a couple of videos back we uh stripped down this lovely addict gravel tuned moved all the parts
from this Frame over to a new frame in preparation for a bike trip that I'm doing in two days time
but I really really like this Frame and I don't want to let it go to waste so I thought we'd turn
it into something unnecessary but cool oh and this is a hundred percent not allowed and we'll
probably avoid your warranty if you have this Frame and try it at home so don't do this at home
this is Nick from backyard bike shop and if you turn up to one
of his shop rides on a normal gravel bike then you will die
these aren't gravel tires technically roads they are gravel tires trust me you'll thank me for it
later so this is what all the people that turn up the next ride to use 650b Wheels this is a
smaller wheel which means you can get fatter tires fitting into your normal Road frame or
gravel frame in this case we're going to put uh these massive mountain bike tires on which are 27
and a half inch which is exactly the same a 650b not entirely sure that they'll fit but we might as
well try in addition to the Massive Tires we also have very wide handlebars these are flared and 42
centimeter which are a little bit too wide for me but the rides are short so hopefully it will be
okay you know like mountain bikers ride 800s you know yeah you want to go slightly wider for where
are the 800 but slightly wider I would always say like if you're riding 40s on the road ride footy
tears if you're doing a bit more extreme gravel extreme gravel no just Northeast gravel Northeast
travel none of this London gravel nonsense what are you doing here I was gonna film a bike build
but I can't be asked Steven with YouTube cocking about for the next 12 hours so
like pretty done everything not interested this bike will take me like an hour to build
after I've done all this yeah exactly and then I haven't got a bloody video you do
it's just you're not messing but no stereo to cut because it's already cut wheels are
cleaned unlike last week so I just need pop Ties on it oh they do look good are they
new they look new why are they so small what are you talking about they're not that small
the bod's job of the century well because we don't have you bought me a group set it came with a bike
that runs external cabareting and it's going internal so we can't put a junction box or like
the charging port on there you need one of them handlebar ones just stuff it all inside you don't
have it that's what are we doing yeah but it means to charge this bike or to know if you've got any
charge you're gonna have sexy per side so we've taped it but basically a large job of the century
it's not done cable doesn't go in there well at first I thought it's like a 2.3 but it's 2.1 so it
doesn't find your bike it's definitely going onto my bike hope it doesn't fit so I get free tires
a cool eye I'm gonna get a set oh yes Shimano says the new do2 is much faster
yeah then they're older too but I mean the Strand makes much faster than that
your xx1 on your other bike shoots twice as fast as that I don't think anybody's ever complained
that oh a match is too slow we've established like what viewers out of the three of us it's
not Francis myself they're slowing builds down oh yeah because you're gone and we've done this bike
in 45 minutes so it's you do you really genuinely think that this new vieri face is trustworthy
foreign so the groups that we're using is grx this is what was on one of my older bikes we
stripped the whole thing down it's a double it's di2 that is your excuse It's not riding gravel
this is actually a lockdown yeah and you're gonna get a new one yeah Shimano hates you
now you're right tram which is much better they did actually send me the little piece
Shimano tried this has been broken for ages and ages I've never crashed on it uh so we put a new
shifter on which is very nice they didn't try they sent you something that's not even for that lever
be tried so ungrateful there's a funny mood today isn't it it's always in a funny moment near me so
we've got di2 grx 2 by it's electric and used I don't even know if the Chain's all right
100 would not recommend this
I think it's 2004. come back brought out a thing called two-way fit never knew what it was okay
we'll come back here we know what it was and then essentially later on was tubeless with Hutchins
and tires you're on Hutchinson tires in 2004 you could have done Road Troopers the latest 2004. um
the battle 8.5
so what I've made here is a bike just for riding with Nick I have to come and find somewhere
which is its natural habitat to show you so a full rundown of the spec this is an addict gravel tuned
frame set size small matching Synchro suit post matching synchross bar and stem which is combined
carbon one piece in 42 centimeter group set is Shimano grx di2 they only make one version of this
I'm pretty sure which is the 815 for a change not one buy so I've got a double on the front which
is a 46 30 and on the back an 11 30 cassette so a one to one ratio loads of Gears fantastic for
riding through mud wheels are parkour Alters the 650b version so they're super wide gravel specific
wheel set with Hutchinson Taipan 27.5 inch mountain bike tires on as you can see on the front
loads of room on the back yeah you probably can't see it on camera there not so much it
is so so close on the back that in all honesty I would rather have a smaller tire so I'm going to
have a look and see if I can mix and match tires put a slightly smaller one on the back otherwise
mud's going to get in between that little gap between the chain stay and the tire and rub a
hole in my frame and I'd rather not rub a hole in my frame now depending on what frame you have
a lot of Manufacturers don't recommend using 650b Wheels officially with the attic gravel
this isn't recommended but I thought I'd give it a go just to see what the bike would ride like
depending on what tires you end up using you can end up lowering your bottom bracket quite a lot
the bigger the tire the bigger the circumference ends up being so it ends up being closer to 700c
in the end so you just have to be really careful that you don't end up lowering the bottom bracket
loading loading loads and then you've got pedal strike on everything other bits on here Shimano
ultegra rotors 160 front and rear these were the ones I think they were on a bike that I had years
ago before grx came out so everyone wrote ultegra GX on gravel because that's what was available
they're still going strong nice to have big rotors when you're riding off-road Silka super
thick bar tape 3.7 millimeters thick good luck magnetic bottle cages specialized Roman I think
that's a Roman and then some Shimano SPD XT pedals to finish things off all in all
a slightly heavier build than the last one because of the two by and big fat tires but
still not that heavy looks cool I really want to ride it and that's what counts in a bike you might
be wondering why Nick and everybody at the bike shop doesn't just ride hardtails I'm wondering
that too but sometimes you've just got to ride what you have and have fun and that looks fun
and it's quite windy out here first ride on that new build has got to wait because
today I'm packing and then leaving for two and a half months stay tuned to these videos
to find out where and rest assured I'm going to be uploading quite a lot see you guys soon