Dude, I love your channel! I'm a 100% MTB guy that knows nothing about your weird road bikes and I stumbled across your channel a week or so ago and have been binge watching every episode since. Easily one of the best channels on You Tube!
Not a weight weenie, but enjoy watching someone pursuing their passion with such good humor, intensity and $$$. Enjoy the videos and appreciate the production quality.
Love it. Going light just for the fun of it. I'm doing that to my older rim brake S-Works road bike now. It was a particularly light aluminum frame that year. Anodized instead of painted too. Extra light.
Tremendous. I hope you just keep on making these. Such high quality video, humour and content. I don't know what you do for a living but bike companies should be queuing up to hire you.
I recently bought some seat clamps ears things from trek as well, to mount my first carbon rail saddle. When I went to the shop I looked at the ears and they also had some different sizes! But when I told the bike shop guy, he told me that it is on purpose, apparently so you can slide the saddle in easier while mounting, and it does look good when mounted on the bike!
Every new ROJ video is like a fine wine, wonderful when new ones become available and they are to be savoured and enjoyed. I really look forward to each video. Quality and humour is great.
Man this is why I dont mind not getting lots of videos from you. They are all soo well done, the recording, the editing, everything. I'm pretty sure its takes a lot of time to do that. Kudos for all your vids 👍🏾
So, so nice the look of that stem on those handlebars. And I do really appreciate you’re one of the few not so overly sponsored advertising RU-vid icons :-) Keep up the great work man.
Thanks for the high quality content and I feel your “returns” pain. Ordered a Garmin Pro Vibe stem mount from Australia to the UK and they sent the incorrect short version so I ordered it again at full price, financially it hurt but looks great. The Trek looks amazing especially the colour.👏👏👏👏
It’s a really nice bike, well done getting it down to that weight and nicely built up too. This has been my Dilemma with disc brake bikes, it’s so hard to get them down to this weight, in the end I went with a rim brake Bianchi Specialissima as I only weigh 53 kilos so rim brakes stop me no problem, it built up to 6.1 kilos without having to try too hard, just standard Sram red Etap 2x set up, Campagnolo Bora wheels, and that weight includes the pedals, power meter, Garmin mounts and bottle cages, now if I had spent £1100 on THM Carbon brake callipers it would be under 6 🤔, tune qr skewers would take another 50g off 🙈, Lightweight wheels another 200g off, oh this is going to cost me 🤪 Please keep up the good work with great quality videos.
Well really good job done on the whole bike setup, top components, well thought everything.... *JUST* one thing on the bike that i have to point out. The headset solution is outrageous on such a bike, there must be a solution for another cable guidance piece under the stem, maybe you could get one from someone who 3D prints one following exact mesurements but changing the shape. The top edge should be straight and not curved like the original. Anyways, always top quality videos from you and great guidance about how to upgrade bikes with well thought ideas, keep on rocking man!
Bike24 says .36 grams per mm of carbon spacer. The new stem's clearance issue added 1.46g in spacers. Phew, I was worried for you, but still a net savings of 8.94g with the new stem and spacers. Bravo! Love the build and your work!
Love it, especially the closing scene 😀 One contented rider..................................................................................................................................................for now!
And here I am trying to shed off some weight from my rigid Easton Whiskey Pete(Cykel City brand) with xt disc brakes. Think I will go back to my crossmax for v-brakes as disc brakes are so much heavier and not really that much better than ceramic coated rims and v-brakes. Your vids always tease the weight weenie I so desperatly want to hide for my own good.
The tune bottle cages come with a rubber type part that is scewed on the inside to prevent the both to do exactly how you showed. I got for both my bottle cages one so might be that you need to order from Europe if you need the rubber part. I really dig these tune ones they look soo cool. Thanks for the recommendations.
I also bought the J&L trek size thru axels for my 2020 Crockett. The hole won’t retain the handle, but I didn’t like the handle anyway, you know being extra weight 😆. I’m sticking with my Kalloy stem and band garmin mount haha, not for 10g.
Another saving point are the brake pads. Get rid of the L03A/L04A pads with the huge cooling fins (which are questionable in their function) and replace them with K03S pads.
@@ridesofjapan it’s a cheap experiment, and it doesn’t impact braking performance for the vast majority of the riders. The fins are only worth it if you’re a notorious “brake dragger” on very long and sustained descends and weigh a lot as a person. For all other riders the non-fin pads are more than adequate. And at 10€/set they are cheaper than the finned ones (at 25€/set).
Excellent work - please never change! “I’m done with expensive parts”, I immediately thought yeah right 😂🙈 What’s the blue jacket you’re wearing btw, looks really good?
Did you remove the shims behind your brake discs? If I remember correctly you installed them on those wheels, and I guess you won’t be using them on the Open anymore, right? Thanks for all the quality entertainment and information.
Great vid. as usual. Wondering if you ever tried Darimo products from Spain (seat post, stem, handlebars), ....probably the lightest components to find out there. Might be worth having also a look at the carbon spring Gelu F1 seatpost? Keep it up. Always a blast to watch your channel.
I really wish the frame manufacturers will just spec the direct mount hangers for Shimano as standard. The b link looks crap and surely affects shifting.
Hard to do when it's only Shimano using it... and if we look at the latest XTR, then actually did not use the B-link design, so will be interesting to see what they do with the new DA and ultegra this year.
You can take a peak at the build video which is long as hell, but there’s a simplified build list in the description ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PnL_T14mxn8.html
Given the amount of effort that went into making that part, and the effort they put into printing the lovely gold print on the box, it seems kinda criminal that the cardboard it's packaged in looks like it was found on the floor, then cut out with kids safety scissors..
The Schmolke has a better logo. If they are identical, who is making them? Does 3T own both THM and Schmolke? Absolutely love your videos, superb production, chilled out presentation and pure bike porn.
Cloth handlebar tape off ebay will say you some grams. It's cheap but there is no padding at all . I prefer it that way though as like to feel the bar.
Is it only me who noticed that handlebar is not symmetrically positioned? BTW. I am waiting every week for your videos. Maybe something next when you are filming more riding stuff?
The cost of going lighter is insane. Apart from the video content - are you seeing a huge difference with each huge spend? LOL @ the butter knife comment on the box. Madness!
@@ridesofjapan thanks I ride with the stock campy ones for my shamal ultras that are on the -5% side(small weight weenie victory) lol. 1413g with the freehub installed. Love the new bike and all the content. ✅
I personally don't know why people struggle to get bike sub 6.3, even my cervelo R3 with powermeter got 6.25, and still have R8050 parts on it. But anyway, it's a joy watching ur video, thanks.
