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- Sup guys, back again, I'm heading to Corsa Cycles now
to catch up with Georgia, she promised me she had some
secrets up her sleeve for bike set-up,
which I'm stoked to learn about,
so let's go see what she has in store for us.
Hey, Georgia.
- [Georgia] Hey Zoe, how's it goin'?
- Yeah, not bad, how are you?
- Yeah, I'm pretty good, how was your lap?
- Well, it was pretty interesting.
- Yeah, do you have the GoPro?
- I do, do you wanna check it out?
- Yeah, let's see it.
- This is that shoot, remember that little one drop?
- Oh yeah, the little drop? - Yeah.
And I went way too hot, and I was like sweet, yeehaw,
uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
whoa.
- Rode the top, too, for a bit.
Now that you have your bike here, let's take a look at it.
- Yeah, it'll be definitely worth
going over and making some adjustments.
- Okay, sick, let's check it out.
Yeah, let's start with your brakes.
So when your hands are on your handlebar,
do you kind of have an idea of
where you like your levers to sit?
- Well, basically I like to have my finger
kind of in that divot point there.
I was told that if you have it more to the outside
you kind of get a better feel for the width of your bike,
versus being in. - Yeah.
Yeah, and it looks really good, except I think maybe with,
especially as girls we don't have massive hands,
so you don't need to have your brakes
too far in to your bars.
- So what's preferable, is it like having it steeper?
Does it depend on the trail you're riding,
like the steeper you want it more?
- You wouldn't really change it with the trail,
but definitely between my bikes I change 'em.
So on my trail bike, I run them a little bit flatter,
'cause I do longer trail rides
and it makes my wrist and arms less sore.
- [Zoe] Yep, that makes sense.
- And then I run them steeper on my downhill bike
just 'cause I wanna be aggressive
and like over the front wheel.
Let's do the bar roll next.
So you can hop a leg over the bike,
I'll loosen the bolts, and what you're looking for
is you'll just be looking over top of the bar evenly,
and then you can check the sweep to make sure
it's in a nice spot for you. - Okay.
- To me, it looks like they're rolled pretty far forward.
Roll them a little further back.
With these bars, what I like to see is
just the start of that. - Oh, okay.
- There you go, and then we'll change where your
brakes are after, then without changing where they are.
That looks pretty good.
So this way, yeah, you can have your elbows
in a ready position, you're not gonna be awkwardly fighting
the angle if that makes sense.
- And I guess it's probably more neutral
for your wrists, I guess, if you're rolled then
if you hit a bump that's gonna suck.
- Yeah exactly, you can have your brakes set up well,
but the bar might wanna kick you forward,
so this way, yeah, it's where the natural sweep is.
- Access to my dropper, seat post, and my gears,
and my brakes. - All right, that looks good.
Yeah I find that the cockpit set up for me,
that's like your main contact points of your hands.
I like to have that dialed, so probably before
every ride I kinda of play around.
Sometimes it moves in storage.
- And should you have them so you can move them around,
obviously, but not too tight that they're?
- I just always bring it to a light pocket.
You never know when you're gonna crash
and your brake levers make you hold onto the bar.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- You never know.
- Coming in handy.
- How about your suspension?
- Yep, that will probably need to be checked out.
- So that little red o-ring, you can move it up
right to the top, and what we're looking for,
we'll set your rear sag to around 30%,
which means that just from your bodyweight,
your suspension's gonna be using 30% of its trowel.
So I usually run mine a little stiffer,
but to start out with, you wanna make sure
you're using all your trowel, it's a big bike,
so we'll go 30%, so a little bit softer.
So hop on, and you're just gonna sit down
and then put both feet on the pedals
but not push down on the bike
and then slowly get off.
So you're just at the 25% mark,
so what we could do is we could take a tiny bit out,
but that's not a bad place to be at.
So that's pretty good to start out with.
So right now the shock pump's reading
about 140 PSI, which is not bad.
I would probably guess you'd be about there,
so janking it a little bit makes sense.
- [Zoe] Does it correlate with your weight?
- It does kind of yeah.
So usually in the rear I kind of run
around what my weight is in pounds,
and then plus a little bit for myself.
Right now, just above 30% sag is a pretty good spot
with your riding gear and once you're riding,
it doesn't have to be a perfect number,
so I'm happy to start you there.
All right let's do your fork sag next.
So hop a leg over the bike, I'll move the o-ring.
Once you hop on the pedals and then do one push
down on the fork, nice stay over there,
and then just hop off the back.
All right, and then what's that reading
on the side page there?
- Oh, okay.
- Actually, you're in the 170 millimeter fork,
so this one is good, you're at 25%.
- Oh, okay, awesome, sweet.
- It has the different gauges there.
Now we know that your sag is set
to your body weight, and your air pressures
look pretty good, so the next thing to think about
is your compression, rebound, you want your fork and shock
to be pretty even, so you don't want one to be
really fast, one to be really slow.
- [Zoe] That makes sense.
- Yeah, you can definitely play around
with the clicks, and then on your phone,
I just keep a little notepad, so I count how many
clicks I have per, yeah, for the rebound,
for everything, and then I just have it written down.
Same with air pressure.
Since your bike's pretty fresh, I'm guessing
you still have tubes, eh?
- Yep. - Yeah?
All right, let's do that, set it up tubeless.
It's like probably one of the most
important things you can do especially as an enduro-racer.
Loosen off the back axel, take off the front wheel.
So just let all the air outta the tube.
You're gonna beat me.
No.
Use your guns.
- I don't have any, they're not loaded.
Done.
- So we'll put it all the way back,
and then just leave a little bit of space
right by the valve, and that's where we'll
put the sealant in.
Shakin', shakin', shakin' it.
Get all the aliens out in there.
Just gonna eyeball.
- [Zoe] Okay, that's like, is there an amount that you need.
- Yeah, you know, the more the merrier.
So then I flip it over and then I finish at the bead,
and then you can just.
- [Zoe] Oh, too easy.
You make that look way too easy.
(laughing)
- Little more, yeah that's it.
Give it a little shake, make sure the stands is all over,
you can bounce it.
You're all twisted, there you go, nice.
So we're aiming to go for around 24 PSI,
and yeah so a little more.
Yeah, sweet, that's good.
And let's aim for about 25 in the back,
so I can even take out a little bit less.
Nice, that's good.
Yeah, the bike's dialed, we touched on
your bar roll, where your brakes should be sitting,
got your tires tubeless, we lifted your suspension.
I think that you'll be hopefully just as comfortable
on this as you are on your cross country bike,
which you know so well,
so now you can just see the new coaches,
get shreddy.
- Get some skills. - Get some skills.
(laughing)
and yeah, you'll get to ride this spartan
to its full potential now, I think.
- Oh, I'm so stoked I can't wait, so yeah
bike's good to go, just gotta get some skills goin',
and then hopefully next time I see you
I'll be a whole different rider.
- Yeah, you'll be way faster.
- That's the goal.
- That's sick, have fun out there.
- Cheers. (high fiving)
Hey guys, I just finished gettin' my bike all tuned up
lookin' pretty sweet, thanks to Georgia and her tips.
So now heading off to catch up with another coach,
dial in some more skills, and see where we go with that.
See you around.
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Watch this, right or left, straight down the guts.
Went straight, and then off the drop.
Let's do it.
- Have you set the sag yet?
- I don't even know what sag is.
(laughing)
- All right, let's do that. - Okay.