Typical British Winter Ride

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Welcome back you lovely buns thanks for tuning again I hope you’re all doing good welcome to what is probably going to be the muddiest road ride I’ve ever been on so it’ll be no surprise to you it’s been bucketing down with rain for the past few days and everything is

Flooded all the mud has wash off the fields all over the roads so yeah it’s going to be a muddy one today so in reality I probably should have taken the mountain bike out but I’m obsessed with this bike this Marine cast out is the

Best bike I’ve ever built up I know I keep saying this but I’ve genu built my dream winter bike this thing is amazing I have two really nice road bikes at home I have a steel road bike and I have a carbon road bike but but on days like

Today during the winter when they’re going to end up covered in absolute crap like this do you really want to ride them all it’s going to do is totally trashed them ruined them and I’m going to end up spending a fortune replacing Parts on them and and honestly they’ve

Got more expensive Parts on than this one so it makes more sense to ride this right and it’s got M guards and it’s fast and it’s comfortable every time I ride this bike I tell you guys I think it’s bloody brilliant that’s because it is blooming brilliant I think one of the

Reasons I love this bike so much is I wasn’t actually expecting it to be as good as it is you know it is an aluminum frame it is certainly not a high-end frame it was going to be a mediocre bike you know when in fact it’s much more

Than that so yeah pleasant surprise but there we go there’s me telling you something that I’ve told you in plenty of Vlogs already it’s a school holidays I’ve got a couple of hours free kiddo is at school sports club so we’re going to enjoy some of these Lanes little local

Loop and it’s starting off with a little bit of a steep descent I mean hopefully that’s a descent not a climb but this is also a reason that I love the lanes in Devon you don’t have to go far to find these like monstrous super steep hills

And you know what’s good for it a mega gearing a 40 52 bsh right right let’s go and enjoy some of these muddy Roads A there’s so many of these Punchy little steep climbs around here and for these climbs honestly a bigger tire lower pressure is the way forward otherwise your back wheel’s just going to slip the easy gearing definitely helps right nearly at the top then I have a

Feeling it might get a little bit muddy down Here So this is what i’ call the typical Devon Lane in the winter I mean it is pretty much just Offroad Trail I mean look at it it’s a good job I’ve got mud guards I mean I should probably have Noob tires on I am actually going to put

A larger Tire on I’m thinking of sizing up to a 36C rather than a 34 so I was going to put a slightly more gravel focused Tire on but the point of this bike is it’s a winter road bike and if I want it to be a gravel bike I can switch

The tires to gravel tires but at the moment I want it to be a winter road bike so I’m just going to put a wider Road tire on like a 36C and then I can run like slightly lower pressure still have that grip a bit more Comfort yeah

36 mil I think have enough room to fit it in there it’s quite tight in places the front no worries at all but the back yeah it’s going to be a bit of a squeeze with a 36 M Tire is it anything more Awkward than walking up a wet soggy Hill

In RS I think we’re going to go down that way I don’t have long left time goes so fast when you’re enjoying yourself didn’t it genuinely quite surprised by how much I’m enjoying the winter so far just by having this bike I did also get send these wheels for a

Review so I will be doing a bit of a review of these like entry level hyper wind space d45 something or whatever it is they’re called they are Hyper’s lowest price carbon wheel and um yeah they’re good I mean not a surprise really they’re £1,000 and like you wouldn’t want to

Spend £1,000 on a set of wheels and for them to be rubbish would You One of the most annoying but also amazing things about winter is cleaning bikes like I love cleaning bikes but I also hate having to clean bikes all the time but you know I’m not going to Grumble I’ve gone out I’ve ridden I’ve enjoyed myself and if I have to clean a

Little bit of dirt off my bike well so be it it was worth it honestly British winter isn’t that bad is it where do you guys think the worst winter is for me it’s got to be somewhere where it snows like Canada we just get a bit of rain

Mud slop all that stuff it’s not really that bad is it in a grand scheme of things like wind I don’t like it when it’s windy don’t like wind nobody likes wind unless it’s a Tailwind then that’s good but ultimately you’re going to have to ride into that Tailwind at some point

You know very rarely do you get a Tailwind in cycling it’s always a headwind um there we go another waffle filled video right now I’m going to have to zoom home and then um yeah run and pick the kid up from school and then continue these Christmas holiday H days

I hope you’re all having a lovely Christmas holiday by the way and you’re all ready for Christmas I’m really not so that’s another thing I need to get on top of so I’m going to leave it there thank you as always for watching Remember to like comment and subscribe

Go ride your bike have fun and say stuff the weather right I’ll catch you very soon bye