My bikes are vintage very old school Eddy Merckx - Bernard Hinault - & alikes 20 and 22 mm. tyres . 2 and 3 sprokets on the front ; 6 and 7 gears on the back . More than 40 years young and running around very smoothlly . Tubulares tyres Michelan old school. I won't Change them for those contemporâneous electronics gizmos .
TH-cam is not even 20 years old and has changed the documentation of life, hobbies, comedy. Love all my favorites' videos. I love being in the garage working on bikes but can't imagine having to stop every few seconds to consider another camera view and explaining what I'm doing.
Electronic shifting, Lycra and a drone, man what a road weenie influencer!! Love the looks of the bike and thanks for another great video. Really enjoyed the ending with the drone!! I have a friend with the same drone and one of my favorite vids is of it just flying into a tree.
What a beautiful build. One of my favourites among your videos - it’s great to see you so relaxed and focussed, not having so many problems to find fixes for 😅 Have a blast in Switzerland
Terrific video. One of your best yet. Informative, instructive and humorous. The ride at the end of the video was through some interesting terrain. By the time I had figured out how you filmed those scenes from up in the air with some kind of "follow me" feature on a drone, you made that spectacular left handed catch of the drone over the side of the bridge! What an amazing scene that was!
I love the look of carbon forks on classic style bikes. Your whole build looks great! Also those VO brakes are straight up the best rim brakes I've ever used. I have all 3 in this video on various bikes
I’m old school cyclist from Michigan I didn’t have a car Rode all year And raced mountain bike Cycle cross And Road Also I wrenched at several bike shops And all my own bikes You bring me back brother Appreciate your channel I live in Colorado now It’s a story But I love your old school mentality Hit me up
Oh, that looks awesome. And as everyone knows, looking good is the most important thing to cycling. Now, looking forward to seeing you shredding the Swiss Alps.
I've been riding since 3yo and building bikes with my dad since I can remember. I recently got back into it after a loooong time, and your vids take me back to snipping cables, cleaning parts and pressing headset cups with my pops. I like your practical and extremely effective style. Thanks for sharing your secrets and kicking a$$! I love the derailleur cable lubing trick! I'm off to dismantle and harvest parts off the curb alert bikes I've collected and built a "better than new" ripper!
At 41:02 He's breaking the 15mph speed limit!!! Does he own the cops? At 44:48 he RUNS a stop sign! So, yeah, he controls that town and has the power to do whatever he wants! He'll probably make his cat the town mayor.
Nicely done! It's great to have so many fit and finish options available, we can truly make a bike our own flavor. Happy Trails, see you on the next adventure! 😁
🤙🏼 Yeaaa! #roadie welcome to the club. No dork diac, electrinic groupset, loud hub, carbon, licra kit, helmet + cycling cap, tubolitos, flat top chain, aesthetics!!! Way to go. 🤜🏼🤛🏼
For the brake reach issue , Bdop Cycling sells pad holders with pads that add 7mm reach, which may help you out. I’ve had success on a few builds with there problem solver pad holders.
Hey Andy, after those first test run shots from the street and seeing Gib’s from the street K was thinking how cool it would be to be taken for a spin of your wee town . And at the end of this vid you DID! Perfect! I live just west of the Alps in France at the foot of the lovely cycling area of Le Pilât and I’d love to come over and go riding round that gorgeous looking lake you show us. And of course visit Gib’s!!!
I really like this build. Shift cables have drawbacks, and we use batteries for lights anyway, or at least I do. I would like something like this that could take 40mm. I've never been able to recable and calibrate my shifting, so moving to AXS would give me more ability to set up and adjust the bike.
I am fairly new to the cycling community but watching your channel has been very helpful thank you for your hard work and honest opinions it helped guide me not to fork out a arm and a leg for a bike.
Thanks for hurting my feelings so good. I bought a new trek and then found your videos. You have me totally pegged. I'm having so much fun riding my bike and watching these roasts. Great job
Beautiful bike! I love the steel/ti frames and I'm a big fan of rim brakes. You're right about "custom" frames, they are simply the best. Thanks for sharing!!
Yeah, custom steel is the best. I just got a new Battaglin Portofino from Italy and it is the best riding frame I’ve ever owned. Before that, I had another custom Italian-made steel bike, a Mondonico Spirit that I bought in the late 90s, but it was showing its age and I wanted something modern.
O come on, new cables, that you probably buy in bulk, are less the $2 ea. And you can easily use short rear derailleur and rear brake cables on the front! Gearing - I'm 65 now and I like 30:48 or 0.625 for the hills on the Isle of Man and these past 2 months in the Pyrenees on my mtb. On my road bike I have 30:42 or 0.71 as my lowest gear; 1:1 is way too high a gear for climbing for me.
You're kinda the "Lake Wobegon' of bike shops. Nice little town . . . great riding territory. I'm all vintage, custom Tom Teesdale (2000) 7-speed RSX, but I picked up an 80's Japanese frame with SRAM parts on it as a project. The 'restomod' has SRAM cranks and brifters, but the drive chain and cassette are 'generic' so no need for a special chain.
Awesome build Andy! Beautiful bike! Thanks for taking us along on your shakeout and ride at the end. Excellent job, love to watch and thanks for sharing your knowledge as always.
Your first channel shirt - “Save the turtle - Screw the cyclist”. I would buy two! Even funnier when I think about my daughter who has devoted herself to conservation and the protection of turtles
Good evening, SIr. I watched one of your some of your older vids and you said(you can't make me accept your facts)so I watched more and I was shocked.You don't preach a point of view,politics, life choices.You just do bike's.Then I saw how you started this channel to help in the winter when its slow.I know how that is,I work everyday paycheck to paycheck but I still joined just because I can watch someone who isn't telling me what to think.So thank you for the content.
Love watching you tweek your bikes it’s a big part of the game for me to. Also loved the sir mix a lot action always welcome in my world. Can’t wait to see the new build, I’m just about to purchase a Rivendell bike for randonneuring❤.
Really surprised to see carbon and e-shifting on your channel. Neat bike but I have to say the grey/silver combo you had on there was really a sharp looking bike.
Sadly, every community creates its own wedge issues... including bikes. Carbon vs metal, electronic vs cable, hydraulic vs cantilever. I ride all bikes and can appreciate all of them in their different ways. Even if a particular setup is not for, let others appreciate their setup their way.
Sweet ride... So I got a '22 Mondraker Foxy R aluminum bike with nice DT wheels, Ohlins suspension and a lower mid SRAM build. After a bit of time it ended up getting a bunch of modifications. I built Hope-DT-Spank wheels with TPU tubes & Tannus inserts inside Vittoria Mazza tires, went with e13's 11S 9-46, SRAM GX der & a twist shifter (yea, they are durable, easy to use with arthritic thumbs and they don't injure knees in crashes) and a KMC SL waxed chain, NSB-Spank cockpit with Acerbis hand guards and NSB pedals on GX Cranks in a CC helbender BB. Hope brakes (Yup, new brakes for asthetics but the benefit is better braking. I love vented rotors!), HS & seatpost clamp, e13 chainring and chain guide are next. A bunch of parts trickled down to a couple of other bikes in the house for good upgrades. It's been a satisfying journey. My last custom steel road bike is a Landshark with Campy C-Record and Delta brakes from the very early days of ergopower shifting brake levers. She got a Cannondale Coda suspension seatpost that has survived with gentel, loving care. It was built for decending in the Alps with a burly MTB top tube that made it a speed weapon. She is still too fast. The Ramones deserve their place in music history. Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction is another great one for pedaling tunes. Darkstar is a great name, my RC car racing buddy uses it as his nickname. Those rear dropouts are beautiful. 😍 Rock on!!!
Cool bike !! What are your thoughts on bathing your chain in molten paraffin wax with a lubricant of your choice? My 60 year old wife just did the Alpe d’Huez (1.35) with a wax+ PTFE chain.
That frame is great, but I wouldn't have put SRAM on it. I had SRAM eTap Red 11 speed when it first came out and had a couple of serious problems with it. So I got Shimano 9170 and have never had so much love for a bike. My bike is a custom Ti frame that was made in Boseman Montana back in 2020. I was so amazed by how much better a custom bike is that I now have Chris Bishop making me a frame that will be for a NOS Campagnolo 10 speed Centaur group that has been sitting in my closet for years. That bike is getting close to completion. Your right, custom frames aren't cheap but I don't mind spending more if it will provide me with a better relationship with my bike and get me on it every day.
I could recommend several forks under $120 that work great. The Toseek I have for my gravel bike is great. Many many miles on it. They have a road fork as well. SRAM is just another company pricing things out of the common cyclist price range. wheeltop eds rim brake is under $550 and bolts on and works with the cassette/chain on the bike right now. I got less than a grand in my 2x13 system and you can’t even buy a 2x13 😂 if I added my crank and bb in it’s around $1200 and weighs 300+ grams less than anything Shimano or sram has. So a true 2x13 road groupset 3/4 a pound lighter than anything from Shimano or sram and in a combination they don’t offer for less than anything they offer. Rear cassette is a rotor 13s 10/36 and the wheeltop hits every one like butter.
Very exciting re-build and TRIP PLANS! Just throwing this out there, but FYI I am all in on 1X for my gravel and road/touring bikes. I respect the "Save the Front Derailleur" movement (if you could call it that), but I just love the darn 1X. My road set up is 40-10/46. Peace! -Greg
Nice video, cool bike build. You might enjoy Killing Joke on a ride, I know I do, though I have to be out of town, it tends to lead me into the higher gears. Have fun in the Swiss Alps., they're friggin beautiful. 👍
I’d love to know how to purchase a build! You built up an old MTB into a nice everyday for a bigger guy, I loved it and wanted it with those double walled rims. Makes me want to do the same with my 1997 Raleigh M40.
I ran into the same brake problem with my new build. I was trying to swap brakes but the new fork wasnt compatible. Ended up buying some black Shimano mid reach calipers which matched the black frame better than the silver ones I was swapping. So all good in the end!
I have the RideNow TPU 45g race formula tubes (~$7 per tube on AliExpress) on my gravel bike. I have put about 150 miles on them on light gravel and paved paths, and I haven't had any issues with them. I'm not sure that 150 miles is enough evidence of them being good, but so far so good for me!
Love a good experiment and change up for the sake of it. Would also say the matching steel fork is the fancier and much more beautiful option from the outside looking in. 😂
Murdered out machine. Thats what I call a sick road bike, not those ufo looking carbon aero something( some of them remind me of that weird flat fish from the sea)
I’m doing a drop bar install for the first time. Do I need a cable housing cap on the line before I insert it into the brake lever? Or do I just raw dog it without one?
You get more life out of tires if you rotate them. The back wears faster. I hear your concern about the front tire, but that’s never been an issue in my experience. 👍
Right . A fall from the front cockpit onto the floor it,s a very catastrofic event ending - up on the dentistry parlour . That's expensive and very '0uch 😮😢'@@AwesomeSheep48
I usually go with deathcore when I'm riding. I go with deathcore most times though. Lorna Shore, Shadow of Intent, Disembodied Tyrant, Mental Cruelty, that sort of thing.
Got to compliment the big man here on this excellent video. First watch how to put tyres and tubes on, then watch the man again, he's got a chair, I sit cross legged on the floor. Top job. He's fried my tiny mind with the out of character build. Gilles Berthoud make a bar end rear view mirror that's a ton of money but won't bust your glasses, the string gloves saved my hands in high speed crashes, follow the big man's lead on this they're better than the modern fabrics for protecting your nose pickers.
1 minute in: Wait what, did I just hear a lot of carbon and electronic shifting?? Am I on the right channel? Well let me get some chips and let's go!
That’s what I said!
My bikes are vintage very old school Eddy Merckx - Bernard Hinault - & alikes 20 and 22 mm. tyres . 2 and 3 sprokets on the front ; 6 and 7 gears on the back . More than 40 years young and running around very smoothlly . Tubulares tyres Michelan old school. I won't Change them for those contemporâneous electronics gizmos .
Show us some of those and make comparaisons. In the end tell US which Will win a real French tour de France .
What brand and model are the HUBS? The Rear Hubs sound so good freewheeling!
@@manuelluis5456 I ride a Merckx San Remo 76 as often as time allows. It's not a vintage bike but it's absolutely my favorite in my collection.
TH-cam is not even 20 years old and has changed the documentation of life, hobbies, comedy. Love all my favorites' videos. I love being in the garage working on bikes but can't imagine having to stop every few seconds to consider another camera view and explaining what I'm doing.
Pocket drone shots were pretty nice in this one Andy. Always nice to watch someone play with their new toy.
Electronic shifting, Lycra and a drone, man what a road weenie influencer!! Love the looks of the bike and thanks for another great video. Really enjoyed the ending with the drone!! I have a friend with the same drone and one of my favorite vids is of it just flying into a tree.
From Bike Farmer to Road Weenie...ROFL
Soon he'll tell us disc brakes are best on road bikes. 😆😵💫
Soon he'll be shaving his beard, arms n legs for 'better aero' LOL
What a beautiful build. One of my favourites among your videos - it’s great to see you so relaxed and focussed, not having so many problems to find fixes for 😅 Have a blast in Switzerland
Fixing, riding, droning, yelling at clouds... this video had it all.
Terrific video. One of your best yet. Informative, instructive and humorous. The ride at the end of the video was through some interesting terrain. By the time I had figured out how you filmed those scenes from up in the air with some kind of "follow me" feature on a drone, you made that spectacular left handed catch of the drone over the side of the bridge! What an amazing scene that was!
I love the look of carbon forks on classic style bikes. Your whole build looks great!
Also those VO brakes are straight up the best rim brakes I've ever used. I have all 3 in this video on various bikes
I’m old school cyclist from Michigan
I didn’t have a car
Rode all year
And raced mountain bike
Cycle cross
And
Road
Also
I wrenched at several bike shops
And all my own bikes
You bring me back brother
Appreciate your channel
I live in Colorado now
It’s a story
But
I love your old school mentality
Hit me up
Just got an old chromoly road bike running again! These videos are therapy
Oh, that looks awesome. And as everyone knows, looking good is the most important thing to cycling. Now, looking forward to seeing you shredding the Swiss Alps.
I've been riding since 3yo and building bikes with my dad since I can remember. I recently got back into it after a loooong time, and your vids take me back to snipping cables, cleaning parts and pressing headset cups with my pops. I like your practical and extremely effective style. Thanks for sharing your secrets and kicking a$$! I love the derailleur cable lubing trick! I'm off to dismantle and harvest parts off the curb alert bikes I've collected and built a "better than new" ripper!
27:55 having a custom bike built for you by passionate engineers is about the most awesome connection you can have to a bicycle
At 41:02 He's breaking the 15mph speed limit!!! Does he own the cops? At 44:48 he RUNS a stop sign! So, yeah, he controls that town and has the power to do whatever he wants! He'll probably make his cat the town mayor.
there is a name for people that can only find fault
wow great vid thanks! my fave part? 36:06~Sez the gentleman who endorses Dork rings. (And DID NOT install on on his smooth stealth ride.....)
Nicely done! It's great to have so many fit and finish options available, we can truly make a bike our own flavor. Happy Trails, see you on the next adventure! 😁
🤙🏼 Yeaaa! #roadie welcome to the club. No dork diac, electrinic groupset, loud hub, carbon, licra kit, helmet + cycling cap, tubolitos, flat top chain, aesthetics!!! Way to go. 🤜🏼🤛🏼
For the brake reach issue , Bdop Cycling sells pad holders with pads that add 7mm reach, which may help you out. I’ve had success on a few builds with there problem solver pad holders.
Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭. Enjoy your trip in the alps 🚵🏻♂️.
39:19 GASSSSSSP! You're one of us after all.. I knew it!
Nice build!!!!!!! So good to see the microshifters and how you like to set up your gear ratios. Learning so much!
Hey Andy, after those first test run shots from the street and seeing Gib’s from the street K was thinking how cool it would be to be taken for a spin of your wee town . And at the end of this vid you DID! Perfect!
I live just west of the Alps in France at the foot of the lovely cycling area of Le Pilât and I’d love to come over and go riding round that gorgeous looking lake you show us. And of course visit Gib’s!!!
Like to see more videos like this testing and riding the bikes you fix. Not all but some bikes.🚲
Like the bicycle on the roof top that was cool.😎
Beautiful bike before and after rebuild.
Never satisfied, can't leave well enough alone. Yup that's me for sure
I really like this build. Shift cables have drawbacks, and we use batteries for lights anyway, or at least I do. I would like something like this that could take 40mm. I've never been able to recable and calibrate my shifting, so moving to AXS would give me more ability to set up and adjust the bike.
great name for your bike...I love the old Dead songs.....I grew up listening to them back in the late 60's and 70"s...
When you put the new fork on there I immediately thought wow that almost perfectly matches the frame’s paint.
I am fairly new to the cycling community but watching your channel has been very helpful thank you for your hard work and honest opinions it helped guide me not to fork out a arm and a leg for a bike.
Podcast for the Ramones...No Dogs In Space?
Can't wait to see you in the mountains! Thanks for video :)
Disc brakes are great for overheating on long descents. I use a third party 12 chain on my Sram etap no problems. Great bike 👍
Funny that I have only fading with disc brakes…
Nice one and great catch of the Hover Air!!
you live in a nice area for biking...I'm so jelly.....it won't be long till the fall colors come....
Thanks for hurting my feelings so good. I bought a new trek and then found your videos. You have me totally pegged. I'm having so much fun riding my bike and watching these roasts. Great job
Beautiful bike and beautiful place to ride it - thanks for sharing!
Geez, I always struggled to get Continental 5000s on my wheels. I gave up on them. You made it look easy.
Wow can't wait for the Alps videos ! I shared with my American Built Frames Facebook Group
I can’t wait to get the footage!
Beautiful bike! I love the steel/ti frames and I'm a big fan of rim brakes. You're right about "custom" frames, they are simply the best. Thanks for sharing!!
it sure looks nice. Thx for sharing
Just catching up on this older video and tbh i'm so excited for the reveal lol
man those velo orange brakes are sweet.
I have a pair of Velo Orange brakes on my Cannondale synapse. Best rim brakes I have ever used
Yeah, custom steel is the best. I just got a new Battaglin Portofino from Italy and it is the best riding frame I’ve ever owned.
Before that, I had another custom Italian-made steel bike, a Mondonico Spirit that I bought in the late 90s, but it was showing its age and I wanted something modern.
What a beautiful bike, really is awesome!
O come on, new cables, that you probably buy in bulk, are less the $2 ea. And you can easily use short rear derailleur and rear brake cables on the front! Gearing - I'm 65 now and I like 30:48 or 0.625 for the hills on the Isle of Man and these past 2 months in the Pyrenees on my mtb. On my road bike I have 30:42 or 0.71 as my lowest gear; 1:1 is way too high a gear for climbing for me.
That bike looks amazing well done .
Man that bike looks SWEET...all murdered out (black) like that! Im more than impressed.
You're kinda the "Lake Wobegon' of bike shops. Nice little town . . . great riding territory.
I'm all vintage, custom Tom Teesdale (2000) 7-speed RSX, but I picked up an 80's Japanese frame with SRAM parts on it as a project. The 'restomod' has SRAM cranks and brifters, but the drive chain and cassette are 'generic' so no need for a special chain.
BWSHLF tpu tubes are basically 2 for one on Amazon.. Got them on a muirwoods beneath schwalbe hurricanes and they are chef's kiss
I love the Velo Orange brakes, have a pair of their Grand Cru on my Trek Domane!
Awesome build Andy! Beautiful bike! Thanks for taking us along on your shakeout and ride at the end. Excellent job, love to watch and thanks for sharing your knowledge as always.
Your first channel shirt - “Save the turtle - Screw the cyclist”. I would buy two! Even funnier when I think about my daughter who has devoted herself to conservation and the protection of turtles
Good evening, SIr. I watched one of your some of your older vids and you said(you can't make me accept your facts)so I watched more and I was shocked.You don't preach a point of view,politics, life choices.You just do bike's.Then I saw how you started this channel to help in the winter when its slow.I know how that is,I work everyday paycheck to paycheck but I still joined just because I can watch someone who isn't telling me what to think.So thank you for the content.
Good enough for who it's for!! Would make a great T shirt 😂
Think he has it in his shop
Love watching you tweek your bikes it’s a big part of the game for me to. Also loved the sir mix a lot action always welcome in my world. Can’t wait to see the new build, I’m just about to purchase a Rivendell bike for randonneuring❤.
Im building a sweet carbon 5500 (WI badge on the front). Whilst watching YOU build yours. Love it. Bikes are the best. ❤❤
Really surprised to see carbon and e-shifting on your channel. Neat bike but I have to say the grey/silver combo you had on there was really a sharp looking bike.
Can't blame you for the eTap. Wanna try it myself.
Sadly, every community creates its own wedge issues... including bikes. Carbon vs metal, electronic vs cable, hydraulic vs cantilever.
I ride all bikes and can appreciate all of them in their different ways. Even if a particular setup is not for, let others appreciate their setup their way.
Sweet ride...
So I got a '22 Mondraker Foxy R aluminum bike with nice DT wheels, Ohlins suspension and a lower mid SRAM build. After a bit of time it ended up getting a bunch of modifications. I built Hope-DT-Spank wheels with TPU tubes & Tannus inserts inside Vittoria Mazza tires, went with e13's 11S 9-46, SRAM GX der & a twist shifter (yea, they are durable, easy to use with arthritic thumbs and they don't injure knees in crashes) and a KMC SL waxed chain, NSB-Spank cockpit with Acerbis hand guards and NSB pedals on GX Cranks in a CC helbender BB. Hope brakes (Yup, new brakes for asthetics but the benefit is better braking. I love vented rotors!), HS & seatpost clamp, e13 chainring and chain guide are next. A bunch of parts trickled down to a couple of other bikes in the house for good upgrades. It's been a satisfying journey.
My last custom steel road bike is a Landshark with Campy C-Record and Delta brakes from the very early days of ergopower shifting brake levers. She got a Cannondale Coda suspension seatpost that has survived with gentel, loving care. It was built for decending in the Alps with a burly MTB top tube that made it a speed weapon. She is still too fast.
The Ramones deserve their place in music history. Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction is another great one for pedaling tunes.
Darkstar is a great name, my RC car racing buddy uses it as his nickname. Those rear dropouts are beautiful. 😍 Rock on!!!
SRAM FORCE AXS is sooo sweet. Love it with 1x
Black Chris King headset..
Cool bike !!
What are your thoughts on bathing your chain in molten paraffin wax with a lubricant of your choice?
My 60 year old wife just did the Alpe d’Huez (1.35) with a wax+ PTFE chain.
That frame is great, but I wouldn't have put SRAM on it. I had SRAM eTap Red 11 speed when it first came out and had a couple of serious problems with it. So I got Shimano 9170 and have never had so much love for a bike. My bike is a custom Ti frame that was made in Boseman Montana back in 2020. I was so amazed by how much better a custom bike is that I now have Chris Bishop making me a frame that will be for a NOS Campagnolo 10 speed Centaur group that has been sitting in my closet for years. That bike is getting close to completion. Your right, custom frames aren't cheap but I don't mind spending more if it will provide me with a better relationship with my bike and get me on it every day.
thats a pretty sick rebuild
I hear you man, Vintage For the win. 🤙🤙 I'm Still on a Peugeot Perthus Pro Reynolds 753 Reynolds running Rim Brakes and Downtube Shifters.
I could recommend several forks under $120 that work great. The Toseek I have for my gravel bike is great. Many many miles on it. They have a road fork as well. SRAM is just another company pricing things out of the common cyclist price range. wheeltop eds rim brake is under $550 and bolts on and works with the cassette/chain on the bike right now.
I got less than a grand in my 2x13 system and you can’t even buy a 2x13 😂 if I added my crank and bb in it’s around $1200 and weighs 300+ grams less than anything Shimano or sram has. So a true 2x13 road groupset 3/4 a pound lighter than anything from Shimano or sram and in a combination they don’t offer for less than anything they offer. Rear cassette is a rotor 13s 10/36 and the wheeltop hits every one like butter.
Very exciting re-build and TRIP PLANS! Just throwing this out there, but FYI I am all in on 1X for my gravel and road/touring bikes. I respect the "Save the Front Derailleur" movement (if you could call it that), but I just love the darn 1X. My road set up is 40-10/46. Peace! -Greg
Nice video, cool bike build. You might enjoy Killing Joke on a ride, I know I do, though I have to be out of town, it tends to lead me into the higher gears.
Have fun in the Swiss Alps., they're friggin beautiful. 👍
I’d love to know how to purchase a build! You built up an old MTB into a nice everyday for a bigger guy, I loved it and wanted it with those double walled rims. Makes me want to do the same with my 1997 Raleigh M40.
lovely flat roads im so gelous
I ran into the same brake problem with my new build. I was trying to swap brakes but the new fork wasnt compatible. Ended up buying some black Shimano mid reach calipers which matched the black frame better than the silver ones I was swapping. So all good in the end!
I have the RideNow TPU 45g race formula tubes (~$7 per tube on AliExpress) on my gravel bike. I have put about 150 miles on them on light gravel and paved paths, and I haven't had any issues with them. I'm not sure that 150 miles is enough evidence of them being good, but so far so good for me!
I put on some cheapo Amazon ones and so far, so good!
Love a good experiment and change up for the sake of it.
Would also say the matching steel fork is the fancier and much more beautiful option from the outside looking in. 😂
retro meets new is the best kind of bike
Murdered out machine. Thats what I call a sick road bike, not those ufo looking carbon aero something( some of them remind me of that weird flat fish from the sea)
I’m doing a drop bar install for the first time. Do I need a cable housing cap on the line before I insert it into the brake lever? Or do I just raw dog it without one?
Come on over to my area of the alps while you are in Europe, Schliersee Germany (50km south of Munich). The road riding here is excellent.
Thanks!
Why the "more life left" tire on the rear? I've always thought the less worn tire should be up front for good traction and steering control.
I always put the newer tires on the front, don't want to put any more risk into having a front flat.
You get more life out of tires if you rotate them. The back wears faster. I hear your concern about the front tire, but that’s never been an issue in my experience. 👍
Right . A fall from the front cockpit onto the floor it,s a very catastrofic event ending - up on the dentistry parlour . That's expensive and very '0uch 😮😢'@@AwesomeSheep48
Sweet bike.
I usually go with deathcore when I'm riding. I go with deathcore most times though. Lorna Shore, Shadow of Intent, Disembodied Tyrant, Mental Cruelty, that sort of thing.
18:30 those threads sound dryyyyy, why no clean+grease?
Awesome - he'll take us all to the Alps! Where is his shop, I'll bring the donuts! Edit: Videos? No, I think he forgot he said he'd take us all.
Nice rebuild❤
What Hubs are those? Sound SO Good freewheeling! Really crisp!!!
Finally Electronic and some CF
I like tpu tubes but the supplied patches havent worked for me. Held air at home but riding loosened them allowing air to escape.
Looks great!
Cheers from the Swiss mountains! Maybe we see each other somewhere on the road 🙂
Damn, man. Every one of these I can't stop watching. And I'm not a road biker ;-). Just love biking. Is that a partypace topcap on your stem?
What are the benefits of the carbon fork? Stiffer?
Lighter mostly.
The Bike looked good before, but the black really makes it look fast! Liked the format of build and ride in this video!
Awesome build
Awesome bike...😎
Lovely bike
Awesome video and build,what was the before and after weight lbs?
No grease on the bottom bracket before reinstall? #BkeHkr
Now that you're embracing the wireless dark side again check out SRAM Wireless Blips. Changed my life.
Got to compliment the big man here on this excellent video. First watch how to put tyres and tubes on, then watch the man again, he's got a chair, I sit cross legged on the floor. Top job. He's fried my tiny mind with the out of character build. Gilles Berthoud make a bar end rear view mirror that's a ton of money but won't bust your glasses, the string gloves saved my hands in high speed crashes, follow the big man's lead on this they're better than the modern fabrics for protecting your nose pickers.
nice bike...wow
Why didn't you use the Whisky RD+ mid-reach fork? It's got a straight steerer and designed for 700x35mm. Seems like the perfect option for this frame.
It was probably out of stock