So hello and welcome back to yet another video. A midweek video, it is 32 degrees today, it's been a bit of a scorcher so I'm coming out to get out of the house where it's like an oven just to get a bit of air, have a spin, just stretch the legs really and just experience some of this nice weather, what's the sillier, the thunderstorms are forecast tomorrow. Oh and it's new bike day. So what have you got I can hear you asking? Well I've treated myself to a trip tomorrow, an SL5 in rage red. I had a look at what bikes were available with a spec I would need to replace the BMC as my winter bike, my go-to wet weather bike. There's not a lot in stock and what was in stock, you had to wait at least 23 days for. So searching for a bike was a lot of hard work trying to find one in stock and one that actually liked. I stumbled across this bike and I absolutely fell in love with it, tried to find it everywhere and it was out of stock. So I started looking at local bike shops that were Trek dealers and lo and behold I found it on the website of Pedal Revolution Ignore it to a local bike shop. So I pinged him an email and I asked have you actually got it in stock in a 52 centimetre and he said yes. So a big shout out to Carl and everybody at Pedal Revolution who have helped me get this bike within a couple of days which is just amazing really. You're an absolute star car, thank you ever so much. I absolutely love it. I'm going to get to show it you in a minute. I hope you love it too. It is an immense bike and so far. So good. It feels really brilliant to ride. Oh and I should point out I've actually bought the bike they didn't give it me. Not yet anyway. Maybe when I get a few more thousand subscribers if we're lucky. So initial thoughts. Disprakes are really good. I do like those. Do feel nice and solid and do feel like they're going to stop you. The gear changes. I don't know if anybody else has got them, Bodden, Shimano, one in five levers but they seem to go at an angle as opposed to straight left or right like the old ones did. I like it. I really do like it. It's more natural just to give it a flick to go down. And obviously with SRAMI TAP I've just got a little button and the levers don't actually move so it's been a while since I've upgraded a group set and I do like this. I must say, very slick smooth gears especially between the big ring and the little ring. It's got a lot of nice wear of the SRAMI TAP but it is nice and smooth. I think we've got a bit of hot to be bothering. I think we've got a feel. Mostly just around the corner. Mostly hill. Let's see how we can do. It's just the year the old Grandad gears, the 34 need to come into play. So in conclusion there's nothing wrong with the bike's climbing ability. It was flying up to the end of the bottom. I was 90 seconds up on my PB down the bottom but then I got in the way. My legs are still wrecked from riding that Carrera on Sunday. They were still hurting yesterday. They seized up. But the 34 gear in the big ring got to respect that. Although I have found one flaw with these gears. The gears that I was praising just a minute ago have been absolutely natural. When you run out of gears the next time you go to drop down a gear that's the brake. Pretty sharp brake. Let's try to go uphill. That didn't help. And they are very good brakes. I'm guessing you won't have a problem with it. You don't want to see me riding around heavy breathing. My opinions of the bike. Obviously I was paid for. And I'm obviously going to be very biased. But have a look at it. Pete said I've got to do some very artsy Francis K shots. I'm not Francis K but he's my best go. I'm not a director or a wad coming this way. Anyway let's show you the bike. We have 34 cassette on it. Shimano 105. It's a long cage derailleur. We've got some infinity bond trager wheels. Some bond trager R132C tyres. It does take up to 38C so you can do a lot of gravel riding. It is an all road bike. So he's got plenty of clearance as you can see. And it has this nifty little gadget here. That comes out. And there is a bag in there with all your inner tubes. So you have a saddle bag. Nice bit of internal storage in the frame. Just stick down my cockpit with my GoPro Hero session. My wahtoo bolt. And there are some Glinda stem gadgets that go on there. It makes this a little bit neat to which they may or may not get. These are the shifters. So it's more of a back gear system. I kind of like that. I'm hoping that when I pull the front brake, plenty of clearance for 38C tyres on these wheels. Which are of course just brake. Use the sweating net. That is my trek to Mane SL5 in rage red. Took me a long time to film. That's what I am very very thankful for. I was going to say my last new bike day was over three years ago when I bought the canyon. And then I just bought a frame set and I built that bike up with all the bits that I actually wanted on it. And before that was eight years ago with the BMC. But at least it would have been. Had I not bought a tandem two weeks ago and built that one up. Is that count? I don't know. Two new bike days and two weeks. Maybe some kind of record. I mean, Tad and Teelem there's not not smoothness to road surfaces. This suspension thing really does make a difference. That was a very pleasant comfortable ride along that bumpy road. It just seems to dampen everything. And it does feel really really comfortable. You can say I'm suitably impressed by the Ister speed. Well done, Trek. Well done. It wouldn't be a true test of an all road bike. But actually in a bit of gravel. So we're going to do hand-walled. Brisk is smaller than a thousand flies. Bit protein though. We won't do it. Let's go see what the river's like. I'm going to do a little bit of the bike. I'm going to do a little bit of the bike. I'm going to do a little bit of the bike. I'm going to do a little bit of the bike. I'm going to do a little bit of the bike. I'm going to do a little bit of the bike. I'm going to do a little bit of the bike. I'm going to do a little bit of the bike. There we have it. Tours in the background. So we're nearly home. Sun is setting. Really good ride. Really pleased with that. I'm not quite Jeremy Clarkson. It's not quite that sort of a road test. I did really enjoy riding the bike. And if my wife asks, it costs £350. No, she knows it only costs £500. Anyway, if you like this video, don't forget to like this video. Subscribe, comment and I will see you Sunday probably. I've got two weeks leave coming up. So there should be quite a few videos. Pinned on what I'm doing with the family. But yeah, we're long-leaked, I think, on Sunday. I think it's me, Pete Dell. Not quite sure yet, but that's the plan. So I will see you very, very soon. Thanks for watching.