What did you say, Axe Murderer? Do you want Axe Murderer? Do I know one? You should have said, what do you need an Axe Murderer for? Yeah. Today, we got my guy, Joe, to Rose out in Detroit. What's up, Joe? Thanks for having me out, man. It's going to be awesome. What price range you circle prospecting around? So it's around $300,000. Let's get that dialer going without further ado, man. I want to hear that dialer. I want to hear dial tone. I want to hear phone ringing, people saying hello. I want to see what's up with your skill level, bro. Hello, this is Joe. Hello, this is Joe to Rose with EXP Realty. Is this Michael? Yeah, hi, Michael. How are you doing today? I'm trying to work, and so what's up? Yeah, I didn't want to take up too much of your time. A house right there on North Roosevelt just sold. And I didn't know if there's anything in the world I can do to help you. Axe Murderer or what? No, I was just seeing if I could do anything to help you real estate-wise. Do you have a realtor you would work with if you were to do something like five to 10 years from now? No, I'm not sure what we're going to do. I think we're going to be at our house for at least another three or four years, so. Gotcha. Well, would it be OK if I just stayed in contact with you? That'd be fine. That'd be fine. Is there a good email address for you? Not at this time now, but you can just contact me or text me, OK? Gotcha. Well, it's nothing crazy, you know? Just be your email address. Yeah, I'm just switching providers soon, so it's not going to be valid. Gotcha. Well, here's what I'll do. Yeah, here's what I'll do. I'll just text you my digital business card, and I'll do it like that. All right? All right, sorry. OK, thank you. All right, thanks a lot, Mike. Then, ever something we can help you, then you went right into, you know, do you have an agent that you would work with? And I was thinking, just let him answer first and see what he says. What did he say? Axe murder? You want an axe murder? Do I know one? You should have said, what do you need an axe murder for? Yeah. Also, when you asked for the email, yeah, you said, is there a good email? And that's like a yes or no question. Gotcha. Yeah, so you can get out of it. Yeah. Well, not even like get out of it. It's just not how you ask. You say, what's a good email? That's a good email. Hello, this is Jodoros with EXP Realty. Is Mr. Abdullah available? Oh, I'm sorry. You have their own number. I'm sorry. Well, you know, I work with buyers and sellers in the area. I work for EXP Realty. And just want to know if you work with a realtor. If you were to do something like that. I don't have anything to sell, so. Well, I'm not trying to sell you anything right now. I'm just seeing, you know, trying to help as many people as I can. Looking for anything to sell? Yeah, that's not what I'm asking. I'm just asking, you know, is there anything in the world I can do to help you? Yeah. Help me do what? Well, you know, if you don't have a real estate agent, I would just love to work with you in the future, you know. Gotcha. What's his name, by the way? What was that? Oh, because I'm in the middle of a box of floors. Oh, gotcha. I don't know about that. Gotcha. I pay $45 an hour cash. I'll think about it. Gotcha. I'll be cleaning your mortals also. Gotcha. All right. Well, have a great day. You too. All right, bye. She kept throwing curveballs, and you kept hitting them. Yeah. Same thing with the last dude, man. He talked about he needed an axe murderer. And you're talking about, is there an agent you might work with? Oh, sorry about that. Well, I'm a local real estate agent with DXP Realty here in Dearborn. There's been a couple of home sales in Dearborn, and I didn't know if there's anything in the world that I can do to help you. Well, more on that, thank you. Do you have a realtor that you would work with, that you were to do something in five to 10 years from now? But thank you. Gotcha. Well, what's his name? Bye. Dude, everything I'm seeing from what you're doing is really, really good stuff, man.   Nothing stops you, man. You just go right through and keep going, man. It's incredible. Hello, this is Joe DeRose with DXP Realty. How are you doing today? Good, how are you? Good. Just trying to enjoy this nice fall weather out there today. How about yourself? OK. Gotcha. Well, hey, I didn't want to take up too much of your time, but there's been a home sale in the area, and I didn't know if there's anything in the world I can do to help you. Well, do you have a real estate agent that you would work with if you were to do something? You don't have a home right now. Well, if you were interested in buying, would you use a real estate agent? Well, is it all right if I just stay in contact with you? Gotcha. Well, it doesn't hurt to always get a second opinion. I'd love to just stay in contact with you. Well, what's a good email address for you? I know. Dude, that is just, you are just absolutely crushing this, man. Like, you immediately tweet how you're asking for the email. If you would just make a lot more calls, man, I'm telling you, you'll be crushing it. Stay in the mindset, and you've got to be calm.  Yeah, you've got to be calm, and you have to just have fun with it. Loosen up, you know, have fun, let it flow, help people.  You know, it's not a sales call. You're here to help. Nobody's ever died from making call calls from all the research I did. Yeah. Dude, man, dude, do you understand how good of, like, practice this here? This is like, this is gold, man. This is straight gold. This is straight gold, man. You have no idea. It's not digging ditches tough. It's tough in the sense of going through a lot of rejection, wrong numbers. It can be emotionally draining if you don't get the results.  Like, I can hear in your voice, you know? It's like, the confidence is not all the way there. Like, you may have the confidence, but I'm not hearing it. You know, you're not the level of your voice, the pitch of your voice, the tone of your voice. It's not elevating in certain areas that it should to grab their attention and really make them feel, you know, feel something monotone, kind of level toned. There's no upping down. There's no pattern. There's no flow to it. It's choppy. That's all normal for this stage in the game, man. 500 calls in, you know what I'm saying? The fact that you're doing it and you're plowing through, I think you need to be like William and try to get to 20,000 calls as quick as you can. I swear, dude, if you did that, you would come out of that, like, not mastery, but your game would be so tight. Yeah. Hello, this is, is this Christine? Yes, and who are you? Christine, my name is Joe DeRose with EXP Realty here in Dearborn. How are you doing today? Granted, well, I'm not trying to sell anything today. I just want to know if there's anything in the world I can do to help you today. No, nothing. Gotcha. Well, is there a realtor that you would work with if you were to do something? You said, she said, who are you? I'm Joe DeRose, EXP Realty, Newborn. How are you doing? She's like, oh, well, I'm not selling my house.  And then you just said, and then you said, I'm just calling to see if there's something I can do to help you today. At that point, you should have said, oh, I'm not trying to sell your house today. I'm just calling to let you know how sold down the road. You know what I mean? Like, you got to offer that information. So it's like a puzzle that you have to put together. And you're not quite putting the pieces where they need to be. You're making this puzzle, and you're putting the wrong piece in the wrong spot. And I'm telling you, man, you're right there where if you just keep moving these pieces around and keep trying to get better, you're going to get to where you're putting all the pieces in the right place, and you're going to have this masterpiece. Yeah. Yeah. Well, honey, man, I see it. And everybody watching, go follow Joe. Joe DeRose 24 on Instagram. And let him know how good he did. And if you guys need me for anything, let me know. I'll talk to you guys soon.


Hello, my name is Frank. Welcome back to my channel. It is a pleasure to have you here I hope you guys are doing well, and I think that might be our new intro We're taking that from our girlfriend Victoria. Hello. Hope you are well and welcome to my channel My name is Hector. It's a pleasure to have you here with me, but I'm sure she won't mind so I'm going to take you guys through what I've been eating to feel better and this has taken basically Since February of 2018 for me to figure out, you know, what diet can heal the problems caused by carnivore Lever dysfunction, iron overload, histamine. This will give you guys an idea of what I'm doing So we'll try to do two meals. I'll see how I feel. It's pretty late. My day has been off I had to visit a couple farms, so this first meal I might eat a little more than I usually do But the principles are the same. We're trying to remove as much inflammation as possible We are consuming some probiotics as well as some digestive enzymes and some antimicrobials Just to to make sure that our gut stays consistent throughout these meals and it's basically lean protein plus starch So let me just show you guys what I have behind me So there's three components to this meal first is the smoothie that I'm using to deliver some vitamin C Some probiotics. The second is the main caloric component where I'm getting a lot of my protein from rib eye steak As well as a starch. I have some rice here and some pasta and then the third component is going to be a snack like cookies or like the chewy granola bars just because for some reason I can't get enough calories with more natural foods And I'll just show you guys a couple things I have here. So I Do have a fresh pineapple left over in the fridge that I'm going to use to make the smoothie Sometimes I use pineapple chunks. It's mainly to deliver the lemons and the probiotics and You know, I also add some vanilla and some natures glucose This is to feed the probiotics, you know, it's pure glucose vanilla's a little flavor So don't think of like the pineapple and the vanilla component as something for health necessarily It's just to get the vitamin C from the lemons as well as the probiotics from this supplement Which I don't really want to talk about, you know It's taken me a while to develop my knowledge of specific strains of probiotics and what you should be consuming to fix certain gut issues These are the organic ribeye steaks that we currently have on Frankie's free-range meat These are just kind of convenient for me. Honestly, the regular ribeye tastes a little better But I'm just trying to go through these. I have some Indian long-grain brown basmati rice. It's actually Right here the week before I was using just Regular white basmati rice and this is actually the first two weeks. I've been consuming rice in general before that it was mostly Pasta as well as white potatoes, but for some reason I started craving rice this week and the rice I made with an organic Broth you guys aren't gonna see me make the rice today because I already Did it yesterday and I have some leftover, but it's just really simple follow the instructions on the bag Except I used beef broth instead of water. This is leftover from two days ago I'm not sure if I'm gonna eat it while I cut the lemons for the smoothie I'm gonna turn my pan on high heat to prep it for the steaks And I don't juice these what I do is I I cut the skin off and I just throw them in the blender hole And then we'll strain it out so we could put the frozen pineapple back in the freezer because I have the fresh one today So in the blender goes pineapple two whole lemons. I have my bottled spring water here. I Try not to add too much water because I don't want to dilute my stomach acid that much before the meal That being said this does get hard to strain if it's really thick And I'm adding half a bottle of probiotics I'll do about a teaspoon of vanilla powder and the frozen pineapple is a little more enjoyable It makes it more like a almost like ice cream dessert smoothie, then I'll take the natures glucose I'll usually do a big tablespoon or two So two big tablespoons of that and if you guys aren't familiar with the natures glucose We have on Frankie's free-range foods. It's basically 75% glucose as opposed to the regular 35% glucose and honey and and people that do have issues With honey like they get gout or they have liver problems. They've been able to tolerate the natures glucose blend it up So I try to go about 20 25 seconds because if you go too long it starts oxidizing everything And if you don't go long enough, it's hard to strain everything out So then I'll take that smoothie and I'll put it in a strainer Over a bowl and the reason I strain this is mainly for texture because it kind of grosses me out So I'll strain it and then we'll try to push everything through So not only is this for the probiotics and the vitamin C if I'm also taking the digestive enzymes the antimicrobials and Other powder supplements or pill supplements. This really helps to wash that down So if you don't want to do this you could do like raw milk with honey or vanilla You could keep it kind of carnivore and smoking hot ready for the steaks So I'll just take these out salt on both sides with black pepper Same thing other side and if you pat your steak dry, you'll get a better sear, but I don't like Touching it with paper towels or rags that might have had some type of chemicals or disinfectant on them So now we'll go in the pan And just cover that so I don't set off my smoke alarm So while that steaks cook and I'll strain this out a bit And you basically just have to move it around with the spoon until it all goes through I think these are actually burning. It's really hot. I will actually turn the heat off here They should be fine another minute. They'll be done And we want to get as much of this through here as possible so That we make sure we get all the probiotic powder and vitamin C from the lemons So that's pretty much good, you know, if you want to spend another few minutes doing this you can But most of it's already through scrape off the bottom and Then what I'll do in that pan that I cook the steaks in I'll put a little bit of broth and then I'll warm up my starch in there So today is the rice. I Mean some of this isn't ideal, you know, we have Store-bought broth, you know, this pan could be carbon steel But I'm trying to work with what I have right now until I can get my own place So yeah, the diet's been consistently basically lean meat and starch for a couple months now And I will have those those snacks afterwards which I will show you guys one other thing I actually tried the past few days is I got some like organic Italian beans And I've tried having you know, some beans with the rice just a nice flavor switch up different mineral profile, but As long as it's an organic grain and you feel good eating it It should be fine.  So this kind of kills two birds with one stone I get my probiotics and I get my vitamin C where I could do alternatively is you know Have some sauerkraut as well as you know juice the organic lemon separately You know, some people say sauerkraut has vitamin C But I've definitely noticed a difference between sauerkraut versus consuming lemons so let's sit down let's have the steak and rice and And then we'll do the rest of the meal. So this is a little too much food I'm probably gonna eat maybe one and a half steaks and maybe half of this rice I'll just save the leftovers for the next meal.  I usually like it blue rare, but Since it's a rib eye, it's tender. So just to understand the nutritional components of this meal a little better With that shake we had you know some glucose some fructose small amount of minerals But you know mostly the probiotics the vitamin C here with the steak. We have protein Minerals and the most important thing here is is the protein in the B vitamins because you know The reason people are usually demonizing starches or sugars or desserts is because the person doesn't have enough protein in their diet You have someone eats two pounds of rib eye steak per day and then has some ice cream doesn't matter Problem is if the person's eating cookies cake and ice cream and not getting any animal protein and just with these two foods Like steak and brown rice you're getting plenty of B vitamins plenty of minerals Really checking the boxes for most of the things our body needs and when you look at starch from a carbohydrate profile perspective It is mostly the starches that need to be broken down into glucose And there's usually a small amount of glucose fructose and sometimes sucrose depending on the carbohydrate source But you know compared to fruit compared to honey compared to a lot of other carbohydrate sources that people prefer It's actually lower in fructose. It's less stressful on the liver it feeds the gut bacteria and The whole grain versus white, you know, like brown rice versus white rice that they'll all that type of stuff We could have that discussion in another video, but generally speaking when people say white rice is better They're just parroting information they heard from someone else without actually understanding the nutritional profile of food from a natural Realistic dietary perspective. These are two foods. You can procure in nature. You know, you cannot get Six seven eight hundred calories from fruit. It's just not practical. It cannot be harvested grain and animal product has been the base of the majority of diets for At least several thousand years What determines if one group of people is healthier than another is the percentage of the animal foods versus the plant foods as well as If high animal food consumption was present during developmental stages of life And if you guys haven't read my book the ancestral indigenous diet, it's definitely worth checking out You know, it helps you understand having a base of these nutrient-dense animal foods but hopefully in the next year or two I can write a second book that kind of encapsulates some of the health issues I dealt with and What I believe is the root cause of that problem. I'm actually kind of full So let's put this aside We ate maybe you know, 40 to 50 percent of the rice and Just under one of the stakes. I usually when I have the sauerkraut I do end up getting hungry at the end of the meal and I do want some like cookies or a snack or something But you know that one or two times a week I do this smoothie I don't really feel the need to have that and that wasn't exactly a low calorie smoothie It was basically like five hundred calories of pure glucose, which will definitely Say shit your appetite. So let's get some a chubby Italian boy food. Keep in mind guys If I wasn't bodybuilding I wouldn't be eating this stuff, but from a digestive perspective, you know My intestines and stomach are really tiny. You know, I have a small body frame So literally, you know, if I have a second meal when I go to the bathroom That first meal is coming out whereas normally people say, oh, well, you know Your body digests food for two or three days for me It's basically just one day because you know, I shouldn't be bodybuilding. It's not natural My my real body weight should probably be around a hundred twenty five a hundred thirty pounds Maybe even less than that and I weigh like a hundred sixty right now So having these snack foods is necessary because they're sugary high in fat and really really calorically dense So most of the time I've had some type of chocolate chip cookie and I usually make it myself I don't usually buy this stuff. This is just some stuff for my family So I'll make it with wheat flour some natures glucose salt vanilla Coconut milk coconut oil as the fat and the reason you guys have been seeing me use a lot of coconut is because it's antimicrobial It's antifungal as opposed to animal fat sometimes when you combine them with sugar If you have a gut problem sometimes the coconut prevents that I haven't done this lately, but I was doing some s'mores so I have some Organic graham crackers I found online my dad's been eating them now because I haven't had them in a couple months Just some chocolate usually I get the organic chocolate from Whole Foods Just regular dark chocolate with sugar and there was this like organic type of marshmallow fluff that I was using but I only did that like once or twice It's just a cute little idea you guys can do if you want to try it and This is also something. I've only done a couple times. I'll take some like coconut milk I'll blend it up with some vanilla and natures glucose and I'll put it on some organic cereal I crave that once or twice But you guys saw I made the the chewy chocolate chip bars last Saturday Today is Monday and I've eaten most of it already. So I'll probably finish the rest of this up today Get some calories in For this bodybuilding nonsense and and that'll be that I'll probably have a little bit of this now and we'll finish that up and Honestly, I'm gonna show you guys the second meal mainly because you've already seen it In that second meal, I will still take the digestive enzymes and the antimicrobials, but All I'll do is I'll have the steak the rice and the snack The difference is in the first meal I'm consuming the probiotics the vitamin C and sometimes in that first meal I will also have certain vitamin and mineral supplements that I take on a weekly or you know twice a week basis The main difference is the first meal is usually a lot more food than the second meal because it's not enough these stomachs So thank you guys for joining me today. I guess this can be our journey to the Most handsome 30 year old there is I'm getting close guys It's only only about another year and I'm gonna be 30 years old So maybe that could be some type of marketing where I could say I look like I'm 20 but I'm 30 But in regards to like a future series. I was thinking about doing a road to Natural physique pro or something. I don't really know if I want to do it And you know, especially with what's going on in the world right now It's not a good idea, but I've been sticking to this bodybuilding stuff So what we're gonna do is we're gonna launch my workout routine We're gonna see how that goes and maybe we'll start like a road to a natural physique pro series where I show you guys my meals Do a little training stuff and just talk and do more vlogs like these fitness influencers do that people seem to like We'll see, you know, realistically what that would be is probably a year-long series And then I'll do like a natural physique show and we'll see what happens So thank you guys for joining me today. If you could please like the video leave a comment down below Share this on social media. Say hey that silly carnivore Eight years no longer is now eating cookies and rice and whatever You know, if you guys could share that that's greatly appreciated. That's helpful If you do want to support me further, you can check out frank-to-found.com where you'll also find Frankie's for your range meat I'm really excited about the next few months. Hopefully some of these things do pan out and we continue to provide you guys With everything you need to make the first steps to being happy and healthy through nutrition and lifestyle So thanks again for joining me guys, and I'll see you for tomorrow's video


The power that you're producing with your legs has to run through your bike's drivetrain before it hits the rear wheel and is turned into forward motion, so it should come as no surprise that the efficiency of your drivetrain is important. But perhaps what is surprising is just how big of an impact it has. This often overlooked aspect of cycling equipment can cost you up to 15 watts or more if you're doing all the wrong things. This video is a continuation of my talk with Josh Portner who's an industry leading expert in marginal gains. If you want to check out the first part of our conversation on tire rolling resistance I left that video linked down in the description below. But in this video we're going to be talking all about drivetrain efficiency. Specifically, which chain loops are the fastest and why? The rather big difference in efficiency between 1x and 2x drivetrains and finally at the end of the video I ask Josh whether oversized pulley wheels are worth the upgrade. Enjoy. Maybe we can move on to drivetrain efficiency. You guys have talked at length about chain loop on the Marshall Gaines podcast. I don't know how many episodes you mentioned chain loop. It won't go away, Hoddy. I love the topic, but Hoddy really became obsessed.  That guy kills me in every episode. He's like, oh, I want to sneak in this chain loop question. I just worry that we're beating that dead horse. But every single time it comes up, people engage with it. And I would say probably half the questions that we get to our blog are chain loop related. Because quite frankly, it's a snake oil industry. So I think people don't even know where to begin thinking what they should think, which makes it a lot of fun. Yeah, I agree. It's if you were to walk into a bike shop and just see a arrangement of lubes, how you would know which one is the fastest loop on that shelf. If you're just an average consumer, you know, there's no way to tell. I mean, even experienced cyclists don't know. So yeah, maybe you could talk about what what makes a fast loop. Oh, gosh, so that's a really good question. You know, you think of the the mechanism of friction in the chain. So you've got the side plates of the chain, right? And they're press fit with these pins. And then the pin is actually being ridden on by the inner link plates, which are formed in a way that they're kind of have a like a flange stamped into them. And that flange rides around this pin and then around the outside of that flange. There's another piece called the roller. And so you have these the rollers able to rotate on the outer flange and then the inner flange surface rolls on the pin. And so the real mechanism of friction in the chain is primarily at the top, you know, mostly in the top section of chain, where you're the chain is bent or that is articulated at the link. And as it comes off that cog, it straightens under load. And so now you have this movement under load. And then as it gets to the chain ring, it's now bending as it hits the chain ring under load. You have the same effect at the bottom, although under much less tension.  So the key with the lubricant is to get something inside the chain, you know, down into those crevices that you cannot see that will stay put and that will ideally, I mean, in a perfect world, it would keep the metal from ever touching the other metal. And this is why the wax lubes, particularly the hot melt wax lubes are so good. You're able to fully penetrate because you heat the wax until it's low viscosity. You put the chain in there, you shake it around, right? All the air comes out, then you pull the chain and it hardens. And now you have a solid lubricant, you know, incredibly high viscosity exactly in the spot that you need it. And then from there, you know, you can add doping elements.  And so these are really your best categories of lube. And I mean, even our lube right now, I think, is pretty widely considered to be the fastest thing out there. And also, you know, zero friction cycling. Australia were the lowest chain wear lube by a factor of four in that test. And that's but when you look the second place lube is molten speed wax. And it's also a hot melt wax, right? And as you even just plain paraffin wax, you know, that you would use from like canning, right? That you could find at the grocery store, even that is better than most of the commercially available chain lubes.  And so that's where we get to, you know, all these companies, us included, trying to find ways to get that wax into some sort of drippable, easy application process. But the ultimate goal is essentially the same.  Maybe you're not concerned about it. But not only is it is a good lubricant making your drivetrain more efficient, but it's also extending the life of your drivetrain pretty significantly. Yeah. And I think, you know, it's kind of cool to think how those go hand in hand, right? If you're, you know, metal on metal is the highest form of friction you could have in your chain. And so and it's also the highest wearing. And so lubricants that are eliminating the metal on metal are just naturally going to be fast. And, and, you know, once you get to the very low wearing lubricants, your losses really become all about the viscosity losses at the surface. And penetration, I think, is the other topic that people don't think about.  But the problem is, if you're applying them in any temperature below probably 80 Fahrenheit, they they're too thick to actually get down where they need to be. So you can make your drivetrain rather quiet because it fills up the the spaces in the plates, but it never gets all the way into where it needs to go. And so you never realize the low friction or the chain wearing benefits of it because it doesn't penetrate. You know, I think that was the that was the problem we set out to solve with our super secret product early on was like, OK, well, we know this category of lubricants can be really fast under the right circumstances. But, you know, if you the consumer have to get a hairdryer out to warm your drivetrain to apply it, you know, you're not going to do it. And so you're you're likely never actually realizing the benefits of that. And so, you know, that's really focused on the penetration side of the problem. Yeah, definitely. I've used the squirt, Lou, and I use a super secret when I'm racing and I need to re lube mid race, sometimes literally while I'm riding the bike, I'll I'll try to lube while I'm racing in these long gravel races. That becomes important. I usually just go for squirt because if I use a lower viscosity lube, it seems to squirt out and and not very much of it gets on my chain. But that that higher viscosity, I can kind of control it a little bit more. I mean, is that mid race when my chain is super dusty like that? Is is throwing squirt on it? Is that useful? It's honestly hard to say the the penetration challenge there is real.  But, you know, there's very little lubricant that's actually going to be making it down to the pins where it needs to be.  You know, I think that's when we've struggled with for a long time. You know, is it better to try to put an oil based lube on because we know that can penetrate, you know, I would say all of the really good, effective wax lubes now. You know, I'd say the three top drip waxes right now are our products. Super secret, the ceramic speed UFO 2.0 and there's one out of Finland called Rex that's quite good and that and will actually penetrate the chain. But all of them have this like a drying period of of, you know, a couple of hours. Right. So, you know, I think in in what you're describing, you know, squirts probably as as good a solution as any. But, you know, I know in the testing that we've done to kind of look at it, other than eliminating the noise, you're not you're not doing exactly what you think you're doing, if that makes sense. You know, you're not you're not really lubricating the chain in the way that the chain needs to be lubricated. You know, quite frankly, I think at that point in the game, the reduction of noise and making yourself feel better is probably the biggest benefit of the activity.  And even if you start to hear the chain, what you're generally hearing is the side plate rubbing. And because, you know, you think of the mechanism of pushing hot wax out of the chain, the because it's in there as a solid over time as the chain is articulated and you're shifting and, you know, the when you shift or your cross chaining, you know, the the chain is going from straight to kind of like angled laterally. You're you're squeezing the wax out. It's actually one of the, you know, the real benefits of hot wax is it stays so clean on the inside because it's kind of forever purging itself. And as it purges itself, it's taking the dirt out with it. But the beauty of the hot melt is that even once your chain starts to get a little noisy, that's typically because you've dried or you've pushed out the stuff in the side plates. There's still stuff deep in the chain that's now going to have to work its way out. And so, you know, a slightly noisy hot melt chain can still be way more efficient than you think. It would be compared to other, you know, like if you have an oil based lube and you start to hear your chain, you know, it's it's gone. There's nothing in there. There's nothing in there because it just moves, you know, it moves so freely. When we we talk drivetrain, we didn't talk about, you know, one of my pet peeves, which are these small cogs, small chainring, like one by drivetrains, right? Using a 10 tooth cog is throwing away like three ceramic oversized pulley setups worth of watts. You know, and people justify it on a million grounds. Oh, it's lighter and it's this and it's, you know, and it's simpler. And I can get the wide range and the difference between a 10 and 11. I mean, it's it's like two watts per tooth down there.  And the nine I think is like 2.6, 2.7 watts less efficient than the 10, which is two watts less efficient than the 11.  You know, we're just we're just pissing away watts for no reason. And you know, yeah, but that nine tooth cog is light. Well, it's what half a gram lighter than a 12. I mean, and you don't like one by drivetrains because there's more cross chaining and that makes the chain less efficient. Is that correct? No, I personally, I don't like one by drivetrains because I feel like it's the worst of all the worlds, right? You're always in a smaller chainring than you probably need to be in. You're always using a smaller cog than you probably would for efficiency. And you have these large jumps in between cogs.  But I think growing up the way I did, I mean, even, you know, learning like step gearing and some of these other techniques, one by to me just feels like you never, ever have the right gear, right?  But yeah, from an efficiency standpoint, you know, got charts and data that we could certainly certainly look at on this. But, you know, you're you're just always in a higher state of friction in a one by setup, then you would be in an equivalently geared two by setup. So it's like a 4810 is the same as like a 5312. But there's the difference there. It's like a watt at the chain ring and two watts at the cog. So you're, you know, again, I've just thrown away another oversized pulley system in my setup. But then as you shift across the range and you look at them equivalently, they, you know, they never converge. I mean, you're always less efficient in that one by setup than you are there. And the argument I think often becomes, well, you save the weight of the front derailleur and the chain ring, and it's more aerodynamic because there's no front derailleur and chain ring. But the whenever I've looked at it, which has been a number of times, the arrow savings of losing the front derailleur and chain ring are almost always offset by the increase in derailleur cage length required to handle the chain from that, the huge steps in the back. Right. And so you're, you know, you're getting rid of like one bit of of unfortunate frontal area from the bike, and you're just adding it back somewhere else. So, you know, at best, your arrow improvement is maybe a water to, well, you're always and everywhere losing three plus watts in the efficiency. And, you know, when we, all the testing on that, the kind of universal standard there is 250 watts. So, you know, you think of the times where you really need it. You're actually losing a lot more.  Yeah. And so, so for me, I generally advise against one by, you know, I think one by is brilliant for mountain bike, where it really allows all sorts of fascinating things to start happening in the suspension that previously was like, oh, we can't put a pivot there because we've got this derailleur and all this other complication. I think that the other thing with the mountain bike is that because the terrain is varying so much, you're never just cruising along and thinking, ah, this gear is too high. But when I switch it lower, this gear is too low and I can't find the right gear, the terrain is constantly going up and down. So that's that's not really crossing your mind like it is on a road bike or even a gravel bike. Oh, agreed. Yeah, agreed. I mean, there's I think of, you know, there's sections of unbound where, you know, it's like, as far as you can see, it's the same thing is happening. And for me, like the mental, the mental drain of not being able to find the right gear, knowing that I'm going to be on this thing for, you know, all the way to the horizon is just crushing.  Is it really like, is there some physiological thing happening in my body that's that's defeating me because I'm too high or too low a cadence? Probably not, but mentally. Well, you know, actually, there may be. I mean, I don't know if there would be enough of a physiological effect going on if we're talking about the difference between one or two RPM too high and one or two RPM too low. But they have done studies where they've had people ride at a cadence that's higher than they're used to and a cadence that's lower than they're used to. And then their preferred cadence and almost always they come away with the conclusion that the preferred cadence is the fastest. I like it. I would agree. It certainly feels that way. You mentioned oversized pulley wheels a little while ago. It's obviously a very expensive upgrade for what it is. What are your thoughts on oversized pulley wheels? Is it is it hype or is are there real gains to be had with those? Both, actually. It's, you know, oversized pulley wheels, I think, are probably the. Truly, I think probably the best self marketing product our industries ever come up with, right? I mean, you know, I, to my knowledge, put the very first ceramic bearings in bicycle wheels ever back in 2000. We we were actually contracted to build Jan Ulrich's Olympic wheels for the 2000 games. They had sent us a set of these tune hubs from Germany to build the wheels on. And they were just gravelly and nasty. And so a friend of mine from college was working with a bearing manufacturer here in the States, and he was told me stories of these amazing bearings that they were using in these like space shuttle fuel pumps. And so I was, oh, man, that that would be a really cool story. And so we, you know, get these thousand dollar bearings and put them in the wheels.  I think around 2001. And, you know, we just thought it was a cool story and maybe a little bit of a gimmick. But, you know, it saves point eight watts over a set of wheels, very cool. And what we didn't really realize was how many people would want to buy them if only there was like a signal to their buddies that they had them.  And that really boosted the sales.  But, man, what cooler way to show that you've got something amazing and expensive than to make it giant and in your face and in a red, you know, like some some color.  You might save two watts, but but for the money for the four, five, six hundred dollars, I mean, it's it's not the most cost effective savings. But they do look cool. When I think about what World Tour teams are running, the only team that I can think of that runs oversized pulley wheels is the Israel Startup Nation team. I think they might have a partnership with ceramic speed. And that's the reason is the reason why they're not running oversized pulley wheels. Is it just sponsorship agreements? Oh, it's kind of all the above. Yeah, you know, yeah. And so we like we actually work very closely with Israel. What are they Israel Premier Tech now? I just we just burned a bunch of HX one tool kits for them like, oh, that's their new logo. Yeah. So they they have a very factor has a very tight relationship with ceramic speed.  And so, you know, that's typically you're going to be put in a situation of, oh, well, now you have to buy these components instead of being on the sponsor side. You know, I think, too, it adds further complication for the team mechanics.  It's, you know, these guys crash a lot. The bikes get damaged. They fall off car.  And, you know, if you've got a $500 oversized pulley on a bike that gets laid down, it's now an hour of some mechanics life to, like, remove that thing to try to put it on the next derailer. That that's an often surprising one for people. I mean, unzipped jersey to zip jersey can be three or four oversized pulley systems worth of losses. So I like how we're using oversized pulleys as a as a unit of measurement. Now, yeah, yeah, I like to joke about that a lot is like a currency. But because it's a fact, you know, I think it puts it in a great place for people. It does because those things are really expensive. So, you know, if you're going to drop that much money on an oversized pulley wheel, you should probably think about these other things as well. I would say the last biggest marginal gain to point out really is just the general bike maintenance thing. And it's it's often the topic nobody really wants to talk about because it's a pain in the butt, but you can do all the right things and buy all the right things. And you can quite literally undo all of that hard earned money spent by not maintaining the bike, right?   And same thing for the the oversized pulley system, you know, if you're not taking those pulleys out and flushing those bearings and relubricating them and putting them on every I mean, really like like I would say month. I mean, I people don't like when I use those short time periods. But, you know, all of these really fast bearings of all the brands, one of the things that makes them spin like they do right when you buy it.  You spin that pulley and it just well, it can do that because there's no seal contact in the seals, right? The seals are really shields that look like seals. And that means that every time you ride in the rain or the mud, all sorts of God knows what can get in there.  And if you're not doing that, you really do start to give a lot of those savings back. And then over time, you can see degradation in those parts that, you know, once the races are scratched and there's been enough, you know, that the dirt gets in there as like a lapping compound and it starts to erode the metal races.  But if they're clean, you know, if they're not full of dirt, they may be faster than what you're now on. And so I think that's that's probably the biggest piece of info that I would say people want to hear the least, but probably need to hear the most. Thanks for watching. Josh has informed me that he wants to offer a discount on all silica products, including the lubricants that he talked about in this video to you guys. So if you want to take advantage of that, be sure to use the code Dylan at checkout to get 15 percent off. 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