This XCeeb Ride MADE ME SMILE AGAIN!

Join Jim for his first “proper” ride back on the bike. He takes the bike for a big XC around Church Stretton, clocking up 52k and hitting up some of the rougher tracks too.

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By no means should I go on a bike for a few weeks it’s not a bike it’s an ebike can’t fall off RC shoes fitted rear guard be healing up really well this is blazing bikes super secret track where does it go definitely don’t want to crash let’s it

Going minutum batch never fails 5050 2K I’m back yo how’s it going so saw the uh surgeon at the hospital a few days ago and basically they’ve looked at this x-ray I’ll show you here they’ve uh they were very impressed with my healing which I’m happy with said I’m healing

Like an athlete said by no means should I go on a bike for a few weeks so uh I’ve come over to church stron and uh it’s not a bike it’s an ebike so I sort of get get away with that uh I got a few things to show you

Stuff to talk about I’m going to go on a big long ebike XC ride really excited about it taking it super steady they also said no compaction Sports something like that uh so basically can’t fall off I’m not aiming to fall off and I’ve got here and I’ve just realized I’ve got my

Funky new RC shoes with clips and my flat pedal so I’m going to have to take my Clips out of it which is pretty dumb here are the new RC shoes lovely they’ got the bower there for easy in and out and uh all these things are so well

Made that’s the bottom of them right there pleat are fitted luckily I’ve just realized I’ve got some spare shoes in the van that are kept from emergency purposes so I don’t need to take these apart because I am running some of coup’s um unite components pedals what else have I got on here

I think I’ve mentioned I got the wtbc I put an inner tube under there got the peties thing on there and the mellin wild e tires still going strong no problems with them and I got some brand new Gala rotors and I’ve just had to send off

Some photos to Psycho of the new fitted rear guard that goes especially on the or wild absolutely love this bike check it out gorgeous if you want to see the scar after 3 and 1/2 Weeks there you go it’s looking actually healing up really well chuff with it still in a bit

Of pain got a bit of uh paracetamol and ibuprofen just for today just to ease it off a bit and I’ll go either as long as I can on the battery or until it starts hurting too much so starting off in streten I just want to show you what is here this is

Blazing bikes and uh the station in and this is all their stuff so you got these beautiful lodges here that you can stay in fantastic for a weekend now we’re working with these guys uh come away from tweaks cuz tweaks couldn’t uh live up to the promises they

Offered uh not so much their fault it more down to people they work with who said they were going to sort us out bits and pieces then you’ve got um you got pods up there so you got the shop here uh big big track dealership and obviously or so we can send people

There they’re after bikes and then they’ve also got very loud Choppers and beautiful restaurant here called the station mile up the road mile or so and you’re up to the longmen and that’s where we’re going exploring today starting off in Eco today when the legs get tired I’m going to go up to

Trail try and avoid the high modes unless it’s a Savage climb and up here is they got some Straten massive 50 m trail run today so I think we’re going to see a load of Runners at some point maybe also want to have a look at our track haven’t ridden

That in months see how that’s going see if anything else new is up here there about a mile later and we start off into the long men right so I’m going to have a very steady pole down our track to see how it is so over there is where you get onto the

Open Morland of the Longman yeah hate that wet bit so I couldn’t feel the arm at all uh coming up you feel it bit now it’s a little bit achy but won’t be doing too much pulling and pushing if you know what I mean oh yeah I can feel it it’s weird I

Don’t feel it in the collar bone when I’m riding I feel it like the back of my shoulder oh never break so much down there normally hey I’m not trying to prove of anything want to ride a bike and get back into it I’ve got this true

Tune um that replaces the tokens in the forks meant to make it more linear can’t really tell at the moment cuz I’m not pushing hard which uh could be a good idea I don’t know Todd re it’s not re it should be more Progressive for a faster

Riders then he’s a lot faster than me nowadays te currently at casus practicing today ready for racing tomorrow I’m going to go and see him and do a bit of filming get and go down the track a bit which is cool oh so nice to get out and ride

Confidence isn’t that bad actually but I’m not pushing on I’m only going steady you know I’ve got well did have km down here at one point oh I’ve got the wrong way yeah when I lean a certain way sort of almost forwards and to the right my

Uh shoulder almost gives up on me it’s quite weird I could watch that don’t want it letting go last thing I can do is fall off deest have ridden down here in a very very long time who remembers the time and Tommy shaded that step down Farm’s been busy

There that’s that one right let’s get out and up into the open another climb up this section where there’s a load of tracks just going to do another one that Todd and I found probably six months ago but we never filmed it um it’s pretty cool I think it’s been

Here ages but we didn’t know about it I don’t think many do all right so wet Feet Again off to the left here there it is super secret track right let’s give it a blast probably going to look dark on the camera oh my God it’s tight

Is it this one yeah I guess So wow it’s like bright green like luminous Green in here lots and lots of tight turns tell this track’s never ridden but it’s got some if I remember rightly when we walked here we were up here digging uh we could have been legally maybe we weren’t

Um we just walked it and it looks like some really good turns on it hard to actually see where it goes cuz you haven’t look the dark it’s unridden nicely nicely made I think I know all made it someone who not too keen on me don’t care at

All share the trails that’s what I say that’s what I think think these people try and keep it all secret fair enough if it’s like you know you’re going to get in the you’re not going to get in the riding around here where does it go down I think well

I know where I am now ah climb up I’ve switched a trail now feeling a bit uh I don’t know FY a little bit more assistance there we are the gate into the open then onto the men glider station around Here it’s October I’m absolutely boiling I only got soft shell on thought this would be fine but it’s really warm this weekend something else that is super cool about a longwind is you’ve got these Wild Horses up here and literally see them as soon as I get here

Look at that I know I always say it when I do this bit here but it is so cool so that one’s just been released again off for a flight that’s the way I always go or over down there you know what I’m going to head over there a bit

Of an explor day Today all right I head down here literally I know the rough Direction I’m heading but I no idea where I’m going really want to let it go and go mental but I just can’t there I slipped off on here I could rebre the collar bone it’s still like a

Shadow on the brake when it looks on the xway you have to wait for that shadow to go before you can actually start pushing on properly I’ve just realized my rear brake pads are uh virtually down to the metal not ideal especially when I got some back at the shed that’s pretty

Annoying big ass Green Lane climb now back off the road then up to the top heading back towards the gliding station done this on motorbikes in the years when I used to do green laning bit slower like this here we are at the top but po Bank a bit

Busier up here you can see people setting up for this run it must be quite a big deal all right see how close they let us get that close I know where I am and sort of don’t it’s so easy to get into the wrong Valley here I’m trying to go

Either cardi Mill Valley or the next one across which is like where the golf club is there’s the golf club over there I want to be heading around the back of them big Hills you know what I love when I’m going down bits like this sound of the Chris King s look so sweet oh it’s not Oly it’s smooth but it feels so nice just to get a bit of pace up there’s a car park here amazing view I’m just going to show you absolute miles from here look at that all right head The Descent

Now head to The Descent Head Down The Descent so you know obviously this is as gnarly as it get sorry I can’t bring you anything too gnarly right now and I really do appreciate you guys who are still watching my stuff and all the lovely messages I’ve had it really is

Fantastic I needed it as well I did have some moments where I was feeling pretty crack this oh my God this half lifter Spirit coming to doing this that’s a bit more like it dodgy G bushes here where the handgards come into the own you got this sort of

Stuff just spite my arm instead hi excuse me thank you people are amazing aren they i b here up inside the hill I think Actually on a steep bit of climb obviously it never looks it on the camera so I think this Trail brings you down the side of the golf club in a minute you can get a hell of a lot of miles in around stren without realizing that’s what I’m aiming for you don’t

Want to Knack of this rear rotor to resort to walk mode here seriously steep forgot about this bit oh I love walk mode actually works on this one with the Rocky Mountain this like on and off it’s really weird anybody for a round of go what

What what or what I call an angry walk he mate all right M here Today yeah have a large latte and uh bit that cake are you eating just out there large coffee kind of drink the cake £125 oh my God robbing bastards all right let’s get out this expensive place I’m going to do the cardi Mill climb I think it’s going to be like

Super busy so last time I come up here was on that little Lappy air cross country bik thinking cuz it’s an XC bik and I was quite fit I’d get up this climb and I I failed it’s how it’s horrible and this first pick’s really technical so let’s see what the heat

Bite makes of it he all Right o nearly Nearly well I S I did it they weren’t stood on the smooth line I would have done oh my God it’s so easy to do this climb on this bike it’s ridiculous I was absolutely dead at this point on that cross country bike oh a soft top Mark you know what they

Say about soft dos it’s like a for skin peel it back and you can see the bell end inside right chops how you doing back into the Airfield and uh always bollock here if you go on the actual path so I’m going to go back to the woods a bit of

About and then head back over to Mint and batch to finish I got two and 1 half bars left I think I’m on about 37 he now I’m quite chuff getting the miles in see what I can do before I run out of battery eh yo wild all these weird long trailers

Back in the wood in my happy place I love the XE r riding but I really love shredding proper tracks I think the XC riding I’d prefer if I was with a mate oh confidence is coming back right so the one I’ve just discovered I’m going to do the one next

To it which always knows a good this one look like many people been riding here lately it’s funny as soon as you get going on this stuff I can feel the collone it’s just from s breaking moving your body about a lot more a lot more pressures from different angles on

It oh my God it’s worth it though it’s so good A bit dark in here proba doesn’t help having like me reactor like lenses in these glasses but I’m loving the melons where the rear pads going as you know when I’m breaking far too much at the

Moment see if I can get this technical bit goe definitely don’t want to crash this is a techy track as well this is steeper as well then it will look on camera yes a lot slower than I’d normally hit it but I don’t care I just want to get it clean safe

Nice been up here and uh wow man someone’s been busy looks really cool lovely BM let’s have a little go wow look at these turns it’s really rare to see the horses in this part of stron not normally in the woods Right girls all right

Gil let’s it going go on Trot on Trot on ladies I got mountain biking to do so it’s down here right at some point right along here and right go up left and I think it’s this one yes nice it’s a long turn that’s a bit of a weird

One follow it all the way around how’s it going now put a lip and then it’s uh down to our track which I might as well do again hate the noise of metal on metal break I should stop and go home but s that I’m enjoying myself I’d rather

Replace a rotor and have a decent ride we get on the right line this time not the stri one is this one our original one when we made the track then it takes you on TP corner back brake sounds horrendous I’m trying to avoid my back brake which possibly isn’t a very good

Idea nice lovely I find it amazing such a mint wood like this that no one else is digging unless there ones I don’t know about so I’m not condoning it but it’ be awesome if someone would come and dig some tracks here right power climb see how far I can get up here Never done this before just trying to do a different climb than the boring road right now over to Minon batch definitely rinsed the battery I’m on to one bar now Chu with that uh the main thing I wanted to do today was stay in a lowish mode which been Trail most of the

Day to be honest not Eco and na all the battery and you got to remember this is a brand new battery as well warranty replacement so I have made the most of the ride so we just got mintum batch probably using the front brake a lot and

Then uh few miles back to Blazing bikes right let’s do it oh but break sounds bad see how wet this is It’s usually always wet nice and steady no heroics on the high line dropping off great track this is so natural just a shame it gets so freaking wet down

Here it’s always hard to find places where I can wipe the camera oh I’m in the Stream need to go down there thank you yeah I feel your eyes getting wet I have had one of them onesie things off dirt ledge but I’ve been boiling in it after the middle of winter

And it’s one of them ones that’s uh some weird reason it’s like shorts even though it’s a onesie I don’t quite get it I’ll try it but yeah doesn’t really make much sense to me last time I come down this track on the eike I was Joint King of the mountain

And I it was a bit where I didn’t really tried that hard and I swear i’ go flat out next time so I’ll wait until I’m better and I’m going to have it wow well that wasn’t something I was expecting to see down there oh Min and batch never

Fails you know when you finish it when you get to this hole of the farm always look at this and think I’d love to have a place like this in the country and this Geer literally doesn’t care little scrap everywhere right mess couple of little laying climbs on this just to finish so

I’m going to treat myself to full power see if it lasts the ride still got a full bar here we Are mint so guys that’s 52k I managed and 1700 M of climbing so Chu with that I’m back I’m not at full Pace yet but I’m feeling way more confident on the bike thank you very much for watching uh check out links in description where we’ve got our

Sponsors podcast and the merch site see you soon I’ll be getting faster and faster on each ride now tomorrow I’m off to see right race at Kus for now keep it bned