The weirdest bike of Unbound Gravel gets even stranger

But wouldn’t riding in the drops be more of an aero gain than cutting the bars?

The rear disc wheel is an obviously good choice. Any race that allows it, you should use it. Even if you are light and its windy. Doesn't affect handling. People like to tell stories about the one time a huge gust blew someone off the road but gusts that big will just do that, disc or not.

This bike is so unhinged lmao. Great set up.

the riders voice is grating , horrible.

Ok I am bored there a bloody genocide going on. grrr.

Just a thing of beauty!

What a loveable dork.

TT helmets are the shame of cylcing. no amount of watt saving is worth looking like a SCi FI moron 😂. although specialzed 's is as good looking as it can be . And we dontt even need to talk about the visma helmet

What, no aero 'spirit of gravel' tache?

At this point I'd probably just install a flat bar.

Awesome can’t wait to see the results. Great video.😃🚵‍♀️

Comparing this to the unbound from 10 years ago makes me pretty sad...

this guy is awesome

Love the no drops. Dont use em either. Should cut.

Is he retarded or something? Why does he talks like a 5 year old?

“Ribbed for your aero pleasure…”. 😅

Just get a hardtail MTB. So cringe

Aero is everything 🚴💨

Gravel is now officially as funny and weird as early 90s mountainbiking

You use the drops on sketchy downhill sections for better control.

When I raced Ironmans my cycling buddies would make fun of my setup. Now look. I come over to gravel and you jackasses copy me 🤣. That said, I want that disc wheel.

This bike isn't weird at all, what's weirder is other riders' resistance to these ideas.

Stupid things for 1 Watts savings 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Saved 50g on cutting the Drops and added 12g by puuting the sticker on the rear disc..... Oooookkaaayyyy.....

It would be really weird if any of these super weird, special bikes didn’t have the same SRAM groupset. Boring.

Camera guy Tyler nailed it.

DNF unfortunately

Stupid setup for gravel. What an idiot

I never use the drops either and always wondered what this might be like. it's almost like bull horns but compatible with regular brifters

Oh wow another gravel “racer” no one’s ever heard of who hasn’t won anything doing something ridiculous

Brilliant content again Ben.

Hilarious, love when people take marginal gains to the nth degree 😁😁

So, a mid 90s MTB?

all this prep and DNF, I'm curious what happened?

I thought the gnarlier gravel events would see a shift towards more XC-MTB style cockpits and wheel setups but instead we've got whatever this is

Dnfing with all that time put into thinking of the set up is a bummer

It really does not matter who wears an aero helmet, world tour pros, amateurs or unbound gravel racers, they always look super dorky with those helmets. But hey, you do you, i prefer style over functionality at cycling :P

Start with his shirt ! Where did he get that????

Two things-
1) Holy Moly that arm tan. Please keep that in good health!
Secondly, this is very conditional though. But having drops can actually be an aero benefit because it trips up the air for your legs. I recall this being a factor in TT arms during a wind tunnel testing someone was doing, also why laces have shown to be more efficient.

well i guess this question must be asked, were did chase finish and what was his time?

not even offended by the bike, but you really chose that outfit and left the house? jesus christ man

I’ve been theorizing about cutting the drops off for 10 years. Very few people use them to any significance.

Where do I begin is exactly right

Is this r/bicyclingcirclejerk?

DNF? Drops Needed in Future?

Never thought I'd see Chase on Ben's channel, i'm used to finding him on the local trails. 😂

Ben, you had way too much fun with this. Need to at least ACT like it’s hard work. -- JayP

What this didn't work out well. Bonk at 113. Ouch. Next year.