Building the Perfect Bike (Russ, Ultraromance and Sklar!)
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2023
- Another Russ and Ron with special guest, Adam Sklar talking about how to choose components for your perfect bike build.
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I just think that any riding at party pace--and I like that term--should be mechanical and manual and metal and simple as much as possible, no knock on electronic gizmos but they can be like all those sensors in a car, just snitching and reporting all the time and why, no interest in being electronically tethered via apps or permission or anything. And I think bike computers and navigational aides have their place, no question, but maybe not all the time and certainly not to the point where riders are always looking at them.
The 9 Speed Coalition!
Waiting for the t-shirt... then the componentry.
Wish they would make the Quad granny gear again, and grease guard hubs-BB-headsets-pedals, and finally, Joes MTB toe clips.
What I do is put a granny gear on the spider and no front derailleur. When I need it I push the chain down with my toe. Then when I need the regular range again I just move it by hand. I keep the dropper post lever on the left.
Even though some of the shop talk was over my head, this was very interesting. The more I listen, the more will become clear. I've ridden a lot over the years starting from before any of you were born, but only recently have I become interested in the mechanics and the mechanical options available from various companies and different points of history. An idea for several videos would be to take one component at a time, like bb, front derailleur, rear derailleur, handle bars, etc. taking clips from this video, and saying, "OK, right here, this is what we were talking about." For example, "This is why square taper is superior to its successors." Etc. Perhaps I speak as a fool, but my intentions are good. Love what you do and the way you do it. Thanks.
Interesting interview and discussion. Much appreciated!
My increasingly retro-grouch moment: I went back to Square taper bb's after many years without them due to desiring lower gearing and wider q-factor on the cheap. Wow. square taper bb's are soooooo much smoother. The fluidity of the crank rotation is amazing. Next up will be installing traditional cup and cone bottom bracket if I can find the premium Tange one.
I would love a road derailleur made for my 28/40 chainring setup. Currently using a triple derailleur as the ring sizes correspond better with the design of the small/middling ring, but a proper derailleur made of this sort of range would be amazing.
The ability to fiddle with qFactor is, at least for me, a big plus in favor of square taper BB's.RJ the Bike Guy actually had a video some time ago on replacing sealed bearings on shimano ST BB's. Did not realize it was that simple an operation.
Un-55 (RIP) my fav price performance bike part of all time. Outboard wins in two categories. Field service and packing.
LOL Jay T cup and cone BB's are full on Retro-grouch.
Does Riv have those Tange BBs back in stock?
@@escgoogle3865 Yep, I've got un-55 on another bike and it's sooooo buttery smooth.
@@lukehendrickson3669 Not sure. I'm now in Europe and they're hard to find. Been looking but no luck.
On one of my bikes I'm using a GRX400 front deraileur to shift a 24/42 with Sram 11s Rival levers, also on my commuter I use an Exage 500 triple to shift a 22/42, Both work great.
It would be nice to put this audio on the podcast channel so I could easily listen while driving on long work trips. Pullins cycles in Chico has some cool old stuff to look at!
I always wonder if Ron puts on his CZcams personality with his cutoff shorts or is he really like that? Is romance even his real name? He’s a treasure regardless.
On the new tech failing on the world tour, Primoz Roglic had a chain drop on 1x setup on TT, last stage of the Giro. He managed to salvage with some spectator support and won. There was a bike swap for him at the start of a climb.
The jab about rigid, single speed 29er mountain bikes hits close to home! Still have my Redline MonoCog 29er and love the heck out of it. Great bike. Seems to me that you really need to decide what gearing you need and work from there instead of the other way around. If you choose everything else first, that's when you might have to compromise. Just seems to make sense to begin there.
In March of '82 when I was a young enlisted soldier on leave and back home in the San Francisco Bay Area, I bought a 26" Mongoose single-speed bike sold not as a mountain bike but as one for competing in the BMX Cruiser Class, a larger bike for riders who had long grown out of the 20" bikes but still had that BMX fire burning within. And that was me for all forms of cycling, road and off-road. And that Mongoose was a ton of fun, fun, fun for about a year for me, I left it at Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas when I got transferred to Washington DC. And I did race it, once, in the Kansas City area, got second in the first moto, first in the second, then center-punched in the last berm of the third moto by the guy who won the class that day. And to this day, I still hear him laughing with his friends about taking me down. And I was out after that, never to return to that scene, and ironically, I won a big road race for soldiers and officers at Ft. Leavenworth on a summer day of sporting events and that remains one of my favorite memories, soloing on my Dutch Batavus to the line past the prison and all those stately old mansions for senior officers. And I also spent that summer riding the longest wheelies on that Mongoose on weekends in the parking lot of the Command and General Staff College. And I was never hassled over it because the military was big on physical fitness and there I was on my chrome bike with chrome MX bars, getting fitter by the wheelie. 😀
I’ve been riding for over 40 years on just about every derailleur that’s been made and I love the new Microshift Advent and Advent X derailleurs. Not the prettiest, but they set up and operate so smooth if you really want indexing.
So subjective! Although is form follows function then the use of the bike will define what “perfection” is. And then we just give in and pop loads of Paul and other lovely stuff on the bike!😂
Adam has a great T shirt from Pullins Cyclery!
Would you guys count Ritchey as small production bikes? How many Outback Break-Aways are out there anyway? I have a Rivendell and 2 Black Mountain bikes (Road and Road+).
To me this had nothing to do with "how to choose components for your perfect bike build". These guys obviously like older parts for their design en simplicity (and preferably the expensive parts made by Paul Components for that matter)
This interview felt a bit like "let's bash company's like Shimano" for a bit which, to me, is bit unfair. The invention (so to speak) of the mtb and the components made for them by company's like Shimano, Suntour, etc. brought bicycling to the masses in a big way a few decades ago. So much so that we still profit from that to this day. But we're not all retro-grouches and we're not all bike mechanics who know what works and what not. Todays average Joe couldn't care less about these parts from the past. That's not only what the manufacturers will say but that's what I experience every day working as a mechanic in a bikeshop. Todays customer wants a bike with components that look and function like the parts the Pro's use. Just like we did back in the day but maybe we forgot about that.😉(Besides that: most component manufacturers are concentrating on making components for the ever growing e-bike market.) That same constomer doesn't mind the feeling that manufacturers are dictating what they should buy but that's how it's always been. There's a group of cyclists that can look behind all that but that group is too small for large company's to be bothered.
On the other hand: let todays customer buy these new parts. That leaves more vintage parts and components made by "alternative" brands (Microshift for example) for us.😊
Good point, that;s the Yin and Yang of capitalism: plenty of genuine innovation and value, but also plenty of "engineered by marketing" nonsense. That;s why these conversations can be so helpful,
once the modern stuff is old it will be cool or viewed differently, except maybe the really plastic stuff
Well only the strong well made quality stuff eill survive the test of time
Are square taper BB's that bad? I ride them, White Industries too, onost of my single speeds and they seem fine, albeit they're 107-109 spindles. I also ride modern BB30 and PF30 stuff and they're good too. But all of them have their weaknesses. The preload on PF30 is a bit fiddly and I do not like the thread-on preload adjuster. I have maicroshidt 11 rear derailleur that I hate on a drop bar bike. The last decade contains incredible innovation. I love it
I just want to know what yellow bike is pictured 😍
Like Mr. O'Bryan said, "nice Pullins tee!"
Bassi represent!
Ron pusher man of front derailleur and rim brakes
Motolite is best rim brake ever!
Thru axle rim brake
Single speed, rigid, steel, single speed 29er mountain bikes... I'm still there!
Please insert subtitles, thank you!
What is the frame in the thumbnail
I am pretty sure Brian Chapmans bike will only shift if hes riding it now. The batteries are completely dead so it needs the power from his dynamo to work.haha
Russ, for this old guy it would be nice if you could add closed caption as the audio in my systems is not very clear please thx you
There’s setting on CZcams for captions
Can't agree on the carbon fiber argument fully. I'm riding a Giant Cadex from the early 90ies. And it got no problems at all. But sure, carbon can't be recycled or repaired as metal can...
brooks saddles, satchels, man buns and plad shirts. talk about fashion over function
You get lost on your way to GCN? :)
@@PathLessPedaledTV hipsters like yourself and that business man in hippy clothes ultraromance are just in it for the money. your just selling overpriced uncfuntional retro crap to gullible hipsters who want to desperately stand out. i recommend just riding what the have and forgetting about constantly and pointlessly upgrading your bike. gcn lol
is thay muck on your face