this is pickle we've been riding bikes together and he's been helping me with some videos
over the last couple of days and we thought it would be a nice thing to do a video about his
bike yes because it's made by one of our friends it is and it's been a long time coming as well
it's been a long time it was a long time coming i should say not been a long time it was a long
time spoiler alert this is a quirk it's a really nice quote it is a beautiful crowd with a secret
has got a secret what is my secret so it's been a long time coming 16 years of
or more actually of wanting a bike from being a junior and racing and not really ever having my
own bike through talking to francis and and rob who's rob well rob quirk and quirk cycles and
i've never ridden steel never owned steel and to be brutally honest as much as francis has
beautiful lovely light bikes i wouldn't change it for the world it has a little secret uh it's
uh it is italian stainless steel specifically i built it because i work at sea and i actually
now live by the coast and i wanted to try and reduce corrosion as much as possible so she is
fully stainless steel unprotected um and she should hopefully last a lifetime more than a
normal steel frame it was about another thousand pounds on top uh for for on top of the cost of the
frame set i wanted a stealthy frame and a stealthy build that when it went past it didn't catch eyes
but it also made you have a second look sort of thing you have to look twice to see what's on
it and and what it's all about the reason why i chose the pain scheme that i have it's actually
a combination of two of the ones that rob offers um and it's the best in terms of keeping it as
stealthy as possible keeping all the black but if you notice where you see the naked stainless steel
it's actually not painted at raw so i can actually polish out any little chips any surface rust
that develops it means that if there are any chip marks from the front wheel for instance
uh or even from the rear wheel protect you from from the worst of the chip
chip marks and and damage etc from just generally riding it as it is my only bike that i have
that was a lot of touring and throwing uh i originally was gonna go with a slightly more
basic finishing kit but through talking again to rob just the finishing kit of envy uh matches
the wheels which we'll get onto in a little bit it's just all again adds to that
stealthy look it it wasn't necessarily envy as a company that was just the
look that i was going for and i was just happy to upgrade and i don't look back
i'm sure they honor them pretty well second to none better than i've ever owned so
tram force the new axis wide follows that very stealthy uh build like red has got
as its name says got color in it i wanted to go with a very understated group set
so i could have afforded to go higher but i specifically went with force to go with that
very clean understated look and i specifically stayed with sram because i wanted as minimal
cabling as i could get as you can see from the pictures i only have hydraulic hoses to deal with
for the wheels i went with parkours this is where the camera can turn to the man behind the camera
because it was him who advised me on parkours as i personally will admit i've never heard of them
and to be brutally honest i would never go i would honestly go for them again and if anybody was
questioning wheels i would say parkours the strata is amazing i've never ridden deep section wheels
before and i live quite in the countryside like north devon i get a lot of wind as well as you
do up north here with francis i'm nervous with it in the wind but i actually feel very comfortable
so whatever they're doing up there or wherever they are with their wheels they've
know what they're doing parkour are a sponsor of me and i'm friends with a guy who runs the company
and these wheels are the stradas which are designed to work best with a 28 mil tyre are
you using 28 mil tires 28. pickle is using 28 mil tyres so um you have a very flush
connection is that the right word what's wrong with us today there's a very flush
thing no there's a flush line but there's a flash line between the line
yeah there's a flush line between the tile wall i would have well it's it's it's a line come
on there's a there's a flashlight a flush line looks like that flush line have you ever repeated
the word so many times it loses its meaning using a 28mm tyre means there is a very flush
line between the tyre and the rim so it is more aerodynamic and that's how they're
designed to work so you were using the correct width of tyre brilliant well done flashlight
it all started quite small i originally started with the with the 1030 bundle which is the
rear wheel sensor and then the cadence sensor
um and then after some riding etc i was keen to get in knowing my just my power output
just for my general performance and like improving so i upgraded myself to the pedals
after i got the bike um and then my most recent purchase is the what's it called it's rt175
yeah thing i think or something really catchy name yeah recently i got the garmin
varia with the radar built in more for my comfort in terms of riding i ride in very
busy country lanes single lanes and it's far safer for me to have using my head unit to know
what's behind me that i don't have to keep looking over my shoulder so it just gives me that comfort
it doesn't substitute looking over your shoulder that's from garmin by the way but it does give me
that comfortability that i don't have to always look over my shoulder and not get surprised by
someone so there you have it that is pickles quirk dermatol ride bike stainless steel so
it's completely unique i'm going to put a full build list down below if you want to
check out any of the parts that he's got there hope you enjoyed any questions in
the comments below you can answer them i can do my best yeah you can also talk to pigeons