so fresh and so clean well this is the cleanest this bike has been
for the last three weeks we are now based in alicante doing a couple of rides here we've
got the bikes all nice and clean and we're preparing to go on a very windy bike ride
bike is so much faster this is way better i'm never riding with bags on again
sunday morning in alicante which means even quieter than usual on the roads we're out for
a little spin without our bags on the bikes which is really nice my brakes work really
well oh yeah really well and it is very strange getting out of the saddle because your bike just
goes crazy if that's what it wants like most rides from this city we are going uphill all the way
to halfway and then downhill all the way home not like the last one you planned is it it's not going
to kill me i'm tapering off in this video i was going to talk a little bit considering we reached
the point of riding point no return why didn't i retire why have i chosen here to film i have now
since getting this bike ridden a thousand miles officially so i was going to talk a bit about
how it performed it's flat here practice you're right but maybe
i'll wait until the ride is over or at least until we got to the top of this hill yeah
indiana jones
you probably clicked this video because you want to know stuff about the road to group set
so let's talk about the rotor group set a lot of you will have seen this in previous episodes but
just to recap this is the rotor 1 by 12 not the rotor uno that's the version before it does say
1 by 13 on it because it can be converted to the 13 speed version if you're using the right hub
which is only currently built into row to wheels or you'd have to get it laced up
yourself so i'm using the 12 speed version it's a completely hydraulic group set so
hydraulic discs which are seen on lots of bikes but also hydraulic shifting which means it feels
very different to use to a normal cable group set or an electric one
i've been running a 42 ring on the front and an 11 36 cassette on the back we've been riding with
bags on our bikes for the last few weeks my bike has been extremely heavy the gearing has just
about been usable when it got to about 15 gradient or more it started to become a bit of a struggle
without bags on the ride today completely fine although i would say if you're newer to cycling
and you don't have as much time to ride and you might still be making improvements in your fitness
you might want to go with an easier gear so a smaller chainring or slightly bigger cassette
reliability spout relia abila teasers i was very impressed
i didn't miss a shift did i miss a shift didn't drop my chain nope didn't churn the
gears nope it was all absolutely perfect and i was pleasantly surprised worked a run seal
does what it says on the tin yeah it doesn't come in a tin it comes with a cardboard box
that's what it says of the cardboard box there are some fairly mixed reviews of this group set online
a lot of them mentioned the shifting and how it feels to shift and how it's not really a defined
click which you usually get with the existing popular group set manufacturers it definitely took
me a couple of rides to get used to but now i've got the knack for it it's been absolutely flawless
now with the shifting there is one thing that i think we both feel is worth mentioning which
is when we were at altitude like really high in the mountains my gears seem to index very
slightly differently i'm guessing this is because of the pressure we noticed it being consistently
different at the top of the mountains compared to the bottom and then when we slept at altitude and
road the next day it seemed to have fixed itself and it was completely fine perhaps there's a small
bubble in the system and it needs a bleed but uh further testing needs to be done bit of an
unusual experience but didn't ruin the ride and i think we need to look more into it to work out why
sometimes people's complaints with one bite is that they are quite noisy
our chains got pretty dirty over the course of the ride but there wasn't
any excess noise from my system uh any more than chris's which was also dirty and two by
braking performance was absolutely perfect especially with the loaded bike you do notice
when you don't have the stopping power and it was absolutely fine they're both 160 rotors front and
rear so that's why they're so strong but made it in collaboration with magura and really
really impressed now the one small but negative i managed to wear the hoods
i don't know if you can see see we were doing a lot of climbing a lot of stuff out of the saddle
where i was a bit under geared and i've actually managed to rub away the material on the hood this
is quite soft rubber uh but it's only happened on the right hand one it's probably due to
the way i hold the handlebars um but yeah i feel like that wouldn't have happened on the shimano
hoods because they're a little bit thicker and not sticky feeling overall very happy with how it
performed i was a little bit apprehensive because it's such a new and unusual thing but yeah it's
going to be staying on my bike for the foreseeable future and i'm excited to give it a bit more of a
test without bags on and you know really see how this frame performs over the next few days in
calpe you okay chris yeah well no because we're going home but yeah home is where the heart is
apparently i do miss home yes i do i feel like we've been away for a long long long time when
we get home it'll be summer of course it's nice falls full spring we're on that over i think what
full spring you never heard that it's the spring that's not actually spring that means we have
really nice weather for like a couple of weeks so it suddenly gets really [ __ ] again but right now
i'm packing a bike oh one last thing i forgot to mention chain ring that i'm using is a q ring and
it's the first time i've used an oval chainring in a long long time after about five minutes of
riding i basically didn't notice it was there um and that's still how i feel now so not the most
comprehensive review of a q-ring round chambering feel nice this one feels nice it feels round now
looks cool so glad i have to carry your ipad anymore you pack it away yeah yeah