You Haven't Seen A Dirt Jump Bike Build Like This Before!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- I love getting questions in my DMs but sadly I can't answer them all especially if it's questions that keep on being repeated. One of the most frequent is from people who are a little unsure whether they want to splash out on a dedicated trials bike and want to know if a dirt jump bike would work instead.
So let's find out!
The Cute Thief collected a host of DJ and street trials parts and a suitable frame. For a change I decided to make it stand out a little more with a home spray job and I'm so pleased with the results!
I don't yet find out how capable it is for trials but better believe I've got a serious test for it coming up soon!
What do you think?
See you next week!
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There’s such a unique charm to all your build videos, and whether or not you go to the effort of making a rigid script they’re always seamless as well. Might be my favorite bike content to watch tbh
I film with a rough narrative, sometimes I’ll add something if it comes up but when I’m editing is when I come up with the script…I’m glad you like the videos! 🤘🏻
same feeling bro
this is exciting !
maybe u should ride some dirt jumps on it that'll be a great video
If I can find some(and I dare ride them) I will 👍🏻
The Bike looks amazing👍.I'am excited about the next Video with this Bike🤟
Thank you :)
Aaaaand now I want to paint my trials bike that has a perfectly good paint job.. this build came out great!
Tbf this one had a perfectly fine paint job too 😋
Wish my two6player setup looked as sweet as this!!! Superb build
Hey Ali Clarkson! The only way that paint job could look cooler is if it had a few battle scars! Hope you and Jane Black have a nice day! Ride ride ride!
Don’t worry it’ll be getting some soon no doubt! Have a good weekend 👍🏻
Believe me, this is the best video ever. It's perfect. I have watched tones of videos and this contains everything a person may be looking for. I have a DJ bike, and you have given me some ideas to make it lighter. I used to think that those rims were not appropriate to hold the jumps. Thank you for sharing this. Such a hero.
Yes Ali! Your trials moves will lessen quite a bit but that makes you need to be more creative to push your limits! Have a blast! Get weird with it!
Gotta say you’ve been a big influence in me wanting to try this style of bike 👍🏻
you can use a hlaflink chain to get a shorter chainstay
Great Vid Btw
-Love From Turkey
Unfortunately half link chains simply can’t cope with trials torque :(
@@Ali_Clarkson damnit but it would be killer if kmc makes a trials halflink chain
Hey! For frame protection, I recommend DYEDbro, their decals fit every bike colour and does a good job for style and protection.
I’ll check them out cheers!
Man that’s awesome to see how much love you put into this bike build, and it absolutely shows!!! It came out amazing, I can’t wait to see you ride that thing
Thank you very much! 👍🏻
that is a super sexy paint job and build dude, love it! not sure if someone has already suggested it but you should get yourself some chain half links, they can help dial in your chain length to fit in the dropouts better. BMX companies like shadow conspiracy make them, get the cute thief on the case :)
Glad you like it! I thought half links would come up…they’re kinda ok for BMX or bikes that don’t have high torques but trials is extremely tough on chains and the design of a half link chain with the curved links just doesn’t work…they end up being straightened out and stretch so much you have to constantly adjust the tension and they eventually snap
That's definitely one of the sickest bikes I've ever seen! Love the idea of doing this dirt-trial crossover. If it is controllable, then this would actually be the perfect bike for my style of riding. And I love the colour, it just fits 👍
In my opinion the best build besides the silver and the red Hex. Hexes. Whatever...
Thank you! There’s no doubt this type of bike can be ridden to a high standard for street trials, look at Chris Akrigg on his mongoose fireball for proof 👍🏻
I run a half-link chain on my DJ bike (a 3/32" Gusset SLink) so I can avoid running a tensioner but still get the wheel as far forward as possible. They're not compatible with thick/thin chainrings though. Sick paint job BTW 🙂
Unfortunately half link chains don’t survive the torque trials puts on them :(
@@Ali_Clarkson That's good to know, I've been thinking of trying out a trials conversion on it (i.e lower gearing, longer stem). It's a SanatCruz Jackal size long which has adjustable wheelbase *and* a mech hanger so would you mount a tensioner there or something else with better obstacle clearance?
Nice bike. Great job on the paintwork 👍
Thanks James!
Always lovin it
The frame looks like the new specialized fuse frames
looks awesome, ive always been curious about dirt jump/street trials conversioninging... looking forward to future videos on this!
As usual, very nice build Ali!!
Thank you 👍🏻
Oh yes, saw this and am now having a trailside break! Definitely an interesting gear ratio for an average dirt jump bike but I'm not even surprised to see it here🤣🤌
thats a awesome build man!
Great build thank you for sharing it mite start doing the same 🤘👏🏻👏🏻
Who doesn't love a new ali c video on a friday.
Wow, Algorithm, isn’t that purple wonderful? It looks almost as good as my Bluey (but I shan’t be splashing paint on it)!
Pretty unique build right there! Don’t like the seat post though
Lovely!❤️
Thank you :)
Thanks to leaving off the chrome you are now firmly in the 90s! You should use a slap bracelet to tie up your brake lines.
I’ll see if I can find one 😋
Love the bike! a one of a kind beauty with some Kung Pow! so sick.
Thank you!
10/10 will smash !
Wow sweet build! You must have read my mind, I’ve been recently contemplating building a dirt jumper/trials bike hybrid. Looking forward to the finding out the answer to the question, although given how you can shred a fat bike it might not be so applicable to us mere mortals 😁
Yeah I think this style of crossover bike could be a great type of bike for a lot of people…even if I’ve had a lot of trials practice I’ll try and be honest with my opinions 😋
Cute thief!
Damn, the video ive been waiting for
can you do the same with a bmx?
I have all the parts 😉
Sweet! Can't wait for the ride video.
I’ve been planning on throwing a front brake on my dj forever. Stoked to watch the results!
i love it
Love how much effort you put into these videos! Nice one once again!👊🏼
Thanks very much :)
Do bike builds more often please
I would but I think I need to start selling the old ones, I’ve run out of space!
@@Ali_Clarkson Would get a fair penny for the 80s GT I think 🤣 Wanted one of those soooo bad but the shop i worked in did not sell GTs
This somehow reminds me of my old UMF Dj Hardy 2 i had..
Would love to see a video riding this bike with Sam Pilgrim...I believe he's done some trials/jump bike hybrids(just putting a front brake on his jump bike😉).
Thought you were gonna borrow my bike for this video lol. But this bike looks soooo mint and 11kgs for this is crazy! Good job on the paint aswell Ali, damn nice!👌
Thanks buddy!
That’s bad ass! Thinking of doing the same thing with an old Specialized P3
I’m a complete paint noob and it worked out well, take your time and you’ll get a good result I’m sure 👍🏻
Pike on bike 👏🏻🤣😄🤦🏼♂️🤦🏿♂️, pike need on cross country 🤣, rock Shox is 💩, broken this two weeks.
that gear relation is very light fir a dirt jump bike... you will died if you need hot a medium size jump..you need lot of speed.
Good job I’m not using it as a dirt jump bike then 😋
The DJ / BMX rider in me is very happy about this video.. I only wish I could have those bars on my DJ
On my dirt bike I have the new RS Reba 26 "without motion control and with a cut shaft, because it is much lighter and cheaper than the Pike
such a sweet build. These build videos always make me want to go out and tinker on my own bikes!
Good to hear!
What did you use for primer and purple paint? I think you showed everything besides that.
Love the paintwork, be cool to see you ride the park that has the built wood trials and the jumps in the same place, I forget the name👍
Radical bikes? I’ll be there in the summer you’ll be pleased to hear :)
who knows where can I get new maxxis for 26 wheels?, can't find anything where I live
Really looking forward to seeing a ride on this!
This vid had some nice quips in it, it was a fun watch
Thanks Tobias 👍🏻
Nice ! The build, paint 👍👍👍. Keep up the good job.
Thanks Patrick!
possible solution to your chain-is-too-long problem.... try a split link BMX chain. you'll be able to shorten up the rear end no problem with that.
Unfortunately those chains simply don’t cope with trials riding 😫
Why not using half link chain ? That would allow you to get the chainstay length you prefer while being as reliable as your singlespeed chain.
Unfortunately half link chains aren’t as strong as regular chains and they don’t cope with trials, because we use such a light gear ratio there’s so much torque created that the curved plates actually straighten out, this makes the chain stretch so much that it needs constant adjustment and eventual failure…I wouldn’t even want to use a single half link for trials
Awwww purple! Yes
Always use a respirator when using paint stripper. Lungs typically aren't meant for breathing dichloromethane.
A classic do what I say not what I do moment!
@@Ali_Clarkson Don't worry, we couldn't actually see your head for that bit :p
Seriously though, the less cancer your sport gives you, the better.
amazing build!! love the paint job
Cheers!
Honestly surprised to see the rope spoke wheel still going. Did they not hold up on the front wheel? Good video btw!!
Still going strong!
Oh Ali, the paint job is beautiful! Glad you went with purple for the base.
The saddle works sooo well!
Can't wait to see what you get up to on it.
Thanks Aaron, I think the colors worked out pretty well :)
Hey Ali, great videos. I didn’t think it was possible to put disc brakes on a frame with horizontal dropouts. Can you share some tips on maintaining a setup like this? Thinking about building my own frame (out of wood) and love the simplicity of horizontal dropouts, but really want disc brakes. Thanks, and keep up the great work.
Nothing too complicated about it, you might not always be able to get 100% pad coverage but as long as you’re hitting 90% or so you should be fine. Just make sure you’re using tugs to keep the wheel in place or big bolts, if you’re not using a trials gear ratio bolts should be enough to hold it
Awesome! Thanks for the advice!
You need to ride Matt Jones' playground
Might be a bit above my skill level but I’d certainly love to try!
"Polskie Lepsze" Dartmoor to dobre rowery
When did I subscribe to you???.....
Lol either way I love your bikes and the way you speak very relaxing so I'll stay here Ali
I’m not sure but I’m glad you did 😁
@@Ali_Clarkson I enjoyed the video yesterday thank you
Yes yes… been waiting to see this project build for a while. Looks great!
Thanks Jay!
So nice and I'm excited to your next video testing that beast🔥🍻
Cheers :)
Striper can be dangerous indeed ... especially those with daddy issues :P
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Love this bike super nice paint job👏
Thanks very much :)
Looks amazing but to be honest I was looking forward to some dirt jumping?
Don’t have any local to me but I will be going to Radfest in the summer at radical bikes who have sone of the best dirt jumps in the UK so I’ll bring this bike and see what I dare do 😋
WTB THICK SLICKS FOR TYRES.
Ali, I love all of your videos, but you really should wear a particle filtered mask when spray painting. You're setting a bad example for your viewers 😉
Trudat, do as I (meant to say) not what I do!
@@Ali_Clarkson fair enough 😅 just take care of yourself 😉
nice colour. A tinted clear coat/lacquer would have looked rad over a raw frame :).
One for the future perhaps
Testing Trail Riding on a DJ bike is really a great idea. Looking forward to the next vid ;-) thx
Cheers Daniel :)
Great job Ali, not into street riding but like to watch your vids anyway, I’m in my sixties and just ride xc/ fat bikes, it was your fat biking that attracted me, great build looks sweet👍
Thanks Chris, glad to have you 😁
I think there should be new category of "not comp" trials bikes like street-trial bike but for mountain or dirt. Maybe dirt-trial bike or mountain-trial bike or trail-trial))
I’d for sure love to see something like that and have more “normal” riders dipping their toes into trials comps like they did back in the day!
I personally love building dirt jumpers and each one I have had I have custom painted
Great minds!
Ali, when I heard you say you were going to paint the frame after stripping it, with it looking so sweet Raw, I must admit, I was sad, but you did an excellent job with the prep and paint, really turned out great, really do like it. Expect if you give it the proper amount of time to cure that'd be a paint job that would last well, glad you're being patient and giving it time ;-)
Since you gave the little rotor tip (thanks BTW, will try it), I thought I'd give a tip of my own - the rear tyre is on backwards, easy to tell with Maxxis as the actual tyre name, is only on the drive side of their tyres, unless of course you thought it might work better that way. Honestly with the Aggressor, I was a bit puzzled when I mounted my first one as well and thought maybe it should go like you have it as well.
I did wonder whether painting it would be a mistake but I’m glad I did!
And good point about the tyre! I assumed it went on this way from looking at the tread pattern but you’re right it’s backwards…no bad thing for trials though as I used to put my tyres on backwards for a more aggressive bite anyway 👍🏻
Yup, you made a hard call that turned out awesome. Love that you can take a bit of honest critique/different opinion, without getting offensive like a lot of the modern kids.
If you actually study the knobs pattern carefully, it is in fact designed for max climbing grip, all the "paddles" with square edges are oriented that way (took a 2nd look at mine carefully this weekend), so if you wanted better braking traction, flipping it should help with that - gets quite squirmy under hard braking on loose.
Yeah! Can't say how much I'm excited seeing this build! DJ vs Street trial was exactly question I was thinking for a while and even asked my favourite pro - you. Can't wait your next videos whis proper tests and opinion! Thank you, Ali, you are always doing our life little better.
For last year thought about exactly that Dartmoor and Pike combo vs Extention Drax for my training bike for street and trials learning. But bought slightly used Czar Ion 24", for cheap. Hope it will hold some abuse)
I look forward to getting out riding it and sharing my results 😁
Such a beautiful bike🔥. Love it) Great work, Ali. And Hi from Kyrgyzstan
Hi! Glad you’re keen 😁
Does a tire good for non-streets up front mean someone is riding this bike at a competition?
Might mean that 😊
What a super cool bike and a nice video!🥳
I love this simple idea with the splashes of paint and wonder why more people haven't thought of it before.
Thank you very much for this inspiration.
I've been thinking about what my new design on the bike could look like for a long time.
Believe me plenty of people have done paint like this haha, gonna give it a try?
Try a bmx style half link chain with flat land sprokets and a bmx style crank .. you can get the rear end shorter
Unfortunately half link chains simply can’t cope with trials :(
@@Ali_Clarkson maybe just use one link in between .. But I did not know they aren't capable of trials.. Always thought they were stiffer..
@@Create_o_raptor even a single link is a bad idea. Essentially because half links have a curved design the extra torque created in trials stretches the links straight which obviously makes the chain stretch loads but it also weakens them considerably
Nice build Ali,oh the irony,you release this the day I pick up my purple flip pre ordered Trek mtb. Although I am not a trials rider,and never likely to be ( I am now 53) I do find your videos both informative and entertaining..keep up the good work. :-)
Thanks for joining me, enjoy the bike! 👍🏻
Super inspiring build that looks so so rad! Totally makes me keen on re-painting my trusty mtb-commuter and potentially my dirtjumper after that 👌
Go for it, if I can do it anyone can 😂
My favourite bike build videos on the internet. Brilliant Ali. The saddle is a bit ott for me though
Thanks Warb! The saddle is on the edge for me but I think it works…I tried a black one and it didn’t quite have the same effect
Wow and wow that paint job looks absolutely stunning thief done well on this one Sam pilgrim does a bit of street trials on his JB sometimes but not too Ali standard Of street trials Can’t wait for the video BRO
I have a feeling it’ll handle a bit of street fairly well 😁
I agree i’ve been on Alcatraz JB When it was hot last week Didn’t fancy Carrying my DH bike Up stairs just to do doubles in the hot weather too much hard work LOL
As a cat owner I appreciate how difficult it must have been to snag that thumbnail!
Haha ain’t that the truth!
It has two turntables - no wonder, it's a DJ bike!
Waheeeey!
Judging by spin test on the BB, Hambini would lose his shit 🤪
Who wants it to spin forever anyway? 😋
Get a UV black light! The paint is gonna Really pop!
That would be interesting!
So awesome the paint job
Thank you :)
Love the paint job, just might steal it for my next project
Be my guest! 😁
Such a cool bike and video, man!
A couple of questions: have you thought about putting in a half-link chain so that the wheel can be pushed closer (now it's very far away, even dirt jumpers don't ride like that)?
And also, didn’t you think that it’s still more expedient to put a smaller star in the back (or a larger one in front), because with such a ratio of stars 22-18 you will never accelerate enough to jump on the dirts?
Cheers from Ukraine!
Glad you like it :) that’s great ratio is the same I use on my Hex Street Trials bike so if I want to test this bike as a trials bike it really needs to run the same ratio…I’m not riding this on dirt jumps but even if I did most places have rollers and you can pump for speed.
As for a half link chain, unfortunately they’re just not strong enough for trials riding :(
@@Ali_Clarkson Got it, thanks for the answer!)
At last a DJ bike, I made my rigid DJ bike look like a trials bike but the BB seams so low like 2 inches lower than the hubs, just doing some bunny hops not much fancy stuffs.
That’s rigid forks for you, I remember having supper low bbs on bikes back in the 90s!
@@Ali_Clarkson yeah your GT, cant wait your next video in your DJ.
@@Ali_Clarkson I asked a Shad Life a YTer about effects of bottom bracket height but has not made one yet, he did made an awesome video on effects of long and short chain stay.
As someone that just picked up a DJ bike and immediately put a front brake on it to get trailsy with...this one hits home hehehe!
Great minds and all that
The frame looks insanely good. Amazing job painting it. 👏👏
Thank you! 🤘🏻
That rotor twist tip might actually fix my mystery rotor rub on my commuter. Absolute genius!
I can tell you'll be keeping this bike because you're putting frame protection on it. Would love to see you do some dirt jumping on it as well as trials.
Update: It fixed the mystery rotor rub on my commuter!
Really pleased to hear that! Glad I could be of help 😁
@@Ali_Clarkson I'd tried literally everything to stop the rub, to the point of bending brand new rotors out of true. The rub stopped but you could tell they were bent. Your tip stopped all of that. Braking is smooth and consistent in a way it's not been since I built the bike. Thanks so much!
If only people used timestamps
@@davidwashbrook9885 I couldn't follow what he meant by "twisting the rotor" - twisting as if the rotor was being grabbed by the brake or twisting out of plane?
Looks amazing personally would've went for the chrome splatter, great video!!
Chrome instead of blue, I think that would look good.
Always hard to tell how it’ll look but I’m glad with how the purple and blue came out…no doubt chrome would’ve been sweet too though
The fav Bike channel of mine😍❤
Aww thanks Ronn!
What is a trials bike typically built out of
Usually alloy but carbon is becoming more common and you do get the occasional steel street trials bikes too
Ok cool thanks
Ali C/Matt Jones dj collab when?
I’ll be waiting by the phone