Janked up touring bike gets a Berm Peak tuneup!

Alex's brother finished graduate school and immediately set out on a touring bike to cross the United States. Now, after a few weeks of nonstop riding, he's here at Berm Peak for a tuneup. Enjoy!

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[BermPeakExpress]

Thanks for all your well wishes and support! It was Sunday afternoon when my ankle/fibula broke, so this week was pretty interesting. Luckily we do have some videos filmed from before the accident, so we’ll be working on those first.

[DeadsetYT]

Should have done a Sam Pilgrim and chucked some Fox 40's on the front. :D

[samburrell]

I understand that your upload schedule is a bit messed up right now but still every upload makes my day, thanks Seth

[suntofoca]

The kickstand can be really usefull on a touring bike, like when its really heavy and u dont want to let it down

[brysonvance]

5:07 “We are gonna make sure that he has a bar end so nobody gets core sampled” is the best line I have ever heard from you. Seth, you are a genius, madman, and joker all at the same time.

[andrewknowls]

i was expecting a “welcome back to berm peak express and today... well I broke my leg.”

[moltam]

Ah the traditional Surly geometry with all the 1 1/8 spacers the bike shop had in stock, just beautiful.

[sebastianarguello]

6:05 “it’s a wrap”

Underrated pun, that shit got me 😂

[mtmtb]

I see touring bike then i see seth, then I think to myself, he's gonna shred the trail with that bike haha

[brunocerri]

Can tell Seth's a mountain biker by how he wraps drop bars

[QWERTKEY]

That front rack is inadequate, safety wise, with supporting the weight of those two front panniers. If that metal tab to the fork crown cracks, which could very well happen riding across the country, the rack and the panniers can swing forward and he will be flying over his handlebars.

Without changing front racks, to the very least get him to loop a thick zip-tie around the rack to the fork crown. It will be at least be a safety leash in case of rack tab failure.

[lagradylagrady]

"Today, we're gonna be doing something a little different"
(Audience waits with bated breath)
"But... kinda the same"
(Thunderous uproar of crowd as chainsaws buzz, handlebars are slapped on rimless wheels, and airhorns tear through the atmosphere)

[mjack]

Finally, a Surly shows up in a Seth video!

[gauravshinde]

This was on trending and I used to watch seths bike hacks 2 years ago. Glad to see how far you have come!

[vale.antoni]

About the bar tape (I'm mostly a roadie, rather than an MTB guy): The most common way of wrapping the bars is going from the bottoms up, and when viewed from the back, the right hand side is wrapped clockwise on the drops. (mirrored on the left hand side) After reaching the brake levers, you perform a figure 8, which will revert the rotation for the tops. The reason for going from the bottoms up, is that this way the ridges of the tape's overlaps will always point in the direction where you are pushing, so you can't tear them, or otherwise make them loosen up. The direction of rotation is also important, as while gripping the bars you tend to twist them as if you were revving a motorbike. If the rotation of the tape is not matching your revving motions, it will loosen itself. And reverting the rotation with the Figure 8 is important, as the revving motion is reverted in respect of the bar itself, depending on if you are holding the tops or the drops.

[Joel-wkme]

If you are into bicycle touring, you really should be able to service your own bike. Thank you for explaining everything on every step. When touring, I really loved those days when I have been in the wild, days from closest help should my bicycle fail on me, really brings in the freedom aspect of touring.

[ianchace]

Let’s go! Another video; always so exciting.

[jasonallen]

Yo Seth! If you remember, I'm the cross-country bicycle tourist you met at the Sedona Mountain Bike Festival earlier this year. I ended up taking an Amtrak home just a couple weeks later due to the coronavirus. After riding Sedona, I'm totally hooked on mountain biking, and I'm just waiting for the day a decent mountain bike is back in stock anywhere so I can start exploring my local trails.

Anyways, I was pretty surprised to see a touring bike show up at Berm Peak, so I figured it was a great opportunity to give you an update on my trip. I hope your ankle makes a quick recovery, and I wish Mackenzie the best of luck on the rest of his adventure!

[mattcrane]

He is gonna want that kick stand... When bike is fully loaded a kickstand is a life saver. You are already heavy as hell.

[vermonthillsumc]

I 'liked' this video a year ago before I had done ANY of this stuff for myself. Watching now, it is even better and more helpful than it was originally.