【Nate Hills】我如何建造我的新Yeti 165MXDH

Hello, interweb people, Nate Hills here. Once again from my dirty garage in Colorado. I've got another new bike to show you. I don't know this color, I've never seen it before. It's not turquoise. I think it's called spruce. It's kind of green. Anyway, Yeti just released this all new 165. Basically, I did a bike build in 2019 on the old 165 platform, which was a 27.5 front and rear bike. This is going to be sold as a MX, a mullet bike. I was going to ship a mullet, but my hands are already too messed up, so I didn't bother. I guess the people at Yeti got real wild on this day, and there was lots of sporty mullets. I think my friend Dave here might have taken the top honor for best mullet. Originally, when I built my first 165 in 2019, I put a boxer on it. It was 27.5 front and rear. Last year, when the new boxer got released, I put a new boxer on the front in the 29, and mulleted my old 165. So, that boxer was 180, to match the 165 rear travel with the 29 front wheel. And that felt pretty good. So, I'm going to do the same on this bike, and put a 180 boxer on here. Spec is 170, and that gives it like a 63 degree head angle. So, yeah, it looks a little under 63. This will be my bike park bike, shuttle bike. This will not be pedaled uphill. It will get carried. This is for going to Utah, and pretending to ride rampage lines, and trying not to die basically as an old guy. I've always loved riding downhill. Yeti sort of has a downhill bike that they're teasing, and they're making a few for like Richie. Until they decide to produce that, I'm going to keep turning their whatever bike into my mini downhill bike, because not having a downhill bike for me is not really an option, because I rather enjoy smashing into things. It's actually super similar to what I did in 2019. I feel like I'm going back in time here. The original 165 build video I did, it had Pete the Dog in it. Rest in peace, Pete the Dog. He's no longer with us. He had a good life. He made it to almost 17. So yeah,he's not here to help me build this, so I'm not sure how it's going to all go together, but I'm going to try my best without his furry paws to help me here. There have been some subtle changes. Notably,this is the last Yeti in the line to get all the new upgrades as far as carbon layout, all the new collet pivots, all the cable routing, different parts of the frame that have more sound deadening. There's actually a bunch more clearance under here that's like an inch difference, so that you hit less things on the down tube. Every frame has a different carbon layout for every different size. Yeti wanted to tune each size to ride properly instead of making one layout that was best for a medium,right? So they basically have now optimized each different size to ride at its best with their different carbon layouts, which is actually admirable. Switchability is kind of tucked in here a little bit more,a little more clearance. It does have a threaded bottom bracket. I got a 2075 135 this year that replaced the old 140. It's like the rest of the bikes. They all just have a certain ride characteristic to them. It's sort of a damp feeling. Everything just feels more composed. It feels like everything is moving more freely. And they just ride markedly better. It's like hard to explain, but it's a damp,like supple, not like floppy,but like not flaccid, but,you know,like a damp, planted,like good feel. They just,they do ride so much better. They're quieter and more composed on trail. 180 boxer,right? This is an ultimate,world cup, super,deluxe,rad,best,whatever,boxer. Good little air bleeders. I'm gonna run an Air Vivid on this. I haven't run an Air Vivid since whatever year that was, many years ago, when I was running on my downhill bikes way back in the day. This is actually sold, normal spec,with a coil. So I think the Air Vivid will feel great. This thing basically bypasses the compression on the first little bit of the travel, just to keep it supple, the top stroke, and then you get that good ramp in the middle, and it's also got the hydraulic bottom out, so when you're like really, you know,finding, when you're really hitting the ground, finding the bottom, it actually gives you some support. RockShox made the rebound knob removable with little Allen keys, so you can make little adjustments in here. I can't actually fit it in here for the high speed, but I can definitely get the hydraulic bottom out with it. I'm going to put a direct mount stem on here. That guy goes there. That's a 50 mil stem, which might be a little long. No,that's a 60 mil. That's ridiculous. This is like 1984 over here. I will be running,as per usual, a carbon descendant bar. It says 760 wide, 20 millimeter rise. I am a big fan of running similar bars. This bike is going to feel weird enough compared to my trail bikes, so if I can have at least the same cockpit, that keeps things kind of similar in my brain somehow. I definitely run my bars a little bit Chicago, a little bit forward, more so than others might. If there's a bigger handlebar standard thicker here, the situation is bigger. I don't know. This seems to work just fine, so I'm going to keep running it. You can hang on me if you want, but I haven't broken any bars in a while. I've never broken a carbon bar, only a little bit of them, in case there's some carbon haters out there. I know you're out there. How does that look? Pretty mean,pretty aero. What do you think? Always use a torque wrench. Click. So this year, I went to the YAYI Mexico gathering. This is what they gave me. You notice not very much of it has been consumed. I've kind of been saving it for special occasions. This is definitely a special occasion. Smokey. Just a little, because if you get too drunk, nothing goes together right, and then you get hurt. You guys should come to the YAYI gathering in Mexico next year. It's a good time,good people. We have fun. We ride bikes, and then we party. And then we ride more bikes, and then we party some more. That's pretty cool. Kind of a Christmas theme going on here, the situation. Merry Christmas. This is adding to the Christmas, Christmas situation. Yeah,just to talk briefly about these new SRAM Maven brakes. They were shocking to use at first, as in I almost died 47 times until I recalibrated my brain to not pull the damn brake lever so hard. The power of these, it's silly. The beauty of it is it's actually highly tunable. SRAM recommends you downsize your rotors, and you're going to want to do that so that you don't go over the bars the first time you grab the brakes. I heard some people whinging about the weight and whatever on the Internet. But once you downsize your rotors, they're actually lighter than the codes that I've run on all my bikes for 10 years,whatever. And when you downsize your rotors, they still have 30% more power than you had before with big brakes, big rotors and codes. But you do have to really like retrain your brain to not pull so hard because you'll go over the bars everywhere. Maybe you haven't been living under a rock and you've heard about SRAM's transmission. I'm not sure what this thing does. I think you mount a derailleur on it. I guess I'm taking a step back in time and running 7-speed that screws onto this weird breakable-looking thing. When transmission got introduced, everyone's like, Oh, your frame's going to break. It's like, right. That's a good story. Good story, Internet. Haven't seen that happen yet. Anyway, I digress. Here we are going back to 1994 with a 7-speed short cage. I'm not going to lie. I hate cables. I kept this box because I knew this day was going to come because there's still no access version of this thing. I have to still run this thing through my frame, which is very easy because of the way Yeti has done their internal routing. Thank you, Yeti. 1994 is gone. Come on. Let's get this thing so that it goes beepy-boop while I have a bar almost a stupid shit in my frame. But I digress. Look at this big bag I have of collars to hang this thing. What the hell is all this crap? Matchmaker. It goes click, not beepy-boop-boop. Just when I thought my bike builds got easier, it got harder again. While we're setting up this cockpit, this is my new go-to grip. It's an Ergon GDH Team. For pretty much 20 years, I've run super-thin grips, and I always preferred that. 20 years ago, I would trade people brand-new Ruffians that I had for their clapped-out Ruffian ODI grips way back in the day because I liked, like, plastic showing in the grips. Like, thin, firm as can be, and that's what I liked in my downhill bikes way, way back in the day. So then for the last whatever, 15 years, I've run normal skinny grips and been fine with that. Ergon released this kind of fatter whatever grip, and the first day I tried it, I felt like I was doing a different sport. Like, my hands didn't even make sense. Then I got used to it, and I've actually been getting considerably less kind of hand fatigue and hand issues and no numbness. Like, my hands have been really happy with this new grip on the trail bike. It's just got a little sort of... situation going on, and it's got these nice ribs underneath to hang on. While we are talking about Ergon, I'm gonna run their SM downhill saddle on here. This is a solid titanium-railed miniature saddle. Like, on a downhill bike, you're not sitting on your saddle. It's just there so you don't get speared by your seat post, essentially. That would be a bad time. The downhill saddle here is considerably smaller, lower profile, like a little mini guy. Um, much narrower. Like, you don't sit on it. It protects you from... That's gonna go on this seat post that conveniently does not go up and down. Come on, buddy. The thing about press fit is that I actually had a press fit tool. I don't actually own the tool that engages these because I'm an idiot. This sort of situation, if you listen closely, you can hear the torque wrench click, click. Can you hear it? It's threaded now. Yeah. Gotta buy another stupid proprietary tool. I love single-use tools. I'm a single-use tool. I'm a PSXG guy going on here. The old 165, like, came down like that and went back up. So they actually had a thought about that and tried to keep rock stratics to a minimum and put a nice big skid plate on there, basically. Just to make things more complicated, I am going to run a transmission crank. Let's say I want my cranks like this. And I can just stand on, like, pegs. I know what you're thinking. This chain ring that's designed to work with T-type is not going to work with a 7-speed derailleur. But apparently, if you run a regular Eagle chain, which is designed for 12-speed, it'll work with the T-type and 7-speed. But you're not supposed to do that. Yeah, take that. See how many times I can take my shit off here. I can record the whole painful process and make you sit through it. All right, let's talk about wheels. I've been running the Zipp 3-Zero Motos for, since 2019, actually. This is not a downhill wheel. They don't market it that way. But I've had amazing luck with the durability. I'm a light guy. I ride hard, but whatever. I have 150 pounds with all my shit on. A single piece of carbon in the design here. It's designed to have ankle flex compliance. So basically, the rim flexes around the straight line of the spokes. It's kind of motor technology they're using here. They're damp. They have a little bit of compliance without feeling, like, floppy. But they actually kind of keep you from getting pinch flats because they can kind of flex just a little bit when they take impacts. And the bead isn't... or the bead contact area isn't sharp, so it doesn't cut your tire. It's worth noting that the Boxer is a 20-mil axle, and the Zip does not make a 20-mil front wheel end cap any longer. So this is an old hub that I sourced from my friends at SRAM and relaced it to this 29-inch front wheel so that I can use this on a Boxer. Everything custom. It's like when I used to race downhill 20 years ago. Everything was custom then. You had to cull together all your shit to make your downhill bike, and now nothing has changed because this is a downhill bike and this is a downhill wheel, but I'm going to make it one, so... Good work, Nate. Idiot. Let's talk about tires. I ran the same tire company's tires for whatever, more than 10 years. I don't work with them anymore. And I'm in the process of testing new tires. I had some stuff from Goodyear that was pretty cool. I was into that. Good durability. I was happy with those. My friends at WTB just sent me a few sets to try on the trail bike as well as this new downhill bike. So this is a verdict in a judge. This is their sort of slowest, grippiest, heaviest tire, and that's exactly what I'm looking for. I've never run a WTB tire in my life. I know some athletes that do that enjoy them. So, yeah. I reached out to a friend over there and they were kind enough to let me have a couple sets to try. So don't ask me how I like these tires, because I don't know yet. But I will tell you when I do know what I think of them exactly. I'm going to use some WTB tubeless tire sealant. I was thinking about mixing it 50-50 with this Mezcal, but I kind of would rather drink this, so I don't want to drink this. So I'm probably going to put this in my tire and this in my belly. Always valve stem center of hot patch. If you don't do that, you're guaranteed to flat. Tubeless doesn't work without it,actually. If you don't want to pinch flat your rim strip, you should definitely try to work these on by hand. Sometimes,the harder they are to get on, the less likely they are to come off. Oh,yeah. Oh,God. Whew. You're doing it right if you get it everywhere, including all over your pants. Oh,yeah. Boom. Nice and heavy. Weight weenies. Find them on the side of the trail,fixing shit. Lube. Here's something that doesn't get talked about enough. When Brian the Maven expert kid comes with his bag. Now,for the guy who has everything, being me, having a little rotor bag with separate compartments is actually super rad. It sounds silly, but rotors go in here. And when you're traveling, they don't get all banged up and beat to shit. And it's actually pretty genius. So,good work,SRAM. The videos are more fun when the drill makes the clicky noises. Oh,yeah. Boom. Oh. Lubrication. Yay. Very nice. I'm gonna use my finger to space this. Yep,that's right. Again,finger spacing. Perfect. If anyone tries to use a ruler, tell them your finger works better. So,yeah,I guess we're down to this. I've been avoiding this like a plague. Oh,man,look. Oh,that's the end of this box. I can throw it away. First,we're gonna put it all the way through. Cable guy. When I was a little kid, I was always waiting on the cable guy. Who am I even talking to? This thing. Stupid cables. Good thing I saved some of these ferrules. Welcome to 1996. Some say this is for marking things before you drill a hole in metal. I say it's for opening the orifice. I am gonna cut a little piece of tubing to cover this so that when I hit it on 75 sticks, I don't ever have to replace this housing because I hate replacing housing so much and I'm so spoiled with access. This is heat shrink. It's used for electrical connections, that sort of thing. I've used it in my van builds so that I don't burn the van down,essentially. Nice and tight. Here it is. I might just leave it untrimmed in protest of the cable. I'm gonna go ahead and try to not melt your frame or your other cables while you're doing this. Oh,yeah,burned it. Burned it,not bad. Now,it should be noted that when you handle this, this will burn the shit out of you. So if you don't put this anywhere you care about, preferably on your concrete floor, so you don't have to go to the hospital. Don't forget the bar plugs. If you crash and blow yourself when you hit the bar, you don't have to go to the hospital. You don't want to go to the hospital,kitties. And now the moment of truth. Will a regular Eagle chain work with both set-in speed and transmission? But,of course, they're not supposed to be compatible. This is a Voyager warranty. Don't do this. That's a long chain. Weird. So when cutting your chain, you're actually supposed to do this the proper way and,like,cycle your suspension. I'm just gonna do it the improper way. We're doing pretty good so far. Seems like I got that pretty right. Just a little bit off there. Help. Yeah,it feels like cables. Where does the battery go? So satisfying,putting that ferrule on. Yeah,that's gonna last. Bubbles. OK,that's about it. Thanks for watching. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments. I will try to answer,try my best. There's probably people more qualified to answer than me, but we'll give it a go. Thanks to my partners, Yeti Cycles, RockShox Ram, Zip, Eragon. Thanks to WTB for kicking in some tires for me to try. I went skiing today. It's still winter in Colorado, so I won't be able to ride this thing in the mountains that soon where I live, but hopefully there'll be some follow-cam episodes coming your way soon enough on this new rig. Fresh follow-cam Friday episode every Friday at 10am. Tune in for that. See some shenanigans with my friends. 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