Can I Backflip my New Gravel Bike?!

NS have sent me their new gravel bike, the Rag! They challenged me to put it through its paces and see what we could do on it! So of course we head straight to the pump track then downhill trails to see if it can handle it! All seems good, so we up the stakes and head for some airtime at the S4p Bike park dirt jumps, before the ultimate challenge of a backflip in the garden! This was honestly some of the scariest riding I have ever done!

Check out the NS Bikes Rag online!

[ellis_payne]

Great video Sam showing how good a rider you are and great advert for the Ns Rag

[johnsonjay]

Love when people ride a gravel bike and feel what it's all about. Speed is crazy good. Made me build a fully rigid xc race bike

[Slocycling]

Hey sam, the solo cycling team built the loam track with the drop into 2 muddy corners and we feel privileged our track was in your video. This is benjy from rogate by the way

[AntonioBorraccino]

Hi Sam, I had a smile on almost the whole 20 minutes while I wached your video. Thank you that was great!

[samhonywood]

I always mountain biked as a teen but into my mid twenties the gravel bike has pulled through as my go to! There’s something too sick about being able to just leave your front door and go any route you want offroad. Trying to stay fast to cover distance, while navigating the dropper bars and high seat down bumpy single track feels absolutely insane…. all that plus you get to check out loads of nature, explore your local area, find the best cut throughs and fly down speedy road descents.
Loved this vid. Think it would be great to see Sam use this bike more on this channel… leaning into its intended purpose! The Bike looks sick too!

[zooboyjoe]

Nice one Pilgs! Always love your crazy Bike challenges.

And the new tooth looks spot on mate

[scossar]

Cool! You've really got to be in the drops for technical stuff, or bad things will happen. The trick is to get the bars high enough so that being in the drops feels natural. It also helps if the drops are flared out a bit. That way you can pull up on them without the top of the bars hitting your forearms. Gravel bikes are the ultimate bike for car free mountain biking. They're also a great excuse to hike-a-bike over the scarier features.

[edwarddapra]

I only ride a cyclocross/gravel bike and am amazed your skill on the bike the same day you got it. Awesome riding.

[htimsdrahcir]

Imagine if you didn’t know who Sam was and saw him turn up at your local pump track on that gravel bike, only to have him absolutely destroy you while not even trying 😂

[NanoDex]

Fun! Try the tires around 40F/45R you will get a bunch more traction and squish without loosing much speed

[garretteverett]

Just put some vintage drops on a 90's XC frame, and yup - new favourite bike. Still working on the cockpit setup, and wider bars will be a necessity eventually, but it's pretty fun to just tuck in and rip over stuff that isn't pavement. Our local trails are pretty tame so the drops make it feel more fun and sketchy - it feels terrible and also great to go headfirst down an embankment.

[barrytownhotdogger]

As a gravel rider this guy is my personal hero.

[MarckAl]

The level of skills this dude has made it look so easy.

[s]

This is a proper gravel bike test! I was wondering if I was a bit strange riding single tracks with my gravel bike, but you can do more!

[BicheCS]

who thought he actually fell on the trails but it was only the gopro falling? :D

[NathanLong]

Dude, that was awesome to watch! Mad skills! You gained a subscriber!

[dbg]

Awesome! So glad to see the intro back!

[Ben_Eagle]

Don't think I've seen Sam laugh this much in a video ever

More gravel bikes pls!

[ovrkill]

Geez. This guy can ride anything and make it look easy.

[me]

New bike? sweet...love your content keep up the good work Sam