5 Unbelievably Light Hill Climb Bikes | 2020 National Hill Climb Champs Tech

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We were at the 2020 National Hill Climb Championships to take a look at some of the wildest, maddest most ultra-lightweight tech to feature at this year's event.
Hill climb racing is all about your power-to-weight ratio and, while aero considerations come into play on longer or faster climbs, there are still potentially significant gains to be made by dropping weight from your bike.
Potential performance gains aside, dropping grams from your bike is also a lot of fun, and ogling the resulting builds is even more fun (and less harmful to your bank account than doing it yourself).
Which of these stealthy bikes makes you want to ride uphill as fast as possible? Would you like to try hill climbing? Let us know in the comments!
This video was filmed before Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in England. Some shots used are also from 2019 and 2018, before the pandemic.
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@bikeradar 3 жыл бұрын

Which of these stealthy bikes makes you want to ride uphill as fast as possible? Would you like to try hill climbing? Let us know in the comments!

@BlackStallion774 3 жыл бұрын

I still love Joe's custom Al build from a few years ago. Absolutely loved the process of designing and making the bike. In saying that, as a 100+kg rider I think I will stick with a sturdier frame and pushing it up hill 😂

@rob-c. 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing as the SuperSix Hi-Mod (with horizontal top tube and non-dropped seat-stays) is the nicest frame from the last 5 or 10 years, it obviously wins on this list too 🙂

@iMadrid11 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve just realized that hills climbs are normal to me. My hometown where I used to live is actually called Addition Hills. The first thing I do when I get back home from school as a kid is ride my bike (first BMX & later MTB) all over town. I love to ride fast. So what I do is climb the highest hills so I can ride really fast downhill. I never thought picking up cycling again as an adult that i’m a hill climber. Since i’ve always fancied myself as a downhill rider.

@872463051 3 жыл бұрын

I'd pick the fixed-gear Dolan for a hill climb any day! (well, at least for a short, steep one)

@PatrickJamesKiernan 3 жыл бұрын

Hill climbs are very popular in Japan where I live. They are generally much longer but many are also steep and it is surprising that you don’t see this level of commitment to weight weeniism. If you could do a Japanese version of this video, it might start a revolution... and send the price of Hunt tubular wheels and Cane Creek ee brakes skyrocketing!

@bikeradar 3 жыл бұрын

That's interesting, thanks for the comment! BikeRadar's video manager Felix would love to check out the hill climb scene in Japan, although the hills can be extremely tough!

@bugboy152000 3 жыл бұрын

Hill climbing is utterly intriguing. I ride road to stay fit for MTB. Living in Vermont we are all about the climb to get the down. Most of the KOM's on my local road route are up hill. LONG LIVE THE CLIMB!

@Csapi007 3 жыл бұрын

Wolftooth Components for the win!

@goodwincycles7197 3 жыл бұрын

Josh is my mechanic so a bit biased to be fair but defo looks the best out of all of them. Cube all day long!!!!!

@KoenMiseur 3 жыл бұрын

The X-lite was my fav!

@cvb6089 3 жыл бұрын

🤔 Hills? I live in the Netherlands 5 meters below sea level...

@ooojamaflip 3 жыл бұрын

6:47 Is that Hamish 'two quick links' McDougal?

@frednoaillan5900 3 жыл бұрын

très bonne vidéo je vais suivre ta chaine !!!

@cd0u50c9 3 жыл бұрын

They're all quirky and awesome, but the Rose X-Lite steals the show.

@tristandesade8635 3 жыл бұрын

There is something mischievously zen-like in presenters demeanor. I think it answers the question of: what it would look like if a Buddhist monk who was a bike racer in previous life, dreamt he was a Pokemon, and went to make a video while sleepwalking.☺️

@bikeradar 3 жыл бұрын

We think that might be one of the most intriguing descriptions of Jack we've ever read! Thanks for watching, from all at BikeRadar.

@nehemiahmotende 3 жыл бұрын

I prefer a 3by but I would pick the Cube light, cool ride

@marvintpandroid2213 3 жыл бұрын

I managed to do Streatley Hill at 54 mph... What fun.

@clintnieves 3 жыл бұрын

Hill climb 😎🤘🏻

@4headgaming448 3 жыл бұрын

those pads at 7:54.... :O

@richard.c.griffiths1468 2 жыл бұрын

Just stumbled upon a hill climb video... I am captivated.... All I have thought about for two days is buying and stripping a bike...

@TransforDerek 3 жыл бұрын

That Dolan frameset is sooo nice

@bikeradar 3 жыл бұрын

We think so too! Thanks for watching from all at BikeRadar.

@TransforDerek 3 жыл бұрын

@@bikeradar While you're here, more fixie fashionista Jake content please :)

@bikeradar 3 жыл бұрын

@@TransforDerek Stop, I'll blush x Thanks for the comment! Jack

@TheRIkkyP 2 жыл бұрын

Was this on Streatly Hill? My first car could barely make it up there! Brutal

@BasementArthurSpooner 3 жыл бұрын

Gutted my prediction of all the HC races being cancelled (including nationals) didn't pay off. Not because I didn't get to race, no. Because my bike didn't get to feature on this glorious channel with Jack 😂.

@bikeradar 3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully see you next year! Thanks for watching, from your friends at BikeRadar 💥

@madik0 3 жыл бұрын

I understand. Too much home-office is a slippery slope but staying in pajamas even for a video posing is maybe pushing it too far :)

@PedroBremberger 3 жыл бұрын

Why go with a normal sized bike though? Get some 20 inch wheel and drop some real weight! Perhaps od sized wheel combinations would also be nice to experiment with 🤔

@franciss2529 3 жыл бұрын

It's probably not practical in terms of sourcing components, but to be fair I did see a guy ride a superlight folding bike with HED trispokes at a hill climb and thought you could save a lot of weight with a weird custom bike like that!

@Horus-Lupercal 15 күн бұрын

The bikes start at 2:50.

@mk30b25 3 жыл бұрын

That cube is so sexy.

@reapanomin899 3 жыл бұрын

My favourite?The Dolan fixie,hands down. And here's something that I imagined: Converting a road bike to ss(with an appropriate ss freehub conversion kit and chain tensioner),while using those Hunt wheels.We might be seeing a weight loss of at least 100g(from the lack of shift cable,and the option to use tt brake levers on bullhorn bars).

@Keyboardbeatz 3 жыл бұрын

My bike weighs 3kgs and I weigh 140kgs, any good?

@GeekonaBike 3 жыл бұрын

I'd take the fixie over all 4 of the other bikes

@db613 3 жыл бұрын

I would like a 20 mile hillclimb fest

@funkycoldm3dina 3 жыл бұрын

McFk is pronounced as MuckFuck. how brilliant is that.

@fiend821 3 жыл бұрын

Was that Cycling Weekly's Rupert at 1:38?

@fiend821 3 жыл бұрын

Oh it's not. Sure looked like him tho

@Ditypo 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Norfolk 😢

@michaelgmoore5708 3 жыл бұрын

Boy, things have changed. What happened to full Campagnolo beautiful Columbus tubing Custom made Wizard and Masi bicycles? Been 20+ years since I have been on my Schwinn High Sierra 40 Lb. Mountain bicycle. As a trainer of mainly Senior 2 riders I could stay with the Cat 1 and 2 paks pretty well training 300 to 500 miles per week. Those were the days!

@WerdnaLiten 3 жыл бұрын

Some nice bikes; but I've never understood the attraction of hillclimbs - ultra lightweight riders and bikes need only apply.

@matthiaswuest7271 3 жыл бұрын

To me it reminds me of being a kid - no team tactics, no drafting, just who can get to the top fastest??? Something very pure about that

@GeekonaBike 3 жыл бұрын

Would you say "I don't understand the attraction of Matched Sprints, only musclebound hulk men need apply"?

@bikeradar 3 жыл бұрын

Although that does help if you want to win, we've found the local (to us) hill climb scene is very accessible with lots of first timers and plenty of stock road bikes being raced. If you watch last years Hill Climb Diaries you'll see video manager Felix has racing on his gravel bike!

@joeottsoulbikes415 3 жыл бұрын

Hill climb is not really a thing here in Washington state. I see you covering it or talking about it allot on here which makes me think it's a big thing in europe. It should be big here in Seattle since we definatly have hills. You can go for a ride and gain and loose 2,000 feet easily in under 6 miles without even leaving the relative down town area. Smooth pavement, cobles, dirt trails we have it all right outside your door.

@hmuong 3 жыл бұрын

Don't care how fast or how good you are. Not wearing a helmet on a bike is full idiocy!😏

@mariuszgontarczyk 3 жыл бұрын

dolan

@ryandao3047 3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting an Aethos

@chrispeach85 3 жыл бұрын

Too heavy 🤣

@quarkonium3795 3 жыл бұрын

There's no rim brake option for an Aethos so I doubt hillclimbers would use it. If there was a rim brake option, the frame would absolutely be light enough but would probably need some modifications to get into this gallery of bikes (the whole thing is still over 6 kilos)

@kareemalmond 3 жыл бұрын

so they’re not wearing helmets because it weighs too much..?

@marekkozub8957 3 жыл бұрын

No disc brakes :) Please tell me, why bikes manufactures are forcing people to buy bikes with disc brakes.

@richardhaselwood9478 3 жыл бұрын

Because, other than in fairly niche applications (e.g. hill climbing), noone is buying rim brake bikes.

@mazevx2451 3 жыл бұрын

Because disk brakes are better and ruining rims is dumb.

@richardhaselwood9478 3 жыл бұрын

@@mazevx2451 Sssshhhh, let them have their crappy brakes and bizarre sense of superiority :)

@nicolasledoux355 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe because no need to brake in this race ?

@richardhaselwood9478 3 жыл бұрын

@@nicolasledoux355 good point...

@ewantuohy1507 3 жыл бұрын

Cutting 20g rubber hoods off your shifters and then wearing a helmet, right.

@Sills71 3 жыл бұрын

Video of MTB on a road hill climb vid is stupid

@MicheleFerrariAX 3 жыл бұрын

helmets should be mandatory though..

@suminshizzles6951 2 жыл бұрын

Caveat Emptor - This is gonna get plastered on every single Dolan bike clip i can find on youtube as a warning to the buyer. I purchased a reduced price frame with a "cosmetic blemish" that was so rediculously small not even their own cameras could document it. Turns out a year later that the actual frame is misaligned and not fit for purpose. How did this frame get past Q&A at the factory and at Dolan itself? Greed. They put this frame out with the "cosmetic" defect fully knowing that it was not cosmetically defective but structurally defective. I only discovered this a year later when i tried to build it up, finally, after getting parts. I paid decent money for a junk frame that i cannot even sell as i dont want anybody riding this piece of shit of a frame. So now i am out of pocket. A lot of money of out pocket If you buy anything of theirs, be it new or if it has a "cosmetic defect", inspect it immediately. I emailed them when i discovered this. Of course it was ignored and no response given. Personally, i would avoid buying anything at all from them now that i know what practices they use. Basically sell the customer shit that is not fit for purpose and hope they dont discover it right away. I would avoid any of their sales purported to be "cosmetically defective" as that most likely means the frame was sold, came back and they are trying to shift it that way. I am actually thinking of sending this to Hambini so he can explain to me why my bottom bracket does not want to last. Thsi will be a huge negative publicity for them. How did this frame get past the internal Q&A at the manufacturing level as well at Dolan's themselves? You tell me.