I have an inkling that entry-level bikes are the best value they've ever been but it does
depend on where you get one in today's episode we're gonna buy one from decathlon and see
what you get so I found a road bike on the decathlon website 400 pounds with 50 pounds
off we're gonna go to the bricks and mortar gateshead decathlon shop right now to see
if we can buy it there's a possibility we're going to the shop and they don't even have
it is that what you're telling me so this might be a waste of time we don't know there's
a possibility why didn't you phone you could have can you can you you should have phoned
them you should be like hey is the bike there and they would have gone yes secret camera
is on we're now going to buy a bicycle how small is the secret camera where where is
it where's the where how are you doing that did you bring the fake mustaches yeah we're
just have mustaches how hairy am I today
[Music] I don't seem to have the one we want on display it was probably here
thank you so much
extra small bit too small looks like a small that one
thank you [Music] they were the most friendly people super helpful found us the size we
wanted yeah set it up for us there's a free service within the first three months I've
never looked at bike stuff into Castle before and it's very good [Music] the tri-ban RC
120 that's what we've got hold of decathlon have their own brand of bikes it's called
tri-van they do both Road and gravel and this is one of the lower end road bikes that they
make I'm excited about our purchase Jimmy already I think we should weigh it does a
really cheap bike mean that it's going to weigh like 5 billion kilos so to make it fair
we should definitely take the pedals off because we normally weigh bikes without pedals uh
and we should probably also take the actual lights that the bike comes with for 350 pounds
are they are they hideous do they work yes it's not the best is it but it's free I guess
it's better than no lights it is better to have them than not have them but in terms
of like actual Road Safety they're probably not going to contribute that much and they're
definitely not going to contribute to visibility uh touch this very lightly and it snapped
so did it snap yes
10.69 wow it doesn't feel heavy though when you pick it up does it like it's obviously
a heavy bike you pick it up and you're like fine because of the money we paid for it we
were ready for it to be heavy so maybe that's why yeah yeah perhaps so we're just going
to set this up roughly in the right place my saddle height this is a size medium frame
so there's not gonna be that much seat post sticking out ideally we would have got a small
but they didn't have any in stock seat post is alloy saddle is B twin one so again own
brand by decathlon B twin are the really low end bikes that they do I think they might
only be hybrids now and the road ones are all tribe imagine the seat post you've also
got B twin stem and aluminum handlebars two they're all very basic but they have been
thought about these are 40 centimeter bars which are the ones that come on medium you
then get a larger size of handlebar on the bigger size frames and a smaller size handlebar
on the smaller size frames the nice mechanic guy at the shop did bring the bike out of
the back and it wasn't set up at all so handlebars were tucked underneath the frame you set this
up for us which is what they do for any customer uh but he put their bars on not straight so
we're gonna have to fix that before we ride outside to be fair that does always happen
whenever you buy a bike especially from backyard bike shop I'm also going to undo this headset
take some of these spacers out that are underneath the stem it's already a very endurance oriented
frame so it's quite relaxed quite slack and seeing as both of us ride bikes quite a lot
I'd like the front end to be slightly lower so it's closer to the positions on our other
bikes I should probably point out it being a relaxed geometry is a good thing especially
at this price point because someone who would be buying one of these bikes would probably
be quite new to cycling and a more relaxed frame is a good thing it's more comfortable
especially if you're not used to riding as much as us I'm going to do the bars out wonky
again now aren't I my eyes aren't straight these aren't tight either although that's
how most people run their bars around Richmond Park Now isn't it maybe it's so you can adapt
to a more area position
look like Harry Mack
wheel isn't true it's not terrible but it's not true did you know the industry standard
the acceptable standard for a wheel being true enough to sell to the public I can't
remember the numbers off the top of my head but the tolerances are actually not that tight
so you can sell a bike officially to a customer quite untrue which is what they've done here
it's not the end of the world my favorite tool of the workshop dummy pedal I mean you
chop your hands up this is my first experience of micro shift eight speed the levers they
have two buttons on the same side and you can reach both of them on the drops rear shifting
feels nice and smooth you can shift three gears at once up but only one down feels good
feels silky smooth how cool is it it's not a black cassette it means you don't have to
clean it I think the official name of this group set is micro shift R8 eight speed you
can trim the front Mech it's got two positions of trim in each of the positions on the chainrings
so big ring has two positions small ring has two positions it works nice trimming or trim
is the ability to move the front Mech very slightly left or right so you can eliminate
chain rub when you're in different positions on the front Mech so when you're riding and
you can hear the chain rubbing against the inside of this often you can adjust your shifter
very slightly not a full press and get a little bit of movement from the front Mech to avoid
that rub to finish things off we have aluminum frame carbon Fork which at 350 pounds is a
big surprise and very very welcome 28 mil tri-band tires and completely unbranded black
wheels with an aluminum braking surface cop and current bearings a round nothing said
they weren't right I genuinely think this is like a legitimately amazing world the gear
ratio is absolutely awesome there's like a good range I honestly it's going to be fantastic
I think we should go and ride it [Music]
[Music] how are you filming on the climbs I'm out of breath unbelievable my first thoughts
are it's really good it rides really fun the position is hideous the shifters are actually
really good they function as you would expect it's a little bit like weird so like the little
press kind of sticks out in a weird place versus the little breath the little press
sticks out in a weird way like the little press
it is a very good bike especially when you consider we paid 350 pounds for it would I
like to ride for five hours on it no could I yes would I like to go out for like a smashy
hour on it yeah fine it's just it's just so long the saddle is actually all right I thought
it was going to be hideous within half an hour though I definitely started to notice
it so I would for me again I would definitely change it but it'll probably work for some
people the gears work really well although the position of the buttons to shift are a
little bit odd the downshift is this kind of Higher One which sticks out the upshift
just is exactly where you would expect it to be but then this is like oddly high and
sticking out so if you are on the drops it's super high up to get to so when we did a little
Sprint I couldn't I literally I was trying to find it and then by the time I did find
it you'd beat me but I can definitely say micro shift works really well it is Shifting
flawlessly there's been some bad things I've noticed about this bike since we got back
Jimmy but I'm going to go through the good stuff first one mud guard and rack mounts
they've included them you can definitely do a rear rack and you can do my guards on the
front and rear as well that's a very nice feature two Tire clearance this comes with
28s as we mentioned earlier but looking at the clearance we reckon you could easily fit
on these wheels at least which are quite narrow 32s I reckon that's a safe bet and it's a
very nice feature to have if I was to ride this seeing as it's an aluminum frame and
not the smoothest thing to ride in the world having bigger tires on that you can run at
slightly lower pressure is a nice thing so when these wear out I probably put some 32s
on these I mean you wrote it more than me they feel nice and grippy they're very grippy
they're very grippy we'd have to do some more riding on them to really find out how long
they last and what they like in terms of punching protection but tri-ban tires 28 mil they've
thought about it and I'm glad it comes with these rather than like 23s lastly insane value
350 pounds we just have to keep reminding ourselves how much this bike cost it really
is punching above its weight I'm happy with our purchase Jimmy except for these things
there's a little rubber collar on one side of the wheel making a squeaking noise we could
probably take it off or spray some GTA 5 on it or something but um that started making
a noise after the first ride kind of annoying it is an easy fix though it's not ruined our
bike next thing there is no rear derailleur hanger so usually there will be a soft piece
of metal which bolts into a frame then your deraillator will bolt into that and that will
mean if you do crash because this thing sticks out a lot and you hit your rear Mech it doesn't
damage the frame it just bends because it's made of nice soft metal and then you replace
the hanger this doesn't have one so if you crash really hard on this side you could if
you were really unlucky right off the frame it is made of aluminum so I mean you could
try and bend it back within reason but it's not ideal and you'll be weakening it every
time you do so the next thing is not wrong exactly but I would have done it differently
they've taken the rear brake cable and they've rooted it out of the handlebars here around
the other side of the frame and then back under to the stop which is just here the stop
is on the left hand side of the bike so I would have come out of the bars here if you
were rooting this for English breaks the right can be in the front and the left be in the
rear and gone straight into here like that but they haven't so they've used more cable
than you should need to the last thing I want to talk about and this is not a thing which
is exclusive to tri-ban or decathlon this is across the whole bike industry bike sizes
are not very consistent this medium is very very big this is a 55 centimeter top tube
it's very long in some brands that will be labeled a large and I think it should be if
you are going to wear a medium-sized t-shirt I think you should be able to ride a medium-sized
bike and things do get complicated and confusing for people when they're buying bikes and they
look at a medium and they may must be a medium you could end up with something massive like
this or you could end up with something very small from a different brand so I would say
have a look at the bike fit Tuesday's videos that we've released there's some advice from
a bike fitter called James who we've done videos with in the past and he can help you
run through how to decipher the geometry chart the geometry charts are available on the decathlon
website and the websites of most bike manufacturers so check them out have a look at those old
videos and it will help you decipher it a thing that we we probably should add to this
is yes the bike's great but realistically these wheels are oh I'm gonna say it the crap
there cap and comb bearings they're probably not going to last very long but have you lived
in like Spain somewhere it was somewhere where there's completely dry doesn't have dust doesn't
have sand they might last 12 months if you do have the option to upgrade the wheels I
think it would take this bike up a huge notch in the defense of the wheels you can get them
serviced you just have to make sure you get them in time so if you're riding the couple
kind bearing Wheels which are not sealed bearing so it's literally ball bearings inside and
loads of grease on a bearing race then they can be serviced but if you're riding through
winter in the UK and they're getting smashed with rain all the time or you're commuting
on it every day and then it's getting left outside you need to make sure you get them
serviced before you start damaging the bearing race so you put new ball bearings in have
them serviced by a bike shop it shouldn't be that expensive maybe 20 pounds maybe 30
pounds per wheel uh so yeah you just need to stay on top of it but Jimmy is Right a
better wheel set would Elevate this bike and be a perfect first upgrade if that's what
you wanted to do so in summary that's a very good bike it's absolutely brilliant if we're
going to buy a disc brake one now do they do it do they do a disc rope one they do like
gravel ones they do everything let us know in the comments have you got one of these
or have any experience with the decathlon as a brand let us know what bike you ride
in the comment section down below and thank you for watching subscribe for more thanks
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