Sea Otter 2024: All The Best & Weirdest Tech

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The 2024 Sea Otter Classic has thrown up its usual feast of unusual and cutting-edge tech for you and the cycling world to fawn over.
From inverted gravel forks with no dampers, to finally available cross-country race tyre and everything in between, including a bike-packing BMX and cranks coated with diamonds, there truly is something for everyone.
Our purveyor of all things weird and wonderful, and BikeRadar’s fashion icon himself, Jack Luke, takes you through his top finds from North America’s biggest cycling trade show.
What is your favourite cycling oddity or tech find from this year's show?
Let us know in the comments!
#seaotter #cyclingtech #mtb
Chapters:
00:00 Cane Creek Invert
01:45 Kyoot Itty Bitty
03:03 5Dev Titanium Cranks
03:55 Pinarello Dogma XC
05:45 Maxxis Aspen ST
06:31 Bridge Bike Works Surveyor
07:45 CeramicSpeed OSPW X
09:03 Ritchey Montebello
10:13 Fox 32 Step Cast
10:59 Box One 9 Speed Groupset
12:20 Push Industries Nine One
13:38 Outro
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New 32 Step-Cast is Fox's lightest ever XC fork thanks to reversed arch, new damper and structural redesign
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New Paris-Brest-Paris-tested Ritchey Montebello randonneur bike has dynamo light routing and custom steel tubing
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Пікірлер: 75

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

Which bit of tech is your favourite from this year's show?

@marshallemmett3313 Ай бұрын

I'm with you Jack! The Ritchey would be the bike for me! All I want is something like that. Steel, mud guards, relaxed... sounds like a dream!

@brasstinmancrazy Ай бұрын

Ritchey Montebello

@Rich_Mitch_Creative Ай бұрын

It's the Ritchey... and also Jack's very snazzy camera strap. Cooler than cool.

@Incorruptus1 Ай бұрын

What seriously new here?

@MrQuestful Ай бұрын

9:07 💯 I love the new Ritchey Montebello, it feels like it’s just the right combo of classic design and tech. That’s one bike I’m looking forward to building up this year.

@drill_fiend1097 Ай бұрын

Reversed gravel fork isn't new at all. A matter of fact, Cannondale had been making single stanchion, reversed fork for years.

@brasstinmancrazy Ай бұрын

Ritchey Montebello on point

@Simte Ай бұрын

Great video. Nice to see coverage of the tech in these races.

@dogmatika7 Ай бұрын

The Ritchey

@lawrencefalk8714 Ай бұрын

An inspiring performance by the journalist!

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

Jack was in his element

@nayrdrumr Ай бұрын

I have the fox 32tc on my cross bike and I love it. I currently use it to commute, run errands, gravel, single track. Works for my everything bike and has allowed the single track rides to be longer and faster

@charlesblithfield6182 Ай бұрын

I have a Velo Orange Neurino mini Velo and I can totally recommend this bike type for making urban riding more fun and accessible, but I also ride gravel trails with it on its 50mm Schwalbe Billy Bonkers tires.

@joehoeper4648 Ай бұрын

Those 5DEV cranks look better than eeWings IMO

@maxlloyd3740 Ай бұрын

We want more pictures of that Yeti with the Box components. Retro paint finish with that limited Manitou fork made to look like an older model! 😍

@CR-di1lg Ай бұрын

good job

@whidbey88 Ай бұрын

7:28- When did $4000 for a carbon road frameset become reasonable? Plus, 750 more for a paint job? I must live in a different world.

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

A fair comment, though by reasonably priced, I mean in the context of a high-end carbon frame produced by a small manufacturer. It’s certainly not cheap, but you could easily spend a lot more for a frame from a mainstream brand! Cheers, Jack

@tommyrq180 Ай бұрын

Glad you are self-aware of living in a different world. 😮

@andrewsiasparks Ай бұрын

$1200 for a fork that has only an air spring?

@andrew8200m Ай бұрын

Some companies are still working on covid component shortage pricing. They won’t last long all being well and the sensible businesses can get on with facilitating the market.

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

it's rather steep. Let's see if the performance goes any way to justifying the cost.

@alldecentnamestaken Ай бұрын

I'm digging that fork from Cane Creek

@timtaylor9590 Ай бұрын

No damping or lock out.

@Adventuregirl96 Ай бұрын

My husband has been thinking about getting a suspension fork for his gravel bike, so the invert from Cane Creek really has his attention.

@phenofinder9145 Ай бұрын

Might I suggest he go with tires as wide as his frame can fit and playing with pressure before going the suspension route

@Adventuregirl96 Ай бұрын

@@phenofinder9145 Dan comes from a MTB background so he already has.

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

Well isn't this good timing! We've got a gravel forks group test coming out on 7th May 😁

@denisrogers4358 Ай бұрын

? How could a bloke from the UK say Manitou had the first rear-arch Fork..?!? It was the UK’s PACE circa ‘93.

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

Jack will be forced to rebuild forks for the rest of the day as punishment for this grave error

@robynfurtado9610 Ай бұрын

@1:41 he prefers the canine creek fork 🙃

@phenofinder9145 Ай бұрын

That new fox 32 looks like the arch will be VERY bad with collecting trailage. Supposed to be super light but looks like it can hold 5lbs of mud

@tee_m Ай бұрын

Wonder what's on the Kona booth... Awww damn.

@Nick-cs5yc Ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍

@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter Ай бұрын

What happens to the hub? On that fork? 💥

@garysladek9110 Ай бұрын

That Cane Creek fork needs a factory service every 100 hours or annually. Im wondering what that would cost?

@DR_1_1 Ай бұрын

Every new tech means MORE maintenance... disc brakes, tubeless, internal cables, etc... The main issue I see here is it won't fit a gravel frame, or maybe with a very small wheel?

@petersouthernboy6327 Ай бұрын

I have a Cane Creek Air Shock - pretty simple to rebuild.

@StigTube06 Ай бұрын

In my day we just called those mountain bikes

@phil_d Ай бұрын

First Gravel fork? Does anyone remember the Slate???

@lepsielogo2733 Ай бұрын

I do, and I ride mine as often as possible - with a 2x11 GRX it is the most versatile bike I've ridden so far, and the Lefty Oliver just keeps on delivering. My personal dream bike come true.

@phil_d Ай бұрын

@@lepsielogo2733 Nice! What tyres are you running?

@lepsielogo2733 Ай бұрын

@@phil_d I fitted Schwalbe's G-One Allround Evo (40-584) about 18 months ago and been happily running them ever since.

@phil_d Ай бұрын

@@lepsielogo2733 Same here! Shame there's not a bigger tyre choice for 650b wheels, although Panaracer now have their Semi Slick in Slate sizes 👍🏻

@CheeseyWotsit Ай бұрын

Man alive, don't forget the factor 50.

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

Jack's Scottish skin is extra delicate

@klisurski Ай бұрын

MTB industry is led by fashion now, not by technology, and tries to push to ritch kids(and not just) same junk technology that used to be out there in the 90s, but now it's "cool" and costs 10x more. This starts to put me off from being a "biker", as bikes became just like iPhones and every other consumer short-lived tech-you buy the new model which is not even marginally better, but just has the new paint pattern and has the cool new GRIP6 damper which is 6 times "more better" than the old year's GRIP5. Then, the next year comes and the paint pattern is cooler and GRIP7 is out and you decide to be humble and just upgrade the fork and give another last chance to your "old" bike, but surprise - the industry has thought about cheaters like you - your bike has the old 1.5" Taper standard and you cannot fit the new cool fork which is produced only in the latest 1.8" SuperTaper standard and you feel so ashamed of your bike that you don't even go out there to ride it as it does not give you the 0.7% gain that your friends have now, so you spend your free time looking at the brainwash videos of the new tech and gain weight instead.

@joehoeper4648 Ай бұрын

Lighten up - bike fashion is fun. Not everyone lacks imagination and wants to ride an all black bike.

@turntablized Ай бұрын

that diamond coating will rub your your ankles off :S

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

Yea but skin will heal. In fact, do you even need skin on your ankles?

@caet49 Ай бұрын

.ucking hate gravel suspension. Forget it - Buy a mtb xc instead if thats important😂

@vonWeizhacker69 Ай бұрын

Graveltech is just less capable MTB stuff.

@BeeCee100279 Ай бұрын

You don’t need a sledgehammer to crack a walnut

@petersouthernboy6327 Ай бұрын

A MTB is just a slower Gravel Bike.

@Paganiproductions84 Ай бұрын

A good xc hardtail will do anything a gravelbike can just less aero and slower when the stuff gets rough the xc hardtail gets in his element.

@darrin2382 Ай бұрын

@@Paganiproductions84 if my grandma had wheels then....

@tl924 Ай бұрын

@@BeeCee100279 yes you do

@andreronan1035 Ай бұрын

It looks like a dude with short trousers

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

Should we get it a pair of fashionable socks?

@Incorruptus1 Ай бұрын

Just to make it not look like an MTB...LOL.

@garethhughes5745 Ай бұрын

cant wait to see all the stone chips on those exposed stanchions. Theres a reason why upsidedown forks never took off 20 odd years ago. but new people dont research history of their 'new ideas'

@bikeradar Ай бұрын

We're certainly interested to see how they hold up in testing

@yonglingng5640 Ай бұрын

Fairings can be added to shield the front side of the stanchions, take a look at a motocross bike's inverted suspension fork to see what I mean.

@garethhughes5745 Ай бұрын

@@yonglingng5640 and add more weight?

@erikhanhy9033 Ай бұрын

Not a fan of the fork

@brady8493 Ай бұрын

Heel rub is a badge of honour. Only Cafe posers need diamond coating.

@cv643d Ай бұрын

first

@JFomo Ай бұрын

There's absolutely nothing of interest from this so called bike show. What a boring year for bikes.

@joehoeper4648 Ай бұрын

Not true - they just aren't covered here. Polygon is killing it and Haro is back in the game

@theshadow8008 Ай бұрын

Gravel fork is ugly, really!

@burkaanc Ай бұрын

unnecessary overpriced junk.

@Barncatfish Ай бұрын

Knowledgeable and entertaining reviewer. I find it shocking or laughable or something that there is a market for 6,8,$10,000 BICYCLES and absurdly priced components however. Oh the opportunity cost...