Mega bike & gear showcase from Sea Otter Classic 2024

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Sea Otter Classic is North America's biggest bike festival, with thousands of riders descending on the Laguna Seca Raceway outside Monterey, California for four days of racing, riding, and checking out the latest wares from more than 900 brands in attendance.
I took a stroll around the massive expo and here are some of the highlights.
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0:00 intro
0:27 Cadex
3:02 Smart
4:40 Invert gravel fork
11:35 Scott
13:01 Castelli
15:42 Chandi
17:49 Gary Fisher
20:49 Time
22:36 Buycycle
24:36 Reshift
26:44 3T
34:06 L-Twoo
34:40 FSA Vision
36:40 outro

Пікірлер: 78

@AceMBP Ай бұрын

Of the Sea Otter coverage i would rate that about the best. Interesting product choices and lacking cringe segments. Thanks Ben!

@quikrstuff Ай бұрын

Great seeing you! What a show! Our first Sea Otter, so learning and loving. Bryan.

@mrseaweed5587 Ай бұрын

Nice seeing Gary. The clunker is cool. He lives around the corner from me!!!

@jimmyz5831 Ай бұрын

Love the simple inverted gravel fork. Can't believe the $475 shoes. Folks on crack. Thanks for the show!

@HD46409 Ай бұрын

That's a $11-1200 fork....

@jitterspec Ай бұрын

Wonder how ride compares to lauf grit. Air suspension versus fiberglass springs. Cosmetically it looks different and can put some people off I guess. But it works well, 5 watts faster than normal fork (thanks Ben for testing) and simpler and cheaper.

@tannermccormick4995 Ай бұрын

@@jitterspec Gravel to me is full rigid..

@jitterspec Ай бұрын

@@tannermccormick4995 not even a carbon seatpost? ,:)

@galenkehler Ай бұрын

Castelli: "it's the first time that we focused on making a jersey that fits well" 😬😬😬

@thedronescene7474 Ай бұрын

Almost all brands claimed a first lmao. So much marketing BS with all those brands.

@Mockle07 Ай бұрын

@@thedronescene7474The Cane Creek spiel about the “first gravel fork” was painful. It’s like these brands think their entire consumer base is made up of idiots.

@bobfoster687 Ай бұрын

I miss the Time shoes and pedals from the 80s/90s. Great cleat fitting system!!!

@stephenmeadow9587 Ай бұрын

Just to correct the gentleman at smart tires nitonol was invented at Goodyear aerospace. My father-in-law was the project manager. The initial purpose was to use with satellites.

@stevenagy7152 Ай бұрын

Even before that, NITINOL, Nickel Titanium Naval Observatory Lab. It was originally investigated for sub launched nuclear missile nose cones.

@RobertDominguez-ql2xg Ай бұрын

Appreciate all the work (fun) you do (have), Ben!

@RunRideHikeThrive Ай бұрын

Weather was perfect this year too, great Vid 👏 👏 👏 👏

@rorywalsh7799 Ай бұрын

Super report Ben, Thanks

@Timtimzi Ай бұрын

I was there. There was soooo much to see !

@lazlo2511 Ай бұрын

Hey Ben, appreciate your efforts… nice great weather… what a bumper edition of gear! Enjoy and stay hydrated.

@robbchastain3036 Ай бұрын

Wow, thanks, Ben, for walking all the floors of the Laguna Seca Sears store! And that gent with the World's First Gravel Forks has sold me, I'm convinced that we've been riding on small mountain bike forks, lol. And I still have a pair of NOS road suspension forks from the '90s and I think about actually installing them on a retro build or something. And not to be a wiseacre, this time, but how cool would it be to have a modern vintage class at gravel events, modern components paired with a replica Schwinn frame or thereabouts and MX bars. Gary is like Santa with all these gifts he presents us. 😀

@SnowMongoose Ай бұрын

Cane Creek 100% found the Invert sales dude at a used car lot.

@Mockle07 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@galenkehler Ай бұрын

"This car is lighter and simpler, because it doesn't have any shocks! But you still pay full price 🎉🎉🎉"

@northernguy8860 Ай бұрын

Nitinol has been used for orthodontic wires for decades. Cool tire.

@larryt.atcycleitalia5786 Ай бұрын

Glad you went to this thing..so I didn't have to!!! Watching these things makes me SO glad I'm no longer in the bike biz!!!

@IsaacRC Ай бұрын

The fish! Awesome to see a klunker og bike 😀

@ElijahGrundel Ай бұрын

Feels like I was there! Nice video, Ben!

@TimR123 Ай бұрын

One of the better walk around videos I've seen. Good images and good extracting stories from the reps. It's actually interesting to see the different versions you got than I did in talking to some of the same people. My only ask is work on the audio (I know it's challenging)

@TheRidewithBenDelaney Ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback on the audio. I thought I had a good solution with a DJI gimble cam and two mics… but then that camera got smashed and I had to scramble, using a single action cam and a single mic. Doh! Thanks for your patience. 👍

@TimR123 Ай бұрын

@@TheRidewithBenDelaney Yeah. It happens. That explains why the issues with two people talking. Keep up the good work.

@gearsofmedicine Ай бұрын

Super excellent and comprehensive coverage - 2 awesome parts from the video “pray for speed”, and all high-end bikes should come with a power meter - stated Elegantly and respectfully of course 🙏 and man! That 3T bike - super capable and likely with a separate wheel set can be 1 bike for road and gravel - super cool geometry.

@perjensen1962 Ай бұрын

Nice video Ben. Thank you 👍

@tannermccormick4995 Ай бұрын

Props to just making one giant video!

@hardmtnbiker Ай бұрын

I’m excited to hear your review of that CaneCreek gravel fork and the Berd Spoke gravel wheels. I actually have a custom set of Berd spoke alloy wheels for my hardtail that has super wide i35 and i40mm RaceFace ARC rims and absolutely love them. I’ll be getting a gravel set this summer, just deciding on the rims.

@fenderperry Ай бұрын

Yes, awesome coverage.

@aaronedgeart Ай бұрын

Great coverage, as always.

@spdaltid Ай бұрын

Thankfully, none of my bikes have fully integrated cabling through the headset. Therefore: equally thankfully, I can continue to travel happily with my classic Evoc or Scicon cases!

@Handletaken4 Ай бұрын

Everything the sponsored pro rider could want!

@harrylook7810 Ай бұрын

NASA indestructible tire is awesome. I loved every bike. If money were no object...

@AFV85 Ай бұрын

Buy cycles pretty awesome have to admit!

@Ecoroof1986 Ай бұрын

I'll have the 3T gravel bike please 🙏🏻

@chrisgrigsby4475 Ай бұрын

Hope it’s better than the 3T Exploro that delaminated a few months into ownership that they refused to warranty. That thing was literally trash.

@richardfarias2920 Ай бұрын

Wren has already built the first inverted fork!!

@markdragovan9466 Ай бұрын

Does anyone know what the rolling resistance of the smart tire is?

@galenkehler Ай бұрын

The claim of the "first" gravel fork is the funniest joke of 2024, cane creek should have announced on April 1. I mean you can argue for looks, it is a nice looking fork, but thats just subjective. The fact of the matter is Fox, Lauf, Rock Shox, and who knows who else have already got proven gravel forks already. (And the lauf already is an undamped gravel fork that looks better)

@decoherence926 Ай бұрын

Where's David Arthur?

@mike_p941 Ай бұрын

900 brands well 899 RIP Kona

@TheRidewithBenDelaney Ай бұрын

Pour one out for them, eh? Did you see BRAIN’s coverage of how they set up a tent and then took it down before the show opened?

@donjohnson487 Ай бұрын

Would the first gravel fork not be the Lauf? 🤔

@TheRidewithBenDelaney Ай бұрын

Lauf, Fox, RockShox and MRP would all take issue with that 'first gravel fork' moniker, yes. 😀

@Mockle07 Ай бұрын

@@TheRidewithBenDelaneyThe Cane Creek guy’s explanation of “first gravel fork” was excruciatingly cringe to listen to, your dubious tone was appreciated! 😂

@robbchastain3036 Ай бұрын

@@Mockle07 He was just doing the song and dance and the product looks good, maybe not the first but the first of its type, the upside-down gravel fork? 😀

@Mockle07 Ай бұрын

@@robbchastain3036 haha I like Cane Creek products, the fork looks pretty decent for what it is too but the guy is straight up lying and sounds like a sleazy lawyer or used car dealer when trying to justify the “1st” claim. I’m sure he’s a nice guy btw, the sales pitch was just was too cringe. It seems most people at shows like this feel like they have to go the extra mile and end up sounding like snake oil sales people.

@robbchastain3036 Ай бұрын

@@Mockle07 We need a 60 Minutes report from Ben, is it real or marketing hype, lol.

@MacMasore Ай бұрын

LUCY!

@bobfoster687 Ай бұрын

Gravel fork: will the tire hit the top of the fork upon full compression? Does the front end of the bike need to be higher to avoid this?

@TheRidewithBenDelaney Ай бұрын

No - that would be a major issue. Frame geos need to be built to accommodate a suspension fork, even a short one, without affecting the head angle, but we are seeing many go that route.

@DG-dv6ep Ай бұрын

😊

@walterlippmann4361 Ай бұрын

even the shoes are outrageously expensive 😟

@mikeskaggs3763 Ай бұрын

Thanks but during your interview of Cane Creek guy, you had camera on his face entire time and not on fork as he was explaining and pointing out functionality. Otherwise...great job as always.

@TheRidewithBenDelaney Ай бұрын

Good feedback, thank you. I had a camera get smashed up and die - which kinda threw me off my game a bit.

@bobfoster687 Ай бұрын

Thumbnail: Does Ben look like Keegan Swenson???

@bobfoster687 Ай бұрын

So, Ben is Keegan’s father? Who knew?

@dingle9897 Ай бұрын

3k for an alloy gravel bike Scott be tripping 😂

@kangsterizer Ай бұрын

still lose my atac xc12 for basically everything lol.

@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe Ай бұрын

I always maintained that Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick would provide a Newer Breezier Prospective to all the bike Channels not just this one .

@dyadyaBOB Ай бұрын

Marketing from Cane Creek is just ridiculous. Did they forget lefty exists for more than two decades and it’s not the only inverted fork

@Mockle07 Ай бұрын

Firstly, thanks as ever for the videos. Ben, as a former marketing man, how do you view shows like this when you have myriad brands basically just lying to you and the wider consumer base? So many brands claim things that aren’t true or put a wildly positive spin on something that is literally just yet another version of what has been around forever. I understand that brands need to create stories and/or headlines but you can’t just say any old shite and expect people to believe it can you? I know you show an honest, balanced view in your actual reviews so listening to the guy from Cane Creek (to pick one) must surely have been slightly cringeworthy? P.S. those blue S-Phyre shoes have surely got your name on them? 👌🏼

@thedronescene7474 Ай бұрын

Imaging working for a bike company, presenting at a show and then struggle to even mention the key features of the product……. Looking at you Chandi……..

@terrillford7784 Ай бұрын

Hey Ben grab your friend a whole bunch of free stuff

@jitterspec Ай бұрын

Funny thing witb all the bikes showcased at SO - they push king headsets and high pivot point chain idlers. Just dont see either on the trail. Does market really want it or just something new to sell? It wasnt long ago that manufacturers had us abandoning standard frames for integrated hesdsets.

@user-vh2qr7dc5x Ай бұрын

That giant bike was so lame What in the world are they thinking lol

@Carftymk Ай бұрын

just 15 seconds for the most interesting brand of the video? :/

@TheRidewithBenDelaney Ай бұрын

Which one is that?

@Carftymk Ай бұрын

@@TheRidewithBenDelaney ltwoo

@TheRidewithBenDelaney Ай бұрын

@@Carftymk I rode their gravel group the second day along with the Invert. Stay tuned for more.

@DaveTheAligator Ай бұрын

Sad to see what mountain bike world has become…..used to be just the big brands and their idiot marketing… now it is a generational problem as well. I am glad I gout totally out of the bike industry before it became this.