At least now you have the story to tell of "that one time when you ripped the chain ring off the bike on your high torque interval day"

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Glad it didn’t turn out worse than it did. Looking forward to the restoration and attempt #2

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Me too 😱 thanks for watching dude!

Ryan won’t be happy about you trying to spit out an ad integration during an interval hahahahaha! That was impressive though.

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

😂😂 it was pretty obvious in the ride data too!

Yup, it would've been fine with all its chainring bolts, but hey at least you can just replace that chainring easy! I've folded a chainring in half as well because of that exact reason.. Had two bolts not tightened properly, and they fell out on cobbles (gotta love Belgium lol)

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Oh man those must have been some ínstense cobbles! I think I’ll have to replace the front derailleur in addition to the big chainring. I’m excited to breath some new life into the bike and give it back to James (after a proper test of course 😉)

Cant wait to see the restoration! ❤

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Excited to get to work on it!

You should be proud of that torque demolition! I once saw a Dura Ace crank arm ripped in half at the pedal axle threads during a crit while accelerating out of a corner. It was unfortunate for the rider but an unbelievable display of torque

Watched about 6 of your videos without commenting yet, just wanted to say I love your stuff! Binging my way through them all

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks dude, appreciate you!

thanks , that was a harsh reminder that I really need to do a complete bike check before my next ride.

Not me thinking back to the time I used zip ties in place of chainring bolts on my fixie for a couple of months. No sir.

On my next video watch me bring this retro bike back to life using only eBay parts! 😅 The updated Franken bike… stay tuned!

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

😂 I promise it’ll be as close to the original parts as I can find

@mpad680

Жыл бұрын

@@MitchBoyer change it up and keep it Frankenstein like he mentioned…lol 😂

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

@@mpad680 😂

I think I caught a 105 logo on the derailleur. I wonder what the most modern version of 105 is that’d be compatible since it is a Frankenstein it’d be a-okay!

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Good eye! Yeah the rear derailleur is a 105. Not sure on the exact year. I’ll have to do some digging. It’s a 6 speed cassette

DUUUUUUUDE....I glad you were hurt. Sad to hear about the vintage bike.

Good thing you didn’t crash when that chainring broke 😮

As someone who was riding in the 80's, I feel those steel bikes would be fine. But as with any bike, it must be maintained. The safety brakes make me feel that even when that Peugeot was not that special. Cheers.

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

I think with a bit of maintenance and a new chainring, it should be able to handle the same workout like a champ! Thanks for watching 🙌

@garysladek9110

Жыл бұрын

@@MitchBoyer Two things, one it makes me smile that James has used and taken his bike all over the place, I've done the same with my 1976 Gitane, and two, I'm about to get on that bike now and commute to work. Of course the only original thing on my bike is the frame.

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

@@garysladek9110 that’s awesome! I’m definitely not a “newer is always better” kind of person. Happy to hear you have a bike you love and have maintained. It’s inspiring!

800 watts on 3 ring bolts, not too shabby.

A *maintained* vintage bike will do just fine ;)

tfw your regular training bike is literally an 80's peugeot with a 54t chainring 😅 riding that cause I'm broke, and cause when I do finally sink a few grand into something current I'll be able to fly

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Dude if you ever upgrade you’re gonna literally take off 🚀

Thankfully they were seated intervals...

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

10000% I was really lucky. It could’ve been very bad

Nice video! You can still get all the replacement parts needed to fix the thing though. I think you owe this to James

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

That’s the plan! New chainrings, front derailleur, and maybe some other goodies too. It’ll all be in the second video!

@Horstelin

Жыл бұрын

@@MitchBoyer new cabling and hoses always transforms an old bike

Have you seen Mark Lewis’ video today? 😂 You’re living rent free in his head

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Haha oh man the video is great, gotta love Mark! Glad to see our record still stands!

Wow...after watching this video, I REALLY miss my '86 Schwinn Traveler. Why did I give that bike away?? Why?!? 😞

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Ahh! That’s a great looking bike. Sorry dude 😔

Good content

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙌

Luckly those weren't regular sprints!

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Very lucky 😱

Note to self: Don't loan Mitch your bike. :)

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

Lol you made me laugh pretty hard.

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

haha glad to hear it! Thanks for watching 🙌

Thanks for watching! Pick up some Bombas socks for the holidays. Use code MITCH20 for 20% off your first order.

These vintage bike/modern bike comparisons always irritate me when they're comparing a new, carefully maintained bike to a vintage bike that hasn't been looked at by a mechanic in decades. It's not that hard to bring a vintage steel bike up to like-new condition. It's not like a car. You don't have to use an a-frame to pull the engine and you don't need a machine shop to refurbish or make new parts. Parts aren't hard to find because there were no proprietary "standards" back then -- just English, Italian, French and sometimes JIS. All you need is a basic set of tools and a few hours. Replace the cables and maybe the housing, repack the bearings, grease and torque all the various bits and bobs and soon you'll have restored a forty year old bike to absolutely like-new condition -- at least mechanically. And that condition will be very good: the bikes of the 1980s were the product of a century of refinement and they should run as smoothly, quietly and reliably as any modern bike. Sure things have advanced since then. Materials are more advanced. Tires are better. Mass manufacturing allows metal frames to be welded instead of artisinally braised. Perhaps most of all our understanding of riders and how to optimize their performance is way beyond what it was in the 1980s. But a properly maintained 1980s bike can easily take anything you can dish out. Unless you're an elite rider, you're probably not that much stronger than riders were forty years ago, and even if you are an elite rider, bikes are always overbuilt. Even Eddy Merckx wouldn't have been able to bend the chainring on this thing if it had been put together properly.

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I definitely think a restored bike/maintained bike will have no problem with these workouts, and that’s what I’m hoping to show in part 2 🤞 To be honest, I didn’t expect the bike to fail before hand. I was hoping to show that even an old, unmaintained bike, can do a lot more than you might think. I really wish I had done a proper inspection before the ride. Just replacing those missing chainring bolts would’ve resulted in an entirely different video. I hope the take away for most people after this video is inspect and maintain your bike. Hopefully I wasn’t too nuanced with it, but maybe I was. Still trying to find that line between entertaining and useful! Either way, thanks for watching!

@grumpynerd

Жыл бұрын

@@MitchBoyer I think it shows that if you don't check the bike, you get the luck of the draw. I think if this had been an all-original garage queen bike that had been moldering away in storage you'd probably have been OK except for watts lost to a rusty chain. But the history of this bike is a red flag. Before it was put away, it had been constantly ridden and lovingly wrenched into a frankenbike state by an amateur mechanic. Amateur doesn't mean inexpert, and a Mr. Potato Head build isn't necessarily a bad one, but it doesn't take a lot of skill to keep a bike in a minimally rideable but not really safe condition. So I think there really is an important lesson here: always check over an unfamiliar old bike carefully before riding it.

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

@@grumpynerd totally agree with the lesson to always check an unfamiliar bike beforehand. I was very lucky it’s wasn’t something worse. That’s for watching and sharing your insight!

His uncle gave him a piece of crap...

Ugh click bait video. Could have just made one video with the chain rings fixed 😣

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

Sorry you feel that way. Hope it was at least entertaining and you had a laugh or two ✌️

@fredrose7801

Жыл бұрын

That bike was not made for that kind of power. It isn’t a pro caliber Peugeot. They are completely better, I have one.

@MitchBoyer

Жыл бұрын

@@fredrose7801 I bet even this one could do it once I get the new chainrings on. It’d be cool to try it on a pro level retro bike too!

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