oh how the tables have turned daisy has her e-bike in this car we're in the car driving
to a bike ride outrageous we're heading to the pennines cutting off a bit of the route which
would be a bit busy and we haven't ridden together since september i mean i've barely ridden since
september so that's not really that astounding but we'll make up for it today with a 1000k
ride a thousand k yeah i don't think my battery will last long battery why'd i say it like that
battery i don't think my battery will last that long so starting off today on the edge of the
pennines climbing out of blanchland steep steep climb i forgot my sunglasses can i borrow yours
nope a couple of weeks ago i did a video first look at one of the new insta 360 cameras
and in that video i missed out one of the main features so today i wanted to take this camera out
on the grill mount and see what this footage is right when it's in 6k widescreen 6k that's a lot
of pixels clue is in the name it is widescreen so it's got that kind of letterbox cinematic look to
it the next segment of the video a cinematic sequence of us struggling uphills well of me
struggling up hills on days as well i thought now i've got a double on my bike this would be easier
my eyes
the next you realize it's my first ever time riding the road and the penis really i've only
ever ridden the wascaby way what's the verdict [ __ ] hard a bit steeper than the waskily way
a lot of the off-road routes around here are old wagon ways so used for coal mining
and obviously big heavy loads they needed to be fairly shallow so they're all built
to be not that steep the roads however they just make them horrible just one more horizon daisy
wow we lucked out today look at this the sun is actually out this uh out in the penins is
probably the most hit-and-miss place you can go if the weather looks to be a little bit risky
but we've been lucky today look at this so good i know i say it all the time but we are very lucky
to live so close to roads like these mega now next job of today getting lunch that's not a job next
actual job of today getting home and i'm going to install some new wheels on my mountain bike
specifically for mud oh look at that that's one of the best photos i've ever taken
i'll flash it up on the screen now so if you like the footage from the insta 360 that you just saw
the cinematic stuff and you would like to purchase one then there will be a link in
the description down below which is an affiliate link and if you click that link and purchase a
camera through there it means i get a bit of a kickback of revenue it's a great little action
camera it does 360 and it does cinematic stuff as well so really good if you're out riding and want
to make your rides look good which hopefully the footage did today to be honest you'd have
a hard time making the pennines look bad look at it oh mountain bike wheels very kindly sent over
by elite cycling so these are carbon you can actually see the carbon weave it's pretty cool
uh 29er mountain bike wheels i thought i was being clever because i knew these were coming
so i bought some cheap rotors well they're tapping yaki so they're like tried and tested
they are good but uh i bought them center lock so they have like a spline in the middle which
they're not gonna fit these wheels because they didn't check them properly so i won't be testing
these or riding these this afternoon but i will get some rotors that will fit on order right now
i'm gonna finish taping up the other wheel and get these hutchinson prototype tires on
so these are they're 2.35 i don't think they're cross-country ties and they just say racing lab
prototype on them what have you sent me hutchinson the novels on them are massive even bigger than
the ones that are on the toros which i thought were mud tires clearly i've not done enough big
mountain biking because these look absolutely massive to me i guess they are more gonna be
for fun rather than speed 2.35 is slightly bigger than the tires i've got on there at the moment on
my lovely clean mountain bike the next time i hit the trails i'll put these on assuming i can get
hold of some rotors and uh have some fun thanks elite for supplying the wheels and hutchinson
for supplying the tires getting all right setting up tubeless now except for my uh
non-scientific measuring process for sealant i just put in like a squirt
phase three of today we are taking lots of stuff in this car to town there's loads of
bits and bobs that i've been meaning to take to the studio for ages and i've got a lightsaber
the box is disintegrated taking it upstairs because it's an amazon one
i'm bleeding oh you have to find hr that's you isn't it
it's a french light saber apparently it's a plug-in lightsaber this is how what they have in
star wars but in star wars they edit out the plugs oh so bright do you really trust me with this
why have i done french you're really gonna upset the french people that watch these videos so the
plan is can you can you hold this up just above the tools i think that will look really cool
so i better end today's video with a little bit on this because i know you guys will ask first
proper ride this morning with the weird aliexpress group set and what are my first impressions well
overall pretty good i didn't really think about it while i was riding so that's a good sign there was
a couple of little niggles now maybe this is just me but when i hold on to these shifters i move my
hands around quite a bit the longer the ride is the more of a problem this is going to become
this little circle which is the pivot point for the uh lever it's sharp i think it's just the end
of a bolt uh but it's just not finished that nicely so i mean it's not gonna cut you or
anything but it's sharp enough to notice when you're riding and if you were to do like five
hours on this then it's gonna hurt your hands now the bolt on the other shifter doesn't do this it's
recessed a little bit more so this might be a case of kind of potluck if you do buy a group set like
this so a bit disappointing that is annoying potentially you could file it down but it's not
what you want to be doing when you just bought a group set so a minor annoyance and the first
real negative that i've seen about this other than that shifting was good brakes are definitely
bedded in now so they've got a little bit stronger they are still spongy but definitely safe we had
some long fast descents in the pennines like some quite steep hills and they were absolutely
fine finally i did treat this chain i put some momentum wax on it as i said in the overview video
the chain turns up completely dry so if you're a wax person like you do the pot of wax thing
it's a perfect starting point for that you don't have to clean the chain first
and in this case i just use the squirty wax which isn't a bottle like this significantly less work
than boiling a pot on the hob and dipping the chain in
and it seems to have done the trick pretty well obviously you still get the benefits of having
a very clean system uh potentially not as fast though as if you were to do it in a pot on the
hob and stuff maybe that's the thing for a future video overall though a great first proper ride
without one minor niggle if anything else comes up i will update these videos and then i'll
do a proper thousand mile test video in a few weeks time or however long it takes me to ride
a thousand miles probably quite a long time based on the amount of riding i've been doing recently