Building a winner part 2: Intense Sniper T custom dream build for top racer Amy Henchoz

Neil and I ‘helped’ top XC and XCM racer Amy Henchoz put her new Intense Sniper T together ready for the 2024 season. So what kit is she running and why has she chosen it? In part 2, Neil has a big fight with the brakes while Amy cleans her filthy parts.

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Is that right and cut welcome to part two of Amy’s race bite build where Neil gets his nipex in a Twist over some breaks but Amy saves the day with a modern interpretation of a famous fairy tale about Dutch urchins and civil engineering getting po now break’s going on

Talk about these brakes a minute it’s a very very pointy little Barb and you say there’s not even an olive on it it’s just no so you’ve got the little collar yeah that fits on and then obviously that just goes straight in it does look like there is some kind

Of small seal on there seal on there yeah interesting yeah these are the new Lewis brakes all for cycling experience it says on them model is called the Mor it just the bigger one that drives around in a jack nice Louis showing her AG there exactly

That’s not going to go over on Tik Tok at all Amy’s looking utterly confused luckily you’ve idea luckily you haven’t got a young audience ow ouch swine anyway Lewis breaks uh let’s just say heavily influenced uh by Trick stuff but really nice machined lever with reach adjust bike Point

Adjust I’ve been running the front one on the pace and I’ve been really really impressed by how powerful they are and they’re pretty damn light as well 220 G for the front brake so yeah thoroughly impressed so far and then Amy’s running them both uh to see if you can blow them

Up basically yeah that’s your job give a good go yeah that’s Amy’s job is Chief blow killing stuff yeah yeah I’m pretty good at making brakes stop working so most a lot of things to be fair not bad in Juro bearings you you in Juro bearings I have not managed to make fail

Despite having a massive chip out of one of them last year yeah I don’t know even how you did that you managed to chipped the seal but they still ran for like they were still perfect when I I mean that’s like thousands okay in those there must be a good few thousand

Yeah yeah and they were still perfect so dropping Duro bearings again into this bike yeah yeah definitely worth every penny right oh and come on memory you do numbers Amy weight of the bar was 118 correct yeah then wait the stem 76 84 84 I think it was but that is

Light that’s lighter than my Nina shirt all-in-one carbon combo yeah and more adjustable yeah and you can actually put lights on it and you can put lights on it thank God easy stuff like that and uh yeah so super light cockpit and obviously pointing the stem pointing

Down to prove that you is a proper racer in that yeah yeah you don’t even have a peak on your helmet do you depends what helmet you’re wearing doesn’t it well obviously the one well maybe I don’t know maybe maybe maybe this is the year to go full Arrow

We going to see un a skin suit for uro or just recreational purposes hav been known to wear a skin suit I think I think Brighton big dog I wore a white skin suit the older ones though white bright oh I see white with a white yeah sorry I thought you meant I

Was it white with a black white written across it horribly it had fake abs on it well going to be on some lucky guy at the mor Classics bought one from our jumo sale the one piece of clothing we thought we’d never get rid of this guy

Was over the moon oh I didn’t know they were there I S have been straighten obviously yeah we did hide it when you came around to yeah no needs to see that yeah although interestingly the one video I wore a skin suit in it’s one of my highest ranking videos well there’s

Some weird people yeah tall boy 3 is that no mate that was the Mega Tower I didn’t even know snap arm did a Creme Brule till until Neil got his out Kevlar hose nicely done very 007 who honestly like just get some shr breaks get some sh or hope breaks X yeah XCS I’ve got some in a box there got the new

Purple ones in a box see it yeah the ones I told them to make and they finally got around to making by putting the uh are the best lightweight breaks yeah but these are the ones with the four po caliper oh that I told them cuz

He’s down country in it cuz that LE is actually got more leverage Alan if I can have some of these thank you cheers we just realized we have got kind of Pulp Fiction on the poor little intense with you know a blow torch and a

Pair of PL you just cut the bit off that you justed up yeah OHS we were doing so well until we were doing really well until got this bike built by all main crack on oh he’s getting salty now contractually I’m not obliged to touch in intent it’s not the first time you’ve

Been touched in a tent no sorry it’s not what that is what I meant anyway it wasn’t me Sophie she listening see how he does it without the sleeve and place the outer sheath over the hose what’s this prank called leis things have got bad we’ve watched the instructional video for these breaks

Reinsert the Barb until it is finger tape so Louis can I just make a suggestion in the future cuz you’ve copied trick stuff pretty much influenced by influ sorry influenced by Trick stuff can you also get influenced on your barbs by Shram after this is it nice that they have videos on

Their site though into the lever body tightening want for breakfast finishing tightening with the is it that time already feels like we’ve been here for years next up Neil just wanted a nice shot of him using some lipex pliers what model is this Neil uh this is actually

The sliding plier wrench in a 180 mil is that a limited edition model with those black sh yeah they did a um Christmas edition yeah nice yeah I like them yeah like nice firm grip on your B Balls Christmas is that right and cut Amy’s finally finished cleaning

Their wheels so they’re nice enough to put on now kind of clean that do look at that good yeah that’s not bad clean enough where I conf good clean yeah approved good boy there we go wiggle the tail ohar oh fair enough did like that subscriber no you’re not on patreon

Mate definitely not extra content yeah only only fin get T offer get him only fin what what did you want what what you talking about okay three in the intense buildup and we finally have a rear break it might not have the appropriate number of O-rings

But we’ve put some pads in and we’ll just crack on regardless we wanted to go later moment of truth moment of truth moment of truth I can’t do this with it up in the air if only Scott Mills was here that’s two for two I think come on

You’re doing a really good job yeah on she looks like the lead singer of Guns and Roses she’s got Axel woes done it oh there we go oh there we go what we should also know is that Amy is a championship Volvo rally driver vintage Volos not vintage W go that far classic

What’s the difference so the Vintage people will get very upset with you so am I vintage or classic ancient do I want to know I got described as a veteran journalist the other day well you are cuz you on every every single video you go I’ve been tested baset for

20 years I don’t anymore I’ve changed 25 years years no it’s yeah yeah over 25 years cuz it’s over and then one day he’ll switch to 30 years but that’ll be kind of yeah nobody watching them yeah yeah I’ve been testing bikes for so long that I’ve even forgotten I long princess

I’ve been in continent for anyway nice blast there n it’s all white is it it is just remember kids don’t buy shite buy a white exactly zero alcohol by the way we wouldn’t obviously let him work on a top Racers bike while inebriated to be honest that break might

Have gone in a bit quicker Amy Wheels what are we running e13 XCX race and you’ve had these a while haven’t you yeah two years now um pretty much done every single race I think part from some you tested some R vals for me

Yeah I test the r vals um but other than that they’ve done every single race and training ride so um carbon Rim carbon rims um not dead weight weight have to Google it it’s not I mean not heavy if you they’re very very light they are um I think they’re maybe 50 gr

Heavier than the roals so yeah so about 1300 G then yeah yeah very competitive um and they’ they done some Fair hits on some rocky rocky races and they’re a bit scratched in places but absolutely fine other than that you running schwaba again this year yes definitely um first

Year I was on Maxis and just got bored of changing tires all the time for different conditions yeah ranning schw that last year both ends racing Ral both ends unless the condition are truly horrific what happens Ray on the front ray goes on the front yeah yeah okay but it’s got

To be horrific for that I only did it for One race Tong Tong yeah y you see if you thought Ron would go on for Tong cuz it’ rhyme better anyway right uh what we do next got wheels on bottom bracket yeah but I mean we could bleed the brakes at some

Point but yeah Wheels need to come come out to bleed the brakes do they made that mistake before okay yeah didn’t end well I forget one rot later doing it we we’re doing it properly aren’t we oh yeah what are the rotors this is this is ter these are terribly X these are

Quazar okay um not the PO quazar Mount zoom off the mount Zoom website again okay so flirting R allly Center not much metal not much metal what I’m getting here very very light very powerful but they because they’re floating well I’ve never yeah I’ve never tried uh one piece ones but certainly

I’ve taken these down some massive descents at finale in the Alps and no break fade whatsoever fair play fair play so rated rotters oh we’ got a little handle little handle there oh look I’m doing Posh what am I doing Posh div signals anyway yeah little handle for

The rare skewer that’s plenty of Leverage in that a Neil’s got a chair blessing me feeling his AG obviously it’s just cuz I’ve started running so when you forget to find the little bung for the bleed p a his fingers really good little finger not long enough

Though just in little do little little mineral digits s SL boys and dikes that’s what it be like Formula One this is Formula One honestly