Hello, my name is Dan Sotelo, co-founder of onZa in 1987. I just love your video, and the love you put into your build of your beautiful Chromag with my beloved white onZa Porcupines. I feel you should know the history of how the white onZa Porcupine tires came to be. Back in 1987 my friend & I started onZa mainly making onZa Bar-Ends and onZa Stainless MTB granny. Chain Rings (the first in the world). In late 87 we received our first preproduction Porcupine tire samples from Taiwan. We immediately contacted John & Linda Parker (founders of YETI cycles in Simi Valley Calif), who were 20 miles from our onZa "Kitchen/Garage office" asking if they want to see our new Porcupine tires. John & Linda said yes and set up a mtg. FYI: Back then Yeti was really getting traction as John Tomack started to ride Yeti bikes and anyone wanting the best knew a Yeti was the MTB to have. Anyways, the mtg day came and John liked our new tire for being so different and could see that it would work very well. So John being a vintage motorcycle collector showed us a motorcycle with white tires and made my partner and I a strange proposition, that if we made our tires white he would run them on his Yeti race team bikes and offer them as an option on his Yeti hand-built bikes. Of course, we said "YES" and thus the white onZa Porcupines were born to become MTB history. Again, Beautiful video. Sincerely, Dan aka Mr. onZa
Damn, cool story. Thanks for sharing. I rocked a lot of purple onZa back in the golden age. I've still got a set of onZa bar ends in my vintage parts collection.
Been working in a shed basically for many years, since I owned a bike when I was 13. I am 28 now. No tools as a kid or very little, now I have most of what I need, some are self made, some are bought, some are improvised. Not that I am cheap or anything, but my made ones seem to work, the simple ones are bought of course, the more specific ones can be made yourself, like a chain whip. Hard to imagine myself 15 years ago that I'd be pressing plastic BB92 cups in my own carbon frame and shortening hydraulic brake lines. Love to watch such videos, where people share the same passion. After all, they probably do it for a living, I just have a very expensive hobby.
Dear Nick, apart from the aesthetic impressions (simply speaking - I was glad to watch Your video), for many amateur bike mechanics it was interesting to see the specific tools You were using to set the bike. I wasn't even aware of the fact that those smart tools exist. But necessity is the mother of invention. I wrote this remark simply to share positive feelings - I" have built" a few bikes, still I can see there is always something new to learn about. Damian, a teacher, Poland.
Well poured beer mate. Back when the world restarts you can around to my place and pour that beer for me, cheers. Fabulous bike too and the colours make you want to show it offf
Chromag makes amazing frames and parts! They are truly some of the best hardtail’s in the industry and they know that wider is better. I love their Magna40 rims and can’t wait to get some of those loops laced up and on one of my hardtail’s
What a great video, seriously. Expertly filmed and good music choice. That was a joy to watch. When I do a bit of work on my bikes I tend to switch off and go into a different mental state, and this video gave me those same relaxing vibes lol. You can tell you're someone who takes pride in their work too. And the finished bike looked really unique, nice one!
White wouldn't be my first choice but I'm not riding it so that doesn't matter. Fun fact though did you know most tires used to be white or gummy colored. It wasn't until they started adding carbon dye to tires, to increase strength, that they would become a greyish and then eventually black color we are used to today.
Yes they look great on this bike but having to clean them every time they have bin touched anything outside of your home is just terrible. With my skinwalls i it's not that bad but this? oh dear.
@@kaedeschulz5422 You do realize you don't HAVE to clean them, right? And yes, i used to have nude rubber mountain bike tires, they were gorgeous, but they were so flexible and fragile. Didn't last long.
Contrary to popular opinion, I love the white tires! Gives out a soft impression like a marshmallow, but dont be fooled, this thing will eat up the trails like marshmallow barbeque!
Man what a sick build, love the white tires they go perfectly with the bike. Doesn't Marzocchi make a set of white forks? Unfortunately if it were mine I'd be a little unhappy with the reds not matching lol. I recently bought a new bike and have been adding a few things here and there to make it my own and I'm having a hard time to find a matching turquoise colored components and accessories. They're all way too dark in color. Definitely gonna check out your other videos.
Waittt?? Out of all these comments, 13:14 why did you measure the chain on the smallest cog and through the derailleur pulleys??? Am I missing something?
Great build. If i could make on recommendation it would be to swap the QR seatpost clamp for an NQR clamp. I've seen a few dropper post failures in the shop due to a QR clamp being over torqued. I personally like the white tires.
Thanks! I decided to go with the QR to be able to quickly lower my seat even more for bikepark use. I might change it to a NQR down the road, as the 175mm dropper makes it kinda redundant. I always try to go as low as possible on the torque with these, as I know how easy it is to overdo it.
just started building myself...and this is like a work of art...and i love the tyres also. These would look great on a matt matalic red voodoo hoodoo mk1 frame iv got brand new..10/10
Know what I like about this one? Bare hands, and a steel frame. You can see the interaction between the parts, the tools, and the builder on a totally different level. There's a story in there that gloves and carbon fibre fragility don't convey. I know you have a sponsorship, but were I still a filmmaker, I would encourage my performers to work bare-handed (if they usually do.)
I cannot decide on a hard tail frame! 😢 "climbing trail bike" Chromag rootdown, banshee paradox, marin s.q. 3, sonder signal,rocky mountain growler,nukeprrof scout, voodoo bizango, ragley Marley or another model 🤔 120-140mm travel. Usually ride a medium 5'8". Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks 😊
If you enjoyed this one, you might want to check out my latest video, more of the same, yet different...
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Love the build. Especially the tires !
I'd love to get my hands on some good quality colored tires myself...
I still come back and watch this video every year or so. Nothing like a new bike build. Might be time to build a new one
Hello, my name is Dan Sotelo, co-founder of onZa in 1987. I just love your video, and the love you put into your build of your beautiful Chromag with my beloved white onZa Porcupines. I feel you should know the history of how the white onZa Porcupine tires came to be. Back in 1987 my friend & I started onZa mainly making onZa Bar-Ends and onZa Stainless MTB granny. Chain Rings (the first in the world). In late 87 we received our first preproduction Porcupine tire samples from Taiwan. We immediately contacted John & Linda Parker (founders of YETI cycles in Simi Valley Calif), who were 20 miles from our onZa "Kitchen/Garage office" asking if they want to see our new Porcupine tires. John & Linda said yes and set up a mtg. FYI: Back then Yeti was really getting traction as John Tomack started to ride Yeti bikes and anyone wanting the best knew a Yeti was the MTB to have.
Anyways, the mtg day came and John liked our new tire for being so different and could see that it would work very well. So John being a vintage motorcycle collector showed us a motorcycle with white tires and made my partner and I a strange proposition, that if we made our tires white he would run them on his Yeti race team bikes and offer them as an option on his Yeti hand-built bikes.
Of course, we said "YES" and thus the white onZa Porcupines were born to become MTB history.
Again, Beautiful video.
Sincerely,
Dan
aka Mr. onZa
Damn, cool story. Thanks for sharing. I rocked a lot of purple onZa back in the golden age. I've still got a set of onZa bar ends in my vintage parts collection.
@@oldmanbucksaw Again your video was wonderful. TKS Mr onZa
@@oldmanbucksaw I might do come back as "onZa USA", with tire & wheel technology no one has ever thought of or seen.
Can we please all just take a moment to pay our respects to how perfect this man just poured his beer........
Wholly crap, you're so on the call, this beer company should at least honor this person with a one-year supply of beer, BAR NONE...
haven't seen white Onza tires since the early 90's
This truly is a dream bike build! Great paint color and finish. Great components and building process.
Been working in a shed basically for many years, since I owned a bike when I was 13. I am 28 now. No tools as a kid or very little, now I have most of what I need, some are self made, some are bought, some are improvised. Not that I am cheap or anything, but my made ones seem to work, the simple ones are bought of course, the more specific ones can be made yourself, like a chain whip. Hard to imagine myself 15 years ago that I'd be pressing plastic BB92 cups in my own carbon frame and shortening hydraulic brake lines. Love to watch such videos, where people share the same passion. After all, they probably do it for a living, I just have a very expensive hobby.
Dear Nick,
apart from the aesthetic impressions (simply speaking - I was glad to watch Your video), for many amateur bike mechanics it was interesting to see the specific tools You were using to set the bike. I wasn't even aware of the fact that those smart tools exist. But necessity is the mother of invention. I wrote this remark simply to share positive feelings - I" have built" a few bikes, still I can see there is always something new to learn about. Damian, a teacher, Poland.
What a work of art. An absolute masterpiece, great job on that build...
Great build! I've got a blue one that still needs to be built up. Thanks for the inspiration.
blue one looks clean!
That was a WMN frame dude ) A color won’t help you
Every second of this video was a pleasure to my eyes.
Love the colors. Industry 9 wheels yes very sick build.
Sweet build! I have a soft spot for hardtails, how could you not love them!
Best looking hardtail I've seen. Love the Tires too!
Well poured beer mate. Back when the world restarts you can around to my place and pour that beer for me, cheers. Fabulous bike too and the colours make you want to show it offf
Chromag makes amazing frames and parts! They are truly some of the best hardtail’s in the industry and they know that wider is better. I love their Magna40 rims and can’t wait to get some of those loops laced up and on one of my hardtail’s
What a great video, seriously. Expertly filmed and good music choice. That was a joy to watch.
When I do a bit of work on my bikes I tend to switch off and go into a different mental state, and this video gave me those same relaxing vibes lol.
You can tell you're someone who takes pride in their work too. And the finished bike looked really unique, nice one!
Such a beautiful build. Love the tires and that candy red. Very hot rod.
Why is everyone freaking out about the tires they complete the whole look
White wouldn't be my first choice but I'm not riding it so that doesn't matter. Fun fact though did you know most tires used to be white or gummy colored. It wasn't until they started adding carbon dye to tires, to increase strength, that they would become a greyish and then eventually black color we are used to today.
Yes they look great on this bike but having to clean them every time they have bin touched anything outside of your home is just terrible.
With my skinwalls i it's not that bad but this? oh dear.
ඵල පිළිබඳ
@@pyramidion5911 carbon dye
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_black
@@kaedeschulz5422 You do realize you don't HAVE to clean them, right?
And yes, i used to have nude rubber mountain bike tires, they were gorgeous, but they were so flexible and fragile. Didn't last long.
100% agree with the look of the bike
Pretty bad ass dude....love the tires, and the fork
Bruh those white tires are nice,i had white walls on my bike it was beautifull
First of all, thanks to elder gods for outside cable routing...
#2. Awesome bike and awesome video. :)
Nice video and build! Thanks for putting it together. I especially enjoyed how you set the masterlink. Cheers!👏
Nice choice on that Z1 and the Wolftooth components
Interesting choice with the tires
Awesome build awesome video and I like the white tires
Love this bike man, wish I could build something like this up 🤘
Awesome video and very soothing and relaxing. Good job
You are a brilliant bike assembly. You are star over us
Something different! Epic ride man!
Beautiful. The fork throws it off a little
Z1 is a beast of a fork...
@@pb8582 the color though
that is one hot bike, I for one love the tires
Excellent! awesome! Expensive! My dream bike.. hello there ? from the Philippines!.
Nice Nick!
Vielen Dank Herr Massow!
Bike looks sick! Love the white tires
I love when people say "I can't stand the white tires" well guess what Brandon it's not your bike.
I'm sorry, I just don't like the white all that much:(
@@brandonlopez3902 😂😂😂 Brandon you will be fine
It's looks epic
Hello! I just wanna know how much does this bike cost? Thank you
@@chelonarvas5841 5k
OMG IT´S LOOKS AMAZING
What a beatiful bike, wish i could have one of those chromag frame
That’s dope, reminds me of my 2015 Pbj a little.
Very very cool bike!!! 😮 So looks nice!! I like this style!
What a satisfying video.
great video and great editing. bike looks sick !! :)
theses tires are insane
We have I started mountain biking in the mid 90s white and natural coloured tyres were common.
for those who would like to hear a pricepoint.
this build should be around +2500€
even if some parts were on sale.
very nice bike. very nice video. :)
Tires are cool 😎
Great looking bar grips!
Contrary to popular opinion, I love the white tires! Gives out a soft impression like a marshmallow, but dont be fooled, this thing will eat up the trails like marshmallow barbeque!
Gran video
pipe reamer does a great job of chamfering inside and outside of the steerer after the cut. :-)
Dang nice build. Very similar to my Wideangle xt/zee build. Chromag bikes are just sick.
Amüsantes video Senior Bosshard
Gracias Herr Sager 🙏🏻
..really nice build 🖤🖤🖤
This bike is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
gotta respect that pour at the start.
Really nice video 👍
Beer 🍺 and bike ahhh perfect 👌🏾
Amazing build, wish I had the money to do something like this.
Super rad build 😍
my dream bike:) im from philippines.im youre number 1 fan
Nice Special Bike👌💪🤘
The lyrik complements the frame so well🤟🤟
it's a z1
inspector rex oops my bad
Chromag for life
PS, love the white tires! Totally completes the bike!
Reminded me of Panaracer smoke. Nice bike.
awesome,greate combination and the sound is lit
Man what a sick build, love the white tires they go perfectly with the bike. Doesn't Marzocchi make a set of white forks? Unfortunately if it were mine I'd be a little unhappy with the reds not matching lol. I recently bought a new bike and have been adding a few things here and there to make it my own and I'm having a hard time to find a matching turquoise colored components and accessories. They're all way too dark in color. Definitely gonna check out your other videos.
Nice build, I love the white tires.
I love your show it's very interesting to see how and where do bike part go
Waittt?? Out of all these comments, 13:14 why did you measure the chain on the smallest cog and through the derailleur pulleys??? Am I missing something?
Great build. If i could make on recommendation it would be to swap the QR seatpost clamp for an NQR clamp. I've seen a few dropper post failures in the shop due to a QR clamp being over torqued. I personally like the white tires.
Thanks!
I decided to go with the QR to be able to quickly lower my seat even more for bikepark use. I might change it to a NQR down the road, as the 175mm dropper makes it kinda redundant. I always try to go as low as possible on the torque with these, as I know how easy it is to overdo it.
Nice build, beautiful bike!
Very good looking bike
just started building myself...and this is like a work of art...and i love the tyres also. These would look great on a matt matalic red voodoo hoodoo mk1 frame iv got brand new..10/10
Great build. It seems chain guides aren’t very commonly installed these days and only more so seen on DH bikes.
where u got those tires menn that's LIT
You can find your local distributor here: onza-tires.com/distributors/ 🙌🏼
For real .... NoooooBODY got these tires around my way I need
Sehr geiles und edles Bike !!!!
what grease did you use to mount on chromoly?
Sick build but can’t stand the tires
Kirk Hobson your just a boomer
@@Slow1hoe5 you're*
Inspirational video
Beautiful tyres. I was looking for white tyres in this size for a very long time without success.
Know what I like about this one? Bare hands, and a steel frame. You can see the interaction between the parts, the tools, and the builder on a totally different level. There's a story in there that gloves and carbon fibre fragility don't convey.
I know you have a sponsorship, but were I still a filmmaker, I would encourage my performers to work bare-handed (if they usually do.)
Another dream build.
Nice bike build! Albino Chromag...
I've seen a lot of bike builds, but have never seen any with so little grease used! Nice bike though.
Seperti judulnya....
Hanya mimpi buat ku punya sepeda keren 🤗🤗🤗
great video! where did you buy the white tires? I can't find them available anywhere...thanks in advance!
These white tires🔥😍
Id only chage the forks
That red throws me off
But i love everything else
those white tires will go well with white jersey, white pants and white shoes
what a cool beer that is
I liked ur work.
Stupenda e l essenza della mtb
I’ve never seen white tires haha. Looks pretty sick
I cannot decide on a hard tail frame! 😢 "climbing trail bike" Chromag rootdown, banshee paradox, marin s.q. 3, sonder signal,rocky mountain growler,nukeprrof scout, voodoo bizango, ragley Marley or another model 🤔 120-140mm travel. Usually ride a medium 5'8". Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks 😊
Greetings, it looks very good and what a price it has if one wants to buy it
damn ok white tires are really pretty
He started opening a beer? Ohhh man, I need a beer to watch this video....Hold my mouse, I'll be right back
got it!
Nice ride.