riding bicycles i'm with dove i'm on holiday in the south i came here for
for sun and warmth it's not raining it's not raining so you might have noticed because i
uploaded a bug fit tuesday's video recently i'm down in london or near london we are currently
just on the edge of the surrey hills heading to dove's new headquarters is that what it's called
that's the center of the universe mate where he runs his wheel company parkour we're gonna get
there and then i'm gonna show you his bike because you've been banging on about for ages you clearly
want a video made about it and it is very lovely he's been moaning about it getting muddy though
today it's gonna get muddy one day oh nice sign on the door it's official i haven't got a sign
i should get one yeah i will this is great yeah it's all right this place um we're gonna art grow
it in about six months time you reckon for sure yeah well i mean i've already got paul skye like
boxed in in a little corner over there person joining on week on monday slowly growing the
team it's quite nice the most important part um it's the eurosport tour de france viewing area
come on then tell me about the bike the bike um this is very cool it was it was a bit of a
silly well it started off as a silly thing so i was over in the states um working and
up near where cane creek's headquartered off and they do the ee breaks like the super super light
cnc machined amazing rim brakes they do a limited edition colorway every year the year that i was
there they had this crazy kind of shell suit like 1980s teal purple pink type effect really
really wanted some so i bought them came home and thought now i need a bike to put them on that was
the point when we just got this office and just up the way our spring customs windy miller so loads
of really cool custom stuff coming out there and i know andy there quite well so i said to
him like i really want a new bike that i can put these on so he got mega excited and carried away
and this was the outcome ended up with their isroad rr road bike steel custom geometry like
completely custom from the ground up bike so you go up there you do a nice long fit and they come
away with the numbers and then i guess the biggest challenge after that was trying to figure out what
to do with paint job because you've got these crazy crazy breaks and you want to stand out so
i originally had these ideas of like bright colors really garish and thank god he taught me back
um so the guys up at gun control did this amazing paint job which is like just the most nuts sort of
gun metal gray beautiful beautiful finish and then we use the graphics and the logos to bring out the
colors and the brakes had to get some custom wheels done as well because what's the point
in running a real business if you can't do that a set of our persistent wheels so it's rim break so
we're having to go go classic with that vintage absolutely yeah i mean it's quite nice though
because actually the persister is the first wheel that we ever launched so that is the the og it's
where it all started so it's nice to have a really cool set of those on there so it's the mid-depth
all-round wheel um super super smooth super fast so we've got those rims like i say custom
painted to match and then built up here by sky the wheel builder everything else is basically
it's just dream bike territory i thought you know this is this is the one this is the one i
would want to ride forever so we've got full swam red access group sets got some envy finishing kit
seat posts stem bars stems custom painted to match obviously because why not chris king headset and
bottom bracket i really really like the prelogo saddles um it just works for me so i've got the
dimension on there shout out to uh chris at zero lemon because obviously we've got to get the
water bottles in and then yeah it's just the best bike i've ever ridden by a man what are you doing
it's playing with a laser laser pekka yeah it's it's what happens when you get off kickstarter
so you can put the logo on the hub it's a new thing that we're playing with um to relaunch like
the custom hub offering so fairly soon once we get all of the specs sorted and all the test runs done
you'll be able to basically put whatever you want on your hubs so if you want to write your name if
you want to write your own logo or anything like that then we'll be able to do it for you what
are you writing on it now it's a good question whatever was the last thing that i did i think
i think i'm just doing a logo you'll be careful if you get more staff you're going to start
people people are going to start messing with it yeah but we've already had it where like people
have come in and be like oh yeah can you engrave this can you engrave that i'm like yeah why not
just engrave everything once you've got lazy once you've got laser you can do anything put my camera
in i mean you could try it so yeah you can see where i've been playing with it just get a few
more parkour on there yeah you didn't use the safety glasses it actually looked pretty good
you're fully riding them sorry sun god i actually forgot my glasses this trip so i apologize for
that you could wear those yeah they look cool they maybe look like ones you wear in a nightclub but
if a car drives past you with a laser on it you'll also not go blind safety glasses i've
just been staring directly at the laser yeah oh i purposefully went underneath it so i could see
what was going on oh you just got free laser eye surgery there's someone who builds some wheels
here yeah so skye our mechanic um is in here during the week um so scott will look after any
custom builds yeah um anything a little bit out of the ordinary and then sort of warranties repairs
um crash replacements so i'm pretty sure one of these is a crash replacement so yeah sky's been
with us since the summer came on board as part of the kickstart scheme which is a really amazing
scheme whereby the government supports employers to take on young people who are out of work
so she actually started um with zero experience and frankly she's now knocking out better wheels
than i could manage and yeah this bit's pretty unique because we've actually got some stock
which is you know there's not many people in the uk industry that can say that if people want
wheels then we are probably one of the only places in the country that have some that's
why the security's so good here is because you know if you when you people know there's
actually wheels here why are you standing there it's a bit hole in there come on let's go ride
so cycling up a massive hill right now if it would be a perfect time to uh make a little
announcement the reason i'm down here with dove is to chat business stuff uh from this point onwards
you will see parkour wheels as a little logo at the end of my videos uh staff has come on as a
sponsor of the channel for viewers who don't know dov what's parkour wheels i set parkour up about
five and a half six years ago now uh with the idea of basically making aerodynamics accessible so we
design manufacture and import bike wheels um and they're accessible in terms of
both the price point but also hopefully you'll see the way we talk about
them stripping back some of the jargon just being honest about stuff it's making it relatable to you
as many riders as we can so excited to have him on board hopefully it'll uh make you faster yeah i'll
need that am i going to end up riding with some of your existing ambassadors who all happen to be
professional triathletes because i'm going to need some real fast wheels i'm pretty much yeah
get you out riding with the pros uh get you out running with the pros i know you've been
taking some of that up lately yeah done one run can you swim badly well there you go i
was actually a lifeguard once uh we've had plenty of good feedback from him already you know we've
had how long have you been riding riding our wheels for now so i run him across australia
and i've been riding basically since then so what was that two and a half years ago this is such a
bad choice doing it up this hill yeah basically link in the description if you want to check out
dolph's website so that concludes a pretty busy weekend of filming one million episodes of bike
fit tuesdays and seeing dove i hope you enjoyed that little bit about parkours and his very cool
bike dove is very modest he actually does all of his aero testing himself as he is a qualified
engineer uh with a background in aerospace engineering so all of his wheels are incredibly
fast and hopefully we can do some visiting to a wind tunnel in the future with him and show
some of the process that he goes through in making his products thank you guys always for watching
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finally the bike announcement if my group set turns up thank you for watching see you guys soon
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