- We're out here at the
USA Cyclocross National Championships.
And just like before,
I knew that there was going to be some exclusive tech
out in the pits.
So I'm going around looking at everybody,
trying to find some cool stuff to show
you guys that's out here at the national champs.
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Alright, so I'm here with Tanner Colebreath,
the organizer of Ruts N' Guts,
a big UCI weekend that happens here in the States.
One of my favorite races.
Tanner, you got a cool set up here,
what do we got going on?
- So as you know any race you're going to get your bike dirty.
You've got to have a portable pressure washer
and a portable water tank,
so that you can get water wherever you need it.
And for us, we actually like this little device here.
We actually made it, I call it Stubby,
it's like a nice little stubby gun,
so that you can wash bikes efficiently
without the giant wand
where you can't reach your drive train.
- Okay
- Yeah.
- Yeah, because that's always like a thing
that you see in a pit.
The guy's got the bike,
he's got it over there.
But then he's got this huge, like,
looks almost like a big long, I don't know.
- Yeah, it's to long.
Giant wand. Giant wand.
You don't want the giant wand.
This is actually something that Bill Marshall
kind of showed us a long time ago.
And then we do a little electric 1700 PSI pressure washer.
This way when our junior boys are washing their bikes,
they're not blowing the logo's off of anything, so.
It's good.
- All right, awesome.
Let's see this thing in action.
- Oh, okay, well let me fire it up.
(engine rumbles)
- Hey you want to wash my pants off?
(engine rumbles)
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- Okay, so I'm here with James from the
Donnelly and Eavolo cyclocross program.
I'm here with Gage hex bike as well.
It's got some new stuff on here.
- Yeah, for a lot of the season we've been
running tubeless tires,
which is big departure for us you know,
seeing as how we actually make a lot of tubular tires,
and have really good success with our tubular tires.
But we just see the future coming in tubeless,
and it's just a lot easier for people,
pro's and amateur's racing,
'cause you can change the tire out.
We made this tire.
We changed the mold a little bit,
so it would actually be UCI legal
on a wider more modern rim.
And it's a really unique construction.
A very high TPI round,
we call it 240,
but it's a little more technical than that.
Kind of make it really supple,
but still durable and strong.
You know, riders love it.
Gage and Lance have been riding these for most of the season
getting some winds at PanAm's,
Rut's N' Gut's in Boulder,
some other races on these tires,
and they're all probably going to run them tomorrow,
feeling super confident on the tubeless tires,
and no difference between it and the tubular,
which is awesome for me.
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- One of the other cool things that we saw here in the pits
is Stephen Hyde's national champ edition bike
has a unique 3D printed chain watcher,
apparently for the conditions that are coming out
here at the national championships in
Washington state this week,
they decided that they were going to custom make
a 3D printed chain watcher.
As I look at it, it's very sturdy,
and it's crazy what you can do with the technology
of 3D printing and then apply it to bikes.
We've seen it on TT bikes,
making special bits for the arrow bars
for the pro tour riders,
but now we are starting to see it come into cyclocross
with this chain watcher.
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One of the other things that we've seen here in the pits
ultra top secret, 140, non-drilled out, SRAM rotors.
The talk on the town is that these rotors are stamped
just on the bottom, not on the top,
because apparently the sand,
and the mud, and the grit,
wear the pads down very, very quickly.
The course here at the national championships
is very, very sandy,
a lot of sand in the mud,
so by running this stamped with out any
holes in the rotor,
allows the pads to have a longer life span.
So we've seen these rotors way back in the day with
Ryan Trebon and some of the other
prototype SRAM rotors,
but now we are starting to see them resurface again
under unusual circumstances,
and they're, they're quite cool.
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I'm here with Brenna,
which is Clara Honsinger's personal mechanic
from team S&M.
What do we got going on with this bike
down in the rear derailleur.
- Yeah so we partner with Wheels Manufacturing
which is a really crafty U.S. company
that makes a lot of like secondary,
aftermarket upgrade parts you could say, for bikes.
Very bike mechanic friendly,
and we run their angular contact bottom brackets,
as well as their derailleur hangers.
They just started make a,
a specific kind of
derailleur hanger that replaces the B-link on a
Shimano clutch style derailleur.
So they're calling it like a direct mount hanger.
They're making several different kinds for
several different frame manufacturers.
It allows a little bit of versatility in the
chain wrap so you can run a variety of Shimano steering,
and yeah,
lose one extra little piece from the stock rear derailleur.
It's cool. - Got it.
Got it.
Okay so maybe you,
some gravel grinders might be interested in this
if you want to run a big cassette on your cyclocross bike,
other things like that could all be where this fits in.
- Yeah, and they tend to be quite durable.
Like the after market aluminum that they're made of
is very rigid,
so it holds up better than your general
stock derailleur hanger.
- Cool.
- Yeah. - All right.
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- Okay I'm here with Chris McGovern.
Chris we just check out some new toe spikes
that you guys have.
Tell us what's different, what's unique about these?
- Well the Jackalope Industry Toe Spikes
we've got 3 sets,
I've only showed you guys 2.
We've got the all terrain,
which is a hexagonal.
Gets really good purchase.
It's kind of the work horse for our toe spike line.
Then we made a special mud toe spike
that's a little bit longer than most toes,
and then it's flat on the end.
And so when you can hear it digging into the mud,
it doesn't like rip out.
It's just like arrr.
But we made them out of heat treated stainless steel,
they do not wear down,
and Tobin and I designed the three sets about
two years ago now,
and now we're cranking them out.
- Yeah you're Tobin Armbrust personal mechanic, friend,
and you guys have done this endeavor together.
Has he been doing a lot of prototyping with these?
- Yeah. We had some fun.
Started with a little napkin sketch,
and the little google sketch,
then we got a CAD jockey to do it up right, you know.
- I love that.
- Yeah.
- Do you think that like if you're doing a crazy 180
around a corner on a pavement sit,
what do you think they,
how do you think they hold up there?
- Oh we're going to start a fire with those.
(Laughing)
Yeah, yeah.
Awesome man, well they look really cool. Thanks.
- Thank you
- So that's a wrap from the pits here at
the National Championships.
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