- Look at the size of the Sea Otter Classic!
It really is one of the biggest
mountain bike shows in the world.
Loads of cool stuff to see, so I'll take you through the
A to Z, the things you need to know,
and the coolest new bike tech.
There's even racing. It's 9 o'clock in the morning
and it's started!
- All Mountain Style provide frame protection kits
and accessories. You can buy custom GMBN logo on that one,
loads of different options there.
Also, you've got this brand new thing,
a Number Plate Holder.
So a number plate attaches to bars and either
your lower crown or your top crown if your running
an enduro style single clamp fork
so it gives you enough space behind there
to get your cables tucked in, and then
you can attach your front number plate,
so, if you're racing, really easily to that,
sits there, nice and stable!
Now, Bulls is the brand I've got to admit
I don't know much about. You don't see a lot
of these bikes in the UK.
I do know Wyn Masters used to ride for them a few years ago,
but they've got a huge range of bikes
so e-mountain bikes, e-road bikes,
but also, full range of standard mountain bikes.
Continental has got a huge set-up at Sea Otter.
You've got Danny MacAskill fully branded,
the Drop and Roll Tour, where he's doing demos all weekend,
so we'll catch all that later.
You've got their car tire set up of course,
plus loads of mountain bike and road tires.
They do tires of all sorts, this company.
D has got to be for Dual Slalom,
it's probably the biggest and most prestigious race here
takes place up on that hill, Saturday afternoon;
all the big pros will be there and loads of spectators.
Check out this trailer's escapod.
So, it's just like a normal little caravan,
you might think, but look inside of it!
Proper plush, you've got a little work station there,
got a roof tent on this one as well,
we'll come around on the back.
Look at the stove, proper little sort of fold out kitchen.
Fox has a really big presence here.
That's Catherine Pangle's race bike, that Orbea
with a Step-Cast 32.
Something that is new is the Step-Cast 34.
As you can see, just on the inside and the outside
of that fork leg, it's really just
chopped out to save weight.
Keep that fork stiff.
Some team bikes over here. We've got...
That's Jesse Melamed's, enduro race machine,
and we've got Santa Cruz Syndicate, Greg Minnaar bike.
Over at GT, this is cool actually,
this is a bike shop called "Fanatic" up in Bellingham.
You can custom spec your bike, and they build it up.
So nice, I like that, but
over here I spotted a race bike, this is
Noga Korem's GT Force
and she's running it just like Martin Maes has been
in the first couple of EWS with her 27.5 in the rear,
29er up front.
So, Haro, our brand with a big heritage of BMX's
we've got some pretty cool
sort of plus size BMX's over there
Mounted by range as well, slow start bike,
various 29er travel bikes, and a proto-type e-bike.
We've got some lovely retros from Ibis
Check out the bow-tie. No pivots in this bike,
but it's got that really old school Fox Shox,
so it just relies on the flex of the frame.
It's a URT... is it a URT? If it's not got any pivots?
I don't know. But the actual chain ring and half the new
cranks are mounted to the bottom of that bike.
Super cool. But, I've got some new stuff here as well.
This is the EWS Racer, Robin Wallner's Ripmo 29er,
still dirty by the looks of it from the last
EWS race.
Over at Jamis, we've got the Hardline and the Portal.
Check out this suspension linkage system here,
it's a 3vo suspension.
I've never seen linkage like it; pretty impressive!
K for Kenda, one of the many other brands here
showing off their variety of rubber for mountain bikers.
L for Leonardi, check out this exotic cross country
carbon hardtail.
Look at the seat stays. It's a really unusual design
on the back of this Leonardi,
so it actually gives you 2cm of travel,
so when you're sat down, there's loads of compliance
in that back end, so great for marathon riding
and mountain racing, where you want a bit of compliance,
but, the way that chain stay works, as soon as you start
cranking it goes stiff, so you've got that
super efficient pedaling.
Marin Bikes are here,
based, of course, up in Marin County
just north of where we are now,
the home of mountain biking.
And some pretty cool bikes in their stand.
Check out this, a race number plate on it,
and the colors are pretty mental on this bike.
Over at Niner, we've got the Rip 9 RDO,
that's a bike you may recognize,
the one that I rode out in Patagonia.
That's the 29er version.
Blake, of course, rode a 27 half version.
But check out this custom painted version in the back.
Loam Wolf on there, super cool, almost snake skin.
O for Ohlins, the Swedish brand,
well known for their motor bike shocks and suspensions,
so we've got full range of coil and air shocks,
for downhill enduro bikes.
Got a triple clamp fork up front.
P for Pros, that's Steve Peat, here on his brand new
Santa Cruz Megatower.
Loads of pros here racing and representing their sponsors.
So Quarq is a company well known for their power meters
and their intelligent things.
Basically, this is a fully integrated tire pressure monitor.
So you can pair this to your phone and your garmin,
set the range that you want it to be within,
and it'll basically tell you what your pressure is.
However, if you don't want to do that, simply,
you wake it up by spinning your wheel,
and it's got a green flashing LED
if your tire pressure is within that set range,
or it will give you a red LED if it's not.
So super easy, if you've not ridden your bike
for a couple of weeks, give the wheel a spin
and you'll know your tire pressure straight away.
R, for riding and racing, there's loads of stuff here,
it's one of the coolest events worth bringing your bike to
this pump tracks for the kids,
there's thousands of racers,
there's cross country, there's e-bikes, there's downhill,
there's Dual Slalom, so much of that going on.
We've got Surly with some really cool bikes over here,
check out this Single Speed 29er,
that looks like a lot of fun.
Cargo bike, e-bike. Strap your kids on the back of that.
Love it.
And, check out these Salsas.
We've got all the T's in these area.
So we've got Trek; we've got the Factory Racing Team
over there, some cool race bikes.
Something interesting to track actually
is the new helmet, so using this wave cell technology.
See, that's the liner inside. So gone is the foam,
and lots of people are trying to solve that problem
of rotational impacts. This new wave cell does all that;
impacts and rotational, so it can actually crush and twist.
So you've got the road bike helmets,
the trail helmet is over there.
Now, there aren't many brands with U, but this is
USWE, so they've got a full range of different backpacks,
with back protection inside, and hydration of course.
Down to these middle ones, the Airbornes.
So you've got over the shoulder of course,
it rocks out plus that's all fastened in the middle,
and you may have seen the Factory Cannondale
Cross Country Team using these. Super light weight,
Outlander 9 this one so just enough space to get some
hydration in there but obviously those guys want it
as light as possible.
Vee Tire has got a massive variety of tires,
from the weird and wonderful to the more normal
modeled ones.
Check out these plus tires.
You've got like a slick one there.
Look how retro motorcycle looking fat tire there.
So this is their brand new downhill tire,
the Propain teams use it during the world cup.
It's a SNAP WCE, Top 40 Compound this one,
it's not the fastest roll, but it's got the most grip.
We've come all the way to California
and here's a British brand, this is Whyte.
Got some nice 29er bikes out here, that S-120,
short travel bike. With the Shimano XTR,
not seen much of that yet.
A G-170 over here.
Something quite interesting: an e-gravel bike, using that
fazua kit. I'm not sure many of you will be into that
but check out these.
Super cool, we've got some new kids bikes.
So we got the T-120, 26 inch if they're a bit older.
Over here we've got the 203, 20 inch wheels.
303, the 24s. And then you've got the 26er 405.
Over at X-Fusion they're showing off their brand new
coil shock. It's a light weight coil, so it's designed for
trail enduro riders. Got high and low speed compression
and rebound adjustment.
These are the Zip wheels, Blake and Doddy of course
looked at these in detail recently;
it's the first time I've seen them.
Looks like it's got that Quarq monitor
that I talked about earlier,
integrated into that rim so that
carbon rim that's designed to flex and move around.
So that's the A to Z of Sea Otter
Don't worry, that's not everything,
we've got loads more videos coming up on GMBN
on GMBN tech, and over on EMBN.
So keep an eye out for all those coming up.
If you'd like to see a video in Patagonia,
myself and Blake riding those Niner Rip 9 RDOs,
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