Great, thanks! Snacks, after having had the bike for a year can you sum up your thoughts/review? Pros/cons?
Cheers
Tim
No problem! Overall, I’m very happy with the bike. It does what I need it to and I feel like I’m going a ton faster than I was on my previous bike. Haven’t really had any issues with the frame. If I had to nitpick id purchase another headset , expander plug and handlebar. Expander plug doesn’t hold the greatest but works well enough to establish preload on the bearings. The headset provided works but isn’t the greatest , I’ve already replaced mine. The handlebar does flex a bit but it fits me very well and the flex hasn’t been an issue. Cable routing through the handlebar is actually pretty terrible. You need a internal routine kit like the park tool one. Some of the cheaper kits didn’t work for me. I think somewhere in this thread I have a link to a cheaper alternative from eBay that I’ve been using. So I think if I had the choice to forgo the handlebar and purchase mine own, I would. I was toying with the FSA Acr stem and some random aliexoress carbon bars that had internal cable routing but decided to stick with what I had since it fit so well. I also purchased an extra seat post since i think it’s proprietary and didn’t want to ever have an issue with that. Im not sure what else I can say about the frame as a the rest of my experience will differ from yours based on component, wheel, tire ..etc selection. But I can say given the opportunity to re-do my purchase, id purchase this frame again in a heatbeat.
wow 45c/650b on a 099? I would not have expected that to work. Sounds fun!
Yea it definitely was fun! But I didn’t want all the rocks and such chipping away and ruining the finish on my 099 so I got a dedicated gravel bike, velobuild gf01. I gave that a custom paint job with 2k clear to protect it and it’s been awesome. That’s running on 700c 45 tires . Thinking about it I should probably start a thread on it too
