Originally Posted by
icemilkcoffee
Not to mention current disk brake bikes typically have through axles, so the brake doesn't wrest the wheel out of the drop-outs.
They brazed on thru-axle dropouts. Or rather his framebuilder "mate" did who "just happened to live round the corner". There was some earlier footage of the GCN guy apparently attacking the seatstays with what looked like a stick welder but I think it was all just for show.
Maybe they actually did replace the fork and glossed over that part. Let's hope so if they now send the rather gormless girl off on a 100 mile ride on the thing to see how awful it is (apart from the wonderful modern components of course).