Video: Rhys Verner's Test Laps on the New Dreadnought

 @iian: Average annual rainfall UK - 1200mm to 1800mm , North Van, where the video was shot averages around 2,500mm, so yes wet, hence the moss covering everything!

 @iian: imagine bragging about your poor weather and being wrong. that being said the conditions in this video aren't very wet lol

 @Jer3myF: If you notice in some of the shots there is dew or past rain covering everything. North shore soil can take huge amounts of water before puddling occurs.

The Shore is famous because it is not easy to ride. In the wet, even dew in the morning turns anything wood into snail snot slick. Then some rocks are like sandpaper, and others are like ice. The turns are tight, weird and janky, and every root has it's own idea about your direction of travel.

 @Jer3myF: Ahh good to see pinkbike hasn’t changed too much over the years. Can confirm working in North Van and having lived there. It rains A LOT. Conditions in this video are basically the baseline. September-May ish on average usually raining and when I say raining I mean socked in by the high elevation constant rain for sometimes weeks on end. The struggle is real on those trails.

 After all that testing it would have been Dread ful if there was

 I tested one in Bentonville last year, it was an exceptionally quiet bike.

 I think the lower guide is there to give the chain ring enough chain wrap, to it's not really about noise.

If you're mostly shuttling/lift assisted it's probably less necessary.

 Interesting. I was between this and another high pivot bike. I didn't go for this because that lower chain guide stuff is bullshit. I had one on my V1 Druid and it added insane drag, and taking it off and removing links (like forums suggested) ruined the bike (nonstop dropped chains and poor shifting).

Went with the other HP bike, but a small part of me wishes I went with this rig. Pretty sweet bike and brand.

 @stravaismyracecourse: druid v2 fixed all the quirks and no longer has a lower chain guide. I haven't had a single chain drop.

 @mrtrinh: I can vouch for this as well.

 I don't run a guide on my highlander 2, never had a problem. 28t chainring. Did you have problems without one?

 @mrtrinh: Yeah, I demoed a V2 Druid for a few days. Super fun bike and way better than V1 in every way possible.

 @stravaismyracecourse: I don’t run the ethirteen chain guide it comes with in my dread, picked up the cascade chain guide, remover the lower pulley and protects from dropped chains. No problems from it

 @Ebab: I love this for you, mate.

 Birds have been chirping for thousands of years, so why not codes?