so later on in this video I talk a little bit about the process of BMX parts and getting to
see things and give feedback on them before they actually come out and available to people and
this video is one where I'm talking about some sprockets from alienation where I actually had
samples of these sprockets and was taking a look at logo placement and fit on them and it was a
really cool concept but because they hadn't come out yet I had to wait a little while for
the video and with that because some time has gone by before they're readily available and before we
wanted to release that video we actually have the production part to take a look at today so before
we get to me actually installing this sample and taking a look at the fit and talking about
all that stuff I can actually show you guys the production model of this sprocket so we
have right here the alienation Pro Raider sprocket and this differs from what you're
going to see later in that this is the production in the logo placement was
finalized so let's just go ahead and open up this sprocket here and take a look at the final piece
all right so as we can see here we have the a l n and as you're going to see here in a minute this
is different than what I put on my bike so it's pretty cool to see kind of the the development
of a part and how it actually ends up based on samples and taking a look at things in the
production process so also another thing is that I put this sprocket onto my Trails bike being my
previous Trails bike before I built up the s m BTM so that's why I'm putting it onto a different
bike in the video there's a different background as well the old background and we also want to
take this opportunity to show off a couple other alienation parts so we've got a set of alienation
foothold pedals right here brand new these are the sealed bearing pedals with the concave on them
that are just so comfortable they've got metal pins on them there are 10 metal pins on each side
they are a thin profile and these petals are just awesome and until the foot fetish pedals come out
these are my pedal of choice I love these they are awesome the foot fetish petals I can't wait
for them to come out and I think that there has been some development on that and some progress so
hopefully we see those come out sooner than later but until then foothold is where it's at next
how does this and what is this these are also exciting these are something that I don't know
if people have seen yet but alienation actually makes Pro Molly Hub guards for the Venus hubs as
well as some other planetary hubs these will fit so there's the non-drive side
as well as the drive side chromoly Hub guards these are available now so if you have the Venus
Hub and you wanted to get metal guards for it you can get them awesome I love that I have a very
early sample of this that's thicker on my bike so I'm stoked to get this one on there it's a
little bit thinner save a little bit of weight you know it's unnecessary weight but the one that's
been on my bike has been going strong and I've been into it so next we have a Thunderbird seat
in purple I'm going to show you guys this seat because the Thunderbird seat has been available
for a while now and I don't know if everybody knows about it yet so we have the Thunderbird
in purple such a good looking seat I love whenever I see people riding one of these out in the wild
and here we have the purple Thunderbird not much to say about a seat other than looking at
its design what I will say is that I have this in turquoise on my Trails bike it was on my previous
bike and it's a seat that somehow I hadn't like blown through the the material on after a month
or two which is something that I definitely did in the past with a lot of seats but these these
alienation seats that I've had you know the psycho the gray one then the Thunderbird in turquoise now
the gripper I haven't ripped a single one of those seats and I've ridden them for extended periods of
time so that's definitely something to say about the quality of the stitching and fabric that they
use on these so here is the purple Thunderbird this is also available in red turquoise and
purple and then the last thing in this package is something that I have made a video about already
but wasn't able to use because my wheel was so far back in my dropouts that they didn't make one of
these big enough but this is the alienation circle jerk and what this basically is is a
washer with a piece on the back of it and I'll show you when I get it open here it's a washer
with a piece on the back of it that goes into your Dropout and you can imagine this takes up
the space between the front of your axle and your slammed portion of your Dropout effectively making
it so that when you get the right measurement and you have to make sure that you measure these and
get the right one you have a slammed wheel and your wheel can't move forward so once you find
where you like your chain at you get your correct measurement you can put one of these on your bike
and then you don't have to worry about your wheel moving forward ever because this is taking up the
space and it's essentially like you have a slammed wheel without it being land and this makes it so
that you can refine your back end length even more because instead of having to slam your wheel all
the way forward to have it against something and never be able to move and then making your chain
really hard to get off you can use one of these to put your wheel exactly where you want it and
maybe you have a frame that when it's slammed it is exactly where you want it but you hate
that you have to take off your chain with a chain breaker or mess up your Sprocket in order to get
your chain off if you have one of these in there you just loosen your rear wheel up pop this out
of the frame and then your axle can move forward in order to let you get your chain off easier so
it's really a cool concept and before I blabber into Infinity I just wanted to show you guys all
of these products from alienation let you know that they are available and that the pro Raider
sprocket is available now and now we're going to transition to the video where I talk about the
sample and then put it onto my Trails bike that is the version before my current Trails bike so
let's get right on to that so one of my favorite parts of working with a company like alienation
and the way that I do is that I get to see and have input on products before they're ever put
into production and sometimes like this I get to have a Hands-On with them and even get to give an
okay before they go into production so this is a perfect example of that in the alienation Pro
Raider sprocket which is now available I'm filming this quite a while before production is actually
finished but what I'm doing today is taking a look at these samples and one checking the fit on
different spindles as well as cranks and putting it on the bike and making sure everything is good
and two taking a look at an example in this logo on here to see if maybe there might be something
better that could be done with it and if there was that's what you'll be seeing in the final product
but I'm really excited about that because having input on products and giving my thoughts and
as well as getting to see them before they ever hit the market is just it's a really really cool
aspect of being being a sponsored BMX rider it's part of the job you give input on the products
so that when they come out they're the best they can possibly be so what we're going to be doing
today is taking the sprocket off of my Trails bike and throwing on one of these this is more Trails
I would say than a guard sprocket is but the trail season is now over and I'm excited to get
to this so let's talk about some facts about these prorator sprockets as we go through this so first
and foremost these are CNC machined 100 from Seven series aluminum 7075 they're available in 25 tooth
and 28 tooth as well as in polished and this black anodized color so that's what we'll give for now
and let's get forward a little bit so we can start putting on one of these sprockets all right here
we are to take off this old sprocket which you can see has quite a bit of Trail dirt on it from
a season of riding trails and now we are going to replace it and retire it with the pro Raider
oh there we go sometimes it's a struggle
one thing I would suggest when you're running a bolt drive sprocket is that you check your
bolt quite often I had a situation last time I was at raised where I looked down and uh my
sprocket bolt was literally crooked in there and it was like it was like that for a while
to put it honestly and uh I was a little bit afraid that I wasn't going to be able to put
it back in and that essentially this crank would be ruined because I didn't keep up on making sure
that it was tight so thread Locker whatever you got to do double check it as much as you need to
surprise we're going with black on this because I feel like it only fits well we've got this thing
out actually let's give another fact about it it's got a 24 millimeter or 15 16 bore in the sprocket
itself and it comes with 19 millimeter adapter and 22 millimeter adapters in the packaging
we will be going with 22 today and we are almost ready to put it on
wouldn't be a video if I didn't drop something crank off oh we definitely gotta do a little bit
of cleaning there wow okay I've gotta show this look at the teeth not necessarily the teeth but
behind the teeth how much dirt and junk is on that thing riding trails baby I'm gonna grab a rag real
quick clean this up we'll time lapse through it and then we'll be back to put the sprocket on
okay got it cleaned up here and grabbed some shout out to Park Tool polylube 1004 the crank
we're ready to put the pro Raider on and just like so I'm gonna double check spacing is good as far
as hitting the frame goes there's no issues there another fact about the sprocket is something you
may or may not be able to see on camera here we'll hope it focuses the teeth are actually
slightly offset away from the design so that when it is on the frame the teeth are closer to the
frame which should improve your chain alignment that's something that BMX has definitely seemed
to have overlooked or not cared as much about in recent history so it's good to see that as well
I'm gonna just throw some poly Lube on here real quick and make all of my titanium loving friends
freak out because I'm putting not titanium prep on here but you saw how easy it came off whenever
I took it off just now so I'm not exactly worried about it seizing okay plenty of lube on there and
think we're solid totally forgot to clean the crank arm outside but that's no big deal all right
so next step is the fact that I forgot to put the chain on with it
so we got to pull it right back off
chain
pull the spindle out a little bit and we are installed okay
now I'm going to try to do this without having to really mess with anything
they get it got it
boom now we'll make sure our sprocket bolt is all good
and it indeed is
oh throw our other socket back on for the sprocket bolt size tighten it in there
another cool thing about the difference between the sprockets that I just had on there was that
that last sprocket is like Mega Thick this one is six millimeters thick so it's thinner than the
previous and that gives me more spindle to go into my cranks which is something that I personally
am glad to see in this situation uh it's six millimeters thick and the sprockets weigh 75 grams
I would imagine there's not a huge discrepancy there for uh the different sizes of 25 and 28.
but yeah 75 grams Pro Raider sprocket looking pretty good if you don't
ask me which you definitely just did because you watched the video and I can't speak
you know what comedy there you go you get Blake working on bike videos and you get comedy and
there we have it alienation Pro Raider sprocket installed I I'm a fan I like the look of not
having a guard for my Trails bike because I don't need a guard in the trails it's kind of funny and
ironic if you do but I don't need it and I think it fits very well so let's give close up here
yes looks nice but I do say so myself
oh sorry about the audio there
alienation Pro Raider available now head to your local bike shop Brimstone if you're
local and hit the link in the description down below if you're not and hopefully
you guys are psyched on this here we'll get the uh polished one in here as well
I'm excited about them and I will put the price on the screen because I don't have the price as
of right now on that note hope you enjoy thanks for watching again thank you to alienation for
everything and having me involved in this process I put this sprocket on my chain alignment looks
actually pretty dang good on this Frame fitment is great fits on the crank well there was no play or
wobble or anything like that I can give the okay on the pro Raider sprocket now they're going to
go into production and you'll be available right now for you guys because it's not dropping this
until they're available so thank you guys for watching subscribe down below if you're new
here or you haven't yet and hopefully that'll mean we'll see you tomorrow for another video