Building My 2023 Inspired Hex Street Trials Bike! 

Thanks for watching and commenting 😊

You need some way to take up the slack in the chain…either horizontal dropouts you can slide the wheel back in or if you have a 12mm axle (like this has) you’d need some sort of sprung tensioner (or you can combine the two and have 12mm sliding dropouts but they’re usually more flexible than you’d like for trials). If you can picture my bike without a tensioner the chain would be really baggy and slap about making lots of noise and potentially even coming off the sprockets. My last bike didn’t have any tensioner though as my 22-18 gear ratio and 380mm chainstays is practically the perfect distance, it’s not perfect though as it can be too tight with a new chain and a worn one ends up being a bit baggy (especially when putting power down)…a tensioner is just a fail safe way of doing it

Hope you enjoy it Mel!

Yeah I can’t really think of many ways it could be improved, maybe mounts for 203mm rotors? It’s pretty dialed otherwise 🤘🏻

​@@Ali_Clarkson yeah makes sense, i don't really know of any trials riders that opt for smaller rotors.

Thank you :) bike cave had a nice update recently but I’m waiting for a couple more things to arrive before I make the next video on it 👍🏻

Slightly toned down the innuendos this time 😂 I hope it’s still entertaining though 😊

@@Ali_Clarkson lol Fitting the BB was absolutely hilarious

Thank you :)

It came out well didn’t it!

@@Ali_Clarkson beautiful

Just got the scratch n sniff 🤣

I don’t think so, I think the flow has a slightly slacker head angle and longer chainstays

Abuse?

@@Ali_Clarkson The vernier caliper, not the brake calipers haha

@@draggonheddahhh 😂 I didn’t think I’d done anything weird with the brakes haha

Yes but only in 2.1”

I don’t really like using alloy axle cranks after seeing Hope ones snap and DUB cranks rotate around theirs. They stopped making the GXP model so finding new ones is getting harder and harder. Shimano have always made decent cranks in my opinion but they had a fixed 4-bolt spider so you couldn’t get a nice low profile bash…now they have a removable spider and Inspired make a bash for them it’s a no brainier to use this combo

From memory I think it was around 9.2kg or there abouts

Smaller batch quantities so they can’t reduce the price by bulk ordering from the factory plus the components are generally much better…good brakes add a lot of money to a bike, so does a reliable rear hub

@@Ali_Clarkson but carbon frame vs aluminium and Canyon put alot of money into advertising. Just dont get it. Maybe Hex frameset alone not that expensive? I could not find any price for frameset

Body parts? They’re being used currently sorry

@@Ali_Clarkson haahhahahahahah

Can’t please everyone all the time, but fortunately you seem to be in the minority

Ive builk what I ride, built 4 so far cranks and BB are the main problem, Nothing strong enough as yet! But gearing is a problem. I want to commute and use it as a trials , park bike. There seems to be no compromise!

True but I’ve now put in 60 bolts (multiple bikes and a couple of wheels multiple times) and it doesn’t seem like stripping is likely if they’re started really slowly

Thank you 🎉

It depends on the yellow for me, I wasn’t so impressed when inspired first said yellow but when I saw this deeper matte version they did I was impressed

Any tyre can be tubeless, just some aren’t advertised as being tubeless “ready” (IE they don’t have sealed sidewalls). Adding sealant to a normal tyre will eventually seal the sidewalls but it just might take a little longer until it does and becomes fully air tight

Makes sense, thanks for your response. Yeah, I ended up getting them as well and run them in a tubeless setup and they are great for what I am doing.