happy new year and welcome to a brand new episode of bike fit wait no it's not bite
fit tuesdays bike tuesdays bike check wednesdays we're gonna work on that name this is a bit of a
different video to usual i'm in james's shop and he's been meaning to show me this bike for ages
and ages you've had it in stock for a while it's gone through a few different builds and because
of a few changes to my channel this year i'm gonna be featuring some more bikes here is the first one
ever hello how was your christmas james it's very hard to have this conversation because it hasn't
actually happened yet it's new year's for the sake of the video but not actually it's not really new
years we're lying to you but we are going to show you this bike which is a 17 000 pound sato
put your phone away unprofessional
so this is a bike that actually i have one of these in here a few we saw quite a few
of these now prior to the launch it was launched about nine months ago as their new tri-composite
technology frame which i'm going to come down in a bit but i have one of these in my shop that a
customer of mine who is also a viewer hello john had purchased from us and it was on the shop floor
and on display waiting for him to come and collect it i think we sold three bikes off the back of
it so as a result i bought this as a display bike this is a custom made handmade of veneto
which is just outside venice in italy northern italy and is handmade from the ground up it's
basically full custom custom geometry custom paint and you can have it in any color you want but this
one is particularly special because it uses their new tri-composite technology which if you look
very carefully here has a red metal filament there are different color options i believe it comes in
uh blue and green options as well uh that are woven into the carbon fibers the idea behind
this is it helps dampen high frequency vibrations from the road making the bike a little bit more
comfortable but the real key to this is that it enables us to get a really really good fit
without any potential limitations to the way the bike's set up so for example we can specify stem
lengths we can specify head tube lengths uh and and get the fit really nailed down so this
is a this is basically the the ultimate in my fit first by later a dojo we take we take start a bite
we start with a customer's fit and we design the bike around that we design the bike around
the specific needs of an individual and that's really the main benefit of why we sell this
this represents our best-selling product we sell more of these bikes than anything else
this particular frame well this particular bike is quite expensive we wanted a bike on display that
represented a halo product that you don't really see in any other bike shops you don't see
bikes that are worth 17 grand in in bike shops generally speaking uh this one is featuring the
the lightweight merlin stein wheel which actually is a little bit old these days uh there are a few
a few newer iterations but i haven't got around to bringing them in yet you mean to say that
this isn't even the most expensive spec no way this could go well how is it 17 000 pounds the
frame's over seven grand this tri-composite technology uh costs over a thousand pounds
to do it's extremely labor-intensive very very difficult to do they're the only company on the
planet that are actually doing this sort of thing so that's kind of why it's a lot more expensive
and it's also the other thing you've got to consider that it's it's only made by select few
people it's not the same as like your tracks and you specialize it's not the same product you're
not comparing apples with apples it's got a new dura race on it one of the first shops in the
country to have the new dura race i've got the ninja race yeah but you're not shop are you bozo
i am not a shop over seven thousand pounds sounds quite expensive for a frame uh just to be a little
bit more clear though for that seven grand you do get a color match seat post uh and a custom
handlebar instead so to put it into perspective if you think about a new col nago for example you
buy a c64 they're 5 000 quid then buy an nvc post stem and handle bar that's another thousand pounds
you're at six grand already there so actually yes it's an expensive frame but it isn't that
much more expensive than some of the mass produced options that you'll see out on in other shops to
finish it off we've uh inspected with pirelli p0 tyres with red decals back to the frame
it's also got a booklet peanut saddle super light 95 grams and that amounts to a bike that weighs
just over seven kilos which for a custom bike is pretty good to be honest with you all of our
bikes for example we specified with bsa threaded bottom brackets or t47s depending on the brand
which basically means that it doesn't creak uh that's that's a great feature to have
and uh we can also specify in this instance we can specify handlebar widths as well
and split and stem length so the bike's actually designed around the stem length almost and you can
get matching shoes oh yeah or well we've done this quite a few times now may i just add here
this is excessive you do not need a bike like this no nobody needs a buy like nobody needs
a bike but it's the same as anything though it's the same people who buy lamborghinis or you know
vacheron constantine's or what like you know what that's a watch or you know 100 guitars it's the
same sort of people yeah yeah it is yes of course it's excessive but you you know you are getting
a lot for your money as well with with a lot of custom bikes that we sell in here we tend to do
a custom shoe to match them this one has been done uh by so lake will will offer you a custom model
in there to open a custom shoe in their two upper models the cx-332 and 403 this has a uh red metal
red red metal stitching this has got red stitching on the shoe to kind of mimic the uh the red
filament on the frame and it's got a sato logo on it so what we do is we send the paint draft which
is a visual representation that sato does for us over to lake and then christian lake designs us a
shoe around that so that's the kind of the overall outcome which is pretty cool you know if you if
you're a custom shoe sorry custom bike nice to have a matching pair of shoes we've done that with
most of our sato sales uh just kind of it's just a nice touch really more than anything else uh you
this bike is on display at bicycle at the moment and will be until somebody wants to buy it i mean
it is for sale but it's a display but we bought it just so i bought it because i was being a bit
i had a bit of a [ __ ] moment nice well i'll take three you can't afford that sadly that is
true thank you as always for watching please like comment and subscribe if you have any questions
about this bike uh questions about bike fitting or this shop please put them in the comment section
down below and we'll do our best to answer them if you want to check out james's shop
i'll put his website in the description down below as well they do loads of bike fitting here
if you're a regular viewer of this channel you will know that already and for the rest of today
we're going to film lots more bike fit tuesday so thank you for watching see you guys soon