 This could be a really crap bit of content because I know people don't like anecdote so before we pull the trigger on this video let's go do this little test. Check this driver in. Oh yeah we got a bit of content on that hand. Welcome back to the Friday vlog series as I demonstrate to you what I do every other morning get the kids lunches ready and do breakfast don't I Ruse? Hang on! And in this video we just brought you by square space thank you very much for supporting my work we're going to split it into two parts. Rube's you waiting for me? No. We're walking together today. So part number one I've got a bit of a bone to pick with giant regarding the propell there is a very minor upgrade required to make this bike so much better and it just feels like a massive oversight so I can walk without the camera. Part number two of this video the kids are letting me rock them to school today which I'm very happy about it. Number two is I want to talk to you about a mistake I've made with this YouTube channel I just want to talk about it so let's get into it. So part number one of this video my bone to pick with giant and can I firstly just say I have no affiliation with giant. Yes I have over the past three to four years contacted the many times to see if I can get my hands on one of their magnificent machines. Hello. Yeah good day Greg from Giant. Yeah mate it's Greg. Yes Cam Nichols you know the cycling YouTuber. Oh yeah good day Cam what can I do for you mate. Yes I've been getting a ton of requests on the channel to do a giant propel review. Do you reckon I can get my hands on one for a few weeks? Just let me check with somebody here right. Hey Terry. Yeah Greg. I've got this dickhead YouTuber on the phone again he's after a giant propel. What a dick. Tell him his content shit too. Yeah good day Cam. Sorry we can't help you out there mate we just don't have any in stock but um all the best for that all right. All right mate thanks anyway catch ya. But as a result of that I have purchased this bike at the full recommended retail price from Giant Brisbane in Queensland Australia thanks to the COVID situation around the world. Following the first video I made about purchasing the giant I had quite a few comments under the video about the tyres on the propel notably the giant tubeless Garvia I think that's how you say it AC ones and the comments were not positive. However for the purposes of this review which we're going to compare to the Windspace T1500 and also the Merida Reacto 6000 I thought if giant want to put crap tyres on their bike so be it it's their own fault we're going to test the bike with their tyres and to be honest with you I have never been one of those guys it gets super deep into the tyre world. Maxis High Road 25mm of these guys rolling resistance speeds amazing 30s 30s are the new 28s I love 30s in a tubes so 1990s. However on Monday this week I was riding my bike like this and I ended up with a massive gash in my tyre which I had to frustratingly put a tube into the giant tubeless wheels as there was literally sealant everywhere and I was very angry because I absolutely cannot stand changing tyres but it created a compelling event to change tyres Schwalb ones not even the pro ones and then what happened this happened on Monday the very next day is the great Tuesday World Champs here in Nusa which I rode and I was like holy crap this bike feels so much better notably faster notably holding speed in a draft better so I was like I need to test this giant propel back up my segment here Gindia Drive on a low wind beautiful Nusa day and see how it compares at 350 watts to the old giant with the crap tyres which I've done so let's go back home and look at the data. So the bone I have to pick with Giant I'll share that with you after we've looked at the data and before we look at the data I just wanted to thank today's video sponsor being Squarespace if we actually have a look at my wife's website here which was built just recently it's on a Squarespace platform and you can see how clean simple yet intuitive it is and my wife who's a non-techie personally loves how easy it is to go into the back end altered text layouts color schemes etc without needing any development skills if you're keen to get a website off the ground go to squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch go to squarespace.com backslash camnickles to save 10% see all the relevant details below in the video description area now I know I've said this before I'm going to say it one more time because I keep getting criticized in the comments we all know this test is not perfect but I still believe it gives us something I've done this test many many times now and there is consistency there and keep in mind I'm using the same power output being these acioma power pedals always doing it on a low wind day the tires are always pumped to 90 psi both front and rear across all bikes so we have consistency and I like this little climb because it is protected even though they're low wind days it's good to have that protection so let's look at the data and this validates my anecdotal experiences the giant is now on average three to four seconds faster on this three and a half minute segment alone in fact the times are now closer to the windspace which is where I originally thought this would land interestingly before I swapped the tires over on the giant propel on the saturday bunch ride where there's a lot of false flat incline sections holding the wheel in a draft I was really disappointed with the giant propel blaming the weight of the bike as the causation however after riding the giant on the Tuesday world champs after changing the tires over on similar terrain this limitation of the giant propel advanced one feeling sluggish in a draft particularly on a false flat incline was completely eradicated it was the crap giant tires which might I add weigh roughly 330 grams a piece versus the Schwalb ones which I believe weigh from what I can find online 275 grams so that's a possible 110 gram savings there too did it work out to be that way when I weighed the bike again all right different tires what's going to happen here is it going to be anything exciting okay she's now under 5.6 so my big question to giant if they were listening out there they're probably not my bone to pick is why put heavy endurancey borderline crap tires on what is a magnificent fast aero machine for five thousand three hundred dollars it makes no sense it's borderline oxymoronic it's kind of like putting a stale banana on top of a cake instead of the cherry oh perfect so let's get into part two of this video Rossi come on come up for part two mate now we're in this side no no no no no round this side mate good boy that's it say hi so before I share part number two if you can give the video a like if you're enjoying it that would be greatly appreciated helps the channel out now I did debate on whether I share this with you because I kind of feel like it's a personal reflection but because it's regarding my channel and you watch my content and the people that normally watch part two of my content are my channel supporters I did want to shine a light on this and share with you what I've been thinking yes holy what's going on are you standing there watching me it's kind of creepy and that is in recent times I've recognized that particularly this year at times and probably even last year I've gone for quantity over quality with my Friday vlog series and the reason why I've done that is because I feel this strange pressure that only comes from me to publish content regularly on a Friday and the fact is sometimes my weeks get consumed with the road cycling academy or personal things pop up in my life and I don't have a really good video to share on a Friday and instead of not publishing a video on a Friday I've almost pulled a topic out of thin air and published a video that I haven't been super proud about I reckon there's probably a handful of videos this year where I've done that and in recent times I haven't done that probably for the last five or six weeks so this reflection this moment of clarity came to me quite some time ago but I wanted to start on a new path action speak louder than words before I actually share this with you and I wanted to let you know that no longer and I'm not going to pinpoint any videos here no longer will I be publishing any content that I'm not super proud about sharing with you and if that means less consistency I would much rather be the youtuber the content creator that goes for quality over quantity so I just wanted to share that with you particularly by close channel supporters as always I really appreciate your support and I will catch you in the next video you're lying behind me big strong chest oh did you drop one did you drop