*SKETCHY* I Wasn’t Ready for This!

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Hitting some of the local trials along the hills of Verona, Italy on my Nukeproof Scout Comp 275.

I wanted to make a little video with some GoPro chest cam footage because It’s always nice to look back at. I’ve sped up the parts that were kinda boring, I was going to take them away but it’s kinda interesting to some to see how I get from trail to trail and to see some parts of Italy.

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It was such a beautiful day in Verona Italy today that I decided to take my mountain bike for a spin up in the hills nearby where I live so here are some little clips of my mountain bike the different components on it everything’s pretty nice and new however my mountain

Bike rarely gets used these days because I favor my other bikes and I don’t really know why and therefore my mountain bike just ends up stuck against a wall anyway enough of that this is me cycling to some mountain bike trails in Verona so this is actually quite a steep

Incline but fortunately my mountain bike has 12 gears and I think I’m in the lowest here so this is 15 times speed you can see I get stuck at a traffic light here behind a white van for I think it was about 5 minutes but basically there’s some little like dirt

Trails that somebody’s made you’ll see them in a moment so I get to the top of here check my tire pressure and then do a little run going downhill which I’ll leave the audio for you that so this was like my first run and I Tred to go quite careful on these little

Trails because if you you know fly off something or try to do a jump then it’s not worth risking it for me me I’m not trying to become a pro mountain biker I’m just trying to enjoy getting lost on some trails and enjoying you know riding

My bike in the woods really cuz I think if you attempt to do something silly sometimes without any guidance or without any you know shoters or someone that teaches you then it can go quite badly so I just turn around here and then I do another run you see the second

Run that I do in a moment I’m a little bit more confident I go a little bit faster cuz these jumps they look small but they’re actually you get a little bit of air and as you can see the speed as well I’m just trying to avoid the trees and

Look out for roots and rocks and stuff on the floor because if you slide on one of them it’s a bit dodgy um so I’ve got like 27 1/2 inch wheels 2.6 wi that are quite thick and quite secure on the on the trails but yeah again not try to do

Anything mad just having a nice time really so this is the first little route that I did but in a moment what you you’ll see is if I go further up the hill um which is this one now you see I get stuck here straight away on a massive route but

This one’s actually really good fun it’s also a little bit precarious because you’re quite on the edge to the right hand side there there’s quite a steep drop but it’s a lovely little Trail in the woods and I think people just make these little like Mounds or little jumps

But it’s really lovely even in February you know it was a beautiful day nice and sunny actually going pretty fast here it’s full of trees um The Roots stick out a lot here you can see here I actually get off my bike because that is actually quite a

Lot like more severe drop than it looks and then you get back on the road here and it kind of links to another Trail which is really good fun because it’s like all downhill and it’s super fast so it just joins on again to another Trail

You’ll see now leave the sound on again you can see the speed I’m here is a lot quicker than the other one but again you have to be really careful because um there’s so many roots and rocks and it’s quite loose obviously I’ve got my seat

Down here use the dropper post you can see the gaps between the trees as well like my handlebars are quite wide and you have to get used to that coming from a gravel bike cuz you really smack into those routs even with you know squishy suspension I’ve got 130 mil on the front

Even with the squished suspension and low tire pressure it’s really quite dodgy you look to the right there you can see that big drop off and look at these trees like it’s a tiny little Gap to get through so you have to be careful cuz if you smash your rle bars in today

You could end up going off to the right um but beautiful little ride beautiful scenery really windy you have to be quite agile in between and like I say I’m no expert and I think in a moment there’s a little bit that comes up that’s quite cool um you see there I’m

Playing about handlebars this is quite cool you kind of go over a little tree oh no actually I tried to go over the tree and my my pedal get caught which is quite annoying sometimes hurts your toe some benches are long if you wanted to

Just sit and stare at the trees this is nice again you kind of go under a tree fallen tree you have to duck your head under so you don’t smash your helmet and then again it’s just winding in and out Fallen trees which way did

You go left or right it really tires you because you have to always think which way you’re going left or right but that’s part of the fun I guess and there is a little ramp I think that I go on in a moment but but this is all pretty flat

And it’s just like at the top of Rona really like the city center um but you get to a point where it just goes really downhill and it’s full of roots and rocks and stuff but it’s really good fun as well you can see here like the speed’s actually pretty

Quick um and I think I’m stood up mostly because obviously my dropper post is like on the lowest it can be so yeah I’m stood up for the whole ride making sure I’m keeping my hips and my bum right back to keep the balance and the weight

On the on the back wheel so I don’t slide out again you can probably see those those roots and the Rocks they’re just they’re they’re a lot bigger than they look here really good fun you can see I’ve stood up more here try and get some more

Control because I’m looking more at the ground cuz I’m wearing the chest mount on my GoPro and you see it starts going downhill quite a bit and you really have to you know I’ve got a couple of fingers on the brakes here you go here’s the ram

This is cool but that was quite good fun it felt quite nice and but this one this is another one that I just didn’t want to do because it was too it wasn’t really a ramp it was just a you know um a big tree trunk so I had to

Step over that one and back on the bike but some incredible views of Verona and around Verona as well really good fun you need a nice bit of suspension I think but in a minute you’ll see it goes right down I think it’s this bit starts descending

Now and it gets really really you know sketchy I guess and that’s where those you know big wide fat tires come into play CU they’re just gripping onto every little thing I think you can hear my brakes squealing at certain points it’s quite difficult to maintain you see

There I have to really go under that tree and it’s really hard on your arms cuz you’re they always shaking and stuff and you’ve always got to you know have your fingers on those brakes gets really loose here but good fun keeps your mind ticking all the

Time think it’s some point where I had yeah I had to get off here because it was like a sheer drop and I didn’t want to risk it because the last thing you want is face full of Route because I don’t wear a full face helmet I need to get one really because

If you fall on like a rock face first it’s not going to be good is it you can see here again really steep really nice going down you have to avoid lots of obstacles you can hear my brakes screeching onto the uh the rotors but as I get towards the end here

The speed really picks up you see I’m coming towards the end of it now coming out of this little Trail really good fun really enjoyed this one awesome and then yeah straight down to the bottom here the speed really really picked up I think I was doing about 37 km or

Something really nice so this part I’ve sped it up but this is like a really steep incline I don’t know what the incline was but if you watch the footage even when It sped up it looks like I’m doing a wheelie and it’s just because of

How in you know how steep the incline is really but I sped this up because it kind of links to the next part that I’m going to the next Trail I’m trying to you know connect and on the walls of Rona this is basically so I sped this part up a little bit

Because these are the walls that go around Verona but it just takes me a while to get up them because it is a little bit steep but they’re quite long as well so you basically got two walls on either side that are like you know part of the the walls of Rona that

You’ll see on pictures and things and it’s beautiful to ride around them really nice structures again lovely day nice bit of grass and the Mountain Bike Works fantastic on grass as well and then up here I just kind of go to like a a Viewpoint I guess of Verona which

You’ll see in a moment um so just after those walls you turn right and there’s a nice little Viewpoint over the city so you can see the city’s there directly in front of me and you can see like some of the church spires popping up and trees

And houses and all of that so here’s a bit more of a panoramic shot I guess so peaceful so quiet really nice and then after that I basically ride again through this kind of Walled area like a picnic area I guess so I’ve just sped this clip up

Again just so you can get some ideas I carry my bike over there and then I’m going back up hill again so at this point my legs are really burning quite difficult but on a mountain bike it’s doable on a gravel bike or a road bike I

Sometimes fine yes you can go uphills but mountain bikes you can go in the lowest gear you want and you can just cruise and I think that’s what I’m doing at this point so again I’m like kind of right at the top of the hills of Rona

Here I’m just leaving these clips in so you can get an idea of you know what it looks like around here and the kind of things you can see obviously I’m spending quite a lot of time on road but my bike has a lockout in the fork so I

Can turn off the suspension which makes it a little bit you know more efficient and easier ideally I’d rather be on more Moun Trails um but to get some of these little paths you have to go up these kind of roads I guess uh so again just

Leaving these clips and so you can get an idea of what it’s like up here kind of like a time lapse and then here you can see to the right you can see like all off into the distance all the different houses and businesses and and Vineyards as well again I’m still going

Up at this point but in a moment I come down uh this road and it’s really cool because you go down really fast I’m going like 40 km an hour on my mountain bike but then I start coming off the side roads uh down this cobal street and

It was really good fun so you see here I start to get to the point where like okay I’m going to start going down now and it’s always the best part for me going down makes the going up worth it obviously so I’m kind of just having a

Rest here letting the bike kind of roll down uh and I was going to pull in here and have a little bit of rest but then I thought no I don’t need a rest uh up the gears there straight into the highest gear um and I just started smashing it

Down really enjoy the feeling of like you know you got the sun beaming down on you there beautiful blue sky green trees green grass we’re kind of getting towards springtime that’s fantastic uh I still have my fingers on the brakes here cuz you got to be safe

Of course you never know what’s going to happen there’s cars pulling out there’s a hospital on the right there and yeah just basically I don’t even pedal at this point I’m just kind of enjoying coming back down to the center of Verona and letting the bike do its thing really and

One thing about m bikes is you always feel really secure when you’re riding them I do anyway like gravel bikes and road bikes are are fantastic and I absolutely love them but the m mountain bike every now and then like it feels like you’re driving a tank like it feels

Like nothing’s pushing you off that once you’re on road um so this felt really nice and it’s a lovely little view of what’s going on around I think on the left in a minute there’s a Vineyard yeah I think just on the left there they sell like

Wine really good stuff and then directly in front of me there is a church like an old church I’ve never actually been inside it and we come to a roundabout and I think you get a nice view over Verona here maybe the guy thought about crossing the road so again

Verona is pretty much like straight on I think I point to some of it in a minute point to something I actually start pedaling now it’s actually quite yeah so there’s Rona on the right it’s quite a nice view to see but very shortly I think I come off at a side

Point um and go down some Cobble streets and I really enjoyed it it’s quite narrow Cobo streets but they’re quite bumpy and you know putting your weight back on the mountain bike and letting the suspension do its thing is uh really good fun so I think here I was

Getting up to like 38 km 40 km something like that just trying to maintain the pace really just letting gravity do its thing but again this just shows basically I came up the same Hill but on the other side the same like incline I guess

Again you can see all in front is like Verona I’m just trying to keep the bike stable at this point not trying to do anything silly just let the bike roll down so I think I’d like to get out on the mountain bike a little bit more because

It is really good fun it’s just I kind of neglect it sometimes so here I put my seat down you just saw on the left I put the dropper post down and then I think I put my suspension on here yeah I put the suspension on suspension yeah because I

Know it’s going to be quite bumpy I tried to stay in the middle of the line um but this I ended up going really fast and this was really fun so you can see my angle changed a little bit of the camera a bit further away and that’s

Because I’m kind of like squatting over my back seat and keeping all my weight you know I’ve got my pedals level feet either side and I’ve got all my weight pretty much on that back wheel you don’t want your weight forward you want it all the way back and that’s what I’m

Basically doing kind of just weaving in and out nice and fast and you’re basically coming down into the center now but you can see my arms if you look at my arms on either side there I’m trying to keep them loose because you don’t want to obviously be too tense cuz

You can damage yourself but injure yourself but I’m really trying to keep my arms loose but at the same time it’s so bumpy cuz it’s like a cobble path but really good fun and then you see I try to stay on one side because the wind

Is so like you hear so much wind I can’t here if a car’s coming or not so I’m trying to get as best view as I can and then again down I come you see I I get back on the the line there and you hear the sound of the tires on the

Road again here you come out at like a bit of a a naturey part accidentally actually go through this red light here because I didn’t realize there was a red light until too late and then I thought well there’s no point in stopping halfway down but this was really good fun really enjoyed

It you see it’s really narrow as well like it’s not that much wider than my bars it’s probably about the the the the width of you know car and a half or something like that and that’s why they’ve got the traffic lights and then I come down and I’m

Pretty much bang smack back in Verona Center and then my last clip I’m just just going to fast forward and leave it on there for you to watch but then at this point I was I had really cold ears my hands are cold hands was shaking but no really good fun good

Stuff my hands are shaking my ears are numb it like gets your adrenaline going lots of fun home time and then I basically just I’ll leave the last clip on here thanks for watching if you enjoyed this want to watch more videos like this then feel free to tag along thank you bye-bye