'Do It All' Gravel Bike For Under £3000 - Kinesis Tripster, Sram Rival eTap, 650B
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"IT CAN DO IT ALL"
This is a sub £3000 gravel bike build. It's based around an alloy frameset from Kinesis. It can run 700c or 650b, has tons of mounting options, and is hardy as hell. Built up with a Sram Rival eTap groupset - I have this groupset on my road bike. It's very, very good.
Specs of the build:
Kinesis Tripster AT
SRAM Rival XPLR Groupset
Sector GCA 650b Wheelset
Travail Rutland 2.1" tyres
Selle San Marco Dynamic Shortfit saddle
Zipp Bar, Stem and Seatpost
I've been riding and racing gravel on my Tripster AT for four years, just passed 10,000 miles on it. Rival 1 has been reliable the whole time. The bike is an absolute tank and a supreme joy to ride. Even took it out for my first CX season and it performed wonderfully. It's the pinnacle of what aluminum can be. I'm pretty sure if I ever had some freak crash that broke the frame, I would order a new one before the sunset. I love my Tripster. Highly recommended.
Stunning. Not knocking the other builds, I've loved watching them all, but nice to see something nearer the lower end of the budget.
Yeah, agreed. Want more real people bikes. But that said, all these videos are actual customers of Nic’s shop.
@@Jimmidoesstuff not a criticism Jimmi, loving all the series, but this one is more within my budget.
Nice one, Lee.
Haha the handing the chain breaker- 'Here. I halp!' Another great build vid thanks. It's actually super useful giving ball park prices on these builds. As lovely as it was 14K for a bike is a tad excessive... I can actually see myself owning something like this though. N+1 and all that.
Yeah for sure. Love this one.
What a lovely looking bike. I have the G2 but can see me getting a Tripster soon, and this spec is bang on.
Another cracking bike build video.
Knocked it out the park again Jimmi and Nic. Keep em coming! 😁
Thanks, Dom.
What a nice bike ! Cracking build ( again ) and a nice price 💰
Cheers jimmi 👍
Thanks for watching, Brian.
I'm quite envious of this build
Nice job Nic (and Jimmi)
Yeah, it’s a lovely one.
Cracking bike, love watching these bike build videos
Thanks, Leslie.
Nice build, good colour.
What a great build!
A lot of nice. From Bangladesh.
Wow did those tyres really go on that easy? Loved the vid
Haha. Nic’s got skills.
Hi Nick I am just cobbling together a 1 x Sram Tripster for the Winter. Having brought the frame second hand boy was it difficult to get the rear brake hose through the frame. Did it by running an inner gear cable etc. So I am getting there. The part I am stuck on now is mounting the rear brake caliper. I have brought the small mounting plate as much as I try to see it on your video I cannot see whether you fit the bolts from underneath or from above. Given there is no thread in the location holes I assume you use nylock nuts as well. I understand from kenesis the bolts are 22mm long but they didn't specify the thread diameter.I would appreciate it if you could give me as much info as possible. Thanks. Or indeed you Jimmi .
Ah there's lovely, nice don't always need to spend several thousands for a sweet ride. :)
It’s still a few thousand mind. 🤑😝
@@Jimmidoesstuff ha ha yes, but a good spec compared to the off the peg options at a similar price. :)
Defo. Miles better!!
Another cracking build - something closer to a bike for mere mortals. Unless I've missed one, so far every build is SRAM; is that preference, availability, cost, or just luck of the draw?
Glad you like it. All bikes are from Nic’s shops customers. That’s how he specs them.
Beautiful bike, and great video as always. What did this weigh and can you ship to US?
No clue on weight. Gravel bike so not important. I’m sure they can ship to US. But import/duty would be something like 20-40%.
Love the build - I did a cheaper version of this during lockdown. Great ride. One question. What was the silver object you put on to the top of the head tube, after you cut it to length?
Glad you like the vid. Carbon steerer bung.
Thanks.
Thats very nice , been looking for a gravel bike but not much to choose from at the moment , how much under 3k is this build , thanks
DUnno - but pretty sure it's just under. It's a 'custom' build so all of the parts are to customers spec/budget. If you're UK based give Nic a shout. They can ship bikes to anywhere.
Awesome build, always like the vibe of the videos. Whats your experience with Teravail tires?
I have them on my gravel bike, Emily does on her’s, and Nic sells lots in his shop. They’re good. They’re defo not bad, in my experience. Pretty sure Nic has specced them on my new gravel build (building in a few weeks).
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Im green dabadee
Are we gonna have a breakdown vid for this by any chance?
Eventually, yes.
Another nice build video Jimmi 👌 mate the silver chainring is that the force/red and what size is it? As the rival ones are none in stock and long wait & the force/red ones are available 😅… I’m wanting to get the 38t as my gravel bike came with 40t with 10-44t rival but want to change the front ring to give a bit more easier gear to pull my heavy ass up + loaded up steeper hills 😄 . Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m sure the rival chainrings come all black?
Hey mate. Yeah, think you're right. It's a Force chainring moved over to the Rival cranks for the required ratios for the customer. If you're UK based maybe e-mail the shop. They may be able to sell you the required chainring and post out.
@@Jimmidoesstuff cool appreciate the suggestion….but sorry mate I’m in Sydney Australia 🙂 I’m in no rush but if need be I may just bite the bullet and get the force chainring which is about $40 Aud extra.. seems like the 38t ones are popular 😃.
Oohhh Sydney - how exotic!! Yeah man, go with what works for you. :)
@@Jimmidoesstuff thanks mate 😂not exotic at the moment weather wise, seems like we have swapped 🌧. You guys are “enjoying” a heat wave pls send some of it back down under😅. Thanks mate see how it goes worse case get the “lighter” force one. Once again keep up with the videos mate love watching and drooling over them 🤤💙👌. Ps. Love your styling & colours with Attacus gear 😎❤️🤘🏾
Thanks, Jezza. Yep - pretty warm right now. 😅
is that a alloy front fork and where can I get one?
Nah, carbon
Ça à l'air assez compliqué pour en faire l'acquisition.. 🤔..??
🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Great build, and really like your videos, but I find the background music really annoying and almost depressing :-)
Press mute, and put one of your own tunes on spotify. 😀
@@Jimmidoesstuff ❤️ good one mate!
A gravel can't do all, but a fully can.
It can do all 'gravel'.
Guy builds a mountainbike with a drop bar and charges double the money.
Wouldn’t fancy riding this at a mountain bike park.
Hilarious how a sub 3,000 bike is considered remotely good value
Hi Loc. Welcome back. I don't understand your point. Can you elaborate? Thanks.
@@Jimmidoesstuff I just mean that 3000 is a ridiculously high price (If you want to buy a bike for that much fair enough) that it’s funny that a bike under 3,000 can now adays be consider good value.
I don't disagree. My first proper road bike was £600 in 2011 and I remember being amazed I was willing to pay such a bonkers amount of money for a bike.
But based on the current landscape for bikes. This bike legit is good value. Especially when you compare it an off the bike equivalent.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it.
@@Jimmidoesstuff no bike is worth £3000
What? A bargain?😂😂😂🤣🤣
Is it?
About to build one of these. Did you have to face the disc caliper mounts or bottom bracket?
I built a bike from a Kinesis RTD a few weeks ago and the level of finishing on the dropouts, bottom bracket and both caliper mounts was no existent and facing showed the BB and mounts were not square 🫤