what a beautiful day to show you a brand new bike that i've got my rave slr
and when i say beautiful i mean wet and freezing cold winter is coming
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sweat it is wet is that all you have to say about it this is an under embargo brand new bicycle that
has never been seen by human eyes before so we're not allowed to talk about it yet well you are
cause this video is going to go out as long as no one walks past and sees it i really do like
the color that's really nice it's happy you're on a proper bike again i know i'm going to go on your
mountain bikes i mean mountain bikes are good i have been cheating but it makes it a lot less
scary you need to be scared before riding the bike otherwise you're not enjoying it enough i want to
show my viewers this properly can you show me the best place here to take some photos of it on there
nick's really grumpy a little bit just because i won't ride with him
every day he's been in the mood for about a week now important yeah i was fully intending
on finding a nice spot setting up the bike and talking through it on camera but seeing as it's
six degrees i'm gonna go home and do it from the sofa
so here's a full rundown of this new bicycle from villia disclaimer they're a sponsor of this
channel and this is one of my bikes out of the two that they give to me for the year this is my raid
slr the frame set is a small and there's been a few changes from the innovation lab version you
may have seen in yesterday's video firstly as you can see this bike is specked as a gravel bike you
can kind of buy it in two versions so if you go for a road group set you're going to end up with
road handlebars if you go for a gravel group set you're going to get the j bar which stands for
yana bar the yana is the other gravel bike that villa has been making for a few years
this integrated bar is flared at the shifters the handlebar i've got is about 40 centimeters wide
and at the drops is 43 centimeters wide so it's significant when you look down at it it looks
really really wide and then as soon as you put your hands on you're like oh it's not actually
that wide of a bar very comfortable i have yet to test it on anything technical but i will do in the
next few days when i'm going to go to spain and test it the yanabaran stone has a fairly positive
angle to its stem so the resultant location of your handlebars will be slightly higher than if
you've gone for the road version which has a much more neutral stem if you're riding gravel you may
want your bars in a high position anyway in my case because the geometry is very similar to
that of the racing road bikes i've just slammed it and it's in the perfect position the frame set
as a whole is very slightly higher stack and very slightly shorter reach than the road frames that
i just mentioned but it's not that significant you're still gonna feel like you're on a road bike
when you're riding it and in quite an aggressive position so if you're looking for a fast gravel
bike that can also be used as a road bike this bike might be for you the saddle on here is a
pro logo agx it's a standard short nose saddle with a cutout in the middle on my ride just now
seems fairly comfortable i'll take this for a bit more testing and let you know seat post is
also integrated in collaboration with richie it has a seat post battery inside for the grx group
set which is di2 i still haven't worked out what numbering that is for shimano rx 800 something
like that chainsaws are double 4630 and the cassette is a 1132 so a massive range of gears on
this one as well just like yesterday's bike disk riders are 160 front and rear they are attached to
mish or mika wheels i haven't checked the comments on yesterday's video but i'm sure some of you
will have corrected my pronunciation of mika it's mika why did i say mish i've literally been
to the factory these are their carbon graph wheels they're super high end super light
super wide and i've got 33 mil hutchinson toro tires on them which are cyclocross tires this time
i've set them up tubeless inside there is stan's race sealant which is super super thick and is
apparently the best sealant you can get i've had a great experience with that on the mountain bike
all punches sealed but it'll be interesting to see how it performs with a lower volume tyre and
slightly higher pressures for my pedals i'm using garmin rallies which also double up as a power
meter so i'll be able to see how many watts i'm doing when i'm getting dropped bottle cages i'm
using these super slick fidlocks they're magnetic bottle holders that have a piece on the frame and
a piece on the bottle so when you take your bottle off it looks really clean they seem to never
ever fall off when you're doing off-road stuff which is a fantastic plus a lot of the enduro guys
use them for that reason i think that's everything just cleaned it again and it's ready to roll
in spain i hope you enjoyed that first look at my rave slr i'll let you know
how it rides because i've only ridden it down the hill here and then back up the hill which
is about an hour i need to give it more of a proper test but first impressions is very fast
if you open up the cupboard under the sink
if we find the
for you guys we've been doing some work on wild our new brand that we started a while back
and uh we've been out here like two hours now just fiddling around with logos amongst other things
there's been lots of lots of conversations you're very tired there's like planned stuff you have to
talk about isn't there so we just kind of making sure we're both on the same page with things and
mooting discussing things like what things do we want and don't want i guess it's like
dating isn't it really you know when you like have your first dates with someone you get to
you learn about them it's just like that