' the key is to not look like you're dying when you get to the top , just in case anybody's there ' lol , relatable

Im not usually into flashy colors but, wow, this turned out great. The two-tone with the black rings gives it an extra flair for sure. Nice work.

Loving the bike content, most of us like Mountain bikes too

Dave, you a a large part in me getting back on the bike. I just picked up a used Santa Cruz Hardtail for 600 off Facebook Marketplace. Loving the content. Thanks for all you do!

Doing stuff like that always makes things feel newer, and cooler. Would do that with rattle cans in the late 70s and early 80s to our bikes when I was a kid. We would get old Huffy and Schwinn cruiser bikes, tear them down, paint, new BMX style bars, different forks, and build them into "scramblers" with cooler paint colors. Kinda a thing back then, before everyone got BMX bikes in the 80s

Helmet cam view is great, you can see more of the view that you see.😁👍

You're the man, Dave

These videos are awesome!!! I love wrenching on bikes!!! That gold is wicked awesome!!!

You bought a broken bike and are mad that it was breaking on the trail. 😂 Painting skills are awesome! Great video, I liked it!

Amazing. I was disassembling my midschool S&M Dirtbike for a mild restoration/ modification. This video worked perfect for me.

Love it! Thanks for the content, keep on truckin and mountain biking!

You got me thinking about getting my bike down and finding a trail to go to.

Love the bike content! Keep rocking the Van's and keep being cool! 🤟

Looks awesome! Congrats on your new bike!

Didn’t think I’d like this video but I enjoyed it for sure

Just awesome!

Geez, riding up Beacon is a chore by itself, doing it when it's been high 90's all week is crazy. Glad you're having fun ripping on a cheap bike, that's pretty rad

Excellent. I enjoy the joy you find in the process of making it "yours" and then once again the excitement of using your creation. Keep it up.

Loving the variety of content!

I doubted your satin choice, but once again you've proven yourself smarter than me!

The New Ozark gets color !!! That's Rad brother. Yes I'm looking for one now ...

If you didn’t already figure it out the shifting is probably a cable issue, a hanger alingment issue, or high low screws not set correctly. All pretty simple things to attend to. The Shimano base model hydro brakes are very good for the money. Sram NX or GX derailers and shifters are also very good for the money. Set the tires up tubeless. It’s great for reducing flats, and they tend to grip a little better. Bike looks great.

Love that color

Love the mix of content Dave, the paint is amazing

I just wanted to let you know that I also have an '80 D50. Doesn't even have 100k miles on it yet. Keep the videos coming.

That,s a cool shot with the sun behind you and your shadow on the trail.

That bike turned out sweet! Those trails look awesome

When I was talking with you at beacon we were talking about painting the bikes. You just convinced me to paint mine as well!

I think it’s pretty cool your into bikes and cars. I am also way into both. Most folks tend to like one or the other.

That paint would look SWEET on my old Quadangle

REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER TRUCK LOOKING GOOD......👍💯

That gold is awesome. You’ve inspired us to get our bikes out and have fun 💯🔥

Great job.

You should definitely get a chest strap for the Gopro. You get to see a much better angle on the trail and the fork/arm action is nice. I am really liking the mix of MTB and shop work. Keep up the good work!

That color definitely has old school mini truck vibes. What a perfect pairing pulling up to the trailhead with it in the d50.

Nice motivator to finally finish a bike project I've got to paint! A pre-ww2 skip-link 24" wheel single speed. Not an MTB but it is my very first bike that I started riding on at 4yrs old in the early 70's - nothing but gravel and dirt until 3rd grade. Dug it out of my folks barn in Iowa after decades. I'm doing a sort of resto-mod on it since a lot of original parts were too far gone and I'm using period pieces that I would have had access to at the time I would have upgraded it had it not been relegated to barn storage.

That bike is more fun because it’s more rad with that awesome paint!

if you can mount the camera on the chin of your helmet . with these entry level bikes the place to start upgrades is the rubber followed by powertrain parts when you know what you want to replace the parts they come with for. at these price points microshift tend to beat shimano, and everyone else really on deraileurs ,levers and the rest

Fabulous work Dave , I love the content. Great paint job on the “Nugget” it looks killer . Cheers 🇨🇦🇨🇦

Thanks for more cool stuff Dave!

Like any gear head I started out by fixing my bikes, I would strip ‘em paint em and sell em to my friends. This is taking me back, nice work Dave. Movie quote quiz “ Say that’s a nice bike” 🤔.

So cool Dave! Nice work on the production quality. So cool you are out there being fit and active and sharing it! Man coming out of school I was so all about mountain bikes and bought my first aluminum bike at sams club, its derailer was a mess too. Not sure if I ever got that back on the road again. I know I had another bike, and wow the quality per cost was so low back then. The front shocks seemed trick but they weighed a metric but ton. All that was new in 94 ish though. I was all the time buying junk with potential and repainting it. Especially guitars. Haven't really seen you with anything musical, even taste wise. Though your intro song is badass and maybe like Fu Manchu. I heard my cousin got my S10 running well and took it a few states away to TN! Glad it didn't go all that far. Love those 2nd gen S10s. Though those Nissan's like yours always looked so good. Step dad had one and we used to ride in it a bit. So it's real cool seeing your work on that. Man that Dodge truck is so dang sweet man. No wonder you parted ways with the red ford, that Dodge is super sweet. Saw a rare truck special and that was one of them on it. Cool deal with the head mount stuff. I hadn't realized you hadn't used that much. Man I had a weird thought. I wonder if they have a camera mount like preditors shoulder lazer mount? Might be a good compromise of it not leaving you out of the shots and also seeing what your eyes are doing. Either way, hell of a job. I get intrusive creative thoughts, prolly way off but either way, always enjoying your content.

I bought 2 specialized hardrocks. When I was down in Georgia/Tennessee. Late 80's early 90's I always buy large frames. Large and Xl are hard to find.

That looks like it was fun have a great day really enjoy the videos

The paint turned out great 👍👍

Saw your sent and bent podcast with the Grind Hard boys. The variety of your channel keeps things fresh, man. Appreciate the diverse content. And looking forward to more Mustang vids.

😂 Now I've got to get the Cannondale 29'er down and tune it up... Can't remember it all but I think there was something about the wheels. They would squeak the spokes rubbing on each other... The paint was nice.

Total Schwinn Stingray vibes.

Would love to see what custom bike rack/mount you dream up for one of the vehicles.

Those trails look amazing. I've been off my bike a bit, I need to get back on it.

how about a rebuild of a junky old bicycle, like you do with your fleet. Dave, you need bicycle work stand. keep it up, you're doing great!!

Nice work

+1 for the chest rig.

That Gold is Sick 👍👍

Thx for posting this! I'm fidna try a beginner DIY "pattern top" project on my 60's Bel Air and I can apply some of what I learned in this video to that project.

Good paint job it looks killer what I would like to see you convert one of those bikes in to electric since you are mechanical oriented I think it will be nice !

You've officially entered the stage where you have enough bikes to build a rack to store them and a work stand to work on them ha ha ha. Time to pick a designated corner in the shop for the bikes 😂😂😂😂

That restoration shop paint brand is pretty good, sprayed my 64 cj5 with an LVLP paint gun with their single stage and it came out really nice. Dig the 29er and the paint job!

Another fun, educational video

Man that gold color looks amazing. 300 bucks is amazing for a starter bike. Maybe someday I could get back into mountain biking.

Dude, love it... that Ozark Trail bike is the only bike you should buy from WalMart... definitely do a re-assembly

Gotta say, I wish my trails had rocks that big to climb. Lol, gonna test an ebike next..... they are even in my stable.

Nice paint job, Dave👍! It reminds me back in the 90's when I painted my son's BMX bike more like Greg LeMond Team Z color (tri-color). It's possible that chain need a little more tension to cure the shifting problem. You can turn the little screw on the derailleur hanger in to put a little more tension on the chain. It is also possible they installed the wrong chain length or the shift cable came loose. Try to match the chain with the other bike

i liked the gopro video from your helmet better than where you had it in other videos it seems more stable now. makes me want to paint my bike it looks cool.

Hi Dave. Check out the following video at 16:55. Your identical twin is from Ireland apparently, currently riding a motorbike around the world.

I like the helmet cam better than the handle bar cam.

My local also has a wheelie spot. Mandatory

That gold looks really nice!

Tell me you grew up riding bmx without telling me 😂 “the medium felt a bit big” …Keep up the rad vids!

That paint is awesome

Dave, look at a Cyc x1 pro center hub as a upgrade you can make it a hotrod.

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Can we also talk about the fact that you're just putting a bike in the back of a mini truck without having to put it at an angle or anything. Still sad it's getting harder to find long bed small trucks. I guess older is the way to go for that. Also, sick paint job.

Awesome, more MTB content! I buy a lot of random frames to build bikes from, and I’ve really thought about painting them from time to time, but I don’t think I have the patience to do the prep and it don’t work unless you do the prep .

Gonna make the bike a lot cooler so the wife and kids will want to get out and ride. . . . . Makes it so cool that the wife and kids can't ride it because your always riding it. lol. Looks great. I've painted a motorcycle and a truck with that dupicolor paint shop base with great results outs of a cheap gun. The clear is hot garbage though. I like that moto, buy cheap stuff, and go have fun.

Yup, I want one!

Keep making amazing videos! Butter jeep might break the curse if she was Gold Dusted..

Not going to lie didn’t think we were getting a episode this week. I checked at 2 like normal. Anyway I took my nukeproof scout for a little rip yesterday. I got a 150mm for on it a 27.5x2.6. I built it myself. It’s such a fun “aggressive” hardtail I think you’d love it.

buy a decent set of forks to throw on the new bike would be awesome to see the comparsion of old and new forks

Flakes make for fun.🎉

I was hoping I could send you a picture of the Mongoose I repainted , we called it the cream cycle cuz it look like a dreamsicle 😁

I agree about the Paint Shop Clear.....I didn't have much luck with it.

Dave, when you were displaying both bikes in front of your garage, what was that little Jeep thingy on the ground in front of the freshly painted bike? Some sort of Jeep step stool or something?? LOVE THAT GOLDEN NUGGET!!

Dave tape that paint can to a sawzall blade and letter rip. Boom paint mixed.

Mr. Chappelle , thank you for everything you do on your channel. If I may ask you a question. I’ve always wondered can a guy purchase a “budget” mountain bike and upgrade the front and rear wheel bearings to top of the line to massively upgrade the bike? Or do modern mountain bikes not work like that? Thank you again in advance. May God Bless you and your family.

Love how you got the version 2 I’ve heard the drivetrain rocks vs the v1

With as different as you feel the tires are, I would be real curious to know what the various air pressures are and how stringent you are on them. Couple pounds can make a difference.

You should figure out how to transport the bike standing up, the color would pop so good with the color of the D50.

Stick a fork from Ebay on it. Seems like people buy bikes and then upgrade the forks so there are decent oil damped forks that can be had. I bought a Trek years ago and stuck a Tora 302 fork on it from Ebay, upgraded the brakes to discs and the drive train to a 1x7 with half decent Shimano parts. I've been riding it ever since. How is that tiny chain ring with the giant low gear sprocket on the cassette? I usually climb standing up so I don't have gearing that low.

If a stock Trek R8 fork would work on the Ozark Trail I've got an extra one that is almost brand new.

Hell yeah modify everything!!!

Best cheap mods: tubeless, used dropper, used fox fork

I’m tripping how far back the seat post is to the tire. Probably a comfortable rigid bike

Cool

Yeee Yeee

Dave, what weld-thru primer do you use on repairs? I am working on a 67 Mustang and am not sure if there is one that works better or if there is really much difference. You should make a series of vids on painting and prep. You definitely have the skills.

I'm wondering if you can take a kitchen wisk and somehow make it work with a cordless drill and mix the paint that way?

Enumclaw WA LOOKS LIKE !!!!!

Dirthead Dave becomes Dijon Dave

Nice job on the paint! And is that a Raceface stem that came stock? It seems like at some point a couple years ago the sizes definitely went up, so I'm glad the small works for you. You spec some new forks for these yet? That's definitely the weakest link. I've had good luck with the RS Judy if you want to keep things cheap. Not a huge fan of the Circus Markhors.