- Ha you would think I'm out here in the North Pole
but your wrong I'm in the Surrey Hills,
down in the south of England and I have
a very special bike here, it's an absolute work-horse,
for a man that potentially could
win the World Cup of downhill.
This is Brendan Fairclough's, Scott Genius 700 Tuned.
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I'm gonna kick it off with the frame
and this is the Scott Genius 700 Tuned, in a large size.
And it's a full carbon fiber front and rear triangle.
And in the middle here, he's running the original
Fox shock in the rear, this is a 150 mil of travel.
Setting wise, PSI wise, not too sure.
I'm gonna have to bring him in to ask that question.
Also, what I can see, there's a chip in the shock,
and you can run at a high BB or a low BB.
He's got it set on low as well,
another question that I'm gonna have to ask him as well.
Right moving down to the drive train on this bike.
I'm gonna kick it off with these crank arms,
these are the DMR Axe cranks, 165 mil in length.
And then, pedals on this bike are pretty special.
These are his signature peddles,
these are the Brendogs, these are the DMR Vaults.
And also, what's also a bit special about them
are these pins, these are called Kingpins, from DMR as well,
and these are prototypes so you'll probably
be seeing these out on the shelves sometime soon.
Moving on.
He's got a DMR Blade 32 tooth sprocket up front.
He's got a nice Syncros chain-guide up there
to keep that chain intact on that rough terrain.
Moving to the rear.
Right he's gone for the Sram X01 setup on this bike.
He's got a massive range of gears,
this is a 12 speed, so it's a one by 12.
And this is the Sram Eagle technology
and look how big that top sprocket is, massive.
Right moving on to the wheel build of this bike,
it's a pretty aggressive build on this bike
for a trail bike to be honest.
These are downhill rims, this is the Syncros DH 1.5 rim.
He's running exactly the same setup he does
on his downhill bike, so I'm gonna have to ask him
a few questions about that, but the rubber to give him
all that grip out there on the trail,
he's running a Schwalbe Nobby Nic at a 2.4.
Up the front he's running a Schwalbe Dirty Dan
at a 2.35 as well, but this tyre's super aggressive,
and what I can notice, what I've noticed
is he's cut it down, just to give him that little bit more
faster rolling pace, 'cause it is a super aggressive tyre
and it is a spiked tyre as well so, it's a mud tire.
Right now suspension wise, take a look at this.
This is Bos Suspension's new trail fork.
And it's 160 mil in length, and I do like it
there's a few features on it that I do,
they impress me quite a bit and look at this,
this is a cutout in this crown.
And then up top here, I like what they've done
on the top crown, they cut that bit out there,
and a few nice dials for his compression,
his rebound and all of that goodness.
Settings, I'm gonna have to ask him.
Right, now the cockpit of this bike
where he keeps it in control out there on the trail.
I'm gonna kick it off with the stem.
This is the Copperhead from Deity.
It's a 50 mil length stem.
It's an oversize on there, so it's quite aggressive.
Just give it a bit more strength on the trail
and then, the bars on this bike
are Deity Blacklabel bars as well,
and this is a 30 mil rise bar.
Now the grips, these are super special as well.
These are DMR's Deathgrips, supersoft race grips, in black.
They have a signature on there,
they got the SforP logo on there as well.
Now, the brakes on this bike: all that stopping,
all that speed needs to be controlled.
He's got these TRP brakes, these are the G-Spec.
Super aggressive, four part brakes,
these are downhill brakes, on a trail bike.
He's got a Sram Eagle X01 shifter there
to match all that on the rear.
And he's got his dropper post.
Talk about the dropper post, let's go there.
This seat-post is new from Syncros
and it's 150 mil of drop on it.
And then on top of this, where he mounts those buns
is the Syncros XM 1.0 saddle with carbon-fiber rails.
All right it's enough talking about Bren's bike,
I got a few questions that need to be answered
so let's call Brendan in, come in here!
- Hello mate. - Yeah, all right?
- You well? - Yeah good.
Your bike is setup way different to mine.
- Unique. - It's very unique yeah.
Talk me through it, 'cause there's a few things
I need to answer but. - Well.
- You might give them to me straight away.
- There's method in the madness.
- Okay yeah.
- So, my reasoning for setting it up like this
is that I want it very similar to my downhill bike.
I want to get on this and it's
a training bike, I just wanna rip
down hills as fast as I can. - Yeah.
- It's not necessarily to do long three,
four hour trail rides, I wanna get in,
do a two hour ride, ride as many downhills as I can.
And for it to be as quite specific to
my downhill bike as I can.
Which for me, is, starting with the 165 crank,
that's the DMR Axe 165 crank which is the same
as I have in my downhill bike.
- You run that spec on. - I run that exact
spec on my downhill bike - Oh okay.
- I run the, my signature pedal with the Kingpin
it's a slightly bigger pin. - Yeah.
- Just for that extra grip on the rough downhill tracks.
So I get used to that on my trail bike,
I get used to the 165 crank so I'm not,
so I get the same cranks for my downhill bike
so I don't clip the rocks and roots and everything.
- [Blake] Same brake setup as well on your downhill bike?
- [Brendan] Yeah absolutely, the new TRP G-Spec brakes,
- [Blake] G-Spec?
- G-Spec yeah, which should be called B-Spec,
but it's the G-Spec. - G-Spec.
- We're working on it. (Blake laughs)
Maybe I win a few World Cups I might get
a B-Spec brake but we'll see.
- Yeah you should, yeah, yeah.
- We'll see, we'll see. - It's coming.
- But that's the four part brake
same as the downhill bike, get the same feeling.
- I see you're running the same rims and setup,
wheels, you run these on your downhill bike as well?
- Yeah absolutely, I've gone for like the same
downhill wheel. - Yeah.
- Purely 'cause I can run the normal tires
as I would on my downhill bike.
I wouldn't run this with the Nobby Nic
but I definitely would run the cut-down Dirty Dan.
It's good in them loam of the Surrey hills.
- [Blake] Yeah.
- [Brendan] You can cut the turns and.
- Keep all the grip.
- And it's the same and it's what I would run.
Also going on to the fork it's a 160 mil fork.
Which means that I can have the front up
a little bit higher, and there's a bit more of
an aggressive feel. - Yeah.
- So, yeah it's all very similar.
- Deity bars, I've not seen this setup, you know these.
- [Brendan] Yeah we have something quite special
coming out of Deity very soon.
I've got a custom bend and bar coming very soon,
but that's all, all very hush.
- So that's coming out soon potentially.
- Yes. - For you to buy.
- Yes yes yes.
- [Blake] What's the width of your bars?
- On this bar, on my trail bike I like a 770.
I'm quite weird I like to have my trail bike 770
my downhill bike a little bit wider.
- Okay. - Just because,
if I get off my downhill bike,
then onto my trail bike, and I think
my trail bike's my downhill bike,
we're gonna get in to a big world of pain.
(laughs) - And we're going
end up hurting myself. - You're going off
something a bit big. - I like it a little bit
different yeah, just a little bit narrower.
- Yeah.
- And then we also have the new
150 mil dropper post from Syncros.
- [Blake] Yeah I noticed that it's pretty good.
- Amazing for what we do you know,
we all like to ride steep tracks,
you want to get that seat out of the way.
- Yeah. - So you can have
the seat right down and drop it right out of the way,
and then when you go to climb,
so you're at normal climbing height.
- All right, thanks Bren for showing us your bike,
pretty unique I do love it, I might take
a few of those things and put them on my bike.
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Take it away Bren.
- Thanks Blake, hope you enjoyed it and don't forget,
Deathgrip movie is on Netflix, check it out.
- Give this bike a thumbs up.