So what we have learnt from this is Blake with 400mm handle bars and his brakes on backwards is still better than me.
@m2ad18
4 жыл бұрын
I was thinking exactly the same LMFAO...
@Firedrake1313
4 жыл бұрын
Oh hell yeah...this entire video is a testament to Blake's skills.. He's sooooo good at what he does he makes it all look easy and he always has fun doing it..:)
@KandiKlover
4 жыл бұрын
I like the 500 bars. They were cute. Like a commuter setup.
@bananasstuff3344
4 жыл бұрын
@@KandiKlover they look like my MTB setup oof
@jayvine2787
4 жыл бұрын
Me too ! I suck at techy mtb haha
@DeeJayEll
4 жыл бұрын
I love Blake. He's like an excited Jack Russell that's just found his best squeaky ball.... all the time. 👍
@thierrym6168
4 жыл бұрын
D L Exactly what I think too. Exact words. He was awesome during this vid.
@cup_and_cone
4 жыл бұрын
That's an amazing analogy.
@jameshowe2074
4 жыл бұрын
When Blake said “don’t try this at home I’m a trained idiot” 😂
@stevaone
4 жыл бұрын
That was the best line ever! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Firedrake1313
4 жыл бұрын
I nearly sprayed my keyboard with soda at that one...:)
@dumbr2098
4 жыл бұрын
Utter BS! He's just an experienced idiot!
@worbotmobile7928
4 жыл бұрын
I thought he said indian
@gabboaudo
4 жыл бұрын
The brakes sound like an ambualnce approaching
@myhobby1238
3 жыл бұрын
That’s what mine sound like
@zbk1948
3 жыл бұрын
Because it’s wet sum breaks are better for wet conditions
@core-i7413
2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes my brakes sound like that, but that's when they're really muddy in the wet.
@destinhook3826
2 жыл бұрын
Mine sound like it because they’re semi-metallic
@core-i7413
2 жыл бұрын
@@destinhook3826 I think they have a problem and that's about it. Even if they were semi-metallic, they shouldn't sound like that.
@shrooman768
4 жыл бұрын
Do a "The Widest Bars" video.
@ethanlovesbikes1952
4 жыл бұрын
yes
@harrisonclark3799
4 жыл бұрын
its a lot easier to make small bars than wide bars
@KandiKlover
4 жыл бұрын
That would be awesome. I love ultra wide bars.
@fintankane8204
4 жыл бұрын
The shoulder poppers.
@amdmg7
4 жыл бұрын
@@harrisonclark3799 Grab a meter bar and try;)
@ollllllloHTX
4 жыл бұрын
Gents!!!!! This is the best video you have posted to date!!! Blake, you’re a genuine shredder and a great presenter for these types of videos. May I request shredding on bikes from 29”-16” in this format?!
@T-Crack
4 жыл бұрын
Gmbn, you need to make a Blake’s dictionary for the shop 😂🤘
@Latchfpv
4 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, the fact that you kept it together while going on the front wheel off that drop Blake. Mad respect. Trained idiot indeed, you rock!
@ayu1978
4 жыл бұрын
I’m a trained idiot 😂 More like a professional maniac. Kudos to you Blake for trying all these so we won’t have to. Seriously this video is amongst the more entertaining in the GMBN library.
@adrenalinemadness3340
4 жыл бұрын
ayu1978 absolutely haha, watching this at 3 am just hits different 😂😂
@nitbot
4 жыл бұрын
"It's just stupid. It's not even ethnical"
@KandiKlover
4 жыл бұрын
Now make a bike with electronic steering servo in the head tube and just a joystick rising out of where the stem would be. No bars at all.
@r.a.sullivanojeda1721
4 жыл бұрын
20:10 I'm loving the bagpipe music. Beautiful instrument.
@mallillinrjkaylec.6413
4 жыл бұрын
19:26 HOW DID BLAKE SAVE THAT!? THAT WAS SKILLSSZZ
@benndavlogger4559
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah that was skills specially it was muddy and raining. Hahahaha Btw 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
@orion8829
4 жыл бұрын
Remember he’s a trained idiot
@chrzzzzz
4 жыл бұрын
Trained by Spencer Foreman
@mallillinrjkaylec.6413
4 жыл бұрын
@@orion8829 "idiot" HAHA
@allanbuchan6947
4 жыл бұрын
Totally , I would've been buckerooed instantly .
@codyn9337
4 жыл бұрын
18:04 sounds like a European siren haha
@martindunajsky5136
4 жыл бұрын
ha ha lol
@after_midnight9592
4 жыл бұрын
That would be the French
@jake_stewy
4 жыл бұрын
9:50 my mom walked in and now I’m grounded
@ChristianClarkArchery
4 жыл бұрын
Ahahahahahah
@mariolovenjak5696
4 жыл бұрын
6:40 for me. Didnt get grounded tho.
@pabloismybigdad2638
4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha for real??
@timobreumelhof88
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@linusaranha6703
4 жыл бұрын
There were 69 likes but i wanted to like so I'll just comment
@broganedits376
4 жыл бұрын
This really made me laugh! Especially when Blake almost went head first as he was pressing the front brake😂
@willh3339
4 жыл бұрын
is it just me or would Blake make the best television presenter 😂 he’s a pro entertainer
@Dan23_7
4 жыл бұрын
Will Honey Blake for Top Gear 😂
@jkrudolf15
4 жыл бұрын
GMBN, can you add a real time heart rate monitor icon, in the lower right, so we can see Blake's Fun Factor?
@johnbarron4843
4 жыл бұрын
Jon and Kathy Rudolf Blake*
@stephenpaulson8313
4 жыл бұрын
Blake wins the Oscar for most dramatic acting 😂
@jasonhamlin8847
4 жыл бұрын
8:38 - "Shiver me timbers". best vid yet! Blake needs a massive, massive salary increase.
@RACCHIETTO
4 жыл бұрын
Would have been nice to see you go back to the 760mm bars at the end, just to see how much more stable you would feel after the supernarrow bars
@sergeykopylov652
4 жыл бұрын
Click on the beginning of the show.
@RACCHIETTO
4 жыл бұрын
@@sergeykopylov652 It's not the same, once you get used to narrow bars, going back to wide bars gives you a much different feeling. I would have been curious to see him go back up slowly in sizes as well, to see if he felt comfortable with bars narrower than 760mm, but the video would have been 45 minutes long, i would have watched it though 😁
@geemail369
4 жыл бұрын
At least he could have held his original bars over the last one for comparison - that's just half as wide ... *insane!* 😅
@thelapiz2984
4 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile I'm actually on a 640mm ever since 😂😂
@harryingd2674
3 жыл бұрын
👍
@matiakd
4 жыл бұрын
Blake is the only reason I watch gmbn anymore
@wakeawaken430
3 жыл бұрын
He is the soul of gmbn
@destinhook3826
2 жыл бұрын
If Blake ever leaves, I wouldn’t watch them, he’s the backbone.
@dopzfn688
4 жыл бұрын
That was me and my friend Jake that crashed into that tree, you almost hit 😂😂
@evo1007
4 жыл бұрын
Blake, that was priceless "Im thinking why am I going over the bars!!!" Sooo funny man.
@paulleigh9833
4 жыл бұрын
I've been riding with 690mm bars, the bike was an import from Australia where they are limited by law, apparently. As this was my first mtb I didn't have anything to compare them to and I thought they were OK. But just this week I went up to 780mm, I'm 6', and the difference is night and day, a much more stable and easy ride.
@jonlavigne3270
4 жыл бұрын
20". You have to ride a 20" somewhere. Up to you whether it's a kid's mtb or a BMX bike.
@grumpynerd
4 жыл бұрын
Back in the pre suspension days, a little twitchy was a good thing because speeds were slower and lines were jaggier. Bars were in the 600mm range and head angles of 71 degrees or more.
@adambcvg
4 жыл бұрын
Normally you'd have a longer stem to make it less twitchy
@Radke32
4 жыл бұрын
Like during a "normal" skinny bar challenge?
@wordreet
4 жыл бұрын
Can't see how that would be a benefit. You'd be more upright, so less weight on the bars, therefore less front wheel grip. Hmm, admittedly that would mean less response from the steering. Hehe, well I'm not trying it, I have my bars quite high anyway as I have an old neck injury from decades ago. 😑
@wordreet
4 жыл бұрын
@Vincenzio VonHook Oh crap, yes, I was thinking about the steerer tube!
@amberturner2821
4 жыл бұрын
Think it depends on your natural reach as well. I swapped my longer stem, shorter bar set up for a wider bar, shorter stem and got way more stability.
@tstodgell
4 жыл бұрын
Back in the 90’s we rode narrow bars because the trees were closer together.
@rosco0101
4 жыл бұрын
I still ride some of the trails that I rode in the 90s and the trees are still very close together. I kinda feel bad for guys who try to ride narrow trails on wide bars.
@bradkubota6968
2 жыл бұрын
My trails have the same trees in places. Add 20 years of rings,.yikes! No way I am riding with over 700mm.
@TenFalconsMusic
6 ай бұрын
The trees are further apart now because the blokes with wide bars kept running into them until they just snuffed it
@ifacecheck
4 жыл бұрын
Man, you guys have some really nice trails over in England. I'm so thankful for this channel as its impossible to ride here in the winter due to the ever changing conditions. Makes me feel like im out riding when I watch you guys.
@KoenMiseur
4 жыл бұрын
I ride 650mm bars, if I go wider there are alot of trails I can't even ride here in Belgium (to much trees to close together)! Also I don't get such wide bars, even at 650mm my wrists hurt after a couple of hours!
@pygmalion1963
4 жыл бұрын
My bars are 580 great for getting through gates
@steveco1800
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah have them on my old 26er XC bike and 75mm stem. Handles well, doesn't seem too narrow compared to 720mm on my 29er.
@meliss9536
4 жыл бұрын
Great width for not hitting trees
@dumbr2098
4 жыл бұрын
So you'd prefer going through gates than riding well?
@dumbr2098
4 жыл бұрын
@@pygmalion1963 Yeah..? Is that your hobby? Riding through gates?
@willyolio9590
4 жыл бұрын
@@dumbr2098 what's your hobby? turning around at gates and going home instead of riding?
@shaunduke7064
4 жыл бұрын
Love how the Bars got smaller and his voice gets higher😂😂😂 GMBN one of best channels on KZitem👍👍
@amoshagan7645
3 жыл бұрын
Blakes Wife secretly increased his life insurance before suggesting this challenge to him while he was sleeping ...😁
@boombastick7113
4 жыл бұрын
Blake's got the best NON SWEARING vocabulary. Props bud
@johnny6969
4 жыл бұрын
Sending that wooden drop where one of the lads had a nasty crash few weeks ago :D and Blake is dropping on a 500mm bars haha savage!
@MasterChronometer
4 жыл бұрын
Anything below 800 feels horrid to me. Really hard to find a reasonably priced bar at 800 unfortunately.
@nationalkillah3169
4 жыл бұрын
You might want to look to sites like aliexpress. I bought 820mm carbon bars for something like 30 bucks and have been riding them for at least a year now without any issues!
@elijahschulz3749
4 жыл бұрын
When going down a trial Noone: Blake: uuuuuhhhh, aaarrrgggggg,oooooohhh
@sandy_knight
3 жыл бұрын
I remember when XC bikes came with 600mm flat bars, 660mm was considered wide! Back in the day (late 90s) I ran Azonic PDW riser bars (660mm) and a 'short' stem (80mm) on my 'XC' hardtail (there wasn't really a trail bike category at the time). It was considered radical at the time! I wouldn't fancy any shorter though!
The last two are actually 500 and 400, not 400 and 300
@tarcobadge4744
4 жыл бұрын
@@sebastianjost thanks for pointing that out! Fixed it now👍
@Tombrosapien
4 жыл бұрын
*You’re
@nathangaffran
4 жыл бұрын
When we’ll we see the wide bar challenge with 1200mm
@stocksyere
4 жыл бұрын
Lol hells angels Rollin thru 😂
@handlehandlehandlehandlehand
4 жыл бұрын
What did you take those of a razor scooter
@petinka721
4 жыл бұрын
I heard a GCN rider has a bar with bar ends that Blake can try next time :)) Maybe better Blake try the whole bike the GCN rider has. :))
@Hardcaslte
4 жыл бұрын
I think it's super interesting Blake uses a 760mm bar and he's tall. I cut mine down to 760 just because almost every trail here has trees that are 770mm gap to ride through, so it's just easier to have 760. I'm 6'3" and I'm totally comfortable on a 760mm bar. When you read people talking about new bikes, you'd think anything less than 800mm is a handlebar for a child.
@vitalymakarov6405
4 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t breathe I was laughing!!! 😂😂😂😂
@shilohevans9223
3 жыл бұрын
07:55 It’s twitchy as heeeeeel 😂😂 He seriously does not care about what other people think about him
@torsteinstorkersen
4 жыл бұрын
«It’s not ethnical!» 😂 loving the Blake!!
@armatacalanca962
4 жыл бұрын
It's not ethical to put Blake in danger with such a silly test... Or this 300 mm bar is out of this world, it belongs to a Liliputian ethnic group ? Go figure.
@streetrider11
4 жыл бұрын
Was looking for this comment 😂
@mellowfellow6816
4 жыл бұрын
My bike came with 680mm bars. I've recently swapped them for 600 with a longer stem, which I'm enjoying but I'll probably settle on 640mm - all for XC fun Absolutely fun video to watch. Thank you
@mosiowaty1573
4 жыл бұрын
19:26 - that's how I was riding when I went to UK and rented a bike! Take that, British guy!
@riggidybang
4 жыл бұрын
Major props to the trained idiot - pretty gnarly with reversed braking! This vid makes me wonder what wider bars feel like -I've been riding ~650mm bars on my '06 Enduro for years...
@eliantonietti7233
4 жыл бұрын
inverted shifters, true innovation. gmbn is back baby starting 2020 with the sketchiest 300 ml bars
@mrfrogg46able
4 жыл бұрын
inverted brakes
@woozertoo
4 жыл бұрын
Slick Topeak product placement, lads.
@Icantfindtheanykey
4 жыл бұрын
wow. my heart skipped a beat when I saw you endo off that drop. great video Blake. you're the only reason why I still watch gmbn
@SemiProphetic
4 жыл бұрын
Hilarious. I remember around 1990 you could buy bars that were completely straight - no rise, no sweep, and no bulge in the middle, just an adapter for the stem diameter. I don't remember what they were called, but they came in a few different fluorescent colors, and they were popular. People were always experimenting with things back then, because the factory stuff was all crap and no one knew what worked yet. Guys would cut these bars down, I guess because its easier than making them longer. Since there was no bulge in the middle, the brakes and shifters could be mounted super close to the stem. Guys would have to offset the left and right brakes a bit so the cables could fit past each other. Throw a set of those on a bike with a 150mm stem, head angle in the 70's, a ridged fork, and some 1.9" tires, and things got really exciting.
@willshawyer7280
4 жыл бұрын
Road bikers: *hold my tiny*
@bananasstuff3344
4 жыл бұрын
Tiny what?
@YanDoroshenko
4 жыл бұрын
I HEARD you have Sram Codes...
@lukehill6395
4 жыл бұрын
19:37 front wheel drift while doing an endo in the mud. That is possibly the sketchiest thing anyone has ever done and not crashed
@lar2028
4 жыл бұрын
I really struggle in tight corners, I run a 720mm handlebar and a long stem, do you think a longer handlebar and shorter stem will a difference? Or is actually me?
@tokinada7951
4 жыл бұрын
"I'm Blake For GMBN, Welcome To Jackass..."
@gideondd4398
4 жыл бұрын
My narrowest bar is 500mm and widest 780 and I feel ok on both
@sarcasmisthelowest
4 жыл бұрын
“Opps! Sorry about that Mercedes Benz. Forgot I had wide bars.” ... and I think I’ll be riding my old rat bike with the narrower bars to work for a while. Wide bars are crap in traffic.
@rosco0101
4 жыл бұрын
Back in the 1990s we used to cut our bars down to avoid clipping trees on narrow trails. I still have some bars from around 1995 that measure about 525mm. Of course we were riding hardtail or fully rigid 26ers. To this day I can't get used to ultra-wide bars. The bars on my XC hardtail bike right now measure just over 600mm. I do most of my riding on a road bike with 44cm bars, which is considered pretty wide for a road bike, so I'm used to narrower bars. BTW narrower bars aren't really twitchy if you use them with a longer stem.
@Gmh6477
4 жыл бұрын
Not sure how I survived being a kid 😂 530mm bars with a girvin flexstem and cantilever brakes 😱
@TenFalconsMusic
6 ай бұрын
You were probably stronger and more balanced when you were a kid.
@TheraPi
4 жыл бұрын
Finally someone to stop this bar width madness.... :) Me as a roadie just hate passing MTB riders coming from the opposite direction, for example on narrow bridges. They take up to 1 meter of space with those abominations :P
@ln663
4 жыл бұрын
D*mn this episode! Funny as ****! Good job Blake. You nailed it mate.
@darrenrimlinger1505
4 жыл бұрын
Wait did he just say in moto the clutch is always on the right hand and the brake on the left? I’m not sure what moto bike he is riding but I guess it has a left handed throttle too otherwise that would be really difficult to shift ahahah.
@leattts6602
4 жыл бұрын
"Remember the back brake, blake" thats a tongue twister right there haha
@observingrogue7652
2 жыл бұрын
This is the most hilarious educational bike video I've ever seen. Thank you. And you're right, I'm a courier, and I love filtering through traffic, and I want a full suspension bike for bad roads, shortcuts, and stairs. I have to decide what's the best narrow for me. This video was extremely helpful. Thank you.
@Dewoy1
4 жыл бұрын
"Uwww mud!" What a mad man. 😄👌
@markturner-smith5309
4 жыл бұрын
You are indeed insane Mr Blake! I started mountian bike XC back in 1991 so started out on 560mm + bar ends were great and item of the times as that was were 90's mountian XC racing was (560mm to 600mm by end of the decade always with bar ends so you had chance of climbing the bikes at XC race speed), but would not go back (well have two Kona Kileaua's a 94 & 96 560/580mm is best ones for them but not modern stuff)! My regular current mountian bike is 720mm as mainly race XC 5ft 7" height not that wide shoulders so 720mm + width feels uncomfortable for me but that's just me and I know 720mm sort old skool width even now.
@gammalight6908
4 жыл бұрын
im crying watching these 😂
@WZest
4 жыл бұрын
I riding in 550mm but i use it in the city because this is the minimum size to use grip
@AntiDEDok
4 жыл бұрын
Blake has crazy skills and sense of humor! Thank you for vids, gmbn!
@lukasgarke9933
4 жыл бұрын
new challenge idea: narrow bars x no brakes challenge you need to go from as high as possible and every time you go higher you narrow your bars down by 50mm
@mancsblue
4 жыл бұрын
Great video blake ,man I was dying laughing 🤣
@eliasgarmo4509
4 жыл бұрын
My Bike has 720mm wide handle bars and I dont dont any wider cause i allready think 720mm is allmost to wide.
@andresacuna6419
4 жыл бұрын
12:15 If you tune in loud enough you can hear Martyn is the distance "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKS AAAAND BODGES!"
@hedemalmcarl
4 жыл бұрын
720mm is my natural point but i could see myself on 740
@bogdanbaubau
4 жыл бұрын
Reminded me of the time I first rode moto style. The switch is scary.
@mrvwbug4423
4 жыл бұрын
Attach the tree catcher bar ends, paint the bike an eye searingly bright neon color and its the 90s all over again haha.
@matteonegrisolo3550
4 жыл бұрын
Not many views in this period😭
@magna1830
4 жыл бұрын
That bike isn’t even a XC/Cross country anymore with those narrow bikes
@ericoschmitt
4 жыл бұрын
“Lets not try it, lets do it” he learned that with Yoda
@nikolapaspalj4954
4 жыл бұрын
mine are 620mms and i dont yet ssee a reason to go wider. i can do barspins on these bars, i ve tried them on 780mm and its impossible XD
@lennon7754
4 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else make noises like Blake when they’re riding out on the trail?
@mtblife2101
4 жыл бұрын
Lennon Waghorn me
@escay
4 жыл бұрын
Don't you?
@lennon7754
4 жыл бұрын
escay yea I make heaps of noises and then people look and think I’m crazy
@escay
4 жыл бұрын
@@lennon7754 😁
@genisis53
4 жыл бұрын
"Don't try this at home, because... I'm a trained idiot." LOLOLOLOL
@gabboaudo
4 жыл бұрын
16:50 these aren't brakes, they are blakes
@sbek1386
4 жыл бұрын
I usually run 775mm bars cut to 690. Feels just right
@secretdaisy6484
4 жыл бұрын
I just got a new Canondale Scalpel & my bars are like driving a big 50s Chrysler. I can’t stand it. I think those 600s would be perfect for me. Thanks for the video! 👍☮️🌞🚲
@ryanp3907
4 жыл бұрын
Take some time to get used them before you cut them. I didn’t like wide bars at first but I could never go back now.
@TheSwitchbackRiders
4 жыл бұрын
Could you PLEASE do the ultimate mullet bike. 29" wheel on the front, 26" wheel on the back. Reason is I have an older downhill bike (2004) and I love it, but I'm in the market for some new forks and thought why not go big? It would increase my slack angle and make the bike longer! Can't put a big wheel on the back so that's the way it's going to be!! Is this a good idea for ridability? (Safety is not concerning)
@nilsatt1671
4 жыл бұрын
I broke my foot when i tried a bike with the brakes on the wrong side
@eldepresse9538
4 жыл бұрын
U were clipped yeah?
@nilsatt1671
4 жыл бұрын
@@eldepresse9538 yes
@kozybearcat
4 жыл бұрын
MTB Fixie with no brakes!
@Spectalim
4 жыл бұрын
When ur so early the comment section is empty...
@samuel-JF1981
4 жыл бұрын
In the 90's I rode 50cm/20inch bars...
@Montblanc1986
4 жыл бұрын
Nino runs 690mm bars. I've found going slightly narrower isnt too bad. Like everything else it's nice to dial it back some
@lamefart
4 жыл бұрын
Depends on stem length.
@scullen96
4 жыл бұрын
Do a collab video with a game of B.I.K.E. teaching Sam Pilgrim to build a bike without a brick or curb.
@HUSHHUSH-
4 жыл бұрын
Always amazes me how any bike with any setup and still flying and able to do it all 🤔😯
@james-yi2xx
4 жыл бұрын
just goes to show all the fancy parts aren't what makes u a good rider
@HUSHHUSH-
4 жыл бұрын
@@james-yi2xx spot on said mate
@Charlie_Broadbent
4 жыл бұрын
Was Blake wearing fox pants ???
@lepro3310
4 жыл бұрын
69th like ytb also my last bars were 650mm lol
@WolfPawArmoury
4 жыл бұрын
Nice
@benjamincoram7036
4 жыл бұрын
yeah when I first got my bike it had 640s or something awful like that and I didn't think they were that bad. Then I got a pair of 760s and understood.
@mjestment1
4 жыл бұрын
After coming back to MTB riding after a serious neck injury with partial paralysis, I can tell you nothing improves your control and confidence more than wider bars with a shorter stem and a dropper post. Blake has illustrated this in a humorous and very skilful way. Well done Blake, some of the best entertainment I have had in a while!
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