in today's episode we're building up my new scott addict gravel
tuned edition what do you think man the saddle something very comfortable mate
i thought you were doing the bike build why is jimmy unwrapping the stuff we're
changing roles did we not tell you please don't build my bike i could build my bike
better than you the things i've made what four or five bike build videos now so i'm pretty
sure i can do it without any instruction yeah i've watched five bike bills so you can watch
the old one back to reference no it's in my head it's realized that i just watched
youtube videos that tell me how to do it step by step that's why it takes so long to film
so there's a couple of exciting things happening here one this is a very very cool build and
nick will explain more in a minute two jimmy is here with a camera and he's going to be filming
a full build video of this bike which is all like asmr and you know people every single step of the
build will be documented on his youtube channel which i'll put a link to down below and nick's
not allowed to talk which is great for people who hate nick when it's just me and you you're
actually quite like you're focused in like the build and you like get into it like you actually
like care about them and then and then francis turns up with his bike and it's just carnage
my bike doesn't get treated the same as his other car what's the first thing he said should we get
the beers in he's never done that with me this is a scott addict gravel 45 mil tyre clearance
and we're building it up with a mullet style group set nick what's a mullet style group set it's like
tony's hair you know business and front party at the back essentially uh you're on road bike levers
road bike chain set and then a mountain micro rear mech mounted like i said mounted by chain
so obviously you use drop bar levers but still have the durability and the massive cassette range
of the eagle 12 speed rear mounts and i need a massive cassette you don't need one but
you want one because it just makes sense why wouldn't you if you're coming to ride with me
you need one and that as well he's not gonna ride with you ever i've been using not having
a bike as an excuse now i've got proof that it's no excuse sometimes i have to
go riding with nick so he thinks we're friends and then he'll do this for free
does this for free i don't i don't have friends only people are i don't hate
round two so like nick just explained a mullet group set is road on the front
and mountain bike on the rear so you have a bigger span of gears and you have all the
reliability of a mountain bike rear mech however this is my first time riding sram road bike levers
how do i change gear down like i said you mean up the up the cassette unless you're absolutely
mental like jeremy nichols over there and you switch it around why do you switch it around
i didn't even realize i had it makes sense to me like the cassette i'm pushing a button which is
basically saying it's going up and i'm pushing it that way and it says it's going down that
makes sense so is this a weird thing you've got an app so you can take your changes yeah you can
change you can change that you can use one lever shift both ways if you wanted to jimmy's bike
every time it comes in to have something done to it and always because they're confused but
now that he's explained why he's doing it like i'm actually thinking he might be on something
yeah but i wouldn't have to keep bringing it in if you just built a property in the first place
i've even had conversations with you about this in the past and you are
uh i think probably early versions of sram etap stuff probably has a reputation for being a bit
clunky um but i i've ridden durace mechanical for like years and there is like in terms of
shifting there's just no difference really functions unbelievably well the batteries
thing i would never ever buy di2 personally because it just doesn't like with the etap stuff
if something runs out i can just take a battery out put a new battery in provided it's charged
or if my rear mech battery runs out i can just take the mech the battery from my front neck
and switch them around on my soon-to-be gravel bike there's also going to be a battery on the
dropper post which i can just as as you said the other day if my mac battery runs out i can just
take the one from like the biggest thing for me is gravel wise is no corrosion on the cables no dirt
going into a cable housing so your shifts always work when my bike stops shifting well i know the
jockey wheels are worn out a change warner i mean i was the biggest biggest catback fan ever
super record all the way um and i wouldn't look back tram for me now going forward i'm even happy
to ride the rival because it just works so well you [ __ ] snob you absolute bike's not even
rival or peasant group set probably out to this video segment that this is not a video sponsored
by sram the distributor in the uk helped me get hold of the parts but i bought them all
don't trust anything he says
so new on this build are the tyres hutchinson tundras which are the new gravel tyre 45 mil
which will fit inside the frame i'm upset because mine was supposed to be here but i made a mistake
and didn't check when we put the order through that i got 29 inch instead of 27 and a half it's
about the perfect tire for uk conditions i think you'll agree especially on the rides that you take
people on yes which are quite mountain biking on the plus side they're about 15 quids a tie
cheaper than most other ties we sell so they're not expensive even though they're really good the
big thing for us is loads of the ties out there that loads of the magazines are recommending
don't hold their tubeless seal so eventually after about a month or two the bead stretches
hutchinson and i've been doing tubeless tires since they invented tubeless
yeah catback used to have it yeah in a cycling space surely yeah campbell used to have um
yeah obviously can't bag used to have uh what they call osl have a two-way fit
and back in the day early 2000's when i was fixing nobody knew what that meant but essentially if you
put a hatchison tie onto your bike back then or onto a combat wheel you could set up tubeless i've
got a question for you nick yeah how many wheels that are not tubulus ready can you actually set
up tubeless legally none but i think as long as your tires are good it's all based down on to
the tires because even wheels at the sale tubes ready you can't set up sometimes with the tires
or [ __ ] so if you've got a good bead um like hutchinson's like the terra vales better tires
makes everything else easier obviously it helps you've got a good wheel as well being seen in the
video like this went on straight away on the parkour what are you doing trying to tie the
other back because he's a mess just kind of make it up yeah he's gonna be definitely not a kicker
[ __ ] me it feels light
so the build is done it's now the next day and here's a full rundown of my new added gravel so
the frame is a scott addict gravel tuned edition which is this black paint job with the white
chainstays and the white forks it's the highest grade of carbon fiber that they do so the top
end model along with the frame you get a synchro seat post you get a integrated bar and stem these
are slightly different to the ones on the road build they're flared these ones are 40 centimeter
and then they flare out to significantly more than that which would be quite nice in terms of control
when you're on the trails it includes the same as tony's bike a six gram seat post clamp this
frame is a size small i'm just under five nine and run a seat post height of 71 centimeters someone's
shooting something over there as we discussed earlier it's built up with sram red and eagle
mullet style so absolutely massive cassette on the back one by on the front this is a 49
tooth chainring the cassette is a 50 10. this kind of setup is ideal if you're going to be
riding loads of steep stuff which is most of the riding around the northeast particularly
if you join nick on his right i've opted for 160 rotors front and rear you can actually fit a 180
on the front of this fork those are mounted to slightly custom parkour altars which is their
gravel wheel set but built onto road hubs which were in preparation for some riders doing the tcr
transcontinental race across europe and unfortunately the race didn't happen
so dog had them spare they've been on daisy's bike for a while and i've borrowed them for this build
slightly lighter and lower spoke count compared to the usual gravel wheels from parkour these
are set up tubeless with tiny little finishing touches from momemum these are purple valves which
look really cool the nice thing about running tires that are big like this is that you can run
lower pressure so i might experiment with these and see how low you can go i know nick with his
650b wheels and mountain bike tires basically runs about 20 psi these aren't quite as wide
but you could probably get close finishing touches i'm riding my fidlock magnetic bottles brilliant
for gravel because they don't come off garmin rally power pedals these are the spd versions with
the bodies you can change so these are set up now for off-road shoes and the last piece on the bike
the saddle and i'm probably going to butcher the pronunciation of this
a cell repente italian carbon saddle which i had on my road bike before was really comfortable so
now it's on here and it is really light as well contributing to the full build which doesn't
weigh much at all for a gravel bike very excited to give it a proper ride in the next couple of
days and i hope you enjoyed this video if you would like to see more nice bikes check out my
playlist which is on my channel called nice bikes this is the last new bike day for me for a while
i know there's been quite a few recently but it's because of the sponsor change and everything
uh we're now set up gravel bike mountain bike and road bike so i really hope you enjoyed the build
videos i'm excited to ride these for the rest of the year and now the weather's warming up
do a bit more exploring around here thank you for watching and see you guys soon