Thank you, and agreed. Part Two I will be performing the fork / thru-axle upgrade, and running it with some sweet tubeless wheels. Could be interesting!
Sweet! I love the Poseidon value proposition. I think I've sold about a half dozen of them by now - happy owners now hooked on gravel and now dabbling in upgrades (ugh, those bars). 👏👍
It is nice to see Poseiden continues its history of giving good value for the money for those weekend warrior not looking for a bike that is as expensive as their car. The racing pack used to composed of mainly broke college students. Now it is older professional looking to re-live part of their youth. I am guilty of that one. : ) It is good to see there is still a choice for broke college students to participate.
Heck yea love this review. Although I’m a steel bike guy, I still appreciate GREATLY a company offering alternatives that don’t cost a down payment on a house. I want to get back into gravel and would like something like this although not exactly in line with my content 😂
My 5’2” wife has the same handlebars on her Redwood XS. She actually likes them, especially after putting on some in line cross levers (essentially using it as mostly a flat bar gravel bike). Still planning on swapping them for smaller ones eventually. Crazy too that the XS came with 170mm cranks. I put some 160mm Eason cranks on, replaced the wheel set with decent, inexpensive FSA gravel wheel set, tires with 48mm Gravelkings set up tubeless and that brick of a cassette with Microshift’s own with aluminum largest cogs. For about $1400 all in its quite a great bike, and I imagine the X would benefit from those modest upgrades too.
Thanks for writing in. The universal crank length is something that surprised me, just like the crazy wide handlebars. In Part Two, I will be showing the thru-axle kit upgrade, along with some interesting tubeless wheels fitted to the bike. Nice one on the cassette, the stock unit is definitely weighty!
Did I hear "Microsoft" at 9:13? Not bad for a beginner's bike. You can ipgrade down the road to a GRX group set and Farsport wheels and you're good to go.
38 x 11 is a pretty big gear, you could easily sustain those speeds. The trouble you will encounter, is the cassette gaps will be profoundly annoying on flat pavement. Good luck!
I have the original X that I ride on pavement. I am 64 and could stand to lose another 10 pounds, off me not the bike. I find myself putting a lot of miles in around a speed of 15-16 mph. On long rides I average around 14. I have very heavy tires on the original wheels. With slight modifications I think someone younger could maintain the speeds you mentioned. I assume the Ambition X may even be a shade faster.
Spot on, a sweet starter bike, with room to upgrade. I'll be covering the upgrade to thru-axle in Part Two, and show the bike with some sweet tubeless wheels.
I’m thinking about selling my 2021 trek dual sport 2 and going for this, anyone out there think this would be a good trade? I do mostly commuting around my city with some rough terrain on roads and gravel shortcuts from time to time. Dual sport is good, but heavy and not as fast as I would like. Any insight would be helpful.
Remember, the fork in this configuration is for quick release, and not thru-axle. You can however spec an upgrade for a thru-axle fork, I will be covering that in my follow up Part Two review. Good luck!
This is a review of Biblical proportions. Poseidon ruled over the storms and seas in ancient Greek mythology and your review of Poseidon caused the skies to open up with rain and lightning. Coincidence? You decide.
Glad you made this review of very simple bikes and affordable to the masses. Nothing wrong with a lower budget gravel bike
Amen to that!
Thank you, and agreed. Part Two I will be performing the fork / thru-axle upgrade, and running it with some sweet tubeless wheels. Could be interesting!
@@newoldsteel Is this bike ok on the road
Sweet! I love the Poseidon value proposition. I think I've sold about a half dozen of them by now - happy owners now hooked on gravel and now dabbling in upgrades (ugh, those bars). 👏👍
What's wrong with the bars?
Enjoyed the rain actually +the review
Thank you. I will say, it was fun recording as the rain and thunder happened.
It is nice to see Poseiden continues its history of giving good value for the money for those weekend warrior not looking for a bike that is as expensive as their car.
The racing pack used to composed of mainly broke college students. Now it is older professional looking to re-live part of their youth. I am guilty of that one. : ) It is good to see there is still a choice for broke college students to participate.
Heck yea love this review. Although I’m a steel bike guy, I still appreciate GREATLY a company offering alternatives that don’t cost a down payment on a house.
I want to get back into gravel and would like something like this although not exactly in line with my content 😂
I have plenty of old steel at my abode... and new steel, if you caught my latest Battaglin video :)
@@GravelCyclist I'll check it out now!
My 5’2” wife has the same handlebars on her Redwood XS. She actually likes them, especially after putting on some in line cross levers (essentially using it as mostly a flat bar gravel bike). Still planning on swapping them for smaller ones eventually. Crazy too that the XS came with 170mm cranks. I put some 160mm Eason cranks on, replaced the wheel set with decent, inexpensive FSA gravel wheel set, tires with 48mm Gravelkings set up tubeless and that brick of a cassette with Microshift’s own with aluminum largest cogs. For about $1400 all in its quite a great bike, and I imagine the X would benefit from those modest upgrades too.
Thanks for writing in. The universal crank length is something that surprised me, just like the crazy wide handlebars. In Part Two, I will be showing the thru-axle kit upgrade, along with some interesting tubeless wheels fitted to the bike. Nice one on the cassette, the stock unit is definitely weighty!
Did I hear "Microsoft" at 9:13?
Not bad for a beginner's bike. You can ipgrade down the road to a GRX group set and Farsport wheels and you're good to go.
Hahaha, oops on my part. Microsoft / Microshift, they're close enough :)
Can one reasonably sustain 17 - 21 mph on this bike on flat pavement? Seems like the stock top end gear ratio is 38/11.
38 x 11 is a pretty big gear, you could easily sustain those speeds. The trouble you will encounter, is the cassette gaps will be profoundly annoying on flat pavement. Good luck!
I have the original X that I ride on pavement. I am 64 and could stand to lose another 10 pounds, off me not the bike. I find myself putting a lot of miles in around a speed of 15-16 mph. On long rides I average around 14. I have very heavy tires on the original wheels. With slight modifications I think someone younger could maintain the speeds you mentioned. I assume the Ambition X may even be a shade faster.
Thanks for the video, what size frame is this and how tall are you?
Affordable for the the person interested in getting their first gravel or just not willing to spend extra $ and still have fun on and off the road.
Spot on, a sweet starter bike, with room to upgrade. I'll be covering the upgrade to thru-axle in Part Two, and show the bike with some sweet tubeless wheels.
I’m thinking about selling my 2021 trek dual sport 2 and going for this, anyone out there think this would be a good trade? I do mostly commuting around my city with some rough terrain on roads and gravel shortcuts from time to time. Dual sport is good, but heavy and not as fast as I would like. Any insight would be helpful.
What about the trek FX series ?
Hey mate, how’d you go shipping one of these into Oz??
Drop the Poseidon guys a line and see what they have to say.
not interested in the bike, but the fork!? im buying that for my build finally affordable carbon
Remember, the fork in this configuration is for quick release, and not thru-axle. You can however spec an upgrade for a thru-axle fork, I will be covering that in my follow up Part Two review. Good luck!
This is a review of Biblical proportions. Poseidon ruled over the storms and seas in ancient Greek mythology and your review of Poseidon caused the skies to open up with rain and lightning. Coincidence? You decide.
Possibly the best comment on any of my videos. 😀
More than 500 bucks is too much for that, nothing special.
Perhaps you can assemble a bike of this type, outlay your costs, and show Poseidon where they went wrong?
@@GravelCyclist cheap Chinese parts.