Having Fun On Mountain Bike Trails Until...

welcome back you lovely bunch thanks for tuning in again I hope you're all doing good the plan today was to jump on the old Ming gust out head to Howen Forest Park and Ride some mountain bike trails on my gravel bike the problem is well it's a very nice day and I got distracted on the way and I've got no idea where I am at all my phone is about to die so I'm having to kind of meander until I find the right way either way it's not the worst day to be getting lost on the bike is it so like I said the plan was to ride mountain bike trails on a gravel bike and I think this is a very well suited bike to some mountain bike trails it's been quite a Hil ride so far I'm like an hour in 20K and about 500 M of climbing but it is a beautiful day I'm on a beautiful bike and I can't really complain I'm going to be honest I've even packed snacks how good am I today right anyway that's the plan we're going to go ride Mountain bik Trails on the gravel bike if I can find them right let's go [Music] and I've got no idea where I am but I absolutely stunning it usually takes me about 45 minutes to get to Howen Forest Park today it's I don't know what's happening I'm an hour and a half in I've just done another Wrong Turn I'm just embracing this as a nice ride now I've missed riding in the sun H say oh I don't care where I am I do have a feeling it's kind of up that way this is definitely the right way I can tell cuz there's a big bloody climb coming up and then I think we're there so a ride that should have taken 45 minutes it's taken an hour and 45 minutes but I'm not going to complain I'm outside and I'm riding my bike so who cares so after 2 hours of riding and a whole load of climbing we finally made it and look wo there are some lovely Trails here but apparently a load of them are closed that's why you check the website before you ride for 2 hours turning up somewhere nothing can damp in my mood today I've already got some miles in there's loads of lovely gravel in front of me so how can I not enjoy it how can I not be smiling right I think it's time to take this over there [Music] a having a smashing ride it's absolutely awesome like this bike is handling everything absolutely smashingly but my hands started to get a little bit slipping and a bit damp and you know what I've just noticed look look at this so if you look in there that's all wet and that's hydraulic oil so a feeling that when me and Dan switched the brakes over that Olive didn't get crushed fully so there's a little bit of leak AG so now I have like that dot oil which is really crappy all over my hands and it's making my bars go all slippy and I'm also losing pressure in my brake little bit frustrating but at least I've got a good 3 hours in before this has gone wrong so I think Howen Forest Park does have a bike high place I hopefully they do have a spanner I can use to tighten this up and fingers crossed all it needs is tightening up otherwise yeah it looks like I'm doing a full re bed again but the back brake is lovely and smooth and there's no lot of leakage on that so that's a 50% success rate it's a little bit annoying that we've got some leakage and obviously like it feels a bit sketchy braking cuz I have to pump the brake a bit I've definitely lost a bit of pressure right right let's go see if I can find a spanner and fix this right so let's start with the positives that was a blooming amazing ride a lovely session around the forest unfortunately I can't get my brake to work and now like I'm just losing fluid the entire time I'm riding I've just tried to tighten it up and I don't have the right tools to do it there I think I need to untape all my bars to be able to do it trying not to be that annoyed I was having like a proper nice ride and now like well look as you can see we got all the way in that does nothing this one however is solid so I'm going to have to go home rebled my brakes sort load of crap oh I'm a bit Fed Up To be honest with brakes so now I'm not really sure what to do I guess I just like head home like I've got no brakes on my bike M it was a fun out in the bike definitely survived well I was going to say the bike survived oh damn it what's actually I've just realized is that I Ride Along pulling my front brake when I'm chatting to you guys and what is not fun is not having a front brake anyway yeah positivity and what this bike was not that jar it wasn't too uncomfortable there an aluminum frame just taking it Offroad and you know what it felt fine it was really nice in fact still got no idea if I'm riding the right way home or not I'm just kind of Meandering again which I probably shouldn't do considering I've only got one brake on my bike and there's quite a lot of fast descents on the way home well that was a super fun descent problem was I was meant to descend the other way so now I have to climb all the way back up but on the plus side I don't need to use my brakes while it's climbing zero front brakes now it's not like it's a steep downhill or anything [Music] [Music] trying to get any sort of pressure so I can ride and a brake lever covered in dot oil nice kind of kind of a little bit annoyed tiny bit oh for anyone wondering the [Applause] brakes do absolutely nothing but luckily there was a whole load to climbing so when you're climbing you don't need brakes it was just the descents that are a little bit sketchy what a lovely day though do you know what even a broken bike can't ruin my mood today that's a bit of a lie I was in a little bit of a mood when it broke but hopefully it is just a couple of bolts I can tighten it up put a bit more liquid in there and we're sorted oh what a lovely day such a nice day to get out on the bike get some miles was in and I got to take my aluminum gravel bike off-roading on some mountain bike trails and it performed much better than expected I mean it didn't it performed just as I expected it performed excellently which is no surprise because all you guys know that aluminium bikes ain't that bad especially with some meaty tires on but whilst I had an amazing day it was fun I probably got a little bit of a tan I now have to go home and fix this because I mean yeah that just won't do will it so fingers crossed I can actually get it sorted I think it is just a matter of unscrewing that topping up a bit of fluid in there look dot oil 5.1 only and then tightening up in here which is absolutely as you can see look this is caked absolutely caked I'm not sure I'm not sure what happened with it like my brakes working fine they felt lovely this morning and then all of a sudden I felt a bit of dampness here and and they just started to lose liquid which is a bit annoying because I don't know what would cause them to do that I have no idea I mean this isn't the first time I've ridden this bike so who knows Dan and I did switch the bars though so maybe we didn't tighten something up properly and the last time I rode it I didn't give it a proper ride so at least I know now that they weren't set up properly and they don't work just over 50k 1,000 M of climbing and about 3 and 1 half hours on the bike right I hope you guys enjoyed this remember to check your brakes I hope you're all having a great weekend remember to like comment and subscribe and I'll see you guys very soon bye