in today's episode an exclusive look at jimmy's road bike actually no it's not
because it's on my youtube not an exclusive look a second ever look at jimmy's road bike
this is a custom made custom painted alloy road bike which is a prototype of second version
prototype frame that i have been testing it is built up with the new sram rival axis etap 12
speed group set with zip 303 s i think it's zip through 3s wheels fabric saddle on it's a carbon
one i've got one of them on my basically all of my other bikes and i was like i'll get a nice carbon
one because it's my new bike why not carbon usc saddle uh usc lights which i've had for ages and a
really really good attica saddle bag uh sorry tool roll which has the usual sort of stuff you'd have
in it usc stem zip bars which are the same bars i've got on every single one of my bikes which are
sl70 ergonomic ones are quite compact drops quite compact bars really like them super narrow and
then you turn your shifters in as well this is why i nearly fell off my bike when i rode it for the
first time in two months because i've been riding 75 mil mountain bike bars for the last two months
it was very very weird the rotors are 160mm front and back uh some people don't look like putting
160 on the back but why wouldn't you want more stopping power cassette is a 10 i think it's a 34
the chain rings 46 33 165 cranks and the rival power quart power meter uh first time i've ever
had palmier quite like it don't know it's just nice like to have it why not so this is the thing
that a lot of group set manufacturers are now doing if you buy a shimano group set you can get
shimano power meter with it uh i think dura ace might even come with it as standard
your if you buy a sram group set you end up with a quark power meter it's only really been happening
in the last few years as power has come down in price and become a bit more accessible how much
more is it to buy this one with the power meter versus not that's a good question francis i don't
know exactly but it's really not very much i'm pretty i don't quote me on this but i
think that crank set with power is about 300 quid it's over 300 pounds because i saw it on
google yesterday it popped up as an advert i've got a feeling that when i bought that which is
last summer end of last summer i think it was 280 pounds for the full chain set and the power meter
included which is bonkers i don't know what it is now everything's gone on price so it's
probably like 600 quid now or something on ebay from a scalper yeah you know it's not cheap but
what you're getting for that money versus a lot of the competition it's fantastic value i personally
think the group set absolutely mint it's the first time i've had an etap group set and it's well and
it's really interesting seeing them be built as well because it's literally just bolt it on bolt
it on bolt it on press a button press a couple other buttons so it all sinks into each other
done do you use an app it does have an app here so the app is to you can check the battery how
much battery is on all of the components uh update firmware which takes literally seconds
you can configure how you want the shifting to work for me to change the front max
i press both the shifters up and down you can change it to do they call it sequential where
it's just like a synchro or something where where you don't actually ever do the front mech and you
just go through the gears and it automatically like adjusts the front so it's basically up and
down 24 gears in a line and it knows how to do all of the shifting i don't like that feature
that's horrible it's because we've been riding bikes for a long time but if someone was new then
maybe it would be handy but we do ride one by a lot so which is basically one buy is it not is it
is it not turning two by into one vote it's one buy for two by people the the gear ratios on this
i think are technically like gravel gear ratios because i was working on the basis of we live
somewhere hilly there is never a scenario where you think oh i've got too many gears
there's always well there's often a scenario where you think i would like some more so why
wouldn't i want more gears it's got a 10 tooth so it can still go really fast if you want to go fast
allows me to throw bags on it throw the penny on it we told spain in it a bit in it in it on it
in the pannier the gears expect to basically just give me tons of options you know i can use a fast
road bike i can use it as a touring bike i can do whatever i want with it i've got a question
with the app yeah can you connect it to other people's bikes and then change their gears or do
their dropper posts without them knowing nick has looked into it of course he has i can't remember
there's a reason you can't do it i have a garmin 8 30 8 30 and the heart rate monitor um i bought
it can't remember when um it works really well i wanted better maps and it's like a good balance of
having a really good map and not being absolutely monumentally massive which one have you got you
got that one i've got the same as yours have you got the big one as well chris has got the big one
it's very big it's very big yeah very good because it's good to have like some i remember when we
were in spain there was a couple months i could do it a little bit bigger yeah if you're doing
uh trips where you're away i think it's really handy having that sort of thing but here where we
actually already know where we are because we live here bear in mind we stopped three times today to
work out where we were oh i would have had the big garmin would win without a problem magic
silk or pump which everyone in the world loves indulgent over the top unnecessary but beautiful
so the paint um one of mine and francis's friends who's also a tattoo artist he's also done some
atticus designs for us as well in the past inspired by there's an instructor called sam dun
she's wicked uh she did she did a a bike for spoon custom a white base with black illustration on the
top um and i always wanted something like that and this was an opportunity just to go wild or
something um so i said to scott i want you to draw all over frame and he was like yeah i'll give it a
go you know what he's like he's up for anything um the first time we did it because there's two
attempts i decided i wanted it on the raw alloy um so it would be like a silver base with them
black illustration over the top took him about 20 hours looked absolutely fantastic uh brought it
back to me at the office it was like it's a bit delicate i'm not sure it's gonna work i'm like
that's a lot of illustration a lot of hours of illustration for it to maybe not work take it
across the road if you remember across the road from our old office was a paint sprayer to lacquer
it and he was just like yeah that's not gonna work it all rubbed off it's like it just rubs
straight off um so then i said to scott do you think you want to do it again but on a white base
he said yes and this time it took 30 hours put a white base on it himself uh did it again
similar but a bit different um and then actually we actually got it then probably
white lacquered over the top um and this is the finished product i basically just said
these are some things i kind of like have a play with it see where you get bella um and yeah
bella's in there as well i like that that's why that's one of the things i like and possess clowns
this bike is that an upside down cross it is yeah this bike symbolizes like a transition for me
um it's the first bike i've ever built that i haven't thought about like oh i could do this
and it'll be a bit lighter oh i could do this and it'll be a bit more aero i'll do this and it'll
be a bit faster it's the first if i feel like it symbolizes the point for me as a cyclist where
i've gone riding bikes is just that it's for just riding bikes and enjoying stuff the heaviest bike
i've possibly ever owned just under nine kilos with nothing on it now it's not that bad is it
it's not it's not like it's still a light bike compared to the stuff that's around like your bike
with the tail fin on is probably lighter than it's not with the four cameras you've got in it
if you take the cameras out that bike with the tail field is probably still lighter than this
but you don't notice it when you're riding it it's unbelievably enjoyable to ride it's like it's fun
it's enjoyable it's fast it's nippy and that like for me the thing that's always really good about
bikes is that they're like a bit like tweaky a bit fun you know you put you accelerate and they
actually move a little bit that's what's fun and you get loads of gears and it doesn't matter how
heavy the bike is which is also why i don't shave my legs anymore because i'm a different breeder
cyclist than i was five years ago what kind of breed um just like cyclist whereas you're like
a roadie like my solution for carrying this tail fin not just for bike packing convenient when
you need to do a bike ride with a a cinema camera yeah fairly niche fairly niche use
very screamy lady tony's cycle frostbite oh this is a tony's trusted me with this bike he said
don't whatever you do let jimmy ride it this is a championship winning bike isn't it he's
like a legit wit like world champs he's not world champ does it he came third in the world champs
old manual jumps we've got to do your shout out i don't know if we want to do it yet it might be a
bit too soon because there's only there's only two bike bills in there one of them is literally the
bike that everyone would have just looked at for the last how long the video gonna be four minutes
five minutes jimmy started a youtube channel and on this youtube channel there's going to be
bike builds and there already is some amongst other things so if you want to subscribe to
his channel link down below and there will be more bike builds on there because you're going
to be spending a lot of time there i think it's just an excuse to eat pizza with nick
plan is to do one bike build video or at least post one bike video a week a week
forever i have i've gone into this because i want to be consistent i've got two more
in the back anyway so i've got the next two weeks so if i just retiring done completed