- But in this box is the group set
that I'm gonna be building up with the Ventum One.
Say, y'all are pretty bad guessers.
Did I not tell you that this was gonna be
a cool place to do video?
(upbeat music)
Oh yeah, first unboxing in the new cave,
and it is a solid one, my friends.
Did I not tell you that this was gonna be
a cool place to do videos, huh?
Am I right or am I right?
So what we've got here is,
everyone has been guessing what the group set is
that I'm putting on the Ventum bike with the Alto wheels,
and I've gotta say, y'all are pretty bad guessers.
Because in this box, well, I really hope that this
is the box that has the group set on the bike
because I am not gonna be going very fast if it ain't.
But in this box is the group set
that I'm gonna be building up with the Ventum One
and the Alto wheels, so,
let's do this.
(humming)
Oh yeah, all right, get your guesses in.
I saw a lot of Ultegra Di2, I saw a lot of Sram Red eTap,
I saw a lot of Ultegra Mechanical,
but the vast majority of you were wrong,
because what it is, Dorotchi Derase.
And are we going mechanical or electric?
What do you think, what do you think, what do you think?
Di2, that's right.
Di2, Derase.
What do we have here?
Everything's just so damn sexy.
And the chain.
Okay, now I'm gonna be straight up with y'all.
This is the first time that I think I have ever
seen a box version of a Derase Di2 set.
Now I'm gonna get into why I decided to go with
the Derase Di2, but let's dig into this.
(laughs)
It's just sleek murdered out black everywhere.
(grunts), yeah!
That there is what's gonna be on the bottom of
that Ventum One, oh man.
(grunts)
Derailer hanger there.
Now I'm not gonna start ripping everything apart,
because it'll just be chaos, and I'm sure I'm gonna lose
something before I have to take it to James at
Alter Ego Sports, who's gonna help me put it together.
Because we're dealing with basically something that
cost more than my first three cars combined.
So I'm not too keen on putting it together myself.
Again, front derailer, wrapped up in
its own little sandwich bag wrap, sealed for freshness.
(grunts)
The brake calibers, too, are blacked out.
Now that is a damn fine brake caliber.
So yeah, a lot of you guessed Ultegra,
a lot of you guessed Sram Red eTap.
I think the SRM RED eTAP was probably,
I'm not gonna do that, that's rude.
Sram Red eTap was probably the number one guess,
and if you had talked to me about six months ago and said,
"Hey Taryn, what's your perfect group set?",
I probably would've said Sram Red eTap,
because there's so much hype about it.
And Sram has consistently been, for decades,
one of the leaders in really light weight,
but still reliable shifting,
but the thing that changed is two things in between
about six months ago and when I decided to
go with Derase Di2.
One is that there was a document that came out that
disclosed what all the bike parts were of all the
top 15 men's and women's pros in the Cona field,
and it was dominated, absolutely dominated by
Derase or Ultegra Di2.
And I was shocked because of all the hype that's been
around Sram Red eTap,
you'd think that if it really is that much better,
all the pros as soon as possible would be getting out of
their Shimano contracts and getting into a
Sram Red eTap setup.
But that wasn't the case,
it was like 70-80% of the field had Shimano Di2.
Now the second thing that happened is in a couple of
weeks after Cona, I got a message from Shimano,
and it was one of their marketing people who said,
"Hey Taryn, I followed everything that you did."...
New Garmin watch, I don't know what that buzz was.
Don't disturb me while I'm talking to my people.
"followed everything that you did at Cona.",
and the things that he said were like,
you actually did watch this, that is really cool.
And what they started saying were things that
really started resinating with me,
that when they decide to partner up with a triathlete,
whether it's a pro or something new like myself that
they've never tried, they're in it for longterm.
And they said, "We want to go into it and be a partner of
"yours for a long time.", and I'm like, "That's awesome.".
I don't want to partner up with people just because
they're the ones that are paying me this week or
they're gonna pay me the most money.
I want to do it with companies that have good,
long lasting products that have been around for a long time,
and are people that I would otherwise hang out
with and enjoy.
Have coffee with, go for a ride with.
And we talked about like cycle cross and fat bikes for
the first 50 minutes of our very first one hour phone call.
So that I can get on board with.
So there we go trainiacs, Ventum One frame,
Alto CC 86 front, disc rear wheel,
carbon clenchers, and Derase Di2 group set.
I am fricking pumped,
and there is one more surprise that is gonna happen with
this bike that when it all comes together,
you all are gonna just lose your freaking mind,
because I have.
Yep, yep, yep.
And how good does new triathlon Taryn headquarters look?
Huh, huh, huh?
Am I right or am I right?
I feel right.
Alright trainiacs, later.