Building my New 2024 Inspired Hex Street Trials Bike!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- You might have seen I've had Shingles recently hence my absence but I'm feeling better now and I have just the video to come back with, building my fresh 2024 Inspired Hex!
I mention in the video my wheel building tutorials, you can find them here:
How to lace every main patten
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How to tension and stress a wheel
• Build Your Best Ever W...
How to swap rims
• How To Replace A Bike ...
I also mention my pal Vincent is making some leaf spring tensioners, you can catch him on Instagram @vincent.sachtler
Hopefully I can ride this bike a little more this year!
Cheers!
Ali
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By far you do the best bike build videos. Anybody can make a video assembling a bike, but the extra time you spend on the voice over is great and what makes you better than all the rest. Cute Thief cameos are always a bonus as well. Nothing like a well dressed kitter to class up any occasion.
Always nice to be appreciated, thank you 😊
Bike looks good! Cute Thief also looks good!
Both are very classy, I just need a mini Hawaiian shirt for CT 😂
Generally I don’t like black bikes but this is stunning And hopefully the Scottish weather will play ball and hope to see Ali should the street soon
Cheers dude :)
@@Ali_Clarkson You’re welcome
My everything feels wrong for not bleeding and the 2 piston brakes but if it works, it works. Good stuff ali
Edit: I just saw the final build it looks so good, love the derker colors for a change
Boy do they work! 😂
I had to knock my deathgrips on with a mallet. Strong wrists Mr Clarkson 😉
I didn’t realise they were so tight and wondered why my bars were so wide when I held it for the first time 😂
that colourway is siiiiiiiick!!
I laughed wayyyyyyyyy too much at the hacksaw oneshotting the steerer tube like that, and then the filing work afterwards hahah, having spent many, many, many hours hacksawing away at steerer tubes, bars and seatposts over the years this just really tickled me!
Love your build videos Ali as others have said they are the most fun to watch that i've found on youtube!
Thanks very much 😊
Is there a benefit for using a hacksaw? I always use pipe cutter. Much easier for me.
@@CalmoOmlac this is a pretty thick steerer, I’m not sure how thick pipe cutters can do but I have nice cutting guides so I may as well use them
@@Ali_Clarkson My pipe cutter can do up to 4mm thickness. Worked for everything on my bikes so far.
Ok, for me it's just easier to use a pipe cutter and no mess to clean after. Your cutting guides look good :)
Se ve MARAVILLOSA!!! la posición de manejo, es increíble, el diaeño!! Muy buena, los frenosss!! Uhhhh. hice trial años a tras. Lo AMO. Y ESTA BICI!!! HA SIDO UNO DE MIS SUEÑOS SIEMPRE. TE MANDO un gran abrazo desde Argentina Patagonia!!!
That's a sick looking bike
Awesome build.....
A weird thing regarding you video, I am subscribed and have notifications turned on, but it seems I never got a notification about this video, just by chance I saw it in my youtube feed.
Classic UA-cam 😑
Nice color, but Inspired should offer the burgundy from a few years back as a permanent option. Also wish Trial Tech would make that stem in a 35 mm version, the bars are so much stiffer.
Don’t think my wrists could cope with stiffer bars haha
Hola!..Ali I send you greetings from Spain
Very nice in deed... total epic cat too
He says thanks 😂
Love the bike❤ the grips are good but the inner plastic of the grips crackes very fast in a crash 😒 had 3 pairs in 1.5 year or sow 💁
I actually swapped back to my odi grips after my test ride, the DMR feel a little harsh on my delicate hands
💯 Great build! Curious, did the aliexp aluminum cog from the last bike last?
Yeah it is still going strong! I almost put it on this bike but I figured I’d be safe rather than sorry
that frame would look sick with some neon green accents, or maybe pink?
Nice one!
Would like to ask a few stuff: What rims are these exactly? How do you decide rim tape width for tubless? And how is it possible to fit the 22t Inspired chainring on a Shimano crank?
P.S.: I hope you never run out of jokes! :)
So the rims are DT (forgotten the model name sorry but they’re about 35mm wide).
I kinda just wing it with rim tape width, as long as it isn’t TOO wide then I don’t have any problems.
Inspired now made a Shimano specific bash to suite the newer cranks with removable spiders :)
Jokes? I don’t joke around, these are serious videos!
@@Ali_Clarkson Thank you for the answers!
I do always a bit wider tape than the inside width of the rim, so the bed inside wont be too flat, that helps to keep mounting the tire easier.
Oh, I need to look for that than! Love Shimano cranks. 🙂
Excuse me, Sir, than I hope you keep up that serious tone in your videos! 😺
Oh, yeah, and nice t-shirt!
Nice build! Is that an arcade or a team bar?
Team 👍🏻
ive always found it a pain to cut tire knobs. even on my RC cars. how do you do it?
I have a specific the cutting tool from Schwalbe, it’s essentially a pair of snips with a depth gauge so the cuts are consistent…still takes a while, this full tyre took about an hour
What's gonna happen to your old hex?
Sell it, I think it’s already been claimed though
Why two piston brakes and big rotors? Don't the big rotors get in the way?
Big rotors can be easier to bend but they have more power plus the amount the wheel moves at the outer edge due to pad movement is reduced the bigger the rotor gets
@@Ali_Clarkson So in general for trials you want two piston brakes with giant rotors to minimize wheel movement?
Wait?? Beryllium sealant?? You said atomic number 4 right?? That's beryllium, just curious if you said it right or it was a mistake, correct me if I'm wrong😅
If I said 4 then I meant 14 😂
nice nike
Thanks!
why would you cut the stem? fit can't matter that much. just get a larger spacer underneath instead or stack two. some previous owner of my Surly fork did some cutting for a Giant frame to hop around with and now I need a riser.. well I got a 45mm riser bar
I’m quite picky about my bar height, I knew where I wanted it to be so there was no point having the extra steerer, it’s pretty normal to cut them down
Четкий, строгий😎👍
Let me know if you would be interested in donating any of your old inspired bikes for an old man that would get great joy from riding it
As much as I’d love to donate them sadly UA-cam isn’t paying well enough for that to be possible :(
@@Ali_Clarkson would you be interested in selling me one
Bro glides on a bike
First
Feels like barely yesterday that you were building your yellow 23 model! Glad you're doing better now. That colourway is almost identical to the Cannondale Chromalusion Purpleen paint of the 1999/2000 model runs I believe. Very cool and very retro. Nice build
Thanks very much :)
I always enjoy a good bike build from Ali. Greetings from Germany!
Thank you very much!
Since you’ve never owned a pair of Deathgrips, I’d recommend loosening them again and hammering them on. They have a chamfered plastic core that gets tighter at the end to stop twisting at the end of the grip, therefore you have to absolutely slam them on. Just letting you know as I’ve had 2 grips snap due to not being on fully! Other than that, top class video as per usual
I realised this after my bars magically became much wider haha 😂
In my almost 50 years of riding I’ve never had a yellow bike and I’ve had hundreds of bikes.
It doesn't even sound right. Yellow... Bike. Yuck.
I’m glad I’m not the only one
Great bike ! The hex is a modern classic. So versatile 🙂
It sure is!
the cute thief makes the vids better
I agree 😂
Yeah this colour is waaaaay better, get the feeling they don’t sell many yellow bikes last year. That rear tyre looks pretty similar to a holy roller is it with the knobs cut down? Great looking bike!
Yeah but sure how many they sold, hopefully this one is super popular :)
Wow! Can't believe you're 40!! You must have had an easy paper round😂 btw this is my new account as YT terminated my last one😢
Bikes keep you young 😅
Pimp levers from that guy Rey Nolos! Must be something Spanish. That tube sounds solid too - might fit for a bar, when you won't need a riser?
You don't need any 'childs' - you have the cute thief... and it is perfectly legal to leave a cat at home alone for hours or days at a time when you go off riding... unlike human children...
Such detail in this build... even the chain gets its own suspension system...
The Cute Thief is my child for sure haha, not sure he’d like to go to a petting zoo though 😂
It's too bad I'm too broke to afford something like that, and turn it into a mountain bike version, I really love the shorter heighted frames. Lol
Nice!
Impressive Good Sir! It's like Aston Martin/Lamborgini Chameleon Paint! Almost British Racing Green to Purple, it's dark without being boring!
Ah the Bi-Monthly Shower too, Shower or Hose Pipe though!? Does your Mrs catch you off guard in the garden or do you behave?
She just makes me stand out in the rain
@@Ali_Clarksonthat's pretty harsh, I get it though keep the water bills down. Hose pipes waste so much water especially if you leave them running whilst you're soaping up y'know? 😂
I dont think your only other yellow bike was that giant..... Did you have a yellow flow for some time?
Ah yes, I don’t really consider that a bike I really owned though, I got it just to do a video on it and advertise it rather than because I really wanted one
its not just two but three times that bike was mentioned, i believe that bike was also mentioned when you with seth from berm peak(seth bike hacks) in a bike event where you also discuss about your "homemade chain tensioner" on that bike
Great colour!!!..and Good Job 👏
Thank you! 😊
If you're looking to dump the yellow bike somewhere... I'm here waiting...
😂
Ali strikes agaain!!! The cat will inspect your work, then you can ride it!
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Hey Ali! As an OG, I remember another yellow frame you had in the past. Maybe you didn't keep it for long but you rode a yellow Flow for a while did you not?
I rode it once or twice haha, that was more to advertise it rather than have it and own it
ill say it once again your bike builds are the best every one else is boring in comparison
Haha thanks very much!
sorry daft question -24 or 26 inch wheels? Great build
26” 👍🏻
Would be honest, I don't like this color at all. Happy with my bright-orange Arcade I got a bit more then a year ago :)
The orange is still the king!
Loving the new bike if you want a slight bit more colour pop use some coloured cranks or hubs etc to make it pop in places like your seat if you got hope brakes you could match the seat
I did try to get matching grips but couldn’t get anything close ebony…no way I’d ever put Hope brakes on though 😋
A bonnie, a beauty, and a joy to behold ❤
What about the bike?
Ali's the enemy of the grease 😂 I hope the Cute Thief shows up with some Muc-Off grease or something. Nice video 👍
Pah, grease is for the weak 😂
Maybe this year you can donate the previous frame?
Sadly UA-cam isn’t paying super well right now so I simply can’t afford to donate bikes/frames at the moment :(
fucking christ use some grease you degenerate
Never 😂
At 25:15, was that Cute Thief in the background, scampering onto the porch?
It was ❤️
Always look forward to an Ali bike build. Another well done. Have you ever looked into running Onyx for a rear hub? Instant engagement!
No for a couple of reasons. They use a sprag clutch bearing which concentrates all the torque forces into the outer bearing race. This has to be made of steel and be overbuilt to take the forces so end up considerably heavier than other hubs (and if not then they simply won’t cope with trials torques). Previous hubs I’ve tried felt a bit spongy too, like the chain was stretching but that was a long time ago and I’ve never actually felt what an Onyx hub feels like
Hi Ali, do you think the barb fitting tool would work with trialtech barbs?
Hmm no I don’t, the hole you thread the hose through is only slightly larger than the hose, if you push anything wider than the hose into it you won’t get it out of the tool :(
@@Ali_Clarkson thank you, now to see if I could modify it slightly to take the expansion. 😂
135x12 rear axle? Is it a thing?
Yes, for street trials and dirt jump at least
Hey Ali, Have you ever ran BMX bars on a trials build? Are you allowed to? Or what are the downsides?
I think I tried cruiser bars years ago, felt ok but was a lot heavier plus in my opinion uglier
@@Ali_Clarkson I’m really curious, I don’t ride trials but I’d want to learn, but it’s far from my skill set 😅.
Great video keep it going + love the colour
Thank you! Will do!
Love the new colour, it's a bit like Ford's Mystichrome paint, hope it goes well this year Ali
I hope so too!
The bike is looking awesome, I've seen a couple in person, such a nice colour that's a bit different to the norm. Do you use the pads the brakes come with or swap them out?
Take a deep breath! 26 inch trials are the best? Absolutely! I like the purple seat and galaxy grips, the colour seems really nice but I still think the orange metallic was my fave, although I have a red one and I've come to like it a lot.
I’m glad you’re keen on it :) I agree though the orange was my favorite too (because I personally chose that colour ☺️)
Oh yeah forgot to say, I can't remember the bike but that spacer has something to do with adjusting stem height without faffing with the brake routed through the steerer
Indeed, I have cracked two alloy XC frames through the tube, just in front of the rear disk calliper mount. Can’t recommend XC frames for back hops when you weigh 100kg.
😋
Damn im jelous
bb sounds awfully dry
Love the colours of the new build love the yellow one aswell! I would love to add a trails bike to the shed to try just need to sneak it past the wife haha 😆
She’ll understand 😊
@@Ali_Clarkson haha if only!!
Very classy build Ali. I love the addition of the color with the chair but I think you need to bring that color forward into the handles to make it really pop. I am looking forward to seeing you get after it on this gem. On another note I have chronic pain due to many injuries and the lack of a disk between L4 & L5. I empathize with your situation Sir. and I hope you have better luck with it than I have had. After a decade and a half of this my phycology has changed under the constant pressure of pain. The only relief I feel any more is riding my bikes. Not being a religious man I don't pray much but in this case I do in fact pray that your neck heals and you do not have to experience what I have. Give the cute thief a cuddle for me. Cheers - M
Much appreciated!! I really hope you can one day get totally pain free!
As for colour, I did want some matching grips but the Cute Thief couldn’t find anything that matched :(
Man, i remeber your older videos with black inspired arcade and golden rims! that was cool ! this 2024 hex is cool also! awesome looking bike!
That was over ten years ago, how time flies!
Easy trick for scribing lines: Mark with a sharpie first, then scratch a line. Better contrast! Also, for tubeless tape to conform to rim bed better, heat rim with a heat gun.
I need some blue layout ink 😋
As for the rim, I just find pulling the tape really tight lets it get the shape of the film really well 👍🏻
The Slit was in a Tipps / Hack video for testing different stem heights without reconnecting the brake :)
You know your videos ☺️
😍😍😍
Hope you made sure those DeathGrips were tapped on all the way or the DMR lads'll tell you off!
I didn’t at first but when I felt my bars were suddenly super wide I realised they were a tighter fit than usual haha
As others may have mentioned, you need to bash deathgrips on with a mallet, as they are tapered inside for extra security.
I realised this once I felt my bars had magically grown a lot wider 😂
We'll see just how cool it is once the next model comes and we count the videos it's been featured in.
More than one riding video I hope!
Looks stunning. Love a good bike build
You and me both!
Dominion A4 and A2 use the same pad
They don’t
Bad ass beautiful
Thank you
Congrats 🎊🎉🎈🍾
Thanks!
Great color! What do you think about A2 vs A4?
Definitely more bite, holding power is yet to be determined…possibly less but my rotors aren’t fully bed in yet
@@Ali_Clarkson So for rear on 20" trials bike better to choose A2? Thanks!
@@slavacapps I think you’ll be happy no matter which you got :)
Beautiful bike u got there Ali. Lets hope the neck holds up so we get to see it in action in upcoming vids.
Thanks very much 😊
What part were you waiting on to finally build this up @Ali_Clarkson?
Still keeping that a secret, I’m going to do a specific video on it instead
@@Ali_Clarksonyou tease!
Sweet bike 😊 some chrome silver parts would also look awesome:)
I've been eyeing up the hex for ages now, let's see whether I can resist or not 🫣
You can’t resist, there’s a Hex waiting for you right now, you can’t resist
There was indeed a hex waiting for me 😳 although two months later 🫣