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and welcome to single track Fresh Goods
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down under live we're live on YouTube
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and it's Friday morning here in
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Australia in Bendigo and if you're
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watching from the UK welcome hello and
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uh happy Thursday evening I think it is
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there if I remember correctly sorry I'm
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a little bit underslept at the moment
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the uh the heat the last few days here
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has been absolutely oppressive and uh
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and I've not been sleeping terribly well
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boohoo wahwah whatever so just
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reposition this lovely decur frame here
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um welcome to fresh goods Friday live
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and um I'm going to run through a bunch
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of products today we're going to have a
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bit of a chat about mountain bike in
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general we got people tuning in there at
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the moment hello welcome um as usual
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please um b means answer any questions
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you've got here I can see your questions
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on the screen in front of me right down
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the bottom here so um so please ask me
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any questions you've got about the stuff
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we're going to look at today um and also
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if you got any other general questions
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please drop them in the bottom um
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section below and I'll do my best to
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answer them for you um one thing I would
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love to know right now is for those
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people who are tuning in now who
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watching live I'd love to know where in
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the world you're watching from but I'd
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also like to know how hot or how cold it
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is where you're watching from um please
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tell me I'd love to know the reason I
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say that is we've had a bit of a mini
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heat wave this week um in Australia in
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general I think across the whole of the
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country um but but speaking more locally
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in Bendigo oh we got uh PR Ros steel
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frame maybe it is yes I uh you may have
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heard of deurf before uh this is
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actually not a fresh good this is a very
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old good deurf I think this is back to
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front for you guys I'm not entirely sure
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um this is not a fresh good it is a
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retro uh good that my good friend Ben
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has recently acquired um if he's
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watching this live at the moment Ben can
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let us know um all the details about
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this cuz I know nothing oh Callum
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welcome thanks for tuning in Callum
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North Yorkshire and bloody freezing is
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it literally freezing is it 0° at the
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moment in North Yorkshire um I can tell
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you how hot it's been here in Australia
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um or at least in Bendigo anyway so
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Monday we hit 40° I was it 40° yes
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Tuesday was 41 and then Wednesday we hit
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43° yesterday it cooled off and we hit
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38° which was quite Pleasant relative to
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the plus 40° we'd had several days
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before last night at midnight I was
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still checking emails on my phone in bed
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cuz I couldn't sleep and at midnight it
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was 28° C it was so hot um it's still
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really warm now um but it's under 40°
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which as far as I'm concerned as is
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quite Pleasant oh we've got a comment
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come through shed life guy welcome to
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the uh to the um show shed life guy
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thanks for tuning in hi will have you
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heard of the monkey link system
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integrated lights and fenders using a
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fidlock tech and I'm freezing in Norfolk
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oh I'm sorry to hear your freezing in
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Norfolk but to be honest freezing right
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about now actually sounds really
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Pleasant it's um it's way too hot here
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um I have not heard of the monkey link
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system integrated lights and fenders
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using a fidlock tech where is is that a
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particular bike brand shedlife guy is
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that um or or a component brand that's
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doing that I've not heard of that um I
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have been using the excuse me I have
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been using the fidlock water bottle um
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over the last um year or so and it's
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been really really good so that's got
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the the magnetic um stubs that sit on
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the frame and then the receiver that's
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on the back side of the bottle and they
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just clip together really really nice um
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so yeah I I know that they're using that
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technology and a bunch of other products
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um PR Ros is saying in Poland Warsaw
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plus three well that also sounds quite
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Pleasant right now um 3° I assume that
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Celsius uh Fahrenheit would be very cold
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um maybe it is Fahrenheit 3° if you're
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in Warsaw uh I understand that's a very
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cold place uh let me know if that's
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Celsius or Fahrenheit that's slightly
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cons oh Celsius okay that's all right
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then uh that's a little colder than it
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is here I think at the moment U my I
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don't know my phone it's up there um but
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I think it's um around 28° and it's 9:00
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in the morning or 8:30 in the morning so
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yeah bloody hot here that's for
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sure yeah 3° I would take that right now
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to be honest um I think I slept for
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about 3 hours last night on my bed
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soaked in sweat it was really really hot
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really not
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sexy um so we should probably talk about
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some fresh goods here oh shedlife guy
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you buy a seat clamp and or stem and
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everything Clips onto the these
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items is interesting I'm very interested
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in this I'd love to see if you could put
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a link to this shed life guy in the
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comments section um if there's a link
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that we can follow to a new story or the
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product itself U that sounds really
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interesting I've not heard of it before
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but I'd love to know more about it um
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Chris Sangster is just tuning in saying
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I just rode back from College on my roie
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and about
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2° that does sound really cold actually
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is it um are you getting much ice over
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your way black ice o that is terrifying
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I think the first winter I had in the UK
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I didn't realize basically how dangerous
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black ice was I have a great story for
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you actually and and anyone from single
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track from the office who's watching
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this will have a great laugh because
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Sub-Zero temperatures are just not
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something we run into that much here um
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I mean it does get cold in Bendigo but
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it it doesn't get that cold very often
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um um and I remember the first winter I
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had in the UK and I was working at the
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single track office and I had to wash a
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test bike and cuz it was um I think it
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was being picked up later that day or
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something so I took the bike outside the
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front of the office to the area that we
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always wash bikes just out on basically
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on the on the uh the foot path next to
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the road against the wall so I was
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washing the bike you know cleaning all
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the mud off it it was freezing I had
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gloves on I had a beanie on I had two
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jackets on a raincoat you know trousers
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everything I was just freezing anyway
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and I had to get this job done cleaned
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the bike cool went back inside went
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upstairs checked my emails drinking my
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coffee and about 20 minutes later chips
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comes into the office and I mean there's
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about eight of us there working in the
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office and he
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goes has anyone been washing bikes this
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morning and I was like yeah that was me
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I washed a test bike um you know what's
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up and he goes do you know you've
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created a death trap outside on the foot
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paath and I thought what do you mean he
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goes come come with me I'll show you
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what I'm talking about so we went
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downstairs and the side of the foot path
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next to the wall that I washed this bike
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is covered in thick Frozen ice it was
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about -3° that day maybe -4° at that
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point in the morning and basically all
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the water that I'd been washing with the
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hose on this bike had just created this
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huge icicle over the foot path and uh
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yeah it was slippery AF so so um if
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anyone did slip over and hurt themselves
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that day and is watching this I'm really
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sorry I didn't know this is a new thing
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for an Australian to experience so uh so
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there you go that's my funny story about
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nearly killing someone on the footpath
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in Toman next to the single track
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office but anyway let's um that's it's
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very British of me to start out this
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video talking about the weather um but I
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feel like it's it's it's a worthwhile
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Topic at the moment because I understand
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the UK you guys are going through a bit
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of cold patch and we're going through a
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bloody Hot Patch at the moment so so
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there you go um let me know if you got
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any questions about stuff here oh Ben
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wbin he's tuning in he is watching live
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so if anyone wants to know about this
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orange frame this is a beautiful deurf
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solitire so Ben is actually just giving
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us the details uh handmade in Canada
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from around
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2006 uh single speed specific 26in disc
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frame soon to be reborn as a single
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speed gravel with flat bars and 00 by 38
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tires um if anyone else out there if
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you're familiar with deurf I mean you'll
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you'll know straight away by this very
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distinctive Wishbone system on the the
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back of the frame how good does this
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look it is absolutely beautiful and we
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don't really see too much of that on uh
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hard tail frames these days of course
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duf is a a fairly specialist frame
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Builder um handmade in Canada and uh
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this beautiful steel frame in this quite
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like the uh the tangerine color it's
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pretty nice got the salsa seat clamp up
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here which is very nice Chris King
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bottom bracket Chris King headset of
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course um so I believe Ben's acquired
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this uh secondhand this is sort of a a
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bit of an eBay gold find he's he's
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pretty good for that should probably
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pull out these uh Shimano Airlines this
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was something else that Ben had kicking
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around his Workshop uh anyone remember
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this does anyone remember Airlines did
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you ever have did you ever own Airlines
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was this something that you lusted after
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and eventually got your hands on and
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then you were really impressed by how it
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all worked and let me give you yeah
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there's one piece of the puzzle there
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you go you don't see too many of these
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around so um there you go that's that's
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the uh the airline system there uh
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basically not using cables but
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compressed air to fire off the shifts so
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you'd need to put uh pressurized air in
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this guy here kind of like an airshot
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tubless thing these days it's probably
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the same same can actually they've just
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rebranded it um but you put air
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compressed air into this and it would
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give you a certain amount of shifts I
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want to say like 300 shifts off the top
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of my head that number just popped into
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my head and someone can correct me on
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that but yeah you get a certain amount
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of um air inside this can and that would
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give you a certain amount of shift uh
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from the derailer and shifter system and
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all hooked up with uh little pneumatic
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um hoses so yeah pretty cool huh um
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there's lots of retro gold in here so if
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you're a bit of a a retro fan let me
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know and uh we can organize to do a bit
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of a tour video one Friday or perhaps on
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a Thursday another day of the week we
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can do a bit of a tour video around here
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cuz there's there's so much stuff that
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you can't see in this video which if
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you're into Retro things you would
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absolutely love so let me know if you'd
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like to see a video on that we can do a
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bit of a workshop tour have a bit of a
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look at some retro stuff and you can
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kind of tune in and tell us what you
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want to see and what you've got yourself
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as well if you're into Retro bits and
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pieces something that's definitely not
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retro um I'm going to start by talking
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about um this new goodie from Fox racing
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shocks that turned up this week only a
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couple of days ago this is Super Fresh
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it was basically a secret up until a
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couple of days ago so um so I'm going to
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get cracking with some fresh goods so
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far away any questions you've got for me
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as they pop into your head and I'll see
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if I can answer them for you and let's
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have a bit of a chat about this
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one that is a big old dropper post this
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is uh you may have seen the video
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already earlier this week this is a new
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dropper post from Fox racing shocks
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there you go I'm not lying it is
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definitely Fox um it's the transfer
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but check out this uh girth of this post
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this is a
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175 mm drop seat post so previously fox
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has done 100 125 and 150 mm drop this is
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is a new um version of the transfer it's
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the new uh 175 transfer it's the longest
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dropper post that fox has ever made now
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longer stroke dropper posts definitely
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in Vogue um at the moment there are a
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few brands that have been doing it for a
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while um re um Boke with the revive
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dropper post we tested one of those
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about 6 months ago they're 185 mil
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dropper um I believe 9.8 do a 200 mil
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dropper um there's another brand vcum I
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think has been doing mil dropper for a
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while Callum is saying oneup dropper is
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the best dropper I've used so far that's
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a really um good suggestion there Callum
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I've not had my hands on the oneup
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dropper post but it gets a really good
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wrap now you can adjust the travel on
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the oneup dropper can't you you can put
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shims inside and you can actually lower
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the the travel height or the the actual
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physical um height of the dropper Post
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Yeah so he's giving me the thumbs up
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there so yeah that's pretty cool I think
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correct me if I'm wrong is that the only
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Dro post on the market that you can do
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that with I have a feeling it might be I
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can't think of any other post that you
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can do that with um maybe 9.8 offer some
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sort of travel limitation thing but with
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the oneup post it's quite easy to do
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right you've just got those plastic
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shims crack it open you add those and
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they'll actually shorten the length of
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the dro post um or take them out if you
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want to extend it so um so long travel
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Dro post are you into this is this a
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thumbs up are you kind of into this um
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super long drop is that something that
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appeals to you um callum's saying you
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can put uh the oneup shims in a Brand X
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dropper though oh that's a really good
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little tip so the same shims will fit in
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there and will that actually drop the
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physical height of the post or will it
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just limit the travel that's um that's
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one thing um uh cuz I know bontreger do
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shims that will limit the travel but I
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don't think they'll actually change the
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the overall length of the post uh which
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is crucial because or well it's
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potentially important because um I've
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actually got a test at the moment where
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the 150 mil dropper that's on there is
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slightly too long so I basically got
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that slammed all the way down into the
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frame and that saddle height there is
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still a fraction too tall for me so
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being able to put a shim in there and
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kind of drop that height would be
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amazing it would mean that you wouldn't
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have to buy a whole new dropper pose so
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um reduces the travel oh that's very
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good to know so that's the Brand X
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dropper post Brand X dropper post there
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you go is informing us that you can
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modify the travel of a Brand X dropper
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post very good to know we'd love to
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check that out for ourselves um and I'd
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also love to check out that oneup
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dropper so if oneup is watching this
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hook us up um anyway we're talking about
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the transfer dropper here these are
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available in two sizes so you've got uh
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30.9 and 31.6 we've got the 31.6 here um
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the total length is the same for both of
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those sizes and you can also get this in
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we've got the internal routed version
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here so we've got the cable uh pulled
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down the bottom of the post you can also
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get this in an a externally routed post
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where the cable mounts to the outside of
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the collar here so if you've got a frame
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that doesn't have stealth routing or you
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have a bike that you'd rather run it
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externally you don't want to run it
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through the frame and up the seat tube
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which is fair enough I get that um oh
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Robert has said we have not seen any
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Cove bikes for some
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years um that's slightly off topic
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robbert uh what do you mean by Cove
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bikes um but yes that's that you yeah no
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you're not wrong we haven't seen Cove
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Cove bikes for some time um but let me
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know what you mean are you talking about
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this cuz this is not a Cove Bike if
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that's what you're what you're asking
15:43
this is a decf um and it's not a fresh
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good it's actually a very retro old good
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um which I was just chatting about
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before but uh let me know what you mean
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by Cove bikes um so yes so this transfer
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um I went through the details in a video
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before and you can see the full new
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story on singlet track world.com which
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includes all the key measurements the
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key measurements being the total length
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uh which I think is about 530 mm then
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this length here uh no like Cove
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stiffy uh no we haven't seen the
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something like that for a while yeah I
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don't know what the go is with Cove
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bikes cuz of course they were quite in
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Vogue I don't know 10 years ago or so
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and they've kind of as far as I'm we
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they're still kicking around but um but
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they seem to have reduced their output
16:29
they certainly not as well known as they
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were uh previously remember the hand
16:33
drob that was a lovely steel Trail frame
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it was really modern frame as well born
16:39
on the NorthShore they very quite slack
16:41
head angle you know pretty radical kind
16:43
of geometry at the time um there was the
16:46
hand job what was the titanium one or
16:49
was that the Hummer that's the one uh
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shed life guy I'm down to two brake
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lines now everything else is Wireless
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right right on wireless how are you
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running Wireless shedlife guy I'm
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interested I'm very interested uh do you
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mean cable free or do you mean actually
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Wireless that would be uh yeah what do
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you what do you what do you want about
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there I'm very interested to find out
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what do you mean by that um right
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pricing on this uh in Australia this
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will cost um $479 in the UK this is 319
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quids so the price is unchanged over the
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150 125 100 Mil travel version so you
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for the same price you get more post
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more travel and more post life
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guide mura Dropper one by bluetooth
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shifter whoa that's crazy what's the
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shifter and Dera you've got there the
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wireless shifter and derailer that's uh
17:48
is it that X shifter is that what you've
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got going
17:52
Bluetooth control yeah yeah interesting
17:56
o I like the sound of that anything that
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reduces cables on a mountain bike is is
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thumbs up for me as far as I'm concerned
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um now you do get this um post on its
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own so you buy the post and you can buy
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the lever separately or if you already
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have your own lever you can of course
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BYO we've been sent the Race Face uh
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turbine or sorry raceface one by lever I
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think it used to be called the turbine
18:20
lever there you go so a nice machine
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paddle This is designed to sit under the
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bar in the way of your thumb uh which is
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quite nice oh Archer campagnolo shifter
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XT derailer Archer components shifter XT
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derailer very cool oh you've got loads
18:37
of goodies you're talking about today
18:39
shedlife guy I'm very interested in that
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Archer components I will look that up
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after this video cuz I'm very very
18:45
interested in this Bluetooth wireless
18:47
shifting very very cool all right give
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us a thumbs up if you're into that um
18:52
shed life guy coming out with a goal
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today thank you very much um right so
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there you go that's a drop post single
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track whe.com if you want more
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information on this um I don't have it
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fitted onto a bike yet because I can't
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find one that fits um my legs are a bit
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short and um that means that a long
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travel droper post like this is kind of
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difficult to uh to fit to a bike because
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it does need to sit in the frame enough
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and then you also need enough exposed
19:16
saddle hanging out of the frame what is
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the most uh what's the most travel
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dropper you've
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tried is anyone out there running super
19:25
long droper post or you kind of like is
19:27
125 perfect for you and you don't want
19:29
any more than that um is there a reason
19:31
why you wouldn't run want to run a super
19:32
long dropper post or do you just want as
19:35
much as you can possibly get would would
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would a 300 mil drop of post kind of
19:39
float your boat um shed life guy I like
19:41
shopping in Germany they are light years
19:43
ahead of the
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UK all right well I I won't make a
19:46
comment on that because you know
19:48
politics and Germany and the UK at the
19:50
moment are a bit sensitive my oneup is
19:53
170 on my new ca 29er right on yeah I'm
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I'm pretty into uh after using a 160 or
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170 mil dropper post um I'm I'm really
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into it get that subtle out of the way
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as far as I'm concerned the the further
20:06
the better any news on an eagle wifly
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setup asks Chris no news um I would
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honestly tell you if I knew um I've been
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pestering Shram for a reasonable while
20:18
about this um I have a sneaking
20:21
suspicion it's probably coming in 2019 I
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think if you saw my predictions article
20:25
for 2019 on the website um that was one
20:27
of my predictions I think Wi-Fi e EAP
20:30
Eagle surely has to be coming this year
20:33
um Nino Sher of course has been on it
20:35
for however many World Cup rounds last
20:37
year um we've also seen Wireless Reverb
20:39
dropper post uh which will be very
20:42
interesting to see how that pans out
20:43
relative to the mura viron that shedlife
20:45
guy is talking about um so it be
20:48
interesting to see how Rock shocks has
20:49
gone about creating Wireless dropper
20:51
post and how they've gone with the
20:54
activation speed which is uh not a
20:56
problem of the mura vyon but it's
20:58
definitely defitely a quirk that you
20:59
either can get used to and you don't
21:01
mind or you hate um so it' be
21:04
interesting to see how Rock shocks go
21:05
about that but Wireless EAP I don't know
21:08
um my suspicion is we'll see it sometime
21:10
this year um but we have no information
21:12
on it and I'm telling the honest
21:14
absolute honest truth we have no
21:15
information on that whatsoever um so
21:19
we're in the dark as much as you are all
21:21
we know is the spy photos that we've all
21:23
seen online um from the World Cup Nino
21:25
shter but um fingers crossed we'll be
21:28
seeing that this year I'd be really
21:29
interested to try that system as I said
21:31
before anything that eliminates cables
21:33
shedlife guy is already onto it he's
21:35
well into the future with a Bluetooth
21:37
shifter and a Shimano XT derailer um
21:40
anything that gets rid of cables on a
21:42
mountain bike um I'm all about um cool I
21:46
want to talk about this this little tool
21:49
um because I reviewed this for single
21:52
track.com uh very recently and I just
21:56
wanted to give you a bit of a look at it
21:57
because I think it's super neat it's
21:59
also super expensive this tool is £50 I
22:03
don't know what the Australian price is
22:05
I think the American price is $50 um
22:07
so50 for this o shed life guy I bet it
22:10
will be expensive three or four years
22:11
before stram is Affordable yeah I I
22:14
don't doubt that it will be expensive um
22:15
I mean red EAP isn't exactly a cheap
22:18
group set that's the road Wireless group
22:20
set that that SRAM currently has um so I
22:23
suspect that xx1 eagle EAP will will be
22:27
similarly priced but then again with
22:29
eagle EAP you don't have a front
22:30
derailer do you've just got the shifter
22:32
and the rear derailer so there's two
22:34
components there um so in theory if we
22:38
think that Shram is going to do what we
22:40
think they're going to do which is just
22:42
create a wireless shifter and derailer
22:45
that would mean if you already own an
22:46
eagle group set a 1x12 group set then
22:48
you just need to buy those two
22:50
components because you already have the
22:51
cassette the chain crank set chain ring
22:54
so in theory it's not a whole group set
22:57
that you need to buy
22:59
um but as I said this is that's pure
23:01
speculation on my behalf maybe they're
23:03
going to go to 13
23:05
speed who knows uh well rodo already
23:08
going to do that um and I did have an
23:10
email from rodo actually a couple of
23:11
months ago saying that they should have
23:13
in a couple of month's time they should
23:16
have that
23:17
13-speed hydraulic group set um they're
23:20
doing a 1 by 13 is that a bit crazy to
23:23
you guys a 13-speed cassette I think it
23:25
was I want to say 10 to 52 or 10 to 53 I
23:29
think it's humongous that's a big old
23:32
cassette on the back of the bike there
23:34
um is 13-speed going a little bit too
23:36
far tell me what you think um while
23:38
we're talking about gears here um right
23:41
so I'm going to talk about this this too
23:43
crazy yeah yeah so PR Ros is not a fan
23:46
too much um it's surely The Next Step
23:50
though isn't it like the this is the
23:52
thing with drivetrains is you have eight
23:53
speeed and then a couple of years later
23:55
you have nine-speed and then it trickles
23:57
down through the group set and then your
23:58
next Innovation is let's do 10speed 11
24:01
speeed we're up to 12 speed now of
24:02
course Shimano brought out uh 12-speed
24:05
XTR which is sort of still becoming
24:08
available as we speak um so yeah is the
24:11
inevitable Step 13 speed maybe 14-speed
24:15
I think Shimano might even hold a patent
24:17
on a 14-speed cassette 2x 11 it's enough
24:20
says PR Ros yeah I think uh thing with
24:23
drivetrain is you've got to get what
24:24
works for you um whether that's a double
24:26
a single a triple um 10 11 12 speed
24:30
whatever um Callum says now pinion
24:33
gearbox is the future I hope um I've
24:35
written a couple of pinion gearboxes and
24:37
they are they are fantastic they're
24:39
beautiful pieces of engineering for sure
24:42
they're they're very very meticulously
24:44
built and uh as far as maintenance goes
24:47
you really don't have to do a whole lot
24:49
with those things the shifter leaves a
24:50
bit to be desired though because you got
24:52
that rotary grip shifter and there's a
24:54
there there's a certain method for
24:56
shifting you have to back off the power
24:58
before you shift which can be quite
25:00
tricky on the climbs and uh friends that
25:03
I know who own a bike with a pinion
25:04
gearbox they say you just get used to it
25:07
and you just deal with it and you you
25:08
modify your Technique and it's and it's
25:10
absolutely fine but how cool would this
25:12
be a pinion gearbox with a wireless
25:15
trigger shifter I reckon that would be
25:18
pretty pretty H hard to be
25:20
perfectly honest um because a trigger
25:22
shifter that's what a lot of mountain
25:23
bikers want group shift that's a smaller
25:25
Niche I think and a lot of people get
25:27
turned off opinion gearbox because of
25:29
the the rotary grip shifter um so if
25:32
they could develop a trigger shifter and
25:34
I understand the difficulty with that is
25:36
you need two cables coming out of the
25:38
shifter um which is why the rotary
25:40
system works because you're pulling
25:41
cable both directions as you're shifting
25:43
up or down um so how they would do that
25:46
with a trigger shifter that's Wireless
25:48
I've got no idea but hey they're German
25:49
they should be able to work it out Paul
25:51
J if it helps me up the hills I'm fine
25:53
with it agreed yeah if uh lower gears
25:56
all the way especially with tires
25:57
getting bigger Wheels getting bigger um
26:00
bikes in general getting I think a
26:01
little heavier than they have been in
26:03
the past few years as they're getting
26:04
more robust and more capable lower gears
26:07
thank you very much it would be nice if
26:08
someone retro engineered the Honda
26:11
downhill bike gearbox says shedlife guy
26:14
oh yeah that would be super cool mind
26:16
you that that was just a derailer in a
26:18
can wasn't it um it turned out that when
26:21
uh when they eventually showed the world
26:23
what the what was going on with that
26:24
Honda R rn01 downhill bike it just a
26:28
derailer in a can or maybe that's what
26:31
they wanted us to think and maybe it was
26:33
actually a hamster inside there changing
26:36
gears on its own who knows who knows uh
26:39
they were very secretive about it all
26:41
anyway um yeah I would love to see that
26:45
that technology uh developed and
26:47
advanced um but with a lot of these big
26:49
Brands like Shram and shano they have so
26:51
much invested in external drivetrains
26:53
and they're kind of refining a product
26:55
that already works pretty well um I
26:58
think most of us have external
26:59
drivetrains on our bikes and I don't
27:01
really have too many issues with it and
27:03
that's kind of where they're going with
27:04
that to reinvest in internal um gearbox
27:09
whether that's bottom bracket based or
27:10
Hub based there's a lot of development
27:12
involved there but um yeah maybe we'll
27:15
see some other players aside from pinion
27:17
get
27:18
involved um oh we've got another
27:19
question come through hey shedlife guy
27:22
how does the d1x go any good that's
27:25
Chris asking shedlife guy question you
27:27
can you can answer that if you like shed
27:30
life guy um so I've got this little tool
27:33
in my hands and I'll talk about it
27:34
rather than just fondling it fondling it
27:37
endlessly um so this is from fix it
27:39
sticks how Cool's this so these are two
27:41
sticks this is kind of their whole their
27:43
whole
27:44
stick um and these it's it's a
27:48
multi-tool essentially but rather than
27:50
being you know the little flip out star
27:52
multi-tool that we that we all know and
27:54
probably all use um it's designed like a
27:57
Tea Bar where Workshop tool so you
27:59
basically swap your bits around and you
28:02
can use it like a te bar so this is
28:04
really functional I really like using
28:07
this on the trail especially um when
28:09
you're trying to access like awkward
28:11
Bott um bottle cage bolts or you're
28:13
trying to access um brake lever reach
28:16
bolts anything that's kind of awkward
28:18
and fiddly this is fantastic cuz the um
28:21
the length of the tar is quite long I
28:23
think it's nearly 90 mm and so that
28:25
means you can get into quite awkward
28:27
positions which a standard flipout
28:29
multi-tool has a really difficult time
28:31
doing so um the whole design of this is
28:34
really neat they do a whole bunch of
28:35
different products and this is their
28:37
most comprehensive it's called the
28:38
mountain kit and it comes in this neat
28:41
little holster and see if you can hear
28:45
this oh I love that sound everything
28:47
clicks into place nicely uh it comes in
28:50
this neat little sort of Zippy bag carry
28:52
bag and the idea with these bits is
28:55
they're actually magnetic so so oh PR
28:59
Ros is saying that's cool I'm going to
29:01
buy that tool and he's giv this the uh
29:03
the okay Emoji yeah yeah it is really
29:05
neat I like it it's expensive don't get
29:07
me wrong um but it's super high quality
29:09
and you can just tell that by the feel
29:11
in your hands it's made to really um
29:14
made to a really high uh standard um so
29:17
yeah so you can actually pull these bits
29:18
out and you hear
29:22
that there you go so that's the magnetic
29:25
bit there and so far touchwood
29:30
I haven't had any of the bits drop out
29:31
on me on the trail which is kind of the
29:33
risk that you have with uh a removable
29:35
bit um but the hold there is I found
29:39
totally substantial enough um that I
29:41
haven't dropped any of these on the
29:42
trail um Pi Ros is saying in Poland we
29:45
say I'm not even going to try and
29:47
pronounce
29:49
that what does that mean I I want to
29:53
know what that phrase means and I'm not
29:54
going to try and pronounce that because
29:56
I I just don't want to offend
29:59
anyone um and with the yeah I
30:04
know hey I'm I'm a white
30:06
English-speaking person I don't know any
30:08
other languages aside from English and
30:10
even then I don't speak it very well um
30:12
I'm stupid basically so uh let let me
30:15
know what that means um you do get all
30:18
these other bits with it so I think in
30:20
total there are uh we have a 2 mm a 2.5
30:24
mm we have a 3 mm a 4 mm 5 mm and a 6 mm
30:31
hex bit and we have a uh T25 Torx bit on
30:36
here and a Phillips head screwdriver bit
30:38
there as well so you kind of have
30:40
everything you really need for most
30:42
bikes the only thing that's missing
30:44
which I would like to see added is an 8
30:46
mm hex bolt particularly for traveling
30:48
when you need to take pedals on and off
30:50
if you're putting your bike into a box
30:52
um or perhaps traveling in the back of a
30:53
car or you're taking on a train or a
30:55
plane or whatever um an 8 mm hex would
30:58
be a good addition but the good news for
30:59
this is these bits are a standard size
31:03
so you can go into your local hardware
31:04
store and in theory you should be able
31:07
to buy standard bits that will slot into
31:09
here and you've got your carry case
31:11
there so any extra bits you get you can
31:12
just Stow them in there and um so I'm
31:15
going to go get an 8 mm bit hopefully
31:17
this weekend to add to my fix it sticks
31:19
Mountain kit um because that's the only
31:22
thing I think it's missing um I'll show
31:24
you what else is in this little carry
31:25
case we had a couple of questions come
31:27
through PR Ros I'm white too yeah uh
31:30
shed life guide there was a cassette and
31:32
derailer in there with a friction clutch
31:34
unlike the pinion you can shift while
31:36
stationary and the d1x is Flawless 30
31:39
minutes to fit adjust with the app and
31:42
the shift is so quiet so that is the
31:44
wireless Bluetooth wireless shifter and
31:46
derailer that shed life guy is talking
31:48
about so I'm after this video I'm going
31:50
to go check that out that's um that is
31:51
super cool thank you very much for
31:53
letting us know um about some cool new
31:55
products that um that up until the start
31:57
this video I had no idea existed I knew
32:00
about the X shifter which I think is an
32:02
american guy who maybe used to work with
32:04
Shram um I remember I think it was um an
32:07
xram guy who's developed a wireless
32:09
shifter system called X shifter but it
32:12
uses a standard cable derailer and the
32:14
cable comes out of the mech and then it
32:16
goes into a receiver and this is a
32:18
little um Wireless um box that basically
32:21
pulls the cable or releases the cable so
32:23
it still uses the cable up until that
32:25
point and then it's Bluetooth up until
32:26
the shifter and that's where it's uh
32:28
you've got the wirer shifter shedlife
32:30
guy I bought mine because you guys were
32:32
supposed to rate it oh that's news to
32:36
me I've not actually seen that when when
32:39
was that
32:40
review because that might have been
32:42
before my time at single track perhaps
32:45
um I'm very interested about this D1 um
32:48
shifter business though I'm going to
32:50
show you while we're uh waiting for that
32:51
response I'm going to show you this tie
32:53
levers that come with this kit this is
32:55
super cool as well so you've got
32:57
magnetic tie levers that clip onto the
33:00
end of this so there we go and again
33:04
there's a little magnet in there that
33:06
sucks it into place and that's actually
33:08
quite firm Believe It or Not these are
33:10
some of the best tie levers I've ever
33:12
used and they're in this little
33:13
multi-tool kit you know they're not
33:15
dedicated tie levers um but they're
33:18
really nice fat kind of Blade quite thin
33:20
got a really good hooked profile to them
33:23
and because this is metal reinforced
33:26
well it's obviously uh an alloy carrier
33:28
that we have here because you've got
33:30
that metal axle it's got quite a bit of
33:33
um extra uh rigidity through it rather
33:36
than a full plastic tie lever so it
33:38
helps to reinforce it makes it a bit
33:40
stiffer and I found it's really really
33:42
easy to get tires on and off so these
33:44
tie levers are absolutely fantastic and
33:46
I actually use them in my workshop not
33:48
just in my backpack out on the trail um
33:51
these are probably some of the best I've
33:52
used so those come with the pack and we
33:54
also have oh this is also super cool
33:59
is let's see if I can get this chain
34:02
breaker and it's you wouldn't think
34:04
that's a chain breaker um but it is I'm
34:06
going to show you how so we build it as
34:09
a lot of the fix it sticks tools do you
34:11
actually um whack one of the sticks onto
34:14
the end so this is your handle uh sorry
34:17
this is your holder and this is your
34:18
handle or driver for driving the chain
34:21
pin so you can actually use that to get
34:24
extra torque cuz you know what normally
34:26
multitools that have a chain breaker on
34:27
on them they've got tiny little arms and
34:29
they're a bit fiddly and um I've
34:31
actually had the pins break on some as
34:33
well they're a bit flimsy and a bit of
34:35
an afterthought to be perfectly honest
34:37
um this is this is much more robust and
34:39
much easier to get a good amount of
34:41
torque and force onto that chain pin
34:44
driver so uh it's basically a a little
34:48
um a little excuse me um modular chain
34:53
tool so uh that comes in the kit as well
34:56
so super neat and and uh turns this kind
34:59
of fix it stick system into a really
35:02
versatile bit of Kit so let me know if
35:04
you're into that thumbs up on the um on
35:06
the Fixit sticks multi-tool it's called
35:09
the mountain kit and this is the the
35:12
biggest Kit that they do so it's
35:14
basically got the most tools possible um
35:16
if You' like to read more about this
35:18
jump on singletrack world.com and search
35:20
for Fixit sticks and my review went up I
35:23
don't know uh a week or two ago and uh I
35:26
rate this I think it's absolutely
35:27
fantastic very very nice to use not
35:30
cheap I think it's about 50 Quid in the
35:32
UK um so there you go I'll put that back
35:34
in the
35:35
zipper Stow that away and uh let me know
35:38
if you got any questions about that
35:40
we've just had a couple more questions
35:41
come
35:42
through ah shedlife guys saying about
35:45
six or seven months ago it was an
35:46
article on your website H uh that might
35:49
not have been my article maybe it was
35:51
and I've just completely had a brain
35:53
melt on it um to be honest everything is
35:55
melting at the moment it's really really
35:57
hot so you'll have to forgive me if I've
36:00
made a mistake there um but I'm not too
36:02
familiar with it to be honest um I'll
36:04
have to have a look we do publish a lot
36:06
of Stories on the website and there's I
36:08
think there's about three or four of us
36:10
that um that work on stories for single
36:12
track world.com so depending on who's in
36:14
the office at the time um might mean six
36:17
or seven months ago that would have been
36:19
July I might have been away at that
36:20
point I might have away being away on
36:22
holidays so but I'm going to look at
36:24
that thank you very much you've pointed
36:25
to um to a very good resource apparently
36:28
is on the website that I work for so I'm
36:31
going to go have a look and find out
36:32
some more about that thanks shedlife Guy
36:34
um the last thing I want to talk about
36:36
are these glasses which I've been riding
36:39
for about six or seven months um and
36:42
I've very luckily have two pairs of
36:45
these to play around with and I want to
36:47
show you this because while we're kind
36:48
of talking about um neat kind of modular
36:52
magnetic clip-in tools we should
36:54
probably talk about these neat modular
36:56
magnetic clip in glasses as well from
36:59
Smith Optics um now these are also
37:03
equally expensive I think they're 190
37:06
quid in the UK in Australia they're
37:09
$369 for a pair of glasses mind you you
37:13
do get two lenses so I guess you could
37:15
say you're getting two pairs of glasses
37:17
uh for the price of one very expensive
37:20
uh pair of glasses so I'll show you this
37:22
case because this is quite neat so this
37:24
is this is what you uh you get with your
37:27
glasses is uh ZIP out case that's pretty
37:29
standard but uh we've got the arms
37:31
separate here we've got two lenses in
37:34
the pack as well and we've got two
37:36
different tin lenses so we'll talk about
37:38
that a little bit um and basically when
37:41
you pull the main lens out of here the
37:44
idea is that you build your glasses so
37:46
they're kind of like little Transformer
37:49
glasses and I'll see if I can show you
37:51
this here but on the side of the glasses
37:54
there we go we've got a little bar here
37:55
a little Hollow um connection and on the
37:59
arm we have a corresponding latch and
38:02
that is held in place by a magnet so if
38:04
you push these two
38:06
together there we go see that clip in
38:09
place and that is now attached we'll do
38:13
the same on this side and clip that in
38:18
place if it goes there we go so that's
38:21
all clipped in so there you go those are
38:22
your Smith attack Max glasses now there
38:25
are a few different models from Smith
38:27
that use this technology it's a very
38:29
neat way of being able to offer
38:30
interchangeable lenses um it does mean
38:34
every time that you take your glasses
38:35
out of the case you have to build them
38:37
you have to construct your glasses
38:39
personally I find it quite satisfying so
38:40
I'm okay with that um but to release
38:43
them let's show you here there is a
38:46
little tab on here and you basically
38:48
open that you can see that pop open and
38:51
it Clips out simple as that so really
38:53
easy to do um really easy to swap lenses
38:56
when you need to these are the attack
38:58
Max so they're pretty huge let me put
38:59
those on wo that's pretty um that's
39:02
pretty Fierce look right there isn't it
39:04
yeah these are huge lenses they do a
39:07
standard attack lens which is a little
39:10
shallower than this this is a pretty
39:12
deep profile lens got really nice
39:14
curvature there as well um you've got
39:16
adjustable nose pieces so there's a
39:19
rubber nose piece here and you can clip
39:23
those together and that'll basically sit
39:25
the glass A little bit further up your
39:26
nose or you
39:28
can pop those out and that'll bring the
39:31
glasses a little bit closer to your eyes
39:33
and your eyebrows and you can
39:35
potentially drop them down a little bit
39:37
so it's basically a a fit system allows
39:39
you to kind of tweak the uh the fit of
39:41
those glasses which is pretty cool um
39:43
I'll show you the other lens that we
39:44
have here this is a rose tint lens so
39:47
you can see that's much more clear this
39:49
is a green mirror finish lens so this is
39:52
for your bright summery conditions and
39:54
this is for your overcast kind of winry
39:56
days um or Autumn days perhaps perfect
39:59
for the UK right about now I think these
40:01
lenses both of these use what Smith
40:04
called chromapop technology now the
40:07
easiest the way I like to describe this
40:09
is it's like looking through an
40:11
Instagram filter um it makes everything
40:13
look really bright and colorful and
40:15
there's loads of contrast uh it just
40:17
makes everything look better really
40:19
greens are much Greener um Browns are
40:21
much earthier um you get really good
40:24
color boosting kind of profile to it so
40:27
um it's quite Pleasant to use to be
40:29
honest the other feature about um
40:31
chromapop is the idea is that it filters
40:35
certain wavelengths that your eyes and
40:37
your brain find a little bit confusing
40:40
so certain colors that uh
40:43
that I'm going to get a technical part
40:45
of this wrong because I don't have the
40:47
information right in front of me um but
40:49
certain wavelengths that are I've got it
40:50
written down here um that provide
40:52
confusion to your brain that can be more
40:55
fatiguing um these filter those
40:57
wavelengths out the idea is to basically
40:59
make it easier to see um now I I don't
41:03
know if you if you're wearing your
41:04
glasses for hours on end that's probably
41:06
um going to be more of a difference for
41:08
you I reach for these glasses all the
41:09
time though I really like them I like
41:11
the clear Clarity of them um they don't
41:13
scratch very easily which is something
41:15
that a lot of high-end glasses have
41:17
issues with um these lenses have lasted
41:20
really well and for bright conditions
41:22
this green lens is really good and the
41:24
rose tint lens is good for uh over cast
41:27
condition shed life guide they're really
41:29
cool glasses but I'm probably going with
41:30
goggles for the next few
41:32
weeks good news shed life guy we have a
41:35
goggle group test coming at the moment
41:37
uh Rob Mitchell's working on a gole
41:39
group test um we've got I think six
41:41
pairs of different goggles and uh we
41:44
requested all of them in a British
41:46
winter friendly tint so um so might have
41:49
some good information for you there um
41:51
yeah and to be honest I could probably
41:53
do with goggles at the moment cuz the
41:54
trails are dusty and not in a good way
41:57
when I say that I mean honestly in a bad
41:59
way like if you go on a group ride and
42:01
your seven Riders deep at the back you
42:04
can barely see anything and you
42:05
basically spend the next 24 hours
42:07
coughing out uh coughing out dust oh
42:10
Jack Adler's tuning in just got in name
42:12
of the glasses these are Smith attack
42:15
Max so you can see the Smith logo on the
42:17
side there these are the attack Max
42:18
glasses they also make the regular Max
42:21
which is basically the same thing but
42:22
the lens is a bit smaller and I think
42:24
there's a few other models from Smith
42:26
glasses
42:27
oh no Jack just said thanks no worries
42:29
Jack um Smith makes a couple of other
42:32
glasses different styles with the same
42:35
technology so we were just talking about
42:36
this and I'm going to show you now how
42:38
we swap the lenses you actually remove
42:41
the arms from the frame so you pop up
42:43
that latch that pulls out so there's a
42:45
magnet inside here that's pretty cool um
42:47
we'll do the other one here as well so
42:49
you can see the latch at the top there
42:51
and when we flick that open the arm just
42:54
pulls straight off um now I should point
42:56
out that never had the arms accidentally
42:59
detached they're solid as a rock you
43:00
really have to uh well that will only
43:04
open when you've got the arm closed like
43:06
that is the only time you can open that
43:08
latch so when the when the arm is like
43:10
this it's not going anywhere so you have
43:12
to close it pop that latch and pull it
43:14
open and the last thing you have to do
43:16
is we have to remove the nose piece and
43:17
you basically pinch that and just drag
43:20
it down out of the lens so really simple
43:23
we swap the lenses around I'll put this
43:25
Rose tint lens so you put the nose
43:29
Bridge into the arch of the lens and
43:32
that'll pop up there Jack's asking very
43:35
cool price now you're in the states
43:37
aren't you jack um I don't think I have
43:39
American pricing I can only tell you
43:41
British and and Australian pricing
43:44
Australian pricing is $370 so my rough
43:48
guesstimate is I don't know is it got to
43:51
be 250 bucks us um I know if you go on
43:54
to the Smith Optics website
43:56
smithoptics.com home I think and you'll
43:58
be in the American region go to yeah
44:01
really expensive I
44:03
know not cheap whatsoever we're just
44:06
talking before about how good the lenses
44:07
are and the technology that's in them
44:09
but if you're the sort of person that
44:10
leaves your glasses on your car seat and
44:12
then you sit on them or break them you
44:14
probably don't want these
44:16
glasses that's an expensive
44:19
mistake um but I've been using these for
44:22
the past 7 months now I think gez even
44:25
longer than that I think um maybe nine
44:27
months and what I've been really
44:30
impressed with these is just how good
44:32
the lenses are and the fact that they're
44:34
not scratched to the wazu which normally
44:37
happens even with really expensive
44:39
glasses Oakley's Adidas are terrible for
44:41
it I've got a couple pairs of those and
44:43
they great fitting lenses great coverage
44:46
um great profile as well really nice
44:49
clear Crystal Crystal Clear Vision um
44:52
but the lenses scratch really easily and
44:55
there's a pair I was testing recently
44:57
and they must have been close to $400 so
44:59
um yeah not cheap these are equally not
45:02
cheap um but in my experience the
45:04
quality is there so if you want a really
45:06
nice lens um if you want a really good
45:09
fitting glass you want that uh removable
45:11
system as I said it comes with both of
45:13
those lenses and these are the chroma
45:15
poop tint lens so they're very very high
45:17
quality they've got that uh contrast
45:19
boosting effect um very very nice
45:22
glasses to wear that's for sure very
45:24
light too put that on there that's
45:27
that's pretty scary without the helmet
45:29
and the bike it does look pretty weird
45:31
so but uh but yeah if you want to read
45:34
more about that my reviews on single TRW
45:35
world.com just search for Smith and it
45:38
should be the first review that pops up
45:40
and I've wrote a really detailed review
45:43
about the lens Tech my experience with
45:45
it and also a weird effect that happens
45:47
with this Rose tint lens so if you want
45:49
to know more about these Smith attack
45:50
Max glasses jump on the website search
45:53
for that and you'll be able to find my
45:54
review um right so that kind of brings
45:57
us to the end of the Fresh Products here
46:00
um some general news for you guys um
46:03
about uh what's been happening in the
46:05
mountain bike world the past couple of
46:06
weeks did anyone see the launch of the
46:08
canyon strive yesterday so Canyon has
46:11
brought out a brand new uro bike uh the
46:14
strive they already had that bike in
46:16
their lineup I think it was about 4
46:18
years old perhaps they've just brought
46:20
out a completely revamped model the
46:22
strive let me know what you think of
46:24
that bike um there's a lot of changes on
46:26
it's got a new Shape Shifter system it's
46:28
running on 29in Wheels it's a purebred
46:30
Enduro race bike the previous drive was
46:34
very very successful on the Enduro World
46:36
Series so I'm sure Canyon is hoping that
46:38
the new version is going to be equally
46:40
or more successful um Andy actually our
46:43
Andy from The Office went to the launch
46:44
he went to Malaga in Spain and rode the
46:47
strive and he actually rode them on
46:49
Trails he's ridden before on several
46:51
different bikes which normally doesn't
46:52
happen with a launch so he had a really
46:54
good reference point for what the trails
46:56
are like and what other bikes have
46:58
performed like on those Trails so he had
47:00
a really good reference point for
47:01
testing the strive um and his first
47:03
Rider review is now live on the website
47:05
right now so if you want to know a bit
47:07
more about that strive there is a news
47:09
story about it with all the spec pricing
47:11
information and there's also a first
47:13
ride review uh Jack is saying rap boy is
47:15
on it also on the canyon no he's on
47:18
canondale he's on the canondale Habit is
47:21
he not um shed life guide did you see
47:25
the pictures of the e sender an ebike
47:28
sender so that's Canyon's downhill bike
47:30
with a motor and a battery Jack said
47:32
right sorry yeah yeah it's uh it's it's
47:35
an easy mistake to make um to be honest
47:37
especially a lot of modern mountain
47:38
bikes start looking the same so yeah um
47:42
but share life guys just talking about
47:43
uh presumably some leaked photos of an e
47:46
sender was it a bodge job or is it a
47:48
proper like uh prototype mule that
47:51
Canyon is testing um e downhill bikes I
47:54
think are the best idea for an ebike I
47:57
think rather than relying on um a dirty
48:00
big four-wheel drive or van to drive you
48:02
up the hill um to be able to Pedal away
48:04
on an electric bike to get you up to the
48:06
top of the hill and do your downhill run
48:08
uh I think that makes a lot of sense you
48:09
don't need a chairlift or whatever um so
48:13
it's basically you know self-powered
48:15
uplift riding um I actually know here in
48:17
Bendigo there's a mountain bike park
48:19
called uh the hardcore Mountain Bike
48:21
Park and loads of downhillers and Enduro
48:24
Riders are getting onto these new long
48:27
travel ebikes and that's their training
48:29
they can get in you know a dozen runs
48:32
whereas before they would only get in
48:33
four or five runs so because you can
48:35
pedal up on your own speed and then
48:37
descend down again makes a lot of sense
48:39
for for downhillers and Enduro Riders to
48:41
get in that extra descending time uh
48:44
right so Callum saying I think they
48:46
could have pushed the Geo a bit further
48:47
on the strive especially with the shape
48:49
shifter Callum I would agree with you on
48:52
paper I've not ridden the bike so I I
48:54
couldn't tell you what it's like on the
48:55
trail sometimes
48:57
the the ride on the trail is a bit
48:59
different to what the geometry looks
49:00
like on paper I've had that with a few
49:02
bikes where they've really surprised me
49:04
with um with how well they've ridden on
49:06
the trail specialized stump jump is a
49:08
great example not super slack not super
49:11
long but a really really good bike um so
49:15
totally surprised me on the geometry so
49:17
maybe the strive is like that I don't
49:18
know Andy was really impressed with it
49:20
he rode the large and he's kind of
49:22
borderline medium and large he rode the
49:23
large frame at the launch and he said
49:25
the geometry was great so um he he was a
49:28
big fan of it but um but uh I've I've
49:31
not ridden one myself but initially I
49:33
would agree with you about the geometry
49:35
they probably could have pushed the
49:36
envelope a bit further and as you said
49:38
with the shape shifter system you've got
49:40
that remote so you can kind of um you've
49:43
got your climbing and your descending
49:45
position so in theory you could kind of
49:48
make that difference bigger so your
49:49
descending geometry could be really
49:52
slack um and quite low and your climbing
49:55
geometry could be much deeper um
49:58
Canyon's gone for I think it's 1 and A2
50:00
degree so when you flick between modes
50:02
you go from 66° head angle uh to a 67.5
50:07
de head angle so uh 1 and a half de so
50:10
is that enough I don't know um I'd love
50:12
to to ride one myself I really like the
50:14
Scot Ransom that I tested last year and
50:16
that has a similar handlebar um
50:18
suspension system called the twin lock
50:20
and that actually changes the shock
50:23
Behavior which Alters the geometry of
50:25
the bike and again it was a huge change
50:27
I think it was only a degree and a half
50:28
in the head and seat angle that it
50:30
steepens when you put it into the
50:31
climbing uh traction control position
50:34
but it made a huge difference on the
50:35
trail more bottom bracket clearance so
50:37
you could pedal up rough stuff it was a
50:38
really good system so maybe it is enough
50:41
I don't know um but yeah if you guys
50:43
want to read more about that bike single
50:44
track world.com um the other new bike
50:47
that's come out last week is the YT
50:48
jeffc so also a German director consumer
50:51
brand has anyone seen the new YT jeffi
50:55
um going back to Jack's comment about
50:56
rap boy and the canal habit Canal habit
50:59
YT jeffc very similar looking bikes um
51:02
but the the jeffc has changed it looks
51:04
very similar but there's been lots of
51:05
changes there with the geometry and
51:07
suspension they've got 29 and 27.5
51:10
version I think it's around 150 to 160
51:12
millimeters of travel uh the GFC I
51:14
imagine is going to be a very popular
51:16
bik YT very aggressive on pricing and uh
51:19
very good at marketing as well did
51:21
anyone see the Christopher Walkin video
51:23
I'm I'm still not convinced by that
51:25
video but very impressive um clearly
51:27
they have a lot of money to be able to
51:28
employ Christopher Walkin to do videos
51:30
for them Callum saying The Jeffy looks
51:33
brilliant like a mini Ka now yeah it
51:35
does look pretty pretty chunky doesn't
51:37
it that big kind of head tube down tube
51:39
section um very robust looking bike the
51:42
geometry does look great on that as well
51:44
so I'm sure they've built um a really
51:46
really good bike Jack saying yes love
51:48
the ad yeah it was it's unlike any other
51:51
mountain bike ad I think more cowbells
51:54
yes I really wanted to see Christopher W
51:56
dance in that video after I watched that
51:59
that YT jeffc commercial with
52:00
Christopher Walkin I immediately watched
52:03
Fatboy Slim weapon of choice film clip
52:05
oh my gosh that dancing in that film
52:06
clip is
52:08
amazing H it's that German thing again
52:11
yeah I think so I think
52:12
[Laughter]
52:14
so um right and uh any if you're also
52:18
looking for other stories to read um if
52:20
this has got you fired up for mountain
52:21
biking um David's just done a review of
52:24
The Cane Creek helm coil Fork now David
52:28
previously tested the helm air K Creek
52:31
has released a coil sprung version he's
52:32
ridden it for about 7 months now so if
52:35
you're interested in suspension forks
52:36
and Brands other than Rock shocks and
52:39
fox you want to have a look at that
52:40
review very very interesting um cmer is
52:43
saying I have the CA and would go for
52:45
the new Jeff SE if I was buying now I I
52:47
think that's a fair point I think the ca
52:49
is sort of almost like a mini downhill
52:51
bike now would would you would you agree
52:54
it's a pretty beefy slack kind of long
52:56
long old thing whereas the jeffc is kind
52:58
of going into more of that Enduro race
53:00
bike sort of spectrum um so yeah
53:03
interesting point about how the jeffc
53:05
and the kaer have kind of evolved over
53:07
the last few years um and last thing I
53:10
want to tell you about is this is more
53:11
relevant to UK viewers but there's a
53:13
story that went live on our website for
53:15
me overnight but for you guys during the
53:17
day on Thursday there's an event called
53:19
the Wales 360 now this is a new
53:22
multi-day mountain bike event and
53:24
they're saying it's kind of like they're
53:25
going for the BC bike race Cape epic
53:28
type Vibe so it's seven days uh six days
53:31
of racing um seven nights of
53:33
accommodation you stay in like a luxury
53:36
Camp um or there's also Hotel
53:37
accommodation all foods provided all
53:39
drinks provided you get local food local
53:42
beers um you get fully supported riding
53:44
you basically turn up to this event and
53:46
you don't need to bring your wallet you
53:47
just bring your bike your riding kit and
53:49
a good attitude and uh and a thirst for
53:51
adventure and it goes through mid and
53:53
North Wales I was reading about it
53:54
yesterday and it sounds pretty damn cool
53:57
and the cool thing is that we've got a
54:00
pairs entry to give away and it's worth
54:05
2,600 so that's a pairs entry an
54:08
individual entry is 1310 because it is
54:10
kind of a not just a race it's a big
54:13
riding holiday as well so if you're
54:14
looking for something to do in summer in
54:16
July then have a look at the Wales 360
54:19
but more importantly if you're even
54:21
remotely interested in it go on our
54:23
website right now because we have a
54:24
competition it's free to enter you just
54:26
answer one question by watching their um
54:29
promotional video answer the question
54:30
and you'll be in the entry to win £2,600
54:33
worth of entry fee um to go to the Wales
54:36
360 so that is pretty cool uh I've just
54:39
had a comment come through from Callum
54:40
isn't it capable of running Triple Crown
54:42
Fork says shed life guy yes the ca is in
54:45
fact it may be the only 29er in Juro
54:48
bike that is rated to run a Triple Crown
54:52
downhill Fork jeel Crown downhill Fork
54:54
triple clamp now we get
54:57
confused um Jewel Crown downhill Fork
55:00
yes I think you're right and something
55:02
like uh what is the MRP Fork the Bartlet
55:05
I think that would be a fantastic
55:06
addition to something like a 29er cpra
55:10
uh basically this this a downhill B
55:12
really at that point uh which would be
55:14
pretty damn cool so uh yes we're just
55:16
talking about the YT Jeff seed that's
55:18
brand new if you want to read that story
55:20
Jump on single tr.com we also have the
55:22
new story first ride review of the
55:24
canyon strive which was was launched
55:27
yesterday uh or last night for me was
55:29
brand new there's big story on that um
55:32
and a whole bunch of other stuff on the
55:33
website if you guys want to have a look
55:34
at that um I'm going to go and uh I
55:37
think I'm going to get out on that giant
55:38
trans 29 that we were talking about last
55:40
week made a few tweaks to that bike and
55:42
it's starting to come good so um I also
55:45
went out and filmed a onboard ride
55:47
review so I had the GoPro on the chest
55:49
Mount and I had a lapel microphone and I
55:52
basically went riding around the the
55:54
bush in Bendigo just yelling at myself
55:56
in the bush and uh we should have that
55:58
edited soon so we'll give you a bit of a
56:00
bit of an impression of what the bike's
56:01
like and uh and also see me maybe crash
56:05
um shed life guy I'm running the Bartlet
56:07
but there is another delay on the hazard
56:09
coil oh sad face oh the Bartlet looks
56:11
like a good fork and the hazard also
56:13
looks like a great shock and it's kind
56:14
of that Beyond Juro segment so sort of
56:17
long travel in Juro bordering on midi
56:19
downhill kind of thing and that coil
56:21
sprung suspension all about it uh Callum
56:23
is saying you put those funky bars on it
56:26
I did I did actually put those funky
56:27
bars on it I've taken them off and I've
56:29
put the standard Canyon handlebar and
56:31
stem back on oh hold on we talking about
56:34
the trans no the trans I've left the
56:35
regular bar and stem I haven't messed
56:37
around with that cockpit at all yet the
56:39
canyon I've put the synchros Hixon bars
56:41
on um that's been quite interesting so I
56:44
have a full review of that going to have
56:45
a live ride review of the canyon coming
56:48
soon as well so if you guys got any
56:50
questions about that Canyon neon let me
56:52
know and uh we'll hopefully answer them
56:54
for you um but yes I'm going to head off
56:56
um I hope you guys have a wonderful
56:58
weekend riding planned or eating and
57:00
drinking catching up with friends doing
57:02
whatever you like to do on your weekends
57:05
um I'm also going to get out for a bike
57:06
ride I'm going to do a big social ride
57:08
on Sunday morning called dirt Church
57:10
which is uh a fantastic uh usually 40 km
57:14
off-road ride through uh the forest of
57:16
Bendigo and uh I'm looking forward to
57:18
that I've been doing every Sunday for
57:19
the past few weeks and great to ride in
57:21
a big group of 20 or 25 Riders so uh
57:24
I'll be doing that on Sunday so I hope
57:26
you've got plenty of riding planned for
57:27
the weekend and uh Jack's giving us a
57:30
cheers cheers Jack thanks for tuning in
57:31
thanks for uh thanks for watching and
57:33
thanks for uh commenting and and asking
57:35
questions love it when you guys tune in
57:38
um and uh I reckon next time we do a
57:40
video I think we'll have a bit more of a
57:42
look at all these retro goodies that
57:44
we've got up here you can't see a lot of
57:45
them but I think you're going to be
57:46
really interested in them I'll have to
57:48
get Ben in here and we'll do a bit of a
57:49
tour of his workshop and uh we'll look
57:51
at some of these very cool bikes we've
57:53
got kicking around here all right I'm
57:54
going to head off and and uh as always
57:56
if you've got any questions I'll be
57:58
looking at the comments after the video
58:00
goes live so uh shed life guy see you
58:02
next week mate see you thanks for tuning
58:04
in thanks for tuning every week we
58:05
really appreciate it and um as always if
58:08
you got any suggestions about stuff you
58:09
want to see and talk about let me know
58:12
I'd love to uh to help out and um we'll
58:15
see you next week for for more YouTube
58:16
videos all right guys I'll uh see you
58:19
then
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