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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and obviously this video is a little bit different than what you guys are used to so if you guys were looking for some PC tech or something you might want to go ahead and skip this one but if you're curious about how I've been getting into shape and by popular demand people are the one to know more about my bike then go ahead and stick around I won't judge you or get mad either way but that's what I do hope you stay gigabites flex display technology automatically detects and connects up to four displays for the best gaming experience and multi display ultra HD click the link in the description to find out more so over the last three months you guys have been very cognizant over the fact that there has been a slimming of the J and in fact we are going to continue that trend but so far in the last three months I have lost over 40 pounds because of well this is part of it not all of it but this is part of it I had no intentions of doing any sort of a bike video on this channel but once again I was reminded of the fact that this is Jay's 2 cents and not J's 2 computers or J's 2 tech it's about anything I want to talk about and I do think that there is a lot of Technology in what you're seeing right here now by popular demand people have asked me to please do a video about your bike so that's what we're gonna do here today now obviously we're outside it's a little bit of wind you might hear some squeaking from that guy's attic vent over there there's a guy using a power washer so if you guys hear a lot of outdoor noises it should be blatantly obvious why that is now what I have here is become one of my absolute passions and this little piece of technology in front of me has literally changed my life for the better over just a three-month period so I figured if I do a video on this maybe it'll help some of you out which is ultimately the goal of this channel now one other thing I want to say before we get into this video is a lot of you watching may be avid cyclists yourself very experienced cyclists and some things that I say and show in this video might actually make you cringe now this is my trick domani before you guys go and start googling this thing to see how expensive it is just know it is not cheap but you should also be aware of the fact that this could get much more expensive as well in fact the trek Domane 4.5 you're looking at right here is kind of a mid-level carbon frame bike it could be much more expensive upwards of $10,000 this one comes in right around 26 to 28 hundred dollars depending on where you buy it it does have a full carbon frame it also has carbon fork on the front which is aluminum reinforced and of course aluminum reinforced rear on there in terms of the group set it is a Shimano all tegra group set and it does have Shimano 105 brakes now that's kind of one of the things you sacrifice a little bit when you go with more of a lower-end domani it has a lower end domani considering this series goes all the way up to the seventh series I am in the fourth series but if you stepped it up to something like a domani 5.1 then you get the Shimano all tegra group set with the Altera brakes as well but the brakes on this thing are absolutely fantastic it can stop a guy like me which currently weighs 265 pounds with no problem even going downhill with minimal braking force now some of the supporting gear that's on here which again came with the bike is we do have Bontrager FSA handlebars on here and a Bontrager wheel set along with the Bontrager GL seat now the seat is not as forgiving for a big guy like me so it's very important that I wear cycling shorts to get as much padding on there as possible but this bike and its carbon frame weighs only 18 pounds this thing is extremely light in fact it's very noticeable how much heavier it is when I put my two bottles on here as well as having my tool set in the back which has two tubes 216 grams co2 cartridges a co2 cartridge threaded adapter for filling as well as a patch kit and the tool kit it can get pretty damn expensive and I think I just hit my head on a branch now one of the things that are going to make people cringe when they see this right off the bat is the fact that I am obviously using platform pedals and I get this all the freaking time Jay why aren't you using clipless pedals actually what people are saying is Jay why aren't you using clip pedals I want to set something straight real quick the pedals at which your feet walk into using a cleat are not clipping pedals when someone says to me Jay why aren't you using clips that tells me you yourself are not necessarily an avid cyclist because you would know that the pedals that you clip into are not actually called clip ins they're called clipless clips are actually referred to as toe clips which are like a on the front where your foot slides into and you tighten it down those are actually kind of dangerous so clipless pedals are the ones where your shoe actually has a cleat that clips into the pedal I know right your foot clips into it and it's called a clipless really the reason why I'm not using those yet is it all comes down to confidence whereas I've already put about 300 miles on this bike and I've done about a thousand miles total so far including my Cannondale quick v which is a hybrid bike that I started on I'm still not confident in being quick enough to be able to clip in and unclip if the event calls it out to put my foot down quickly and I being 265 pounds a fall off this bike could do some damage to my shoulder my hip break a shoulder blade or break a collarbone I'm not entirely looking forward to that so I'm waiting till I lose a little bit more weight and get a little bit more confident in the saddle before I start moving to clipless pedals but rest assured I do feel that I'm being held back and would definitely like to do that here in the near future now I do of course have a GoPro mount on here and I've got some GoPro footage here I like to use GoPro time lapses and things on some of my rides but I don't do it all the time in fact a lot of people have asked me Jay why don't you do GoPro time-lapse videos the vlog channel which I had Jays says actually has quite a bit of footage over there as well some of the weight loss stuff that's been happening on the bike you guys can head on over there to check it out but I've showed some footage here of what's actually one of my fastest rides including a Strava metal ride where I took first place in a Strava segment so you guys can see some of that but I have taken this bike up to 47 miles per hour with a little bit of downhill help not a lot but a little bit of downhill help and the bike is very very stable now the domani line is actually not considered a speed bike it's not considered a race bike this is considered an endurance bike and what that means is it's gonna have a lot of things about it that are more tailored towards comfort than all-out speed now it is a little bit of a narrow wheel set especially considering our wheel span considering the hybrid that I've been riding felt very long so I do feel like I'm much more over the front handlebars which is good because you get in a nice low position I do love moving from flat bar to road bar because I've got lots of differ options of where I can put my hands and if you've ever gone on long rides anything over let's say 10 15 30 50 miles then you'll know if you can't move your hands around they start to get numb they've all the vibration and it really really sucks so these handlebars are extremely comfortable the grip tape I have on here has a lot of cushion to them and I like being able to have that versatile versatility of moving my hands around now shifting on this bike is very very crisp in fact moving from the high gear to the low gear is very quick and it's one of the things I love about the Altera group set in fact when I bought this bike the dealer I bought it from told me you know what you don't want to scrimp on your group set so we went ahead and with all tegra over the 105 but shifting on this thing has been an absolute dream now the wheels are very narrow they are not treaded at all there's no tread in fact they're slick I have had about four flats so far one in the front three in the rear and that's because when you have a lightweight tire like this with no light tire liners and a nice smooth almost feels like a fabric but it's kind of a roughed up rubber it's got amazing grip unfortunately in water it can be very very slick fortunately I live in a very dry area but it's also very thin which means punctures on this thing are a bit of a bitch so always have spare tubes and tools with you I've never once been stranded on the side of the road because I've always been prepared for that now we're gonna get into the part where I talk about some of my personal experiences here on the bike I've seen a lot of tweets and a lot of Facebook messages and comments of people saying Jay that's nice and all but you know I'm just too big to start riding a bike and they tell me that they're like 250 pounds 280 pounds 300 pounds guys when I started writing not this bike but when I started writing on January 26 which was the day I bought my hybrid I weighed 309 pounds so I was able to ride without any problems the bike was able to handle the weight without any problems in fact the dealers were like 309 pounds isn't big they have 400 500 pounds guy a guy is coming in looking for bikes so that's not the problem the only thing you need to be aware of is the longer that you ride the bike especially the heavier that you are you're going to break down certain aspects of the bike your cables are gonna stretch as you're shifting cuz the bike has a lot of torque on it you're gonna put a lot of stress on your chain mostly you're gonna end up probably going through spokes before anything else I did break a spoke on my hybrid once and I was constantly putting my spokes out of tension what that means is going over bumps and things even though I would use my my knees and my elbows as there's a good gift for you even though is using my knees and my elbows as suspension it was still a big guy on a heavy bike putting a lot of tension on the spokes so they were constantly getting out of adjustment that's we're moving to a bike like this even though I'm still a heavier gentleman really came in handy because of the fact that I was able to really move into a higher-end wheel set and the reason why I got this bike was I was getting to the point to where I needed to upgrade my wheels so I wasn't constantly breaking them but that was gonna cost me five six hundred bucks to get a good wheel set on a bike that I knew I was outgrowing so we just went ahead and made the move to this but when it comes to mileage miles on this in fact I did 32 miles with coconut monkey prior to this video so this bike right now is still a bit dirty from that ride chains a little bit dirty you know start out slow I mean I start my first ride was twelve miles and just about killed me I had inner thigh cramps I wasn't prepared for it but you push and you push and you push and you continue to train now 50 mile rides or I mean I do them on Saturdays for the heck of it today we did a 32 mile ride just for the heck of it I'm gonna be doing my first grand fondo which is a hundred kilometer 62 mile ride this week and I'm working up towards a century ride which is 100 miles it's a great feeling I feel very free on the bike it's definitely changed my life I mean it's not like cycling in the gym it really is just freedom you're out in the Sun I've got the you know tan lines to prove that you know I've been out on this bike constantly and it really is just a feeling unlike any other I mean I look forward to hopping on this bike just as much if not more than hopping on skunkworks and doing cool benchmarking and games and stuff now it's easier to do long rides like that too especially on a bike like this because even though it's a carbon frame think because the bike only weighs 18 pounds that it means it's weak it's not it's extremely durable in fact they have what's called this ISO post that's built into the seat where the seat actually is almost like a suspension in itself where there's a little bit of flex in there because it's isolated from the rest of the frame so when I do hit bumps and things in the road I do actually feel some bouncing and some flex on the bike so low but scary at first because it feels like the bike is gonna break or snap but you quickly learn that that's not the case the bike is extremely comfortable and that's one of the things that makes it an endurance based bike it is a little bit squirrely though for instance I'm still not comfortable trying to ride this thing with no hands when I do take one hand off the handlebar to reach for a bottle or something it does become a little bit squirrely so it's not as stable as I would like with one hand but and in fact looking at some other reviews on this bike I'm not the first person to say that so that's just kind of a dynamic of the design of the bike my biggest advice to anyone who's interested in getting a bike especially for fitness is the key to that is consistency you can't ride a bike once a week or even twice a week for short mileage or short duration and think you're going to get any sort of results and on top of that it really comes down to your eating you've got to eat proper so that you fuel your rides and you're gonna get more out of it one of my favourite channels to watch is GCN which is the global cycling Network the hilarious guys there's three guys out of England actually four guys out of England that run that channel they are freakin hilarious and pro cyclist and they will tell you five one-hour rides a week are way more beneficial than one five hour ride per week so even if you get out there and just do a half hour every single day you're going to see results you're going to see weight loss I mean as you can see I am definitely kind of like living proof of that I never would have gotten in camera in front of the camera like this full body shot and been comfortable with that but considering the fact that this bike has made me feel more stress-free my heart is strong my body is shrinking my strength is through the roof my endurance is through the roof for our ride five hour ride is nothing I feel like I can do more it's just really changed every aspect of my life so I hope you guys have enjoyed today's video a little bit different just talking about another love and hobby of mine I didn't even want to do this video but this is definitely by popular demand I had been getting I don't know how many requests to do a video about my bike and about my cycling and about the weight loss on the main channel not the vlog channel to where I went ahead and decided to do it if you guys didn't like it that's perfectly alright too but this video was tailored specifically to those who were asking so there you go guys make sure you guys I highly recommend checking out the guys over at GCN they have helped me a lot in just watching their videos they kind of do what I do for computer noobs for biking noobs and they teach you a lot of stuff and they made me feel more comfortable with getting on a bike even as a big guy and going and losing weight and getting stronger and just getting healthier and happier so guys thanks for all your comments thanks for all the noticing of the weight loss we're gonna continue this we've got about 48 more pounds to go I know I'm I'm starting to wonder where those 40 pounds are but my trainer he believes we got 40 more pounds to go to 65 we can get down to about 225 and be super healthy so once again guys thanks for your interest in the biking and my hobby and noticing the weight loss and stuff it means a lot it keeps me motivated and as always guys thanks for watching you