- I have something very special for you today.
This is Sam Pilgrim's Pro Bike Check.
(rock music)
Like always I like to start off at the heart of the bike
and this is the frame and this, my friends, is very special.
There's only two in the world,
this is the Haibike DRT 11 or Dirt 11.
Okay, the 11's very special because with the ebike range
it goes up to 10.0 but this one is 11,
so you can't even buy this frame,
there's only two in the world in existence.
For one, this one, the full build,
and then Sam owns the other one as well
which is a spare frame which is hanging up in his garage.
So this frame is super unique to him,
it says Sam Pilgrim signature model 11 Dirt on the top tube.
Being a slope style dirt jump bike
it needs to have some super strong wheels
and he's still running 26 inch wheels 'cause 26 is not dead.
These are the Halo Chaos wheels, 32 spoke
and on the hubs are all black build,
the hub on the back is a Halo Super Drive.
For his gear ratio he's running as a 26
toothed sprocket on the front and on the rear is 11.
That's a pretty big gear
but you don't want such an easy gear
when it comes to hitting big jumps
because you need to gain a lot of speed
to hit these big things.
He's running a half link chain on there in gold,
it looks super cool, it's a BMX chain so it's super strong
because it's an explosive sport,
you don't want to have a real thin chain
because you will definitely snap it, well Sam will snap it.
Right, moving on to the pedals look at the color,
these things are pretty cool.
These are Tag Metals pedals and they're not metal,
they're plastic so they're super lightweight
and pretty grippy as well.
In the world of mountain biking out there in the trails
people are moving over to tubeless,
running sealant in those things but now within dirt jumping
they're still running inner tubes.
I'm going to move on to the tires,
these are the Continental Race King tire at 2.0,
so that's quite narrow tire and they're really solid.
There's a lot of grip in these tires but still fast rolling
and he's running in front and rear.
These things are rock solid,
you don't want to have a nice big snake bite,
specially when you're riding skatepark
and you hit a coping you don't want that tire to deform
and get a puncture and spit you off your bike.
So he's running 80 psi.
A unique thing about dirt jumping
is you don't really need these humongous rotors
for you to stop, you don't need gears to get in the way,
it's all minimalistic, it's like one gear
and one break and it's on the rear.
And on the rear on this one his disc rotor is 140
so it's really small and the brake he's running
is a Magura MT7 Race Line Team Edition only,
you can't buy this brake in this color,
it's only issued to the team, pretty special.
Like I say, it is a dirt jump bike so super minimalistic,
he's only running suspension on the front
and this is pretty unique because these
are Marzoochi Bomber Z1s in red, pretty cool.
But what you can see, this huge gap here.
These are 27.5 forks.
Now the wheel build on the front,
pretty unique, super minimalistic,
this is called a Halo Wide Boy
so basically you can't even run a disc on the front,
nowhere to put it, super cool,
and it kind of cuts down that weight as well.
All right, moving up into this aggressive cockpit
and super clean as well.
I'm gonna start off with this little thing right here,
this is a hydraulic gyro.
So basically what this does
is you can spin your bars as many times as possible
without that cable getting mixed up and it's great
because Sam likes to do bar spins, tail whips,
that is going to basically open the whole world of
doing lots of different tricks and combos.
So moving from that
beautiful piece of mechanical engineering hydraulic gyro,
you got this NS bike stem, it's 30 mil
but look at these handlebars, wow, 760 wide
but three inches of rise,
now that is a bar for some serious stunting.
Then we've got that nice leave here,
the Race Line MT7, super cool.
So when it comes to dirt jumping you're not really
going from A to B sat down climbing,
so his saddle's slammed way down out the way.
Look at that gap between his rear wheel and his saddle.
If you land on your saddle or land on the back tire
something's definitely gonna caught there.
But anyway, we don't want to go there,
so this saddle here is an Octane one,
it's basically his old signature saddle from NS Bikes.
It sounds says Sam Pilgrim on the on the side here,
super cool, it's a pivotal saddle and seat post combo
so basically it can just moves up and down,
there's no way of it going forward or back, super strong.
This thing is meant to be thrown around,
it's solid, it's durable, and basically
it's the scratches makes the character of the bike,
you can see this bike is full of scratches.
I bet every scratch on this bike can tell a story.
I love the patina, as you would say, of this bike frame.
Enough chitchat, let's get Sam in himself,
I've got a few questions to ask him.
- Hi, Blake. - Hello, Sam, all right.
Now, first one is the biggest one and it's the forks
because you're running a 27.5 front end
but on a 26-inch wheel. - Yeah.
- Did you get that load yourself?
- So like they were on my ebike
and I cased this huge jump and then they got stuck at 80.
No, the guys at Mazaki last year cut them down to 80 mil
because they're 27.5 forks like you said,
we have 26 inch wheels yeah so 80 mil
is equivalent of a 100 mil 26 inch, the specific fork.
And they're so stiff, they're like 200 psi or something
and then I turn the firmness all the way around
so actually you can't move them.
- [Blake] You can't.
But they only move when you want them to.
- If you land like off a 50-foot drop to flat they'd move.
- Okay, well that's their job then.
- The best thing about it actually is that
the bars flex before the forks move,
it's actually stupid but it does work.
- Wow, and talking about your bars, three inch rise,
you've been running three inch rise for quite a long time.
- Yeah, well like the three inch rise fashion
went out so long ago so I was like,
I'm going to keep that thing alive
and I like it for turn downs
and just the positioning is like good for manuals
and I just really like them like that.
- Super high. - Yeah.
And not many people ride them so I think it's cool,
be a bit different.
- [Blake] I like 'em, I like 'em, the hydraulic gyro,
I've never ridden it, I've always been intrigued about it,
do they have an issue or do you love that thing?
- Like a load of guys say they have issues
but I think they know nothing about bikes.
Obviously you've seen my mechanical skills
and I know a lot about what's going on.
I never change that thing
and it's been perfect for like a whole year.
- Wow.
- Like it's, I mean, just feel it.
Whoa.
It actually works perfectly though, I really like it.
- Dreamy.
- And I need it so you don't have to think about
tailwips and barspins, stuff like that.
- Preloading your cable to spin that many bars and stuff.
- Like it's perfect for what I do.
- All right, last question there's only two of these frames
alive in existence in the world,
this one and the one that's hanging up in your garage.
Are people out there gonna be able to buy your bike?
- Yeah, well right now at the Haibike HQ
there's a brand new version of this frame sitting there.
They're just trying to work everything out
and then people will be able to buy this frame soon
'cause a lot of kids asking me about it
and yeah, it is coming eventually.
But actually right now I've quite like
that I'm the only guy a bit so.
If Haibike are watching just don't bother making it
'cause it's cooler that I'm the only one with this bike.
- I thank you so much Sam for bringing your Haibike Dirt 11,
super special bike, and showing it to the world.
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- To the sky.
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