things are about to get a bit messy
what's going on guys as you can tell I'm not having too great of a day today my
bike is full of water and we got to get this fixed so if you saw our recent
video my tips for riding in the rain we've been it's typhoon season here in
Japan right now so we've been having rain and rain and rain and this weekend
again is rain every day so rain all day yesterday Saturday today Sunday and the
typhoon is coming to our region in Nagoya
today this typhoon is actually hitting the entire country of Japan it's going
straight from down in the bottom Kyushu up double kya but luckily there was a
little break from the weather this morning and I went for a ride and I was
trying to do some intervals so I've mentioned on the channel here I'm gonna
get into racing again I'm gonna enter some cyclocross races and I've been
measuring my performance I've been doing my usual hill climbs and I've been
tracking my time and just today I felt really really sluggish like a climb that
normally takes me less than one minute it took me a minute in ten seconds then
I was just like something's wrong like I don't feel well or I just don't feel
like I have any power when I came home and I brought my bike in here and I
carried it I heard some water sounds I'm like what's that and I'm really
oblivious to a lot of things so there's this great word in Japanese Donkin which
means like oblivious or clueless or doesn't understand anything and yeah
when I ride my bikes I don't always notice that there's something wrong with
them but apparently there's some water in my frame so thought I'd make a video
about this this is a bike maintenance isn't really my thing
but I'm curious how much water is in here and I'm curious once I get this
water out of here if my performance will improve so anyway let's get the bike in
the rack here and let's get the water out of this bike so I bought this bike
rack I bought this bike rack about a year ago and you can probably tell from
the channel I don't use it too often but today is one of those days where I'm
really glad I bought this we don't have much room in the bike room here but
that's my bike rack are due to have this nice little
that's so our floors doesn't get dirty while doing these repairs I'll probably
save the actual dumping for outside of the apartment but first things first
let's get some weight off of the bike so it's easier to flip we're just gonna
take the wheels off quick release almost forgot an important part we need to
measure the weight of the bike before and after we don't have a fancy scale
like you see on most channels this is a cheap normal scale anyway it should be
fine we're gonna weigh myself first and we'll compare the difference between so
let's see so right now I'm about seventy four kilograms pretty light for me
here's the test with the bike this is the full frame the handlebars the
groupset and also the saddlebag here not a normal really normal test but the main
thing here is we just want to see how much water's in here here we go so we're
really close to about 80 kilograms here so 74 to 80 that's a six kilogram
difference so right now this bike as is without wheels is six kilograms so let's
see how much that drops once we get out of here a big thing you want to do here
we're gonna take the seat post off and try and get the water out of here but
first we want to make sure that the seat post position doesn't change so to do
that we've got some very very fancy electric tape so electric tape has a lot
of uses and I'm a big fan of different colored electric tape so let's try and
get this as close in here as possible so that I don't lose my saddle height
there you go this way when we put mine saddle back on we'll know exactly where
I need to be
and now for the moment of truth our water will hopefully be coming out of
this bike
so this photo right here is all the water that just came out of the bike
we're gonna leave it hanging upside down for a little bit let it dry out what
we're waiting as you can see my bike is really really messy so we're gonna use
some of this muck off this pink fluid and one of my old work shirts to wash
this off
things started to get a little bit serious I think we got most of the water
out of the frame but I noticed my handlebars were a little bit hard to
turn so I'm checking out the headset right now taking this up for the first
time after a rough cyclocross season we've got some grease and I've got my
work gloves things are about to get a bit messy but hard I've taken off the
fork as you can see here and
take a look at that nice beautiful mess inside here in the frame maybe some of
you this is your first time seeing this
so we're going to clean out some of that junk add some grease to the headset wipe
this all up let's see if that improves the performance I haven't done this in
years so I'm hoping I can still do this I hope I still have some mechanic skills
anyway first things first let's wipe this off
oh yeah
already looking a lot better I think this will be the last time I use this
rag
one good thing about rainy days you get stuff done that you normally don't
really wanted to do if it's a nice sunny day so thank you right now I can get my
bike in working so she came out pretty nice look at that
nice and beautiful time to clean out some of the other parts Oh beautiful
heads yeah we're we're definitely not using this rag again bit rough with the
spinning but yeah that's pretty bad we're gonna try and rough it out with
some grease right now but might have to replace this pretty soon
after a bit of work I've gotten this if I'm as good as I can get it puts a nice
fresh grease on there we're gonna pop this back in the frame
a nice perfect fit you always want to remember what order you take these out
cuz if you forget pretty nerve-racking you're not sure
which one goes where let's slam the stem back on here
beautiful alright I think we can get these gloves off for now we're not doing
any dirty work anymore let's screw this back on and let's get this back on the
scale let's see if we were able to drop any weight
all right we're back in the bike room the final test after all of my hard work
does it pay off let's see if we drop anything last time I think we're at
about 80 kilograms you can see right now we're closer to 79 so we talked about
almost a kilogram a little less than a kilogram maybe 0.8 it's hard to tell
with this inaccurate scale but at least a pound of water in here which hopefully
that'll be my excuse for riding so slow today anyway today's mission big success
as you can tell from watching today's video I'm not the best mechanic and
there's a reason why my bikes tend to break and I just wear them into the
ground anyway today was a successful day we got my cross bike back in working
order we chopped a bit of weight from there so now I have less excuses if I
perform poorly on my interval training that's gonna be up for today's video I'm
thinking to start making some videos about my my training and some workouts
that I'm doing so some of you guys have asked for that so those videos will be
on the way soon I'm still working out what my training schedule is what we're
doing going into the cyclocross season but the first cyclocross race is about
one month away yeah rainy day the one good thing about rainy days is you just
have time to work on things that you normally wouldn't do so that's what I'm
doing today I've got a big programming project I'm working on right now so yeah
not so much time to work on videos but I'm trying to get as many up as possible
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