This bike is destined to cycle with me to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. I am planning to start from Portugal. Hopefully after spring. Meanwhile I test use this bike to run airings, in all weather. My current shoppings and runs for now test it enough to reveal plenty of teething problems needing attention. Today I list the biggest current issues. Headset Stem Brake Levers Barends Grips Reflector Gearing colour coordination
Hi good morning today I’m going to make a video about all the things that are wrong with my bike packing bik and there’s plenty of things that I need to address so I built this bike the first time around about two years ago and used
It for about half a year maybe and then it get moved and then I use it again and then I get moved and I use it again a little bit but then I decided to really take it serious and make a proper tool that will be fit for bike packing namely
I would like to cycle to Santiago the Chile probably starting here in Istanbul or maybe I fight Portugal first we shall see but today is the bike about the bike uh sorry the video about the bike um apologize for the mumification here um it’s still very cold it’s been
Raining all night long um so yeah it’s still fresh let me take you out of the stand let’s have a look at what’s all wrong here the first thing is the headset is loose and uh since I don’t have three hands I can demonstrate and uh also I’m using a 90
Mm rice on a 700 mm bar which is plenty so I’m trying to eliminate the super ugly looks here just a touch I just seen a burst this cable here that must have happened when the bike fell down so I’ll need to replace that cable too so but let’s um sorry
This is the three-handed the 300 issue here I have this super cheap weight stem that looks totally na in its red anodization so I will see what I can do about that probably polish some of the easy to be polished surfaces and that will lose a
Little bit of the height and make this hopefully look a little bit less grandfather so we’ll see what that gives us so that’s definitely one thing and then I can address the loose headset um this is obviously a threaded Fork with a Quil stem adapter and you see
That there something is not quite right here uh as I said the bike fell over and some things are not uh not as they should be so we’ll need to see what’s going on I’m generally quite happy about what I assembled and especially my self turned
Spacers which gives me me a little bit of extra height I think it’s about 18 mm this gives me also the quite fat tire gives me extra height so I’ve done this if I zoom out a little bit to give me as much height with some readily available elements so tire
Spacer um rise rise quite a rise in the stem in a short stem and then the 90 mm Razer bar so I think I can leave with a little bit extra what I’m realizing here riding along that sometimes an extra hand position would be good so I will bring
Out these little things here bolt them on somewhere there and see how that actually fares sorry about the color yes the color the colors the colors are a mess here I’ve been fiddling around different things but I did decided that I want to go a bit calmer so I’ve tried
A couple of different colors of grips and I think I’m going to go for that the sparkly black it’s black but it’s not so boring black so mhm yeah let’s start from the beginning headset needs Titan uh stem I will change it add some other grips I’m going to actually
Also settle for some brake levers since I am running A8 1×8 I only need one shifter and that I will keep separate so I like the z z shifter it’s uh not sure I think it might be a 10-speed shifter and I’m using eight gear so that causes a little bit of an
Issue but uh we shall see about that anyway let’s talk about these grips I will drill them from the bottom for some beautification holes and for some weight so that’s what I’ll do next grips brake levers I have two the same then don’t really like this one here anyway so I
Use those these are quite ergonomic I don’t know this seems to be a brand unbranded item I haven’t found at least I’m using the Shimano whatever you call these things here I’ll place the cable oh okay this case this was an experiment and these are the kind of like plastic vegetable
And fish carrying cases that you find plentiful here in Turkey people basically seem to throw them away it’s a bit of a mess environmentally speaking but uh nevertheless these are readily ail available everywhere I have made it the smallest version I can think of it from these and uh this one is actually
Too small and it’s also too soft I can demonstrate here how soft this is and that’s no good so you have um too much weight in there it’ll deform and then eventually if it’s too much stuff in there it will fall out so also in order to Kate the
Four be careful so my bikee doesn’t fall into the pool yeah exactly sit there tight my little bicycle okay I want to stabilize this a little bit and I’m going to use this mounting position and then the only thing I need to engineer is how I will
Actually bolt this onto here um also I want to give this some beautification in I think I have some really nice gray primer that will do that and then in order to fix this I will use that piece cut in half it gives me two items to fix this
Yes ah and uh as in for getting rid of some too much color I will also go for this you know this just too much color on this bike in my opinion I also should find another bottle cage and this is basically the group of issues I want to
Tackle today I have also an issue with this rear rack due to being a bit too rambunctious so you see it’s not centered um I can’t seem to bend it so I need to look at the fix in points and what the hell creates this off centeredness another thing that I found
Is the original reflector I’d like a reflector so that I’m more visible in the dark let’s see what my treasure case here holds still should be that a little bit worried about this falling please don’t fall okay so here’s the item I think this actually came from
This very mudu guard so and I will give me a reflector there you have it um rear brakes fantastic I love these brakes I don’t need the same one in the front I’m good for braking power but I definitely rely on this re the best Rim
Break in my books ever made m is Hydraulics and uh I do the test hydraulics in the braking system because it’s too unflexible what else in order to delete some coloring but that’s not a job for now I will polish the side I’ll polish that part that will be
Something I will do but that’s definitely not on the cards anytime soon I might take some some of the graphics off if there’s too much graphics on there what do you think let me know and uh eventually I will build a new rear wheel but that’s again another story so
The rear wheel will finally be able to take my brand new microshift uh 11240 cassette as I’m finding that in this mountainous area here I could be doing with extra low gear and right now I have fitted a 36 front tooth wheel of course I could just do a 34
Don’t really want to do that because I also don’t want to just challenge the top end gets too slow then you spin out so I’ll leave the 36 and I will put a extra teeth on the back via an 8-speed micr shift cassette and for that I need
Another Hub because this Hub does not Jill even though this is 8speed and the other one is 8speed this micros shift 8-speed cassette is building higher than the Shimano which I think is totally weird um but hey ho so I will use a wider hub okay okay okay okay not sure which ones
Of these Graphics shall be taken down we’ll find out we’ll do something let’s start color-wise with the green grips will die and the purple QR will die and the purple bottle cage will die and some of yellow will disappear and maybe then maybe then color wise will be fine okay I’ll
Conclude this for now I’ll go back inside and start working and give you a part two of what all is wrong with my Touring bike