triple black compared to pisgah. I see people xc bikes all the time, though I wouldn’t want to.
I had 120/130mm of travel on my first Enduro bike 20 years ago. Nobody's taught it wasn't enough! I rode on 2.3" tyres and the guys at the local bike shop always asked me what the hell I am actually doing and why do I need such fat tyres
mext time pls try with a fully speced out gravel bike
he is a proper rider, so even with a steel no suspension bike he can definitively nail it.
how about a hardtail xc bike? can it survive?
You gotta love how the camera makes triple black diamond trails look like gravel roads 😂
You can ride any trail with that xc bike
Are bike gloves not fancy anymore?
So many people are going to attempt this, next time wear proper protective gear. I will NOT be riding that trail on my XC, I love life. Thanks for the awesome video!
But how do we know that it was the XC bike that couldn't handle the track and not the rider? Rich, have you done this full track on a non-XC bike?
huh even a hard tail can do triple black diamond lol… pure marketing any bike can do any trails you just need a capable tires
uff guys wear protection next time !
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He should have tried all the features tho.. The Orbea Oiz must be an amazing machine
120mm, full sus, 29er, with a dropper post? Yeah, that thing can go down damn near anything. The lack of protective gear worries me way more than the bike.
O my Rich, no padding, gloves ang trail helmet only. Confidence right there!
Do it on a hardtail!
blake would do this on xc hardtail 😀
Lower your seat.
That was FANTASTIC, Rich! Don't know why you chose to avoid ELBOW PADS, and KNEE PADS, and even GLOVES! (Well, we know you ride with naked hands, anyway.) But – very cool that you actually bailed for safety on those few sections. There's a vital lesson in that as well! Cheers!
Remember when a trail bike was a 26” 120 mm bike… and that was the weapon for this type of trail 😀 xc bikes today are more capable than trail from 15 years ago. Although, I’d say it’s on its way to being a down country bike like.
Having seen what Sam Pilgrim is riding on a gravel bike, I think the big drop at 5:00 is not beyond th limits of the bike but rather beyond the limit of the rider 😀
Richard, this is your mother. Where are your knee pads young man?!
Totallity mágic RICH made on the bike the 89% of the trail 🤪 this is why XC sucks
how wide are the tires?
Luckily xc bikes are light and easy to carry down the trail
Just get a bigger dropper 😁
Full suspension with 120mm travel – it’s a decent bike for trails overall.
Just put a dropper seat post, and perhaps other tires.
XC bike has an undeniable advantage — it's light enough to be carried down.. and the rider is fit enough to do a lot of walking 🙂
Do it on 500£ hardtail
Watching in hdr with that 3d effect does the trail justice
Y not lower the seat?
I've done way harder trails on an xc hardtail with 85mm fork. I have also taken my 100mm Epic FSR on actual world cup downhill courses
Full suspension? I would be impressed if it was a hard tail. Kidding, but I am mostly impressed by the skills of the rider.
With speed comes stability, hehehe. Its almost never about the bike.
The camera does none of this justice, the trail is way more rowdy that what the camera can show
A good rider can go down this triple black diamond trail easily even with the hard tail and bad rider cannot do it even with a DH bike. It’s only about the rider not the bike.
2 years late to this party but absolutely buttered that first drop Rich, smooth operator!
What a s(k)illy rider 😜