MY NEW BIKE IS 100% THE BEST MTB I HAVE EVER RIDDEN!

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Hello everyone, today is going to be epic because I just received a brand new bike which
is currently the only one in the UK at the moment and we're going to be giving it it's
first ride today.
So say hello to the brand new Canyon Spectral CF, wow what a beauty.
The all new Canyon Spectral CF has been completely overhauled for this year, it is now running
a mullet setup, so 29 front, 27.5 rear, that gives you the stability you want at full speed
but the manoeuvrability and fun at slower speeds when you're doing jibs and throwing
the bike around, that is epic, I really like that.
We've got the SRAM GX chain set on there, we've got the RockShox front and rear there,
the frame itself is made of carbon, lovely, and straight from the factory it comes with
an Ergon saddle.
This frame also comes with the KISS system which stands for keep it stable, this is an
epic addition to this frame but we'll get into that a bit more later.
I've fitted myself some pill grips on there for the ultimate grip, we've also got this
cool compartment on this frame which has a load of stuff in there where you can store
tools, inner tubes and whatever you need for your sessions so you don't get stuck out on
the trails.
I also fitted the Halo Gravitas wheel set front and rear which is wrapped in Goodyear
Newton tyres, but enough of that, let's go and give this thing its first ride.
We've now just made our way into the woods of Twisted Oaks bike park, I'm going to get
warmed up in here on one lap, then we're going to hit a couple of jumps before moving to
a new location, let's back up for more.
So with this bike being carbon it's nice and lightweight so you can blast back up the side
of the trails, and Twisted Oaks is the best for that because we've got all sorts of different
ones filled in these woods.
Let's get a bit jumpy in there, oh yeah this feels so nice in the air.
We've now come over to this little mulch jump section because I want to see what this bike
flips like before we head over to the red line there.
Change up some gears, amazing, so good, let's give it a three, nice, let's go over to the
red line.
So far this bike is feeling amazing, I was a little bit nervous to do the 360 over there
with the big 29er on the front but it actually didn't make much difference, that's super
cool so once you get used to that, this thing still throws around easily and the fact it's
carbon and extra lightweight, the whips and stuff feel amazing on it.
So I've got this thing set up actually soft for a change and it feels so good on the trails,
loads of grip, it is incredible.
We've come over here now to this jump section, there's four in a row, we can get some spins
and flips and tricks down here just to see how playful this new bike is.
Oh wow, oh my god, this thing is so sick, it was scary doing a flip no hander, first
go on a hip and on dirt.
Actually that last no foot can, I actually got cramp in my, I've been wing foiling this
morning and I've done that for like three hours and then came biking, honestly I thought
my leg was going to stay in that position, that's terrifying.
Like I said at the start, we want to hit a load of different spots on this bike, so let's
get out of here and go to another.
It is now the next day and we've decided to come to Chicksands Bike Park, an old favourite
of mine, this bike is about to get sent and the first thing we're going to start the day
on here is this big old hip and see how close we can get to the tree.
It'd be rude not to hit this while we're here, wow nice.
We've now just popped over from the bike park to some secret lomas, this zone is filled
with epic stuff to shred, we're going to drop straight in on this one, see how much loam
we can fire.
Here we go, into some lomas, wow, wow.
Oh loamy, that's so fun, I just love second day of riding this bike, you can do everything
on it, that's incredible.
Let's go over there, there's a few more lomas to smash.
Straight into another loma.
Oh, wow this thing ate that loam up like a champ, it's well sick the amount of stuff
you can do on this.
So right now with all them bikes I've got from Canyon, this has to be my favourite,
it's literally the do everything machine and no we didn't even mention yet, this KISS system.
So the KISS system stands for keep it stable and this black part here on top of the frame
can be moved down or up and the more you move it down it makes it tighter so I've got it
on a looser setting now but as you can see the bars return to straight and if you're
wondering what that is, basically if you've got it in a stiffer setting it's more stable
when it gets rough because it's always bringing your bars back in line.
When you give it a go, you'll know what I mean, it really is a sick piece of kit.
So that's what the KISS is, we're now going to head back into the bike park and see if
we can find some more fun trails and jumps to do to finish off the first ride on this
amazing machine.
We're now back into the bike park here at Chicksands and there's a well fun trail that
blasts down here and you can kind of triple this lip into that corner there next to the
tree and then you can disappear off into a berm.
Here we go.
Oh, this is fast.
What a machine.
Oh, huge.
Ah, so fun.
We've now just come over to the big drop.
Oh, huge.
From the fun of the woods, we've decided to see what this thing's going to be like in
an urban environment.
Look at this bommie of doom here.
Perfect.
What a beast.
On to the next.
After finding that dry little urban spot yesterday, the sunlight dipped and we couldn't find any
more so it's now the next day, it's raining, I'm fully waterproofed and we're going to
do some local urban freeride on this brand new bike.
Of course, it'd be rude not to send it into the classic stair set of doom here.
Full speed.
Hopefully we don't need one of those in the background.
There we go, first spot in the wet completed.
Let's go and find some more.
Yeah, it's another doomer.
The doom to the image is going off at the end of this video.
I'm going to go down them quick.
Oh my god, they're steep.
I think I can actually do a suey off into the grass, kind of like a drop.
That's the main reason we're here.
We can probably make a little lip to suey off of.
So we'll use this and a tear scooter.
That should be enough for a suey.
Thank you, tear scooter.
Let's put that back.
That was actually a well cool little spot.
Such a bonus find.
See, if you just buy one of these, you can have fun when it's raining on urban freeride.
Get one now.
After driving around for ages, couldn't really find much.
There's a bit of a nurrican blowing.
Rain's falling.
What we've come across, which some of you might want to turn off now about,
is that.
Zoom in on it.
Look at it.
But that's to prove that fun can be had anywhere.
I'm going to show you how many tricks are possible off a curb like that.
First one, no footer.
Easy.
Sewage, just.
One hand can landing.
That's an abubaca for backwards.
Canyon Spectral CF is the ultimate do anything bike.
Tricks, jumps, downhill, uphill, urban stuff, riding in the rain.
Whatever you want.
Thank you so much to Canyon for all these sick opportunities and amazing bits of kit.
This is my new favourite bike and I will be shredding it a lot for the rest of the year.
See you in the next one.
This has got to be it.
