Bike Check: Mike Kazimer's Raaw Madonna V3

[@tonyboughman8050]

Tons of honest, useful info per minute and no BS. Thanks Kaz!!

[@leonpeckson]

I love how he’s honest about the price of certain parts and that the most expensive parts aren’t always necessarily the best parts

[@mrman26]

I love it when you show your personal bikes. Please keep it up!

[@MayerMTB]

I started flipping my bars 180 degrees for the whistler lift. The lift was hitting my bleeder ports on my fox 38. Saves the fender too.

[@garrettgriffin9613]

"6 or 9" at 4:20, nice

[@EasternOT]

Put Kaz in front of camera more

[@bstill30]

Running the SV8 on my Levo long shocked. Love that shock.

[@mojo3398]

Hell of a bike! I've been lurking around that frame for 1 or 2 years myself. Only think I'd change, even if it performs really well, but just for the looks of it, that golden fork...

[@mrman26]

She’s beautiful. I prefer aluminum and my trail bike build has a lot of similarities to yours. I also avoid anything with a battery.

[@bwest6275]

NGL, it's hard to get excited over a suspension design that has been done for ages.

[@jeremiashmrzut]

i just ordered reserve aluminium wheels earlier today

[@RalphIvanDelaTonga]

Interesting geometry u got there

[@alexander.sollie]

If you were 6’7” what length chainstays would you want?

[@Mike_Kazimer]

That's a good question. I'm not convinced there's a magic formula, but if you took the chainstay length vs body height proportion that I have on the Raaw and extrapolated that to a 6'7" person you'd end up with 500mm chainstays.

[@LaurentiusTriarius]

That vivo derailleur doesn't look like anything John has worked on recently I was thinking he ditched the vivo brand to work for TRP and others... Anyway it's magnificent, too bad it's just a limited run.

[@hectorhernandez1664]

Is that a full t-type crankset and chainring? I’ve been curious if you can run them with a standard gx cassette and derailer

[@schlicss]

You can. I run them with xo1 non t-type. Because they’re dub wide you need to reduce the offset of the chain ring to keep things in line. Found a Taiwanese company that make a 32t chainring for t-type to correct the offset.

[@jamesc6876]

Kaz, what's your weight and height?

[@jamesc6876]

Also, what coil spring lbs is that titanium coil?

[@Mike_Kazimer]

I'm 5'11" and 160 lbs. I'm running a 475 lb spring on the SV8, which puts me at 26% sag.

[@ArmaniFlyHigh]

Still on v2.2 the same brand shock just the 11-6

[@project4funner]

I may be missing something but why not just have a hub with less engagement than running an o chain? You’d get the same results with less weight. Seems like it’s fixing a problem we already have a solution to.

[@TheOtherPlayer]

Less chain slap

[@scottfoster4271]

If the goal is preventing pedal kickback, the 'dead zone' would be inconsistent. You could have a hub with a single point of engagement and still sometimes be right up against it. I think Kaz might be closer to the truth about how it actually works though, which wouldn't be helped by a lower engagement hub either

[@Pienimusta]

Riding Madonna raw, nice.

[@zwingler]

huh, why test the lastest and greatest when all your viewers are just bumblers ? I dont get it.

[@arnaudFbr]

☠ yall really don't wanna let it go

[@andretokayuk8100]

Somebody's got to buy the new overpriced crap... good for you! This channel definitely isn't for tax slaves though.. might want to put that in the description.