Celebration of 200 years of the bicycle? Maybe. Excuse to stitch up Ric McLaughlin by forcing him to ride Wicklow EWS trails on a vintage GT? A lot more likely.

Chain Reaction’s latest video is a right laugh as Ric gets his teeth rattled out in Ireland. They said: “To celebrate the 200th year of the bicycle, we headed to the home of the Enduro World Series in Wicklow, Ireland, to put an old school bike through a new school trail test! Piloted by Ric McLaughlin, the man who’s been previewing each stage of the EWS this season, the vintage GT Outpost was slung down the slithering Irish singletrack with reckless abandon.”