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Just How Much Faster Is An Un-Restricted E Bike Than A Road Bike? - YouTube
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it's fair to say
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e-bikes had a bad rep for being slow and
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heavy and uh one more came to a grandpa
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that wants to strap it
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to their moto but that was true maybe
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five years ago
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but if you look around at local bike
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shops well things have changed
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and then if we look at this for an
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example
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i mean look at e-bikes now that being
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said though hank
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well pesky laws and regulations they've
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got in the way of an e-bike's true
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potential limiting their maximum speed
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out on the roads and as a result we
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don't really know what this thing is
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capable of yeah
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but what if we took it from the grass
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put it on the track
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de-restricted it made it illegal then
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can we find out what the e-bike is
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really capable of
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ah yeah
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when it comes to the restrictions for
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the uk and the european market it's
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restricted
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to 25 kilometers per hour and then if
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you head overseas to the us
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it's restricted to 20 miles per hour but
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there is a class called
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class 3 e-bike category which takes up
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to 45 kilometers per hour before
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it gets limited which is why we've come
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to castle comb a closed circuit motor
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racing track here in the south west of
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england and well we have
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retweet well we tuned it okay
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okay we've tampered with it we've made
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it illegal and we have to stress
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this is illegal not only is it hard to
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de-restrict an e-bike well
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you just shouldn't do it let's just not
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try this at home which is why we've got
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hank who well he's an ex-professional
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cyclist and he's got quite a cavalier
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attitude to life he also
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crashes quite a bit without any kind of
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seeming
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injury to himself
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and he's going to test this bike push it
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so it's absolutely limit
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and see how fast it can go so you guys
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don't have to
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yeah and we won't mention the practice
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run connor had
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on this e-bike let's not talk about what
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happened in the car park hank i've got
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hold of a canyon
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grail on a gravel bike with
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a bosch motor in there now this has been
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taken straight from the supercharged
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world
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of e-mountain bikes they tend to have a
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smaller motor so you can ride
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within the restrictions with a lighter
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frame
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so you have just the right amount of
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power so you can sail up the climbs
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whereas this well this gives me
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340 percent extra it's got 85
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newton meters of torque and when psy
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wrote it last he said he could barely
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hold on to the handlebars
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and as i've just seen from connor well
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he can't either
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so it does have small arms doesn't he
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but what's your excuse then connor
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anyway we'll leave that one for another
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time hey yeah i was thinking of excuse
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couldn't find one
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but anyway what is going to be the
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difference between these two bikes
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because this is
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a race bikes my old bay it's got stratum
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etap on it 6.8 kilos and
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i'm going to be riding it hank you know
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i've got 350 watt ftp
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not bad not bad i'll have you know and
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we've also devised a simple set of tests
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to compare the two bikes as you're about
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to explain yeah we're going to start off
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with a standing start 50 meter
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sprint now not only is this to warm up
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your legs
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my my moto but also to find out just
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who's got
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the most torque yeah and after that 50
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meter sprint we're going to go straight
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into our 500 meter flying sprint
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to find out who's got the best top speed
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and once we've done that we're going to
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end
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with the final showdown now in order to
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find out really who's the best we
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thought
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a race yeah a one lap race winner
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takes all and uh i'm gonna win this yes
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i haven't ridden this bike before i
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don't know what i can give it how much i
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can give it it's got off-road tires but
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yet
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i'm confident don't speed too soon hank
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i'm feeling competitive today i bet you
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are right should we roll up to the start
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line let's do it mate whoa
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so the horses are in the stable this is
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our first
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test the 50 meter standing start test
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now if i was going to put my money on
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anyone it would be on me i'm going to
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chuck it in
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turbo mode unleashing 85 newton meters
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of torque and that is on top of the talk
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i'm bringing it to the party
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you got no chance mate are you ready i
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think so
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right man on take it away three two
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one
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it looks like even though
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i didn't get clipped in properly a few
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setbacks
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i still absolutely annihilated you
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connor
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yeah i've got a hand it is with uh the
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acceleration of the light then it was
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unbelievable it is
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unbelievable 85 you need to talk
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and to be honest i reckon i've got that
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in my legs too anyway
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now it's the 500
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meter test do you reckon you got me
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this is going to be interesting i think
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this one's going to be closer right i
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think i can
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do it all right let's take it let's take
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it to the start line
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okay
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okay right let's get up the speed
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gradually we'll ramp it up
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and then all out soon get to that max
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speed okay
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you ready yeah okay you ready three two
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one
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oh yes i know on e-bike
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and i've got an unrestricted motor
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but i'm still putting in some power and
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yes
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it's fair to say right i think i had you
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there
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you just disappeared off into the
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horizon to be honest what kind of speed
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were you hitting
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so i managed 48k an hour and we are on
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a bit of a slope uphill there to the
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line actually very gradual but still
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feed it so i hit 60
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kilometers per hour in that 500 meter
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section
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pretty after that yeah that's pretty
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decent are you ready for the race
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the auto showdown can you win this one
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to take them all mate i think i'm gonna
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have to use a bit of nice bit of tactics
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so i'm going to get the best of you
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all right let's roll up to the final
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test will the e-bike
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have a clean sweep we just started to
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find out
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connor the ultimate showdown won that
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2.9 kilometers
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out of that race all tactics come into
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play
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are you ready i am ready and i have got
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my tags sorted you're not getting this
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one easy hank
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right as soon as we hit the line
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it's full gas have you ridden the giro i
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i did i'm not telling you that once
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because i told you that
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all right he's got ahead of me already
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come
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put on empty dust now here comes the
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first decade
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oh god
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here's the finishing on the e-bike
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a corvette up ahead
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i've got enough time to relax
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get off go to the loo
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have a stretch i could probably even do
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i reckon 10 press-ups
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100 sit-ups to squat thrusts
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ah
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if i can get on your wheel get a bit
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giraffe
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maybe i could stick with you but did you
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try to get on the wheel
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yeah i did not i hope two chances of
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getting real no shots
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and no shots
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i was trying to sit at like 55 sixth
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square hour
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really and that's on there that is on an
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off-road gravel bike it
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just shows how incredibly fast
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an unrestricted ebikes i have to say i
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really enjoyed
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making this film and i hope you guys
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have too what
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an incredible i'm amazed the results
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will
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speak for themselves don't they really
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yeah if we go into those results in more
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detail well
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hank won the 50 meter sprint why didn't
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he clip in i still beat you
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hank won the 500 meter flying sprint
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and hank won the race at the end of it
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all
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whoa three to zero
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thanks the undisputed winner thanks
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thanks connor yeah
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but i'm not too disappointed because
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this is an incredible piece of tech
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really and i think we've shown that
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today
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and i know we have de-restricted the
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bike so it could hit
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higher speeds but when you look at
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restricted bikes as well it just shows
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how useful they are in terms of really
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steep climbs carrying heavy loads and
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also going
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off-road where you have kind of loose
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gravel and you don't have as much
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grip on the road just you can power
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through those terrains and i guess you
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can access the more power
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with the different classes like the
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class 3
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e-bike category where you can access
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more power but you have to remember
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that the unrestricted bikes or the bikes
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that aren't restricted until the higher
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speeds
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you actually have to like in switzerland
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have a license plate
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to be able to ride them so i guess that
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just shows
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but let us know in the comment section
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below what you thought
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of our tests i mean it was quite
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incredible i
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mean i'm still beaming from ear to ear i
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love doing all that
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yeah i know you did i know you did i
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just wish i'd at least beat you one
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little tears but there we go
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don't forget to give this video a big
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thumbs up
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and connor and i i'm sure we'll see you
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in the next video
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