few weeks ago i found a pretty cool bike on ebay a scott sawtooth from the 90s
it was in pretty good condition but it had some parts on it that are a little bit old
a little bit worse for wear so today i've got some bits to upgrade it first stop bike shop
to do something that i wouldn't recommend unless you were friends with a guy who runs a bike shop
or a crank puller no no i'm not a real customer but only because
we don't do them anymore so it's like another until i've put them in a drawer somewhere else
i can keep them once you're quite good at camera stuff yeah do you reckon you can fix this for me
oh is that your new drone well one of them yeah it looks good um just a bit of super glue sandpaper
pop it out it says like order the parts i'm like one part all the arms are broken how many flights
three or maybe four yeah money well spent uh if anybody wants to start a gofundme you know for
flying lessons right this is the bike absolute beast 90 scott sawtooth 26 inch wheels i did
like a first put together and ride video on this bike uh and then i wrote it again and
snapped the mech off so first thing is replacing that the thing is with bikes like this they can
be super cheap online so people end up getting multiple of them and then upgrading them forever
and ever infinitely hopefully this will just be the one hutchinson tires shimano tourney
mech brand new 8-speed chain and a 32-tooth narrow-wide crankset amazon special all the way
this mech had seen better days before i rode it and now i've ridden it well i think rest in
peace my friend i don't even know where the other jockey wheel is in a field somewhere
crusty now if you ever get your hands on one of these older bikes the cranks are going to probably
need a special tool to take off this is a crank puller for square taper crank so it threads in
and then as you do it up it pushes against the bb and the crank comes off this is an
octalink one which is a very slightly different system it works in pretty
much the same way but a slightly different fitting shimano used these for a while thread
it in by hand and then do up the lever like that and the crank comes off easy
now with this build simplicity is what i'm going after i'm only gonna ever ride this bike to and
from here which is up a big hill and down a big hill i don't really need a massive spread of gears
that's why i wanted to put the one by on less to go wrong it's narrow wide so keep the chain
on and then you've still got a fair few gears at the back if you do need them let's get that tight
i'm gonna be most disappointed if this next step doesn't work which is putting on way better tires
these are like i don't even know what they are doesn't say anything basically they're
just cheap commuting tyres and i want something a little bit more gnarly for the sweet gravel tracks
that go pretty much from my front door all the way into town you want to go really fast you need some
knobbles and these have got knobbles touching some pythons the only problem is they're 2.3
2.25 inch and the clearance in this frame might be too small please fit
tubeless ready i don't think we can set them up tubeless with these wheels
from one fits
i've spent a moderate amount of money upgrading this bike not enough what would you do if you
were to spend an infinite amount of money infinite amount of money yeah nice wheels you still get 26
inch wheels get a decent set well actually instead of a course i'm just getting fork i
don't have one inch micro bottle might not but if not get an adapter to put a proper stem and bar
on it yeah and then a proper group set and then for the brakes go for like really nice v-race
because they're still available you'll be able to get them on the internet for just one
i mean that's not going to stop you it does they work quite well yeah surprisingly well i think so
but not doing something more yeah i mean it's commutable you're not building it to have like
as a mountain bike no this has got to survive the gravel tracker from up there down to here
yeah which is time-wise no breaking as long as there isn't any doubt somebody asked me yesterday
if on the weekend was the hottest day i've ever ridden a bike in it's like 27 degrees it's not
like speaking to a south african man yeah exactly that's a mild spring day the audience oh it has
been quite hot here but we're just outside of the bit of like most of england has been
pretty unbearable i think it's been in the 30s here it's been like 28. is that an actual scot
have you ever scott it or anybody just written his own name on no that is 100 a real scott i even saw
this frame's brother at the scott factory for that one second no it won't fit it's not twenty seven
point two just pile it out dummies how much is that by five hundred and something pounds perfect
it's only twice the price of the bike should we put a wireless grip on it if you want to do that
in it you can let's do it yeah i'm not gonna pay you though so there you go a much more functional
and probably more capable version of this bike the original purchase was 155 pounds from ebay
and then the parts i've added six seven and eight speed chain was 8.99 the relay was just 19 pounds
98 crankset was 31 pounds 19 and by far the most expensive bit was the tyres which are about 35
pounds online for the tubeless ready ones i think you can get slightly cheaper versions of these
these are the ones that hutchinson sent me to use so thanks to them and thanks for sending the inner
tubes again if you were going to buy your own inner tubes for the bike probably be about five to
ten pounds per tube so all in all a fantastic bike for the money much better than buying something
new and evidently quite low quality in comparison we've already explored bikes like that around the
same price point online and they were nowhere near as good as this so i'm very happy with how this
has turned out you could go even further and start upgrading other parts as well these are the wheels
that they came with they're a little bit out of true doesn't really fuss me that much but if
you wanted it to be absolutely perfect you could just keep spending money shifting could be better
could go for something a bit newer but all in all a great bike for running around the city what
more do you need bike's riding pretty good but stashed at the office because there's one small
problem the clearance on the front fork is just a little bit too much to be finished if you took
it out and ride it through some mud your front wheel will be getting stuck so for now ordered
some parts ordered a slightly smaller tire but you get the basic idea i'm glad to have finally
finished that little project and hopefully showing that you can get a pretty good deal
if you look online secondhand there's some great bikes to be had now i'm not exactly sure
what's going on with me have i seemed sleepy in this video at all because
i had an antics to me this morning i think it's maybe really drowsy or maybe it's like
the 27 degree weather i really could fall asleep if i shut my eyes right now stop it