We tried riding one of the world’s most iconic climbs, the Alpe d’Huez, on one of the world’s worst bikes—a single-gear city bike! Climbing Alpe d’Huez is already challenging, but doing it on a city bike sounds near impossible …Will this challenge be the breaking point for Hank?
00:00 Climbing Alpe d’Huez on the World’s Worst Bike
00:20 The Iconic, Alpe d’Huez
00:48 How hard will this really be?
01:38 Time to Face Alpe d’Huez
03:11 What is Hank riding?
03:37 Starting to feel the pain…
04:44 Manon’s first time climbing Alpe d’Huez
05:40 Checking in on Hank
07:09 Final Stretch!
07:53 How did that go?
08:28 Did this bike break Hank?
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31 Comments
Have you ever climbed Alpe d'Huez? 🏔 Let us know your experience in the comments! 💬
And now on the 'Best bike in the world', maybe Tadej's?
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This is a copy of a guy who rode up the Taiwan Wulan (TWN KOM) years ago.
Hank!! I love the way your voice changes from a tone of enthusiastic expectation to one of resigned despair! But an INCREDIBLY effort, as one who can't even get up Crouch Hill, I'm in awe of your climbing prowess!
I feel for you Hank.
Way to go. Hank.
Gee why doesn't City bike rideshare programs take off?
Might I suggest a challenge that is just pure fun? 😀 I mean…I guess if it's pure fun is it a challenge? Let's find out.
Great accomplishment Hank! Keep inspiring the biking world.
Manon asked for the next challenge to break Hank, what about Alpe d'Heuz on a Penny Farthing.
Or even a GCN race to see who is the fastest GCN presenter out of all the GCN team, to climb Alpe d'Heuz on a Penny Farthing.
Manon, like the bratty sister: gives Hank the push of life @7:00, then incessantly pesters him with the “Would You Rather” scenario the next.
I think it would be fun if a presenter raced a pro on this bike up a famous climb…
I had to look up the ‘Mobike’ as i could not figure why it exists. It was designed for bike-sharing, now i understand.
Umm, why?
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Hank has always been and will forever remain a pure Legend ✊🏾👊🏾💪🏾
Hank is a machine – it's unfortunate that he finished this challenge, because that means the next one will be worse. Poor Hank….
Kudos to you, Hank! That looked absolutely brutal
TDT did col de la bonette on a small Kids bike
😂
No Strava analysis?
Why still no 4K?
If you could have done something about that gearing, he would have had a chance.
When does the ‘We try to kill Hank on a city bike descending Alpe D’Huez’ video come out………😂
😂
F for hank
How about going up with an ebike without charge? Hank the tank can do it since he's done this… maybe without walking this time?
Well done, Hank. Let's hope the next challenge isn't something like "Can Hank outrun angry bees?" or something like that
Give someone a super light roadbike where saddele height and rider's height do not match and that features only high gears (e.g. inner ring: 39 or 40, biggest sprocket: 28) and the effect would be similar.
I am glad that Hank decided just to walk rather than ruining his knee joints completely.
Can you climb on Alpe d' Huez on a e-bike?
I bet pushing that anchor up was savage! It might be almost indestructible but that shows it’s a rubbish bike and I wonder how many people in cities are put off cycling because of it. I hope all at GCN are getting the beers in for the rest of the year, Hank has deserved it! 👍
You should try Red Bull Goni Pony race next year 🙂