I rarely comment on these videos and I miss doddy as much as the next person. But I will say, Anna has been great for the channel and her presenting skills have got better and better. Great video and keep up the good work Anna 👍🏼

@ksm12312

Жыл бұрын

Where’s doddy gone ?

@xxMissSummerxx1

Жыл бұрын

I'm with you on that... can I just ask where is Doddy does anybody know?

@Emolokz

Жыл бұрын

He's going to be back, he was in the studio filming recently. He took some time off, and that's all we really need to know.

She mentions the seat pack/tire issue around 10:30. Hardtails are great, but I live in Arizona and ride trails with rock gardens on bikepacking trips; for those times, full squish bikes like my ‘21 Carbon SLX Spearfish is perfect. I have the Salsa framebag, Tailfin Aeropack, and a Salsa handlebar bag. The editing on this video is outstanding.

Your saddlebag is constantly dragging on your rear tyre. Add the dropper post and the additional weight of the full-suspension to that equation and that's what makes hardtails the de facto design for bikepacking MTBs.

@richardjohnston6688

Жыл бұрын

I agree you took the words right out of my mouth . Really not the bike for it .

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

If you don't fall in line with the full suspension crowd you will be terminated

@johnwilkes9142

Жыл бұрын

I think the Priority 600x is a much better bikepacking bike

@yumyumhungry

Жыл бұрын

They make rear racks that can accommodate a dropper

@ish474

Жыл бұрын

Yes if all you want to do is go across the land but if you want to ride your bike once you're out in the mountains a bike like this is a great thing to have.

Please more videos like this! I love how you filmed it and would like to no more about bike packing.

@Jormvngandr

Жыл бұрын

GMBN has a few videos with Neil & Blake bikepacking. There is also a bunch of setupvideos all over KZread

woo Salsa getting some love......the spearfish can be a quiver killer....from all day trail centre rides to epic bike packing.....got trust message fork on mine and turned it into a flow trail beast

...this is one of the most beautiful videos you guys made. its like watching a movie trailer with all the great sound and story telling. lovely. made my day.

Great video. This reinforces my love for my 2021 Salsa Spearfish XT in yellow. Prepping it for my first ever bikepacking trip in 2024.

Awesome bike! We need a video of you and one of the guys doing a bike-packing adventure 🤟

That production was ridiculous great job 😁

Outstanding video and build. I have the 2021 salsa spearfish with xt as well and love it has performed flawlessly for bikepacking. Thank you for sharing the experience 😊

Love it! Beautiful "do it all" & "go anywhere" machine. Salsa makes really nice bikes.

Now this is a dream bike! Beautiful build and video.

the headset spacer upside down at 2:47 drives me nuts :D

Well congrats Anna for the great video,its was so satisfying to see new bike build although i can't affort it😂.cheers the very moment no matter long or epic eacape.hope to see more vide from you and team GMBN.

Love the colorway! Also love seeing mechanical shifting

I couldn't get to a bikepacking expedition without full cover fenders. Fenders are must in my book. They have multiple purposes - making your bikeand bikepaking bags and you clean. Also keeping your drivetrain and chain clean.

Brilliant all round. Helped me spec out a wish list of components for my hardtail for the odd bike packing adventure. Keep em coming 🙂

Inspiring video. Anna is a wonderful presenter and this video ignites my hunger for adventure

Very interesting😊 Really enjoyed watching the bike build!

I started to watch this and thought "Canyon don't do a bike packing bike!. This will be interesting" Nice to see a different bike for a change #salsa for the win.

Inspired build. Great information.

Love your new bike , the spearfish make a great fast riding bike packing bike. I just saw a photo of a new seat bag design that might improve your clearance. Its from Rouge Panda . Honestly your best video to date , cheers

Love the bike Anna, hope to see more like this from you

Nice job dude!!

Excellent no compromise build and just as excellent presenter.

So, while I like the rest of the build, I would really prefer not running a saddle bag, especially on a full sus bike, and with a dropper post. I would really recommend a tailfin aeropack, tailfin is also based in the UK, so I don't think it would be much trouble to ask them for one. Maybe do that as an update or something? Pretty sure Tailfin would be more than happy about advertising.

@ryanthompson1442

Жыл бұрын

The aero spider is even more out of the way than a tailfin

@ohmps01

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanthompson1442 i do not have much experience with that. I do own an aeropack and am very happy with it though. And that definitely works on basically all frames unless they have too much travel.

Nice one Anna. I personally would love to hear more about how it performed and what you would change after your trip to help make it even more capable. A good example for me is on my Trek Marlin Seven I can swap from a pack rack if I want to carry stuff on the bike's rear to full mud guards if I want to hit the squishy stuff to nothing if I just want to bomb a trail hard. I put 50mm riser bars to replace the factory straight xc bars to get my weight back and took some length out of the seat post for more manoeuvrability, it doesn't have a dropper.

Awesome beautiful bike build 🤘👍❤❤❤

As a shorter bikepacking person ive found a tailfin rack allows me to run a dropper without any rubbing. The aeroe spider rack can do the same

Great video 😃 love it ❤

Thank you for sharing

DANG THAT WAS SWEET!!!! WELL DONE YOUNG LADY!

Great vid this Anna really enjoy your tech vids and what a bike wow.😮

Nice build, but I thought for sure you were going with XT Link Glide for a truly bullet proof long lasting drivetrain.

Lovely vid Anna

Great job. Video quality is amazing. You've turned out to be a real good presenter as y'all call yourselves. Not to mention your easy on the eyes. Do keepemcoming like to see more bike packing stuff.

Feels great to see a salsa on this channel

Just beautiful

we demand Kashima coating in black. we all know Fox just did that to put an illusion that black stanchions are lower tier and gold Kashima is top tier. so people see RockShox's Black stanchions on high-end suspension to be lower tier also. as always great show to watch after a hard working day. cant wait fo the weekend for a good long MTB ride.

We like Anna. Don't let anything happen to her.

I use a rigit Kelly's TNT 29 MTB with 2.4 maxxis ardent tires for bikepacking. Hasle free bike. The simpler bike the better for bikepacking. And better for getting spare parts😊

Welcome to the Salsa family!

what an epic movie!

Salsa! Awesome

Thought you might bump into Toff during the intro...😆

Lovely, very inspiring, I want to go to Scotland with my mountain bike I'm sure of that, but I don't know how to prepare for it, I want to go as light as possible, to be able to give everything on the trails but also to be well prepared, for when a video guide to prepare for a real adventure? Thankss❤

My Sherpa ti with Rigid forks and Paul Klampers XTR drive with Fox SL dropper best of the best 😊

Great video. Consider an Aeroe rack for carrying cargo on the rear without the tyre clearance and dropper post issues of a saddle bag.

@thomasbaker6563

Жыл бұрын

Also a rear rack can help get the load lower

It never ceases to surprise me how people in England ride in the most abysmal weather and enjoy it.

@gmbntech

Жыл бұрын

Got to make the most of what you've got! Makes those summer dry days all that sweeter 👍

Love the build video. I wondered if the arty lighting made working on the bike difficult though? I always need really bright lighting to work on my bikes. Perhaps juat showing my age.

Should have gone for the Aeroe Spider rear rack, no swaying of a seat bag, and full usage of the dropper

Where’s doddy?

For rear I would suggest Thule Tour Rack XT or similar like topeak terrarack R2

This build is sick!

Great concept but you hit the same problem as me. Saddle bag rubbing . I designed my own solution . Two "baskets " for two dry bags on both side of the wheel . No rubbing , more space , I can even use dropper .

Does this mean there will be more bike packing content to come? 👌

I noticed the saddle bag is hitting the rear tire. Maybe due to the rear suspension i guess it's better to fir it with rear rack instead of saddle bag. It is visible at 9:02 9:09 and at 9:11

If somebody knows a solution for the draging backpack, please feel free to share. Just: there is no rack which goes well with the suspension, as it should be mounted on the non-moving part of the bike: on the mainframe. I would like to have a solution, as i like bikepacking on a fs.

Cheap kona frames are the great budget bike packing rig. Unless you are a dentist of course.

@komoonkh

Жыл бұрын

Just came back from a ride on my Lava dome. I dont have any bikepacking gear but there are mounts for it

It would be a XC hardtail one that i currently own

What a pity you didn't comment on the tent. Besides, wonderful video!

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

Pity*

It would great to see some content that the average person could afford. I dont get companies asking me to build a perfect bike with free components. I have a budget and its way under what this build is. Getting tired of the perfect builds that most people can't afford.

How much did the Spearfish weigh without bags?

👍👍👏

Great video, but you really don’t need a full sus for bike packing. A ST hardtail is perfect. Your seat bag needs to be swapped for something like a TailFinn Aero pack. That way you can use the dropper as it’s constantly rubbing on the tyre, it won’t last a week like that and they wobble too much. All that additional weight of the rear shock setup is pointless. Iam glad to see some content featuring bike packing on the channel, well done for featuring it 🤘

@AaronVets

2 ай бұрын

People have different preferences and ride different terrain than you do. 🙄

Where has Dotty been?

Is that an SLX Cassette? Not an XT cassette? Why?

Sounded like you were having a lot more fun on the cheap ones, didn't hear any whooping and hollowing on the Mazzas

Did she mention tire size? It looks like 2.25 Mezcal + 2.25 or 2.35 Barzo.

@fooboomoo

Жыл бұрын

Yea, would have loved to see a full spec list.

Thanks Anna for showing around your latest Bike Packing rig! You looked awfully comfortable building up that frame set....Congrats as I have never seen a Gal know her way around bikes and tools like you do! Probably able to show the boys a thing or two around there...!!!! Cheers!

GMBN's very own Nigella Lawson - can you say Brecon Beacons anymore?

Old man mountain rack would be way better right??

I moved to Rohloff years ago & back to steel frame & mechanical breaks , all a lot more reliable .I guess if you're sponsored you're a bit stuck .

Great build Anna. Pity the weather didn't play fair.😶‍🌫

super cool, but your hacksaw blade is on backwards... :/

All my bikes have three chainrings. Seems like a lot of work to me with not being able to downshift as much.

@madtownangler

Жыл бұрын

Also looks like you could have put fenders on that although I would have gone with front and rear racks. With fiberglass plates on them for mud.

@Dlawler

Жыл бұрын

12 speed wide ratio cassette and a 28t chain ring, 1st gear is going to be lots of spinning and not going very far as it is

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

​@@Dlawler I use 10 speed, 2x upfront with the same range as a 12 speed system. Lol keep wasting money

@Dlawler

Жыл бұрын

@@dystopiaisutopia at least you admit and understand you're wasting money with more consumables moving parts and unnecessary added weight

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

@@Dlawler lol you shift way more than I do

Lovely video Anna, but how about a serious challenge? Once the warmer months up north eventually start to cool, why not bring yourself and your bike to Sydney, then include a surfboard and a support crew, and head north, or south, or even west? You know you wanna do it! GMBN will be right behind you… 😎

@samblenkharn8099

Жыл бұрын

Big carbon footprint is why not!

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

​@@samblenkharn8099 typing on a phone made with slave labor! Lol

@samblenkharn8099

Жыл бұрын

@@dystopiaisutopia whataboutism lol!

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

@@samblenkharn8099 but it's true

yes, none of these faddy gravel bikes..

An awesome bike & video but the price for an ordinary Joe would be an issue to say the least 🙄

Feels like this video was directed by Doddy for some reason

That seatbag is waiting to get torn apart :S

@nickwooden2103

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s what I was thinking

@HEIPPI

Жыл бұрын

@@nickwooden2103 The framebag is really nice to be available though 👌🏻

@nickwooden2103

Жыл бұрын

@@HEIPPI yeah everything else looks totally on point 👌

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

Full suspensions are dumb for bikepacking

Love to see Anna on the channel, but has Doddy left.

And , what you've not mentioned, is how much this set up cost as not everyone has this kind of money

@Jormvngandr

Жыл бұрын

The thing with bikepacking is that it doesnt need to cost an arm and leg. Do you have a bike & backpack? Then you are already there. Use what you already have.

What a brilliant vlog, and the bike was superb. Your bike building skills are incredible, I’m scared to do anything to my bike in case it all goes horribly wrong. And as for your height, all good things come in small packages. I’m a convert to your channel.👍

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

Ad*

You need a mudguard

Anna is the best presenter on this channel!

@5gill

Жыл бұрын

And nice to look at hahaha

Nice video. It would be a nice gesture to attempt the Welsh name: Bannau Brycheiniog.

Might be the steamiest bike build I've ever watched! 😍 Wish I could do something like that! 🥲

I will gladly steal ur bike

not watching until you bring back Doddy

Vittoria Barzo tire more aggressive than the Mezcal?

Ebike country.

Last

@dystopiaisutopia

Жыл бұрын

Gayest

Way not the Shimano linkglide

Superboost🤢

You're showing your "Englishness", you went to Bannau Brycheiniog. Obviously your snacks are in your nose bag. You obviously need a bit of lift to your saddle bag, perhaps a beam support would do it? You rode all the way from Bath to Bannau Brycheiniog and back?