 What is up my friends today is new bike day and today I'm getting my bike out of this barn Yeah, that's right. I'm 10 miles away from my front door. This place is called Reed It's part of the Oscar Blues family They make awesome bikes and I ordered one of these bad boys many months ago, and it is time to pick it up This is bike paradise right here. There's my man Adam. What's up, buddy? How's it going? I'm doing great. Hi buddy What's your name? Oh, yeah, this my bike. This is your bike. Oh So tell me first a little bit about Reeve how it got started well Reeve was started about seven or eight years ago by Dale Cateches He wanted to start a bike company after his bike was stolen and he decided to pull his resources and Make it happen. We understand that there's a big market for all types of bikes We've got everything from still hard-tail single speeds all the way up to aluminum full suspension bikes the bike culture here is Just hard-working fellas that like to ride bikes Everything is made right here We machine all the aluminum for the squeeb right here all the steel bikes are cut Welded and powder coated right here also And what's your background how'd you get into making bikes? I know you're a bike racer. Yeah, so Big past of just growing up in a garage my dad taught me to always work on your own things learn how to do stuff by your own tools and Over time I just realized that I couldn't afford to pay bike shops to work on my stuff It's like okay time to just take it into my own hands. So I'm the head frame builder here now and the machinist welder Pretty much we do everything in here. What's the benefit of buying it? You know an American made bike? so the biggest thing is we don't have a Long time frame to develop new product if there is a new trend in the mountain bike world Or if there's a new product come out we can be right on it and also all of us ride bikes So we can really dial in a bike how how it should ride not just how it looks on paper A lot of times the bikes that are designed overseas An engineer will you know develop a suspension curve And then it'll send it over to Taiwan and six months to a year down the road They get to ride that and maybe it doesn't work. Well this way we can prototype bikes Rapidly and we can get on something that feels good on the train that we ride Wow, all right, so let's talk about the squeed man. You designed this thing you race on this thing Let's go through it a little bit. Yeah So the squeed is development over the past four years Started off as a hundred and forty millimeter travel bike We haven't changed the overall suspension dynamic too much What we've really done is fine-tuned it to Shocks that you can buy without custom tuning. So with this lower shock mount We developed this modular mount to be able to run two different stroke shocks Also with multiple different positions that work really well with coil and air setups racing this bike has been huge It's really hard to replicate Riding conditions that you know anybody across the US would you know Find themselves on but racing it you're really pushing the limits and I've been able to Find a lot in this bike to improve on over the years We've really beefed up the rocker. We added a bridge to tie the rocker together We went to a trunnion shock mount. So that's a bearing mount. It's much stiffer. So this is the cane Creek double barrel air the shock is awesome with it has a climb switch so you can Firm up the the shock for when you're climbing. So this is real-world bike design. This isn't you know just on paper This is we're going out and proving it and these shocks is the Colorado company, right? Yeah MRP This is the MRP ribbon. They're based out of Grand Junction. We're also running the cane Creek rear shock So that's also a USA product same thing with the I-9 wheels We try to we try to get into the USA made product as much as we can We're looking at the products that are coming out and we're designing a bike that works really well with products So that way you're not just getting a bike that works with some OEM component that all the big manufacturers use We really dial in the best product that we like to ride If you look at the if you look at our stock builds You'll realize that these are the builds that we ride on our personal bikes We don't skimp on handlebars and stems and seats. It's the stuff that we want to ride This thing's amazing. Oh, yeah, man. I love my new bike so much I can hardly contain myself. I'm so excited to ride this thing and I'm actually going to ride it home And I just want to say thank you to somebody right here. My mom. She drove me down here today. Thank you Yeah, as always That's always we were reminiscing on the car ride over that she's brought me to Bike shops a few times in my life when I bought my my bicycles my trek 8,000 back in high school And now at age 40. She's still driving me around. Thanks mom. Yeah It's a beauty. It's a beauty, isn't it? Oh, yeah, it's so beautiful Trail clothes So I was kind of bummed out that I did not get to ride the trail that I was really hoping to but it is January in the Rocky Mountains and when it's not snowy a lot of times the trails are Muddy and they keep the bikers off the trail because otherwise they get kind of destroyed So I was forced to take the boring way home Well, I shouldn't say boring these just aren't like epic mountain bike trails and these trails actually have a lot of sentimental value to me Here's a fun fact about this beautiful area here. These are the trails Where I fell in love with mountain biking back when I was 13 or something I had an old diamond back Sorrento cherry red and I'd ride these trails all the time This is where I fell in love with riding in the dirt I am really excited about this bike and I know we're gonna go on a lot of amazing adventures together And I'm pumped because I've never had a bike with this much Suspension where I'm gonna be able to do things that I've never done before and I've kind of gotten away from mountain biking the past 10 or so years when I fell in love with bike packing So I'm excited to get back into like full-on mountain biking I first found out about Reeve when I borrowed one of their bicycles When we rode from Durango to Moab it was a different bike much different a hardtail not nearly as much suspension And I really loved the feel of that bicycle and you know I'm psyched to have a bike that's made down the road from my house These guys are putting out a lot of cool stuff into the world and their passion really shows and no They didn't pay me to make this video or give me a free bike. I just think what they're doing is rad So go check up their whole lineup of bikes at Reeve Cycles calm and stay tuned for more adventures on this bike and all my other bikes and my running adventures And please like and subscribe and have an awesome day Well, there you have it the inaugural ride on my squeeb. Oh, I love this bike