Tracklocross is the Funnest Thing You're Not Doing! | Squid SO EZ Bike Check
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- Tracklocross: track bikes + cyclocross. It's just as sketchy as it sounds, and it's some of the most fun I've ever had on a bike. If you're bored of riding the same routes every day and nearly being run over by terrible drivers, tracklocross may be for you. But if riding your regular fixed gear on the dirt and gravel sounds too sketchy, you're in luck since some companies make tracklocross specific bikes, and the Squid SO EZ is towards the top of that list.
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Gravel before going lame.
Can't even compare. A true gravel bike has room for 650bx2.8" or 700cx2.4" tires and a geometry somewhere between a trail bike and road bike.
Tracklocross. Interesting - I didn’t realize there was a name for this. I built up an early 70’s Raleigh Competition as a fixed wheel rough stuff bike with 700 x 38 and low gearing. It’s tons of fun, and the 531 tube set is aces. Now that you’ve reviewed a purpose built tracklocross bike, it would be great to see some video of riders and riding.
It used to just be called riding a bike.
@@davidyi-hsiandong3725 Names are useful to inform participants of features of courses in events and to create a sense of specific group notion towards a discipline. MTB started out just like that. Nonetheless, I agree, the notion should always be, to ride a bike and have fun!
@@Simte I wanted to keep it quippy, but riding fixed off-road is one of the oldest forms of cycling. Cyclocross predates freewheels, so the first cross races would've been fixed. And bike racing predates both freewheels and well paved roads, so old school racers were riding tracklogravel if you wanna call it that. They probably had brakes though.
Off road drifting with your fixie is a lot of fun.
Does everything new place people ride on a different bike have to have a name? Okay then. I'm enjoying a genre I'll call critborhood, criterium-style hot laps on a 3-mile course around my neighborhood that keeps me within 1.2 miles of my house but provides sufficient variety to avoid boredom. I don't have to carry any doodads because if I have a mechanical or puncture, it's an easy walk home. I do this three or four times a week, usually 7-10 laps. Time to try it on my fixed gear? Yes, I think so.
One man's beater bike is another man's dream bike.
“My beater bike”. Squid frame, Paul hubs white industries cranks enve etc lol
Right!? The $2000 beater
he beats his parent for the money
His "beater" bike it's probably more expensive than many dream builds out there 😂😂
I've been riding Gravel trails that come up in the local riding apps on with my tracklocross bike (48x20) and I am absolutely addicted absolutely different dimension to the Fixed gear bike !
Squid with white ind, enve and aileron and pauls and super tough cmon, this bike/thes parts are not "beaters" unless you rich af lol
Not sure if I'm late to the party or was early. Back in 2007, I took a Trek 2300 with a white industries ENO hub, 32c tires, and a $25 steel touring fork. I've called it the Ghettocross. Been a great rain fun riding bike.
Ghettocross is a way better name
@@tomcruz3774 +1 to that
I went from 25mm tires to 32mm panaracers and its way more fun! Its does feel a little slower but now I have the ability to cross sand and gravel roads!
Try out some 28c best of both worlds
@@brandonnunez3644 I really want to do that on my other fixed gear, but the max tire clearence is 25c :(
@@jessevonk2836 im in the same boat lol biggest i can run is a 28c right now cause my fork on clears that but I plan on getting a fork that fits at least 32s so I can do some tracklacrosse. But 28’s are perfectly fine for road use ima big boy so i like the extra cushion 🤣🤣
@@brandonnunez3644 yeah those small forks do be annoying hehe
Maaan I smashed 55 miles of UK countryside on my SO-EZ yesterday, 40% being gravel, they eat it up. Such a goated frame I love mine
I don’t know about you guys but my beater bike is a fixie I got off Facebook marketplace for 180 CAD
Came back because I feel like I lied. That bike is both my beater bike and primary bike lmao
you have to pump those tires up a lot more often, i always find this as a big downside. but not walking home because of a flat makes me alwas go tubeless again. if you ride everyday, i think you safe lots of money from not buying innertubes
Yoo I stay in Modesto and take my tracklacross on all the trails guys on mtbs look at me like I'm crazzy
Poseidon's FX Tracklocross is WAAAAY less expensive, aluminum (waaaay lighter), and a hell of a lot better looking. It's true, tracklocross is ridiculously fun. Most fun I've had on a bike ever! Avoid over-priced steel frame bikes, your wallet will thank you or don't and prove you're a dummy.
This is your first time watching a zach Gallardo video, and it shows. Expensive high quality steel frames are praised as the magnum opus here.
@@levrider9558 Expensive, "high quality", and unavailable. Still don't understand why he or Wabi promotes Wabi 's frames so fervently for a product that's just not available. Even before "covid", I can't remember going on Wabi's site and seeing any frame available, ever. Feels like Wabi's business model is heavily weighted to economy of scale. I agree with Zach on a lot of things and I'm in the process of building my first steel frame track bike because I want to experience for myself the difference between alloy and steel. I sure as hell didn't pay that crazy Wabi money for the frame set. For all you novices out there, "compliance" comes from the wheel set, seat post, and tires. Go tubeless and you'll see what I mean. Frame material has so little to do with it or vibration transmission, it isn't worth mentioning. My Poseidon FX Tracklocross is such an absolute joy to ride. Butted steel is slightly lighter but even look at it wrong and you'll ruin it. It crumples like tin foil. "Buttery smooth" comes from better quality bearings not a steel frame but not much money in the $20 bearing business, margins are tight. Steel equated to dairy products are a different story.
Love my Poseidon FX. Super budget friendly. Great geometry for off-road.
@@Airspaceuser Agreed!
48/19 gear Ratio is the best Ratio if you are using 700c x 38c or 40c
Hey Zach, can you let me know how your buddy mounted his Garmin Varia light? Also, I’ve been watching your channel for a few months and acquiring as much knowledge as I can. I bought a Bianchi Pista chrome and have built it up similar to your Wabi. (Sugino 75 crank and bb, brooks saddle, Nitto noodles with the fizik tape and Nitto bar plugs, and 90mm wabi stem) Next up is dura Ace headset and wheelset. 🙏🏼 Thanks for all the videos and info 👏🏼👏🏼
That Squid is FIRE. Love it and those White Industry parts.
Anyone in WNC who rides tracklocross?!
built up a dedicated tracklocross bike from a steel all city nature cross ss frame. Paul comp hub, fox 32 tc fork, and cane creek eesilk stem & seat post combo, and tubeless to help make it dedicated bike. I wanna get new cranks and rims.. cane creek cranks, going shorter at 165, and probably the zip moto rims. Also, debating on if I wanna go flat or riser bar or a riser drop bar. currently on a drop bar.
Spooky. After recently reviewing the Santafixie Raval, which I own for two years now as my first fixed gear, you talk about the Squid SO EZ, which I decided literally yesterday would be the base for my second bike. The Raval is indeed great for the value, being one of the very few decent budget fixed gear here in Europe, but the 25c Gatorskins I have mounted on it were sketchy as hell last winter. Living in the Alps, where snow is a thing, I searched for hours for a frame, any frame, capable of fitting 35c tyres. The Cinelli Tutto Plus is ugly in its blue/yellow/green livery, the Mash Work (my first choice) can't be found anywhere anymore, so it's gonna be the SO EZ. Thanks for the bike check.
Does wabi offer 165 cranks as an option yet?
Wow he throwed on this bike a bag of money in like super high-end parts.
My poseidon tracklocross is a blast
Nice build for sure. Super chill owner as well lol
Coming from xc this is my first fixed gear
I like da tracklocross
Honestly dishonest you know
Modern day clunker. I just use my 1974 Huffman cruiser CB. I like the 1.95 semi slick tires better, anyway.
Always wanted a Mercier KILO WT
the reason I used an 80s MTB frame was 1. it is steel, 2. it can be easily converted into a fixed gear or single speed, 3. 1/2 the price of a track bike with the rear wheel up you butt, 4. it can fit larger tires
One day he'll regret not carrying a tube. No matter how good a tyre is, a hole that is too large to be tackled by the sealant will happen and then, with no tube, he's toast....
true, but in a case of tube fit in such situation, will be sealant mess all over you
Also, you can always combine both: run tubes+sealant inside to seal small punctures. it works very well. You only need to make sure your inner tubes have removable valves.
@Bebo You mean those ones that have no air in them at all so they cannot puncture? I've not seen too many good comments about them and lots of bad reviews
hey use some press fit retaining compound on the chainring/crank arm spline area to fill the gaps and you won't have any play in that White Ind crankset or strip them riding fixed.
i like you guys not wearing spandex all the time like bike youtubers from germany do :D
Fillmore Reserve presta valves for tubeless. Best investment in trouble free setup and maintenance.
I have been really getting into fixed gear been riding everyday this week mostly up hills to build up my strength and I can feel the difference in my legs especially in my knees and ankles a very good feeling use a E bike to get to work my goal this year is ride fixed gear on every street in my town I am fairly new to fixed gear cycling
Riding tubeless with no spare tube… like you said, don’t go far from home 😂
I had my 26er steel frame converted to horizontal dropouts and I bought a semi slick tire and since my bike had a steel hubs I welded my 14t cog from my 26er mtb threaded cassette and I really really enjoyed it. It was year 2020 when pandemic started, I love rough roads, slippery rainy days but my bike gave up. My steerer tube broke
I'm sorry I'm not good at english please consider
TIL ive been tracklocrossing for a while now
Anyone know of a vintage frame that can fit 38c to 40c tires?
at 3:00 what does he mean white industies cranks will strip in a couple years?
7:44 can you let me know what helmet hes wearing? thx in advance!
Wow nice to see a tubeless setup on a classic frame, infact having a hybrid bike gives opportunity to switch. Having a dedicated track bike is an option or a cyclocross is completely up to you and depending what you like to ride or where you ride the steel frames just give you what you need to make it happen. Btw what’s the deal with getting anything that’s international! That’s a huge expense so I’ve started off with my local variants until finally want to fork out that good green for something of interest from overseas, how do you go about buying overseas models because I’d like a 6KU just to put it out there.
been wanting to build a tracklo but main problem is i dont like rust
Does anybody know, wich sattle that is?
4130 cromo. Amen to that brother.
Im always using my Tracklocross Bike my Frame is TSUNAMI snm 4130 my Rims is THE PROJECT SLAY RIMS tires WTB 32c
tingin build erp
I just finished building my tracklocross bike on Friday. Good timing for a video!
How do you guys brake and stop?
I can't believe it's not butter
How bout time trial track bikes
Thats it im doing cyclocross!
what helmet is he wearing?
I totally am tho my guy 😏
tubeless is a must
Dude it’s not so scary. Doesn’t take much to make any fixed bike suit any riding.
I am terrified!!!
Gravel=Fun
I was a 23c lad, nowadays running 28c and want more meat but no room...
Zach, I want if u want to... check some viewers bikes (worldwide) im a santafixie v1.0 user but theres nothing but the frame stock. Weight around 7.750g! If you are open I can send u some pics from the second one to today! Saludos from Barcelona !!!!
Sorry if I missed it, but what saddle? Thanks.
i figured it out from googling what I could see in 4k at the 2:18 mark. Its the bontrager aeolus comp. looks nice!
Does buying a 10yr old aluminium frame still worth it?
@Bebo why?
@Bebo okay. thanks
Bonjour, le quel choisir fabricbike aero ou santafixie raval ? Merci.
C’est peu ou prou la même chose. Rien à voir avec la vidéo par contre hahaha
I Want A Skream Ranger Build 😢
that steerer tho..
Just finished mine. So awesome. Will post a bike check video of it soon
SKREAM RANGER is fabulous. Only Aluminum light TRACKLOCROSS. Tire clearance of 40. I love mine SO MUCH. Started with a steel Winter Beater modified into a TrackloCross. Pimped it up and eventually WANTED a better frame. Now I have 2 TRACKLOCROSS 🚲🤩
Did I get the first comment?
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good vid...but Nahhh...stick 2 tarmac :)
To each their own n stuff, right. But for me personally I don't like wide tires. I had a 25 in the rear once, and it felt super wobbly n sketchy to me. So imma stick with 23s 😅