All-City Zig Zag Review | Endurance Steel Road Bike
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2022
- In this video I review the All-City Zig Zag which is All-City's endurance road bike. It has the classic lines of your traditional steel frames with the modern tech of disc brakes and thru axles. Check out my review of this modern take on a classic cycling style.
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Thanks for the review. I just picked up a 55cm in Honeydew Bling. Not my first choice in color but the price was right. It looks amazing in person!
Thanks for taking the time to post this review. I am a huge steel bike fan and owner. I’ve been looking at this bike or the Space Horse as a stop gap while I wait, eternally it seems, for a Ritchey to come available, my third Ritchey.
Thanks again!
Great video, my boss rides this bike and loves it. He enjoys it since it has the old school looks with the new school feel.
Thank you for a clear review, I'm stuck between the Zig Zag and Nature Cross SS
Thanks for the fantastic review, I am toying with this bike or the cosmic stallion TI. I love to get back to a steel bike for endurance riding.
Thanks! If you get carbon bars or suspension stem, it will ride like a dream. Have you pulled the trigger on one yet?
@@BlackWaterCyclist I ended up pulling the trigger on a Lynskey Helix Pro disc bike. Almost the same price and electronic shifting. I also upgraded the wheels. Pretty happy. I almost purchased the zig zag. Good bike for the money!
Love mine.
I have a titanium bike that I had custom made for me by Carl Strong here in the US. Very similar bike and I get the same rough chatter because of the ENVE fork. I would like to find a steel or titanium fork that would match up to the headtube and not look ugly, even if I have to have one made. I think NEVI makes a titanium fork but I can't tell if they sell them or just on a bike build. That would make a big change to how the bike feels. My rims are 21mm wide internally and I have used 30mm wide tires with low pressure but then control suffered and it made me slower. That's a nice bike build and one that will outlast a carbon bike for sure. Oh and, if it doesn't have a real headtube badge it is just a cheaply made bike IMO. Nice to see a headtube badge on that AC.
Hi Charles, you should check out Hi-Light bikes out of China, they make some sweet looking Ti forks. They actually look like the carbon forks as far as shape and everything but are made out of Titanium. www.tibicycle.com/product/19/
Why'd they discontinue these beautiful paint jobs!
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You need to size down on All city bikes since all their bikes have a top tube that is longer than the equivalent frame size from other manufacturers. Look at the reach, top tube and stack height measurements before you order your size
Great advice, I appreciate it.
What size is this ?
It is a 58
Carbon is a very stiff material. Especially in such a chunky fork. A curved steel fork would be smoother.
Yeah carbon can be made to be compliant but this fork is far from it. I agree, if you are going retro, just go with the steel fork.
Yes a steel fork would be better ride quality but unfortunately if this is an endurance road bike they weight weenies will scream bloody murder. The Space Horse has the steel fork
The BB looks close to the floor
This bike is confusing. Braze on for DT shifters and a hole for DiII wires?
Alloy box section rims would soften up ride, reduce cost, but maybe add weight. External routing for rear brake hose,
why. That fork, they used to have a nice fork that wasn't harsh on the discontinued Mr Pink, rim brakes though.
Would like to know who QBP thinks is going to buy this.
I feel the same way, it just seems like it is trying to be several bikes in one but is not doing well on either front. QBP in the past has spec'd bikes with old stock they had and caused some people to wonder if they have these brands just to unload their outdated inventory.
I used to have an A/C I never got along with the geometry and sold it.
There's always some nut who needs to have every option. I don't have the cheddar but if I did get a frame like this I'd probably build it with 9 speed Ultegra and DA downtube shifters.
I don't know why anyone would compare this to a Giant ir a Specialized. They're not even steel.
52-36 chainring it’s not a compact chainring.
You got me on that one. Semi compact is what we used to call them.