We Bought The Best Budget Bikes & Entered An Enduro Race!

Blake Samson, Rich Payne and @gmbntech presenter Anna Cipullo are out in @BikeParkWalesOfficial to compete against one another in a challenging all-day Enduro race! To make things even harder, all presenters have been tasked to race using only budget bikes! Shame someone missed the brief for that part... 🤣

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[alexisonbike]

I love that Rich chose the dentist version of "cheap" 😅

[markbrown]

Great to see the Gmbn tech presenter knowledge, 28 gears on a triple chainset. Some tech wizardry right there 😂

[Desmond]

Hannah screaming "I'm gonna at every corner is one of the funniest thing i've ever seen 😂
That, and her deciding to descent with a completely flat rear to add to the sketchyness of it all.
Blake, as usual, is the perfect example of trying to outpace the issues on the bike by bombing as fast as he can.
And Rich "misunderstanding the rules" sure...
If you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough to win !

[colincoulthard]

Great video, impressive riding by Anna. It's scary that £1700 can reasonably be considered a "budget" bike these days....

[kingdeano]

Great video but I'm a bit disappointed that Rich bottled the budget bike challenge.

[oliveralldridge]

Fantastic to see some retro 26er action, let's have some more please, some of us still ride em!!!

[ickebins]

I just got my Laufey H-LTD last week.

Its my first "proper" bike and I already put 200km on it, still have to get used to it.

Great video as always. Thx GMBN!

[Planting_Trees]

Finally, a bike I can relate to—the Orbea Laufey. I am thrilled with mine.

[eXaviar]

I am also rocking an Orbea Laufey 😍 got my attention high, when I heard it in the video 🤩

[mangoshake]

Reasonably equipped bikes you can take to a grassroots enduro event:

Hardtails new or used:
Marin SQ
Vitus Nucleus 27
Ragley Marley
Ragley Mmmbop
Nukeproof Scout

Full suspension, mostly used:
Giant Reign
Giant Trance
Banshee Rune V2
Spesh Stumpjumper, Enduro non-boost
Commencal Meta AM V4

There could be more choices, but these models are most abundant and very well equipped for actual enduro racing. These should be able to finish all the stages and liaisons with zero issues.

We can make excuses for cheaper bikes, but I'm not gonna trust a $300 rig to be able to survive more than me, and I suck at staying undamaged when mountain biking.

[joshuadoss]

Wow!!!!
GT Aggressor was my first mountain bike in 1998. It was in red. SR sun tours
Clip pedals
All nostalgic now
Still looks sweet

[stevenconnor]

Guys you should set a competition of who can make an old school bike ride better for say £700 tech side could carryout the mods and gmbn side need to race it. That's probably within everyone's budget.

[matt_acton-varian]

Getting to see Anna shred twice in one day, 👍👍 about time. Following a great video on Tech about weight, this looked great fun. Smiles all round and that is what this sport is about!

[berniewiemers]

Good video. From the smiles on the presenters faces it shows, no matter what your budget, get out there, give it a go, and have fun,

[kyled]

Fun, fun, fun. Really entertaining, Thank you!

[beardedmtb]

Ah the Agressor XCR - got one on the back room sat on my turbo trainer. Soon to be my pub bike.

[chrisridesbicycles]

We haven‘t had ridiculous parts swap for a while. Let‘s find out how bad Rich‘s bike gets with narrower and narrower handlebars and how much Anna‘s bike gains with wider tires for example.

[dinogruica]

Front is like BMW GS...😂😂 and the dropper is same like mine..😁

[chadkimmel]

Cheap bike challenges are my favorite.

[tomas]

The GT with some cosmetic changes would be actually a decent bike nowadays, obviously not for bikeparks but enough for riding in the forest.