Give it back? BUY IT!! It would be a great addition to your future bike arsenal. I'd love seeing some hardtail videos or see you option for a fun hardtail ride from time to time. Anyway loved the video and glad you got to enjoy the bike as much as the other youtour riders did and all of us viewers did.
I'm a hardtail person. I would like to when I'm older and have a job get a diamondback syncr (not carbon) and a release. Right now I'm on a specialized pitch
It is great to see you go back to the basics, hardtails have gotten SOOO much better these days, they are lighter, stronger, with agressive geometry and nice big wheels, it is a joy to ride them and instantly feel the difference, all the feedback from the trail, the drops, the pumping, the speed, the rear sliding etc... It is exciting after being in a fullsuspension for long, and it brings back nice memories of simpler times, when we just had a helmet and a crappy bike but all the will to go out there and have fun.
Awesome! Cool to see you on a hardtail. I recently got a 29er hardtail for an absolute bargain, and I found that I actually like it more than my trail bike on most trails
Lots of bike racks have adapters to fit bikes with wide tires. Usually they come in the form of simple wider tire trays and straps for the bike to sit in.
It’s awesome to see experienced riders like yourself trying out hardtails! It makes me realize that you don’t need the nicest full sus with the slackest head angle to have fun. I’m riding a 2017 norco charger xc bike that I put some minions on and I’m making it work!
Great video Jordan, I love seeing you run a hardtail I cannot wait to see what you do on one. I ride a hardtail myself, and I hope to see more vids you riding the Shore on it, they are my home trails and it nice to see places you ride on video. Good job Jordan and thanks.
Hey Jordan! I was at bear probably just hours before you taking my first ride with my new Devinci spartan. I also rode wasp and Lorax. My advice to you is next time climb back up from the bottom of Lorax and do super bear lots of jumps and drops there
Two things I took away from this video: 1) Bear looks awesome and I need to get out there for a ride. 2) I watched it as I was mounting up a fresh set of Minion DHF/DHRII in 3C MaxxGrip (front) MaxxTerra (rear) DoubleDown casing tires for my trail bike... and 100% agree with you that hard compound tires suck!
I’ve been riding a 2017 trek Marlin 6 for about two years and lemme say That hardtail train you real good and you get a lot of experience on one and it’s a cheap and heavy one like mine (34.3 lb) and you train on it you get real ripped 💪
love it man, really glad you could keep riding and from what you said faster riding. will you be able to explore more trails that require pedaling that you couldn't do with a dh bike? that should be cool
Do you still use Native White Balance? It's sort of a pain in the but. Reds never look quite right. And every time I make a new LUT or preset, it only works in those specific lighting conditions. As soon as I change the white balance to adjust, red gets messed up again. My wife rides a spectral with red on it so It drives me nuts when the red looks orangish or purplish. Also, native has a yellowish cast to it. I used to just shift the hue over a bit and then everything would look okay, EXCEPT RED. Ugh, I think I might just go back to using 5500k. At least red looks normal there and I can always pull back the over saturated blues. Thoughts?
I am using Native White Balance, it is the best option if you really know how to use it. I know EXACTLY what you mean by the weird color hues, it does have a yellower tint, certain colors are more accurate and others are off, I am really annoyed by it. However a few months ago I got a new software called 3D lut creator and I have since been able to completely correct all the color issues so that it looks perfect! But ya I know what you mean, I was never really happy before hand, and a lot of redoing of clips
@@JordanBoostmaster I've been able to correct it pretty good now with the latest update to Lumetri on Premiere. You can fine tune stuff like crazy now. I spent all day experimenting today. Looks pretty freaking good now. I'm glad to know it wasn't just me losing my mind with the gopro's weird colors.
I remembered watching your Videos when you had sub 10k subs, I appreciated it so much that you always answered my questions. I will stay a watcher. As you have more time on the bike now I guess, if you plan mountainbiking in Austria - feel free to ask me for riding locations and advice.
Hardtails are underrated. I picked up a commencal meta ht a few months ago and I definitely think it's one of the funnest bikes I've ever had, and I've had quite a few bikes over the years
Plus size tire do provide more grip, but especially when riding loose terrain. Like you said, it could be the compound or tire pressure or even knobs pattern... And they also act as suspension (works best for hardtail and tubeless tyres with low pressure)
Really sweet video, great mixture of awesome riding and a little stopping and talking. Like that you both narrate and talk while riding! Question about the bike setup, did you run the same tyre pressure as you would on the DH for that kind of trail?
Hard tails rule 🤘. I’m old also so a hard tail suits me perfectly for the riding l like to do . Awesome vid as always mate . Looking forward to the next HT video 👍.
I’d say, let you keep it, since they made you wait. Also, would they try to resell? Probably not. Hard-tails are really fun. This year, I got my first HT, and it has become the trail bike of choice for me.
Wide tires can't always cut into dust/mud/loam to get traction. I was on a quest a few years back to go ever wider (mainly to make my DH bike look more rad) and was disappointed but also happy to find that 2.35/2.4 is my best go to in anything loose or deep. My experience only. Your mileage may vary. Great looking bike! Looks like a lot of fun to ride. Now, time to see if I have the same rear shock on my DH bike that you have, that could be a problem haha.
Hello, Jordan. I wondered, what bike should I get for up to 1200$? I like dirt jumping, but I often ride technical (enduro, dh) trails. Thanks for your answer. Keep up with the good work.
Jordan, what kinda pressures in the tires? My plus bike has a real tight window where the grip is awesome but any higher and it feels loose. Maybe try dropping your psi to find the extra grip you can get with plus tires
Your friends reaction to the oval is hilarious. If he still has it I believe that he can clock/spin it in to a different spot/position to take advantage of where you make the most power.
First of all, great video, unexpected and really nice, second of all I run the same tires and they are grippy as hell, but I run between 12 and 20 psi with tire inserts, so might have been that you pumped them too much? Also yeah, coming from downhill soft compound tires, that is unbeatable. I come from a cross country background with skinny hard compund tires so it was a hell of an upgrade. so far I have tried two plus tires: schwalbe nobby nics 2.8 hard compound ( speed grip) and Maxxis minion DHF 2.8 3C max terra Exo (soft compund) And I noticed the difference a lot, the maxxis are wayyy grippier and the pattern works better for all kinds of terrain, the nobby nics were unpredictable, sometimes I got good grip, sometimes I slid and crashed, they were sketchy and I needed to lower the pressure waayy too much to make them work so yeah, I made the right call, the maxxis still work very well at 30 psi which goes to tell. Also the terrain, plus tires are better for the dry sandy kind of trail, but for mud or wet, softer skinnier tires tend to feel and work better. Hope that helps, they definitively take som time to gettig used to, they are bigger so the physics affect them, wheight, rotation, mass, width, compound, are all things to consider when buying and riding them. have a nice day:)
Awsome vid, and yeah for reasons like these i bought an enduro bike as my first full suspention bike its just more versitile and the trails in my area are better on shorter travel bikes
Jordan, what size is this bike? Been on the verge of buying one but wanted to see what it looks like in a large. The xl looks like it has a weird silhouette. Nice job on the 45 footer!
It's weird to see you slipping like that. I had to replace the 2.8 Maxxis Rekons that my bike came with with something thinner. They had too much grip for the easy terrain where I live -- to the point of noticeably slowing me down.
I'm wondering if he had too much pressure in them. Until you play around with higher volume tires for a while you can't believe how much lower PSI you need. I've seen similar complaints out of new fat bike riders.
I have 27.5+ minion dhf and Dhr and I found them slipping around all the time. Dropped my PSI down real real low and now they stick to trails like shit to a blanket ;)
Do you think this bike would be capable doing whistler bp? I dunno if for my first bike i wanna just get an enduro like a slash 8 ect (4-5000cad range) or go with a hardtail like this sync'r?
I watched this as a big hardtail fan (rode a cove stiffee for the last 15 years): this review doesn't tell me anything about this bike, or why I'd want to ride a hardtail at all. It's mostly about a full susser riding a hardtail again, or specifics about components like the tires. Jordan, if you like riding those trails with a hard tail, tell me why. Everyone rides fullys these days, tell us why it's so awesome riding a hardtail (cause it is, and more people should know)
i want a full sus but i don’t need one, i pedal a lot to the trails i ride. i would rather have a good long travel hardtail than a full sus with lower end parts. i have never tried a full sus though so i can’t really argue why i shouldn’t get one.
I see you were wearing your full face even through you were riding the hardtail. I'm sure you're just as comfortable wearing the full face as a regular helmet, but I just wanted to say I respect the dedication to getting quality footage with the big helmet on.
Some short bungee cords will keep the bigger wheels on the rack. I've been carrying my fat bike on a regular mtb rack for years that way, no issues whatsoever
haha dude this could have easily become a night riding video! You looked like a seasoned hardtail rider actually, to say the very LEAST.
Bro ur my favorite youtuber
Thanks man!
Bro this now amazing
@Seth's Bike Hacks✔️ hello king of hardtails
Your videos have stepped up soooo much recently it’s insane they’re like mini movies each video!!!
thanks so much!
I've noticed the same thing. Top quality productions!
They gave it to you last cuz they knew you would shred the hardest and possibly break it 😂
Give it back?
BUY IT!!
It would be a great addition to your future bike arsenal.
I'd love seeing some hardtail videos or see you option for a fun hardtail ride from time to time.
Anyway loved the video and glad you got to enjoy the bike as much as the other youtour riders did and all of us viewers did.
I'm a hardtail person. I would like to when I'm older and have a job get a diamondback syncr (not carbon) and a release. Right now I'm on a specialized pitch
Jordan's shots and beautiful camera work makes him the best Mountain Biking youtuber out there! Keep it up!
It is great to see you go back to the basics, hardtails have gotten SOOO much better these days, they are lighter, stronger, with agressive geometry and nice big wheels, it is a joy to ride them and instantly feel the difference, all the feedback from the trail, the drops, the pumping, the speed, the rear sliding etc... It is exciting after being in a fullsuspension for long, and it brings back nice memories of simpler times, when we just had a helmet and a crappy bike but all the will to go out there and have fun.
Awesome! Cool to see you on a hardtail. I recently got a 29er hardtail for an absolute bargain, and I found that I actually like it more than my trail bike on most trails
12:07-12:17
Jordan: oh baby, oh baby!
*at the exact same section*
Jordan’s cousin: oh baby
Yep their related.
I was wondering what happened to this bike after Josh had it. It's awesome to see you shredding a ht!
Lots of bike racks have adapters to fit bikes with wide tires. Usually they come in the form of simple wider tire trays and straps for the bike to sit in.
You should come to England and hit up all the bike parks, sick Vid 👍🤙🤘
It’s awesome to see experienced riders like yourself trying out hardtails! It makes me realize that you don’t need the nicest full sus with the slackest head angle to have fun. I’m riding a 2017 norco charger xc bike that I put some minions on and I’m making it work!
If you’re looking for a new destination for this summer, you should come to Quebec City. It has amazing riding and a big mtb community!
Quality is insane....AGAIN
recently all of your vids are soo damn good!
Solid test of a hardtail on a variety of trails! It's good to see a bunch of different situations and how the bike handles it.
Great video Jordan, I love seeing you run a hardtail I cannot wait to see what you do on one. I ride a hardtail myself, and I hope to see more vids you riding the Shore on it, they are my home trails and it nice to see places you ride on video. Good job Jordan and thanks.
Hey Jordan! I was at bear probably just hours before you taking my first ride with my new Devinci spartan. I also rode wasp and Lorax. My advice to you is next time climb back up from the bottom of Lorax and do super bear lots of jumps and drops there
When I first saw this bike on Seth’s channel I loved it
Seth has his own one that is not the same as the one in this videos. Still awesome!
Yes mate I know Seth has one its the same type of bike
Two things I took away from this video:
1) Bear looks awesome and I need to get out there for a ride.
2) I watched it as I was mounting up a fresh set of Minion DHF/DHRII in 3C MaxxGrip (front) MaxxTerra (rear) DoubleDown casing tires for my trail bike... and 100% agree with you that hard compound tires suck!
Pretty sick hardtail
Whistler BP opening day Sync’r Sessions?! ;D \m/
ROBBIS TV Exactly what I was thinking haha
@@samslichter3566 Amen buddy, yes please :D
ROBBIS TV I can just imagine him doing no footers on the a line step up
These jumps just look amazing! I wish we had trails like this over here in Germany. Thank you for sharing this!
Awesome, video loved the third person shots. Do you know how much the bike weighs??
Awesome! More hardtail⚡
Great video Jordan! Love to see more of the hardtail! Lower the pressure and enjoy the ride.
I was riding around 25psi most of the time, thats actually the lowest I ever go, should I go lower?
@@JordanBoostmaster Are you on tubeless. If you are, 20 at the rear 18 at the front seems to be a good number.
i own a Dartmoor Hornet with a Fox 36 in and my DH bike is just chilling in the Garage since i got it 2 years ago HT is so much fun
That bike looks so fun!!!
These videos makin me want to go mountain biking, great work!
I’ve been riding a 2017 trek Marlin 6 for about two years and lemme say That hardtail train you real good and you get a lot of experience on one and it’s a cheap and heavy one like mine (34.3 lb) and you train on it you get real ripped 💪
Yes Jordannnnn!!!!!
Should Jordan do a night ride 🤭😂#seth
Props to the other dude for almost keeping up with you on his entry level bike.
love it man, really glad you could keep riding and from what you said faster riding. will you be able to explore more trails that require pedaling that you couldn't do with a dh bike? that should be cool
That looks like the sweetest bike ever
i love your videos man
i wish you would upload more often
really cool! really enjoyed the chase cam. also lol at the oval chainring part haha.
Do you still use Native White Balance? It's sort of a pain in the but. Reds never look quite right. And every time I make a new LUT or preset, it only works in those specific lighting conditions. As soon as I change the white balance to adjust, red gets messed up again. My wife rides a spectral with red on it so It drives me nuts when the red looks orangish or purplish. Also, native has a yellowish cast to it. I used to just shift the hue over a bit and then everything would look okay, EXCEPT RED. Ugh, I think I might just go back to using 5500k. At least red looks normal there and I can always pull back the over saturated blues. Thoughts?
I am using Native White Balance, it is the best option if you really know how to use it. I know EXACTLY what you mean by the weird color hues, it does have a yellower tint, certain colors are more accurate and others are off, I am really annoyed by it. However a few months ago I got a new software called 3D lut creator and I have since been able to completely correct all the color issues so that it looks perfect! But ya I know what you mean, I was never really happy before hand, and a lot of redoing of clips
@@JordanBoostmaster I've been able to correct it pretty good now with the latest update to Lumetri on Premiere. You can fine tune stuff like crazy now. I spent all day experimenting today. Looks pretty freaking good now. I'm glad to know it wasn't just me losing my mind with the gopro's weird colors.
Yoink! Jordans bike now.
I remembered watching your Videos when you had sub 10k subs, I appreciated it so much that you always answered my questions. I will stay a watcher.
As you have more time on the bike now I guess, if you plan mountainbiking in Austria - feel free to ask me for riding locations and advice.
Hardtails are underrated. I picked up a commencal meta ht a few months ago and I definitely think it's one of the funnest bikes I've ever had, and I've had quite a few bikes over the years
Plus size tire do provide more grip, but especially when riding loose terrain. Like you said, it could be the compound or tire pressure or even knobs pattern...
And they also act as suspension (works best for hardtail and tubeless tyres with low pressure)
Great video man. You are really becoming an expert video maker. Keep up the great work
You got to come out to SoCal, that bike is super sick
Neat opportunity to ride this bike, cool stuff!
Really sweet video, great mixture of awesome riding and a little stopping and talking. Like that you both narrate and talk while riding! Question about the bike setup, did you run the same tyre pressure as you would on the DH for that kind of trail?
this tire pressure was a little lower since this is tubeless and all
Hard tails rule 🤘. I’m old also so a hard tail suits me perfectly for the riding l like to do . Awesome vid as always mate . Looking forward to the next HT video 👍.
Love each video man. And I especially love the bike.
"How come none of you took a hat?" 😂
Edit: cant believe I missed that the first time I saw this 😂😂😂
What pressures were you running, you can safely go to like 20 psi easily with those tyres, and that may give you the grip you were looking for
I run 16 front and 18 rear with cushcore on my 2.8's. Super plush(for a H.T.) .
I’d say, let you keep it, since they made you wait. Also, would they try to resell? Probably not. Hard-tails are really fun. This year, I got my first HT, and it has become the trail bike of choice for me.
Wide tires can't always cut into dust/mud/loam to get traction. I was on a quest a few years back to go ever wider (mainly to make my DH bike look more rad) and was disappointed but also happy to find that 2.35/2.4 is my best go to in anything loose or deep. My experience only. Your mileage may vary.
Great looking bike! Looks like a lot of fun to ride. Now, time to see if I have the same rear shock on my DH bike that you have, that could be a problem haha.
Looks like an awesome bike, Jordan. Must have taken some getting used to after only riding the DH bike for so long.
Loving the longer videos dude
Bro I love ur vids I watch u all the time please if can post more vids.
Hello, Jordan. I wondered, what bike should I get for up to 1200$? I like dirt jumping, but I often ride technical (enduro, dh) trails. Thanks for your answer. Keep up with the good work.
Jordan, what kinda pressures in the tires? My plus bike has a real tight window where the grip is awesome but any higher and it feels loose. Maybe try dropping your psi to find the extra grip you can get with plus tires
These video's are top notch
Love the more teck stuff, would like to see more of it plz
You really can tell how much lighter this hardtail is compared to his DH one. He's whipping it around with way more agility. Super fun to watch.
It's good to ride a trail as the builder envisioned.
Your friends reaction to the oval is hilarious. If he still has it I believe that he can clock/spin it in to a different spot/position to take advantage of where you make the most power.
I was thinking the same thing. I personally love my oval chain ring.
Jordan where did you get your knee pads and shin pads from or what are the called?
They are Race Face Rally freeride leg pads, they stopped making them long ago though :(
Jordan Boostmaster Ah bummer man thanks anyway!!
First of all, great video, unexpected and really nice, second of all I run the same tires and they are grippy as hell, but I run between 12 and 20 psi with tire inserts, so might have been that you pumped them too much? Also yeah, coming from downhill soft compound tires, that is unbeatable. I come from a cross country background with skinny hard compund tires so it was a hell of an upgrade. so far I have tried two plus tires: schwalbe nobby nics 2.8 hard compound ( speed grip) and Maxxis minion DHF 2.8 3C max terra Exo (soft compund) And I noticed the difference a lot, the maxxis are wayyy grippier and the pattern works better for all kinds of terrain, the nobby nics were unpredictable, sometimes I got good grip, sometimes I slid and crashed, they were sketchy and I needed to lower the pressure waayy too much to make them work so yeah, I made the right call, the maxxis still work very well at 30 psi which goes to tell. Also the terrain, plus tires are better for the dry sandy kind of trail, but for mud or wet, softer skinnier tires tend to feel and work better. Hope that helps, they definitively take som time to gettig used to, they are bigger so the physics affect them, wheight, rotation, mass, width, compound, are all things to consider when buying and riding them. have a nice day:)
Jordan come home to Calgary AB and ride at the bike park here!
Could you do a video on how you edit your videos... This one is insane 👌
Nice job I love my dh bike but my hardtail is super fun to ride and is way more practical
i agree
Awsome vid, and yeah for reasons like these i bought an enduro bike as my first full suspention bike its just more versitile and the trails in my area are better on shorter travel bikes
Jordan, what size is this bike? Been on the verge of buying one but wanted to see what it looks like in a large. The xl looks like it has a weird silhouette. Nice job on the 45 footer!
Jordan the tires on that hardtail are white label OEM tires.
White label and yellow label maxxis tires feel totally different.
Nice vid man
It's weird to see you slipping like that. I had to replace the 2.8 Maxxis Rekons that my bike came with with something thinner. They had too much grip for the easy terrain where I live -- to the point of noticeably slowing me down.
I'm wondering if he had too much pressure in them. Until you play around with higher volume tires for a while you can't believe how much lower PSI you need. I've seen similar complaints out of new fat bike riders.
I can’t wait for you to rip whistler on that thing!
I am bringing this bike back now, so I won't have it for whistler
Nice riding💥💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
You literally rode all trails that I've done on my hard tail and now having an Enduro I see how much easier everything is suspension
I have 27.5+ minion dhf and Dhr and I found them slipping around all the time. Dropped my PSI down real real low and now they stick to trails like shit to a blanket ;)
Defo gotta take it whistler dude 😎
Nice
One up josh by doing all the jumps on crab apple hits with the hardtail! If you want to...
my stomach dropped @ 11:11 like i was riding and slipping on it myself haha
I think a hardtail like this would be a nice companion to my Nomad.
I may have missed it, but with all the complaints about the tires I gotta ask- what pressures were you running?
I had around 25 PSI
nice vid keep the content coming too, its great
Do you think this bike would be capable doing whistler bp? I dunno if for my first bike i wanna just get an enduro like a slash 8 ect (4-5000cad range) or go with a hardtail like this sync'r?
Sick vid!!!
I watched this as a big hardtail fan (rode a cove stiffee for the last 15 years): this review doesn't tell me anything about this bike, or why I'd want to ride a hardtail at all. It's mostly about a full susser riding a hardtail again, or specifics about components like the tires. Jordan, if you like riding those trails with a hard tail, tell me why. Everyone rides fullys these days, tell us why it's so awesome riding a hardtail (cause it is, and more people should know)
yewww!
i want a full sus but i don’t need one, i pedal a lot to the trails i ride. i would rather have a good long travel hardtail than a full sus with lower end parts. i have never tried a full sus though so i can’t really argue why i shouldn’t get one.
I see you were wearing your full face even through you were riding the hardtail. I'm sure you're just as comfortable wearing the full face as a regular helmet, but I just wanted to say I respect the dedication to getting quality footage with the big helmet on.
can you not wear full faces on hardtails?
@@carguy1013 Any helmet is better than no helmet, it just gets hot and sweaty in there :)
Some short bungee cords will keep the bigger wheels on the rack. I've been carrying my fat bike on a regular mtb rack for years that way, no issues whatsoever
You should try riding in Denmark on an island called Bornholm in a place called rytterknaegten
Dude, you have some propper frame protection there 14:40 :'D
totally!
16:43 Well, that's what you came for... If you want to bike but not feel bumps, you can go road biking!
Jeez man. You get a hardtail and now you decide to hit the techy trails Haha man you crack me up.
how do you get your footage so stable do you have a gimbal
How arent you sponsored by any bikebrand?
I have no idea why
I have some big updates to share with you guys in the coming weeks or month
@@JordanBoostmaster sounds cool 🤙
You need an eduro/trail bike soooo baaadddd
I'm getting one fairly soon actually
Devinci really should sponsor you let’s all spam Devinci saying sponsor jordan
Tire pressure is pretty important on plus tires, so you were probably running to high of pressure.
Bro you had it pinned!!!
Yeeeeee dude