I don’t think that’s the idea of that Yootoob channel.
I vaguely remember reading a piece about the whole Dream Builds channel a while back. From – hazy – memory, Gee Milner, who makes the things, did the first one on a vague whim and was mildly astonished when it went viral and the rest – to paraphrase a lot of waffle – is history and also, I think, co-promoted with anyone who’ll pay him to feature their bike/frame in one of his videos, though I’m just guessing at the last bit, but you know, capitalism, the internet etc.
I guess the appeal is that they combine a sort of zen-like calm to the watcher. In reality the endlessly smooth process is utterly at variants to most attempts at building up a modern frame, where you’re endlessly trying to thread partly bled, poorly sealed hydraulic brake hose through a labyrinthine internal routing maze before haplessly connecting the wrong hose to the wrong lever then realising the whole thing routes through the headset anyway, or something like that.
If you were making a parody video – which it’s absolutely ripe for – you’d ‘wake up’ at the end to find the reality of a load of expensive, semi-butchered components strewn across the workshop floor with the mechanic banging his head against the wall in frustration.
Also, the thing where he slathers most of the contents of a tube of grease onto the headset bearings. Do people really use that much?
