Jon was at the British National Hill Climb Championships and got his grubby little hands on the best custom bikes pros and amateur cyclists were using to take on the fierce Haytor climb in Devon. Hill climbing has a long history of adapting road bikes to be as light as possible, which is your favourite?
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40 Comments
We all saw that butterfly right? 🦋
10:20 – how do you get a drivetrain to spin as smoothly as that?
Why bother with having brakes for a hill climbing bike? Is it mandatory?
Tyres narrower than 28mm roll slower dammit
That cannondale is really nice
Why any brakes at all?
here in Spain we do not even have these bicycles so light, at most the lightest bicycle in Spain weighs 7,200 kg
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Why not fixed gears ? With Dolan Seta easy to build a 4-4.5kg setup… 🙄 And its a hillclimbing X fixed gear is helping u to climb.
7:56 its our beautiful boys joe and squid
that scott addict is what i'd ride. those old team issue frames definitely mean business. hmx frames were the lightest out there and still are some of the lightest. one of the few competitors i could think of is the (now old) focus izalco max.
Cracking bikes there, but they’d save 100g if they cleaned the dirt off them
Surprised they don’t just remove the seat post and saddle and do the whole course standing
Love this. Weight weenie geekfest. Stuff the uci. Im not entering races i just want a superlight bike.
So if rotating weight doesn't make much difference on a climb, (according to science and computer modelling) why are all these guys specing super light wheels and tires. Its the placebo effect ? Don't think so….
My everyday bike is marginally less than the lightest one of these at 4.87 but it is a singlespeed. Surprised not to see any THM parts – their Clavicula crankset is insanely light.
You can save at least 30g by replacing the left side stages Si crank with SiSL2 crank with 4iiii power meter or whatever powermeter where you can give them sisl2 crank and they install it on top of that.
really like this; extremes!!
Great content!
More of this!
That's a Dartmoor pony, not a horse!
I'm pretty sure that was Gee Milner from Dream Builds at 6:07 ? Actually recognised the bike from his channel 🔥
I want Jon back 🙂
No body using bar tape ???
If you want the lightest drivetrain, just use an internally-geared hub which is much lighter than a conventional deraillur and cassette system and belt drive, as rubber belts are way lighter than most metal chains
How they do fings like this
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Not a disc in sight 😛 Hill climbs might be something I could get into I think, never been drawn to the club sunday ride scene for some reason. If I had a couple grand lying about I'd love to make up a climbing specific bike
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@7:26…. That bike is the definition of "hill climb"….. Is the brand on the head tube really "POS"?
MCFC ? lol, all i see is " mcfuck "
That steel and carbon bike is super sweet. Love stuff like that
Maybe say how much each bike weighs.
Love you UKs and the hill climb scene. Wish we had this tradition in the US. It looks like a great time and comraderie
KEEP YOUR AERO I LL TAKE THESE THANKS 🙂
Amazing bike👍
i miss Jon
I bet the guy who won this thing did so on some 20 year old steel bike he found in the trash and weights like 10 kg.
Cool video…..
Rim brakes rim brake rim brake…rim for road disk for dirt
I wonder what was the relation between the bike weight and the result on the finish line ;)
This is an awesome bike…..