6 Essential Pre Ride Checks

Get ready for a ride, make sure your bike is safe and ready to roll with these pre-ride checks.

Don’t ruin a ride by overlooking a few simple checks before you hit the trails, these are the 6 essential things to check.

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[hugocharneca]

Good to see Scott embrace the 60-80g of carbs meme, good sport

[MW-udzp]

2:38 That rolling joke though :D Scotty you are the best. That's a sick looking bike as well.

[terrencerettich]

I found a pack of Twizzlers in my downstairs vending machine. Low and behold it has 58g of carbohydrates. Maybe I'll only ride for 58mins.

[trailseeker]

Lol, I love the "60-80g of carbs per hour" :D
You guys should make stickers for it!

[HPMIKE]

Thank you & keep up the great job!

[marcwittkowski]

Great video, loved the bonus at the end. Brought a big grin to my face.

[lukasjavorka]

i love your 60 to 80 mate! i mean it in a good way. realy helps me in my bike rides. always i had problems with energy but not any more
thanks!

[AbsoluteAdvocate]

Bloody hell, back at it again with the carbs, Scott.

[fletcha]

perfect timing i was just about to get ready to go for a ride :D

[jdwalker]

well done on remembering the carbs Scott

[jackransier]

@scottylaughland I like how you're letting the carb joke in with open arms without being embarrassed like maybe some other people on other channels

[cessna]

I check the SAG too before go on a ride, it's really quick to do and what a worst thing when you have not your right suspensions setting

[mylesp]

thanks for the stickers and the card really appreciate it

[willisthesnowman]

That's a bloody nice looking bike!

[BoostedFB]

This helps a lot I tried to bunny hop and my tires where flat luckily I was on my way to the trail I had a nasty crash tho

[arrandunn]

Definitely can't forget the 60 to 80 grams of carbohydrates cheers for reminding me haha

[trailseeker]

Nice video and thanks for reminding me how many carbs i should eat every hour :)

[Avagardia]

#2 is something I have literally had nightmares about!

[kevinbarnett]

Glad to see the carbohydrates were not missed

[Iantheiguana]

Can you do a video where you and Neil do a race to see who can fix a flat tire the fastest?