![]() ![]() ![]() “What is methylcellulose?” He laughs, explaining: “It’s funny because now, I feel like I’m a methylcellulose dealer.” He once tore apart the Impossible Burger to find all the individual ingredients and how it’s made. His videos focus on recreating - primarily - plant-based meat products with industry-grade ingredients and techniques. Instead of full vegan dishes like most YouTubers do, Thompson has carved a unique space in the area for himself. It validates the geeky image viewers have envisaged and come to love from watching his channel, Sauce Stache. Why did it not work out? “I ended up talking for an hour,” he tells me from the closet-room over Zoom, laughing. He was trying a new format - instead of cooking away plant-based concoctions in his kitchen, the video was an explainer, focused on the science and process behind his experiments in the kitchen. ![]() Mark Thompson, however, spent his Sunday sat in what can only be described as a large closet, filming and shelving a video. Even in the US, the Italy-England final was the most-watched Euro game in history. In Europe, most of us spent last Sunday watching Euro 2020. So, unfortunately, cannot report on it.Ahead of the launch of his first book, Sauce Stache’s Mark Thompson talks imposter syndrome, Gaz Oakley, and the love story that sparked his YouTube channel. I did not have the time or opportunity to really play around with this. And the other piece of simple tech is the Stranglehold dropout, a system that enables you to move the rear axle 15 mm back and forth in the back frame, adapting the length of the chainstay to your preferences and riding style. Bigger wheels with the stiffness of smaller ones. The fact that you can run such a large cassette and such large tires are enabled by the Boost 148 on the back axle. The SRAM Guide R brake system does its job, although I have to say that, riding Dutch trails, it wasn’t possible to really put it to the test of prolonged and hard breaking which you would encounter if you are doing alpine rides. The rest of the bike is just as smooth, with internally routed cables and a clean cockpit. Simpler, cleaner, means less maintenance and is slightly lighter. The SRAM XG cassette has a wide 10-50 range that will help you up any steep climb. I really like not having a front derailer. The Trek Stache has a SRAM GX 1×12 groupset which shifted sharply and smoothly. The seat dropper post helping in switching the saddle height and riding position from low for the downhill to high for the climb. The Stache handled this corner really well. ![]() You have to try to carry some speed, shift down a couple of speeds quickly and power through. There is a place on the trail I did, where you hid downhill at speed, making a very tight corner and go straight up again. The plus size tires give you heaps of grip while making your tight corners. It is easy to wheel, it is nimble in parking lot playing around, and more importantly, you can thread your way through the technical trails with ease. The Stache delivers on its agility promise. The idea behind this complex construction is simple: the tighter into the frame you can bring the tire, the closer it will be to the center of the bike, the shorter the chainstay will be, the shorter the wheelbase will be, and the agiler the bike will be. In effect, you will see the chainring over the back tire. The chainstay on the Stache is a-symmetrical, with the chain running underneath the chainstay to be able to bring the bottom bracket much closer. To begin with the wheelbase: Trek has managed to place the wheel very “deep” into the frame. ![]()
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