EXPLORING THE CITY - Urban Cycling / Downhill / Road bike / Gravel / POV / Traffic / Adventure Ride

[@LegendEater]

great vid, love the way how you treated sounds. you can enjoy bike mecanics sounds as good as ambient and music as well

[@IsaacRC]

Uff a lot of treatment Action 2 wind quality is horrible even with a solid cage in front of the mics that i customised to adapt a fisheye lens in front of the cam, so praised be the good music haha BTW i had to remake the vid cos Sony Spain blocked me the song "Fiebre" from Radio Tarifa 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@cyclinginberlin]

Hi, your stem looks incredibly short. 35 or 55 mm?

[@IsaacRC]

Yeah it's around a 35mm, good for the back-pain as i can't elevate upper the handlebars cos the fork tube is low and back then riding uphill with a 34t gear and a 30t front was a lot of pain, now i switched the rear gears to 11-42 but the short stem is staying for sure, to compensate i moved the saddle all the way back which turns out is a good solution for the infamous ass pain, installed a wider handlebars like 46 cm. and cut the drops so it doesn't kick me in the knees when pedalling standing, also i did other modifications to the handlebars you can see it better in the newer videos where i show the bike at the beginning, feel free to ask if you're interested

[@cyclinginberlin]

@@IsaacRC, yes I stoppt in different Play back Positions of your videos. I also tried out stems with 35, 55, 90 mm and diffent angles. Now I use an adjustable stem. My Problem are relativly Long legs, so Most Drop bar bike have too long reach but to low Stack for me. Result is neck pain an numbness in my hands.

[@IsaacRC]

@@cyclinginberlin Oh yeah i know exactly what you're saying, my similar pain problem is amplified cos i also ride everyday for city transport, very fast traffic, with a heavy backpack full of working tools and with uphills some are massive, for the past 18 years so the little details like geometry and mechanics really wears out in long term. It's true that the stack comes low for road bikes but that's only because the fork tube is cut without asking, i'm planning to buy a new aluminium pure road bike and cut the tube at least at the high equal to the saddle so i can then play with stem reach, for my gravel i don't want to get experimental with carbon honestly i mean buying a new fork to elevate the stack; the reach mainly is the size of the bike, in my case it was the smallest the factory makes for this model; in general i think factories aim for a safe standard for them and it's a racing one where one can hold for a brief time a lot of stress but it really falls apart for everyday use IMO

[@cyclinginberlin]

@@IsaacRC, Hi, I found this part randomly to extent a too short fork tube: kzbin.infoBhSW3nKNAhU?si=Qa0l8scctutmwNJU