Trace Velo reviewed the Deckas rotors. They fixed those rotors though, just make sure you get the updated versions in the brown cardboard sleeve box versus the white sleeves. The white sleeve rotors are old stock. They only sell them in 6 bolt though.

I'm running the Kactus rotors and there is no rivet play out the box. I'm running both the 6 bolt and CL versions. The 6 bolt rotors are on my gravel bike sees nothing but dirt and single track and the CL rotor bike does a ton of descents. Both are fine.

Those CD-01 are just cheap rotors you can get off Pick 3. The CD-02 rotors are the ones to get.

Can vouch for this, wish I knew: CD-01 are absolutely trash.

Any other _big boys_ in here?

I am 183cm (6ftish) and 107kg (235ishlbs) and have always struggled to scale cycling clothing sizing to my body. Don't mind wearing tight gear, but I've got XXL stuff from italian brands that fit more prohibitively than a size L jersey of an american maker.

So, my question is: has anyone of similar thiccboi status tried much of the known/good ali brands?

Yes, 12sp chains on 11sp chainrings can slip. I've had just that happen to me as well on my VB-R218 frame. When I upgraded my Campagnolo groupset from 11 to 12sp I thought I can just keep the chainrings. But the chain slipped on the big ring as soon as I put a lot of torque through it when climbing. I switched to 12sp chainrings. No issues at all. Same cassette. Same chain.
I found my DCRF26 frame to be pretty stiff in the BB area - probably stiffer than my VB-R218. I'm crap at sprinting, though. So your experience might differ from mine.

Sounds like that's the culprit. I'll look to swap the rings - use any from Ali?

Appreciate your updates - bike is looking very sick out on the road!

Agree about the L-Twoo britfter hoods, love the feel. They're a smidge taller and a little thinner than my 105s and they just feel great.

Best looking X38 in here. Congrats Sebastian!

Rude. 

@lantz
Did you have any issues with setting up your LTWOO FD on this particular frame? Maybe it’s the ZRACE cranks that I'm using. But it seems I can’t set the FD outboard enough to reliably shift to the big ring. I got it at the outermost extreme position and it still won’t shift as reliably as I’d like it to.
I don’t thing the cranks chainline is to blame.
Either the FD hanger on this particular frame sits very far inboard (it kinda seems that way because the seat tube is obviously very narrow). Or I’m just too stupid to set up the FD. Maybe I need to recalibrate it? I’ve tried that but it doesn’t really do anything. The max outboard position in the app is 99. And it’s not enough.

Luckily, this frame has a bolt on FD hanger. So I might just have to shim it somehow.

Not *really* - although I did have plenty of struggle getting the spacing and alignment where I wanted it - honestly, a lot of it was just me going too quickly and applying theory and techniques that I used in other installs with shimano and sram setups.

It wasn't until I took a beat and then read through the instructions that they sent, that I pretty easily got everything in place. I found that fucking with the limits too much kind of puts you in a no mans land - I completely reset the groupo and followed along with their install video/instructions and it all worked swimmingly.

The fucked up thing is that I dind't really do anything differently than I had done before, but there's something to be said about slowing down and being intentional, at least for me.

Additionally, I found that the Klein build video was super helpful too! (just google klein l-twoo)

If it's the same frame, in fact, you shouldn't need any shimming or anything.

Received my frameset from the Ceccotti store. Frame seems to be ok but the steerer tube is out of round very much: in one direction it's up to 28.99mm and perpendicular to that down to 28.46mm  Measuring in more points one sees that it's actually elliptical. I can't even fit the cockpit onto the steerer. Seller says all their forks are like this and so far no one complained!

Oh wow, this is pretty brutal - did you open a dispute?

On a separate note, the threading for the computer mount in my bars that came stock with the frame from TanTan just slipped right out when I was replacing the mount today. Woof.

while you are at it, you also need to line up your logos with your valves

ON IT!