Speaker 1: Welcome back, you beautiful people.
We all know that one person that just throws their bike on the floor drive side, or tries
forever, just try to stand his bike up and it keeps falling over.
We all know that.
I'm a guilty one throwing my bike on its drive side.
Today I'm going to show you how to stand your bike up like a pro.
Number one, I'm going to kick it off with this, I call this the overhang bike stand,
only because the tree is overhanging, but you can do this anywhere.
You can do this on a park bench, just like this.
[laughs] Yes, anywhere there's a little bit of an overhang, you can jam your front wheel
in, and basically it will just lock in there and look at that, it's just straight as a
die.
It's not even leaning over.
The only thing that's touching is rubber against wood.
My beautiful Pole bike is not going to get scratched.
It's basically brand new.
I don't want it to get scratched.
Moving on.
[music] Such a climb.
All right such a climb.
No, no your gears, lean it against the tree, silly person.
Oh, calm down sorry, yes.
Get tree.
You don't want to be that guy who gets to the top of the trail too tired to put his
bike up, and throws it drive side down.
Now, I know someone that does that.
His name is called Jack.
Yes, Jack, I've called you out on it.
You've done it a lot.
You want to put it non-drive side to save your gears, especially if they cost a little
bit of money, and or any gears really because you can destroy them.
Now, the best one is to lean it against a tree.
It's a cheap one, but it's a perfect natural way to stand your bike up at the woods.
You can do it on a bar end, or you can do it with a pedal, or on your saddle.
I wouldn't recommend just throwing your bike up against the tree like that, because you
can scratch your top tube or the side of your bike.
You don't really want to be doing that.
You could be doing it with the back of your saddle.
Again, non-drive side, if you put against the tree drive side, it's going to crushing
your derailleur in.
You don't want to be doing that.
The bars, now that is a nice way of just looking after your bike a little bit more on the trail
while it's moving on.
[music] What if you get to the top of the trail and
you have nowhere to stand your bike?
You don't want to put it on the floor because there's a freshie, just like my new bike right
here, and I don't want to put on the floor.
This one I call, it's called the Phantom.
Why?
Because it's going to stand there levitating against something now.
It's a little secret of ours.
I'm going to have to go find it, and I have to put my bike on the floor.
I'll be back in a bit.
This woodland has a lot of them, but you got to find the right one.
No.
Yes, the perfect stick for the job.
All right, I found it.
Yes, it's the stick that's going to help make this possible.
Now, you want to find a good stick.
Look, this one's pretty straight, it's strong, but you want it to be 12 inches long, roughly.
I'm going to snap it there, throw that piece away.
Now, look at that.
That is for this.
Voila.
That is how you stand a bike like a pro.
Now I can take a photo of it, for the bike vault.
Look how sexy it looks man.
You don't even know it's standing on a stick because it's behind my derailleur.
That's why it's called the Phantom, if you didn't know.
Look at that flapping.
People are going to be like, "How you stand your bike up?"
I get questions like that all the time.
There's a number of places you can put this stick to help balance your bike up straight.
You can put it in the pedal, just like that, but this has a tendency to roll forward because
it's on the crank arm, and also, the pedal can twist.
It's a good place to put it, I've done it there before.
You can put it in that hole there on your crank arm, but then it's not really called
the Phantom stand because you can see it when you take a photo of it.
It still does the job, but I recommend going in between your disk and the rear swingarm
just in there.
It's not going to hurt your disc and it's not going to hurt your paintwork.
It's just going to be hidden because of your derailleur if you take a picture of it for
the bike vault.
That is the best place to put a stick.
Look, it stood up.
I'm not going to get muddy bar ends.
[music] This one, my friends, is called the pedal
stand.
Now there's a wrong way and a right way to be doing this.
You can do this on a curb, you can do this on any ledge that's higher than your cranks.
Now, the wrong way is when you have your crank arm and your pedal facing forward.
Now, what I mean by this, is when you put it down, and you put your bike up, it's just
going to lift off like that, and your bike is just going to topple over.
What you want to do is bring your pedal to the back of the bike just like this, a little
bit lower than flat, push your bike against it, lock it in with the drive, locking the
back wheel up, locking your pedal into rock and voila, your bike is stood up.
How cool is that?
You can do this on a curb, any ledge, a stump, anything.
This rock is perfect.
Look, a stump, easy.
Nice. [music]
Now, this one derives from the motor world, and I'm going to call out, it's the sump out.
Look at that, or the stump out.
[chuckles] That's a good way of keeping your bike up straight.
It's straight as a die.
Look at that.
You guys you can do this anywhere.
You can do this on muddy bank, you can do this on a stump, call it stump out.
You can do this on a rock if have a bash ring, because you don't really want to do any damage
to your chain.
This is wood, so we're all good.
The sump out.
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