TENNIS BALL TYRES ON MY DOWNHILL BIKE!

Hello everyone, today is going to be epic because today I'm going to be taking the tyres off of my Canyon Sender downhill bike and exchanging them for tennis balls. A few moments later we've got the back wheel off and what I want to do is drill a hole every so and so round the wheel. We now need to do that all the way round, but how are we going to fit the tennis balls? Like this. Just above it I'm going to cut a little incision, then we get a bolt with a spacer on, we're then going to incisionise that into there, there we go, pull that through and that is going to fit through there, bolt that up. We now just need to do that a lot of times. And a little while later we're now left with two tennis ball wheels, this is epic. And there we have it, the tennis ball tyre downhill bike is ready for a shreddy, let's go to tomorrow and go for it's first ride. We've now just arrived at Tidworth Bike Park, we've got a whole load of different trails here which we're going to push the limits of the tennis ball tyred Canyon Sender downhill bike today. Would be rude not to start with a black run wouldn't it? So let's get this lid on and get ready for a shreddy, come on let's go. Oh my god, we're in, oh it's working, whoa slip, oh it's actually sick though. It's fully drifting all the time, whoa, yes, oh my god it is so all over the place, whoa oh wow, it's so drifty, whoa, oh my god it's like ultimate drift training, oh tree, whoa. Oh my god, oh look at this, oh that is a death section, oh. Whoa continuing, whoa that's so cutty, whoa, that is next level with these on, oh my god, sketchy section, whoa, rock garden. Lying down, I've got a double, no way, oh that was good, oh, we made it to the bottom with one crash. Okay so it doesn't manual over rollers that well, but I did clear that jump, so that means we might be able to get some air on it. We're going to move over to the skill section, see what jumps we can do on it. Here we go, let's see if we can clear these smaller jumps, I'm going to have to have a lot of speed because it just moves, whoa, it's so terrifying, yes, makes me jump like I've just started jumping. Let's get the fish eye on and I'll try and do a little whip in slo-mo, on there it could look funny, sketchy sketch, mega sketch, oh, yes, oh, oh, down again, yes, got a whip with the tennis ball tyres on, had to take off dead straight and then kick the whip when I was in the air, worked out though and then had a slam at the end. We're now going to go up and find a more technical gnarly trail to try and make it down, let's go. We've quickly come out of the woods to see if that age-old proverb, can tennis ball tyres be wheelied, be true, let's find out, here we go, ready to answer that question, oh my god, it's going to happen, here we go, age-old question has been answered, that's insane, that's so sick, let's get over to the next trail, here we go, back up the top, same starting point, new trail, this is Hooper Strewth, we've got to start up here and get into a horrible black trail, oh, so much pedalling, wow, wow, wow, root garden, oh, this is quite tight here, tight and tech, wow, wow, oh, this looks super rocky, yes, oh my god, wow, that is so gnarly through there, oh, hectic rock garden, oh, cutties, keep going, oh, just making it, why is this section, whoa, totally off camber, roots, oh my god, wow, that felt sick, carrying on, oh, yes, stomping it, bottom section, oh my god, a double, wow, wow, that's the end of the trail, that's so cool, we want to do a little modification to the bike now, let's go to the van and see what we're getting up to next, next plan then is to take off the front wheel with the tennis balls, we're then going to put on the original wheel, the Halo Gravitas and then go and shred down some of the trails with no grip on the rear but grip on the front, it should be well good, it'll be like the ultimate cutty machine now, let's get up there, we've now made it back to the top and we're going to session Oblivion now, this is quite a technical red line, there's some jumps in it, I've only got tennis balls on the rear, it's going to be well drifty, I've got the confidence now with the front tyre to not slide out, so I think it's going to be drift central, let's go for it, it's going to be well fun, here we go, dropping into Oblivion on the drift machine now, oh yeah, oh, this is good, no way, oh yeah, it's way better, oh my god, it's so slippy and sick, into lower Oblivion, we'll try and stay high up here, oh my god, that is so scary, that tyre on the rear, but it works good, ultimate cutties, whoa, big cutties there, oh my god, that was unreal, what an insane cutty, that is the ultimate way to cuttage, put tennis balls on there instead, insane, right Lou, envisage this, yeah, down that drop, on there, on there, slo-mo, I'm thinking 120 framer, yeah, 4k, you're in amongst it, you're fully in amongst somewhere, this could be, yeah, this is it, here look, what a fun section that is, it's quite scary taking off that little step down there, because it's slightly turned as you come into it, so I'm just waiting for the back end to like make me 180 off of it, that's cool, we got like a couple of sick options, that's so funny, it's like a cheat wheel for making yourself look good, make one immediately, we're back down at the van again, because I want to take off that back wheel, put on the normal one, just to do a lap of the white line, which is like a more jumpy full speed one, I just couldn't get the speed on with this, then you know you're not, oh wow, it's proper drift machine, whoa, didn't clear that, wow, drift's insane, but there's no way I'm going to be able to keep my speed for them jumps, so let's get this off for a sec, and here we have normal wheel to go back on, another halo gravitas, here we go then, full length lap on the downhill bike, oh yeah, so good about them tyres on, whoa, it's still slippy though, that is cool, insane material this chalky stuff, just waiting to slip out any moment, we passed louis back there, oh nice berms, oh go wide, oh sketchy section, whoa big drop, yeah that is cool, sick, what a fun trail, and totally blind, dreams, that final run finished an epic day with tennis ball tyres, that was so much fun riding, oh my fingers stuck in there, that was so much fun riding with them on there, that was great, and that last run without the tyres was also sick, but what a rad day, and what a fun set of trails here at Tidworth bike park, epic, if you want to see some more weird action with tennis balls, or anything else used instead of a normal tyre, let me know, see you in the next one.