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- Hmm.
Morning Trainiacs, solid hour spent
writing the triathlon training guide book.
Hmm hmm, you know what,
stick around at the end of the video
I will tell you about something that I'm working on
about how you can be involved in getting said
triathlon training book for free.
But that's later.
Right now, what I want do,
is actually walk you through the Saris Superclamp Bike Rack.
Now if this rain would just end and
I could pretty myself up a little,
we'll get to that.
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Alright so after, I don't know,
lets call it two months of carting around the wheelers
with the old Saris Superclamp to bike,
lets talk about how this thing handles.
So for starters, I will say yes this would be
hashtag an ad because technically
they gave this to me and Saris and I have some
business dealings with the Cyclops and the discounts
for the Team Trainiacs so I think technically
according to the FCC, hashtag ad.
All that said, none of what I'm about to say
has been supplied to me from Saris, Cyclops, PowerTap,
that whole family of products.
It's all, you're getting the real deal from up here.
So this up here is what I used to cart the bikes around in.
The front and rear wheels would get strapped down,
apparently not anymore cause they're all gone.
And then, this thing here would clamp really hard
onto the downtube.
Now Ryan from Saris has been watching the videos for a while
and when the Ventum came he's like
A, Taren you don't have a downtube to clamp onto
and B, you won't wanna be clamping down
that hard onto carbon.
When you're dealing with a real high-end carbon bike
and all of a sudden you're putting all kinds of pressure
on that carbon, bad things happen.
So he sent this out and we'll talk about what
the premise is that makes it better.
Alright so the better thing about this
as apposed to the roof rack is that
instead of having to clamp down on a carbon frame,
instead what you do is you place the bike
into the trays for the wheels right here and here
which you can adjust forward and back
so that whatever wheel base you have
it'll fit in there nicely.
Then you take these straps, strap the bike down
so it's not gonna fly out anywhere
and then instead of clamping down onto the frame
which is hard which is rigid which can crack
you take these arms and you place them overtop of the wheels
and you take these little hooks,
bring it down, press it on top of the wheels
so instead of clamping down onto that hard rigid frame
you're clamping down onto the nice soft wheels
so that there's a little bit of give in there
and you're not placing too much pressure
on very expensive bike frame.
I mean addition to that this whole thing is nice and low
for the height-challenged among us.
Getting things on top of the vehicle,
very difficult. NTK can't even put a bike up there.
However this, you just walk up and you just
I mean, you guys know how to lift things.
Super easy, very convenient.
The one downside of that is that
if you get the order of trunk this
all wrong depending on your vehicle
you might, like I did on the weekend,
put your bike in and then have to close the trunk
and be like, oh forgot about that.
But if you just think a little bit sharper than I did,
after the race on the weekend uh
you're gonna be just fine.
Now there's not a whole lot that's really special to this.
I mean it's a very basic design but it's easy to use.
I mean the tray is here, they move back and forth,
everything adjusts really easily,
nothing is a pain and you can see just with one hand
here boom boom boom boom, everything is simple
and easy to use, and frankly that makes this review
pretty short and it's short because really the gist of it is
it does what it's supposed to do.
It's easy to put in, one bike,
if you flip around the next bike
so that the handles for the first bike are here
and the next bike are there, or vice versa,
fit two bikes very comfortably there's not a lot of like
wiggling around, it's just designed well
and if you want to put two bikes on a vehicle
it's a good way to do it.
Now a few obvious points with the nuts and bolts,
costs about 470 dollars US but
if you don't have a trailer hitch you might have to
invest in a 200 dollar or so trailer hitch
to put this on to the back.
The trailer hitch insertion point,
it goes in and it's got a lock on it
so you can take the key out and nobody can actually
come and take this because it's locked in
with that nice cotter pin.
Then to take this whole thing off
you just slide it off, easy peas.
Now the last thing is that it has
a 4.7 out of five star rating, as far as the world of
online retailing goes, that's pretty good, makes sense.
So there ya go, that is the review
of the Saris Superclamp EX two bike.
If you're looking for a way to put two bikes on your vehicle
highly recommend it.
Like the people at Saris, they're very good
with their warranty, they're just very good folk
and they make good product.
Now, on to what I was doing this morning with the books.
So, for about an hour, maybe four or five times a week,
I'll come in here early morning
and I'm starting to write a book about all of the things
that I put out on the channel.
Because you ask a lot of questions
that I've done videos about in the past.
So instead of having to think,
oh what was the video I said that in,
I'm writing a book that is going to be free,
just for the cost of shipping,
and it's gonna be, I don't know,
five, six, seven months away maybe.
But in the meantime, what I want you to do
to help with that, for what's in the book,
and for some of the course ideas that we've got coming up.
You can go to triathlontaten.com/challenges
and what I want you to do is tell me
what your biggest challenges are
in swim, bike, run, strength, nutrition.
And from that, we'll be able to make sure
we answer the most common questions.
See, remember when I said that I was going to
include you more in the things that I do?
I'm doing it.
So, link in the description below.
Go to that triathlontaren.com/challenges
and thank you to, uh, Saris for sending out that bike rack.
Big fan, I liked it, good, it works, holds bikes.