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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / One piece Carbon Wheelset
« Last post by RobinRolling on Today at 02:53:35 AM »
Hi Guys,

I am looking for a one piece wheelset like Lightweight or the Syncros. Even Storck had on the Eurobike 2023 a one piece prototype. Loving the optics and it is something special.

Do you know any Chinese Brand, that offers such a wheelset? I asked Yuanan, the OEM of Storck Zeitjaeger, but they did not produce this wheelset.

Best regards
Robin
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Pinarello (Chinarello) Dogma F12 build
« Last post by Serge_K on Today at 02:17:48 AM »
Quote from: paracord on May 06, 2024, 05:09:11 PM
Some updates. The included lower headset bearing lasted less than 3500km. Bike have now 5500km in total. Will switch to 30mm Continental GP5000 S TR from 25mm and see how it handles.
F frame instead of F12 frame would be fun to try.

Thank you for this thread and for keeping it updated, it's very helpful. I have very mixed feelings about riding fakes, but it's good to know that the people selling fakes aren't automatically selling garbage.
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29er / Re: Elves Nandor Pro build thread
« Last post by TidyDinosaur on Today at 02:12:36 AM »
Damn that's a nice looking frame :)
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« Last post by Serge_K on Today at 02:04:26 AM »
Quote from: aliexpress_junkie on May 06, 2024, 10:15:31 AM
Wait so you had TWO failures with the er9 groupset and you still went ahead and got five? Or am I not reading this correctly.

"Happy as long as it's not broken" is not good enough, any failure during a 100+km ride is something that will ruin your day, and something that very rarely happens with groupsets from the big three.

i bought 5 groups at the same time. i had 4 bikes to build and i bought a spare one in case one would be dead on arrival or self destruct immediately. Built the 4 bikes, everything was fine for weeks, i then received a frame to review so i put the spare group on that. After weeks of "this stuff is wonderful", all hell started to break loose. The 2 dead RDs aren't the only problems i've had either. Had another problem yesterday i posted on the erx/9 dedicated thread.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets
« Last post by Serge_K on Today at 01:58:40 AM »
Quote from: Sebastian on Today at 01:06:50 AM
Well, you haven't had it for that long so too early to tell, I'd say.
Mine's also working fine still all the way through a very wet winter here. I'm past 3000k/1800miles now. I too am cautiously optimistic that I might have a well working unit. But so thought SergeK, until they all broke down on him.

Exactly... Until everything went to shit i was saying the stuff's amazing.
I charged / tried to charge my group last night after it died yesterday. Charged all night. This morning it was at 77%. Plugged into the wall, no funny business. So... idk. I doubt it's supposed to take more than 12h to fully charge. Which then means there's something that's not working properly. But i'm not in the mood to try to figure it out now.
i have put 3500km on the er9 on my road bike since Feb24.
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Vendor Discussion & Reviews / Re: Workswell disaster
« Last post by rockerplates.de on Today at 01:28:42 AM »
we have purchased a triathlon frame from them...we ran into a very dangerous issue with the aluminium stem..which basically broke during an indoor session, luckily...the complete handlebars snapped of due to the broken stem. After checking the stem, it shows it was just a design flaw...
It took us a long time to get a new stem, which is now looking a bit stronger. Never did workswell inform us about this dangerous design nor did they send it for free......a seat post issue could not been handled,we were told, they would not produce this frame anymore...(after 2 years ).

It was just luck, that the broken stem did not cause a major injury or accident.
If the bikes and or parts would have beend tested on those fancy machines they claim to test the parts, this would have shown up after a day..there where 350 km on the bike when this happened..

so, we stepped away from them after this issue..
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Magene QED 12spd groupset showcased in Shanghai
« Last post by kbernstein on Today at 01:26:49 AM »
Quote from: Nadeshiko on May 06, 2024, 11:18:30 PM
PM Cranks are mechanically speaking an inferior design to spider PMs. For spider PMs they are build with a pair of sheer gauges that can naturally filter out components of applied torque that are not due to rider pedaling, while crank based PMs rely heavily on post-processing to clean the data to a usable level. You also only need one side to measure true L/R combined power (though the power decomposition to L/R is still more or less guess work), which is especially good if you have a pretty big L/R difference (For me it's 56/44, so a left-side-only setup would overestimate my power by quite a lot)
I just really want directmount chainrings
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets
« Last post by kbernstein on Today at 01:19:22 AM »
Wonder how eGR will be charged if it gets redesigned since there's no FD. Not very streamlinely of them
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets
« Last post by Sebastian on Today at 01:06:50 AM »
Quote from: jonathanf2 on May 06, 2024, 10:00:50 PM
I'm on the opposite spectrum of ER9/X users on here, because my ER9 has been working great.

Well, you haven't had it for that long so too early to tell, I'd say.
Mine's also working fine still all the way through a very wet winter here. I'm past 3000k/1800miles now. I too am cautiously optimistic that I might have a well working unit. But so thought SergeK, until they all broke down on him.
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29er / Re: Build Log - Carbonda hard tail for daughter's birthday.
« Last post by Kommandant33 on Today at 12:42:12 AM »
I may have started the thread a bit too early - it's not as exciting talking about new toys when they still haven't left mainland China...

BUT in other news, the forks arrived today - Rock Shox SID 110mm travel with remote lockout. $450AUD ($297.30USD).

Now all I need - and any help would be appreciated:

Drivetrain - 12 speed shimano preferred - any deals on Ali worth looking at? BB, Cranks, shifter, derailleur..

Seat post - Rigid to begin with, probably eventually move to a dropper post when she gets a bit taller.

Seat post clamp?

Saddle - something comfortable and light would be best!

FM-160PM adapter for the back brake

Stem and handlebar.

And I think that would be everything!

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