- Right, like always, I'd like to start
with the heart of this bike
and that is the frame.
It's a beautiful colour, I love the lines as well.
It's a DW-link on the rear for the suspension to work out.
Talking about suspension, in the middle here
you've got a fox shock, it's 135mm of travel,
and on the front he's running 150mm travel fox shock.
It's a 36 and it's that cool orange colour. Big deal.
Alright moving on to where it's always greasy, oily
and dirty it's the drive chain of this bike.
This one's very special,
He's running Shimano Di2 so that means it's electric.
This little wire here, and there's no cables involved,
sends a little electric current to this thing
and it changes the gears.
Super technical. Super.
So it's a one by 11, on the back here he's gone up to a 46,
big dinner plate for those huge climbs.
On the front, it's a small chain ring, it's a 30.
Okay, so up the front to keep the chain on is an MRP,
even though it's a wide narrow set up,
still a little bit safe you wanna keep that chain
on there tight.
It's got cranks, it's Deore XT,
and on the end to keep his feet intact and on the pedals
he's running a crank brothers mallet in red.
Right moving on to the wheel build of this bike,
it's a full carbon set up on the rear.
It's a Reynolds black label, so that is full carbon,
built on a Reynolds hub
and the rubber on this that surrounds that
is a Maxxis Minion DHF with a 3C.
So 3C means three compounds of rubber that make this tyre.
Right, up the front here, much like the same as the rear.
It's a Reynolds black label rim built on a Reynolds hub.
Forgot to mention as well, that it's a big wheel,
it's a 29er so it's a huge rig.
Right when it comes down to the braking power, the skidding
it's these guys right here.
It's a 180mm rotor, front and rear
and it's Shimano Deore XT's.
Right, the business end, the cockpit,
this is where everything gets down.
It's really aggressive, it's a short stem here it's a 35mm.
It's Renthal's stem and he's got carbon bars
with a high-rise, higher than normal,
than other people would do.
It's a fat bar, quite wide bars
and then you've got Renthal Grips
where his hands go, keep it comfy, keep it in control.
You've got brakes front and rear
then you got the Shimano XT,
the electric stuff, all that goodness.
Sounds amazing when you change it.
You got a little dial here to say what gear you're in,
what mode you're in.
Then you've got your dropper post here,
it's the fox transfer, right to that thing.
Okay moving on to the saddle here, it's special.
It's got carbon rails so it gives that
stiffness to the saddle and it's called a high tail.
Little clue, it's got no tail so it sweeps in here.
It looks like a spaceship with it's wings.
Alright that's enough of me rambling on about Bernard's bike
let's get the man himself, the pilot of this thing
and he can talk us through it.
Right enough of me talking about your bike.
I got a few questions about this.
Switchplate, what's that?
Is that in... can you switch out something?
- Yeah, the wheels.
So right now it's a 29er, that's how I normally run it
but you can put 27.5 plus wheels on there.
- What? So it's plus size like boosts?
- Yeah so it boosts at the front
and super boost at the rear which is 157.
- Super boost?
- Yeah man it's huge.
- What?!
- Super stiff
- Okay, have you ever done that? Have you done like...
- Nah, this week for slalom I'm putting normal
27 and a half inch wheels on it.
- Okay so this is your slalom rig and downhill rig?
- Slalom and downhill rig for Sea Otter
- And 29 downhill?
- 29 downhill, 27.5 for slalom.
- Right, another question,
are you gonna be riding 29 on a downhill bike?
- No, not yet (laughs)
- It's gonna come though I reckon.
Yeah. - I don't know, hopefully not.
- Right, do these glow in the dark?
- No, they don't glow in the dark.
- Damn it
- They might, I don't know, I've never tried it.
- I see you've gone super tech, you've got like Di2 here.
- Man I've got like electric stuff on my bike, it's like,
almost an e-bike but not you've still gotta pedal.
- Alright, next question...
Everyone wants to know about pressure
and suspension and suspension set up.
Is that thing rock solid?
There's a lot of bungs? - Yeah we got 350 psi in there
and 15 air volume reducers.
- Okay, so, alright okay and in the front?
(laughs)
- I got 220 in the rear and I think there's 95 in the front.
- 95? And that things got bunged out and stuff?
- I've only got one extra from stock in the front
and I think there's two extra from stock in the rear.
- And I see you're a special dude
and you've got special coloured forks.
- Got orange forks.
- Look at that.
- I've made it this year.
- Nice, nice. Alright, bar width?
- Errr, 768.
- Oh, very precise, okay. 768.
- 770 was too big, 750 was too small
and I settled there.
- Alright, going from 768, so what is,
I'm talking about pickiness 'cos that is quite.
- That's quite picky.
- So anything else on your bike that's picky?
- Nah, like obviously you want the levers the same height.
I like my levers to come in pretty far.
- Okay, so quite a small reach on the lever?
- Yeah, real small reach on the lever.
I normally like my seat quite far forward, this one's...
- Yeah, you can see that.
Looks aerodynamic. - Pretty aero.
- The high trail, nice looking.
- High tail.
- Oh, sorry.
- It's the tail isn't here at the back see?
- Oh yeah, okay. Sorry.
- I'm not that picky otherwise really.
- Pressure in tyres?
- Ooh, for here?
That's a good one...
here probably be like 32 in the rear, 26 up front
- 'Cos it's quite hard here isn't it?
- It's pretty hard, real straight, not many turns so
I'd higher for slalom.
Slalom will be like 35, 38 in the rear
and like 30 up front or something.
- Length of crank?
- 175, training to power down.
- 175, that's a big one.
Nice. - Yeah, it's a big sucker
- Okay so you're a downhill expert right?
- Trying to be.
- Which bike do you ride the most?
- Man I ride this thing, well now it's new to me,
but a lot more than my downhill bike.
Like I ride that quite a bit in New Zealand
and in the Summer in France and obviously at races
but otherwise I probably ride this
10 times more than my downhill bike.
- So this is the go to bike in the garage?
- Go to bike man, does everything,
honestly it slays down the hill so good.
On trail bikes this thing pedals up like no other
so yeah I would ride this thing a lot more
than my downhill bike.
- But you love your downhill bike though?
- Man, love my downhill bike, do anything on that thing.
- Exactly, yeah
Ah, Bernard, thank you so much for showing us
your Pivot Switchblade. - No worries man.
- It's insane, I like it.
The colour's good.
- Amazing, best colour out there.
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