Experience Vs Ignorance | Can You Ride 100 Miles Blind? | GMBN Races The Leadville 100

The Leadville Trail 100 is a 105 mile XC Mountain Bike race that takes place at high altitude in the Colorado Rockies. We sent Chris Opie out to race it, blind, with no training and very little time to adjust to the altitude. Do you need experience to race a 100 mile marathon, or can you attempt it in ignorance?

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As a novice mountain bike racer with a solid level of base fitness from his road riding career, how will Chris get on against experienced Leadville veterans from Team Garmin, Walter Summers & Jordan Miller. Will he be able to tear his eyes away from the incredible views of the Colorado Rockies and concentrate on both his Garmin and the singletrack ahead of him?

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[cliffsangelsphotography]

So, how hard can Chris Opie shred?

Chris: Hold my lycra

Great job! Glad to finally see Chris on a MTB. We need to see more presenters do XC races. Looks like Chris Opie really is OP on a bike!

[chanito_nyc]

Lycra man showing how is done!!!keep it up Mr Opie

[paddy]

That belt buckle needs an episode of it's own 🤟🇮🇪

[TheMashinac]

Opie is seriously challenging Si for the title of the gcn's coolest presenter.

[Norm]

Too funny that the Garmin riders think Opie chickened out at the start but handily beat their times!

[pokie]

Even when he is “suffering more that I ever have in a bike race” Chris doesn’t appear to be suffering.. Well done

[andrewnelson]

For those that have not experienced it, the elevation is no joke and makes a ride like this much more difficult. I did a road trip through Colorado and biking above 11, 000 - 12, 000 ft is something else. Above that altitude, I would just start feeling almost drunk. There were times where I had a hard time just keeping the bike going straight down the single track. I couldn't imagine doing a marathon race at that elevation.

[msudz]

Opie is hard as... awesome effort defintely need to showcase his ability more on gmbn

[michaelb]

What a guy! That was seriously impressive, well done for completing it in under 9 hours.

It’s nice to see an event like this being ridden on mountain bikes, instead of the ever increasingly trendy ‘gravel bike’.

[ucanskixc]

I do not know about the rest of you, but I am very impressed by Mr. Opie results and time on his first try. No whining either, just straight up comments! Well done!! The only thing I must have missed was the winning time of the Leadville, so I had to look it up which was roughly 2 hours ahead of him.

[the_spanner_chmp]

Nice one Opie great result.
Looked hard even though when you said it was tough it doesn't look like you were finding it tough.
What a beast of a race.
Great stuff #GMBN

[OneBigHappyLife]

I don't own a mountain bike, but I will if I keep watching these videos. Glad to see Opie having a blast on his crossover to GMBN.

One thought, it's hard to see the gradient if the camera isn't level. If possible (safe), can we get a camera level shot to the side sometimes on the climbs. GCN, GMBN challenge idea: who can ride one handed with a selfie stick up the steepest climb.- Joseph

[ellmusec]

Awesome vid, you smashed it Opie! Looking forward to more content from you

[davidmartin]

Watch a lot of GCN and GMBM and that was one of my favourite rides, great job by Chris in a super good time.

[funkyduck]

Next year: Team GMBN ->Chris, Neil and Blake! Do it together!

[alfonsolizarazo]

Finally this channel giving a go to XC races, I have not enjoyed this much since Neil raced along with Simon sometime ago, I really enjoyed this one. Well done Chris!

[brendavane]

Really like the cross overs. If you are not jumping it's just riding a bike. Most of us do just that.

[palioman]

Thank you for some XC stuff! Well about the time ;) great to see GCN guys getting on MTB too!

[GregBurgess]

Oh I thought you were going to be blindfolded