I get it-we all drive Corollas. They’re reliable, they get the job done. But that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate a McLaren now and then. If you can appreciate a good dream bike: bit.ly/Subscribe_to_EBD
$2850 for the wheel set alone 😭😭I don’t come here to cry Dustin 😞 Why you make an old man cry 😭 the entire bicycle is just drop freaking dead Gorgeous ❤️❤️ I want it so bad… I don’t need heating, lighting and cover. I could skip the mortgage for a few months and sleep rough. There is a point where these unnatural obsessions with all things cycling 🚴 can get, a little much.
I'm running GRX 820 mechanical. No regrets.. enough gears for the road and the 31/ 36 is enough low end for climbs. Shifts like a road bike and just feels fast and my Aspero.
Fusion fiber is down-cyclable, not recyclable. So far all they do is grind up scraps and busted rims to make very overpriced tire levers. No rims are turned back into rims. Recycling a busted rim requires you to ship it (green!) back to them to be shredded and remolded into those tire levers. No recycling plant will take them. It is greenwashing full-stop.
@@EverythingsBeenDone Most of the footprint is in the carbon fiber itself. Fusion fiber is still CF, just thermoplastic instead of thermoset resin (plastic) as the binder. But in reality I think that in a car dominated world it is mostly stupid to fuss over the overall relatively trivial amount of materials going into the bicycle industry. Even full carbon mountain bikes equate to maybe a couple hundred miles of driving of a Range Rover. I just hate green washing and other BS marketing where I see it regardless of the source or industry, so I call it out.
@@EverythingsBeenDone Tiny things like bicycle wheels in this world have no bearing to the overall impact of composites. A single wind turbine blade has more material than the entire bicycle wheel industry combined. They are mostly fiberglass, but it's not much different. So figuring out how to recycle a single turbine blade would make more difference than a $2000 set of wheels. These things are too expensive to ever take over the entire industry and be put on Walmart bikes, which means there will never be very many of them, which means that the impact will be small regardless of what happens. It's like recycling, where a single industry throws out more trash and waste than all of the public, yet the poor time-crunched public is still supposed to waste it's time trying to wash out its mayonnaise jars. I get more plastic trash in the form of packaging in a single day at my company than I have at home for an entire year. With that said, I have extra time at my CNC company, who would like a set of wooden tire levers? That's green and I have never seen them before, so maybe I have a new project for next week.
It may be nuanced. Having listened to interviews by some of the engineers and other companies working with fusion fiber (like Revel) I don’t know that it’s necessarily so much greenwashing is that they haven’t refined the recycling options to this point. Though it’s possible in the future. The levels of toxicity to the folks working with it during manufacture is also possibly less than traditional thermoset CF. The marketing at this point definitely overstates the current potential “recycling” aspect.
Thanks for the vid! This bike is an absolute beauty. I love the Shimano di2 - If you don't want to shift 2 things, check out synchronous shifting. You can set these up to shift the front ring automatically and shift the rear with it so you don't get a huge jump. It's in the app.
As a refrigerator sized human the ergon core saddle has been a blessing for 200+ mile rides, no more sit bone pain. It only took me 11 saddles to find a comfortable one😢
Love my Ergon saddles. I have an SM Enduro on my commuter and an SR Pro on my "fun" bike. Zero complaints at all. My wife's old Marin has an SMC and no complaints there either and shes used to her heavily padded Peloton bike saddle.
I had a chance to put together a Parlee at a shop I was working at man what a serious bike, I did "try" it out to make sure everything was on par and it rode like a dream. Cheers to you for getting to ride that machine.
Bruh you do not have to convince us to bling out with Chris King, our finite wallets are generally the only thing preventing us from doing exactly that. Though I do have a small beef, they've got all those colors and NO YELLOW? Just gold. How am I supposed to build a go-fast bike without yellow pops??
I’ve recently built a Z Zero from Parlee and I’ve never seen such a sexy bike. I love the fact that it’s still tubes but in carbon. Ride feel is really special (that might also comes from the Enve SES 4.5 that the customer wanted, but still). Legend says some bikes of the tour the France are made by Parlee, but painted with another brand’s logo 🤫🤭
My brother, your content…. So far beyond everyone and everything else out there. Thank you for your effort and your talent! Mike, Reunion Racing, Dallas, Tx.
A quick visit to the geo charts show that the geo between the Stigmata and Toas are identical at 69.5 head angle and 74 seat angle. The only slight difference is the chain stay length. The Stiggy is shorter by 7 mm, 423 vs 430 which indeed would make the Toas more stable on descents but not hook up as well on the climbs.
I had a buddy with a full custom Parlee Di2 before that was common. He let me ride it for a month or so…I’ve never touched a better bike in my life. So, so filthy.
I'm a heavy guy, currently on mechanical 2xGRX. Main reason is that gives me a huge range - better than 1:1 on hard climbs with luggage on and fast descents on asphalt with some pedal control and not spinning out. Would be great if you compared SRAM and GRX setups for megaranges like that...
Yes, but if the greens don’t match perfectly it’d drive me bonkers. Safer play is to go for contrast. I like them purple/pinky, but orange would also have been a solid play.
I tried 45mm with aggresive tread on an unsuspended gravel. On the other end I have also tried various 2.1" - 2.5" tyres on my full sus XC MTB. Personally I think an MTB with lighter tread but much wider tyres will do much better than an unsupended gravel
I have 2x 105 mechanical on my road bike and a 1x SRAM etap on my gravel. I mess up the shifting for 20 minutes as well going between these two bikes. 😂
I don't have this wheel set yet, but I have 3 other pairs of Chris King hubs, on different rims, and they're fantastic! Once I score my dream bike, No. 22 Drifter, I'm outfitting it with this wheel set.
That is a grail build. Full stop end. People that come here to complain about prices should stop, as this is something to strive to attain. You won’t regret it.
9. I'm a "shimano guy" but only because my first bike (1995 Rockhopper) was full Shimano Alivio and I didn't know much about bike or bike parts but needed to rebuild it and I figured replacing Shimano for Shimano would be easiest. Now that I know more, I LOVE that Shimano publishes LOADS of technical docs and compatibility charts and, CRUCIALLY, makes them extremely easy to find (not so with SRAM). Shimano's product line naming is relatively simple and mostly doesn't rely on weird arbitrary combinations of 0s and Xs to denote....something (riddle me the difference between 0.1, X.0, X.01, etc SRAM!). I do NOT appreciate how Shimano draws a HARD compatibility line between MTB and Road parts though, SRAM definitely has them beat here. But even with my mix and match, trial and error experimentation to finally land on 105 11s brifters, SLX RD, crankset, and cassette and a TanPan 11 to tie it all together, I've spent less money and less time than I would have if I'd just gone with SRAM whose parts are generally much pricier, and compatibility and model line info is MUCH harder to dig up. Always been curious how their stuff handles though, mainly the brifters. And their AXS tech has Shimano beat for sure. Also, my god those Chris King wheels and hubs are gorgeous! I'm absolutely no Chris King stan (though the CK headset on my 24y/o hand-me-down Litespeed is absolutely mint all these years later) but now I'm wanting those GRD23s on my Lynksey GR300 build...
Love the content, we've got to get rid of every mechanic hating it though, once you know how to cut lines and install a barb and olive, its easy, and we get paid for our time to do it lol
Finally someone who gets it. I'm sitting here always wondering, "who are these mechanics that are struggling with internal routing and how do they still have jobs?". I mean it was hard like the first 2 times and that's about it.
Who are these people who decide when something that was just fine yesterday is now no longer the thing to do? Where do these trends come from, other than marketing departments and trend weenies? I don't ride gravel, not much in the way of unpaved roads worth riding around here anyway (although there are some really nice MTB/BMX trails very close by), and I'm just fine with my 21+ year old road bike, since that's what I do, ride on roads. Rim brakes, alloy wheels, mechanical 3x10 drivetrain, Ti frame, no power meters, and I couldn't care less how retro and unfashionable it is. It just works for me.
Reads the instructions!??!?!?! Who does that??? Your attention to all the litte nuances is what makes your review, videos, and content so good! Keep it up.
On the Shimano 11spd setup you could run 11-46T cassette. no problems, ran it for a while but decided to index to more dirt friendly and swapped to SRAM AXS mullet to match my MTB. Loved the Shimano Hoods on the GRX, much better than SRAM. But love SRAM for their Lego like interchangeability...
Beautiful ride. More slack yet feather light. Smart combo! Yeah, it would be cool to hear your comparison of Shimano and SRAM. Especially seeing you use a 2x! Wow!
I definitely want to hear your take on Sram vs Shimano electronic shifting, but make sure to play around with the Shimano Synchro and Semi Synchro shifting options😁 Lovin' the color combo BTW🤩
I love Shimano. Much prefer them to SRAM but they have a problem with that Di2 battery. It means you can't fit a dropper post and I think they're so useful that I'd rather have mechanical GRX 1x and a dropper than Di2 (even though Di2 is lovely). Droppers make you safer off road and faster descending on road. Seriously the aero tuck with a dropper is like a rocket boost on road.
Please do a sram vs shimano electronic shifting video and all it's nifty features. I'm about to go that direction but want all my bikes to be in the same ecosystem.
Dustin, please consider reviewing the Commencal 365 gravel bike. Super capable and affordable option. Your viewers would likely benefit from some feedback on this bike. Thanks for your consideration.
I’m in for a Shimano vs SRAM video. Would also love to see a preferred gravel pedal video. I just put on some crankbrothers egg beaters and I’m hoping they work well
Fast gravel is over. The alternative, expensive artisan gravel, is in. Neither for me. Mid range aluminum with carbon fork and GRX 2X is fine for me for road or gravel. Can't really make a video on that I understand. Nice to see the artistic build though not a fan of black as a bike color.
@@EverythingsBeenDoneit’s so good. Done ultra gravel races, smashes on some of my local (admittedly lighter touch) mtb xc stuff and with a pair of all road wheels almost holds up to my road bike. Rager of a machine
You are correct. This is something that can be set up in Shimano app. I wanted to try it in the tradtiional set up to start. Ill mess with these other settings to see how it works.
Great question! I was just thinking about how to add a dropper to this bike. And I had not considered the battery. My guess is it still is in the dropper it’s just wedged(how it actually stores) in the Lowest part of the dropper.
Two choices for Di2 if you run a dropper: Seat tube below the post area with some foam wrapping or inside the downtube storage area (tons of room there).
I get it-we all drive Corollas. They’re reliable, they get the job done. But that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate a McLaren now and then. If you can appreciate a good dream bike: bit.ly/Subscribe_to_EBD
$2850 for the wheel set alone 😭😭I don’t come here to cry Dustin 😞 Why you make an old man cry 😭 the entire bicycle is just drop freaking dead Gorgeous ❤️❤️ I want it so bad… I don’t need heating, lighting and cover. I could skip the mortgage for a few months and sleep rough. There is a point where these unnatural obsessions with all things cycling 🚴 can get, a little much.
Don't worry, those wheels are 'only' $2450! 👍👍
heh not to mention what a parlee frame costs, just $5500 for a stock frame - sheesh.
@@chriskingbuzz ahh fuck mate, now it’s a totally different story. 😂
And then you ride chubby tires on the road, longing for the smoothness of the true road bike.
Depends on your job, but it hard to make $2850 without offsetting the environmental benefit of 'fusionfiber'
I'm running GRX 820 mechanical. No regrets.. enough gears for the road and the 31/ 36 is enough low end for climbs. Shifts like a road bike and just feels fast and my Aspero.
All my bikes are still mechanical 11 speed :)
Fusion fiber is down-cyclable, not recyclable. So far all they do is grind up scraps and busted rims to make very overpriced tire levers. No rims are turned back into rims. Recycling a busted rim requires you to ship it (green!) back to them to be shredded and remolded into those tire levers. No recycling plant will take them. It is greenwashing full-stop.
Whats your take on this vs Carbon fiber?
@@EverythingsBeenDone Most of the footprint is in the carbon fiber itself. Fusion fiber is still CF, just thermoplastic instead of thermoset resin (plastic) as the binder. But in reality I think that in a car dominated world it is mostly stupid to fuss over the overall relatively trivial amount of materials going into the bicycle industry. Even full carbon mountain bikes equate to maybe a couple hundred miles of driving of a Range Rover.
I just hate green washing and other BS marketing where I see it regardless of the source or industry, so I call it out.
@@123moof ya, definitely should be called out. But you're correct, things like cargo ships and planes are the real problem.
@@EverythingsBeenDone Tiny things like bicycle wheels in this world have no bearing to the overall impact of composites. A single wind turbine blade has more material than the entire bicycle wheel industry combined. They are mostly fiberglass, but it's not much different. So figuring out how to recycle a single turbine blade would make more difference than a $2000 set of wheels. These things are too expensive to ever take over the entire industry and be put on Walmart bikes, which means there will never be very many of them, which means that the impact will be small regardless of what happens.
It's like recycling, where a single industry throws out more trash and waste than all of the public, yet the poor time-crunched public is still supposed to waste it's time trying to wash out its mayonnaise jars. I get more plastic trash in the form of packaging in a single day at my company than I have at home for an entire year.
With that said, I have extra time at my CNC company, who would like a set of wooden tire levers? That's green and I have never seen them before, so maybe I have a new project for next week.
It may be nuanced. Having listened to interviews by some of the engineers and other companies working with fusion fiber (like Revel) I don’t know that it’s necessarily so much greenwashing is that they haven’t refined the recycling options to this point. Though it’s possible in the future. The levels of toxicity to the folks working with it during manufacture is also possibly less than traditional thermoset CF. The marketing at this point definitely overstates the current potential “recycling” aspect.
Thanks for the vid! This bike is an absolute beauty. I love the Shimano di2 - If you don't want to shift 2 things, check out synchronous shifting. You can set these up to shift the front ring automatically and shift the rear with it so you don't get a huge jump. It's in the app.
I have that on my Obed Gvr with GRX Di2, it is sooooo nice! I hate riding my non-di2 bikes now lol
@@hungri-yeti1885 It spoils you for sure!
2x + sycro shift is the best riding experience I've had... it just works so well!
As a refrigerator sized human the ergon core saddle has been a blessing for 200+ mile rides, no more sit bone pain. It only took me 11 saddles to find a comfortable one😢
Love my Ergon saddles. I have an SM Enduro on my commuter and an SR Pro on my "fun" bike. Zero complaints at all. My wife's old Marin has an SMC and no complaints there either and shes used to her heavily padded Peloton bike saddle.
Agreed on the Ergon saddles - they have been great!!!
I had a chance to put together a Parlee at a shop I was working at man what a serious bike, I did "try" it out to make sure everything was on par and it rode like a dream. Cheers to you for getting to ride that machine.
9. I definitely enjoy SRAM vs SHIMANO chat. Cheers
thats the saddle I've been using for years, best one I've found for not dying of ass pain on long rides
Bruh you do not have to convince us to bling out with Chris King, our finite wallets are generally the only thing preventing us from doing exactly that. Though I do have a small beef, they've got all those colors and NO YELLOW? Just gold. How am I supposed to build a go-fast bike without yellow pops??
I’ve recently built a Z Zero from Parlee and I’ve never seen such a sexy bike. I love the fact that it’s still tubes but in carbon. Ride feel is really special (that might also comes from the Enve SES 4.5 that the customer wanted, but still). Legend says some bikes of the tour the France are made by Parlee, but painted with another brand’s logo 🤫🤭
My brother, your content…. So far beyond everyone and everything else out there. Thank you for your effort and your talent! Mike, Reunion Racing, Dallas, Tx.
9. That is one amazing bike. CK !!!
A quick visit to the geo charts show that the geo between the Stigmata and Toas are identical at 69.5 head angle and 74 seat angle. The only slight difference is the chain stay length. The Stiggy is shorter by 7 mm, 423 vs 430 which indeed would make the Toas more stable on descents but not hook up as well on the climbs.
I had a buddy with a full custom Parlee Di2 before that was common. He let me ride it for a month or so…I’ve never touched a better bike in my life. So, so filthy.
I'm a heavy guy, currently on mechanical 2xGRX. Main reason is that gives me a huge range - better than 1:1 on hard climbs with luggage on and fast descents on asphalt with some pedal control and not spinning out. Would be great if you compared SRAM and GRX setups for megaranges like that...
I would have went it’s lime green to match the sticker on the frame.
Same
Yes, but if the greens don’t match perfectly it’d drive me bonkers. Safer play is to go for contrast. I like them purple/pinky, but orange would also have been a solid play.
I tried 45mm with aggresive tread on an unsuspended gravel. On the other end I have also tried various 2.1" - 2.5" tyres on my full sus XC MTB. Personally I think an MTB with lighter tread but much wider tyres will do much better than an unsupended gravel
Absolutely LOVED❤ seeing you play the spoke harp.😂😂😂 Youre so creative. Thank you Dustin for being Dustin!🤗
I have 2x 105 mechanical on my road bike and a 1x SRAM etap on my gravel. I mess up the shifting for 20 minutes as well going between these two bikes. 😂
Ergon core saddles are phenomenal
Looks super cool. Something us poor people could not afford very easily.
I don't have this wheel set yet, but I have 3 other pairs of Chris King hubs, on different rims, and they're fantastic! Once I score my dream bike, No. 22 Drifter, I'm outfitting it with this wheel set.
The Stigmata with reserve wheels bombs down hills. I bet this bike is right up there with it!
DKs video on the Stigmata is why I bought one a year ago. I LOVE THAT BIKE ❤
That is a grail build. Full stop end. People that come here to complain about prices should stop, as this is something to strive to attain. You won’t regret it.
I truly appreciate your comment! I’m glad that you see this for what it is.
9. I'm a "shimano guy" but only because my first bike (1995 Rockhopper) was full Shimano Alivio and I didn't know much about bike or bike parts but needed to rebuild it and I figured replacing Shimano for Shimano would be easiest.
Now that I know more, I LOVE that Shimano publishes LOADS of technical docs and compatibility charts and, CRUCIALLY, makes them extremely easy to find (not so with SRAM). Shimano's product line naming is relatively simple and mostly doesn't rely on weird arbitrary combinations of 0s and Xs to denote....something (riddle me the difference between 0.1, X.0, X.01, etc SRAM!).
I do NOT appreciate how Shimano draws a HARD compatibility line between MTB and Road parts though, SRAM definitely has them beat here. But even with my mix and match, trial and error experimentation to finally land on 105 11s brifters, SLX RD, crankset, and cassette and a TanPan 11 to tie it all together, I've spent less money and less time than I would have if I'd just gone with SRAM whose parts are generally much pricier, and compatibility and model line info is MUCH harder to dig up.
Always been curious how their stuff handles though, mainly the brifters. And their AXS tech has Shimano beat for sure.
Also, my god those Chris King wheels and hubs are gorgeous! I'm absolutely no Chris King stan (though the CK headset on my 24y/o hand-me-down Litespeed is absolutely mint all these years later) but now I'm wanting those GRD23s on my Lynksey GR300 build...
Thx for using both metric systems, love ur vids !
Love the content, we've got to get rid of every mechanic hating it though, once you know how to cut lines and install a barb and olive, its easy, and we get paid for our time to do it lol
Finally someone who gets it. I'm sitting here always wondering, "who are these mechanics that are struggling with internal routing and how do they still have jobs?". I mean it was hard like the first 2 times and that's about it.
Who are these people who decide when something that was just fine yesterday is now no longer the thing to do? Where do these trends come from, other than marketing departments and trend weenies?
I don't ride gravel, not much in the way of unpaved roads worth riding around here anyway (although there are some really nice MTB/BMX trails very close by), and I'm just fine with my 21+ year old road bike, since that's what I do, ride on roads. Rim brakes, alloy wheels, mechanical 3x10 drivetrain, Ti frame, no power meters, and I couldn't care less how retro and unfashionable it is. It just works for me.
Reads the instructions!??!?!?! Who does that??? Your attention to all the litte nuances is what makes your review, videos, and content so good! Keep it up.
Dude, you are hilarious! Great film too. Love the bike.
All 9’s baby!
'It's heart is in the mountains, as opposed to trying to be the faster person through the mountains'
I’m no gravel bike guy but this looks so rad!
The OG bombtrack is the sickest
On the Shimano 11spd setup you could run 11-46T cassette. no problems, ran it for a while but decided to index to more dirt friendly and swapped to SRAM AXS mullet to match my MTB. Loved the Shimano Hoods on the GRX, much better than SRAM. But love SRAM for their Lego like interchangeability...
A little surprised , you struggled with the two/ by... some of us still running triples... Well those of us without money 😂
trends are cyclical give it enough time and 3x will be back on top ;)
True Dat, just monster crossed my hybrid and was grateful for the little ring on steep techy climbs😮
Loving bar end shifters
@@rohangayle9130yes I miss my granny on my Domane...😢
Beautiful ride. More slack yet feather light. Smart combo! Yeah, it would be cool to hear your comparison of Shimano and SRAM. Especially seeing you use a 2x! Wow!
Love that ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ sticker at 2:37 👌
Nine! Sure I’d like a SRAM vs Shimano video. Def love cute pops of anodized color! 💗
Love your music choices. Almost as much as that build. At least the music is cheaper.
Ok....two weeks in a row of crazy high end bikes. This one in particular seems to have come out of nowhere.
Chris King orange everything!!!
You and my buddy DREW have the same palette ;)
I’d have set up almost same but grx di2 1x with Wolftooth 38 front and Shimano 11-42 rear. Less to go wrong and easier to clean.
I definitely want to hear your take on Sram vs Shimano electronic shifting, but make sure to play around with the Shimano Synchro and Semi Synchro shifting options😁 Lovin' the color combo BTW🤩
what a musician !
- What does King consider a "lifetime" of a hub?
- I'd go with olive colour if they offered one, i guess it must be possinble cause WolfTooth has that
Those DCO rim decals are CHOICE!
What a gorgeous rig! You have a serious fleet of beautiful bicycles going on my friend. Bravo, bravo.
Love your bike and you inspired me to follow up with Chris King website for ideas of my own. Thank you so much for your wonderful content ❤
If you need some color support we got you!
I just saw a Richie P 29 steel 29 mtb with a rock shock Sid which weight 9.5 kg. So this year is nothing fancy.
Extravaganza!! That luxury ain't for me 😂
Nice bike but I am so over carbon 😅
Gorgeous 🎉
9 enjoyed the return to classic EBD groovy tunes
Fantastic video, does anyone know the type of handlebar?
FSA K-Wing AGX Carbon Handlebar 31.8 mm - Black. Have a wonderful day
That harp play made my day :D What's the song in the end? I got a spell on you? Feel good video! Nice bike too :)
This bike wants to be a Santa Cruz Srigmata :)
And the New Schwalbe G-one RX Pro is something else than a Ultrabite. You should try that.
I love Shimano. Much prefer them to SRAM but they have a problem with that Di2 battery. It means you can't fit a dropper post and I think they're so useful that I'd rather have mechanical GRX 1x and a dropper than Di2 (even though Di2 is lovely).
Droppers make you safer off road and faster descending on road. Seriously the aero tuck with a dropper is like a rocket boost on road.
Man I love love love Chris King, wish I can finish my Standert with it (Standert comes standard with CK headset)
That is quite the steed. Looks rad. Rides rad? Sounds like it.
Tomorrow’s video is a proper adventure report.
It rides like…..
Nice ride! But where’s your dropper?!
Thats what I keep asking as well
If you love this type of gravel bike (adventure geometry rather than race) I'd love to hear your take on the new checkpoint
As gravel bikes continue to evolve, they will eventually become what they aspired to be all along… trail bikes.
I can’t wait
Orange baby!
Thank you. ✌️9er in there
9/10.
So choice. ❤
I still can’t get my mind to accept that the brake hoses are just fine stuffed around the head tube 😮
Gotta hand it to you; the harp gag was great
Are you running Silca bar tape? If not what is it?
Man. I'm 70, a Cancer survivor, and thought I'd already bought my Last Bike....but....Damn.
So good to see 2x rather than the 1x rubbish
Your pronunciation of Adidas just through me for a loop
That’s how they say it everywhere but America. Does sound odd though
Amazing bike. Could You tell me which stem you choose? I am looking for stem where I can route the cables directly through the stem.
I like the merging of XC mtb geometry and standard gravel geometry…
Nine!! Sick whip!!!
Not sure if I missed it, but what size frame did you end up getting? Medium or Large?
Sram vs Shimano vs Campagnolo...
Thats a nice bike
Please do a sram vs shimano electronic shifting video and all it's nifty features. I'm about to go that direction but want all my bikes to be in the same ecosystem.
Dustin, please consider reviewing the Commencal 365 gravel bike. Super capable and affordable option. Your viewers would likely benefit from some feedback on this bike. Thanks for your consideration.
Yeah good call… there is nothing on that bike, they don’t use carbon ever.
I’m in for a Shimano vs SRAM video. Would also love to see a preferred gravel pedal video. I just put on some crankbrothers egg beaters and I’m hoping they work well
Clean AF! I like!
are those Fallraven pants your wearing.... at 6'5 love their stuff...it actually fits lol
Fast gravel is over. The alternative, expensive artisan gravel, is in. Neither for me. Mid range aluminum with carbon fork and GRX 2X is fine for me for road or gravel. Can't really make a video on that I understand. Nice to see the artistic build though not a fan of black as a bike color.
Dont good for hill climbing with 25 gear inches. What's its weight limit...can it take front & rear racks for touring.
Steve - Taos supports fenders but not designed for front and rear racks for loaded touring
The answer to that question is always gold.
LOL that is exactly the color Jay was pushing for 🤣
Great video, one question though... what's the tyre clearans on the back with that 2x on the front?
Tasty! You need to try get your hands on Evil's Chamois Hagar. Similar vibe (and I've loved mine the 2yrs I've had it)
Some recently mentioned that bike when looking at this one. I love this category of "adventure bikes"
@@EverythingsBeenDoneit’s so good. Done ultra gravel races, smashes on some of my local (admittedly lighter touch) mtb xc stuff and with a pair of all road wheels almost holds up to my road bike. Rager of a machine
lets not forget that the amount of fun you can have riding a bike isn´t determined by the amount of money that you´re spending on it.
100% agree
I thought the whole idea of electronic 2x was to set it up so you just shift like a 1x and it will automatically shift the front rings for you.
You are correct. This is something that can be set up in Shimano app. I wanted to try it in the tradtiional set up to start. Ill mess with these other settings to see how it works.
I have a 1x 30t Shimano Deore on the front and a 11-42t SRAM Rival 1 in back. If you can't climb 25% grades what's the point. Not a question. 😅
“Chris King” is a synonym for “quality”
Green and purple? Welcome to the early 1990s!
Great video. What sunglasses/ prescription glasses setup do you use 0:04, I have never found a great solution but what you have look great.
Great way to start the day, thanks Dustin. Always wondered if the battery lives in the seat tube does that mean you can't have a dropper?
Great question!
I was just thinking about how to add a dropper to this bike. And I had not considered the battery.
My guess is it still is in the dropper it’s just wedged(how it actually stores) in the Lowest part of the dropper.
Two choices for Di2 if you run a dropper: Seat tube below the post area with some foam wrapping or inside the downtube storage area (tons of room there).
Without us, you might be here, but neither would we.
I would've gone with that burnt orange on black for a Halloween vibe 👻
such a good idea!
9. I've only ever used Shimano, but am starting to feel SRAM-curious lately.
Q: can they do RGB lighting like any good gaming PC?
Nice bike. Can I ask what brand the seatpost is please?