I've managed to strip the tread on caliper mounts. On forks. I didn't think I'd done them up that tight. I have sorted them out by using a helicoil kit to drill out the hole, then cut a new thread and finally screw in a tread to the correct size. I never had any issues after this.

Enjoyed the run through of the history of standards. As someone who biked almost every day for 25 yrs., mostly to work but some mtbing, touring, fundraisers, and messenger races, I actually didn't 'see' changes until I ran out of spare stocked parts. Probably half the reason I built new mtb and road bikes was to see and handle present day 'standards'.

The screensaver in the background is MAAAAAAGIC!!! XD Can´t stop looking it! Good show as always!

Rear shock mounts should be standardized. You should be able to use Fox or Rockshox mounting hardware in all fs bikes and so as trunion mounts.

Hear me out: One standard for all shifter to breakleaver mounts. Looking at you Shimano.

Keep up the great work! Loving the videos of 2022!

The one standard I would have said. Actually quite recently. Was the 29er wheel size.I didn't see the point in them. I was actually really hostile to them. I have previously commented in other videos. I may have been wrong. As I now have a 29er hardtail and is pretty much the only bike I have ridden since getting it. Including road rides. I have rode my road once since getting my 29er.

Great show Doddy!! That thing you are thinking about that Evil bikes has... Super Boost! LOL

A year ago I didn’t think I would be this into mountain biking, but I have to agree it’s probably the coolest sport out there, it definitely does pull from every sport

I’m sticking with my 27.5 none boost wheels, 68mm threaded bb, externally routed, 11spd Cotic hardtail. When I can’t buy parts anymore I’ll build a new bike.

Rockshox’ “Torque Cap” should have become the standard front axle dropout. We missed the boat on that one. Another one that’s objectively better but doesn’t seem to get the market: Shimano’s center (centre?) lock disks is just a more elegant design.

Some standards that could be improved are : 1. Improving front and rear suspension service life and serviceability. It's crazy having to service the suspension every so many hours and changing seals etc all the time. External bleed ports, oil draining etc would also go a long way towards improving serviceability 2. Having pivot and other bearings that can be re-greased easily through grease nipples like a car bearing, thereby eliminating the need to disassemble everything every single time, 3. In general making parts that are easy to service using standard tools. An example is shimano, who require special plastic tools for their pedals, bottom brackets etc, not to mention their latest release XTR and other Flat pedal maintenance requirements. In order to get to the axle and bush etc you need to undo all 20 pedal pins just to be able to get to the axle removal bolt. Who wants to do that, no matter how good the pedals might be, which from experience, shimano pedals certainly are not. 4. Eliminating fine threads on aluminium parts which strip at the slightest misdemeanour on the users part, 5. Stop changing standards where the change is blatantly a marketing exercise aimed at creating product obsolescence/targeting the upgrade brigade, and has no real benefit to the consumer other than relieving them of some of their hard earned money.

I gotta say that the Transition Spire nailed it. The line of the top tube and seat stay, along with the colours offered just make that thing go off.

Standards: My 2000 Trek has lots of odd (aka Trek and Klein only) sizes! 1.75in IS caliper mount (vs 2in standard) on the frame and 29.2mm seatpost. The rear caliper is a mash up of adapters and the seatpost has a shim down to a 27.2mm post. Saying that, I had a SRAM DUB BB and cranks in the cupboard and they fit no problem - long live threaded BBs in every sense.

I look forward to your on bike videos! Great show as always!

As the owner of a fat bike and a boosted Enduro I gotta say the standards are anything but standard haha. Those tech 4 hope brakes are porn, the idea they're 30% more powerful is absolutely mental

What standards do you want? Bike industry: ALL OF THEM! But if you have them all it won't be a standard? Bike Industry: DOESN'T MATTER WE NEED ALL OF THEM!

Funny that you mention the problem with stripped brake bolt threads. Just got a new bike where the threads came out first time loosened the brake bolts. Since i didnt wanna wait another 6 months for a new frame on warranty i installed helicoil threads in it. Steal bolts in aluminium threads is a real gamble at any time. Bikes should come with preinstalled thread inserts.

I‘ve never though about that the same happened with steerer tubes twice. First they are made bigger and then settle somewhere in between. Interesting stuff. What I‘d love to see is a standard approach to make dropper posts lighter (and neater). Like what BMC does but standardised. It does not really make sense to have tube in tube in another tube. A dropper post should just use the whole seat tube and have an adjustable upper stop to set the seat height.

International Standard brake mounts should come back. Simple to build into a frame, and the thread goes into the caliper so you can't strip the frame.

Great to see the eco packaging from Mondraker 👍👍

Great show as always. Love your enthusiasm Doddy!

Freehub splines is something I'd like to see standardised. Or at least each manufacturer have one design with just widths to suit the number of gears on the block. Currently as you know for sram depending on the amount of teeth on the biggest sprocket you need a different spline pattern, in both 11 speed and 12. It would make buying new wheels soooooo much easier.

Loads of knowledge here, thanks. P.S. I went 2/3 in the quiz. No idea what IRT was. :)

Disagree with you regarding seatposts, and to a lesser extent Super-boost. I think 27.2mm posts can still have a place on XC bikes, as there's a comfort advantage with fixed seatposts, however for every bike that is built around a dropper post 34.9mm is objectively better. Dropper post designers consistently say that 34.9 posts are way more reliable, especially as dropper posts are getting longer, and especially on bikes with slacker (i.e.

Excellent love the standards part. For me press fit bottom brackets hate them. 👍

My bike has a QR 9x141 rear end..Bloody nightmare getting new wheels for....Ha !!

I don’t share Doddy‘s opinion on SRAM, the whole empire is practically built on my curses on 90s GripShift. 😂

Tire Glider seems like a really nice thing to install tight tires.

Internal routing is nice, can be a bit of a pain sometimes. Rooting is always done internally 😉

Instead of pushing super boost, which makes some sense to create a stiffer and more robust wheel laterally, manufacturers could just use cross-laced rims like on BMX bikes. The spoke holes are meant for the oppsite side of the hub flange and with the dedicated offset of each rim you'd increase the flange width virtually instead of actually widen the rear frame. It would keep the frames lighter and easier to allign in the maufacturing process. H+Son did that with their "Todestrieb" which I own but they gave out after years of torture unfortunately. Very very sturdy nevertheless.

Hey gmbn tech! Thanks Doddy! Ride ride ride!

The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Got a reply email from GMBN Tech concerning the uploader not functioning. I first addressed the issue I checked the ad blocker which had no effect. I then checked my Norton maybe blocking it, not that either. I also tried it on various browsers as I mostly use Brave and it is known to block some sites, but sadly the other browsers showed the same issue. I haven't given up and If I discover the problem I will note it here, but thx to GMBN Tech for sending me the email reply, and Doddy for addressing it on here also.

#GMBNTech You may not like pressfit BBs but I bought a "First Components, Tool for Press-Fit 28.99" to work on my Trek and it's a really nice thing to own. 😍

#AskGMBNTech I know 15mm is the standard for the front axle but can you please explain why we don't we see 20mm thru-axles on the new "super enduro" 38mm ZEB and FOX and 37mm Mezzer forks? The new 38mm and 37mm stanchion forks are designed to be stronger and stiffer which seems to be a good thing for fast dh/enduro riding right? Wouldn't it make sense to continue that trend and make the thru-axle stiffer? As you have mentioned there seems to be a "stiffness sweet spot" for wheels and bars, would a 20mm thru-axle be too stiff as opposed to the standard 15mm? Also why is the rear axle 12mm and not 15mm?? Logically a thicker thru axle would make the rear end stiffer thus reducing lateral flex and resulting in better tracking and cornering at speed. Please offer your thoughts/opinions.

Keep more 26” parts alive! Getting good forks and wheels is getting harder and harder when the frame’s are surviving for decades!

9/16” 20 tpi Pedal threads, the universal standard.

Great show lads all the best for 2022 💚💚💚💚

Super Boost plus is too wide for MTB including for the plus size tires. Boost is wide, but maybe is necessarily wide given the the rising popularity of 12-cog rear cassettes. Even so, the rear wheel's spoking still suffers a lot of dish to provide clearance for the many cogs. With the large amount of dish on the rear wheel, the spokes on the side of the disc brake rotor are in excessively light tension, making a weaker wheel assembly. And that is where there is room for some improvement, an asymmetrical spoke setup on the rear wheel. Using 24 spokes in semi-tangent cross-4 pattern on the cassette side and 12 spokes in radial (not crossed) pattern on the disc brake rotor side allows for suitably high tension on all spokes, and results in a stronger wheel assembly. Using Sapim CX Ray spokes and a wide carbon rim will keep it adequately light in weight regardless the use of 36 spokes at the rear.

16:26 Just buy it Doddy!!!!👍👍👍

I have one bike that has a press fit BB shell. I got a threaded adaptor from FSA which pressed in nicely and was carefully prepped before install. Wouldn't want to do anything else.

Damn, that shock is more expensive than my bike! I'm more interested on Velo coming out with the gear drive system with electronic hub motor. We wont see it until the end of 2022 though.

30.9 only exists because that is the ID of a commonly used alloy tube. It wasn’t made for bikes, but it is cheap tube to get because it was used for many other things.

i would absolutely have thought someone a lunatic if they had told high-school me Grip Shift was going to buy Rock Shox someday

What industry standard winds me up? The 15mm through axle! WTH, the industry standard prior to the 15mm was the 20mm through axle, which makes much more sense for long travel, single crown forks. IMO, a 15mm TA is fine for an XC or short travel trail fork but was a step backward for the most part.

I love these press-fit bottom brackets but what i don't love is the bb press fit compression tool you need that costs way more than the actual bottom bracket, if your lucky you might be able to use the one for your headset but never the less you still need to buy a spelised tool for the job, fine if your a bike shop and it pays for itself in the 1st week but no good to me one a year

In regards to people having trouble with the uploader, it might be worth people checking what systems are running on their PC. Microsoft have just stopped supporting Windows 7 and Office 2010 programmes, so it is possible that they need to upgrade their operating system, if their PC can manage it. Have had some issues at work with this.

Will a 148 boost hub fit fine in a 150 dh bike? My favorite hubs, the Chosen 150T comes in boost 148 but not in 12x150. I want to use it on my Giant Faith 0 2012. Is it just a matter of tightening rear triangle or adding spacers?

Oh the irony of being a clydesdale rider and for years struggling with parts that break as they are not really designed for someone of 120kg, even though the industry had us believe otherwise. Now they are strengthening parts for Ebikes, which are just 10kg heavier than a normal bike. Go figure. Sounds like an admission of sorts by the bike industry, or is it really just marketing again to try and get people to upgrade 😁The bigger irony is that I have upgraded some of my parts to ebike strength parts and still have them break when they really shouldn't. Case in point is the Ebike rated wheel I bought specifically because it was supposedly strengthened for the additional weight and power of an ebike by using more and thicker spokes as well as bigger double row bearings in the hub and freehub together with a steel freehub and stronger ratchet system. Needless to say the bearings and freehub lasted all of one month and was replaced under warranty, only to be broken again and finally demanded a refund.

Hi Doddy, anychance GMBN/GMBN Tech will piggyback of the GNC app for uploading pictures and community stuff? A quick dirtshed reskin of the app for MTB would be great.

Get rid of flat disc brake mounts, a slight machining intolerance makes them impossible to set up.

Press fit BB’s got a bad rap because people try to jam the BB into the bore using bodged tooling. Get the cup crooked once, the bore is ruined and will squeak forever, then people blame the manufacturer.

If memory serves (and it usually doesn't) the uploader had issues with authentication when linked with Facebook, it went through an endless loop. But, yeah, it's working now, so all's good. Will send in my daughter's GIant anthem build when i 'finish' it. Also, i work on lots of cheap bikes and old solid axle dust cover diameters (and corresponding diameter of the recess on the wheel) drive be bonkers. Silly, old, irrelevant, but there we are.

Lighting of the set looks a lot darker this week, possibly not helped by wearing a black jumper?

I'll keep my caged bearing none boost 68mm theeaded bb cup 26inch sunn charger thanks

Is that a Lego Audi Quattro in the background?

I don't like big companies absorbing smaller ones. If all those items which now are part of Sram were on their own, we would have competitive market, reasonable prices, manufacturers that seek to improve! Now a complete bike comes with in house brand parts that are marketed as quality brand but they are not in many cases!

The EVO6 standard unfortunately didn't much attention by the manufacturers. In my mind EVO6 is BOOST done right! By widening the rear axle only on the drive side it achieves almost even spoke tension.

This video isn't about standards, it is about how things change overtime. So it reveals that standards are temporary, change, are in constant flux.

At 2:46, did Doddy just stay "a little bit too stiff"? Isn't "improved stifness" the ethereal holy light and saviour of all things in the bike industry (or maybe the PR industry)? Boost standart axles quote "improved stifness", pressfit bottom-brackets claim "improved stifness" - and huge rear chain-stays which interfere with large front sprockets - are developed with the same slogan in head. In my 30 years of riding bikes I haven't ever ridden a bike about which I could say that - hmmm, a lovely bike, I'd fancy a bit more stifness. WTF? Another idiocy is the internal routing.. WHY? 300% more faffing when installing (both in regard to shifters and brakes), worse quality of shifting (long spans of housing actually contract and expand - as opposed to alu or carbon stops on the frame), worse for the weight, and in the name of what? THE LOOKS? Please, god, un-create it.

I think the worst thing about MTB standards is even google can't handle them! I recently picked up a new fork that was 110x15mm and had an existing rim with 32 holes. Could Google find me one the right hub? No. I had to go to online stores individually and search for one. DT Swiss 350 or Hope Pro 4 if anyone is ever in the same boat.

I think there is an advantage to having lots of options, instead of having a handful of standards. it allows flexibility in the design and building processes.

Mtb is like the MMA of biking

would also like to see the current post mounts go obsolete. Ideally i want my frame and lowers to last for decades so i hate fiddling with brakes as i feel (perhaps erroneously) like im slowly wearing out the lifespan on the threads. I feel like im being forced to use bigger rotors and 4 bolt adaptors to get around this.

I wish UDH will become the norm or at least one for shimano and one for sram so i don't have to buy one every time i change bike to carry along on ride or had a shit load of them in my shop for customer.... that's the only think i will ask for next christmas...one to ride all...🤩

Hi doddy I hope you can help me I have a RockShox reverb dropper locked solid in a carbon frame Any ideas how I can release it Love the show watched you from day 1 N

Good show as always 🤩✌🏻 doddy

#askgmbntech In Blake builds bike cave part 5 Blake uses Topeak's Swing Up Bike Holder. Topeak state that it is limited to 2,35". As I run an Assegai in 2,5" in the front, I wonder if I can use it for building my bike cave. What Tires does Blake use on his bikes?

The other reason that standards aren't standard is "use case". Any component that is optimized for XC will not be strong enough for DH. Because science. Doddy, I'm with you on 35mm bars, though. They went too far, with no necessary benefits for any type of riding.

7th =P Hey Doddy! cheers mate

Doddy red wine and coke is called a Calemucho it comes from the Basque country its all i drink i love them cos i used to live there

The only standard unchanged is having 2 wheels 😉

I think China has kept some parts alive like Freehub, ball bearing BB and the like. Fits in existing standards.

I'm convinced 35mm bars and super boost were solely made just to make me buy new wheels and parts. Please can we all just move to threaded bb, also internally foam sound damped cables - nothing worse than getting a super expensive bike and it sounds like a can of beans.

Maybe the handlebar diameter increased for carbon bars

I have an old 29er frame that i custom made circa 2015 , now i when i want to build it the hub standard is change , the head tube is change. God damn it

Why do we call different size mountain bike parts 'standards'? They aren't 'standards' and were never meant to be. They are just merely different size parts. Ever been to an auto parts store? Pick a part, any part, there is a whole mess of the same part that won't fit more than one car. For example, need a water pump? The pump that fits a Toyota won't fit a Honda or GM or Ford or ... Nobody in the automotive industry complains about that. When you buy a bike you are buying a system of components. Why should we expect those components to fit every other bike? Don't like super boost, buy a different bike. I'm not trying to be harsh, but I just don't get why mountain bikers in general feel like every bike part should be interchangeable. When you buy a new automobile you would never expect the wheels from your current one to fit it. So why do we think the wheels on our current bike should fit the new bike? If you are trying to save money, then buy a bike with the same size parts and your set.

Standards esp head angles. Just how do you expect to make a standard for the different shades of grey? Redbull manic down mountain bikes being chased down a slope by an avalanche of dust want 60 deg (vaguely called slack). Sheep worrying ebikes want 62 deg. ordinary users who want a comfy bike around town like a broad range 72 to 67 deg. Fortunately offset headraces exist to improve the guess bike manufacturers who are following some fashion push out. Saddles 99% of saddles are uncomfortable, fortunately after decades of hit and miss Ergon came out with and actual comfortable saddle which has rapidly been redesigned as some young designer wanted the next tweak to be in production. All other products should be subjected to a series of rampage descents to see what breaks (carbon wheels and handlebars are sure fracture) then given a standard rampage survived stamp

Manufacturing bike in china, sending it to Spain for spreading or around the world … let’s start on this point

Second Biggest accomplishment of my life

Good show, Doddy. But can you lose the background music? Distracts from your presentation.

Don’t get too attached to the seat tube standards. Fully expect square seat tubes in the future. That will reduce dropper part count, add strength, and solves several other issues. It’s not 1975 with only round tubes available. Hydro formed aluminum and carbon don’t care about round tubes… And sorry Doddy, you’re too polite; press fit BBs are horrible! They were a weak attempt by manufacturers to save a few bucks on frames and drive most riders nuts. (Good mechanics are hard to find…)

how moch?

The lighting is what you should have checked, looks tripe.

34 mm Stanchion - XC or down country 36/35 mm Stanchion - Trail 38 mm Stanchion - Enduro 40 mm Stanchion - DH 27.5" Wheels for riders that are 5'6" - 5'10" tall 29" Wheels for riders that are 5'11" - 6'6" tall Everyone should be riding a 35mm X 770mm bar, their is no need to get bigger than that.

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Pressfit BB’s🤮

Can we please stop calling them standards? At this point they are almost all proprietary.

Is it really necessary to make such ridiculous faces and postures for the preview image to hunt for more clicks, who fails for these?