hello how's it going so today we've got a really special video for you guys so
as you guys know I've been a big fan of 26 inch wheels always and just this year
for the first time I got 27.5 bikes my downhill bike and my enduro bike now my
downhill bike my evolve sky pilot over here I decided to put 26 inch wheels on
it and see how it rides at the Whistler Bike Park that's right we're doing it 26
inch people so this front rim is an old Mavic three-two-one I actually picked
this wheel up from a fan of mine a while ago who wasn't gonna use his old 26 inch
wheels so he gave me a couple of them I put a fresh magic mary on there and
it's ready to roll this is custom painted by yours truly
I love how it looks I think it looks sick with the green DVO fork and look
at this hub, bronze kind of brown I think it looks so good you
will recognize this wheel from my Devinci Wilson it's my really old heavy
aluminum boost wheel used to be Sunringle mag 30 it is a boost spacing
fork but the thing is DVO gives a little spacer I don't know if you guys can see
that there's a small black spacer in there to convert a non boost hub into
the boost spacing so that the rotors line up with the brake calipers on this
boost fork and I'm so stoked on how it looks looks beautiful with this fork
what do you guys think? I think it looks absolutely amazing so with the 26 inch
wheels we are lowering the bottom bracket by half an inch so it went from
a 367 millimeter bottom bracket for the center of this and now it is a 355
millimetre bottom bracket but thankfully I've got this nice big beefy bash guard
to protect me alright let's take this thing to the
whistler trails and see how it rides! so I'm riding with Paul the Punter today and I really
want to see how long it takes him to find out that I'm riding 26 inch wheels
I'm not gonna tell him I just want to see his reaction
yo dude how's it going?
why have you spray the wheel on this one, wait
what size wheel is that back one?
guess
I know I can see it, I can tell, and the front one is 26
I was just gonna see how long it took for you to notice!
It took me seconds!
dude I am so stoked! Fresh tires this thing is beautiful look at your wheels!
look at your insane wheels! oh man
yeah let's do aA-line to ninja cuges try out these
26 inch wheels
Wow all right this beer oh is it beautiful oh not very good at
this manually
boy you tomorrow I'm rusty it's been a week and a half since I rode last times
that Sun Peaks
my initial thoughts so far on these blue trails that it's working really well but
I still gotta get more warmed up to see how I can really ride with these wheels
on this bike the funny thing is I didn't weigh my bike yet but his rear wheel is
pretty heavy I think my whole bike is heavier with the smaller wheels because
those ones are carbon these ones are aluminum with this ones like so heavy
way back when I got the carbon wheel set I did weigh the bare wheels the bare
rear carbon wheel was 1.0 to 5 kilograms and the bare rear aluminum wheel was 1.4
3 kilograms I'd also weighed the front wheel with the tire on it way back and
it was showing 2.67 5 kilograms while this aluminum front wheel with a tire on
it is showing two point eight seven five kilograms that's a difference of about
600 grams which equals one point three pounds so my whole bike with the carbon
wheels weighs about 30 9.2 pounds so basically with these aluminum wheels I
made my bike weigh about 40 and a half pounds there are definitely lighter
aluminum wheels out there but I just wasn't using them
whoo right on who first la anymore warmer
the weather was having fun with us today classic BC whether there was rain Sun it
was overcast we were only missing the snow all right let's uh get it
now let's actually see how we do on a line 26 inch wheels baby all right
had a bit of a warm-up last run
all right doing good
feeling good with these wheels whoo oh yeah I am I'm feeling perfectly good how
is it please it's nice you just do the job no great yeah pretty much
let's give it a go so Paul really needs to get that one jump after the edge drop
so uh hopefully I can give it an inspiration
yeah
yeah I just rolled that no break just made it
whoa was it awkward wait yeah that's good
so what happened I went down they feel fine yeah having that lower braun
bracket it's not going to be any problem on those float rails like a line or any
of those blue single track trails we rode either but it will become a problem
if we are to do any black or double black diamond tack you want to do some
techy stuff yeah all right let's see how these little wheels do on this first
under intact open I don't like freaking alarm bracket we are gonna test out my
bottom bracket height and do a couple double black trails well huh I think I
hit my bond Rocky
oh yeah I didn't send that drop because I got flats before I don't want to go
too crazy
yeah I just got this part so crazy what a mess
where's Paul send it dude I hit my bottom racket twice those guys guys so
the lower bottom bracket was the main hindrance on these double black tech
trails my evolved sky palette is actually very good at tackling the
gnarly steeper rough techie trails and so now with the 26 inch wheels I'm not
too sure if that was making too much difference as I said it was that lower
bottom bracket that was really hindering me the most that was good that was fun
all right
seconds yelling pretty good actually so Paul wants to do this drop for the
first time
the one coming up here you know totally to it just roll easy oh I thought you're
gonna roll behind me yeah you don't need to be at all
you can go nice and slow all right I'll tell them in
Paul was having a harder time on this drop and unfortunately never ended up
doing it I suppose my 26 inch wheels weren't very inspiring to him let's
continue the weather's getting nicer this is sick
wow that was gnarly off that's kind of a big drop too and you like send it I
think that's about as much gnarly tech that I'm going to do for today I'm
feeling really good right now and warmed up so I just want to see what I can do
with this wheel setup
back
Bru's how it's going good alright follow mr. Paul the punter don't trails like
angry pirate I thought we're running very nicely with this whole 26-inch
setup I think that there are even advantages to having that lower center
of gravity on some of these trails even though I would normally want that higher
bond bracket it was these tighter turns that you find here and especially on
ninja cougar I was loving these wheels on this kind of stuff so it good
yeah that is good fun that feels great
ah
you didn't pretty good with the one putters hostel
yeah
I'm pretty good now tighter trails like double Courvoisier were another great
examples of trails that felt so good with these smaller wheels the added
agility was a nice feeling well this is so fun so smooth
all right I was thick all right Seeger merchants let's see how it goes my 26
inch wheels on my Scott College it was still running pretty good even though it
was starting to rain a bit again here especially this first half it always
runs very nicely wait
it's raining a bit I suck so well wait
I was actually really good
I do have to say I was struggling on this later portion of dirt merchants
though obviously the conditions are not the best right now anyway but even with
twenty seven five wheels I still struggle to properly clear some of these
later jumps on dirt merchant man yeah it's really slow that's for sure oh that
was tough but yeah I was wet it is usually slower when it's wet like that
okay yeah Maureen yeah Paul did end up giving up on his goal to clear that one
jump on a line and that's okay sometimes it's better to just forget about goals
and just have fun and ride your bike you know by the end of the day I was feeling
so good on these wheels shred and a line was tons of fun but it's the kind of
thing that you can't tell while watching the video you can only tell speeds and
this and that you can't tell how it really feels for me and you know what I
was really enjoying it but at the same time I'll have to admit it wasn't
necessarily that different for my carbon 27:5 wheels especially considering these
aluminum wheels were heavier than my bigger wheels so that's kind of funny
but even with the heavier wheels and the lower bottom bracket height I was
feeling totally awesome on trails like a line or those blue flowier trails like a
ninja cougar hochiminh railey and the berms was so much fun but
I do have to say if your bike is made for a certain wheel size it's gonna be
best to ride that wheel size generally so I'm gonna be putting back on my 27 5
wheels onto the sky pallet it is how it's supposed to be ridden and that way
I can have the proper bottom bracket height and ride the tech trails a lot
better oh yeah
there we go
man I gotta get better at that corner
that's one butter pretty go with those one butter 1/4 again but you know what I
actually decided to do a fun little comparison kind of video and that's what
you're gonna see next week I'm gonna do a fun little comparison with my two
wheel sizes here at Whistler so stay tuned for next week's video thank you
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