Gadgetory

we are between review cycles right now X $2.99 and KB latex and skylake X just launched those that came out immediately when we got back from Taiwan Taipei for copy text so we were in Taipei for two weeks covering comp attacks and other various things in the area I had some unfinished business here at Bryce bike park where just before we left for Taipei I had for the first time ever actually placed someone reasonably in time trials on one of the courses here so I was in third I really wanted first there was two two seconds off of the fastest run for this year so far not the fastest overall but close enough for me so I'm back here I'm also going to be doing a trail called brew bomb and mixture of brewed through and car bomb and a trail called pickleback which has a bunch of really cool wooden features like a corkscrew lots of drops lots of there's a step up that's really cool dirt step up there's a big table at the bottom and a small booter and a wall ride so we're going to go through all that today just there's just a blog basically the plan here is to do a decompression blog following sky like ax and KB like ax which was basically a week of non-stop work because we had to get those up right after the trip to Computex so enjoy it's a bit different from what we normally do but gives you a bit of an insight to the other side of some of the stuff that I work on ready yeah trying to have it your are you thing rocks now now I'm good everyone it's day 2 of 2 I'm in the hotel about to head out to go Visine I've got about seven hours of riding ahead of me and then five hours of driving at the end of the day I wanted to walk you through the bike setup in the gear setup so this is a Canfield balance it's a 2014 frame I built the bike myself about two years ago I want to say and it rides just about everything so I take this to local trail to end the downhill trails I have a fox float 36 mill with 160 travel so if you don't know bikes basically the 36 is the stanchion diameter so 36 millimeters instead of 34 and then travels 160 that's right there's that whole orange bar compress it into the lowers these are called the lowers so you get to mind a bit of advice today so stanchions compress into the lowers that helps absorb a lot of the impact from jumps and drops this red knob is the rebound adjustment so I don't know the exact setting I have it on it's a little bit past halfway for a faster rebound so I set this up to rebound a bit faster because once you can control the bike a faster rebound means it's getting the stanchions out of the lower just quicker for the wheels and tires I'm still running 26 inch these are I think 2.35 wide the others are 2.4 and I've got Maxis minions for each you can actually see see these black dots here that's because these are tube lists so that's the no tubes fluid inside fill in any potential holes in the tire the disc brake on the other side that's a 200 millimeter rotor with the Shimano st. brakes that I just put on this year those are four piston I think they're quad 'pizza maybe try piston but they're they're either three or four piston brakes and you're interested in the pc market you'll recognize this this is a heatsink so there's actually aluminum fins and the idea of it I actually want to test it one day but the idea is that as you ride the air going through there should cool off the brake pads because as they heat up you get brake fade which basically means that your brakes don't work as well for the shot this is a non stock one this is an aftermarket Fox float X I put this on because I exploded my shock that came with it which was a king creek DVR CS that I just had rebuilt but the Fox belowdecks is a 2 this one is a 200 bill travel float and that's about 8 inches or so of travel the front as a 160 is what is that six six seven inches of travel so this one's set up right now to be a little bit softer because they can't feel balanced this frame is really uh it does not progress too well through the travel in my experience so petals I have the race based Atlas pedals I bought a couple years ago these have lasted me a really long time you can see the scuff marks on from where they've bashed into things but these have travelled the world with me to different conventions where I try to go bike after and they're still in great shape so those are nice I have a Z derailleur if you are not familiar with these this is the part that handles the shifting so this cage is a small short cage derailleur this cage moves when you pull that shift cable which actually is really afraid I just notice I need to plenty to get that replaced today you shift this will pull or push enter out on the cassette this is called the cassette and then the chain moves according to the movement of the derailleur I have no front derailleur I'm running a 1 by 10 and so the there's just one chain ring on the front and it's a narrow wide which means that the teeth go wide narrow narrow narrow wide and that helps keep the chain from falling off because it's got no front derailleur on it for the rear brake I have a 180 ml disc and also the Shimano sense with also the heat sinking stuff on there I don't really know how well weird you kind of want to take like I don't know an IR camera to it or something calibrate it and test but that's what I'm running for the bike for the cockpit I have a diety saddle this is a Pender saddle so the nose comes out of it you really don't sit on the bike when you're doing downhill you're pretty much hovered all the time over the back wheel like right here is where you're kind of hovering in the air and the idea is you keep the seat low see it's pretty low here so that there's a lot of room for air time for jumps drops things so that the saddle goes between your legs rather than up against your butt because if it goes up it'll push you and push you forward and off the bike and you'll end oh so that was the bike here's the gear I some of the stuff you don't want you need like these elbow and forearm guards won't do a whole lot for you I mean if you're going to crash and break something you're going to break something and these all they do is stop the scratches so I wear them anyway right now but they probably are the least effective out of all the stuff I wear the helmet and the knee pads are among the most effective knee pads unlike these your knees are only going to be damaged from just like a hard impact not from a twist so these soften that blow a lot you can land and slide on your knees with these and won't be hurt the helmet obviously for a lot of reasons is something you really want so I bought this one due a year ago for last season okay so that's it for the walkthrough let's go ride one more day that's it for the vlog being a full week of testing coming up as always system and background running tests already for the week you're wondering why the camera is scattering light the way it is it's because the lens covered cracks after that one crash which wasn't a big deal by the way I had cleared the ramps people the drop before it for the first time and came into it a little too hot but yeah so that's easily replaceable twenty bucks but I apologize for the image that's all for this one stay tuned for computer related content not bike related content or you can go to GNC the channel I'll link it below where I will upload at least one or two full course runs from last trip and then going forward most of the biking things will be on that channel so subscribe to GNC for that they were watching and I'll see you all next time you