Airshaft now changed to 90mm

Frame arrived in the UK awaiting customs clearance today 90mm Airshaft, shock oil, SRAM butter, carbon paste and olives/ferrels all arrived ready for the build"............. Any tips on the best build procedure greatly appreciated thanks......

Haha, thats the part of the build I'm not looking froward to when my 062 arrives, sounds like some frames are a real pain to install on 

Email from Candy today

Hi, dear  Richard
No problem , i have helped you change the address..
for the delivery time, first i hope you can understand , this frame is very hot selling, We have no stock in our warehouse.so have to arrange the production, cuz now it  is near coming to our chinese spring festival and we have a lot of oders need deal with timely , so your frame will be finish and arrange to EMS air shipping after finishing  our holiday, maybeFebruary 10,now all chinese factory is very busy ,
so pls kindly understand and patiently wait .we are sure to send you high quality frames
Best regards
candy

I thought I'd ordered in time to avoid this delay! As long as I get a 100% perfect frame then a small delay is cool.

Thanks Bxcc, sorry for late reply as I'm working away at the moment... Ill look into the airshaft.

Quote from: Rick64 on December 31, 2016, 09:51:00 AM

How do you rate the WW062? Its a nice looking frame, Ive asked WW for a price on in but can't decide on BB PF30 Or BSA.... Does the weight saving of PF outweigh the convenience of BSA....The BSA looks more solid, I have both cranks at home but don't like the bearing pre load adjuster on my GX100 1x, the BSA GPX is so easy to maintain and change for the sake of 100g penalty.... Why are you wanting to change to 120mm, have you looked to see how it will change the angles on the frame.

I am really enjoying the frame and I don't have any issues at all with it. I bought mine from Sobatostore on eBay. I went with the BSA as it is just simpler to use. 5 out of 7 bikes in my house are BSA with Sram GXP cranks as I like to keep things simple. I'm not sure if one is really better than the other, it's just my preference.

I want to swap it to 120mm mainly because I want to try it. It only takes a $30 airshaft and since my fork will be apart anyway, I figured why not. Realistically, it's a single speed and the 70.5 head angle is fine for where I ride and how i ride this bike. It should just put the HA at 69.5 which is still ins't really slack.

For the price, I think this frame is tough to beat. The geometry with the shortish chain stays is super fun for a HT. I honestly like it so much more than I expected. And at $350, it isn't a huge amount if you don't completely like it. One warning though, resale on chinese carbon frames sucks. But if my math serves me right, loosing 100% of $350 is still a LOT less than losing 50% of $1900, which is about average for a name brand frame.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sobato-29er-Carbon-Fiber-Mountain-Bike-Frame-BSA-MTB-Bicycle-Carbon-Frames-17-/162091443484?hash=item25bd67251c:g:Wr0AAOSwnNBXUPTp

Hi hope you had a good New Year

I'm waiting to hear back from Sobatostore regarding a 17" 062 with BSA to see if they have one ready to ship, did yours come with 142mm axel or did you have to purchase separately? Its roughly $350 shipped too.

It will be interesting to see how your 062 sits with the 120mm, I'm trying to find out if I can drop my Reba RLT to 90mm.

Hi Cabonazza

The alloy frame I currently run is very close to the 17" for dimensions. My inseam is 84cm so would leave another 40mm in the seat tube and I slam my stem on the head tube. In your experience how much exposed 400mm seat tube is recommended? I think there should be close to 200mm left in the tube on a 17".

Another point is what BB do you guys go for? I was thinking PF30 but my local bike shop seem to think this is foolish on a carbon china (their very anti carbon imports) Whats your preference for BB.

Thank again for the help and advice