 We have another bike We're not gonna unbox this here. We're gonna do it at my local bike shop do it properly. So let's go Little bit rough around there. Where's it rough? Around the edge. Oh, yeah, might have a rubber finish there, maybe Haha comes with some beautiful pedals for you There you go. It does a rubber. It does a rubber. That's gonna cover up the unevenness. Yep So no carbon paste or assembly paste. You're gonna need to use or buy some from a shop Okay, this is a finish line carbon paste. It smells disgusting. So what this is a high grip So we use different grip compounds here So some are very fine some are more aggressive and it just obviously gives a better hold on the seat post You know, you want me to tell you about the bike looks like there's a fair intolerance at the front there So we'll see how that goes. Okay So we're gonna have to look at technical documentation on their website Hopefully it's got information on all the torque settings color up Colorado. It's just a road bike To be honest packaging is really good where you get a Shimano driveline, and then they run a KMC chain Something might want to stop that out from you. All right carbon arable Yeah, this is effective doing the same as what a carbon paste does gives a little bit of a grip put it into a rough Position and then we'll have a look at the rest of the bike. It's cut to length, which is good So you've got an expanding wedge in the looks of that. It's gonna carbon see, you know So I'm doing it's gonna double check for you that is actually grease in here. No, there's nothing So what happened is the bike will creep like mad That's pretty bad. There's also a lot of pitting on that on that race. What's pity? So see how the carbon's actually not finished. Yes properly So if you've got a few specialists to scan that that'll be avoid that'll be avoid pretty obvious Right, you didn't have to scan that you can see that the bearing seat has an imperfection But obviously the main reason why I take these out is to inspect if the bearings are dry We have a fully dry up the headset bearing They are bone dry really want that going through the lower assembly of a stirrer to Leave that up to you. What you do with that? So the rabbit hole continues. I've just driven two hours down the coast to Brisbane where I'm at carbon steed They're a carbon fiber repair business. They also do some pretty awesome paint work I'll link to that video up there if you missed it and I'm here to see Gary about this fork So let's get into it Look at this Well, yeah, you said to me want to bring it down to ultrasound and all that which you know, we've done but We didn't need to do that. Did we you know like yeah, I looked at it and said well, it looks like a piece of crap you know and and You know and without being overly harsh, you know, we said you know looking at cheap Chinese stuff that wind Spaceframe I said it looked like somebody who made it who had a sense of pride in their work And I appreciate how people put pride into what they make. Well, this is the opposite really You know, I look at it, you know, the cable holes not round You know, I just pointed out before, you know, yeah It's just a poor finish a bump in it there that is just hasn't been Finished up properly and you came and asked me about voids and everything in the top of here Well, you know to me this fork is made by a steerer tube the fork They're bonded together and then they wrap here in carbon And whoever's wrapped it. They it's there's been no pride and no care It's just done as a cheap fork, you know, is it gonna break on the next ride? I don't think so But does it pass ultrasound no we looked at an ultrasound we looked at the versus the other fork downstairs there The Scott fork and the Scott fork was way more consistent with readings than this one was this is all over the place Yeah, well, I don't see any carbon That I believe never has any voids in it But this one is just wall-to-wall where I can't get readings, you know like you get front wall back wall And you know it was a 2.5 millimeters or something It was not consistently that Yeah all over the place and then I couldn't get a reading which Kind of tells me that there's a void in the middle of it and then when it came up here It's reading, you know, three millimeters half a millimeter Which would suggest to me that there's a void between this carbon and the tube underneath because obviously it's way more than half a millimeter But you know, there's lots of people riding around on force just like this all the time Yeah, just depends on whether you want a person to take a risk or not Exactly right. Yeah. Yeah, and the answer for me is probably no How does that look to you does it come with a warranty? So you may use a non lithium-based grease he's different grease is a different application drugs. I do I go on you I do use them, but yeah, it's all fresh and new and clean so forth. I don't mind but yeah, this here So this is aluminium that on top of there that will create issues You'll get probably a lot of oxidization around there and you get that kind of white people to see it as like a white powder You probably want to make sure you grease that upper some as well. Normally those are rubberized. Next thing we'll tend to do is So this again the sands to me Yes, I think a little bit. It's probably just from the bearings to be It isn't this and I'm gonna tell from the bearings You hear vibration it but These are 14 nanometers. Obviously get used to this all the time, but if you want, that's not time I go on a field but that wasn't time enough and then your rotor bolts So we're gonna look at torque settings on those which I mean these will seem like they've been done factory Which is cool. So it's interesting doesn't come with Shimano rotors actually extract at the bottom bracket Yeah, so it's bone dry. So we've got an aluminium cup Yep, so you see the mowering on that says nothing. It's bone dry. Yeah, the other ones bone dry being bone dry What's that gonna do while you're writing get creaking everyone blames the poor bottom bracket? Yeah, we find a lot of time It's not the bottom bracket It's often other things in this case It would 100% be the bottom bracket because it's just powder on it means that you bone dry in here because looking at this This is this is running an aluminium shell and in this case what we do is we rebuild this assembly And we'll press it all together Okay, and again like sometimes with these if it is an aluminium face We actually face the frame to give it an absolute parallel finish to the other cup side So some of these bearings they're pressed in they've got a bonding agent in there Yeah, in this case, so they just fell out four is obviously got a nice Uniform finish all the way around the cup We've got a grease bottom bracket shop once I get the wheels in then I can do my gear adjustments derailleur hanger Alignments and so forth, but now that I've done the headset bottom bracket assemblies and all your solid work It's gonna do the refinements now, so we get the wheels in put on the floor and we'll go from there What are you fan now are that's going on the wrong way around What does that mean for Australian pretty much doesn't pass Australian standards? Okay, you do so what you can do is realistically most bikes won't have these horrible Connectors these are annoying because they rattle terribly but they tend to like bang against each other setting up the brakes and the caliper Where it's mounted to the fork. Yeah, the faces of the fork itself Are not square that this rotor like I said to you that little brake rotor has a kick in it We're gonna have to sort out in a moment. I'm gonna head away and you're gonna do something to it though What are you gonna do? I'm gonna try and fix the caliper mounting area because it's Not made very well, so you have to face the fork. Okay the disc brake caliper mount Is on the piss big time so your brakes are rubbing terribly. Yeah, I mean looks looks all right Day two the front brake though now that we have a good square face notice straight away with the wheels that The hub bores have been basically if you will they've been drilled Off-center so the whole hub assembly Oscillates so it goes up and down with movement. Yeah, so in the flanges So the I've actually changed the rotor to a really basic steel rotor, but this is nice and square I've tested it on another wheel But as you actually spin the assembly we have a large amount of up-and-down movement in the flange and what that does is it actually Produces a serious wobble within the rotor So you actually see the movement of the hub will go up and down now This is a Novotek hub, so it's obviously nothing to do with that Sarva brand, but it's obviously what comes with the bicycle Yes, so you got to you know take responsibility for that So at the end of day that would be a pain in the bum for a normal person to build the bike out of a box Because no, it's impossible at the moment. It's pretty much impossible. I've asked you to yeah I've asked you to bring in another wheel to obviously try and get you to ride the bike But obviously you need to look at obviously you change a wheel there and There's nothing you can do in this case It would be a replacement wheels or complete wheel or you change the hub and all wheel build Yeah, we've got slight movement in the in the rear flange as well I mean these are the chip one of the cheapest Novotek hubs They're nothing special, but you would still expect it to at least Spin on its axle, you know equal all the way around so yeah, the bearings are nice and smooth But that movement that up and down Concentrity issues there. We've just got a lot of movement front wheel is almost completely unbridable. I wouldn't ride that. There's no way You cannot get the disc brake to not rub So I wanted to wrap up this video with providing you with a bit of context Particularly those of you who support the channel because you're probably wondering what the hell did I just see where did this come from? So essentially there's an Aussie based business that is bringing these bikes into the country And can I just say up front this business has only been fantastic about the issue and they're fully aware I'm making content about my experiences, but they reached out to me in October late October to see if I would review the bike That you just saw before Christmas in return I would get the bike and I personally thought well looks like an interesting brand. I've never ridden it before. It's affordable It's available for people and from a personal perspective I could at some point in the future sell the bike and make some revenue for the channel So I took the project on but as you just saw it completely Backfired and the bike was essentially unrightable and I've now boxed it up And I'm sending it back to where it came So this was certainly a learning experience for me when it comes to these cheaper alternatives And I wanted to share the learning experience with you albeit I was a little bit unsure initially because I know it's not going to be an overly pleasant one for those on the other side of the fence But I feel like it's important that these types of stories get shared because it can be a learning experience for everyone involved So if you've gotten value out of this video if you could please give it a like it does help the channel out I'd greatly appreciate it and I'll catch you in the next one