it's actually sick
yo buddy
today we are finally going to whistler again but first we're going to do something special
to my bike last year i introduced you guys to my rocky mountain maiden as a mullet or mixed wheel
setup i had a 27.5 wheel in the front and 26 inch wheel in the back i told you that i was gonna try
full 26 inch setup later that year but that never happened unfortunately but now i finally got my
front 26 inch wheel ready to go if you've seen my big bike check video i put up recently you
would have seen this already but it is the exact same wheel as the 27.5 with the same saint hub
with center lock rotor and same spank spike race 33 rim the tire is different it's the 2.6 magic
mary because maxis does not make the assegai in 26 inch they are both set up tubeless and
i'm curious to see the difference in weight so 26 inch without the rotor 5.07 pounds 2.3 kilograms
and measuring the 27.5 wheel without rotor it's actually barely lighter i don't understand how
that works i mean there's supposed to be more material in the bigger wheel they are different
tires i guess sure kind of random now to keep the geometry the same when swapping wheel sizes on
the front rocky mountain provides you with this cup to screw into the bottom of the head tube
so i grease up everything i screw in the cup i clean up the bearing and i stick that up in
there and the tricky part having only two arms makes this really annoying it's always better to
do this with friends but i finally got it together again and now i basically have a longer head tube
i don't have room for those spacers under the crown anymore the lower crown was never moved
so the travel of course is all the same it's just that that upper crown had to be raised up so with
the axle getting lowered by about three quarters of an inch it's offset with the cup and in theory
the frame is in the same position as it was before keeping the geometry exactly the same but i guess
the stack height is a bit lower because the upper crown is now all the way against that headset
but i can change that a bit later on if i want so my honest thoughts i think that this is gonna
feel better on flow trails so why don't we take this bike to whistler and actually test that out
hey guys so i'm here at whistler with my friend wesley we've got my maiden full 26 inch setup
so basically i'm gonna be riding a lot of flow trails today that's gonna be awesome on the 26
inch wheels also because i'm still trying to make sure that my body can handle it with my
elbow got my elbow brace on there just try not to go too crazy otherwise i'm looking forward to
finally ride my first bike park day it's gonna be tons of fun so let's get started sickness
all right first bike park run of the year i'm pretty hyped just taking it a little
bit chill just to really see how my body does making sure that uh i don't do anything stupid
just warming up here on crank it up i find it's a good warm-up trail
i just ride this once and then i don't really need to ride it the rest of the day
right on feeling good these berms are actually pretty nice
so my goal is to ride a-line by the end of the day and those would be the biggest jumps
i would have hit since my yellow injury and we're just gonna make sure that my body's up
for the task and honestly i think it'll work out like every dry corner i'm like
gotta be honest with you the dry corners are sketchy there
let's see how ninja cougar goes nice and easy let's get that flow flowy tech really
it's dry
oh
so these berms are really nice actually
considering how dry it is
all right wow that scared me all right i'm feeling more warmed up now
let's go up the garbanzo chair i love going to the upper part
of the mountain it's so beautiful up here but why don't we ride some freight train
yeah let's do some great training
feeling good
i'm just terrified of wind yeah it is a little windy it's annoying
you said you can tell the difference between uh the wind hitting your 26 inch or 27.5 tires
yeah um there's a slight difference yeah it feels i can almost feel the wheels come out
a bit more on me yeah 26 uh just helps a little bit with that yeah let's do it
all right sick
whoa yo
all right
that's kind of beat up
oh
oh that was a little hectic yeah oh bad but another day another sound yeah
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not gonna go crazy not today
foreign
whoa yo
okay that was kind of sketch so what i'm finding is landing these jumps
actually feels perfectly fine the breaking bumps however
that's a different story so that means my body's feeling pretty good for trying a-line later on
all right well i've had enough of these breaking bumps let's try something new and a bit different
hey guys so we're going up the garbanzo run here we're gonna go to creekside and we're gonna ride
some new trails that we haven't ridden before some fun blue flow trails maybe blue flowy tech it's
gonna be super fun let's check it out normally we ride seven year war that's a lot of fun but
since we're doing a creek side we're gonna try something new i've never ridden midgard yet
it's a blue flow trail sounds like it'll be pretty fun all right good to go
midgard all right
sweet i love it
it's pretty sick already
oh yeah i love the more single track kind of trails
just beautiful they also feel great on the 26 inch
so beautiful out here
mr
oh wow that was fun yeah what's awesome is just it's just like less
bike parky which i just think is so cool
yo sick
these berms are really nice
i'm liking this
whoa what
that's pretty sick
that's so sick that's so cool i took too much air to my fork it's like too soft
but i can raise the compression up that is so sick
that's pretty sick yo
i like some of these corners
chills like getting better as it goes down
dude i love it
yeah these trails just never end oh no this is the end oh wow now we're now yeah yeah we're
just starting creekside now that's fun though i like that there's a lot of humps i wanted to just
like go quicker yeah pop off it i realized like i probably would have crashed yeah kind of yeah i've
been feeling good on my bike though because like one factor for how crappy i was riding earlier
was just the being rusty just needing warm up let's do it all right south park nice fast flow
awesome i wrote this part uh creekside was like two years ago
still in really good shape let's uh hit up earth circus to finish the creekside
run
so then something funny happens with my hero 8 the video just freezes the audio keeps recording but
now this clip is totally useless and it actually kept doing this for the rest of the whole trail
might have something to do with me using a third-party battery as opposed to a gopro battery
because otherwise i don't know if this has ever happened before but that's okay you've
seen one berm you've seen them all why don't we go to a-line finally i'm feeling you know what
we can do it let's check this out okay new part of the a-line
yeah let's uh let's do that yeah and squamish okay let's see how this goes
cool sweet that's pretty cool
nice
all right
it's actually sick
yo buddy
yo i i overshot that one yeah it feels so good yeah i went far it's my first whip today yeah
okay i'm not doing any whips today i pedaled into it though that felt sick though really sick
are you ready for some jumps yeah this is right nice and smooth it's nice and smooth it's riding
this is nice and smooth look at this this is so minty
yo
okay a-line's in really nice shape that's sick
yeah i know i'm not giving much style i'm just uh so rusty from not properly riding in a while
i'm just stoked to be riding these jumps that's all
so smooth dude this is so good
that was great that was so smooth what the heck just for the sake of not pushing my elbow and my
body too far yet i just decided not to finish a-line so i'm just finishing off on some blues
here but i had a great time today this was such an awesome day big success and just for the record i
will be keeping this 26 inch front wheel on this bike at least for the rest of the year and that
way we can get some really good experience with how this all feels and truly ride my best with
this setup since obviously today i was not riding my best it still does take a bit of time to get to
100 full healing i'm definitely keeping my front 27.5 wheel though just for those times when i may
want to try the mullet again so maybe over lots of time i'll truly be able to feel the difference and
feel the advantages and disadvantages of either setup and by the way the family cross is actually
quite fun this year and i love that they have a dual slalom course that everyone can ride on
it's so much fun i think they should always have this from now on one two three okay here we go
well i'd say my summer is finally getting started and i couldn't be more excited i got super cool
plans for a bike build i'm working on now i want to go out traveling a bit more around
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all right guys me and wesley have been shredding our bikes having a lot of fun here at wessler
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