 Due to popular demand we are back at Taylor Cycles in Brisbane Queensland Australia where today expert bike mechanic and store owner Jay Taylor will be transforming my BMC team machine SLRO13 from an all-round race bike into a criteria machine with a lot of excellent mechanical tips along the way. So let's get into it. Hello happy events! So where do we start? Today's project! Righto so we're gonna slap some new wheels on this bad boy and a one-piece carbon cockpit. Trickiest bit out of the way first the the one-piece carbon cockpit. Shall we weigh it? 42 100 320 grams. What do you think of those bars that come stock on the SLRO3? Oh absolutely delightful. Basically these are should be flat so they're nice and comfortable when you're riding. They're like this so when you're on the bike basically it's kinking your wrist. It's like having your hoods like this. Yeah it doesn't really make sense. One hoods going this way and one hoods going this way so. Isn't that better for aerodynamics? That's good if you're turning right. So you said putting the bars on is a two-man job why is that? Well it makes it a hell of a lot easier if you've got two people because it's pretty fiddly. You've got things going here and everywhere and you've got to hold this and hydraulic cables. This is Bailey by the way? Bailey Swan. Bailey Swan? Yes. Up and coming cycling sensation trying to go pro. Yeah? Yeah. So you're right with Taylor. Cycles have got a big tank. Yeah. Yeah what's going on? Where's my spot? First step of swapping bars is we've got to get this off and pull the hydraulic cables out. The easy bit is it is tram wireless so I only got two hydraulic hoses to play around with so haven't been on for too long so there shouldn't be too much ugly stuff under here. Most rank that you've seen? Well yeah it's so bad that there's a hole in the bars. Oh wow. From that because I sweat. Yeah yeah Bailey's like my nurse get a hand me my instruments. I wish she was a little bit prettier though but okay. I like the thing I'm feeling. He's got the long hair for it. They call me Cinderella. So what are you doing now? We are going to get out the hydraulic hoses. Yes. Five mil sir. Sliding these bad boys off like so. All right and there we have it. A naked handlebar. A T25 gets me every time. It's been a five mil since the 60s. You just gave me another two and a half mil. That's even smaller. If I was a doctor. The potion. It's gone. Dead. Flat line. Sometimes things sound like it's just simple like we'll get this other handlebar and whack it on there and everything's going to line up but um 405. Yeah it's another five mil so you're going to have to slam up to run this one piece because the height's different. Right. It's going to check how how it was cut. Um so whenever if you know basically pull some bars off it's pretty complicated to pull the headset out of this bike so put it down here. Use the opportunity to give it a grease up. A lot of sit-down silicon paste. It's delightful. Not sponsored. All right get some grease in here. I'm going to get your cables on the right side. You can do this bit by yourself is to get some electrical tape and you just want to hold that in there and now it's going to sit there. Now we've made sure all this is going to fit nicely. We can look at getting the cables through the bars. If you're doing a modification it's good to do it from the get go because with hydraulic hoses you need to cut the cables down and you've got to make sure that they're going to be the right length. Different bars especially internal routing might need to be a little bit longer. So you're having to cut that? Why are you having to cut that cable? Because you've got to get all this stuff off here to get it through the handlebars. So you're basically going to want to cut it as close as you can. I still find that just a really high quality set of proper cable snippers is still better than using a little tool. Now you might get a little bit of cable still stuck in there but if you sort of give it a little bit of squeeze you should be able to get that last bit just to come out. There you go. So you've still got plenty of length. I will screw the barbs straight in and then actually put these little guys on here which make it really easy to run it through the bars. The next part is you've got to get the cable down here through here and out here. There's no guide in there so you've got a part came out with this cable guide system. Basically I want to touch this to the brake and a magnet goes through and you pull it through. I've done so many of these now that I can basically just tweak this the right way and get it straight through. Right. You can manipulate these a little bit. It doesn't hurt the cable at all. You can have a look here. There it is right there and that's why I put those little fittings. Watch this. Form straight through. You want to not grease on the stirricide because it'll be a bit slippery but you want to grease out here. Otherwise it's going to creak a bit of grease. Now we're going to have to basically see if these cables are going to be long enough because it's very tight. So what we need to do is have a look at the levers. How do you want these cam pretty flat? Yep. Hope that the cables are going to be long enough. There's got to be an olive and a barb and everything going there yet so that's why if you're going to do these kind of modifications you want to do them at the start. So this little tool helps screw this on. We're miles off unfortunately. So what do we do? Cry. It's going to be another trip to Brisbane to J Taylor or Taylor Cycles for part two fitting longer cables. So we're in luck. Just the cable's just reached. They're so tight that we can't even do up the hydraulic hose because the cable's so tight. So it doesn't sound good. Oh it's not a bad thing. What did you say the negative impact is of pulling the cables through too tight? The fork one goes up here and straight up through the stem. Yep. The rear brake comes up through the frame. Yep. Up through here and if it can be too tight it might pull on inside the frame and jam the frame up but you can see. So we've got to undo this so we can get to this and do this up properly. Just a little bit trickier than normal. Eight new meters so it's pretty tight. Then now it's attached. You bring this bad boy up get it in there and while I'm going to put it in the same spot as the other bar and you can see that's where we want them but that's push hard. The unfortunate thing is when this bike needs new headset bearings because to get the cable back through the handlebars you've got to cut the olive and barb off. They're not going to be long enough once you cut them. That's it. So new headset needs new hydro cables. What type have you got? We've got a selection actually. What do you recommend? Berg. Berg. A nice little Tasmanian brand. All right not sponsored. Taping. Very nice in eighties. There's an age old debate of which way it should go wrapped out and the reason being when you hold on the bars that's the angle of your hands. You never want to put the cap on at the end. You always want to put it on at the start. The reason being so you can get the crease you need to just tighten this up here and that's how you get the perfectly clean start. You pull a little bit of tension so it doesn't unravel. If you don't pull on it it'll just all unravel after a couple of rides. Now when you get up to here it's a figure of eight here. Oh yeah. So that's where we want to finish the tape. Okay. So you can just put a bit of a mark on there. A long nice long angle. You can trim it later if you need to. Pull pretty tight on this one only just over the edge of the tape because you want this nice rounded effect but this stuff's got this awesome stretchy rubbery mat stuff which finishes the tape off just beautifully so very clean and neat. Shirt company. Hark Industries and they've released a shirt. It's EPO. Everyday People Overachieving. I'll show us the picture. Let's see. Here it is. What is after to be done? Wheels. Oh yes of course. The delightful new wheels from KPS Cycling Australia. Yes. Look at that bag. It's a delightful wheel bag. It's padded. Yeah. Double zipped. Double handled. Have you heard of KPS before? No. Brand new company. Nice out of Melbourne Australia. Smell them. Smell them. Why do you say smell them? They smell delightful. They smell like Christmas. Custom decals as well. People want to check these wheels out as well. Link below. Yeah, they look really, really nice. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. What pressure do you like, sir? I recommend 86. Tamed to the lawn. It's blind. 35 I think. With the tire. One of these tires weigh about 200 grams so they're lighter with a deeper dish. A 30mm more. You definitely got to make sure that you grease all these bits. You want them tight. Because at any point where you're going to have this is carbon here. So we still want a little bit of grease in there. But on this side. Of course, pre-encounter. Yeah, so you over this side here, when you've got the hub cap, it's going to be alloy on alloy. So you always want to give her a bit of grease on there. Peter, good day. Russell, good day. We've got no idea what we're talking about. So more details on these wheels will be coming by the way when I do a full review. So stay tuned for that. But for the meantime, looking bloody good. You don't need to fully bleed the system again because the bubbles will be in here. Cutting the cables down. Right. DT Swiss first, the front. They're the exact same tires on them on that. GP 5000. That's interesting. The front's slightly heavier, 20 grams, nothing. But the rear is lighter. Oh, I just put on a whopping four kilograms. This is what happens after hours, is it? He blew just at the right time, I believe. If you've reset your pistons and you're going to put new wheels on, make sure the brake is loose. The brakes are going to work the best if the pistons want to self-seat themselves where they're happy. So it's loose. Give it a light spin and brake slowly. And it just centers it really nice. Hold the brake on. Don't crank the front one up too tight because it can twist the whole brake if you go crazy on it. So just nip it. If you put a pinch of tape under it, you can see. It's still not quite centered, so we're just going to, yes, beautiful. What do you like to reckon? Are you a fan of the custom D-cow? I love that. I think that works. Yeah, what do you think? She's bloody loud, mate. You put it together. Yeah, it's pretty loud, mate. Last Christmas, you gave me your heart. It can't have been 10.6 before. It's definitely lighter. Maybe 100 grams lighter. Through 20 bars. 540. We've lost about 300 grams. I've had people bring in bikes and they were like, can you find this rattle? Just cut a little bit of tape off, pull it over the valve, over the rim like that. Yes. If you've got wheels with the screw on thing, you can screw it down, but I never screw them down under my carbon wheels. The one at the tube can end up splitting here quite easily because of the pull on it. Yeah, it can mark your rim, but that's it.