Fyi, CO2 is great out on the road but it's also extremely soluble and will leak out of the tyre much faster than air, like within a few days. When you get home it's worth emptying and reinflating the tyre with a track pump before riding again to ensure the pressure doesn't decrease without you noticing
I had the Magene heart rate monitor for six months and it failed. The customer service is non existent. They wanted me to send a video showing how I change the battery! I only have been racing/riding bikes for over 50 years! 4iii is far superior!
@@kristiaandoms2822 Surprised yours last that long...mine didn't even last 8 rides. I changed over to a Pioneer HRM and that has been working flawlessly the past few years.
Thats a truly ballsy move adding up your aliexpress purchases. I almost did it once but got about 20% into it and was already sweating profusely, so I gave up and deleted the money trail so my wife cant find it.
🥖I’d avoid aluminium screws, they corrode quite easily, you can actually buy nylon screws that are even lighter or if you have money titanium, as it’s somewhat less reactive and doesn’t rust. 😊
Titanium screws are useful to declare yourself a member of "Rich and dumb" racing team. Well, for bottle holder maybe. If one has disposable money. Not for anything serious, though.
@@event4216Ali Ti bolts are inexpensive. I paid around $80 to change every bolt in my gravel bike. And as I live next to the sea, they don't rust from the salt air.
You can rinse your bike fairly regularly instead, salt deposits cause such issues, simply rinse every so often with fresh water. You can also use stainless steel or weathering steel, two far cheaper options, in fact a box of stainless bolts will cost around £30 UK and will have bolts of varying sizes in quantities large enough for a village, you've paid for so little benefit, and a screw, is replaceable, you could swap the screws 15 times over, still have saved money and you'd probably need a new bike by the time you deplete your stock.
hey, Luke! first of all, congratulations on dropping your regular job and dedicating yourself entirely to this fun and useful channel! I was browsing aliexpress searching for good quality aluminium mountain bike frames but nothing really convinced me. If you ever have the time to make a video recommending something, or even building a bike like that, I would really enjoy it! 🥖🥖🥖🥖
I would like to recommend some cheap mountain bike brands that had their frames made in taiwan which are da bomb, kens, and kinesis and it's quite known to be reliable back here in the Philippines.
I've had both Magene Cadence sensor and heart rate monitor and they both packed up within a month, my wife also had a cadence sensor for her turbo bike and that packed up within weeks. Yes and I did check the batteries and contacts.
Another excellent video. And thank you for taking the time to add 'Time stamps' to your videos. Makes a Heck of a difference when just looking for specific parts.
With the aluminium screws you have to be extremely careful. Alu is very soft, so it's super easy to strip the screws which makes it very hard to remove them. Make sure you only torque to spec with them and don't take off your bottle cages every other ride.
If one owns a carbon bike, they "should" already own a torque wrench. And bottle cage screws don't need to be too tight anyway, and one can use Loctite.
I absolutely agree about the Magene heart (and cadence) monitor. I’ve used it for more than a year now: 100% reliable, always connects, and stays connected, to my computer as soon as I turn it on and never looses a data sample.
Two game changers for my riding and training have been the HRM in conjunction with power meters. Both allow me to monitor my performance so I can extend my endurance, rather than blow myself up during rides.
The Think Rider heart rate monitors are also great. Stephen Siler (OG researcher of Zone 2 training) indicates that heart rate is the best way to make sure you are training in the correct zone. The same power at the start of a hard ride will be in a lower power than the same power at the end of a hard ride. For example: 145 watts at hour 1 might be zone 2, but the same power 2 hours later will be zone 3 or 4.
ACKCHYUALLY Hot swappable refers to the ability to replace or change a component without powering off the device; if you need to power it off, it's not hot swappable (sorry for being that guy)
Paul, I appreicate the callout!!! The comment section always keeps me on my toes! Please accept these official Trace Velo Baguettes as a token of my appreication 🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖
I am tempted to use aluminum bolts since I wanna replace a spare frame's rivnuts to aluminum, altogether to remove any chances of galvanic corrosion. by the way, can you possibly recommend any aliexpresss sub-170mm cranksets (150-160mm) for us shorter people to check out? great vid as always ❤❤
9:20 I'm recycling old laptops and they are powered by 18650 cells. Usually there 6 cells in one laptop battery. If it's a smaller netbook it can have 4 cell battery. If you are getting rid of the old laptop ALWAYS (I repeat!) always keep 18650. When laptop battery dies it's usually only two cells that are done. Other 4 cells are good to go and can be used in may applications, like flash lights, powerbanks that allowed many Ukrainians to stay cellphone connected during the power grid attacks; or replace some dead cells in the power tools or get a battery powered air compressor for you SUB board, etc. Laptops' 18650 are often Samsung made and they are very good quality.
I carry 3 kinds of inflation devices, CO2 with 1 cartridge, Mini Topeak Pump (awesome) and a Fumpa Nano. You should mention that after you use a CO2 pump to deflaten and than inflate the tire with a normal pump when back home, the CO2 air goes away much faster. I know because I had it happen not long ago that I had a flat and used a CO2 pump after putting in a new innertube, 3 days later I wanted to start a new ride the tire was flat again, pumped it up again with a normal pump, air stayed in as it should. Found this on why that is: "You all know that CO2 leaks out of a butyl tire tube faster than air, right? This is why after replacing a flat on the road and inflating with CO2, if you don’t bleed the CO2 and re-inflate with air, your tire goes soft overnight. Apparently: “The permeability of a gas through rubber depends mainly on its diffusivity and solubility in rubber. CO2 has a significantly higher solubility in rubber than O2 and N2, whereas the diffusion coefficients differ not that much. The result is that carbon dioxide passes ordinary rubber about 5 times faster than oxygen and about 15 times faster than nitrogen"
Excellent vid Luke (great to see your subs increasing too!), immediately rushed to purchase the CO2 pump (after a recent unfortunate unintentional discharge incident with my current version - the less said about that the better! 😬) - sadly doesn't ship to the UK though
@@TraceVelo I mean, if 6.3k Euro was the overhead of what has become your now full time job, is that really a high investment? I don't want to tell you what my student loans in the US are...
@@ИванЛебедь-я2ф - I was thinking more about the cartridges than the C02, which mostly goes into the tires. Are the cartridges re-usable, recycled, discarded, etc.?
That Towild light is a gem. Grateful for the recommendation. PS I will put in a 3500mah Samusung 35e 18650 (or other branded equivalent) for run time. 🥖🥖🥖
I've got Towild BR800 light and I am quite happy with it. But, as you suspected, the Garmin mount broke. I am still using it, but with another rubber bracket-like mount.
The biggest benefit of cycplus airpump is we can bring it on airplanes, in case we bring our bike for travel. CO2 cartridges most of the time can not pass airport inspection, whatever your arguments there (my friend even show the regulation pages).
Match the cage bolts and callipers to the cable ferrules as well. You can get coloured ones. The ferrules might be a bit heavy though, I’m not sure if you use them when chasing ultimate lightness 🥖
I've had the same Motorola one for probably over a decade now. Came with a Motorola watch that still works, although I've switched to Garmin eons ago. My Garmin HRM strap is a POS.
Luke, you could cut some threads off those waterbottle cage bolts (with a hacksaw) and save yourself at least 2 more grams! I noticed that your older bolts were shorter than the new green aluminum ones.
It'll be the lattice on the saddle that's 3D printed what you think is Rubber! Just with a designers and printer myself its the top lightweight lattice we tend to print if doing one for testing just for ourselves might even be a TPU filament
One thing to keep in mind is that most latex based tubeless sealants are NOT CO2 compatible and will require the use of a hand pump to inflate if the reason for the flat is a puncture.
The Garmin Mount on your 2wild light can be easily fixed. There are both plastic and aluminum replacement garmin mounts online, they just glue on when you break the tabs on the original.
If the Garmin-mount on the light would brake, there are thick plastic stickers with Garmin-mounts available. The are made to put them on the back of smartphones. So in that case you could cut the rest of the broken mount with a Dremel or a saw and then put a sticker on. Additional you can secure it with zip ties. At least thats what i would do to not have to throw the light away. 😉
I love CO2 for filling a tire, and it's great for finishing the ride, though I do find my tire is a bit soft the next day. I think this has something to do with temperature, but I don't science good.
Co2 is smaller than nitrogen so it leaks out through the tube
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About the magene heart rate monitor. Mine lasted almost 2 years working well, then it started to report random numbers so I had to replace it with XOSS X2 PRO, a little bit more expensive but more relaiable, it even has a memory and stores the data, I'd rather go for XOSS X2 PRO, it's sealed and it has a litium battery.
So do you need a garmin or another trip comp, or can you link the heart rate monitor to a samsung and go through strava or something like that instead?
Does compressed air containers exist like those co2 cartridges? My idea would be you could fill up the compressed air ones yourself or in an scuba shop and store them just in case. Less wastful and less problems with the tubeless milk. Or is co2 just better at that job overall?
Just be careful with the co2 on a tubeless tyre.. Unless your tyre sealant specifically notes that it's compatible with co2, it can cause the sealant to curdle inside the tyre. Best case scenario is it will still seal but because there isn't a small amount of oxygen inside the tyre, the puncture won't cure to the same depth as it usually would.
Woo hoo! Just ordered the Zeius 3D printed saddle through your affiliate link. Can't wait to see how this works out. Love your channel. Keep up the great work!
Arrived in only 8 days! My scales weigh it at 166g. Nicely packaged, looks great. Now to find out if it suits my phatazz and how durable it proves to be. One thing to note (I can't recall if it's mentioned in the video): the seat rails aren't round. They're kind of oval. Depending on your seat post, this may or may not be an issue.
😂😂The funnies😅😅😅🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖 Love the little gauge at the bottom right and I'm loving the pump at the end. Definitely want that rather than a pump which I seem to continuously forget on rides of late. Filming angles look very good👌🏾👌🏾
Those bottle cage screws are light and look nice, but unfortunately are prone to crack. Used them on my mtb, but had to switch to standard ones after they collapsed.
Ahh interesting, I've been running them the last few months on my bike with no issues, but then again, i'm not exactly bombing down a black diamond trail 😅
@@TraceVelo@TraceVelo I've been using them for about half a year or even more, without issues. But on a city cobblestone section (sic!) one of the bolts cracked. The other one is still in the cage, I was too lazy to replace it. No issues so far. So mixed feelings.
turning the pump into a mini air compressor would be super useful to remove rubber mountain bike grips just inject the air in-between the grip and the handlebar
Nice vid, thank you for the information. I would just like to add that those aluminium screws also can eliminate the corrotion problem if you ride aluminium frame and live close to the sea like me. I am definitely going to hunt down a whole box of those, hopefully at a lower price per screw...
I've had 2 Towild BR800 lights for ~1.5 years now. They've been great. Run time isn't the longest, but I keep spare 18650 batteries with me if I'm planning a longer night ride. I've got a ton of spare 18650s, but for those who dont, they can be had fairly cheep from online retailers.
One bike is using the included plastic/rubber mount and the other a 3rd party bracket that attaches to the handlebar clamp bolts. The included rubber one is OK. No real complaints and it typically stays in place on semi bumpy paved trails. Might struggle a bit with gravel/mtb unless you get it really snug.
The light I can easily print a spare garmin mount if it ever broke you could bond it on or use one them rubber frame straps but that's what I'd do if got it snip the mount off and 3D print a normal bar clamp
That 3d printed saddle looks to be, shall we say, very heavily inspired by the Pro Stealth. Which is the saddle I use, if this is the case I'd be very interested in trying this one out 🥖🥐🥖🥐🥖
They're all over AliExpress these days. I suspect a couple of factories make the honeycomb structure and various factories are gluing that on top of saddles. Either carbon or heavier options.
Can't believe you are using a heart rate monitor only since a few months ! I use similar belts, with CR2032 battery, but I was consuming the battery very fast to the point of sometimes the battery dying during a ride. This plus the slight oppressing feeling of the belt around your chest made me jump to a polar sensor which I put around my arm and that charges with USB, and last very long. No more discomfort and I am sure to get my heart rate data all along my ride now. Still having a CR2032 in my frequency sensor (on the pedal) but this one lasts months. And I don't mind if I don't have data on one ride when it dies.
1:04 + 2:41 depends on your tyres and tubes how many wheels you can fill with one cartridge, but there’s different sizes mind you. No need to carry two of them. Also, can be refilled, although I’ve seen that service only in Poland, by a bakery.
