£160 ALIEXPRESS DIRT JUMP MTB - HOW LONG WILL IT LAST？

This bike cost £160 off Aliexpress. We've come to Twisted Oaks Bike Park today. We're going to see how this thing can perform. First test for this scary cheat bike with the forks that do this. That's actually terrifying. The grips are all spinny, but that's how it came. So that's how we're going to ride it. We got these thin cranks on there as well. Hopefully we survive. Let's get it. Dropping. Oh, we're in. Flying. Whoa. Whoa, it's working though. Yes. Please. Bit scared to jump at the moment properly, but no. Flying round. There we go. All right, first little test is complete and it survived. I'm always just a little bit nervous on the first jumps on a bike like this because you never know how strong the welds are, all the wheels, all the forks, all the bars, all the stem, everything basically. We've come across to one of the most used lines here in the bike park. Here we go, dropping. Oh, yeah, actually feels quite nice. There's one issue with the forks. I mean, other than that they're really bendy. There's no rebound or anything. There'll just be a spring hidden in there. Let's try a little trick on there and a trick on this one. Here we go. No footer. Yes, please. No footer. Oh, them forks. I'm not going to go off the bigger lip on here. Just to survive. Oh. Yes. Actually surviving full trails here. Before we take off the front brake and the gears to do some real tricks, we're going to try a sort of mountain bikey trail with berms to smash and corners to hit. Dropping. Here we go. Oh, firing them berms into the lower section. Oh, some rollers. Wow, this thing rides actually pretty well. Blast there into this section. Mini cannon. Wow, that sounded bad on the forks. Whoa, it's a little wooden feature. Drop that. Up this. Boom, into a berm. Oh, jump. Whoa, jumps are scary on this. Oh. Handling it quite well, actually. There we go. First trail completed. First thing I notice, other than the suspension and stuff, is the thin tires, but it did survive. And the wheels are still straight-ish. There's a bit of a bulge in the tire. Front one's fine as well. Back over HQ then, and we're going to strip the front brake off and the gears. Why? Well, normally on a dirt jump bike, you remove the front brake because when you start spinning the bar spins and doing tail whips, it doesn't work if the brake's on the outside like this. Then the derailleur trick. If you want to make single speed on a bike that comes with a derailleur, you whip this off like that. Then you can get the cable because you need that ball end there. You put it back through that part of the derailleur where you can do your adjustments. The ball gets locked. You can just tighten it back up on there in the gear that you want. Now we have single speed sorted. You can also micro adjust using that. Just cut this off. Done. But does it spin? Yes. All right, cool. Well, before we head over to the mulch, look what I've got. I just received this. Look, the GoPro Mission One ILS. This is ridiculous. The GoPro just dropped this micro cinema camera. Louis is going to be filming now. We've also got the Mission Monitor app on the iPhone. You connect the cable and then you can deal with all your peaking and zebras and all that stuff in there. This is our first test. We've got it in GP log 2. So you'll be able to colour correct and stuff afterwards. And we're going to try the dirt jumps here. This is a fairly new line at the bike park that I think I've never even filmed. So let's try it with Switched Bikes, the Canyon Stitch 720 so I don't die on the cheap one. We'll just do like a quick minute mash up with this. Best thing is now we've got lenses. You can run ND filters built onto the lens. And then obviously you've got 8K capability and 240 frames a second, which is the most exciting thing. So let's drop in, smash a few laps. Maybe a little bit of music, a bit of excitement. Let's try it. Let's get it. That is so cool to have a GoPro that allows you to get so much more creative. And we've got the GoPro mics now, look. Right, on top of the mulch, let's just get straight into it with a bar. Yes! Not the nicest of landings, but it worked. Take that one off the list. All right, back up again. And dirt jumpers are really good for tuck no handers. Yeah! That's pretty cool. Once you just forget that it's doing these horrible sounds every time you land, it's fairly all right. Let's backflip it. A holy grail of slopestyle tricks. Let's get it. This is the holiest of all grails. Yeah! So good! Do you know what I noticed earlier I didn't want to mention? Because it might put me off. I don't know if I've lost bolts that hold the actual fork in, or if it's supposed to be like that. Every time I jump, I'm waiting for the forks to just come apart, which is a nightmare in a backflip. But we've done it. That was pretty smooth, actually, considering. Let's see if this will survive a three on this jump. That landing sound! It's so flexible! Why? Here we go. Let's get it. Clean, though. I mean, kind of clean. Come and look at these forks a second. I got a bit of a twist on that fork, though. You can't really see it with the camera. I'm not going to stop, but it is a little bit scary that it's all out of line. I mean, the fact of it is, you could buy one of these bikes if you're going to just ride to the shop on, but to actually trick, I wouldn't. Oh, yeah, look. The cranks are out as well. I reckon you've got a couple more jumps out of it, though. Turn that off! I'm trying to film a vlog down here. OK, we've got to do a backflip no-hander. I must have done close to, like, 200,000 of them. I wish I had a lifetime counter. I bet it would actually be less, probably more like 1,000, but still. Whoa! Just! I'll take that. Boyd, local shredder. Dewey, one-hand lander. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no! Boyd's in. Is he going to get it? Yeah. Wow! Look at that, a bit behind his back. That's well good. You're the man. What a sick trick, actually. Right, Huddy over here, Hudson. What wants to do a trick? What are you going to do? I'm going to try to... Get up there. All right. Send it like there's no tomorrow. Yes! He does it! I don't want to toot my own horn, but I would like to say that I can land fairly smoothly on jumps. And right now, this thing's looking like a pretty good deal for 160 quid, isn't it? I mean, I'm doing some pretty big tricks. But let's land... Let's try and do a disaster, which is one of the more aggressive tricks on a bike, because it forces the bike to get longer. So you basically do a 180 and you land like that, which is a cool skateparky maneuver. And let's see what happens. Let's get a bar disaster. I've got to get that. Look at that fork! That is so crazy to me that you can backflip no hander it, but you can't disaster. I've got to stomp it. It's not even going to spin anymore. It's so bent. Look how cheesy they are. I knew they were going to go first. If you're wheelie, then you don't have to worry about the forks breaking, do you, because you're on the back wheel? It's the next morning. We've decided to fit on these forks to the bike. Some rigid forks. And with that, we'll be able to put a couple of pegs on and turn it into a bit of an MTBMX, go to a skatepark and see how long it's going to survive doing grinds and stuff. A bit of modifying later, and we now have the pegs fitted, no brakes. We've decided to come to Clacton skatepark to get grindy with it. Let's start on that little rail there. I think it's going to be absolute dreams, isn't it? That's well grindy and good. Look, we can stall on this. You can proper... That was a well good grind sound. Works amazing. We've got to do the holy grail of grind. Nope, can't bunny hop it. The front's so low, it's well weird to hop. Clean disaster. Let's try this grind rail then. I'm scared of that. Proper grinding. Try and ride this mini a bit. It's always so scary brakeless. It's got quite a nice long back end though. It's quite good to many. Let's get a little skateparky line going. Three that. Pick up B that. Disast. Cleanies. Two seves. It's so hard to hop with these small forks on. Let's get a little tuck on this fly out. I think I've bent these forks now. Yeah, I have. That's so annoying. Wasn't even a good tuck. They've bent now. The backup forks. Didn't even get to do a flare on it. See, that was all it took to get a buckle going. I really must have been landing smooth this whole video. Let's get a good one again on here. I can't believe that is all it took at 180. That's insane. That was a really interesting Aliexpress vid. The 160 quid bike is almost doomed. That is all it took in the end to fold the wheels just a bit of a heavy sideways landing. That shows how smoothly I've been landing the jumps throughout the video. The frame seems to be intact. If you come in close the welds are fairly questionable. That's why I wouldn't actually want to ride it on anything bigger than I've done. The nightmare would be the head tube snapping off like my bamboo bike did in the past. Obviously the fork is awful. The cranks are awful. If you're a lightweight and you changed everything but the frame, you might get away with it for a little while. But there we go. That was the 160 pound Aliexpress jump bike. Surprising in some ways but obviously ending up how we all thought it was going to. That's not the end. We're going to get the fish eye on and get the Canyon Stitch 720 back out just for a few blasts around this pool park. Nice little taves to warm up. This bike feels a bit weird after riding that thing because it was such a weird geometry, all bent and strange. Let's get a flare if you stay here. I can probably flare around you in some way. That was cool. I did a nice flare then as well. I actually landed up the top. I wonder what else we could add to that. There's a cool little bench gap here. Actually not that little the way the bench is positioned. It's like where you'd actually want to come down to land so you've got to go bigger than you wanted to really. That's the best thing with a real bike is you can hit this stuff in full confidence knowing it's not going to break. Let's clear it. Let's see if I can bar it. You might as well do it in slomes I reckon. Go on that side of it for a peep. As you can see, the real bike, the Canyon Stitch 720 is way more capable but it's always so fun to session AliExpress bikes. If you like that and you want to see more of them let me know what kind of bikes to buy. If you have any cool ideas put them below. See you in the next one.