absolute scorcher of a day i'm out with tony first rider of the new scott spark rc
and i'm getting a kick in first impressions what a monster of a bike
is
what's the goal here tony get across the water without falling and dying
so we're in beamish woods this is so close to kind of in between our houses isn't it having this
little playground is fantastic the only issue is that the trails change all the time all the time
new logs new stuff new things that people have moved trees falling down new people
dog wars i don't like people i like dogs but what a fantastic place to have so close how are
you i'm proper good soon again dress-up my fanboy riding mountain bikes in the sun just loving life
feels like i'm 12 year old again just like hanging out in the woods and riding me bike climbing trees
so
i could let you have a go but the bricks are the wrong way around i talked a little
bit about the spark in yesterday's episode but you work for scott so you probably know a lot
more about it than me what makes this such a good cross-country bike well with the way
cross-country's gone the world cups especially just like require more travel so we're up 120 mil
travel front and rear the geometry is all set up now for for that sort of more progressive riding
sort of a longer top tube slack a head angle just completely different of all the other
cross-country bikes i've ever ridden just feels like it wants to go all the time on downhills
yeah and it can get you in trouble just wants to hit everything really really fast i found myself
getting more and more confident with it and it's probably above my skill set of where i am so it
gets us in trouble that means it's definitely going to get me in trouble right the geometry
everything's really going to help you like it's the way it'll ride will be completely different
than what you've ridden in the like in the past so it should i think you'll enjoy it once you get set
up and all settled on it and we'll get it all bed in the wheels are a bit special silverton 1.0 s
s very catchy nine i know same again named after a place in canada but they're ridiculously light
like the next tier down from our one piece carbon wheel that thomas pidcott won the olympics on the
one piece carbon they're really light and really stiff but sometimes a little bit too stiff so
things like the key up epic i think meanwhile and some of them will probably ride these
over the one piece carbon wheels just for that extra bit of comfort when you say one piece do
you mean it carbon spokes as well yeah so if you're riding the epic and you have a problem
you might want an easier to fix wheel as well yeah right clear perfect next oh give me a few give me
a few weeks training that's just where you've got a year now yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah training cool
okay this is where we part ways drop my new camera i do like it it's cool isn't it camera
i haven't had it on the chest mount yet this is the insta360 one rs you may have seen i did a
video on it a few days ago uh on the launch day and just testing it out today so all the chest
mount footage has been from that last time i checked it when i was using it with the grill
mount it was super stable so i'm interested to see what it looks like on here lenses are 16 mil
so hopefully it's wide enough to still get some of the bars in shot and uh get some nice sort
of point of view action shots i'm gonna go and sunbathe on your bed i'm in bed on the front lawn
yeah brilliant little play in the woods though with tony now to get home rest the legs and sort
out my stuff because i'm heading down south back to visit the family for a couple of days
so nice train journey to london it's now the next day i've just about recovered from that kicking
that tony gave me that is three months off the mountain bike and it definitely felt like that too
i'm sure the skills will come back quickly but especially with a new bike and of time off i
didn't feel very good if you enjoyed the insta 360 chest footage today then the affiliate link from
my video that i did on the launch day is still live i'll put it underneath this video if you
want to buy one of the cameras and it gives me a small portion of revenue very looking forward to
getting the dropper post installed on that we were trying to work out what the best course of action
there was to either buy a matching sram dropper which would go wireless and like fit in with all
the rest of the group set but there is actually a lever on the three twin lock scott lieber thing
and you can fit an internal dropper so i've ordered a couple of shims
which means you can space out your seat post and fit a narrower 27.2 dropper which i've have two of
and there's like no reason to waste them so i can fit them on the new bike it might just look a bit
weird and skinny stay tuned for the next few days i'm going to be in london catching up with loads
of people i haven't seen in a long time including bobby quick for a look at some of the new bikes
that he's made over the last couple of years because it's been a long time since i've seen him
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