- We're here outside Sram
and they've kindly let us do a truck tour.
So we're gonna have a look in their truck.
Super cool, some of the small parts
and intricate little details that these guys go to.
(pulse pounding music)
Okay, so as you can see, it's a pretty big space.
Mobile work benches are on wheels.
They can get everything they need right there.
Work on the fork, get the job done,
and the guys back out on the track.
(coffee machine chugs)
Okay, so as you can see, they have
a real sweet chill out area here
on the far side of the awning.
Anyone's welcome to come in, grab a coffee like me,
Red Bull, usually there's a few sweets or something.
Beers later on in the afternoon.
But the main sort of engine room
of the Sram truck is over here, so let's go have a look.
This little area here is all for working on shocks.
So they've got the vice there
to hold all the pieces and do everything.
Set it all out really nicely.
They can see all the little parts and so on.
So they can build the shock here,
take it apart, rebuild it, fresh oil,
then they can check it works,
everything perfectly, on the dyno here.
They just check the dampin', everything works.
We couldn't go without looking in this cupboard.
It's called "Awesomeness."
So you would expect something pretty cool.
Let's have a look.
Okay.
So next to all shock rebuilding stuff,
we have all the relevant bushes and hardware
to rebuild the shock,
and then make sure that these pieces in here
have the correct hardware.
And they'll replace these, 'cause they can get worn
when they're havin' a really hard time on the dyno track.
Don't remember where it went.
So in this bottle here, they have nitrogen.
Nitrogen is for chargin' the shocks.
So this is purely for rear shocks, nitrogen there.
And then over here, when things get serious,
they've got a lathe where they can sorta
engineer small parts and make them fit
and work correctly just as they need.
Obviously you can see they got really nice racks
all the way down here, both sides.
Chains in this one here.
As you can see.
It's like a snake's wedding of chains inside here.
They're all labelled really nice
so everybody knows exactly where everything is.
This is press fit bottom brackets
and bottom bracket spares.
What else have they got?
Whoa, some serious tools in there.
Big presses and stuff.
Some more interesting things.
How about brakes?
Small parts and "Seven Seconds."
There's actually a story about this.
I've got some good friends within Sram
and I was strugglin' for a bit of time,
so they reckon that the brakes was the best place
to find seven seconds, so therefore
they named the drawer "Seven Seconds."
So you've got small parts for brakes here.
Different pads.
Obviously there's different compounds of pads all available.
Nice little fancy anodized parts here.
Matchmakers and clamps.
So these are all to get that nice tidy set up on your bars.
They have loads of different styles in there.
Cassettes, let's have a look.
Wow.
Okay.
So this is the seven-speed downhill cassette.
As you can see, it's got the built-in sorta,
when you've set your stops it's actually,
even if you've not set them correctly,
it's impossible for the chain to go over the cassette.
BoXXer parts.
So this is for the fork.
All the different parts in here, as you can see.
The service kit there.
Seals up here.
It's pretty fancy in here.
So we've got XX1.
XX1.
X0, there's an X0 crank set.
Handle bars and ice creams.
Okay.
So we got the BooBar.
Got Stevie Smith Signature.
Okay, so this is quite cool,
there's a bunch of dampers here,
which are the legs of the fork.
So this is sorta the business side of it, if you like.
This controls the action of the fork itself.
So what we have is the right leg of your fork.
We've got low speed rebound here on the bottom.
And then we have low speed compression here on the top.
Then, internally, that can be adjusted by the engineers here
like within half an hour probably.
Up here, this is all BoXXers.
So we have BoXXer lowers all the way along here.
So you can get them in white and black.
All the way along, so if a rider comes in
and he's had a nasty crash that mighta twisted them
or damaged a set, you know, it's brutal out there
and the guys are pushing really hard
so these things can happen
when they have, like, really big crashes.
That's all up there.
So they can cover everything on your fork.
And the top boys'll probably have their forks serviced
maybe twice a weekend.
Once on the first day, before they ride,
and then once before the race,
refreshed so they're perfect for racing.
Okay, so that's it for the workshop.
Obviously these guys work super hard,
and they have to have some downtime.
So they do that in this part of the truck towards the front.
If you wanna come in here.
So immediately here on the left as you walk in,
there's a bit of a store.
As you can see, the riders, they have a couple of
Luka and Walk Ashore here, so they've got a little bit
of a rider's area for their stuff.
And then the technicians have their helmets and so on.
Sort of swag and stuff in here that...
Everybody loves swag, right?
There's RockShox socks, caps.
I think American guys wear it this way.
I'll wear it this way.
Forks, now we're getting to the good stuff.
More forks here, as you can see,
there's a box full of BoXXers.
So moving through here, we have a small little kitchenette.
Just a tiny little one, but they've got, you know,
sink, little hob there, storage space up here.
Crispies.
It's definitely not an athlete's area.
Pringles, Milky Ways.
The boys, they're running on
biscuits, crisps, and chocolate.
Now the fridge, it's quite a big fridge
for a little kitchen.
So let's have a look in here.
Do you wanna come on in?
Okay, so we're in Scotland, we've got Tennent's,
some bread, salami,
lots of beer, as you can see.
Guy fueled by beer and coffee.
Keeps 'em goin' all day.
Some Red Bull colas.
May as well have a beer, hadn't we.
Cheers.