We talked about this for sometime this week. We’ve been producing the weekly videos for 3 years tomorrow, Simon is trying to buy a house and we have hopes and dreams that the channel will soon make some fast progress. Thank you very much for supporting the channel we are trying to build a future from it so you make it that bit more possible 🧡

That’s a great compliment thank you 🧡

We literally use it every single day!🧡

That’s awesome! They’re one of our most popular bikes on the channel so you might not be alone there🧡

Great stuff! Enjoy it🧡

Wow thanks for all the support James. Thanks also for shopping with us, it is the only money we make from the videos and helps us to put them together so we really appreciate it🧡

That’s a good regime. I am not an auto tech but love my own cars and working on them! So snap on is a dream brand 🧡⚙️

Thank you David 🧡

That’s a great compliment to me, I work very hard on them often doing 12 hour days sat at the computer, thanks from Simon 🧡

Another very kind compliment again thank you 🧡

The Giant proprietary ones are notorious. They are so brittle. Same thing happened on my old TCR after about 1.5 years

True, unless the cable housing is one piece from lever to derailleur (like on some Treks).

​@@mike_f Tarmac SL7s also require shift housings to run that way, but this frameset is compatible with any mechanical groupset, including SRAM and Campagnolo.

Thanks Dean!🧡⚙️🇫🇮

Glad you enjoyed this one, thanks for the support!🧡

We use it 3 times a day!🧡

Thanks for watching!🧡

Almost there! We’re still hoping for some bigger growth coming up 🧡

Thanks very much!🧡

Best of luck riding!🧡

Won’t be the worst or the last! Thanks for watching 🧡⚙️

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Thanks very much for all the support 🧡

Very kind, thanks for watching 🧡

Very kind than you!🧡

Agreed!🧡

Thanks!🧡⚙️

Thanks very much!🧡

Yes it had some questionable setting up lol🧡

Used bikes have a huge servicing cost that often isn’t considered, good luck buying🧡

Crazy how this era Propel has already become so dated whereas a TCR from that same model year will still look modern and current and relevant today.

@@demonstructie i rather have the old propel than the new one. but got no need for a new bike my tcr just keeps going

@@meneldil7604 I'm right there with you. I think the new Propel looks much better than the generation from the video (although it may age as poorly?), but that's pretty much the only pro. Cons are that I don't want disc brakes on my road bike (although I don't want weird proprietary V-brakes like the one in the video either); it's impossible to work on with everything being internal and hydraulic; and I couldn't justify the exponential price increase of the new model over a used one from say 2016. If we compare Propel vs TCR however, I would _always_ choose the TCR over a Propel of the same model year. Same as you, my 2011 TCR is still going strong - it originally came with 10sp Ultegra but I've since upgraded to 11sp Dura Ace, and I've never ever been enticed by the Propel. I must admit that I have looked at a new TCR in a moment of weakness in the past, but my current bike is already much faster than I am so I'm not in any hurry to run out and buy something just because it's new and shiny!

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Thank you thank you!🧡

Thank you thank you!🧡

Thanks John!🧡

Thank you!🧡

Very very kind compliment thank you🧡

Thank you!🧡

Thank you David!🧡

Thank you thank you!🧡

Thank you!🧡

Thanks very much again Drew 🧡

Thank you Paul!🧡

That’s the way we see it, thank you!🧡

Wait till tonight’s! It’s a disco ball! Thanks again🧡

@@Bikespeeds looking forward

That’s what we always want! 🧡

Thanks very much! Glad you’re still enjoying the content 🧡

Thank you very much!🧡⚙️

You’ll have to google each component separately!🧡⚙️

Lovely brakes in line with the frame... The air resistance of this bike must be quite low.. not full aero but getting there, and little drawbacks

They're the bike's proprietary linear pull rim brakes, Giant named them SpeedControl. 2017 Propels and older use Fouriers' linear pull rim brakes.

@@yonglingng5640 every day's a school day, thanks.

It’s not as soapy as you’d think, we dry it off and it leaves no film 🧡⚙️

yes thay do i use to have a set

Yes they are 🧡⚙️

The front bolt is for adjusting the saddle's angle, final torque-down is done only with the rear bolt, usually 6 - 10 Nm, depending on the seatpost's manufacturer. In order to end up with the right saddle angle, you have to predict how much further back it'll tilt when you torque the rear bolt down. This takes trial and error sometimes.

i just hope giant didn't let it out the door like that

As far as I’m aware just a shadow!🧡⚙️

i just reuse it never had a problem yet. watch me snap one tomorrow now

We will reuse a quick link if we reuse a chain and replace a quick link if we replace a chain🧡

They’re not as dry as they look, the floor is wet enough to take multiple mops to try. But yes being in a shop we can’t use the hose, thanks Saka🧡

Rim brake 😊

Linear pull rim brakes, it's not commonly used on road bikes, but these are aero-optimised.

it basically a v brake for a road bike

@@meneldil7604 I thought so looking at it. Just an unorthodox shape then

We don’t need too! We wipe it off and remove all residues🧡

This Propel Advanced's BB standard is BB86.

bb86 for some reason giant call it powercore

Hi, while I'm not a professional, but have alot of bikes I maintain. I would suggest you have 3 options 1) Visit your local bike shop which I think the bike speed team would recommend 2) You can get good results cleaning with the brush attachments that clip onto the chain and include a water bath 3) If the chain itself had reasonable wear, buy a new one. Cleaning will remove much of the wax so should be waxed again if you clean it.

if it only surface rust white spirts will get rid of but it will need a full rewax

Try roughing it with a brass brush, it could be too far gone and require replacing 🧡

It may have been predicted beforehand, that's how you work with this kind of saddle clamp.

We squared this up off camera level with the floor, you can’t do this unless both wheels are keeping the bike flat🧡

no need if it is smooth for headset and cant grease a carbon seatpost

@@meneldil7604 carbon grease* and we do headset in the shop I worked in before. In fact anywhere where it was previously greased,we take it apart and regrease again,which Includes threaded on BBs and even derailleurs. Etc. Only press fit stuff are left unremoved. The reasons grease gets washed off and degrades over time