Video: Rob Warner's Painful & Hilarious First Non eMTB Ride in Over a Year

 Anyone else longing for the 1 minute slow-mo-put-on-helmet intro sections? Fwiw, the riding seems to start at 7:50 here.

 I hope you get to decide not to watch the next video

 @Manix: read the room

 Quantity not quality is what pays the bills these days.

 So many words.. so, so many words..

 He's becoming a parody of himself. His You Tube channel just seems desperate. I'm a big fan and have been cheering him on since Chainspotting. Its a shame.

 Wait, those are real food adverts? I thought they were jokes.

 @eragot: Gotta put food on the table lol

 @Manix: Well that Y Food will just dribble off the edge I reckon. I couldn't quite tell if it was a parody advert or not. I guess they're paying him real money and he's signed a contract that dictates he can't say how disgusting it is....

I tried to like this but after I realised I'd wasted about 10 minutes and he hadn't even ridden anything I gave up.

 Yah it should have made him like Superman or something? Weird that a motor didn’t help him get better at doing it all himself.

 Comment Gold right there. Brilliant.

 Can't wait for Wall E riders of the future. Pro riders are fast on e bikes because they go to the gym 3 to 4 times a week. I think pro riders need to be more transparent about their push for marketing e bikes. I know they don't really want to be role models, but there are a lot of sheeps in the world.

 At 61 I bought an Ebike. I had been used to being at front of my group for a long long time, and then hit 60 and that was it... my power was gone, I would hold up the group, I stopped riding with my friend and decided to just go by myself. My friends would say don't worry about it, we'll just wait for you and in reality I was just riding alone but making them stop more then they wanted too. Don't be so quick to judge people on Ebikes without riding one for full loops. Mine is 50lbs and 2-3 hours of tossing that around is more draining then you think. I get just as beat as downhilling for a day, maybe not in your legs so much, but everywhere else for sure. So wait until you have 25 years under your belt and 20 of them also DH riding too. Lets see if you are still doing all the drops, hitting all the jumps and rolling the steepest rollers. If so, well go get yourself an Ebike, you earned it. And like Rob Warner, its nice to be able to hang with the youth when you still know how to shed like the youth. I call my BIKE the fountain of youth, and I really don't care what anyone says to me about mine. I kindly tell them to F off if they say negative crap about it.

 @robw515 This. Add to that some absolutely idiotic newspeak like "analogue" or even dumber "acoustic".

 @DoubleCrownAddict: why do we all find you on every e-bike related story being a complete and total a*shole to everyone just because some people choose to not like your esteemed ebikes? For f*cks sake man, be decent to other humans. Is that so damn hard to do? People like different things and appreciate different parts of the sport. Just because someone else doesn't want the same thing out of their recreational time, doesn't give you the right to be a complete cock about it. Don't you have better things to do with your time?

 @bananowy: the analog bike comment is especially confusing. Analogous to what? It's just a bike...

 @DoubleCrownAddict: you’re defending ebikes and talking about their advantages here, but in another article you talked about how your bike weighs 60 pounds, then whined about how you can’t corner on it so trail builders should rebuild their trails to suit your lower skill level with easy flow features. You’re just one big running joke.

 @DoubleCrownAddict: Can't ride switchbacks lol try putting your battery in boost

 @DoubleCrownAddict: all I do is quote you, pathetic troll. Don’t cry over it.

 That's what happens when you get free shit and also are more concerned with "content" than bikes and actual riding. Sorry Rob, the race commentary is good, but I gotta unsub from the YT channel, it's hot garbage most of the time.

 depressing seeing him whimper ;like a likkle baby he used to be up there

 And then someone will tell me, that riding ebike requires the same level of fitness. Because of course you have more power, but you ride faster and further ... Which is true for 1% or riders, but for most it is just a utility which lets you ride the same amount as before, just being less fit.

 @Chuckolicious: There are thing ins life which do not require a clinical study. You just observe and see the reality. Humanity is like a milion years old and science is like few thousands years, but only for the last 200 it really influences peoples life. If scientific studies were required to judge the reality, we would not be there anymore. The very fact of our existance proves that the so called "common sense" is more ofter right than not ...

 @Chuckolicious: didn’t take you long to show up. Where’s mccozzy at?

 @Matt115lamb: that’s because they are two different sports. Ever gone on a dirtbike ride with ebikers? You just want to get on with it and ride but you feel held back!

 @DoubleCrownAddict: I've heard the YT ebike is awesome, I bet you'd love it.

 @Matt115lamb: one has a motor. One does not. I’d call that fundamentally different, in fact.

 @Matt115lamb: hahaha

 @DoubleCrownAddict: I fly up the climbs. It's called an XC bike. Also, totally not surprised you ride an ebike.

 @Matt115lamb: What can I do on a bike that I can't on an ebike? I'd wager a week long bike packing trip in the backcountry is one thing that an ebike isn't very good for.

 @TheLoamDeranger: it would be possible with slot of planning but tbh not many people do that anyway !
Arrrgh ........ I’d do it in 3 days

 @trailcreativesmtb: but did he jump?

 Most stuff on here is on YouTube so don’t get us knickers in a twist

 I've never seen someone on an ebike breaking a sweat.

 I tell you what, there's a lot of miserable twats in the comments section. Watch Warner taking the piss out of himself is generally a good time.

 @Manix:

 @Manix: Agreed. Rob makes great videos. For sure, not everyone seems to have liked this video but it is insane how over the top some of the comments are.

 @mccarthyp: @mccarthyp: Discovered his channel last week and watched all the videos in one go. I laughed really hard at various parts of his videos. This last video was probably the least funny, especially if you miss the context of his earlier shenanigans. Tastes differ though, so I understand a lot of people aren't into that kind of humor.

 Having trouble 'getting it up' the hill? Ask your doctor if e-bike is right for you.

 @gaberoc:
Good one! Why is that gold not a bumper sticker?

 @gaberoc:
Works for me. I can now get it up real easy, every time I want to ride. Mind you, my parts are worn out.

 Aka sales patter

 I personally don’t have an issue with ebikes. Most people I’ve come across on the trail seem to be cool and friendly people to ride with. I just don’t like their fan club of lazy kids who have a superiority complex over them and only “ride” to appease their social media followers.

 @teamdoa: yeah. I already have 4 bikes. 3 mtbs & a gravel grinder. I really don’t need anymore, but point taken.

I’m just not interested in emtbs, they seem an expensive distraction & an unnecessary complication of the sport

 @short-but-sweet: That is fair enough, everyone has a choice to do what they like, so point taken, they are not for you.

I still think people just hate on them at Pink Bike for no real reason as evidence by my post being down voted. A lot of people hate on Roadies here as well. Pink Bike can be pretty toxic at times. All I know is I enjoy riding all sorts of bikes and I do not malign people for doing what they want.

 and is now pissed at his EEEEEeeeeeeeh bike

 Or like the original The Office. Slow moving train wreck; so hard to look away

 I ride mine, pretty easy.

 Hopefully Rob takes this criticism for what it is. It's a bunch of friends who love him but thought this particular video was a POS. We all know he can do better. I'm around his age and thought it was depressing.

 True, sad, wrong... and those gates are also expensive like a PROPER motorbike

 I had this kinda argument a lot of times with ebikers:
bababababba we ebikers are standard bikers, and our e-bikes are the same than your [...]bikes.... put any stupide adjective like non motorized, acoustic, standard between the brackets
asked them
well, so, why did you buy that bulky shitty-looking rig, that weights 5 kilos more, that costed you 2 ou 3k more, that gonna behave like a panzer VI during the way down?

 Hear hear!

 Innit. It’s the same with a lot of things. EBike haters not tried ebikes there fire it’s shit.

 @slow-af-rider: think of all the stuff you hate without having tried it before...
I don't know: eating nuts with their shell, fast fishing by pouring used motor oil in a lake, riding 2019 e-13 trs rims for anything gnarlier than a paved sidewalk...

well, what's wrong with disliking things without having tried it before ?

I tried e-mtb just once, briefly, you can consider I never tried it.
but I still can claim that I HATE this principle: in 2021, taking a "relatively" green sport, put some wire,lithium, motors...(well a lot of polluting stuff in fact)... just to allow billies to run their home lap faster, or with less effort!

wake up! we ain't yet prone to kill all our polluting already-existing sports (motor sports, skiing in a resort,etc...) , at least it would be great to let them dwindle to their death, that will obvouisly come in fitures decades.
but IMO these days, taking a green sport, and modifying it with a motor is simply insane, by principle...

not even a need to try: I do what I can do with my bike. else I can train more (ahaha, no way,) or stay at my level of fitness, enjoy what I can do, and remain pleased to see some people doing more, without the need to be motorised to do the same...

"the goal justifies the mean" is a dead end when we speak about leisure vs pollution in 2021 !

 @barth1003: Its hardly a green sport with all the carbon frames flying around. Plus all the shipping of components from the Far East...

 Same, multiple times!!

 Why?

 I assume that doing such stupid thing (riding uphill a bike that is not designed for) requires an assistance.

but the best assistance we can provide him is to teach him how to stop doing such stupid things...not motorizing him...