Sea Otter 2024: All The Best & Weirdest Tech
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- The 2024 Sea Otter Classic has thrown up its usual feast of unusual and cutting-edge tech for you and the cycling world to fawn over.
From inverted gravel forks with no dampers, to finally available cross-country race tyre and everything in between, including a bike-packing BMX and cranks coated with diamonds, there truly is something for everyone.
Our purveyor of all things weird and wonderful, and BikeRadar’s fashion icon himself, Jack Luke, takes you through his top finds from North America’s biggest cycling trade show.
What is your favourite cycling oddity or tech find from this year's show?
Let us know in the comments!
#seaotter #cyclingtech #mtb
Chapters:
00:00 Cane Creek Invert
01:45 Kyoot Itty Bitty
03:03 5Dev Titanium Cranks
03:55 Pinarello Dogma XC
05:45 Maxxis Aspen ST
06:31 Bridge Bike Works Surveyor
07:45 CeramicSpeed OSPW X
09:03 Ritchey Montebello
10:13 Fox 32 Step Cast
10:59 Box One 9 Speed Groupset
12:20 Push Industries Nine One
13:38 Outro
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Which bit of tech is your favourite from this year's show?
I'm with you Jack! The Ritchey would be the bike for me! All I want is something like that. Steel, mud guards, relaxed... sounds like a dream!
Ritchey Montebello
It's the Ritchey... and also Jack's very snazzy camera strap. Cooler than cool.
What seriously new here?
9:07 💯 I love the new Ritchey Montebello, it feels like it’s just the right combo of classic design and tech. That’s one bike I’m looking forward to building up this year.
Reversed gravel fork isn't new at all. A matter of fact, Cannondale had been making single stanchion, reversed fork for years.
Ritchey Montebello on point
The Ritchey
I have the fox 32tc on my cross bike and I love it. I currently use it to commute, run errands, gravel, single track. Works for my everything bike and has allowed the single track rides to be longer and faster
An inspiring performance by the journalist!
Jack was in his element
Great video. Nice to see coverage of the tech in these races.
$1200 for a fork that has only an air spring?
Some companies are still working on covid component shortage pricing. They won’t last long all being well and the sensible businesses can get on with facilitating the market.
it's rather steep. Let's see if the performance goes any way to justifying the cost.
Those 5DEV cranks look better than eeWings IMO
7:28- When did $4000 for a carbon road frameset become reasonable? Plus, 750 more for a paint job? I must live in a different world.
A fair comment, though by reasonably priced, I mean in the context of a high-end carbon frame produced by a small manufacturer. It’s certainly not cheap, but you could easily spend a lot more for a frame from a mainstream brand! Cheers, Jack
Glad you are self-aware of living in a different world. 😮
I have a Velo Orange Neurino mini Velo and I can totally recommend this bike type for making urban riding more fun and accessible, but I also ride gravel trails with it on its 50mm Schwalbe Billy Bonkers tires.
We want more pictures of that Yeti with the Box components.
Retro paint finish with that limited Manitou fork made to look like an older model! 😍
? How could a bloke from the UK say Manitou had the first rear-arch Fork..?!?
It was the UK’s PACE
circa ‘93.
Jack will be forced to rebuild forks for the rest of the day as punishment for this grave error
good job
@1:41 he prefers the canine creek fork 🙃
I'm digging that fork from Cane Creek
No damping or lock out.
My husband has been thinking about getting a suspension fork for his gravel bike, so the invert from Cane Creek really has his attention.
Might I suggest he go with tires as wide as his frame can fit and playing with pressure before going the suspension route
@@phenofinder9145 Dan comes from a MTB background so he already has.
Well isn't this good timing! We've got a gravel forks group test coming out on 7th May 😁
That new fox 32 looks like the arch will be VERY bad with collecting trailage. Supposed to be super light but looks like it can hold 5lbs of mud
What happens to the hub? On that fork? 💥
In my day we just called those mountain bikes
Wonder what's on the Kona booth... Awww damn.
That Cane Creek fork needs a factory service every 100 hours or annually. Im wondering what that would cost?
Every new tech means MORE maintenance... disc brakes, tubeless, internal cables, etc...
The main issue I see here is it won't fit a gravel frame, or maybe with a very small wheel?
I have a Cane Creek Air Shock - pretty simple to rebuild.
First Gravel fork?
Does anyone remember the Slate???
I do, and I ride mine as often as possible - with a 2x11 GRX it is the most versatile bike I've ridden so far, and the Lefty Oliver just keeps on delivering. My personal dream bike come true.
@@lepsielogo2733 Nice! What tyres are you running?
@@phil_d I fitted Schwalbe's G-One Allround Evo (40-584) about 18 months ago and been happily running them ever since.
@@lepsielogo2733 Same here! Shame there's not a bigger tyre choice for 650b wheels, although Panaracer now have their Semi Slick in Slate sizes 👍🏻
They must have stanchion guards for those forks otherwise they will get scratched to bits in no time.
👍👍👍👍👍
Man alive, don't forget the factor 50.
Jack's Scottish skin is extra delicate
MTB industry is led by fashion now, not by technology, and tries to push to ritch kids(and not just) same junk technology that used to be out there in the 90s, but now it's "cool" and costs 10x more. This starts to put me off from being a "biker", as bikes became just like iPhones and every other consumer short-lived tech-you buy the new model which is not even marginally better, but just has the new paint pattern and has the cool new GRIP6 damper which is 6 times "more better" than the old year's GRIP5. Then, the next year comes and the paint pattern is cooler and GRIP7 is out and you decide to be humble and just upgrade the fork and give another last chance to your "old" bike, but surprise - the industry has thought about cheaters like you - your bike has the old 1.5" Taper standard and you cannot fit the new cool fork which is produced only in the latest 1.8" SuperTaper standard and you feel so ashamed of your bike that you don't even go out there to ride it as it does not give you the 0.7% gain that your friends have now, so you spend your free time looking at the brainwash videos of the new tech and gain weight instead.
Lighten up - bike fashion is fun. Not everyone lacks imagination and wants to ride an all black bike.
.ucking hate gravel suspension. Forget it - Buy a mtb xc instead if thats important😂
Graveltech is just less capable MTB stuff.
You don’t need a sledgehammer to crack a walnut
A MTB is just a slower Gravel Bike.
A good xc hardtail will do anything a gravelbike can just less aero and slower when the stuff gets rough the xc hardtail gets in his element.
@@Paganiproductions84 if my grandma had wheels then....
@@BeeCee100279 yes you do
that diamond coating will rub your your ankles off :S
Yea but skin will heal. In fact, do you even need skin on your ankles?
Just to make it not look like an MTB...LOL.
Not a fan of the fork
cant wait to see all the stone chips on those exposed stanchions. Theres a reason why upsidedown forks never took off 20 odd years ago. but new people dont research history of their 'new ideas'
We're certainly interested to see how they hold up in testing
Fairings can be added to shield the front side of the stanchions, take a look at a motocross bike's inverted suspension fork to see what I mean.
@@yonglingng5640 and add more weight?
It looks like a dude with short trousers
Should we get it a pair of fashionable socks?
first
Heel rub is a badge of honour. Only Cafe posers need diamond coating.
There's absolutely nothing of interest from this so called bike show. What a boring year for bikes.
Not true - they just aren't covered here. Polygon is killing it and Haro is back in the game
Knowledgeable and entertaining reviewer.
I find it shocking or laughable or something that there is a market for 6,8,$10,000 BICYCLES and absurdly priced components however. Oh the opportunity cost...
Gravel fork is ugly, really!
unnecessary overpriced junk.