Can anyone recommend some high quality, light, with solid side entry carbon bottle cages? Need some for MTB.
These impressed me enough that I'm using them on my road and gravel bikes:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805834827357.htmlI wouldn't use them on a downhill bike with 1 liter bottles in them, but an XC bike with standard 650ml or even 750ml bottles should be fine.
Anyone have any experience with the ZTTO P3 BOOST hubs? They're 6 pawl with 72 points of engagement. Weight is just OK, but the price is good. I will confess that the main reason I am interested is because they have a lime green option.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803355100658.html
They promise "magical reliability" and "can be counted on to last for enough miles."
I have these hubs on my mountain bike (boost) and commuter bike (non-boost) and I also had the non-boost version on my gravel wheels until I had to swap them out to run a 12 speed road cassette. Though heavy, they're super easy to build into a wheel, well finished, and the bearings run smooth. I confess that I don't have a real long-term review of them - only about 600 miles of use on the set that used to be on the gravel bike and only about 200 miles on each of my mountain bike and commuter bike sets - but hubs don't really change over time, the bearings just wear out and the ones on the P3 hubs are completely standard and easy to source. The freehub has reasonably high engagement, I haven't wished for more on the mountain bike, and it's a bog-standard pawl system so no worries about ratchets slipping or anything. I don't know if they can offer "magical reliability" but I'm pretty sure they can be counted on to last for enough miles.
