Which did I find better? E bike vs normal MTB. Paganella , Italy.

This is part of my European mountain biking trip. I initially spent the day in Paganella, Italy riding a Santa Cruz Nomad and using the chair lifts. Today I hire an E bike, a Mondraker Crafty and don’t use the chair lift. Which is the most enjoyable and biggest workout?

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buan jono and welcome back uh we’re on our Italy tour still still in paganella actually um but today we’re going to switch things up no bike park well no uh cheer lifts as such we’re going ebiking and I’ve got the mandrea crafty um if you remember I reviewed that recently really enjoyed the bike I’ve decided to do a different day riding up uh riding down doing some different trails that I haven’t done before now if you’re wondering where’s Mrs Best Day Ever um well we did um hire a couple of ebikes the other day Road Road Round Lake Molino um and then we climbed up the hill she even we did a little bit of mountain biking even um in fact stra Queen tells me that that one climb was 900 M of climbing so I’m not sure how long a battery’s going to last today you can see I’m sweating already just from the one climb we’ve done so far but we’re going to start with a trail called uh ud’s Trail um I did a bit of it um at the end of The Last Ride and really enjoyed it so I’m going to do a bit more of it it’s down as a blue but anyway we’ll see if it’s a blue um but anyway come join us for the day all right we’re into it have really no idea what to expect but um so just going to have a chill day um in terms of what did the bike cost €70 for this one I’ll put up the New Zealand Dollars um didn’t take the $15 Insurance um that may seem a silly thing to do I did do that when I was in the bike park um I figured there was a lot more rest but I’m going to take a fairly chill day and to be honest if you watch my videos you know I review all sorts of really expensive bikes and I never have insurance on those I just have to take liability for them so I guess nothing I figured nothing’s different to normal really you see this if I said to my wife this is not bad but if I said to my wife oh come on let’s do a blue um I’m not sure she would agree this is a blue quite nice fast and flowy though yeah we have done a oh couple of rides with jacqulyn one of the problems we have though is if if you’ve seen jacqulyn she’s like 5 foot nothing is that all the bikes we try and get for her are too big for her and she really struggled on the one we rode the other day really struggled to try and get on it and get going and so um I might see if I can give us some well I tried to give a tips on how to do it but you know what it’s like no one wants to listen to their husband these Trails continue definitely thing I have not especially with this one on the ebike there’s definitely pros and cons um I must have been after riding the Nomad for the day this thing does feel quite heavy now I get back onto it uh but what I do like is just a little quick punch and uh you get a little bit of power out udies this way my wife is terrified of the bear e she just thinks she’s going to go out and get mold by a bear there oh tell her that’s it’s got more chance of being eaten by a shark at PE which that terrifies her a little bit as well this is actually probably the perfect warmup for me um nice and chill little bit Ticky as you say I’m going to ride some of the trails that are a little bit out of the way that you don’t R excess on the Cher lift as easily although you could do this on the chi I’ll probably regret my decision after about the third climb actually quite enjoying this this is quite good fun so it’s dry doesn’t really rain that much in the last sort of 48 hours which is good take get the odd shower in the afternoon all right should we let it fly oh the suspension is not as good as the Nomad it’s rougher yeah the noad suspension was a lot plusher than this this is quite hard as but it’s not as high-end of components on this bike one of the things with this setup I’m obviously with a dropper post I’m changing the power modes with the dropper post when while touching the button at the same time cuz you went to Pedal away and I was in Eco and we all know we don’t want that that may be the end wherever we are but get Trail Forks out I think the only downside to this sort of riding is you’re constantly going back onto Trail Forks to see if you’re going in the right direction I think we’re in the right direction now nice Lake through there tuck through there on the trees on my left hand side now if you’re thinking Lance I want to come there the triplets good but I don’t fancy all that crazy riding of yours um there’s loads of this sort of riding everywhere just uh around on nice wide roads there’s lots of walkers on them um but that’s not an issue and uh yeah it’s really quite Pleasant you want to go and see the lake really really all right let’s just do a little [Applause] diversion it’s a bit windy today bit overcast but um probably a good day for riding all right you asked for it that’s a little scenery check I wonder if there’s an age limit on that that looks kind of fun all right probably time to stop for a weed drink at the fountain here uh which is probably a good time for Lance’s travel tip so anyway here we go hey guys another Italian tip I’m a bit of a cheap skate I don’t like paying for bottled water and I don’t like throwing all that plastic away so I brought a bottle with me and here fish up in the mountains there’s free water everywhere so check this out look at this straight out the mountain Super Fresh cost you nothing pesimo all right we’ve had quite a long Traverse over now this is a climb I did this the other day I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned ebikes on this channel but this is a gets really steep at the end but luckily it’s all concrete so you get a grip another nice little Lake not sure if they use that for snow making um we’re not going to go all the way to the top but uh yeah we’re going to do a blue track called Blade Runner I think that looks quite cool all right we made it back to the squirrel uh this is effectively only the halfway point still quite a lot more but us I’ve down to 67% so and that’s seriously steep so we’re going to go over this way and check out Blade Runner all right let’s get into it all right so at this point I’m glad they swapped the brakes around I rode y or a couple days ago and because it was kind of a cruisy ride I didn’t bother swapping the brake sh and I missed the track already missed the track already um but yeah it does catch you out a little bit oh it’s it’s actually surprising slippy bit of air off of here you think yeah why not oh this is quite fun this is where the ebike is quite good when you get a bit of speed up really stable woohoo it’s a bit of air oh man it’s a shame Tak you almost no time to get down though all right I think we’re going this side yeah definitely quicker getting back down then getting up that’s for sure oh they like their W I just hit that one what do we think what do we think all right just for you guys and set the camera up cuz that’s a pretty cool wall roide all right you guys know I like to have lots of little philosophical chats while trying to ride a bike and uh I thought I’d talk about back in the day when I first started riding in rot and I ended up taking to riding the shuttle and everyone says that’s cheating right well they did at the time you got to earn your descent somehow riding downhill is if you’ve slogged it up hill but nowadays that’s all forgotten and uh riding a bike park is just mountain biking however riding an ebike well that’s cheating isn’t it that’s just taking the soft option however I can already tell you uh this is turning out to be a lot harder work um than taking the Cher lift be interesting to see how which end up being more tired but I only got the bike for 4 hours and to be honest I’m not sure the battery’s going to last 4 hours woohoo what do we got oh that’s nice double it I haven’t quite got the feel of this sh this is so different to The Nomad there you going guys oh I don’t think I’ll clear that doesn’t really appe appear I should say there are a lot of jumps in this bike park um Blade Runner this way oh can I get this one though after that next one oh yep yeah not as many jumps as some other bike parks it’s more Tech but that’s all good all right need to check where I am now that’s blade running done I just love all these little water stops here everywhere you go just a little bit of fresh ice cold water it’s brilliant um I just love being up here in the forest but sometimes I think people can take the Meck a bit um me and Jain were out for a walk uh yesterday and we came across some signs in the forest anyway let me show you the video it’s kind of funny hey guys just going for a little walk in a beautiful talian Forest but I’m calling BS on this one there’s a sign back there that says the oxygen of these trees has special medicinal properties yeah I I think pretty much every forest does that one and once more the sign here says the um the benefits of hugging tree but this is going to crack you up follow me this way the trees died they’ve had to cut the top off I’ll give it a hug though shall I how’s that what do you think of that anyway it is lovely fresh air up here I must admit um all right we’re going to try and find a track I think called The Matrix Matrix always sounds exciting while we stopped decided might as well have a quick sandwich not really the Italian thing to do actually the Italians actually there’s restaurants everywhere over these Hills and they usually will stop for quite a long time at lunch and have a restaurant meal me uh one I’ve hir a bike it’s expensive so I’m not going to waste a whole lot of time in a restaurant when I’ve H the bike and twoo I’m a bit of a cheap skate so quick roll and we’ll keep on rolling all right this one’s a matrix I love the big elaborate signs they do for the trails it’s pretty cool isn’t it anyway not ridden this one before I haven’t ridden anything I’ve ridden today that’s uh the idea riding some new stuff all about the new I did think whether I should go back and in the bike park and session some of the stuff I rode the other day but I love to explore it’s what I’m about oh bit slow but it worked oh what do we reckon hit the left [Applause] line it’s always having to make that Split Second decision if you’re going to hit us something or not that better not be the end is that it it was quick short and sweet wasn’t it apparently that wasn’t the end I looked on TR folks it’s quite a lot more of it I thinking that can’t be that it’s way too short all right look at these big lovely BMS oh you can probably double that probably double some of these I feel all right I feel a bit bad cuz I just overtook that guy and uh didn’t realize the tra kept going Gra that’s is SC oh look at that woohoo whoa don’t you could get it wrong go a little too fast oh more wall rides we love our wall rides get right up on that sucker what about this one oh it’s a bit more Awkward to get on this is actually a fun trial this would be a trail for the whole family I think I think even jacn would like this one oh what have we got oh yeah I think that rock would throw you really awkward into the corner so we’re just going to do a little oh that’s nice that’s a really nice floater probably could have done the biggest bigger one and I think we’re actually on the main road now I think we actually have to go back by the main road depending on where we want to go that’s the next big question where do we want to go all right not sure if you can hear me over the wind we’re dropping down into mulina on the road it’s amazing how slow this thing rolls you feel as though it should go faster than this wow look at the view though all right so that’s the Molino cheer lift which we don’t have a ticket for today cuz we’re doing real hard man riding and not using a cheer lift now if I was a proper YouTuber I would manual down this road cuz that’s what you do that’s the only reason you use a manual really is to show off on YouTube just how clever you are but I can’t actually do that so yeah there’s Lake Molino so it’s a little bit windy and choppy normally flatter than that me and Jaclyn cycled the whole way around this Lake the other day and then we cycled where we went to that midpoint with Blade Runner we cycled up to the very top of there as well so that was uh a really good ride as well all right I’ve just edited this video and currently it stands at 40 minutes which is just ridiculously too long um and so basically we’re going to have to cut it down a little bit and in the next part of the video basically it involves me uh climbing a horrendously Long Hill complaining about how tough it is and that even on an ebike it’s a pretty big workout we then come down a trail it’s a black Trail called The Secret Trail and it is epic it is steep it is gnarly and I’ll show a little bit of a taster of it here um but if you want to watch the whole Trail that’ll come out as a separate video um but yeah it was it was pretty full on seriously how are you supposed to ride that and all seriousness how you supposed to ride that’s a walk like you look at that that’s not easy to ride look how tight that is and steep now some of you won’t like me admitting this some of you will uh but it was actually better on the Nomad um riding the stuff I have to admit it was better on the Nomad than it is on this bike saying that some of that is down to the fact that the suspension on The Nomad was a lot lot plushier than this is so it’s just kind of harsh oh holy moly did you see that Holy and you think okay I got through there and it keeps going oh and keeps going oh wow I keep saying wow but I keep looking down over the edge and and seeing just how rapidly we’re descending as you say the GoPro just you just look over the edge there and you think we’re down there in that short distance looks a bit oh see that rock whoa he cannot ride on that rock hey this somehow feels like the end that trail to be honest is no joke no joke oh y back at the lake I know exactly where I am right at the carpack all right that’s just a little bit the main Lake’s over there and we got to go oh see all the parag gliders that’s where we went up we’re up there somewhere so we got to go back up over there all right we’re down to 20% battery um my energy levels are about the same um anyway talking of um Power probably worth uh while we’ve still got a bit more climbing to do um we’ll give you a little bit more travel tip eh okay travel tip power um okay so if you’re going on holiday you’re going to need adapter plugs that’s pretty obvious but more than that we brought several multi boards um and also bought an extension cord um because a you’ve got a lot of things to plug in especially me with all my GoPros and things to charge up even just your toothpaste um toothbrush to charge up uh also brought the extension cord because often the plugs are in the wrong place but more interesting than that this is the little adapter plug that we brought from home but it doesn’t fit in many of the plugs in uh the apartments in fact there is not a single plug in the apartment that this fits into so you can often buy I just bought this in the supermarket this is an adapter this will go in any plug in the in the apartment and then that plugs into there and then you got power in every single outlet anyway that’s another travel tip hope it helps all right well I hope you found um My Little tips helpful uh um talking of tips um don’t forget the old magic shine my new glasses um still a 15% discount code I’ll put that in the description um but if you saw Tony’s video um in rotaru senior on uh one of the guys Rodney he um came off and put a stick right into his eye and there’s still having surgery and questioning whether he’s actually going to get to keep that eye so after that I’m never taking these things off and really does make you think that how easy and Rodney’s a really good Rider so um yeah just get yourself some glasses I’m not I’m not riding without these from now on after seeing the picture of what happened to Rodney anyway I’m going to do the final bit of udy track the the last bit that I haven’t done um and then that’ll be the day all right so this is probably a nice way to finish the day off I okay you may find this hard to believe but somehow I managed to climb all the way up there went back down the wrong ended up where I started so I kind of screwed that up uh which I guess you guys just won’t believe but instead I’m going to try and find a track called easy Andy to just parallel to this road so it should be along here somewhere all right I think this must be oh who knows no it said ud’s Trail how the world is this ud’s Trail I’m really confused now [Applause] andalo Zone transfit andalo Zone all right let’s oh we got a bit an uphill all right got no idea where I am now which is nothing unusual it’s a bit of an unusual route I’ve done but it says we’re going back to andela so that’s got to be good we got the bik stepped hey you g guys yeah oh I can feel my legs I’m I’m pretty sure ebiking is actually more work than shuttling been a big day it’s only been 4 days actually 4 hours half a day not much Point Hing a bike for a whole day any bike I think you just the battery wouldn’t last we’re going to be on a fume soon thing is I’m actually having so much fun and I’ve checked Trail Forks so many times today I can’t be blood stopping I’m just hoping that this pops us out the right place and not on the wrong side of the mountain or something stupid oh that’s cool all right that is seriously cool bumpy as hell though slow down no chance okay please let me be in the right place please let me be in the right place all right final thoughts for the day um mandrea was great uh had some epic Trails there um if I had to choose between the riding all those cheer lifts and seeing all the mountain and all the scenery and riding all the trails or riding an ebike and slogging you way up the hill I think I’d choose the first one uh The Nomad was also a much better bike to ride for a bike park as well um but I still had a brilliant day I’ve burnt more calories in a shorter period of time um everyone goes ebikes are cheating but man if you want to ride up some of those steep hills endless Long Hills trust me you’ll be burning some calories um if you enjoyed the video so far let me know if you like the tips um give me a leave us a comment anyway we’ll see you on the next one