How to set your bike up like a Pro？

Hey guys, welcome back to the Flyup 417 in Cheltenham Gloucester. So today we have got a brand spanking new Orange 279 downhill bike and what I want to do today is show you guys how to set your bike up when it's brand new or second-handed. When you get your bike for the first time, what do you do to set it up? What do you do? What tweaks do we do? How do we set suspension? How do we check tyre pressures? All of that. Well today we're going to go through everything and show you what to do. Let's get to work. First things first, tool kit. Very handy indeed. And my riding helmet. I think I'll need that at some point later on. It is like 900 degrees today so don't mind me while I stick a bit of this on. So you've got to get yourself a nice tyre pressure gauge like this one here. I've got the greasiest hands now. 27. I don't want 27 in the front. I would like 22. 23. 22. You saw it here first guys. Normally I'd go a little bit lower than that but we're at a bike park so don't forget the riding styles and what we're doing today is slightly different to that of a traditional downhill track where it's rooty and muddy and all of that. I don't ride in the mud. And the rear. We've got 36. I think 36 is a bit much. 29. 28. That'll do. Again, I would go a little bit lower normally so 26 is probably my target zone but bike park, very different. So now we know our tyre pressures are set. Next thing's next. We're going to set the suspension. And for that we need to take it off. What we're looking for is 30%. That's the target. 30% sag when I'm sitting on the bike. So what we do is we just move the bung to the back. Very simple. Sit on the bike very slowly. No bouncing up and down. Take your feet off the ground and stand up. Now 30% that is from here to the beginning of the black bung. Now I know that this shock is a 75. That's the stroke length of the shock. That means there's 75 millimeters between here and where it would bottom out. So 30% of 75 is... Where's my GCSEs? 22.5. 22.5. 22.5 is what we want and I am on 22. It's almost like I know what I'm doing. So I've got 30% sag. Brilliant. Now all we're checking for now is, is the rebound violent? Is it going to throw me off the bike? Because that's all I care about for this first test ride. And I would say it's quite fast. So what I'm going to do is slow that down. I've got high speed rebound here and low speed rebound damping here. For the high speed, we're just going to give it one click and you'll see that's a lot more manageable. Excellent. Done. No more things to do there. On the front, same thing again. We're looking for 30% sag. So you want to be standing on the bike for this or there's another way of doing it, which is leaning on the bike. So if you straighten your arms ever so slowly, I'm going to bring my feet off the ground and that's it. And again, we're looking for 30%. These are 200 millimetre forks. So we're looking for 60 mil of sag. Now that's coming up as 50, which is a little bit less sag than what you would standard want, but it's a bike park and I'm just really keen to try one lap and see how the bike performs. So I'm going to leave it at 50 mil and we're going to bear in mind that that might be a bit too stiff. Again, we're going to check for rebound. Quite fast, but I like that. It's nice and responsive. So we'll go with that for now. We'll try a lap and see how it works. Now setting up the controls. I actually did this last night, so put your hands on the bars. Now what you're doing is a bit like a dinner party. So you take the cutlery from the outside and you work your way in. So we start with the grips, get those right far on. I've seen a lot of people put grips on and just tighten them up without that actually making contact with the bar. So mine are on nice. Now when I'm in that position, I want my fingers to be where they are because as I say, I set this up last night and that for me is perfect. But I know that these bars are going to be too wide for what I would prefer. These are 800 mil. I normally run about 770, 780. So we're going to try that and see how it works. And then working our way in again, got the shifter. That's really nice on my thumb, as you can see there. Making good contact, no slips. Time for some pedals. And then I think we should head up the hill. The first thing's first, we want to bed the brakes in. So we need to give it three or four long, hard presses. So here's the first and almost bring ourselves to stop. I'm just checking the trail behind, checking there's no one there. Let's give it another one here around the corner, pump and brake. That's good. So these are the new Hope E4 brakes. That's a trail brake, but interesting on a downhill bike. A little bit of a jump there just to get a feel for the suspension. And again, a long press on the brakes just to give it that heat, basically. We don't want to drag the brakes and glaze them. There's another one. Looking a little bit longer than I expected. We're going to do one more. Off of here, pedaling, pump down and brake. Okay, so they don't feel as violent as what I'm used to, which is the Saints, the Shimano Saints. But let's see how they go. So first impressions, I think the bars are too big. As suspected, it feels not in a strong position. It's actually very slippy. I've not had rain in such a long time. The tyres can't bite. They just feel like they want to skip over. Yeah, there it's just pushing me a bit wider than I would like. So, okay, one run in. What we're going to do is we are going to probably not do that. We're going to change the bar width and we're going to go a bit narrower on them and that will give us a bit more control. Hey babe, all good? Yeah, all good. Excellent. Yeah, so a couple of mods. We want to bring the bars in. Brakes are not as violent as I'd hope. Hope, get it? And the suspension is a bit too soft, so I'm skitting around all over the place. So we're going to make those adjustments now and then we'll go up and do another one. The nice thing about the 417 is they've got a workshop and some very friendly people here. They've also got some people that decide to live here, like this man. Hey Ollie, how you doing? How's the hand? Yeah, same old. Healing up. This man lives here, breaks himself here, recovers here and then goes back to the trails here. Hey Ollie. Hey Ben, how's it going? Good mate. Everyone here is called Ollie. Yeah, good mate. Good, good, good. Can I steal some of your lovely tools on this display? What can I supply you with? I want to cut my bars down, so... Pipe cutter? Pipe cutter, brilliant. I would use a chainsaw normally, but this man is a professional. Thank you very much mate. I'll give it back to you maybe in two minutes if I do it properly. Sounds good. Do you know how to give me a shout? Lovely jubbly. Oh actually, three mil as well. Three mil. Oh, this man is just so fast. He's almost like he's got everything ready. Ollie, come and have a look at this. These bars, right? Yeah. 800. Yeah. Watch this, my magic tape measure, okay? From the outside, they're 810. Look at that. What? 810. Yeah, I'm seeing 810. I think... So, yeah, surely they would be 800 to this line then. So first line in. First line in, I reckon. So hold that there. First line in. That one. Yeah, you're right. 800 to the line. 800 to the line. So they're 810. They're 10 mil longer. Viewers at home, if you buy Berg Tech bars, don't listen to the number on them. Get your tape measure out, and depending on the size of your tape measure, because obviously all of these are always different. Why is that? Right, okay, either way, let's cut them down. I'm going to go for... So maybe I should try like 790, because if they were 810 to begin with... That's probably massive. They did feel huge, yeah. Did you say you usually run 780? Yeah. What would you do? Go 790 and try that for a lap? Yeah. Yeah, true. Yeah, of course. Bit by bit. That's right. Oh, it's tight. There we go. Tight, there we go. Is that what we want? That's what we want. Slowly tighten it as you go. As we go? As we go. So once you've gone around a fair few times, it's got a nice little score there. You can almost quarter turn the top of the tool. Gotcha. Did I loosen it? You loosened that ever so slightly. Oh, let's go the other way. There we go. It's like having your teacher checking your homework as you're doing your homework. Just double checking. I know some pro riders that would use a curb. I think you know who I mean as well. I think you guys know who I mean as well. Oh, now I'm going to grind that on the wall. That is the straightest, neatest line ever. It's straight enough, everyone. Don't look. No looking. I've got to impress my teacher, haven't I? I did my homework properly last time. Oh, I'm hearing cracking already. Check out the speed. I think that was a world record, wasn't it? A star. A star, everyone. Ollie number two, what are we calling this? Scrubber tool. Scrubber tool. Scrubber tool. You've already done it. You've already done it, mate. And that's that. Lovely. So straight away, I think the bike will feel better. So now what I'm going to do is move those to counteract from what we've done on that, and then go and try again. It's one of the most important things to do on a bike, mate. Okay, new setup. Double skipper. Let's find out if it's any good. Straight away, I can feel it wants to turn in a lot easier. Oh, that's so much better. Just a few slight modifications and away we go. It's much better. Try some turns. Don't need to do that through there. You can straight line. I want to get a feel for this bike. That is so much better. Rock garden. Let's see. What rock garden? It just goes. Got to squash these jumps. Nice. Oh, yeah. That is a well-setup bike. Perfect. So the bars are a lot thinner. Brakes are coming in a bit sharper. Not as sharp as the Shimano, but that's hope for you. There's not as much power. Yes, I said it. Lovely. And there's Susie. What fantastic timing. God, that's almost like we... Hello. Hello. All right? Lovely. And that's that, guys. Simple as that. And that's how to set your bike up. I'm now going to go and do some laps. Thanks for watching.