MTB to Gravel Bike Conversion (featuring the Enve Carbon Mountain Fork and BMC Teamelite)

meet and return Hello, she is a versatile cyclist, so she loves riding road

bike

s with her friends, as well as trails in the

mountain

s. She is a BMC cyclist. She has a wide variety of beautiful BMC

bike

s to choose from when she goes out riding. She has a road bike, an XC endurance bike, a trail bike, and a long-range

mountain

bike. She also has a very nice hardtail cross-country bike that hasn't been ridden much lately. However, she doesn't have a

gravel

bike, so we do. We decided to do an experiment. Our plan is to transform the ella xc hardtail bike into a

gravel

specific bike by swapping the suspension port for a lightweight sourced

carbon

on the turnkey mountain

fork

.

This lightweight hairpin is a thing of beauty that sits at or near the top. class for light weight features in a suitable axle with crown length plenty of tire clearance plus two camber adjustments to fine-tune the ride of a

fork

that is intended to simplify the typing experience, there is a lot going on here before installing This lightweight

carbon

wonder weighs the bike long before you take a snapshot of the rig so we have an idea of ​​how much weight you're going to save by switching to the rigid scale, it weighs 23.9 pounds, that is, with the pedals installed, okay, finish this race. and then we can install the new fork, we took most of this out in the garage, messy garage and now I'm finishing up doing some leverage and I have time to install a new one and, uh, there's some crown stroke adjusters around only 25 dollars online and I'm going to buy one because I'm tired of doing this.

I probably install one pair of headphones a year, but I try to have all the tools I need to do all the work on a bike, so a bit of a break is long overdue, I'm back at it, I'm still missing a few tools and a crown race setter for 1.5 stairs is near the top of that list. I could also use a quality vise, I must say, it's a nice fork and now it's time to cut the headset, remember to measure twice. Ugh, Emmy recommends 100 grit sandpaper for sanding the edges. We're going to create a bevel on the edge of the head tube, so okay, time to cut the head tube to install it before installing the fork.

Let's do a quick nerd alert and get up on the scale, it states that at zero 1600 grams and in pounds it's 3.53 pounds 1.37 pounds, wait, that's 620 grams or 0.620 kilograms. Yes, Inga is going to get excited and let's clean it up. I'm going to try all of this on the bottom for now, I think it's a little crown that went down a little bit. I actually didn't bother measuring it early. I've set it high for now and then we can always put the spacers underneath, okay, just a quick light. layer here before I install that little star nut driver, I'm going to add some friction paste to the headset just because it's a carbon headset and that's a good idea, this is the lysine torque unit, it's basically a little test. portable torque ratchet set and I actually bought it for myself uh I think two Christmases ago um the irony is I use it mostly on their bikes which will go eight newton meters just fine it's time to install some brakes the routing of the cable, these are really cool little clips that we're going to put on and take off, instead we're going to run the integrated fenders, which actually serve the same purpose, plus it looks really cool, so to install it, slide it through that and just push it in, there we go, it's a beautiful piece. of bike parts and would be expected to retail for $625, but damn, it's pretty good, wouldn't it be funny if this didn't fit?

It's not really good. Looks like I just need to adjust my calipers and center the brakes and We can try this, well, when push comes to shove, throw it on the scale and see what it weighs. It's so light, at 21.72 pounds, that it's pretty light for a mountain bike. If you ask me, I think it looks good. It's nice to take walks. from our front door living in Portland, that means miles and miles of paved bikes and multi-use paths to connect to real dirt or gravel. Do you need a gravel bike to ride rival trails? Of course not, in fact I think it starts from a mountain.

Bike is a better option in some cases, if you follow other industry trends it seems like the rest of the bike world is improving too, especially when it comes to upright bars we see a lot of cross stud and gravel bikes with

conversion

s flat bar. It doesn't really make sense from a geometric fitting perspective. Dropper bikes are designed with the bars reach integrand in mind, it's part of the equation, so simply swapping out a drop bar and brakes for a vertical bar and really throwing a wrench in your Fit, today we did a vlog some solid hill rides and so far, Ingo loves the minimal, light weight of the rigid fork BMC and said that since many of our riding buddies have also invested in dedicated gravel bikes, its 2.2 tires xz will run slow.

In comparison, leading up to our next tire change, we are planning to go one step further. BMC is sending out its latest gravel bike for Ingot to spend some time on. We're planning to mount them back to back so we can In the meantime, get a solid, in-depth look at the benefits and strengths of each approach, keep driving and subscribe to the channel and you'll be notified when the follow-up videos are posted.