BIKE REVIEWS | CANYON, CANNONDALE & RIBBLE

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Hello there everybody don’t know why I went American bu it welcome to the one been waiting for the bike review video we’re starting off with my beautiful my baby canny aka the canyon women’s specific in jewes I nearly forgot what I was saying then so she’s an endur bike I

Always want to say endurance but it’s it’s built for the endurance basically um she’s an sl7 super light and she’s in as you can see a lovely blue now I’ve got to be honest can has the sweet spot in my heart because I just love her Canyon was my first expensive bike um

And fortunately I got hit by a car and that was the end of her that was that bike was just called the canyon the canyon went to the graveyard sh come back but we got this one so it’s all right now K would you like to zoom in a

Little closer I’m going to tell you all about the mechanics although we might have Kyle behind the camera to help because this isn’t my fa so Kyle if I’m correct we’ve got the Shimano 105 r7000 no what have we got then alra the Shimano algra r7000 here um to be honest

With you if I’m totally honest all that’s go but go to me I just go on the back and blue and ride it and see how it feels and this one feels good with a capital G so yeah really nice listen to that sound of smoothness um

Yeah on the front we’ve got 50 by 34 yeah you’re telling me now yeah is 50 it does say it on there um does it oh yeah 50 by 34 in case you ever wondering now if anyone doesn’t know what that is which probably do 50 teeth or as I like

To call them spikes on here totally honest I would have like a few more stiffer gears on there because we’ve got the what is it on the back Kyle uh I think it’s a 34 11:34 yeah it is well done Kyle for knowing that yeah it’s 11:34 on the back but sometimes

When I’m yipping downhill my legs just spinning like mad my Cod loines are whipping around I can’t push so yeah I would like I am a bit of a I like to being the big gear so I would like a few harder gears that that’s my only thing

I’d say about it pick her up with my pointy finger let’s have a go Bloom it out we can do some arm workout here so she only weighs a total of 8.27 kg more eyes I think very light um so yeah she’s a good whipper up the

Hills and I just complet I love her I mean she’s very comfy she does need a bit of TLC this is my fault these are coming off a little bit I need to rewrap the handle bars um I don’t know if I want to tell you anything about the

Brakes or this bit shifters to be honest the brakes work the shifters work what more do you need to know um it isn’t electronic gears it’s just you know your manuals but I think you can’t go wrong with that because if anything goes wrong you can always change your what’s it

Called Kyle your gear cable yeah so you least you’re safe um the only thing I would say on the looks of the bike integrated cables here would have been nicer through here but you know you can’t have it all I’m I’m not going to

Disc cany cuz she is a baby um yeah oh and with the weight I think she might actually be lighter than 8.27 because that’s what she comes as standard but I’ve swapped off the DC Swiss for the reserve Wheels which I am sponsored by so yeah these going to make me even

Lider but yeah that’s Connie in a nutshell and here she spins I love her anything you want to add car cuz I’m going to actually I may do a slight review of a few things you probably oh saddle Calia got to say I should have used this saddle for PVP

Because this saddle has been absolutely fine I don’t know why we’ll come on to that when and talk about the calendar I don’t want to read with that right now cars is fine gym wear tonight yeah I’m actually do going to do a workout well

Kind of just point out a few things you missed it is a hydraulic group set not cable operated so that’s always nice I don’t know what that means 1134 set we do have that because in the Peak District you’ve got a lot of a variety of hills and it’s nice to have that

Range although as a said having the stiic GE probably going on a 1126 cassette 1128 cassette something like that might be better also seat post it’s made like that to as because this is actually the endures which I don’t actually know if am mentioned I did actually so is

Actually the UR cfsl what’s this carbon fiber oh this was from an event I did sorry yeah so it’s carbon fiber super light I did say that as well Kyle so you listen to me I did um and this is to take the shock out of on the rod so if

You’re go the wrong way obviously it takes a bit of the impact yeah it’s women specific cuz of the saddle and the handlebars I’d also like to point out sorry for the shadows in this video I’m just going to say that now we’ve not got very good lighting I’m sorry but I’m

Sure you can still see a lot of clearance here and here so you can get I think some nice big tires on there if you do want to go off road apologies for the background here this is our spare room aka the also gym room so that’s can a nutshell she retails around

£2,700 I believe so yeah I do actually know cuz that’s what came out our bank account we bought water but yeah I think for a carbon bike you normally start off around how would you say like 1,800 Mark for decent one maybe yeah I think so you

Can pick them up cheapish yeah so but obviously second hand is always an option nothing wrong with that and but I did actually work weekends teaching swimming to afford this little baby girl which I actually got for Christmas last year so year of Rider and a year of

Dreams that’s canny next up we’ve got Elby AKA the canale carbon top Stone to this little beast is a gravel bike and I absolutely love her she’s called Elby cuz she’s a little beasty cuz she’s a little beast off the road um now first things first whenever I’m looking for a

Bike I know it’s not a popular opinion but I like to go on the look and the color of this baby just reeled me in now she is more expensive than the cany and I will admit we didn’t actually pay for her because when I got hit by a car for

The second time um the insurance payout meant that I could get this bike and I thought why not so if she does retail at a rather chunky £4,500 British PE but I would say she’s a lovely bite to ride so let’s get into her now bottle cages these didn’t come

With a bite but this color match I’ve got to say I was pretty proud of car coming up coming closer let’s have a look perfect color match even Chester is proud of that aren’t you Chester he loves it right come out Chester so for the gears or as people call it the group

Set is that right car yeah we’ve got gravel grx xrated 800 so basically they’re just gravel gears and you know you can whip along and gravel on it the chain not the chain the group set the car’s going like this with me you know what that means cassette the

Cassette it went out my head think of music is same as Canyon 11 by 34 so again I could do with a bit of a harder gear to grind but it’s all good for me she rolls like a beast now Kyle P it a little closer now the the interesting

Thing about little Elby is this thing right here which is called King spin King Pin suspension so basically just a little bit of suspension so this bit moves which is actually called the fork isn’t it K is that right this B what is it then

Forks on the front oh this is the um it rear stay the rear stay someone can tell us in the comments I’m sure you all know better than us as you can tell we’ve not been riding bikes for that long well two years now I think but

Anyway all I know is this has a bit of movement so when you’re off road or even on the road it’s very smooth like riding a wave now although she is a gravel bike I’ve not really done much gravel or off-roading because I prefer the smooth

Smooth roads and this baby is very very comfortable cuz the position is just really nice I used the Fad in PBP or other people call it Paris breast Paris um and she’s just really comfortable you know she’s you feels sturdy like she feels sturdy so you can pack her up I’ve

Had sleeping bag on the front bags on the back bags in the middle which is great now the other thing with this bike is the light so it does have integrated lights on the front and back and a little battery pack here but I took the lights off because I felt like my

Exposure lights not sponsor sorry um were better and I just felt like the lights that were on the bike weren’t amazing they didn’t last that long so I decided to take the battery out and this little bit here K if you want to come and zoom in this bit here where the

Battery pack would go you can put it comes with some Cannondale strap things so you can like strap things on so I actually strapped an inner tube on spare inner tube when I was doing PVP which was quite handy luckily I didn’t need to use it um so again this bike I can’t

Remember what Wheels came with this bike can you Kyle d as well no they weren’t they with WTB Wheels WTB Wheels came with this B so these need a clean look at this mudy um but again I swapped on the reserv is which are absolutely fine on and off

Road and she’s ready for winter with her mud guards on cuz you know you got to be safe protect your other Riders if you’re go in a cafe you don’t want mud up your back because the cafe is not going to let you in and that’s an absolute

Nightmare for me on a ride so mud Gods all the way but yeah she’s absolutely lovely the only thing I don’t like about this bike is the saddle now this saddle here it is a physic gravel saddle I think um not a bit of me I’m sorry it

Gave me Saddle saw I do not like it but you know we’ve all got different boms so for some people it might work but yeah that’s the canadale anything I’ve missed there car would you like to give your piece not a f of the sadle also um but a couple of

Things I will point out is the grx um group set does have a clutch on the back so specifically for gravel so you get St the chain jumping so when you ped keeps it all in flow nicely when you’re going in a rough terrain so yeah that’s one

Thing but from that I think you C it another thing is the handle ours you might notice you see that car mhm they’re flared actually like my charers have got on today we’re going back to the ‘ 80s but I think that’s because um it’s handling off off road also it’s

Actually really comy I find and even though I’ve got quite narrow shoulders I’ve been fine no issues so yeah so that’s the canadel nutshell absolutely love her she has a shiny shiny feel as well love shiny smoothness and I just think the color you know if you’re

Offroad in The Woodlands or M of squeak you can blend into the trees you can blend into the forest and you know hibernate in there with this but anyway let’s do the weighing can I pick her up with one finger I’ve never tried with this bite to be honest let’s see she

Weighs oh no I don’t think I can Kyle don’t think I can do one finger oh I can hey she weighs 9 .44 kilog um probably a little slightly bit lighter with these wheels on cuz these wheels are lighter maybe a bit more with the mood guards on

But we’re not going to worry about a bit of plastic so yeah that’s uh that’s elb that’s the Canada lovely bike again a bit more expensive but like I say I was hit by a car I’d rather not have been hit by a car but it’s a silver lining that we got

From it so yeah right so now it’s my turn to do a review of my Ribble ask a question first go for it do you have a name for you R cuz I don’t think you do no just the fine Steed I say another thing got you know in the

Other video when I said a Kyle pan into the bike I was expecting like this you know closeup of the bike so people can see actually what people what people got was just this so I think my skills going to be a bit better all I will say is I

Do apologize for the dirt it is a Workhorse so I’ve not had time to clean it yet which is bit bad on my heart it’s absolutely filthy I’m going to apologize for the Shadows again we don’t have the best lighting but look how filthy this

Is car I mean a happy bike is a clean bike I say and that is not clean so we be getting told off at the club ride no well hold on I think I get to uh swept up in cleaning all your bikes so excuse me chance clean M who cleans the

Cassettes oh wow so first of all I’ll say it’s a 105 group set Shimano what’s the name of the bike again a Ribble CGR 725 Enthusiast you’re enthusiastic about ITR stands for Summit Gravel Road oh cross Gravel Road M so it’s a combination of all three um it’s very versatile very

Good bike used it for PVP cuz it’s got mounts everywhere so you can get a p your rack on um has uh top tube mounts there C screw missing off this because my mud guard came off the other day and we had to improvise with it and me thinking on

My feet I thought oh don’t worry I’ve got plenty of them took one out so you’ve knit one of my bolts I have Ribble is made in Britain with which I’m a big fan of being a proper uh patriotic Englishman um it does have my doll M flp

As well I’m for M guards for having a bit of courtesy for all my fellow Riders so yeah it Sho 105 group set I’m running an 11 1134 cassette for a big range for the climbs and stuff in the Dos dals I’m not sure what the chain

Rings are and they are a bit worm oh 503 what’s going on here why is it that color um that’s when my cleats broke on a 600 km orax and I had to then twist my foot inwards to get my foot out and my boot was rubbing on the uh oh dear crank

Arm there and what about this bit you don’t look after your bite do you uh that’s when I fell off in Paris I think in France oh yeah you fell off in France on par Paris lost your glass I’ve had a few little incidents on this bike one of

Them being I know that’s once I did someone did break in front of me and made me come off my bike and my shifter came off oh yeah new shifter although you wouldn’t tell this shifter is currently melted this was also uh Paris trauma I think the it just expanded the

Rubber and for the Heat and uh yeah basically his bikes in great condition it’s a hydraulic group set as well so hydraulic brakes which are very good uh I’ve got a brook saddle which I absolutely adore plenty of flex in that works for me a treat as a C15 yeah

And has the uh for me kados um saddle bag so it has the ls well done know ni it has a level finishing kit so stem handlebars uh I think that’s about it mhm and it has carbon Forks does it so just make it that slight bit lighter but

It still isn’t massively light at 11.25 kilos so quite a difference to a carbon B can you pick it up with one finger like I with my bik just one yeah one finger how it stronger than you come on then BL should be Brit oh NE but I’m a strong man it is

725 Reynold steel tubing so good performance steel but obviously with the car for does make a bit of a difference um I love riding it to be honest with you it’s not a particularly good climbing bike or anything all that cuz it is a bit heavier it’s not very

Reactive but it’s perfect for the long day rods that what you do perfect for aax in perfect this is my aax bike so and I do have a carbon bike as well but you don’t C it’s just a frame well it is just a frame now because I’ve stol a lot

Of parts to sort this out of time so yeah slowly but surely I’ve lost Parts on the car B cuz I enjoy ring this one so much I did make a change to the wheels yes you did so I’m do now DT Swiss uh P 1800 bline Wheels which are Al

Boys aluminum or we got them for bar actually alumium what aluminum Alum if you’re from America that’s how you say it really with the Mitchell in ties oh they say aluminum aluminum aluminum well it’s aluminium in the UK so but yeah I do love this bike yeah

Although it’s not the lightest bike in the world it is a fine it’s your baby in it I’ve done many a long rides on this when I’m just cruising along just like that on the hand shoes but when I’m really getting stuck into it like got a

Few fast people in front of me I’m trying to keep up I’m down here they’re going how fast your loines go not very cuz I’ve turns out quite a location but sometimes when with the fast for my legs are going in like the clappers your back

Do not very comy on there why it’s cuz I’m in Arrow position Amy or sometimes even put your arms like this no your back still doesn’t look like it’s an air position it looks like I’ve had a b it looks like a BL Hill just like a hunch

Back a not to fair I haven’t had a b f so and I do have a few struggling injuries sometimes so probably will benefit of the B fit in January so that’s my B review ding dlio just before we pop off here’s Cony and all the glory

She’s been demoted to the turbo because it’s winter we’re protecting her so yeah she’s on there there is actually some evidence of the turbo use because there’s a bit of my sweat down there so I’ll leave you on that lovely note and if you want to join me on the turbo feel

Free to join a cycl adventures club car’s going to be joining aren’t you sorry I’m just H my own M Ribble over there but I will be joining yes this is another fan special in so thank you so much for watching and Titi and goodbye