You've been making me smile and passioned with the cycling life and keeping me "grounded" now, while war in my country. Boundlessly thankful for your job 🙏
I love your videos, but not this title. As someone with family with OCD, it's a destructive condition that goes WAY beyond the whole quirky "I like to keep things tidy" schtick...
Ok ok so your bike is perfectly symmetric, but are YOU symmetric?!! Is the next level to measure your body length differences and offset for them in the setup? Idk man, seems like the only logical next step.
This is me!!! Nearly crashing because something looks 0.0002 deg out of angle😂 Did someone ever alingend their disc brakes calipers 20x times even they where fine?
Dude, I've been with you since the early days, one of your OG followers. Such great content my man, don't change a thing. Thanks for the tip on the laser "lever". 🤣 Looking forward to the next one!
That's great ! I never considered a laser and always thought someone should invent a simple tool to set the saddle, as often I've had it off-center just a bit.
I love your videos RoJ, I always look forward to that notification and admiring your rides, bike builds and Japan, but as a contamination OCD sufferer, I don't agree with the casual use of the term in place of perfectionism. But I do admire your attention to detail and high quality of workmanship. Peace ✌️
Watching your videos makes me miss my time in Japan. I also used to bike around Fuji City in Shizuoka. It was a time when youtube is not yet around and we are still developing the 1st digital camera with Casio.
if only bike computer monitor our braking activity that it reflects on ur strava that can sync with ur videos so that at every descend we know which brake and when did you use it as u turn engage the twisty road.
I believe me and you are twins😃😁😂. Nothing bothers me more, than a stem that is off by 1.5mm. Even though I don't use laser at this I most likely will after watching ur vid. BTW, you can be a comedian man, for real with all due respect 👍👍👍
Those jigs look cool much more accurate than my level technique. What a stupid idea of that motorcycle driver to basically park in the middle of the road.
My hands got super sweaty watching you ride down. With on coming traffic!!!! OCD is a close friend of mine as well. I try not to fight it, and just go with the flow. Excellent video my friend! Stay safe.
Thank you, I now have a nice laser. Spend a large part of my day lasering my bike and in the end… changed nothing. The laser confirmed my ocd measuring and remeasuring my bike over the years. Life is good, head is empty and lines are on point and straight. I guess this is how you feel after a weekend at the spa.
I love these gadgets but my budget doesn’t allow :( By the way how fast on the decent ? 👍 My OCD obsession is bike grease, bar tape and tools I don’t really need 😊
I have watched your video with my wife and I said that I need this tool for the shifters setup. She rolled with her eyes. I think this is her way of saying “yes” 😬
busted! 😆🙈 so happy it's not only me! 😅 looks like I better start coding my next 3d printed bike tool 🤓 thanks for the Inspiration! your vids are brilliant! greetings from Germany
LMFAO! Be it the alignment of my saddle/stem/shifter or the uniformity of my coffee grounds, if it’s off, my body/mind will realize. It’s all about the balance of my universe. Glad to hear someone else has the same, totally healthy, obsession.
I'm actually surprised that you didn't start out with two of these shifters jigs, and use them at the same time for that extra O C D effect haha ;) - Great content as always, thanks!
Sunshine is coming out over there it looks like. Important to also mark your measurements in case anything slips post set up. So many people dont mark stuff up and dont notice when it slips down etc.
Hey mate, loving all the content, thanks for all the recommendations and info, especially for someone like me starting to get right into road cycling. Just wondering about the grates in the roads in Japan, they're obviously not big enough to cause any grief riding over them??
Nope, no problems just don’t brake on them ;) Ps. you definitely don’t need any of the items in this video, epically if you’re just staring out. Have fun!
these tools make perfect sense to me ;-) bonus video was great although the traffic was alarming on a few occasions especially with the slight camera distortion
God bless you my brother in spirit. This is pretty much how I feel about my bike setting. Thank you for putting my feeling Into words so clearly. I hope they cure my OCD as well 👍🙏
I use a laser for my alignment purposes. Very effective. Also want to comment on your descending ability, very nice! You should get a motorcycle to get that sensation regardless of incline. I think you would be a great rider!
Great to see someone else who is as meticulous and geeky as I am! I used a laser to set up my new bike by making the bike level and putting the cross in the centre of the bottom bracket, and comparing the handlebar reach and stack height with my old bike
Hello, Je viens de tomber... Mon dérailleur est passé en mode "crash" et votre vidéo m'a permis de repartir normalement en 10 secondes au lieu de partir faire réparer mon vélo... MERCI !!!!!!!!!!!!!
For at least i know im not alone feeling those saddle is out of line or brifter misalligned even how perfect ive adjusted it. And that laser measure is what i need to find now. Thank you👍🏾👍🏾.
I agree with having your seat and bars as close to perfectly straight as possible, but I'm glad the positioning of my shifters doesn't keep me up at night 😅
