Worth a watch: Building Romain Bardet's Tour de France Bike

[FriarQuade]

It would be interesting to see the team build a bike up during the race and see how different the tool selection would be....

[callmeishmael]

I found that fascinating and impressive. The skill was evident.

[Veloo]

Thought the Shimano links were all like this but I guess it's just the lower end chains.
https://www.amazon.ca/SHIMANO-SM-UG5.../dp/B0847TTF8Y

Originally Posted by prototoast

6:26 - Grease is more than sufficient for a properly sized bottom bracket. You just hear more about the ones that creak.

7:12 - tool to position the power meter magnet

15:19 - looks like a Shimano quick link to me. What brand do you think it is?

15:29 - that's the bolt that holds the brake caliper on.

[oldpotatoe]

Neat video but yee-gads...the "poor" wrenches having to build 25-30 bikes.

Nice to see him use grease...BB, CR bolts...actual wrenching probably other places like where CRs touch spider. Didn't see a torque wrench tho...

I guess the 'shape of things that's here'...disc brakes and hooking it all up to a cell phone or laptop to get the trons moving correctly.

Sponsored by Park? Undoubtedly.

Nice video.

[Marvinlungwitz]

Seems to have impressive cable routing skills, but the video is obviously heavily edited for brevity.

[jpritchet74]

I am becoming a retro grouch.

I see this, and even though I admire (technically) where race bikes are - it makes me love (even more) my older Colnagos with their external cable routing. So easy to work on, and they ride like a dream.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by pritchet74

I am becoming a retro grouch.

I see this, and even though I admire (technically) where race bikes are - it makes me love (even more) my older Colnagos with their external cable routing. So easy to work on, and they ride like a dream.

Not the build but this is way cool...along with Olle Ritters wrench replacing the grease in his Bianchi for the TT in "Stars and Watercarriers".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ktTXjSqvJc

[Onno]

And there's not a manual in sight!

[witcombusa]

Plastic fantastic. This video highlights all the reasons I don't like where 'bikes' have gone. They used to be marvels of mechanical simplicity.

Thankfully all the older bikes will hold up and still be rolling decades from now.

[AngryScientist]

Good grief that headset interface area is complicated!

The bit where he needs to take a smarty phone out to work on the bike is pretty funny too.

[JSL]

The bike isn't my cup of tea, but I respect what he does. A different skill set with a lot of attention to (different) details. New times=new skills. Cool video

[charliedid]

He uses a torque wrench quite a bit....though the only thing that stood out was not on the rotors or cassette which doesn't bother me in the least and I really only do that on a customer bike not my own.

Well done.

[Alistair]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Didn't see a torque wrench tho...

I thought he used one on all the critics fasteners? Definitely when connecting brake hose to levers, seat post binder, and a few others.

He didn't use one on the cassette and rotor lockings, but as long as those are tight enough, is there a downside?

Gotta say, I'm glad my latest plastic-fantastic is AXS, so a few fewer cables to run internally. Not looking forward to servicing the brakes with internal head tube routing.

[Veloo]

I don’t grease my freehub splines.
I grease the cap threads but that’s it.

Does anyone here put grease before installing a cassette?

[spoonrobot]

Originally Posted by steveandbarb1

I'd like 1/4 of those tools

The tools are impressive, the rest of their service course is probably pretty eye opening as well.

These are fairly old but they've stuck in my mind since I first saw them. Racing from the back end is such a staggering amount of people and stuff.

https://cyclingtips.com/tag/service-course/