Can You Build A Cyclocross Bike For Less Than $300: Part 3 | GCN Tech's Bike Builds
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 24. 10. 2020
- It's the final instalment of Jeremy's quest to build a worthy cyclocross series for less than $300, and this week his build is being put through it's paces on a cross course with Curtis White, a top cyclocross pro!
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Iâve really enjoyed this bike build mini-series. Jeremyâs a lot of fun!
I agree. I think the build part and compete parts is equally fun and completes the serie of 3 eps perfectly.
Full props to Jeremy for "biting the hand that feeds him" by showing us that you don't need to buy the "latest and greatest" gear to have a good time
For me it's the message here - it's all about having fun. As long as you are just a hobby rider, you can go as hard as you want with such a bike and at the end of the day you have no regrets if the bike breaks đ
Even being sponsored, I wouldnt say GCN pushes the ads that hard.
Pushing the budget to $800ish with the right buys you would be 90% of the way to a modern bike. Or build a ballin single speed.
Exactly that. There is nothing wrong with a older bike or even vintage one. I recently restored one vintage touring/road bike and I love to ride it. Waiting for sunny days to hit the road to the Adriatic Sea and back.
@@guyonthebike With some creativity, you can go even cheaper. I bought a vintage 21 speed steel framed road bike. I cold set the frame to accept disc brakes and a wider cassette. I got some new hubs and used rims from a more recent rim brake bike, and I built some new wheels. Bought a flared carbon fork from China for under a hundred bucks; new handlebars, brifters, stem, 1x crank, pedals, chain, brakes, cables, tires etc... all from China as well. I found a used 2010s era ultegra derailleur for $15 at my local coop. Total build including frame came out to $420. I built it up a bit more as a gravel bike, opting for 650b wheels, a 1x drive train, hybrid-hydraulic disc brakes, a flared fork, and an integrated dropper post.
If you take your time and look for ways to save, you can build something great for cheap. I'm already working on my next project, and soon someone else will get a sweet deal on a killer bike.
Jeremy is one of my favorite members of GCN. Fuji this man did you guys a solid.
I never noticed Curtis' proper full-blown Masshole accent. Gives him a ton of character and makes him very unintentionally funny. He was a fantastic co-host of this video.
Also keep in mind, Jeremy is literally a legend in USA CX. He'd destroy most of us on that budget bike. Amazing what he's still able to do while not on a pro training program and on such a lesser bike.
Super fun segment. Nice dose of cross where we don't have any in my region (RI/MA) this season.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Jeremy riding both bikes would have been an interesting comparison. Maybe next time?
Think that'd be too serious for J-pow This is more fun
One of the best Jeremy vids. Well done. Entertaining. Great build series
Jeremy, form is temporary, class is permanent! Awesome ride!
It's impossible not to enjoy Jeremy's videos, he just has so much enthusiasm and energy. Great work, Mr Powers!
The mark of a great GCN vid is if it makes me want to immediately get on my bike and ride... Throwing on the bibs as I type! Well done boys!
JPow was the best addition GCN could have ever made. Heâs making the best content on GCN right now.
he should be in GMBN tech instead
Except that he rides road and cross lol
This was one my favorite GCN series, thanks JPow and Curtis White, so much fun to watch.
Genuinely impressed with jpows skills. Like I know former pro and everything but sometimes you just forget how much these guys can do even with a old steel bike!
Great fun this mini series, inspired me to throw together a load of bits out the shed to build a retro CX bike, should finish it this afternoon. Love to see more of these types of videos
No one:
CX riders: casually shouldering the bike when talking
I was smiling the entire time. More of this content please!
We'd love to keep making this kind of thing for sure! Thanks for watching!
I like that Jeremy pushes the same way he would on an expensive bike. Heart all in or not at all. Bike makes a difference, but heart makes a huge difference.
JP you just epitomise everything that's good about cyclocross, you still have it but more importantly you still love it, miss watching you race.
I canât believe i was more excited watching this than the Vuelta
Had a smile the entire time watching. Entertaining!
This video just breathed life into my current project build
HAHA this had me smilin' so big while I watched this. Great one, gents!
I liked the "It's all about the horse, not the chariot". If you don't love cycling, the best (most expensive) bike will not make it better for you.
Youâre not wrong there đđŸ
My business is tennis racquet stringing (busiest guy in RI) and I often say to my customers "it's the wizard, not the wand" when they fuss a bit too much about setup.
@Paul WieringaHa. Not remotely. I string for some seriously particular players who wouldn't bother with me if I weren't very good at what I do.
It applies to players who are constantly demoing different frames with different strings and tensions over the course of a year. At some point, it's not the equipment.
Love the laughing as Jeremy moves through the sand. Proof that you can have CX fun even in 'defeat'. Would love to have seen a couple of laps where you swapped bikes with Curtis, just as a test of the 'horses'.
I am enjoying watching J-Pow get crap from his friend there. That was absolutely fun to watch.
Part 4: How to clean sand out of "everything". (YIKES)
Half the video my brain was going "but the chain ... oh god ... the chain"
Loved this series, more content CX needed!
That are very well spent $300, but it's Jeremy that really makes the difference. Very nice videos, hope for more
that was so much fun to watch and +1 for frugal bikes :) and +10 for Jeremy's infectious attitude!!
I'd like to see them swap bikes and do the same runs. đ
Well done Jeremy. Posh bikes are a really nice addition if you can afford them, but you can still have fun, and get fit, on a budget.
Watching JPow's energy and love for bikes/cyclocross is infectious
One of the best gcn series ever!
Love how he sticked to the budget and not just âfoundâ a pair of old 105/Ultegra set under someones desk
I could watch jpow build and ride old steel bikes all day. Very entertaining. I'd like to see him ride and maybe even build something really old school, downtube shifters and all.
Me, too, and I donât even like older bikes, let alone restoring them.
Love it! The (I assume) put on cockiness by the Curtis was so fun. JPow and his bike held up amazingly well, and showed what can be done with pretty much any bike. Brilliant conclusion to a brilliant series, and it might be fun to see more of Curtiss.
glad you liked it!
Great conclusion to this very entertaining series, well done!
Great challenge all around..from the build to the races. Kudos to Jeremy.
Been waiting on this all week - go Jeremy.
Racing the same, used, old Ridley with Cantilever breaks since I started CX 4 seasons ago. Won 2 seasons of Grand Prix series races in cat 4 and am still doing well as a Cat 3 now. Sure, Iâd like to be able to upgrade, but I also have never ridden a different CX bike and donât know what Iâm missing out on đ
The heart of a superhuman, J P, great show.
Thank GCN and Jeremy! Good series! Enjoyed it very much!
Excellent episode! Very good time and it makes you want! The goal is reached! Thank you!
Yeah, having fun is the best lesson I learned picking up a cyclocross bike this Winter. I am lucky that my Wahoo broke :))))
Great series on the bike build to race day great fun thanks Jeremy and Curtis.
This pretty much proves Jeremy is amazing. Fun video!
Just picked up an old single speed canti cross bike the other day. It's been so fun to kick around. Makes me feel like I'm kid again! Great video!
Loving the vids guys, keep up the amazing workđđČ
Great cap to this series! A few years ago, I didn't even know what cyclocross was, I went to buy a gravel bike and ended up with a $600 used Focus Mares AX and it opened my eyes to CX. It's a crazy sport that is somewhat hard to explain... it's probably the most inviting of all "cycling racing" options out there... and I think the best summary I can say for the atmosphere at or during a CX race is simply intoxicating. I met J-Pow at Trek CX Cup last year and it was so much fun, my only regret was not planning my entire weekend to be at Trek. I only raced once and missed spectating at the big race. For anybody remotely interested in CX, search for your local clubs and see if there is a race near you and just go out and enjoy it! If you're lucky, there might even be a club that sets up a practice course, for weekly skills training!
Jeremy poured his heart into this ride and still had a ton of fun. Old mate is a legend, love his style, videos and 100% honest enthusiasm. The banter was great too.
Full respect for how close you got to him on that recycled Fuji! Awesome effort JP
Fantastic series, more JP and more cross please đ
This series was so much fun to watch! Kudos JPows
I love these videos you guys should do more of these builds and comparisons!
Bike: 300 bucks - ciclocross fun: priceless
Epic video!đ
Best series I have seen on GCN in awhile. Props and chapeau to Jeremy!
I love your videos Jeremy! Such a great addition to the team! Find a reason to come and do a video in SF, Bay Area and Santa Cruz. Perhaps, finding the legend of Santa Cruz Bicycles and riding them on home turf - such great! GREAT! FUN!
@5:40 I love how these two guys just stand around with their bikes shouldered like it's no big deal.
But bikes arenât heavy.
Well, their bikes are pretty lightweight...
Loved this thanks Jeremy and Curtis
Some top bants there! I really like Jeremy's presenting. More please!
I converted a 30 years old steelframe of a touring bike to a gravel bike and it is so much fun! But I choose for better braking power mini-v-brakes.
Did the same with a 2012 steel frame with traditional cantis and itâs great!! You say minis Vs is the way to go?? Interesting may have to try.
@@Massproduce201 The only disadvantage ist, when you have mounted fenders or extra wide tires, because you might have not enough clearance for the brake cable. And mini-v's are closer to the rim than cantis and that might be a problem with mud or not perfect trued rims.
@@OldschoolDT Just go for full V's
@@koooolk. no full V-brakes don't work with the cable pull amount of road brake/shift levers. That's why minis are used
@@Goriaas I know you arent supposed to do it but you could. And if you really cared about braking performance, you'd switch levers and calipers.
Jeremy is a beast and his videos are always đ„đ„đ„
Great video. Well done JP and definitely same bike you'd have had it. đđ
great video!! so much fun
Jeremy is the best! I'd love to see another series like this from him!
Great series! I built up a cheap, heavy steel hybrid frame I got for free into my first CX bike (racing NECX!). I used microshift r8 and claris components, and some bottom of the barrel wheels I got from REI. It wasn't perfect, like with the rear wheel spacing, but it worked to get my into CX and now I have a proper bike. Problem around the Boston area as well as current times is everyone is overvaluing their junk bikes, so I think it's harder to do fun stuff like this on a budget when a lot of these bikes are going for $200+ when they should only be worth like $100-150. But it was fun, now I'm looking to maybe get a beater MTB and make it a little better
Awesome đ great build top man Jeremy
Brilliant!
Love seeing these guys have an absolutely blast together
That was a great showdown
Excellent series of videos Jeremy.
Amazing!!
Okay, that was fun to watch. Good to see Jeremy leaving all out there in the course like the old days.
I love waking up for my gr and finding a video is already out
This was an awesome video. So much fun to watch.
Great series really liked it
Loved this
Great ep!
This was a great series. I enjoyed it. The Wahoo unit on the Fuji probably cost more than the whole bike build! đ
Really enjoyed this series! Next step has to be to make it into a single speed cross bike!
That track looked so much fun!
It looked awesome yeh!
love this epi....
Really impressed!! sweet bike
This was a great series. I really liked the build and diy ethic. It looked like a lot of fun!
Searching for all of components in my country and after all the price drop at 360-390 us$. 200$ for old bike totally good deal from JD.
Awesome Mini-Series!!!
I really enjoyed this series and the cycle cross. I want to say thanks. For doing this series really enjoyed it and got me thinking.
Such a cool series of videos. That SuperX is a thing of beauty.
That was fun!
Wow! I cannot believe I just discovered this! Very competitive
enjoyable series and your very good at these actuality videos Jeremy- would love to see some more cyclocross training and interviews from you đ
really fun vids! My Fuji touring bike was stolen in 1975 so it was fun to watch
Never thought gcn would be trying to appeal to the Everyman. Good to see. Dig Jeremy.
Great mini series for sure.Good job Jeremy..
I see Penceâs fly made a cameo on the Zipp wheel... đ
@Jeremy Powers I am relieved to hear that this was an entomological error on my part.
we need more series like this!
Wow, that was waaay closer than I thought it would be. Looks like CX isn't that much about the bike after all. Also Jeremy is a beast, I bet he would make it very hard to win for that guy on a nice bike.
Thanks for a great video Jeremy. No BS here. We all WANT the latest and greatest but don't let it get in the way of ENJOYING bike riding. What you want is way different from what you NEED. I want that $10k bike, but, I'm having a blast riding my 11 year old Haro hard tail and just got my hand on a 2021 Diverge Base E5 for just over $1,200.00 including Uncle Sam's piece. Make it a priority to ENJOY the ride.
Great series! Loved the approach of building a capable machine while focusing on the fun / $ ratio. Would be cool to see you run this in a local CX race once things start up again.
Loved this series! Really miss seeing jpow race!
That was great fun to watch ! Looked tough out there, riding in sand is bloody hard!
love seeing gcn videos on my home turf
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