- [Max] Look at the camera.
Hold, hold.
Okay. Boom.
- Well, I think it happened. I've got a dream build.
Now, I'm bloody lucky, because I did spend most of last year
absolutely loving my hardtail,
do-it-all, everything, daily driver.
And in hindsight,
it was a bit of an initiation from "The Boss."
But now I get to take you through my new daily driver,
the Commencal Meta TR, AKA "The Spaceship."
Now I'm bloody lucky to work with these awesome brands
and stoked that I get to pick the components
I wanna ride on this bike.
So let's go take a look.
(upbeat music)
First things first, the frame.
Now the TR is Commencal's 140mm rear travel trail bike
and it's got a high and low option.
I'm running the low option
because that makes the head tube angle
the exact same as the hardtail's.
It's 64.5.
Now, I'm 175 centimeters on a good day,
which is about 6'7", 6'8",
so I'm size medium.
The reach is 465mm, which is actually I think
Matt Beer's ideal extra medium frame.
Aluminium of course, or aluminum for you North Americans.
Just an all-round solid option.
All right, let's address the elephant in the room.
This bike has four rechargeable batteries
and it doesn't even have a motor.
Am I gonna forget to charge one of them? Probably.
Do I still wanna try it? Hell yeah.
That's because I'm curious to try
the new mountain bike tech.
Plus my experiences with switches
is that every time I flip 'em, I forget 'em.
In short, Flight Attendant
automatically adjusts your damping as you ride
using the sensors in your fork, rear shock and cranks.
Now Levy has done a full explainer video
on how the system works
and I'll link that in the description below
so you can go and do your own homework.
So you can go and do my homework for me. (laughs)
Now, one of the other main reasons
I wanna try Flight Attendant was for this weekend
and that's the Sea Otter classic.
Now, if you haven't heard of that,
it's one of the biggest mountain bike festivals
in the world.
I'm gonna be racing every single mountain bike discipline
on this bike.
We're talkin' the enduro, the XC, the downhill,
the e-mountain bike and even the dual slalom.
So suspension's gonna be one less thing
I'm gonna have to worry about
as I'm frantically changing tires
between XC, downhill, and all of the above.
While we're talkin' suspension,
I've got a 160mm Lyrik Ultimate up front.
The bike takes 150 or 160.
I opted for the bigger option
because I'm not too worried about the weight,
and I want it to be able to everything.
Right now I've got it set at about 25% sag
because that's how I like it, a bit firmer.
That puts me at 79 PSI
and the rebound's eight clicks from slow.
And compression-wise,
I've set that at eight clicks from open,
and that 140mm rear shock is a Super Deluxe Ultimate
running that again, pretty stiff, 25% sag,
and that puts me at 178 PSI.
Wheel options, I'm running
the Zipp 3ZERO MOTO carbon 29er wheels.
Now that's only one of two carbon components on this bike.
Now, if these wheels can do a year on the hardtail
I think they'll be fine on this bike.
And in the back, we're running the Schwalbe Big Betty
in 29er and 2.4 width, with the soft compound.
Hopefully it'll make that last a little bit longer.
While up the front is the ultra soft compound Magic Mary,
2.4 as well.
Now, bringing it upstairs to the cockpit.
We've got Deity lockjaw grips,
50mm Copperhead stem and 775mm wide bars.
Now that 775mm is because
that's very roughly my press-up position
and just what I'm used to.
In the brakes department, we've got the Code RSCs,
200mm rotors front and back.
And for the saddle, it's a Deity Speedtrap
that's been looking after my non-shared-wide downstairs
for over a year now, and it's happy days.
And drive train wise, I've gone for the SRAM X01 AXS.
Now I've been running the AXS for over a year now
and it has seen some things.
52-10 cassette and 32-tooth front chain ring.
I used to have the 34 tooth chain ring up the front
but I actually realized
spinning all day is actually quite nice. (laughs)
And TIME pedals.
Well, there you have it. How good.
I'm blown away by this dream build.
Thank you very much for watchin'.
Make sure you keep an eye out
for the Sea Otter video comin' out soon
and let me know what challenges or other races
I should get up to on this bike in the comments below.
Cheers.