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It's an old one (well, last year....)
Gabriel Wibmer proving that you only need a gravel bike...
A gravel bike... and an film editor.
Just looks so wrong wearing a full face on a gravel bike. I think they should have played with that a bit more and put him in roadie lyrcra with a full face lid.
I'm not Fabio Wibmer. So if anything I'm underbiked.
I'm underskilled, not overbiked... 😉
I certainly am. I have a 170/165 travel e-bike and at home I ride the same stuff I did on my hardtail back in spring before I bought it. But I do ride faster and go bigger than on the hardtail (I still use the HT once a week, just ride the E-bike the other 3 or 4 days a week) and I’m happier doing bigger and faster things at other places.
I don’t really care if people are supposedly “over-biked” as long as they’re out there. riding bikes.
Lars Sternberg was riding pretty hardcore stuff on his Transition Klunker and cyclocross/gravel bike years ago and Martin Ashton (and stunt doubles) were showing us all up in Road Bike Party 1&2 before that
Steve Peat was national DH champion on a fully rigid Kona IIRC.
Ok, that's going back a bit now, but still....
Steve Peat was national DH champion on a fully rigid Kona IIRC.
To be fair that was back in the days when even a full suspension bike only had about 2" of travel and more than likely locked out if you sat down / stood up / pedalled.
I remember working on the Short Course DH Champs at Penshurst way back when. The bike to be seen on was a GT RTS Team with RS Mag 21 forks. 46mm travel. 😳
I can't argue with a lot of us being overbiked and I reckon Big Jim has outdone Peaty to be honest....
Some boy
Big Jim get's my respect. Only because he did not need to post his many rides* on TikTock.
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* some on two wheels....
The other Wibmer did it first, and better IMHO
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I kept hoping he'd backflip it and I was dead chuffed that he did. Deeply impressive bike skillz.
Yes yes we are most of the time. Some people are drastically over-tyred as well!
In an ideal world we would have specific bike and wheel/tyre combinations for every occasion. But unless you are at the sharp end of racing, it's not practical/affordable for the vast majority. So most choose being over rather than under. Not to mention people like flashy new shit to show off with in public and on social media!