 So welcome back to the Friday Vogue series where today That's right. I've done it again. I bought myself another bike. You are out of control, mate And yes, I can appreciate what some of you may be thinking as we've recently just built the Chinese carbon bike I purchased at the back end of last year being the windspace the factor O2VAM is being built next week And now I have a brand new BMC team machine SLR-13 but I have a very good explanation for you if you can bear with me And I promise this will be the last bike that I purchased for at least a few months So let's break this video as per normal into my favorite number of parts being two part number one I'm going to share with you why I've purchased a brand new Lamborghini orange BMC team machine SLR-13 With SRAM Force 12 speed and some lovely DT Swiss carbon hoops And this purchase kind of happened through an unusual Sequence of events which I'll explain to you shortly and part number two of this video What's been going on behind the scenes including what my wife thinks of all these bikes and also wishing her a happy birthday today So part number one what on earth am I doing with this bike right here and in this section of video I'm going to share with you a conversation I had with the head mechanic at Trilogy Cycles Aaron is his name about building the new BMC's front end So in 2020 an opportunity that I wasn't really seeking just started to present itself to me It was creating a Masters A or old bloke cycling team for the Road Cycling Academy or the RCA Which is a coaching business. I started through this channel in 2019 links below if you want to check it out but in order to create a team I wanted to have for me anyway all the gear and absolutely no idea the other riders have an idea They're way better than I am, but we needed the gear So in order to present or pitch to the riders about the team dynamic the racing and the equipment We were going to have I reached out to my friends at advanced traders here in Brisbane Queensland Australia mate and advanced traders for all those of you who don't know advanced traders are the Aussie distributor for BMC and Merida And if you have been supporting this channel for a while, and if you're not yet supporting and you're thinking about Subscribing because you're getting value out of these videos. I'd really appreciate your support below subscribing to the channel Because I'm getting a little bit twitchy as we head towards that hundred thousand marks I please just tap it in below much appreciated But back to the story I have loaned and reviewed through advanced traders the Merida sculpturer The Merida reactor and the BMC time machine and in between all of that I have also purchased a BMC team machine for my own use directly from Keith at trilogy cycles here on the Sunshine Coast Who by the way has one of these in store for all my local friends that want to go in and check it out So I rang the BMC brand manager at advanced traders His name is Rob and pitched the RCA team to him and he said we've got some of these Lamborghini orange BMC SLRO ones coming in and we could provide them to the team at a local amateur Sponsorship rate, so we'd be paying for them still a fair chunk of money, but we get a discount on the bike However after organizing all this not only the bike the helmets the shoes and everything The RCA team became too hardbasket and so long story. I'm not going to bore you with all the details No one cares mate. Stop waffling. Yep, you said it So I ripped the Band-Aid off before we even really got started, but the whole process Got me very excited about owning this bike here Which is an updated geometry and design from the previous version that I had and for your information I owned a BMC team machine in 2014 and absolutely loved it The only reason why a part of ways with it was because of the formation of the original Inform amateur cycling team which had us all on specialised Tarmac's, but the BMC team machine has always stuck with me And that's why I purchased it again in 2019 but selling it again recently to Makeway for new bikes in 2021 that was a sad day So I've come to the realization that my cycling life is better with a BMC team machine in it I really do like this bike and no one is paying me to say that despite What some of the skeptics out there think it's perfectly normal human behavior to like things and just because the channel has gotten to a Certain size. I don't feel I should have to refrain from saying I like this bike here a lot Now know what some of you may be thinking though. Ah, so we got the bike for free Didn't you mate? So I paid the same rate as what the team was going to pay So it's still a fair chunk of money And if you follow me on the Facebook marketplace groups in the cycling groups You'll know that I'm selling lots of stuff at the moment to be able to fund this and all the other bits and pieces That are going on and a continuation of that thought I know will be. Ah, here he comes captain biased Yes, I got a deal on the bike and I know some of you will be saying I hear this often in the comments that His review is going to be tarnished now We can only trust the review if he's paid full price on the bike But just hear me out here when you become a cycling YouTuber as I did in my late 30s after 15 years in corporate your salary goes from up here To down here and even with a channel of a hundred thousand almost Subscribers some of you may find the surprising I earn less from this channel than I did from my first corporate job in 2003 in my early 20s. I'm almost 40 now So I don't do this for money and I do it purely for a passion for making videos and a love for cycling So please Give me a break for getting a deal on a bike a bike. I want to ride and a bike I will review in the same fashion I have been reviewing bikes on this channel for almost three years now and if I don't my credibility It goes right out the window. You're smart. You will know So please have some faith because I've kind of had a bit of a gut full of this new grief That I've started to get below in the comment section. So now we have that out of the way Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest. You now know why I purchased the bike What is the content going to look like for this project over the next few months number one? We're going to do a front-end build video with Aaron at trilogy cycles number two a first impressions video and number three a Formal comprehensive sit-down review. So before we get into part two I did film Aaron at trilogy cycles putting on the front-end, which we're going to do a separate video on but it's quite a tricky process I've never watched somebody do it So I thought I would share with you some of the things he shared with me after putting the front-end on Before we get into part two of this video. It is yes So we've predominantly for the front-end so with cockpits or the new style of bicycles It was starting to see come on to the market with the integrated cockpit assemblies and with internal cable routing obviously if it's a Narrow bar wide bar stem lengths and so forth is important as well, but it's more about trying to find out You know length of cables length of hydraulic lines with Shimano systems obviously you have all the DII charging ports and so forth so We can tailor fit those items and change obviously cockpits like with BMC you can choose a different cockpit So what we want to do is make sure that we can cut the assembly to your height requirements again. That is Imperative when it comes to hydraulic lengths And yes, so with this bike today for your bike what we've done is we've chopped out 40 mil of steerer tube length We've lowered obviously the front-end cockpit to get your fit requirements So that's something that's we would obviously talk to the client about and guide them as well If anything you're probably better off with a bike that's running taller, you know, and we can progressively Make you lower to suit your riding dynamics. So so what's been going on behind the scenes? Rossi Rossi hasn't been in the vlog recently apparently I forgot about that come on come say hello up here No, no around here mate this way. No Rossi Rossi. Oh, no, he's eating your popcorn Rossi Rossi right here up here. That's it. That's it. See it. So hello to everyone. There you go Tell everyone you were quite sick recently and we thought you were gonna die And we took you to the vet and it cost us thousands of dollars But now you're okay, and we're very very happy that nothing really bad happened to you. Say hi to everyone Oh My gosh So an update the factor O2 is caught on the couch here. It's super light This is being built by Jay Taylor at Taylor cycles in Brisbane on Monday. So in a couple of days time That's assuming the SRAM red 22 that I've got for it because now I've got SRAM force access 12-speed on that bike. I've decided to go with the light weight SRAM red 22 for this bill that's stuck in a depot in Brisbane. So hopefully it arrives on time Depot depot depot Did they say depot in some other countries? Correction a lot of people are asking me about the wind space. What's it like to ride? So over the last I'd say week and a half to two weeks. We've had torrential rain non-stop. There's been flooding In New South Wales in parts of Queensland where South East Queensland Fortunately, we haven't been stuck in any flooding, but it's been constantly raining So I haven't really been getting out and riding at all. I've ridden the wind space once for 30 kilometers at like 32 kilometers an hour So it's not enough for me to be able to share any experiences with you and next week after the bike build I'm going to Melbourne for a week. I'm not taking any bikes with me Yeah, it's gonna have a week off the bike So I'm not gonna have any really solid feedback for probably two to three weeks on the wind space Sorry about that and outside of that Alice. Can you tell us just quickly? Your birthday tomorrow. I'm just wait a second I'm gonna have to give you the audio thing so you can talk and also what are your thoughts on all these bikes I've got lying around the place. Give me a second So, how old are you turning tomorrow? 30? We don't have to tell us. You don't have to tell us. 39. Well, what are we doing for your birthday? Everyone's gonna shut the f**k up for a day. We're going to the spirit house for lunch And what do you think about all these bikes lying around the place? What do you think about all these surfboards laying around the place? It's a contra arrangement